Back to the bombing: Just after the truce expired early this morning, Israel bombarded north Gaza, shelled central Gaza, and circulated drones over southern Gaza. Israeli officials claimed Hamas started it “by firing into Israel territory” shortly before the truce deadline ended, Al Jazeera reports. There’s not much left for the occupation forces to bomb, as “some 60 percent of homes in Gaza have been destroyed by Israeli bombardment.”
“Jericho Wall:” That’s the code name Israeli military officials gave to Hamas’ plan to invade Israel by land, air, and sea, just as they did in the devastating attack on Oct 7. Israel obtained those battle plans more than a year ago, shared them “widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders,” observed Hamas training in the field to enact them, but officials ultimately “dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out,” the New York Times reports. What is it with right-wing administrations getting intel on terrorist attacks but then not doing anything about them?
“Operation Iron Swords:” That’s the code name Israel gives to its current war on Gaza, according to an explosive investigation from +972 Magazine and Local Call. In interviews with Israeli intelligence officials, the magazine found that Israel kills so many civilians due to its “expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before.”
According to “several” sources, Israel’s military knows “roughly” how many civilians they’ll kill in a given strike, and they forge ahead with them to “create a shock” that they think will cause Palestinians to pressure Hamas to run up the flag: “In one case discussed by the sources, the Israeli military command knowingly approved the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an attempt to assassinate a single top Hamas military commander.” Killing hundreds of people to assassinate one person isn’t the kind of strategy that leads oppressed people to choose new political leaders, it’s the kind of strategy that promotes a revenge cycle that Israel officials will use to justify the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
The IDF has told residents of Khan Younis that Gaza’s second largest city is now a “dangerous combat zone” and is bombing it. https://t.co/KrTt2f6FB4
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) December 1, 2023
But he says he’ll change: Israeli leaders told Secretary of State Anthony Blinken they “agreed with the approach” of creating “a clear plan” that “puts a premium on protecting civilians… in southern Gaza” before the fighting resumed, according to the Washington Post. To that end, this morning Israel published a map of the strip to help facilitate evacuations, “but the map does not specify where people should evacuate to,” and it’s “unclear” if Gazans can actually use it due to the fact that many are now sheltering from constant bombardment in the area’s few remaining hospitals and schools with no food, water, or electricity. I know the state department aims to project a sense that the US cares about Palestinians and not just Biden’s poll numbers in Michigan, but do you think that somewhere deep down Blinken feels a twinge of humiliation when Israel almost immediately breaks even the vaguest of commitments?
Congress expels an icon: The US House of Representatives voted 331-114 to boot New York Congressman George Santos from office following “an explosive report two weeks ago that found ‘significant evidence’ of Santos’ criminal wrongdoing,” Politico reports. The expulsion earned him the distinction of becoming the first member of Congress kicked out without being convicted of a crime or joining the Confederacy, which is saying something in a house famous for its criminals and fabulists.
goodnight sweet prince pic.twitter.com/mm5toMnT78
— Liz Charboneau (@lizchar) December 1, 2023
The good news:
This sets up a special election in #NY03, which Biden carried by 8 points in 2020. This will be a ripe pickup opportunity for Democrats. pic.twitter.com/BrrMGCup8a
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) December 1, 2023
We’re not saying it’s climate reparations, but it’s climate reparations: World leaders at the UN climate conference agreed to launch a “loss and damage fund” to compensate poor countries for the destruction related to all the carbon that wealthy countries pumped into the air over the last several decades, according to the BBC. The US contributed a pitiful $17 million (pending Congressional approval lol) of the measly $400 million the rich countries found in their pockets this year, but UN Climate Envoy John Kerry wanted everyone to know that the money would just be a nice little gift and not related at all to “liability or compensation.”
Eels: Fox News’ Sean Hannity hosted a debate between Republican presidential hopeful / Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and presidential hopeful in waiting / California Governor Gavin Newsom that no one asked for. Hannity and DeSantis predictably dunked on Newsom all night, and Newsom dunked back while defending Joe Biden’s honor. Why did this happen? Politico comes through with nothing but the truth: “Both participants are starved for national attention, and their respective suns have been blocked out by the aging leaders of their parties, 81-year-old Biden and Trump, 77.”
