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Watch out now, take care
Beware of falling swingers
Dropping all around you
The pain that often mingles
In your fingertips
Beware of darkness

Watch out now, take care
Beware of the thoughts that linger
Winding up inside your head
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night

Beware of sadness
It can hit you
It can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for

Watch out, now
Beware of soft shoe shufflers
Dancing down the sidewalks
As each unconscious sufferer
Wanders aimlessly
Beware of Maya

Watch out now, take care
Beware of greedy leaders
They take you where you should not go
While Weeping Atlas Cedars
They just want to grow, grow and grow
Beware of darkness

- George Harrison: Beware of Darkness (1970)

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- What’s in a word?
- The word in question is TRANSFER.

‘Transfer’ is a word that has often been used as a euphemism with regards to ethnic cleansing. ‘Transfer’ was one of the favourite words of the mad american rabbi Meir Kahane (1932-1990) when talking about the inconveniently indigenous Arabs of Palestine in his many religious zionist writings - hateful, racist writings that have become quite influential in Israeli society today.

For instance; at the end of his book ‘They Must Go’ (1980) p. 230 he writes:

«The Arabs of Israel represent Hillul Hashem in its starkest form. Their rejection of Jewish sovereignty over the Land of Israel despite the covenant between the L-rd of Israel and the Jews constitutes a rejection of the sovereignty and kingship of the L-rd G-d of Israel. Their transfer from the Land of Israel thus becomes more than a political issue. It is a religious issue, a religious obligation, a commandment to erase Hi Hashem. Far from fearing what the Gentile will do if we do such a thing, let the Jew tremble as he considers the anger of the Alm-ghty if we do not.

Tragedy will be ours if we do not move the Arabs out. The great redemption can come immediately and magnificently if we do that which G-d demands. One of the great yardsticks of real Jewish faith in this time of momentous decision is our willingness to reject fear of man in favor of awe of G-d and remove the Arabs from Israel.

The world? The nations - united or otherwise? What do they matter before the omnipotence of the Alm-ghty!

‘What do the nations rage… the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against the L-rd and against His annointed… He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, the L-rd shall mock them…’ (Psalms 2:1-4). The Jewish people and state cannot be destroyed. That is reality.

David understood ‘realism’ and ‘practicality’ and ‘rationality’. His last words before killing Goliath were: ‘And all this assembly shall know that not with the sword and spear does the L-rd save. For the battle is the L-rd’s and he will give you into our hands.’

And then David removed Goliath’s head from his shoulders and removed humiliation from Israel.

Let us remove the Arabs from Israel and bring the redemption.

THEY MUST GO.»

This is the language and the creed of the extremist settlers and their ministers of Israel; people like Security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (b. 1976), Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich (b. 1980) and Orit Strook (b. 1960), who is the fourth and current ‘Minister of Settlements and National Missions’ in Israel. [Note: The first settlement minister (2020) vas Tzipi Hotovely (b. 1978), the current vile Israeli ambassador to the UK. The third settlement minister (2021-2022) was Naftali Bennett (b. 1972); prime minister of Israel 2021-2022.]

The Israeli government and their people are calling again and again for the 'transfer' of the Gazans and the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. 'They Must Go'. Peacefully or forcefully. Bombing the Palestinians to smithereens is simply viewed by them as an 'encouragement' for them to 'migrate' or 'transfer' themselves out of Greater Israel. The religious zionists are only preparing the land for the coming of their Messiah, you know.

The use of the word ‘transfer’ as a euphemism for ethnic cleansing is nothing new. When Meir Kahane used the word, he used it in the same way that it was used in Europe after WWII, when millions of Germans were ethnically cleansed from Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and many other countries. Somehow, people didn’t seem to mind that germans were ‘transferred’ after the horrors of WWII, and Meir Kahane used this exact terminology deliberately because it would remind people of what happened to the german people, and this would be allright - because the logic is of course that ‘transferring’ a population is certainly OK if the people in question can be portrayed as genocidal enemies of the jews. He was clever with words, Kahane.

Now, there are other euphemisms that have been used for ethnic cleansing as well. The Germans liked using the term ‘migration’ a lot before WWII broke out. They really, really wanted to ‘migrate’ the jews out of Germany you know. Eventually, at the Wannsee Conference in 1942, they decided that they just had to start ‘evacuating’ the jews instead of 'migrating' them. ‘Evacuation’ here is of course a euphemism for the extermination of the jews; otherwise known as The Holocaust.

And that is why you should really think about the use of words like ‘transfer’.

