Zion and the Art of Armageddon

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The Israeli foreign ministry will fund a tour of the country by right-wing social media influencers from the United States, Haaretz on Sunday reported that the planned tour will feature 16 influencers, all under the age of 30, who support US President Donald Trump’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) and America First campaigns.

The Israeli foreign ministry aims to bring 550 influencer delegations to Israel by the end of the year through such tours, it said. “[While] older Republicans and American conservatives still hold pro-Israel views, positive perspectives towards Israel are falling across all younger age groups,” it said, according to the report.

The tour will be carried out through an organisation called Israel365, which is in a “unique position to convey a pro-Israel stance that aligns entirely with the MAGA and America First agenda”, Haaretz quoted the foreign ministry as saying. Israel365 promotes support for Israel, specifically among Christians, based on biblical principles. Its website says the group “stands unapologetically for the Jewish people’s God-given right to the entire Land of Israel”. The organisation also rejects a two‑state solution as a “delusion” and describes its mission as defending “Western civilization against threats from both Progressive Left extremism and global jihad”.
Al Jazeera

MIGA.
(Make Israel Great Already.)

 

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Israel could be sowing the seeds of its own destruction.
MINA https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Are2d2YvX/

 

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The tentacles of the Zionist squid of doom are spreading their evil influence:

One of television’s most prominent directors, Peter Kosminsky, has accused the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, of attempting to “bully the BBC” over its coverage of Gaza, following her repeated attacks on its director general, Tim Davie, claiming the government was acting like a “tinpot dictatorship” in heaping political pressure on Davie.

In a letter to Nandy, seen by the Guardian, Kosminsky cited the “ignominious history” of political interference in the BBC. He evoked the death of Dr David Kelly, the government weapons expert, who died in 2003 shortly after being revealed as the source for a BBC story stating the government “probably knew” a claim about Iraq’s weapons capabilities was not true.

“Could I respectfully suggest that you stop trying to bully the BBC, the nation’s primary public service broadcaster, over its coverage of the war in Gaza,” wrote Kosminsky, who made a docu drama about Kelly’s death in 2005. “It is not the government’s job or responsibility to police the individual editorial decisions of the BBC, or to call for the sacking of its editorial staff,” he wrote. “For its part, the BBC must ensure that its output is balanced. But this means balanced across the totality of its output."

 

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A group of far-right Israeli politicians and settlers met in parliament this week to discuss a plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, annex the territory and turn it into a hi-tech, luxury resort city for Israelis. The scheme, titled “The master plan for settlement in the Gaza Strip”, envisions the construction of 850,000 housing units, construction of hi-tech “smart cities” that trade cryptocurrency and a metro system that runs across the territory. It took its inspiration from an idea shared by the US president, Donald Trump, in February, where he pledged to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

“The right of the people of Israel to settle, develop and preserve this land is not just a historical right – it is a national and security obligation,” the text of the plan said, boasting of economic benefits that it would bring to Israel.

The plan, seen by the Guardian, would require Gaza’s existing population of about 2 million to be emptied out. Legal experts warn that forcible displacement on such a grand scale would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing.

“This is a plan for ethnic cleansing. Under international law, this would amount to a crime against humanity because deportation is a war crime when committed on a small scale and a crime against humanity when it is committed on a massive scale,” said Michael Sfard, one of Israel’s leading human rights lawyers.

 

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Israeli-Palestinian human rights group B’Tselem has declared Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide in its latest report, titled Our Genocide (pdf).

“An examination of Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,” the report reads.

“In other words: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
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The report delves into Israeli violations against Palestinians, going back to the 1948 foundation of the Israeli state, which “had a clear objective from the outset: to cement the supremacy of the Jewish group across the entire territory under Israeli control”. As such, the state of Israel exhibits “settler-colonial patterns, including widespread settlement involving displacement and dispossession, demographic engineering, ethnic cleansing and the imposition of military rule on Palestinians”, the report continues. And while it looks back at Israel’s efforts to “uphold Jewish supremacy, relying on a false pretense of the rule of law while, in reality, the rights of the Palestinian subjects are left unprotected”, the report notes that this was accelerated after October 7.

B’Tselem first used the word “apartheid” in 2021 to describe the two-tier reality for Israelis and Palestinians in historic Palestine.

However, opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza is still widely controversial in Israeli society. Only around 16 percent of Jewish Israelis believe peaceful coexistence with Palestinians is possible, according to a June poll by the Pew Research Center, while, 64 percent of Jewish Israelis believe Israel should temporarily occupy the Gaza Strip, according to a survey by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA).

Israeli government officials have continued their violent calls against the people of Gaza.

“The government is rushing to erase Gaza, and thank God we are erasing this evil. All of Gaza will be Jewish,” Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said on Israeli radio last week.

 

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“This is how Israel erases us — one life at a time.”

@Koolpc films*​

 

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Israel does it a lot.

 

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A new poll from the research firm Gallup suggests that only 32 percent of Americans approve of Israel’s military action in Gaza, a 10-point drop from September 2024, as anger over atrocities against Palestinians continues to rise.

The survey, released on Tuesday, also showed an enormous partisan divide over the issue. Seventy-one percent of respondents who identified as members of the Republican Party said they approve of Israel’s conduct, compared with 8 percent of Democrats.

Overall, 60 percent of respondents said they disapprove of Israel’s military action in Gaza.

 

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A group of high-profile Israeli public figures, including academics, artists and public intellectuals, has called for “crippling sanctions” to be imposed by the international community on Israel, amid mounting horror over its starvation of Gaza.

The 31 signatories of a letter to the Guardian include an Academy award recipient, Yuval Abraham; a former Israeli attorney general, Michael Ben-Yair; Avraham Burg, a former speaker of Israel’s parliament and former head of the Jewish Agency; and a number of recipients of the prestigious Israel prize, Israel’s highest cultural honour.

It adds: “The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire.” the Guardian

Better yet; recognise the State of Palestine

 

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So Starmer is going to recognise the state of Palistinine

Mind you it was in his manifesto
And was probably looking at another back bench revolt ??

Gesture politics imo
What difference will it make ??

Zilch absolutely zilch

 

[JohnD]

What difference will it make ??

Zilch absolutely zilch

So you have nothing to moan about.

 

[JohnD]

It's a strange thing.

Israel assassinated hundreds of journalists to try to stop the truth getting out

But Israeli soldiers are so proud of committing genocide that they film themselves and post on social media.

The army does not try to stop them committing genocide

But tells them not to publicise it.

See video evidence of Israeli soldiers destroying Gaza

Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit compiles evidence of potential Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com

@fillyboy will be pleased to see this, because, earlier today, he suggested the prosecution of war crimes.

Though he didn't mention the Israeli criminals.

 

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" Abigail Hauslohner in Washington
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In a few words, US President Donald Trump this week suggested that one of Washington’s closest allies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was lying.

There was “real starvation” under way in Gaza, Trump told reporters in Scotland on Monday, a day after Netanyahu had called such reports “a boldfaced lie”

FT.com

 

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So you have nothing to moan about.

So thats one of starmers great plans than
Heidi Alexander was interviewed this morning BBC over this pointless caper

incapable of answering a simple question despite being asked numerous times

Oh well it placates starmers back benchers and the easily led fruit cakes