Newsom: Ron has literally the worst mental health system in America. Forgive me outside of Mississippi and Texas..
DeSantis: *hold up feces map* pic.twitter.com/mVmAHY5LsX
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 1, 2023
Headline of the week: The award goes to Dave Segal, whose review of André 3000’s contribution to the world of New Age/ambient jazz reads, “Have You Received Your Flute Shot From André 3000?“
Suspicious letter at Temple De Hirsch Sinai: The Seattle Fire Department and Seattle Police Department responded to Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon after a report of a suspicious letter. A hazmat crew “was able to quickly determine the item did not contain any hazardous substances,” Capitol Hill Seattle Blog reported.
Who among us: A person incarcerated at the Skagit County Community Justice Center “barricaded himself inside a ceiling area for hours on Wednesday” and later agreed to come down only if officers brought him biscuits and gravy from a local Mount Vernon restaurant, KIRO reports. The jail obliged.
How much did a bunch of landlords and Trump freaks spend to buy our new city council? Hannah reports that, on average, conservatives spent $22.44 per vote while their progressive opponents spent $13.75. Those averages include both campaign spending and independent expenditures. But even all that conservative money won only narrow victories in most council districts.
What did Seattle listen to this year? Just like the rest of the world, Seattle has a bunch of Swifties and fans of The Weeknd and Drake, according to the Seattle Times. But Seattle’s top five also included a couple of artists who weren’t in the global top five: Morgan Wallen (not good, and I love pop country) and SZA (good).
Little humpback still hanging out off West Seattle: A young humpback whale was spotted in Elliott Bay Thursday for the third day in a row. You know West Seattle Blog is on it.
Police say man beaten downtown has died: A man allegedly beat and stomped another man downtown along Third Avenue in June. Police tell KOMO the victim recently died from his injuries.
$390,000 cop on 3rd Ave https://t.co/cAsxDTcuav pic.twitter.com/mTJLObjJbH
— DivestSPD (@DivestSPD) December 1, 2023
Cha-Ching: Private equity company Blackstone Inc. plans to pay $2.3 billion for Seattle-based pet-sitting/walking company Rover, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal.
AG Bob Ferguson joins fight against Idaho anti-trans law: Washington and other states filed a brief supporting students’ attempt to stop a law that prevents trans students from using the bathroom in Idaho. Ferguson and others say the law violates federal civil rights laws. “In Washington, where the rights of transgender students are protected, public schools report no instances of transgender students harassing others in bathrooms or locker rooms. In contrast, the evidence is overwhelming that prohibiting students from using facilities that correspond to their gender identity causes them very real, physical, emotional and mental harm,” Ferguson said in a statement, according to the Seattle Times.
Amazon opens shiny new office: In hopes of getting employees back in their cubes, Amazon’s new Bellevue office offers “couches and lounge chairs, minifridges, dog beds and large outdoor decks with TVs streaming music videos.” Sounds like a fucking nightmare.
A compensatory yacht: Jeff Bezos’s megayacht, Koru, is the largest sailing yacht in the world. The boat is so big that it is too big to park where other private yachts park in Port Everglades, Florida. Instead, the boat is parked with oil tankers and container ships “because of its size and also because of what berths were available in the seaport,” the New York Times reports.
@JeffBezos Koru sailing yacht has finally arrived in the US, and it’s so enormous that it did not fit next to other superyachts at the Port of Everglades. The $500 million vessel was finally docked next to gigantic oil tankers at the South Florida.-https://t.co/i3BhZePtBq pic.twitter.com/vpDmgp8saR
— Luxurylaunches (@luxurylaunches) November 27, 2023
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor joins Scalia in hell: The Reagan-appointee and conservative justice broke the glass ceiling on the court! She also joined the conservatives in the decision that installed George W. Bush in the White House in 2000.
The “moderate” justice Sandra Day O’Connor was parroting Drudge-level voter fraud conspiracies about the Gore campaign on Election Night in 2000, like six weeks before she voted to hand the presidency to the guy whom she wanted to nominate her replacement pic.twitter.com/ssZtRQwwVr
— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) December 1, 2023
Shane MacGowan is dead: The Pogues frontman died Thursday morning at 65 “with his wife and sister by his side,” the BBC reports. The singer had recently been diagnosed with encephalitis.
