Screams heard after strike on apartment building as Israel continues to try to provoke regional war
Israel has bombed an apartment building in Syrian capital Damascus, according to local reports. Screams can be heard from the building in the immediate aftermath of the airstrike:
The attack came hours after Israel bombed Aleppo and other parts of Syria during the early hours of Saturday:
The occupation regime continues to bomb and starve refugees in Gaza and bomb residential areas, medics and journalists in Lebanon as Netanyahu continues to try to provoke regional war and manipulate the US into attacking Iran. Israel, which has bombed even Iran’s consulate in Damascus, has become a rogue state in addition to engaging in terrorist campaigns.
The US continues to refuse to rein it in – with the UK government also eagerly enabling the genocide – and the Democratic party leadership’s insistence on enabling Netanyahu’s government and turning a blind eye to its continual war crimes played a significant role in Kamala Harris’s collapse in last week’s presidential election.
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“May you never have a US-backed Israel as a neighbour!”
OK, der Rebbe NEVER actually said that (he lived 150 years ago), but if he lived today he certainly would. Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn was a prominent opponent of zionism – for religious and ethical reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholom_Dovber_Schneersohn
My heart goes out to every victim of Israel’s military and political corruption and the Pogrom it unleashes.
Wonder which group of Goyim who disagree with the self-appointed and self identifying “chosen Zionist Sect” and their quest for infinite Lebensraum they will be slaughtering next?
Bombs on Western University campuses perhaps? Though I understand the historical record shows that hotels were once a speciality.
Some of you may find yourselves agreeing with this essay by Richard Forer
Here’s a short extract
“The Unexamined Mind’s Self-Imagery is the Source of Genocide
Zionists interpret as mortal threats to their self-imagery anything that challenges the one or two-sentence sound bites they cling to that are meant to signify Israeli innocence and Palestinian culpability, and they will do or say anything to create the illusion that they have at least temporarily extinguished the threat, including accusing anyone of antisemitism whose research depicts Israel as unfair and inhumane.
On that basis, they can convince themselves the criticism is untrustworthy and can be dismissed out of hand. But they cannot evade responsibility for their roles in the suffering of an entire people because, to their unconscious minds, the possibility they could be wrong evokes the same fear of death they would experience if they were facing a Nazi firing squad.
I’ve never met a defender of Israel who is reasonably knowledgeable about the history. That’s because they don’t want to know the history. More revealing is the reality that the Israel they are defending does not exist. It is an idealistic image in their minds that they project onto the Israel that does exist, the Israel that from the moment of its birth has been expelling, dispossessing, murdering and character assassinating Palestinians.
You can read the full essay here (1,500 words):
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-unexamined-minds-self-imagery-is-the-source-of-genocide/
“Zionists interpret…….accusing anyone of antisemitism whose research depicts Israel as unfair and inhumane.”
Which logically includes their self-identifying Zionist accomplices, aiders and abetters across the Collective Worst. Like Keir Starmer, Lammy and the rest of the War Crime supporting rabble that is the upper echelons of what passes for a “Labour” party these days – not forgetting their armchair internet cheerleaders
The ones that expelled and continues to expel anyone from the LP they allege to be anti-Semitic on no other evidence than their say so. Reversing the normal due process principle of having to prove the allegation by insisting the accused disprove it.
To be fair, in terms of the real world generic application of principles and the process described above this is not limited simply to “The Unexamined Mind’s Self-Imagery” of the Zionist proxy and their rag tag of Western elite accomplices in regard to either this specific conflict or the demonisation of anyone who disagrees with their warped and failed world view and mind set.
The process described for Zionists, above, is equally applicable to the mindset of those who self-identify with the equally manufactured bought and paid for Ukrainian neo-Nazi proxy. Using exactly the same play book.