‘Transfer’ would be somewhere on the scale between ‘migration’ and ‘evacuation’.

Do you think the present-day Israeli euphemism ‘transfer’ and their conduct in Gaza is closer to ‘migration’ or ‘evacuation’?

Do you see what is happening?

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- What’s in a name?
- The name is PALESTINE

During the years when I had UN-affiliated assignments in the occupied West Bank, I often came across Israelis' bizarre and rather hateful relationship with the name ‘Palestine’. Always when I was entering or leaving an area, both inside the occupied territories and within Israel itself, I had to state to an official or a soldier of some sort where I came from and where I was going to. The conversation invariably was as follows:

«I’m going to Hebron.»
«Hevrrooon?» [Disdainful]
«Yes, Hebron, Al-Khalil. Palestine.»
«Judea and Samaria. There is no Palestine.»

«No Palestine.» Kind of strange that Israelis constantly insist that there is no Palestine, when everyone in the whole world knows that Palestine is an actual place. I also saw this among the illegal settlers and in Israeli newspapers and media; whenever Palestine was mentioned invariably people would comment, shout, even spit: «There is no Palestine! Only Judea and Samaria!» Judea and Samaria? Two rather short-lived ancient biblical kingdoms from 2,500 years ago? I had to look a little closer at this.

So, the Kingdom of Samaria - also called the Kingdom of Israel - existed for about 200 years ca. 930 BCE - ca. 720 BCE. The Kingdom of Judah existed for about 350 years ca. 930 BCE - ca. 587 BCE. Based on the fairy tales in the Torah, Israelis like to claim that there was a United Kingdom of Israel for about 100 years even before that; ca. 1047 BCE - 930 BCE. This is the time of King David and King Solomon; a time of legends and mythology that has nothing to do with any real historicity. Just like Moses and Abraham, for that matter.

In any case. Judea and Samaria. This makes no sense. I could clearly remember I had read about Palestine in the Histories by Herodotus (ca. 484 BCE - ca. 425 BCE); widely acknowledged as the Father of History. Granted, there is also a mythical and legendary aspect to parts of his work as well, but nonetheless. Herodotus is certainly a 1000 times more reliable than the Torah.

I picked up my copy of the Histories and searched for the entries on Palestine. Plenty of references. The Kingdom of Judah ceased to exist only 100 years before Herodotus was born. Surely he would have written about this legendary kingdom? Not a word. Judah is not mentioned, Samaria is not mentioned, Israel is not mentioned, hebrews or jews are not mentioned, Yahweh and judaism is not mentioned at all. Not a word. Nothing. Not very noteworthy, in other words.

Ever since the time of Herodotus the land has certainly and without any doubt always been known as Palestine. «There is no Palestine» is purely Zionist propaganda and an attempt at falsifying history.

So, let’s see what Herodotus actually writes about Palestine:

«From Lake Maeetis [Sea of Azov] to the River Phasis [Rioni river in present-day Georgia] and Colchis [present-day Georgia] is a thirty-day journey for a man travelling light, and then it does not take long to cross over from Colchis to Median territory [region surrounding present-day Teheran]. There is only one race in between, the Saspeires, and Median territory begins immediately after theirs. However, this was not the path of the Scythian invasion; they turned aside and took the much longer upper route, with the Caucasian mountains on their right. Then the Medes and the Scythians clashed; the Medes lost the battle, their Empire crumbled and the Scythians occupied the whole of Asia.
From there they marched on Egypt. When they reached Syrian Palestine, the Egyptian king Psammetichus came to meet them. With a combination of bribery and entreaty he persuaded them not to go any further and they turned back. On their way back they came to the town of Ascalon in Syria [south-west of modern-day Ashkelon in Israel]. Most of the Scythians bypassed the town without doing it any harm, but a few of them, who had fallen behind the main body, plundered the sanctuary of Heavenly Aphrodite [Aphrodite Urania]. As I learnt by enquiry, this sanctuary is the oldest of all the sanctuaries of Heavenly Aphrodite. Even the temple on Cyprus was founded from this one, as the Cyprians themselves acknowledge, and the one on Cythera [Kythira in Greece] was founded by Phoenicians [from more or less present-day Lebanon and parts of Syria] who came from this part of the world - that is, from Syria. The goddess afflicted the Scythians who plundered her temple in Ascalon and all their descendants for ever with hermaphroditism. And so, as well as admitting that this is why they suffer from this disease, the Scythians also tell visitors to their country that they can see the condition of these people, whom the Scythians call enareis.
- Histories, Book I, 104-105.