I wouldn’t normally end on their Christmas song, but the month gives me no choice:
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‘Israel obtained those battle plans more than a year ago, shared them “widely among Israeli military and intelligence leaders,” observed Hamas training in the field to enact them, but officials ultimately “dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out,” the New York Times reports.’
Whereas, if Israel had responded in force to disrupt those plans, the Stranger would have immediately questioned the veracity of this supposed intelligence, and concluded it was either exaggerated (or fabricated), to justify an Israeli attack on Gaza.
Even when Hamas intentionally targets civilians, it’s still always Israel’s fault if civilians die. Every time, no exceptions.
Rich you didn’t mention Hamas Terries killing 3 people and shot 11 more at a bus stop outside Jerusalem yesterday. That may have also contributed to the ceasefire’s demise.
Or the hostage who reported they were held captive by an UNWRA employee.
RIP Shane. Shocked you made it to 65.
thanks for acknowledging shane macgowan. still hoping segal writes up something for the gen-x crowd about geordie walker and killing joke.
“… a bunch of landlords and Trump freaks …”
Seriously, Rich? Aren’t you the least bit embarrassed to call yourself a “newspaper editor,” or have you abandoned any sense of shame?
@2 and @6 are correct. Hamas can release all the hostages and surrender at any moment. They should do that.
Landlords and Trump freaks…
It’s writing like this that makes me think The Stranger is just satire.
@8 Why would they though when they are enjoying life in Qatar living on the billions of aid they have stolen from the Palestinian people? This war will only serve to enhance their portfolios when it finally concludes and the international community donates billions more to help rebuild Gaza.
As a Reagan appointee, Sandra Day O’Connor she voted with the conservatives repeatedly. In 2000, she was the swing vote on the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, giving the presidency to Bush, Jr. He appointed more than 260 youngish, right-wing judges to the federal bench. When O’Connor retired in 2006, Bush appointed John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, which horrific consequences. I will not mourn her death any more than I would mourn Kissinger’s demise. Because of her, the Court has overturned most of the Voters Rights Act as well as the right to abortion in many states. It has become the most corrupt court in American history. I will not mourn her death any more than I would mourn Kissinger’s demise. Burn in hell, O’Connor, along with your buddies Scalia, Nixon, Reagan and Kissinger.
Bye, Georgie.
But before we head on over to the House and their chambers with mops, very hot water, and lots of Lysol, let’s get rid of the 113 Congressional chancres who saw fit to have him stay.
Great weekend, all.
@21 Like all propaganda it needs to be fought and countered with the truth so low information readers are exposed to the full picture instead of drawing conclusions based on selective information presented by the authors. Due to their past when they actually had journalistic standards and provided some value to the discourse in the community TS still is considered the voice of truth amongst the progressive left so many take the TS at face value without question. Some of us would prefer to post here and push back against the narrative in hopes we can bring some people out of their idealogical bubble.
Shane MacGowen was like no other. I’ve had a few of his songs on rotation for 30+ years. It’s sad we lost two of the all-time best Irish musicians in the same year.
“Lorelie,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJR79qnNkc
“Haunted (with Sinead O’Connor),” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7307IWwr4
It’s funny how ‘progressives’ will tell republicans that Trump lost in 2020 and they need to get over it, but still cry about 2000 election 23 years after the fact.
Say what you will about Justice O’Connor, but she had the sense to retire at a time she’d be replaced by someone of similar philosophy.
Imagine if RGB had done that instead of hanging on to the bitter end.
The court would be more balanced than it is now.
@14: “Aparently Rich and TS, can’t read the International Laws they claim to be advocating for,”
When did any writer here claim to care about international law? They care when Israeli military actions kill civilians in Gaza. That’s all. Whether Hamas cowered behind those civilians means absolutely nothing, as we can see in this very headline post. As you recounted, the Stranger’s narrative starts with the Israeli decision to attack Hamas. It doesn’t start with Hamas using civilians in Gaza for human shields, because the Stranger simply does not care about Hamas’ use of civilians for human shields. Sure, non-consensual use of civilians for human shields violates international law, but the Stranger simply does not care.
