If the deluded West
is hell bent on boarding
the still-sinking Titanic
whilst dancing with abandon
on its top deck, then so be it 😉

“If wishes were horses,
beggars would ride.
If turnips were bayonets,
I’d wear one by my side” 😄

A ‘Terrorist’ Organization? – This is What Hamas’ Charters Say
by Blake Alcott
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/a-terrorist-organization-this-is-what-hamas-charters-say/
“How many people, making claims about how evil Hamas is, know the first thing about Hamas? How many have at least read what this large, popular movement has said it believes and wants to do? Very few.”

In this article, the author looks at what Hamas has said in two documents – the Covenant of 18 August 1988 and the Document of 1 May 2017…
The author concludes thusly:
“As a supporter of the separation of state and religion (or ethnicity, or ‘nationality’), I do not believe a state or government can simultaneously be democratic and ‘Christian’, ‘Moslem’, ‘Jewish’ or ‘Hindu’. Based on the 2017 text, I humbly venture that Hamas struggles to square this circle.
There is moreover zero evidence for the claim that Hamas wants to kill any Jews because they are Jews, or indeed any Jews who are not in uniform. On the contrary, the evidence examined here from official Hamas statements points to Hamas’ willingness to co-exist with others regardless of their ethnicity or religion. The burden of proof lies with those who allege unstated racist or intolerant intentions on the part of Hamas.”

The Goal Is Ethnic Cleansing, Not Defeating Hamas
by Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/12/02/the-goal-is-ethnic-cleansing-not-defeating-hamas/
“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…

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/209065/US-base-in-NE-Syria-comes-under-missile-attack
▪️The military facility, located near the al-Jebsa oil field, was shelled with multiple rocket launchers. During the attack, there were several explosions in the area of the base, TASS reports.
▪️The public relations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the martyrdom of two of its members during an advisory mission in Syria.
▪️Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani announced the holding of a joint naval exercise between Iran, Russia, and China.
“The countries of Pakistan, Brazil, Oman, India, South Africa, and some neighboring countries in the Caspian Sea have also been invited as observers,” Rear Admiral Irani said.

https://iranpress.com/gaza-is-the-most-dangerous-place-for-children–says-unicef
Executive Director Catherine Russell has called on the parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to spare no effort to protect children as the Gaza Strip has become the most dangerous place for children again.
“Today, Gaza is again the most dangerous place to be a child. And winter is on the doorstep. All parties to the conflict must do everything possible to protect the lives and well-being of all children no matter where they are. No more children should die in this conflict.”
▪️The Spokesman of the Gaza Health Ministry said the number of people martyred due to the Israeli attacks on Gaza reached 15,207.
▪️On Sunday evening, 22 years since the last visit of the late president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel will arrive in Tehran at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation.
https://iranpress.com/iran-s-army-capabilities-exhibition-held

This thread is from another site:
Two of these war criminals are Polish, and one is Romanian –
https://x.com/MiroWare/status/1730742841297563882?s=20
▪️Where do you think those faces are native to?
A) Europe?
B) Africa?
C) Asia?
D) Middle East?
E) America?
And none were born in Palestine?
Maybe only Netanyahu, anyway none are originally from Palestine, Israhell is a fake country, a small colony of the empire of lies.
▪️Bibi’s dad was Polish. His mom was a Haredi Edmond Rothschild (helped establish that settlement) Jew… so yeah… he is Ashkenazi. All major Israeli leaders are Ashkenazi.