«For the fact is, as I first came to realize myself, and then heard from others later, that the Colchians are obviously Egyptian. When the notion occurred to me, I asked both the Colchians and the Egyptians about it, and found that the Colchians had better recall of the Egyptians than the Egyptians did of them. Some Egyptians said that they thought the Colchians originated with Sesostris’ army, but I myself had guessed their Egyptian origin not only because the Colchians are dark-skinned and curly-haired (which does not count for much by itself, because these features are common to others too), but more importantly because Colchians, Egyptians, and Ethiopians are the only peoples in the world who practise circumcision and have always done so. The Phoenicians and Palestinian Syrians are the first to admit that they learnt the practise from Egypt, and the Syrians who live in the land between the Thermodon [Terme river in northern Turkey] and Parthenius [Bartın river, also in northern Turkey to the west of Thermodon], and their neighbours the Macrones [Colchian tribe living in northern Turkey bordering present-day Georgia], say that in their case it is a recent import from Colchis. These are the only places in the world where circumcision is practised, and it is clear that the others do it in the same way it is done in Egypt. The obvious antiquity of the custom in Egypt and Ethiopia prevents me from saying whether the Egyptians learnt it from the Ethiopians or vice versa, but what convinces me that the other peoples learnt it as a result of their contact with Egypt is that any Phoenicians [Lebanese] who have come into contact with Greece have stopped copying the Egyptians with respect to their genitalia, and do not cut off their children’s foreskins.
[In my Oxford edition it is noted here: "On the Colchians (104), Lloyd thinks a dark skinned Khazar people might well have lived east of the Caucasus, practised circumcision, and been close enough in appearance for H to have drawn the conclusion that they were Egyptian in origin."]
And let me mention one more way in which the Colchians resemble the Egyptians: these two peoples alone work linen, and they do so in the same way. In fact, their lifestyles in general and their languages are similar. The Greeks call Colchian linen Sardonian, while the linen which comes from Egypt is called Egyptian.
Most of the pillars which King Sesostris of Egypt erected in these places no longer appear to be there, but I myself have seen some of them in Palestinian Syria with the inscriptions I mentioned and the female genitalia. In Ionia [region in present-day western Turkey], there are also two figures of Sesostris carved on the rock, one on the route from Ephesus to Phocaea and the other between Sardis and Smyrna. In both places a man is carved, four cubits and a span high, with a spear in his right hand, a bow in his left, and the rest of his equipment to match - in fact, it is partly Egyptian and partly Ethiopian. From one shoulder right across his chest to the other shoulder runs a carved inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, saying: ‘I took this land with the power of my shoulders.’ He does not indicate in this inscription who he is and what country he is from, but it is clear from elsewhere. Some people who have seen these carvings guess that the figure is Memnon [Ethiopian king in greek mythology], but that does not really correspond to the facts.
[The rock carving mentioned here is in fact the hittite Karabel relief]
- Histories, Book II, 104-106.

«The desert affords the only clear way into Egypt. The land from Phoenicia [Lebanon] to the borders of the territory of Cadytis [Gaza city today] belongs to the ’Palestinian’ Syrians, as they are called; the trading-centres along the coast from Cadytis (which is not much smaller, I should say, than Sardis [ancient greek city in Lydia, present-day Turkey]) to the town of Ienysus [most likely Khan Younis in the Gaza strip] are subject to the king of Arabia; the land from Ienysus to Lake Serbonis [Lake Bardawil on the north coast of the Sinai peninsula], which is flanked by the spur of Mount Casius [Ras Kouroun] which goes down to the sea, belongs to the Syrians again; and then the land onwards from Lake Serbonis (where the story goes that Typhon [a monster serpentine giant in greek mythology] was buried) is Egyptian. The tract of land from Ienysus to Mount Casius and Lake Serbonis, which is large enough to take three days to cross, is utterly without water.»
- Histories, Book III, 5.

«The whole region stretching from the town of Posideium [Ras al-Bassit in present-day Syria] (which was founded by Amphilochus the son of Amphiaraus on the border between Cilicia [region in southern Turkey bordering present-day Syria] and Syria) to Egypt, excluding Arabian territory (which was exempt) had to pay a tribute of 350 talents; this region, which constituted the fifth province, encompasses the whole of Phoenicia [Lebanon], Palestinian Syria, and Cyprus. The sixth province consisted mainly of Egypt, but the Libyans adjacent to Egypt, and Cyrene [Kyrene near present-day Shahhat in Libya] and Barca [also in present-day Libya] were also assessed as part of the province of Egypt. The province contributed 700 talents, not counting the revenue of silver from the fish of the lake of Moeris [Lake Moeris] and also a fixed amount of grain - 120,000 sacks - which was issued to the Persians and their auxiliaries who were based in White Wall [a fortress] in Memphis. The seventh province consisted of the Sattagydae, Gandarians, Dadicae, and Aparytae [these are lands in present-day Pakistan and India], who between them contributed 170 talents. The eighth province, consisting of Susa [ancient Iranian city bordering present-day Iraq] and the rest of the land of the Cissians, contributed 300 talents.»
- Histories, Book III, 91.