@28,
It’s funny how ‘stupid people’ will compare a thwarted attempt to overthrow the United States government that left six people dead with some lingering bitterness over the results of an election decided on purely grounds by a partisan judiciary.
@28: “Imagine if RGB had done that instead of hanging on to the bitter end.
The court would be more balanced than it is now.”
Please explain how RGB retiring before her death would have resulted in a Republican Senate allowing a sane judge to take her place. (Bonus points for every use of the phrase, “Justice Merrick Garland”.)
@7; @10- don’t forget that anyone to the right of Kshama “idiot” Sawant is an official StrangerTrumper.
@43 yet that’s not what progressives have been doing Garb. The minute you start using genocidal chants, insisting people who where attacked deserve it because they are oppressors, equate them with a political movement who killed millions of their ancestors and defend another political movement whose charter is to finish the job you’ve completely lost the narrative. You, personally, may be differentiating between the two things you note but the vast majority of the protest crowd is not. Just today authorities have been called to Rep Adam Smith’s home because it was vandalized and another suspicious package was delivered to a Jewish temple. These aren’t the actions of people who have a disagreement with the Israeli government policies.
@18: “At this point the Stranger is nothing more than the propaganda arm of Hamas and Socialist Alternative.”
….all while being sustained by capitalist advertising dollars! The juxtaposition of advocating socialism while being supported by capitalism makes the steel plate in my head throb.
I could always listen to Shane MacGowen, but I always averted my eyes from looking at him, because of his horrible teeth. I’d just cringe. It’s sad it took him so long to get a new set.
Bezos got Him a yacht
for his Minions he
got ‘em dog beds.
Klassy.
”War’ Resumes
in Gaza’
Israel
Reopens the
Gaza Slaughterhouse
Phase One of Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza has ended. Phase Two has begun. It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction.
The skies over Gaza are filled — after a seven-day truce — with projectiles of death. Warplanes. Attack helicopters. Drones. Artillery shells. Tank shells. Mortars. Bombs. Missiles.
Gaza is a cacophony of explosions and forlorn screams and cries for help beneath collapsed buildings. Fear, once again, is coiling itself around every heart in the Gazan concentration camp.
By Friday evening, 184 Palestinians — including three journalists and two doctors — had been killed by Israeli air strikes in the north, south and central Gaza, and at least 589 injured, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Most of them are women and children.
Israel will not be deterred. It plans to finish the job, to obliterate what is left in the north of Gaza and decimate what remains in the south, to render Gaza uninhabitable, to see its 2.3 million people driven out in a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing via starvation, terror, slaughter and infectious diseases.
The aid convoys, which brought in token amounts of food and medicine — the first batch was shrouds and coronavirus tests according to the director of al-Najjar hospital — have been halted.
No one, least of all President Joe Biden, plans to intervene to stop the genocide. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel this week, and while calling for Israel to protect civilians, refused to set conditions that would disrupt the $3.8 billion Israel receives in annual military assistance or the $14.3 billion supplemental aid package.
The world will watch passively, muttering useless bromides about more surgical strikes, while Israel spins its roulette wheel of death. By the time Israel is done, the 1948 Nakba, where Palestinians were massacred in dozens of villages and 750,000 were ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias, will look like a quaint relic of a more civilized era.
–by Chris Hedges; Dec 1, 2023
more Horror
cum War Crimes:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israel-reopens-the-gaza-slaughterhouse?r=k7ee3
@36: You seem not to understand the absolute embargo Republicans in the Senate put upon Supreme Court nominations by Democratic Presidents.
(I’m guessing your lack of comprehension is self-inflicted, as the Republicans themselves were not exactly shy about what they were doing.)
At least we got a great Picasso painting out of Guernica.
This lousy war gives us nothing!
The Goal Is Ethnic Cleansing,
Not Defeating Hamas
The funny thing about Henry Kissinger dying at age 100 is that he lived long enough to become one of the least crazy warmongers in the DC swamp — not because he got saner, but because the US empire has gotten so much crazier. Almost everyone running the US government today is a worse warmonger than Kissinger was at the end of his life.
