Articles : A former IDF soldier has his say; the ongoing transhumanist project; an American surgeon's witness testimony of war crimes committed on children by the "most moral army in the world".

 

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel

This summer, one of my lectures was protested by far-right students. Their rhetoric brought to mind some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history – and overlapped with mainstream Israeli views to a shocking degree

By Omer Bartov

 

n 19 June 2024, I was scheduled to give a lecture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Be’er Sheva, Israel. My lecture was part of an event about the worldwide campus protests against Israel, and I planned to address the war in Gaza and more broadly the question of whether the protests were sincere expressions of outrage or motivated by antisemitism, as some had claimed. But things did not work out as planned.

When I arrived at the entrance to the lecture hall, I saw a group of students congregating. It soon transpired that they were not there to attend the event but to protest against it. The students had been summoned, it appeared, by a WhatsApp message that went out the day before, which flagged the lecture and called for action: “We will not allow it! How long will we commit treason against ourselves?!?!?!??!!”

The message went on to allege that I had signed a petition that described Israel as a “regime of apartheid” (in fact, the petition referred to a regime of apartheid in the West Bank). I was also “accused” of having written an article for the New York Times, in November 2023, in which I stated that although the statements of Israeli leaders suggested genocidal intent, there was still time to stop Israel from perpetrating genocide. On this, I was guilty as charged. The organiser of the event, the distinguished geographer Oren Yiftachel, was similarly criticised. His offences included having served as the director of the “anti-Zionist” B’Tselem, a globally respected human rights NGO.

As the panel participants and a handful of mostly elderly faculty members filed into the hall, security guards prevented the protesting students from entering. But they did not stop them from keeping the lecture hall door open, calling out slogans on a bullhorn and banging with all their might on the walls........

 

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https://winteroak.org.uk/2024/07/22/truth-reality-tradition-and-freedom-our-resistance-to-the-great-uprooting/

Truth, reality, tradition and freedom: our resistance to the great uprooting

Posted on July 22, 2024

Silvia Guerini is a powerful contemporary critic of the techno-scientific system and the multi-pronged threat of its global agenda.

She has a background in radical ecology and calls for a new 21st century resistance that goes beyond the “stale and dusty categories” of “right” and “left”. [1]

What is at stake today, she says, is the very future of humanity, with a historic clash taking place between “two opposing visions of the world, of the living, of nature, of human beings”. [2]

“There are no more excuses. We can no longer wait for those who do not want to understand, those who pursue marginal projects, those who do not have a total and clear-cut critique of every aspect and every fundamental element in the transhumanist project”. [3]

“We need to find a firm shore: that line of resistance for those of us who are determined to remain anchored to reality, in defence of humanity and in defence of all that is living”. [4]

“Let’s form alliances to repel the transhumanist vanguard”....................

 

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https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2024/08/what-a-surgeon-saw-in-gaza

 

What a surgeon saw in Gaza

In this harrowing interview, a US doctor describes his recent experiences working in a Gazan hospital, where he treated children with horrific, often fatal, injuries.

By Bruno Maçães 

 

When Feroze Sidhwa, a 42-year-old trauma and critical-care surgeon at San Joaquin General Hospital in Northern California, signed up for a medical mission to work in a hospital in Gaza for two weeks, he knew he would have to take his own medical supplies. So he travelled with about 750lb of luggage on his British Airways flights from San Francisco to Heathrow and onward to Cairo. Everyone in his group took “tons of stuff”: a colleague, Mark Perlmutter, an orthopaedic surgeon, took hundreds of pounds of orthopaedic implants.  

The mission went to Gaza with the World Health Organisation; the call for volunteers was distributed by the Society for Critical Care Medicine, which is how Sidhwa found out about it. He has degrees from the University of Texas and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. His father was born in Karachi, Pakistan, a few months before the Partition, and his mother was also born there, two years later. They are Parsis.

The European Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the south of the Strip, Sidhwa told me in an interview on 30 July, was considered to be the best hospital in Gaza. Yet what he found on arrival was a disaster: in terms of medical supplies, “what we took is...............

 

 

Videos on the attack on free speech; the ongoing heinous war crimes of the Palestinian holocaust and the rising anti-immigration sentiment in Canada .......... August 15, 2024

 

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Articles on the performance of Clapping Seals; Righteous voices against the ongoing holocaust; Israeli soldier finds himself inside a settler pogrom and Hungary's PM gives a speech to a summer camp.

https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/08/only-a-failing-us-empire-would-be-so-blind-as-to-cheer-netanyahu-and-his-genocide/

Only a Failing US Empire Would Be So Blind as to Cheer Netanyahu and his Genocide

Every empire falls. Its collapse becomes inevitable once its rulers lose all sense of how absurd and abhorrent they have become

by Jonathan Cook / August 5th, 2024

There is only one country in the world right now, in the midst of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is guaranteed dozens of standing ovations from the vast majority of its elected representatives.

That country is not Israel, where he has been a hugely divisive figure for many years. It is the United States.

On Wednesday, Netanyahu was back-slapped, glad-handed, whooped and cheered as he slowly made his way – hailed at every step as a conquering hero – to the podium of the US Congress.