«Persians live all the way south as far as the sea which is called the Red Sea. Their northern neighbours are the Medes [ancient Iranians in the region surrounding present-day Teheran], then come the Saspeires, and then the Colchians [present-day Georgia], all the way to the northern sea [Black Sea], into which the River Phasis [Rioni river in present-day Georgia] flows. The whole of the land from one sea to the other is occupied by these four peoples.
West of this tract of land come two peninsulas which project out from it into the sea. Here is a description of these two peninsulas. One of them starts in the north at the River Phasis, runs past the Euxine Sea [Black Sea] and the Hellespont [Dardanelles], and reaches the sea at the Cape of Triopium. This peninsula [more or less present-day Turkey] is inhabited by thirty different peoples.
So that is one of the two peninsulas, and the other one starts in Persia and goes down to the Red Sea [today known as the Arabian Sea], taking in Persia, then Assyria, and then Arabia. This peninsula ends, but only by convention, at the Arabian Gulf [today known as the Red Sea], into which the canal flows which Darius dug from the Nile [Canal of the Pharaohs]. From Persia to Phoenicia [Lebanon] the land is broad and wide, but after Phoenicia this peninsula breaks into our sea and reaches Egypt (where it ends) via Palestinian Syria. This peninsula is home to only three peoples.»
- Histories, Book IV, 39.

«The total number of triremes was 1,207, supplied by various nations as follows. The Phoenicians [Lebanese] and the Palestinian Syrians supplied three hundred triremes; their equipment consisted of helmets very similar in style to Greek ones, linen breastplates, rimless shields, and javelins. According to their own tradition, these Phoenicians used to live a long time ago on the Red Sea [today known as the Arabian Sea], but then they moved to the coastal region of Syria of which they currently occupy. This part of Syria, all the way to the border with Egypt, is known as Palestine.
The Egyptians supplied two hundred ships. They wore plaited helmets on their heads and carried curved shields with wide rims, naval spears, and large battleaxes. Most of them also wore breastplates and carried long knives.»
- Histories, Book VII, 89.

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- What’s in a drop of water?
- LIFE; that’s what’s in a drop of water.

And did you know that ever since their occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, Israel has been severely restricting the water supply to the Palestinians in these semi-arid desert areas? A Palestinian is not even allowed to dig for a well. At the same time Israel has been drilling steadily for groundwater all over the occupied West Bank and siphoning off of the Jordan river. All the water Israel has been stealing from the occupied areas has been put to effective use for the illegal settlements only and for illegal Israeli settler agricultural products only.

This is Zionism - Institutionalized apartheid, oppression, discrimination, dehumanization and exploitation.

Let me quote from the Wikipedia article Water supply and sanitation in the State of Palestine:

«In 2008, the settlements in the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea area were allocated 44.8 million m3 (MCM) of water, 97.5 percent of which (43.7 MCM) were for agricultural use. Seventy percent of it was provided by Mekorot. According to Israeli figures, the household use of settlers in the Jordan Valley was 487 liters per capita per day (lpcd) and in the northern Dead Sea area even 727 lpcd. That is three to four times the use of 165 liters in Israel. As the settlers in the eastern West Bank use nearly all the water use for agriculture, they in fact export water from the Palestinian Territories.»

«According to the Palestinian Water Authority, the average Israeli consumption of water is 300 liters per person per day, which is more than 4 times that of the Palestinian use of 72 liters per day. Some Palestinian village communities live on even less water than the average Palestinian consumption, in some cases no more than 20 liters per person per day.»

This is why you should never ever buy any Israeli agricultural products!

The illegal Israeli settlers have their private pools, they take looong extended showers and water their pampered lawns, strawberry fields and citrus orchards with unlimited amounts of water supply. In a desert! While a Palestinian might not even have 20 liters of water to use a day. Just think about how much water a person uses just getting a shower, going to the toilet, having a cup of coffee or preparing dinner. Could you do all that with only two buckets-full?