Sane person: Stop murdering thousands of children.
Crazy person: You hate people because of their religion.
Israeli officials keep openly saying again and again that the plan for Gaza is ethnic cleansing, yet the western political/media class adamantly insists on continuing to frame Israel’s actions in Gaza solely as a war against Hamas. Hamas isn’t the target, it’s the excuse.
A damning new report from +972 Magazine published on Thursday exposes how Israel has been deliberately striking civilian targets in Gaza as a matter of policy because they believe it will “lead civilians to put pressure on Hamas.”
It makes it clear that the IDF is very much aware of where the civilians are, and that when they kill children it’s because they calculated that it would be strategically worthwhile to do so.
As evidence continues to mount that a significant number of the Israelis killed on October 7 were actually killed by indiscriminate fire from the IDF, Israel has announced its plans to bury the vehicles Israelis died in — in other words to bury forensic evidence.
According to the Jerusalem Post, “In order to save space and be as environment-friendly as possible… the cars may be shredded before being buried.”
Are people not tired of having their intelligence insulted?
–Caitlin Johnstone; Dec 1, 2023
more:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-goal-is-ethnic-cleansing-not?
@17 Bauhaus I: +1 Agreed with Garb Garblar–for the WIN!!!
Adios, Georgie! The Orange Turd really should be next to be permanently ousted, and preferably hurtled one-way into outer space on Jeff Bezos’ hideous space dildo. I just noticed that the New York appeals court had to reinstate the gag rule on Trumpty Dumpty [NBC News, December 1, 2023]. They’d need 1,000 tons of cement to fill that bottomless pie hole.
@26 STII: “Someone needs to call out their lies.”
I agree. Start with RepubliKKKans. Ever since Richard Nixon the GOP has been increasingly building its plutocratic empire on corruption, lies, hypocrisy, willful misinformation, xenophobia, fear-mongering, misogyny, racism, bullying, and propaganda.
I’m in agreement with Catalina Vel-DuRay and others: RepubliKKKans are truly horrible excuses for people.
@49 kristofarian: I feel sick about what is happening worldwide. I will have a hard time unseeing that horrific photograph of war victims in Gaza. Those who profit from war are beyond evil and criminally insane.
War is hell, no matter who you are, where you are, and what you’re doing.
@37-@40 and @42-@44 Garb Garblar: +7 YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
@53: “What set off McConnell with the Garland appointment was the Garland would have replaced Scalia, changing the balance of the court.”
So, you’re saying Scalia should have retired years earlier? Because we certainly can’t blame the Senate Republicans for their intentional blocking of Supreme Court nominations.
your Projection
is most Telling
dewdropper
Please
take Note.
Israel Launches Strikes
& Orders Evacuations
in Southern Gaza
Israel pounded targets in southern Gaza after a truce with Hamas collapsed. Gazan authorities said more than 15,000 people had been killed since Oct. 7.
https://www.nytimes.com/
how much vengeance
is too much vengeance
for you? 10 dead Gazans
for each Israeli? 50? 100?
Ethnic Cleansings +
War Crimes =
Genocide.
please
to make
Note of it.
Israeli Government’s Mass
Terrorism Fortified by
Biden and Congress
In response to Biden’s repeated urging that Israel comply with the “laws of war” we [international law specialist Bruce Fein and Ralph Nader] described how Benjamin Netanyahu and his regime are doing just the opposite with its brutal terror campaign against defenseless Palestinian civilians and their critical public support structures.
Biden knows that the Israeli government is implementing what its ministers ordered on October 8th – a total siege with no food, no water, no electricity, no fuel, and no medicine which meets the definition of the crime of genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Israeli videos provide the grisly evidence of over 20,000 bombs and missiles striking homes, apartment buildings, schools, markets, water mains, bread bakeries, hospitals, clinics, ambulances and places of worship. After many days, the terror-stricken civilians, fleeing from one place to another in Gaza while being attacked, are also dying of disease, hunger, thirst, and a lack of critical medicines, such as insulin, with the bodies of infants and children still under the rubble in numbers too many to be counted.