This was the same Netanyahu who has overseen during the past 10 months the slaughter– so far – of some 40,000 Palestinians, around half of them women and children. More than 21,000 other children are reported missing, most of them likely dead under rubble.

It was the same Netanyahu who levelled a strip of territory – originally home to 2.3 million Palestinians – that is expected to take 80 years to rebuild, at a cost of at least $50bn.

It was the same Netanyahu who has destroyed every hospital and university in Gaza, and bombed almost all of its schools that were serving as shelters for families made homeless by other Israeli bombs.

It was the same Netanyahu whose arrest is being sought by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, accused of using starvation as a weapon of war by imposing an aid blockade that has engineered a famine across Gaza.

It was the same Netanyahu whose government was found last week by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to have been intensifying Israel’s apartheid rule over the Palestinian people in an act of long-term aggression.

It was the same Netanyahu whose government is standing trial for committing what the ICJ, the world’s highest judicial body, has termed a “plausible genocide”.

And yet, there was just one visible protester in the congressional chamber. Rashida Tlaib, the only US legislator of Palestinian heritage, sat silently grasping a small black sign. On one side it said: “War criminal”. On the other: “Guilty of genocide”.

One person among hundreds mutely trying to point out that the emperor was naked................

 

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https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/your-opposition-to-israels-crimes

 

Your Opposition To Israel's Crimes Makes A Difference

Caitlin Johnstone

Aug 06, 2024

 

In an article titled “Smotrich: Might be ‘justified and moral’ to cause 2 million Gazans to die of hunger, but world won’t let us,” The Times of Israel reports the following:

“Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich implies he believes that blocking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is ‘justified and moral’ even if it causes 2 million civilians to die of hunger, adding however that the international community won’t allow this to happen.

“‘We are bringing in aid because there is no choice,’ Smotrich says at a conference in Yad Binyamin hosted by the Israel Hayom outlet. ‘We can’t, in the current global reality, manage a war. Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger even though it might be justified and moral until our hostages are returned.’”

Liberal supporters of the state of Israel often talk about Israel’s Naziesque far right leaders like Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir like they’re some kind of fringe element in Israeli society, when really they’re both high-level officials in the Israeli government and play a crucial role in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. Just the other day..............

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https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell

“Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges. Their testimonies reveal the outcomes of the rushed transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities, military and civilian, into a network of camps dedicated to the abuse of inmates as a matter of policy. Facilities in which every inmate is deliberately subjected to harsh, relentless pain and suffering operate as de-facto torture camps.

"We were taken to Megiddo. When we got off the bus, a soldier said to us: "Welcome to hell."

From the testimony of Fouad Hassan 45, from Qusrah in Nablus District..................

 

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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-08-02/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/how-i-found-myself-inside-a-settler-pogrom/00000191-0eb0-dba6-a59d-0efb03b80000

How I Found Myself Inside a Settler Pogrom

Joining a search for an Israeli teen who disappeared in the West Bank, I experienced first-hand the blood-drenched reality of nowhere land

 

By: Idan Yaron

Aug 2, 2024

In mid-April this year, I underwent a kind of existential experience in the heart of darkness – in the physically and morally obscure expanse bordering Greater Israel, which was promised to our forebears: in the hills of what can be called Judea-Samaria, among the most majestic yet bleakest places on the face of the earth. It wasn't sparked by some sort of external threat – from distant Iran, which lies in western Asia, or from the Houthis in northwest Yemen – but rather by a far more concrete and worrisome threat, a threat from within, emanating from our wild east. For many, it is indeed an internal threat but one that's perceived as remote and estranged: It's relegated to the margins of consciousness and the psyche,....

 

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https://miniszterelnok.hu/en/speech-by-prime-minister-viktor-orban-at-the-33rd-balvanyos-summer-free-university-and-student-camp/

 

Lecture of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 33rd Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp

• 27/07/2024
• Source: Cabinet Office Of The Prime Minister

Good morning Summer Camp and other Guests.

The first piece of good news is that my visit this year was not accompanied by the same kind of brouhaha as last year’s: this year we have not received – I have not received – a diplomatic démarche from Bucharest; what I received was an invitation to a meeting with the Prime Minister, which took place yesterday. Last year, when I had the opportunity to meet the Prime Minister of Romania, I said after the meeting that it was “the beginning of a beautiful friendship”; at the end of the meeting this year, I was able to say “We’re making progress”. If we look at the figures, we are setting new records in economic and trade relations between our two countries. Romania is now Hungary’s third most important economic partner. We also discussed with the Prime Minister a high-speed train – a “TGV” – linking Budapest to Bucharest, as well as Romania’s membership of Schengen. I have undertaken to put this issue on the agenda for the October Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting – and, if necessary, for the December Council meeting – and to take it forward if possible.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have not received a démarche from Bucharest, but – to prevent us getting bored – we have received one from Brussels: they have condemned the Hungarian peace mission efforts. I have tried – without success – to explain that there is such a thing as Christian duty. This means that if you see something bad in the world – especially something very bad – and you receive some instrument for its correction, then it is a Christian duty to take action, without undue contemplation or reflection............................

