Yes, that total silence of Nasrallah. Game is definitely on.

I waited and waited for it and he holds back.

As I mused in the above comment, who thinks they’re in charge and who is actually being played?

Yes, thank you – I should have thought to look myself, you’re busy enough as it is.

@Sudhi, yes I believe that story too. We’ve seen the clip that Syrian Girl posted showing how the Israeli forces were shooting from within the rave, and AHH at the time said he’d seen several such posts.

What’s remarkable to me is how quickly the story of a Hamas “massacre of the innocents” arose immediately after the Hamas action began – it was the first word that seemed to come to the west, even in alternative media. Many commentators have made otherwise good analyses of the situation but still on the basis that Hamas committed atrocities from the beginning, i.e. as part of their campaign tactics. But there was never film of any of this.

And nothing about a “Hamas atrocity” makes any sense. They are not terrorists, they are insurgents. Their principal mission was to demonstrate how they could break out of the prison, take hostages and return with them alive to use as negotiation. Killing them would be pointless, and as for taking the time to rape or brutalize them these fighters were on a tightly planned mission – random mayhem was not their goal.

So, yes, Israeli players opened the gate wider than Hamas had to fight through – but they neglected to tell IDF it was happening, and IDF immediately fell apart, given Hamas the room to proceed farther than they probably planned. So, Khamenei is correct (as he always is) that the great achievement was the disgrace of IDF and Israeli combat reputation.

As always, the comedians got to the truth of the insurgency first, in the west (good for Jimmy Dore):

And over time the true story will become more known, except among the brainwashed, who don’t really matter.

AHH, yes, I agree with what you’re saying, but for me the great value in Bolsen’s words lies in the moral dimension that has been missing for some years. He’s putting the moral value back into the equation.

It is indeed a matter of if the Israelis are too far gone to reclaim their humanity. This is why they’ll lose if they try to genocide the Palestinians any more than they have already. The Israelis can’t kill the Palestinians without adhering to evil, whereas the Palestinians can kill the Israelis and still retain their virtue.

I think it’s always important to know which side of the moral balance you’re on, because we can all of us drift or be seduced across that line.

So perhaps this is the end of Israel, and perhaps all that will remain are those Jews who will ask to live in peace in sovereign Palestine, and the nation will heal itself. And all the Israelis who leave will come to North America – after being thrown out of yet another country for being obnoxious and evil – and then the people of North America will increasingly come to know what it feels like to be Palestinian. As indeed has already been happening – but we ain’t seen nothing yet.

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In my daily practice, there is an element of prayer, and lately I’ve included the Gazans in my prayers, and also as an afterthought told myself I have to include the Israelis also. But now, after Bolsen’s gift of that perspective, I find that I truly can pray for the Israelis, to throw off their inhumanity and reclaim themselves as human – knowing that the trap of inhumanity is one that we all can fall into, and be tricked into, and this is the condition of today’s Israelis, but to an unknown degree. The next weeks may show that degree. But there is hope, there is a moral compass that offers hope and aspiration, and so prayers are not wasted.

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ps.. for any who may not know, that transcript isn’t the whole of Bolsen’s talk. It’s the geopolitical pith, but I think all of it is worth listening to. There’s a great warmth and richness in all that he has to say to the Israelis.

Thanks to AHH principally, and all others, for feeding this news update – it’s the best on the Internet for the Gaza situation. And of course prayers and blessings for Amarynth.

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Egypt will be Palestine’s greatest friend if it can hold strong and keep its border closed against a forced migration.

Meanwhile, outside the Strip, the Muslim world gathers itself, and the information-well replenishes itself.

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The first lie, of the “massacre” of the ravers partying at the music festival, traveled around the world a few times before the truth got its shoes on, as Syrian Girl showed that the deaths came from IDF forces, who fired on Hamas from inside the festival:

https://t.me/syriangirlpartisan/177

“Breaking🚨: IDF was firing at Hamas during the music festival from within the crowds – unarmed ravers were not targeted – they were caught in the cross fire!!! The Rave was right next to the militarised border fence.”

And the world outside gathers itself, as Iraqi forces say they’ll target US bases if the US intervenes, and as Iran makes its own warnings also. Hezbollah hasn’t even entered the war yet but the false alarm alone freaked out half of Israel.

Country by country, I believe I see that all of Islam is being drawn into this battle – as Khamenei says it must – each aligning in turn, and waiting its turn. First must come Hezbollah and Syria closely together, then the others. They wait their turn, gather themselves, remember their hearts, and consider the only imperative there ever has been here, in the satanic occupation of Palestine.

How greatly does Israel want to lose, and how much? How greatly does the US want to lose, and how much? Let them come on, according to the weight of their hubris. The martyrs of Gaza are cruelly placed as the trigger for this explosion, but they bait the trap for the downfall of the west.

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In the blackness of the suffering of the Gazans, I can only turn for strength to songs from the heart such as this: Salam Farmande, “Salute, Commander”:

and this version, under the very red flag that promises the end to imperialism in West Asia:

And there are many, many more renditions to be found of this…hymn, song, vow…this cry from the heart that is the test of being human. It tears me apart, always. It’s called being human.

AHH, please don’t be sorry for the abundance of your posts. I had hoped you would do this, and it’s the best feed I know of for what’s happening in West Asia – it’s a lifeline, and thank you.

Disturbing that you don’t know anything about Amarynth…last she said was not feeling well.  Will indeed pray for her rapid bounce back 🙂

Karl Sanchez (karlof1) theorized that Karganovic’s article about Fuellmich was the trigger that caused Strategic Culture to be yanked from its top-level domain. It did seem to happen hard on the heels of the piece. I’m not convinced that this was necessarily cause and effect but the coincidence is interesting.

Certainly the article is chock-full of links, as karlof1 points out, and I recommend interested readers to click through to the original to peruse them.

That said, there are many court cases in progress and still being being heard and developed. Jeff Childers over at Coffee & Covid writes frequently about some of these legal happenings, lawyer that he is.

So I wonder what kind of court cases Dr. Fuellmich has actually tried to bring.I have only seen his class action brought in 2021, and reported briefly by Karganovic in SCF. This was about the pandemic itself. I think the greater traction in the courts has and will come from vaccine damage.

The cases of note that I hear mention of concern specific harms and damages, as far as I can see. I’m not sure that the Fuellmich dossier ever lent itself to legal proceedings quite so much as political proceedings – and I’m not being dismissive, I’ve supported his effort from the beginning, and I’ve learned much from it. But without a political movement or heavyweight behind it, it always seemed very broad to me – he himself I think said it could serve as a body of source work for other litigants.

The US population seems to be dying at the rate of 1,000 people per month from the mRNA spike, with no end in sight and perhaps even rising greatly. And as Ed Dowd pointed out in his book “Cause Unknown”, the US workforce statistically lost 3.5 million of its best workers following the vax rollouts – that’s a wonderful book, by the way, and I completely recommend it: amazon link.

Sorry to ramble on…I don’t have much time and there’s so much information to share in this very fraught matter.