Israel’s extremist right-wing politicians use words such as “human animals,” “annihilation” and “extermination” as declared objectives of their mass terrorism. (See, Amy Goodman’s interview with Yuval Abraham today on Democracy Now!).
Biden can get more humanitarian aid trucks into Gaza simply by enveloping them with the American flag and daring Israel to delay, obstruct or destroy these carriers of live-saving food, water, fuel and medicine.
But he is too weak and too cowardly to put strong U.S. leverage behind his sugarcoating wishes for saving the civilian mothers, fathers and children of Gaza.
He has made the U.S. a co-belligerent by unconditionally supplying abundant weapons, military intelligence and political cover, including vetoes of United Nations resolutions.
Biden has another apprehension – the near total control of Congress by the “Israel’s government can do no wrong” lobby.
The indentured rubber-stamping Senators and Representatives have no problem supporting Israel’s violent repression and land dispossession in what is left of the original Palestine and its five million encircled Palestinians.
Would these politicians deploy such eagerness in helping poor American children and their families in our country?
tonnes more:
https://mailchi.mp/nader/israels-genocidal-antisemitism-against-the-arab-civilians-of-gaza-z95u9lpr6s-139338?e=ae71353e32
your not
Worthy
dewey.
@68: Now we “learn” from her of Israeli responsibility, via “indiscriminate fire from the IDF,” for some of the 10/7 deaths. I give her a fortnight (at most) until she’s telling our local vector there was no 10/7 attack, it was all Bibi’s doing. (He will, of course, slobberingly copypasta that per usual.)
@66, 68, 69:
sure, sure
Nutnyahoo
apologistists:
keep Telling yourselfs that.
otoh: nyt:
This Is the 9/11 Lesson
That Israel Needs to Learn
Wiping out Hamas
is an unattainable goal,
and getting stuck in Gaza would be a disaster.
As Israel debates what to do next in Gaza, I hope Israel’s political-military leadership will reflect on the adage often attributed to Confucius: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves” — one for your enemy and one for yourself.
–Thomas L. Friedman; Dec 1, 2023
more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/opinion/israel-gaza-ceasefire.html
here’re two of the three top reader’s comments on the article:
The problem with this analysis is that it assumes those in Israeli power (namely Netanyahu and his coalition) want an end to the fighting.
It is obvious to them that once the fighting stops, Netanyahu is toast and so is the ruling coalition.
Netanyahu has shown he puts his own interests above those of Israel and its people.
— USVeteran 304th; Idaho
The analysis made great points to end the current immediate conflict. And you are right this will continue on the cycle it has been for over 75 years of war, ceasefire, war, ceasefire.
But a long term solution can only occur if the illegal settlement building, land grabbing, and brutal military occupation is ended. And this will not happen because the West does nothing to stop Israel’s violation of International law.
Mr. Friedman knows all of this, but he never mentions them in his columns, overlooking the root cause of the problem which he knows too well.
–Yasmine; Houston
more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/opinion/israel-gaza-ceasefire.html#commentsContainer
“I just hope he had
just as much fun killing all those
people as we had watching him kill them.”
–from
yet another
Nutnyahoo
Apologisticatee
[does this make me
an Anti-semite too?]
@72
when others’
words’re better
than why on Earth not?
@73
you cannot
read my mind
and you cannot
fathom my posts
so it Looks like
You will never
Know.
for then Record?
I’m anti-Fascist*
& appreciate
Jews.
*which makes me
Anti-Nutnyahoo
now there’s a real
Mind-Bender
for ya dewey
@75: Gotta love how his most inflammatory quote yet (@71) arrives with complete anonymity, with not even an attempt at a source citation. That’s his idea of constructive dialog.
@75/76 he’s a couple posts away from starting to defend Bin Ladins letter to America. It’s been both horrifying and fascinating witnessing the complete decent into madness.
@77: News isn’t for everybody, especially not for persons who want easily understood explanations, complete with clear-cut choices and easy answers. Those persons should stick with soap operas or whatever. Ugly scenes of death and destruction should be left to those of us who understand just how awful the situation and history really are, and how going for the easy, obvious answers will just continue that same dismal history.