🔸’Butchers of Gaza’ Will Be Punished – Erdogan
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/butchers-of-gaza-will-be-punished-erdogan/
“We will do our best to get the International Criminal Court to punish (Israel) for this genocide. This is a black mark not only on (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu’s government, but also on those countries that unconditionally support it. And they too will pay for their silence for years to come”

🔻@Slavyangrad:
Erdogan on the resumption of hostilities in Gaza due to Israel’s position: From the very beginning, we have always emphasized that we stand for a permanent ceasefire. The situation resulting from Israel’s approach has once again shown that we are right in our fears. There was an opportunity for peace here, and unfortunately we have lost that opportunity for now due to Israel’s uncompromising approach. However, we do not take the approach of “it will continue to be this way, peaceful opportunities will be missed”, let’s not lose hope. I hope that we will once again have the opportunity for the lasting peace we are waiting for. We will not give up our pursuit of peace 🤥

🟠 Iranian media was attracted by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s speech, who recited a poem by Persian poet Omar Khayyam:
“The drop began to cry that it parted from the sea, why do we beg God for forgiveness, the light and the shadow faithfully divide the world into parts, hardly a drop knows what happiness is!”.

🌹 There was a water-drop, it joined the sea,
A speck of dust, it was fused with earth;
what of your entering and leaving this world?
A fly appeared, and disappeared.
https://excellencereporter.com/2020/04/07/omar-khayyam-to-wisely-live-your-life/

The Motorcycle Diaries
by Gustavo Santaolalla

Tread softly on Hamas — for good reason
by M. K. Bhadrakumar

Tread softly on Hamas — for good reason

“Israel under Netanyahu has a highly controversial past vis-a-vis Hamas. Two former prime ministers, Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, have given interviews to prominent western media recently alleging that Netanyahu is responsible for the rise of Hamas, having financed the movement with Qatari funds. A former Israeli general who was in charge of occupation of Gaza has actually admitted to have disbursed funds to Hamas…

Netanyahu has had a dubious record of systematically strengthening Hamas to deepen divisions between the Palestinian factions with an agenda of weakening the Palestinian Authority and its President Mahmoud Abbas. His ulterior objective has been to stall any and every peace process, buying time for Greater Israel project to be completed.

Ben Caspit, a leading journalist in Israel who wrote the Ma’ariv report last week estimates that Netanyahu views Hamas as a “treasure” that will help him scuttle the two-state solution. Caspit recalled that the first favour Netanyahu offered Hamas was the prisoner swap deal in 2011 that saw the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in return for 1,027 Palestinian detainees — including Sinwar.”

Israel knew of Hamas attack plan one year in advance – NYT
https://www.rt.com/news/588319-hamas-attack-blueprint-nyt/
“Palestinian militants followed the blueprint “with shocking precision,” the newspaper reported.”

Considering that both Biden and Netanyahu were warned about the threat of a Hamas attack, suspicions arise about why both leaders did nothing and decided to turn a blind eye to the bloodshed deliberately. Therefore, giving the IOF reason to “raze” the Gaza Strip. In order to divert suspicion from themselves, they along with the MSM blamed it on an ‘intelligence failure’ 🤔

The October 7th Attacks on Israel Were Allowed to Happen. Here’s Why:

The October 7th Attacks on Israel Were Allowed to Happen. Here’s Why.

…Hamas had absolutely no strategic reason to perpetrate these attacks. Furthermore, Israel had absolutely no reason to not see these attacks coming. The sad reality is that the heads of both parties are in cahoots. They are funded and supported by the same entities. What is happening now is a mascarade while a major geo-political shift is about to happen. As usual, those who suffer are innocent civilians. Not those behind the scenes.

On a wider scale, this conflict has been extremely divisive in the Western world. And the elite loves division and social unrest. Not only that, people have no trouble condoning outright evil because it’s being perpetrated by their side. And that’s music to the ears of the satanic elite.

On a wider scale, this conflict has been extremely divisive in the Western world. And the elite loves division and social unrest. Not only that, people have no trouble condoning outright evil because it’s being perpetrated by their side. And that’s music to the ears of the satanic elite.
In short, this conflict is complex but it is also simple. The elite wins and regular people lose. While being filled with hatred. As usual.”

Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
The Israel Defense Forces has published an interactive map of the zoned Gaza Strip.
The IDF will use it to “notify the Palestinian civilian population of active combat zones.” The new map is said to be intended to “make it easier for Gazans to evacuate certain areas” and will help better understand instructions issued by Israeli forces.

“Dear residents of Gaza! Please pay attention to the map and find on it the number of the block in which you live or near which you are currently located ,” the message says.

Residents must follow IOF instructions that will appear in the media. And if they didn’t see the message or didn’t have time to evacuate, that’s their problem 🤦‍♂️

Recalling the article posted by Mr. P yesterday:
“The Israeli plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza”

Text Translation: The Israeli plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza

This could have been their plan all along 🤔

“The Second Coming”
by William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/208999/Hamas-discovers-identity-of-scores-of-Israeli-spies
“Hamas discovers identity of scores of Israeli spies”
▪️The representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement in Tehran has announced that during Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, the Palestinian resistance movements succeeded in seizing Israeli intelligence servers that saved many names of spies for the regime such as infiltrators in the Gaza Strip and even Iran.

Nasser Abu Sharif said on Wednesday that the achievements of the Palestinian operation are beyond imagination because it was not anticipated that all intelligence agencies in the world could be insensible when 50 Israeli security bases were seized by the Palestinian resistance and many Israeli troops were killed.
Over the course of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, Palestinian resistance fighters succeeded in bringing Israeli intelligence servers into the Gaza Strip; so, they could reach the names of numerous spies, even the ones who were active inside Iran, the Palestinian envoy said.

▪️Top Iran, Saudi defense officials discuss military ties and cooperation.
Speaking in a telephone conversation with Khalid bin Salman Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian minister of defense, Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, discussed the issues of mutual interests.

▪️If another anti-Israeli military operation like the Al-Aqsa Storm operation breaks out, the Zionist regime will collapse in only 48 hours, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said.
He said information on the ground indicates that the Palestinian fighters in Gaza have detonated 300 tanks from a total of 1,600 tanks and personnel carriers that Israel had deployed to the battlefield.
The Zionist regime’s economy has sustained heavy damages, as Israel is losing $300 million each day in the wake of the war on Gaza, he added.
The IRGC chief noted that the Zionist army is no longer capable of carrying on the onslaught on Gaza, as 2,000 Israeli troops have deserted in recent weeks.

https://iranpress.com/iran-s-president-not-to-take-part-in-cop-28
▪️Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi refused to attend the COP28  summit in the UAE due to the presence of israeli president Isaac Herzog in the conference.

THE THOUSAND BOAT BLOCKADE-BUSTING OPERATION CHANGES EVERYTHING ON THE GAZA FRONT – IF IT MATERIALISES

On November 21 the Turkish and Arab media reported that “approximately 1,000 international boats will gather in Turkiye on Wednesday [November 22] before heading toward Gaza to break the Israeli blockade…In an interview with Turkish news website, Haber7, Volkan Okcu, one of the organisers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries, ‘including anti-Zionist Jews’. Among the 1,000 vessels would be 313 boats filled with Russian activists, and 104 filled with Spanish activists, he said. Only 12 Turkish vessels will join the flotilla…The maritime convoy is set to make a first stop in Cyprus before continuing toward the Israeli port of Ashdod. Some participants in the flotilla will also reportedly take their spouses and children on board.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/saudis-offer-invest-sanctioned-iranian-economy-deescalate-gaza-tensions
On Wednesday, Bloomberg reports the major development that “Saudi Arabia has approached Iran with an offer to boost cooperation and invest in its sanctions-stricken economy if the Islamic Republic stops its regional proxies from turning the Israel-Hamas war into a wider conflict.”
The proposal has been delivered directly and through multiple means since Hamas’s attack on Israel last month and the ensuing war in Gaza, according to Arab and Western officials familiar with the matter.”
“While its unclear how seriously Tehran has taken Riyadh’s overtures, so far a regional war’s been averted,” Bloomberg observes.