With Christmas approaching, it seems reasonable to dig deep into our pockets for a suitable gift for such useless idiots. With that in mind, the fare on display here would be more than appropriate:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/join-dots/s?k=join+the+dots
Here’s Jonathan Cook dissecting the mindset of the Political and media class of the Collective West:
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-west-buries-a-genocide-by-making?
“What the coverage is seeking to do is not just bury the Gaza genocide and turn Israel and Israelis into the victims even as they commit genocide.
It is also intended to stoke Islamophobic hatred towards Arabs and Muslims for being present in Europe, and for insisting that we not forget about Gaza. It is to import into the West the same racist assumptions and discourse that led to Israel’s genocide.
Western establishments have willed this outcome. They are enabling it through their rhetoric and actions.
What possible justification can there be for banning Russian teams and sportspeople from international competitions the moment Moscow invaded Ukraine, when Israeli teams like Tel Aviv Maccabi are still being welcomed in Europe after 13 months of genocide?….
…..What the coverage demonstrates so clearly is that the aim of leading western politicians, aided by the establishment media, is to recast Europe’s Arab and Muslim populations as a threat, as barbaric, as antisemitic, as impossible to integrate into a supposed western “civilisation”.
In other words, the transparent goal is to turn Europe’s Arab and Muslim communities into Europe’s Jews of the 1930s – reviled, distrusted and seen as a menace.
By supporting every monstrous Israeli crime, by pandering to Israel’s genocide-inciting football hooligans, western politicians and the media know they are bound to inflame tensions, especially with domestic populations of Arab and Muslim heritage. That is what they wish to do.
The aim is to promote the demonisation of Europe’s Arab and Muslim minorities.
Worthless lives
We know where European bigotry towards Jews led. To the gas chambers.
And increasingly we can see precisely where western politicians and the establishment media want to take their publics in endlessly promoting Israeli-style bigotry towards Arabs and Muslims.
Already western establishments have rationalised their active complicity in the genocidal murder of Palestinians in Gaza, and the destruction of south Lebanon, by supplying weapons and diplomatic immunity.
Already they have cast Israel’s blockade of aid and the mass starvation of the 2.3 million people of Gaza as “self-defence”, and as a “legitimate war” to eliminate Hamas.
Already they have insisted that the lives of Palestinians are so worthless, so insignificant, that they can be butchered in their tens of thousands – or, more likely, hundreds of thousands – in revenge for the deaths of barely more than 1,000 Israelis on 7 October 2023.
Already they have inverted reality to depict genocidal Israel as the innocent victim and the tens of thousands of Palestinian children killed and maimed in its slaughterous rampage as the guilty party.
None of this has happened by accident. A mood is being cynically cultivated in the West, just as it was in parts of Europe in the 1930s, to suggest that some groups are sub-human, that some minorities must be expelled, or rounded up and disappeared.
That is the proper context for understanding what really happened in Amsterdam last week, as the police treated violent Israeli hooligans with kid gloves and the politicians and media recast the villains as victims.
If our politicians and media are really worried about Europe’s not-too-distant Nazi past, they would be far better advised to stop stoking an all-too-real new antisemitism: incitement against Arab and Muslim minorities.
The darkest days in Europe’s history are indeed back with us. But not because a bunch of Israeli football hooligans ended up receiving as much violence as they tried to dish out.
It is back because the West is all too ready to embrace Israel’s anti-Arab, anti-Muslim bigotry. Day by day we inch ever closer to renewed pogroms.
Not against Jews or Israelis, who enjoy the support and protection of western politicians, media and police. Rather those in most danger are the “new Jews”, the Middle Eastern populations those same politicians, media and police constantly vilify, insult, incite against and assault.
Western racism never went away. Europe’s ruling class just found a new target, and a new scapegoat.
The dark clouds from Amsterdam are gathering across Europe. Authoritarianism and fascism are once again in the ascendant. It is those trying to keep us tethered to reality who will be first in the firing line.”
“Only Connect.”
– E M Forster