“constructive dialog”
with ol’ wormtongue?
pass.
pas on the bot
and pass pass Pass
on godd ole dewey too
the quote in question
was lifted mostly
from The Onion
‘inflammatory
rhetoric’s
got No
Place
@tS.’
got that too.
@d13r
you can
bugger off too.
.
& Happy Genocide!
oh Sh@t!
does @81 make
Me pro-Genocide?*
*your “logic” is some-
times damn Hard
to swallow.
@77, @80:
“the quote in question
was lifted mostly
from The Onion”
On the topic of Gaza, that’s closest thing to an actual news source he’s so far cited.
and Always
so
Spot ON!
Wormtongue.
bugger off.
and Then
There’s This:
“The Nation has published a piece on the genocide in Gaza that was pulled from the Harvard Law Review [FUCKING ANTI-SEMITES!] at the last moment.
The opening lines of this article read “Genocide is a crime. It is a legal framework. It is unfolding in Gaza. [more “Progressive” — aka KKKomminisses!!! – Propaganda !!!] And yet, the inertia of legal academia, especially in the United States, has been chilling.
Clearly it is much easier to dissect the case law rather than navigate the reality of death. It is much easier to consider genocide in the past tense rather than contend with it in the present.
Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.”
more
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/the-true-cost-of-billionaire-philanthropy?r=k7ee3
“It is much easier
to consider genocide
in the past tense rather than
contend with it in the present.”
tS’s right-wing
whackos
Agree
9-1.
From the river to the sea!
Oh wait, an Islamist group may have blown up Catholics in the Philippines? Ooops!
@87
not only are you Good
with the Whales but also
a Genius at Peace-making
get in touch with
Hamas post-haste
& End the Genocide
2.1 Million Gazans
will Thank You
profusely
now
go &
Sharpen
your Harpoon.
@87
not only are you Good
with the Whales but also
a Genius at Peace-making
get in touch with
Hamas post-haste
& End the Genocide
2.1 Million Gazans
will Thank You
profusely
now
go &
Sharpen
your Harpoon.
@87: I like how, @85, the Harvard Law Review’s pointed refusal to call it genocide somehow magically becomes incontrovertible proof that it is, in fact, genocide. (To be fair, this is the closest thing to proof our abusers of the word, “genocide,” actually have.)
The diametrically opposite difference between the point the apologists for terrorism are actually making, and the point they somehow still believe they are making, just becomes all the more amazing, the further they go.
@89
your narrative unsurprisingly
is murdering civilians the
only question being is
it Enough for the
chickenhearted
to call it too
Much
at Least with all the
Dead you’re keeping
BiBi Nutnyahoo outta
jail. bully for you & tough
Luck, eh? for Gazans. like you’ve
Always Said: it’s All about the Cruelty.
well played
Wormtongue:
siding with Fascists
is Always right up your Alley.
@92: Yeah, “genocide” wasn’t the first word whose meaning he flagrantly abused. He’s long thrown around various incarnations of “fascist,“ too.
In addition to his most carefully not using “fascist” to describe Hamas, despite Hamas’ many fascistic traits you’ve described, Slog’s most-persistent terror apologist has slobbered all over Comrade Sawant, for her Gloriously Striding To Total Victory On All Fronts. It’s as if, in his chronic abuse of the word, “fascist,” he’s actively trying to embody the concept of projection.
Also, I’d like to thank the Nation for publishing the article which had been rejected by editors of the Harvard Law Review. Reading the article completely justifies their decision to reject it.
One might think an article in a legal review would begin by defining the the legal issue in question, then showing how it applies to the situation at hand. The article does a terrible job of the former, and makes no attempt at all to do the latter. It simply assumes the (incomplete) definition of genocide applies, and having assumed the truth of what it needed to show, proceeds to berate Israel (and only Israel; the name Hamas does not appear) for causing the entire situation.
Having done that, the article then spends most of its words on attacking Israel’s very right to exist. The other shoe drops loudly and hard here, admitting this argument would also show the United States has no right to exist, either.
The article is so ludicrously biased against Israel, it first attempts to make the case the embargo against Gaza can, all by itself, be considered genocide — but then utterly fails to mention Egypt’s embargo of Gaza.