 

A couple of videos relevant to our present situation............ August 6, 2024

 

 

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Items on the madness of our world and the lead up to the hot phase of the ongoing WWIII which started, IMO, from 2014

 

https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/07/a-standing-ovation/

 

A Standing Ovation

by Danaka Katovich / July 28th, 2024

 

.............................. Some part of me still wanted to believe that these people may still be completely misled — that perhaps they don’t know about the 15,000 children that have been killed. Maybe they haven’t seen what I’ve seen — the little girl with her face falling off, the boy with a missing head, the child with no legs, the mother unwilling to wash her children’s blood off her hands because it is all that is left of them. Maybe they haven’t seen it at all. As thunderous applause rang out for the murderer, there were thousands of people outside trying to signal to the millions of people in Palestine that their turmoil isn’t being ignored. They were pepper sprayed, beaten, and arrested by cops that were trained in Israel..............................................

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https://corbettreport.com/episode-463-the-gaza-holocaust/

 As we approach the ten month mark of the slaughter in Gaza, it’s time to peel back the layers of deception surrounding October 7th, the Israeli response, and the true meaning of this conflict. We must call things by their right name. The Gaza holocaust must end.........

 

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https://thegrayzone.com/2024/07/30/grayzone-pr-fiasco-us-govt-regime-change-leaked-emails/

The Grayzone caused ‘biggest PR fiasco in history’ for US govt regime change arm, leaked emails reveal

Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal·July 30, 2024

 

The Grayzone’s publication of an embarrassing phone call with a National Endowment for Democracy VP triggered an institution-wide meltdown at the US government’s regime change laboratory. Following the call, the group’s founding president privately admitted the “fiasco” exposed major “problems beneath the polished surface.”

Now, leaked emails obtained by The Grayzone reveal the organization has since descended into chaos, with two senior officials fired due to the fiasco, and remaining staff engaged in civil war between the neocon old guard and the “woke” new generation hired to replace them.

– Senior NED management is currently in complete disarray, with two high-ranking staffers fired due to their handling of The Grayzone’s phone call, and founding president Carl Gershman isolated and marginalized by those who took his place.

– What began as a bitter dispute over the decision to engage with The Grayzone ultimately devolved into a full-fledged culture war that pitted the group’s neoconservative founders against its more liberal recent hires, derided by the neocon old guard as “woke flakes” obsessed with “microaggressions” and compulsory DEI trainings.

– One of the fired NED staffers, neocon Michael Allen, accused his progressive boss of a “clear campaign of harassment, marginalization and victimization,” and fretted over her allowing NED staff to attend pro-Palestine rallies. He was so incensed by his dismissal that he threatened to reveal the details of his firing to the “many mailing lists of key decision-makers and opinion-formers that I have built and retained over the years” if he did not receive a substantial settlement.

Read a collection of the NED files exclusively obtained by The Grayzone here

Through its lavish funding of anti-government opposition groups in countries where Washington has sought regime change, the US government-funded NGO known as the National Endowment for Democracy, or the NED, earned a reputation over its four decades in existence as an “overt operator” doing the work the CIA used to do in the shadows.  

Critics have long pointed to the destabilizing effects of NED’s meddling in places like Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ukraine, and Haiti, where the Endowment has systematically undermined elected governments which undertook policies seen as violating the Washington Consensus. They referenced documents demonstrating the group’s origins in the Central Intelligence Agency of Ronald Reagan, and cited quotes by NED founders and Gershman himself boasting about their orchestration of coups and color revolutions..................

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https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/08/solidarity-as-a-monolith-of-love-against-zionist-evil/#more-151858

Solidarity as a Monolith of Love against Zionist Evil

by Kim Petersen / August 1st, 2024

Jews are not a monolith. There are plenty of Jews who abhor the racism and violence of the Zionist faction of Jewry. Yet, many uninformed people consider Zionism to express the ethos of Jewishness. And it is clear that Israeli Jews are overwhelmingly supportive of Zionism. (See “Israeli Views of the Israel-Hamas War, “Polls Show Broad Support in Israel for Gaza’s Destruction and Starvation,” and for those who may have read Haaretz and the NYT, “Don’t believe Haaretz and the NYT. Israeli society fully supports the Gaza genocide.”)

In this era of internet and instant communication, information on the monstrous crimes of Zionism is available for people who make an effort to be aware. Take that information and apply open-minded skepticism. Ask whether the evidence substantiates the information and its narrative.

Israeli Jews are carrying out genocide against Palestinians (something that has been ongoing for decades). Eliminating a grouping of people from existence is heinous enough, but there is also the horrific matter of what happens to the victims of Zionists before they are killed.

Redacted interviewed Dan Cohen of Uncaptured Media to report a bloodlust where Israelis are torturing and raping Palestinian prisoners, and that Israeli protestors are in the streets claiming Israelis have a right to rape these prisoners.

Cohen is in Israel..............

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Items on the Shameful Subservience of the United States of America to Israel; the reason why regime change propaganda loudest after Venezuela election; how sanctions choke nations and restrict their prosperity and freedom, etc.

 

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