Forwarded from Ostashko!
🇾🇪An explosion was recorded in Yemen. The causes of the explosion are being clarified. A column of smoke is visible in the area of ​​Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.
🔴🇾🇪An explosion in Yemen is the result of an attack on a missile and UAV storage warehouse by militants from the Ansar Allah group.
🤷‍♀️Considering that drones and missiles are launched from Yemen towards Israel, it is not difficult to guess where it came from.
⚡️The Houthis in Yemen said they were ready to resume military action against Israel if the truce in the Gaza Strip ends.

Some sort of a psy-ops🤔
https://www.voltairenet.org/article220078.html
What lies behind Benjamin Netanyahu’s lies and Hamas’s evasions
by Thierry Meyssan
The official version of the Hamas-Israel war raises more questions than it answers. Here, the author highlights seven major contradictions. On reflection, Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu, far from being enemies, are acting in concert with no regard for the lives of Palestinians or Israelis. Behind them, the United States and the United Kingdom are pulling the strings.

Russian forces have begun to establish their
presence in Golan Heights region, Syria, which is
occupied by Israel. Russian troops will monitor
Israel, which has carried out a series of airstrikes
on Damascus from the region.

Russo-Ukrainian War: The Reckoning
Ukraine at the limits
by BIG SERGE
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-the-reckoning
“Strategic Exhaustion –
The war in Ukraine is now transitioning to enter its third phase. The first phase, from the onset of hostilities in February 2022 until the autumn of that year, was characterized by a trajectory of exhaustion of indigenous Ukrainian capacity by the operations of the limited initial Russian force. While Russian forces successfully degraded or exhausted many aspects of the prewar Ukrainian war machine – elements like communications, air defense interceptor stocks, and the artillery park – the initial Russian strategy floundered on critical miscalculations concerning both Ukraine’s willingness to fight a long war and NATO readiness to backstop Ukrainian material and provide critical ISR and command & control capabilities.

With the Russians facing with a much larger war than anticipated, and with utterly inadequate force generation for the task, the war took on the character of industrial attrition as it moved into the second phase. This phase was characterized by Russian attempts to shorten and correct the frontline, creating dense fortifications and locking up forces in grinding positional battles. This phase, more generally, was about the Ukrainians attempting to exploit – and the Russians enduring – a period of Ukrainian strategic initiative as Russia moved to a more expansive war footing, expanding armaments production and raisings force generation through mobilization…
Ukraine enjoyed a brief window of initiative on the ground. This window, however, was squandered with the botched summer assault on Russia’s defenses in the south, and the second phase of the war ends alongside the AFU’s drive on the Azov shore.

And so we come to the third phase, characterized by three important conditions:
1. Steadily rising Russian combat power as a result of investments made over the previous year.
2. Exhaustion of Ukrainian initiative on the ground and increasing self-cannibalization of AFU assets.
3. Strategic exhaustion in NATO.

In essence, the United States (and its European satellites) have four options, none of which are good:

Commit to an economic mobilization to substantially ramp up material deliveries to Ukraine
▪️Continue the extant trickle of support to Ukraine and watch it suffer a progressive and slow defeat
▪️End support for Ukraine and watch it suffer a more rapid and totalizing defeat
▪️Attempt to freeze the conflict with negotiations

As 2024 brings a steady erosion of the Ukrainian position in the Donbas – isolation and liquidation of peripheral fortresses like Adviivka, a double pronged advance on Konstyantinivka, an ever more severe salient around Ugledar as the Russians advance on Kurakhove – Ukraine will find itself in an ever more untenable place, with western partners questioning the logic of funneling limited weapons stocks into a shattered state.

“In military affairs there are five essential points. If able to attack, you must attack. If not able to attack, you must defend. If not able to defend, you must flee. The remaining two points entail only surrender or death.”
– Sima Yi””

Geopolitics Update:
https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/geopolitics-update-i-1d3
By ALEKS from BMA