So here is a VERY interesting documentary about all of this from back in 1981 that I would like to share with you. Have a look at the situation back then and think about how the situation is today. Remember that in 1981 there were "only" about 75,000 illegal settlers in all of the occupied territories. Today there are 800,000 illegal settlers just in the West Bank! This is a MUST WATCH:

Thames TV: Israeli settlers and the water resources in the West Bank (1981)

* As an extra added bonus - in the beginning and in the end of this very documentary you will both see and hear a young and perky Daniella Weiss (b. 1945), who today is the leader of the extremist Nahala settler organization.

Yes, the same organization that last weekend held a conference proposing measures for ethnically cleansing Gaza and settling the land with jewish settlements. Nahala is the present-day successor to the Gush Emunim settlement movent that Daniella Weiss founded together with Moshe Levinger (1935-2015) in 2005. You can see her own presentation of the Nahala settler movement from 2015 on YouTube. Daniella Weiss used to be general secretary of the Gush Emunim (est. 1974).

Daniella Weiss: «In the Land of Israel, there is one Boss; there is one Sovereign, and there will be one Kingdom; a Jewish Kingdom. All other people are more than welcome to take part in the life that is here. But Ruler; there will be One.» [Read: Jewish tribal god Yahweh]
Interviewer: «Whose land are you living on?»
Daniella Weiss: «In my eyes, I’m living on the Jewish Land, on the Land of Israel.»
Interviewer: «Even though at the moment, 98% of the population is Arab in this area?»
Daniella Weiss: «I think the percentage of the population, or whoever lives here now, or will ever live here, doesn’t change the basic historic fact that this place here is the birthplace of the Jewish Nation, it has always belonged to the Jewish Nation; and it always will be.»

Number of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine since 1967:

- 1972: 10,531
- 1983: 99,795
- 1993: 269,200
- 2004: 423,913
- 2007: 467,478
- 2010: 512,769
- 2018: 645,800
- 2020: 671,700
- 2022: 733,000
- 2024: 800,000 (estimate)

Source: Wikipedia article ‘Israeli settlement’

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-Wednesday 7 February 2024: Benjamin Mileikowsky Netanyahu just announced on TV the commencement of IDF ground operations in Rafah. This happens of course while Antony Blinken is in Israel. I have just seen Blinken’s lame press conference from Tel Aviv.

Go home in shame, Blinken. Go home to Brooklyn and take all the American settlers with you. You are an accomplice and a war criminal.


- The numbers as per 7 February 2024 -

Killed:

- Gaza: 27,585+ killed - including 12,345+ children, 8,000+ women, 1,049 elderly, 339 paramedics and medical staff, 152 UN staff

[* These are official numbers from the Gaza Health Ministry. Israeli government claimed numbers are - Killed: 10,000+ civilians (as of 6 Dec. 2023) + 10,000 resistance fighters (as of 1 Feb. 2024)]

- Israel: 1,445 killed - including 809 civilians (*number now includes 695 Israeli civilians and 29 who were hostages), 564 IDF soldiers, 62 police officers and 10 Shin Bet operatives

- Hamas fighters killed inside Israel (Oct. 7): 1,000+ (+200 captured - where are they held?)

- West Bank: 383 killed

- Lebanon: 236 killed

- Journalists: 200+ killed

- Syria: 119 killed


Wounded:

- Gaza: 66,978+ - 75% women and children
- Israel: 10,580+ [mostly IDF in Gaza]
- West Bank: 4,250+


Hostages:

- Taken: 254 (*has previously been reported in an increasing manner as 239, 245, 248 and 250, 253) - including more than 134 IDF soldiers, 120+ civilians (32 children), of whom 52 foreign or dual-nationals)
- Killed I: 60 (by Israeli bombing)
- Killed II: 39 («subsequently killed»; i.e. by IDF ground troops)
- Released hostages: 109
- Rescued hostages: 1
- Remaining hostages: 45 - Do the math
- Remaining hostages (Israeli claim): 107 living hostages and 30 dead bodies
- Recovered hostages (Dead bodies): 11


Missing:

- Gaza: 7,000+ - 70% women and children (in the rubble) [*number previously reported as 7,780+ / Not updated since before 1 January 2024]
- Israel: 1

Displaced / Refugees:

- Palestinians: 1,900,000
- Israelis: 200,000-500,000
- Lebanese: 76,000 [*not updated since 9 Jan. 2024]

Houses in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing:

- 10 October 2023: 1,000 houses
- 19 October 2023: 98,000 houses
- 22 October 2023: 42% of all houses
- * No longer reported on Wikipedia (but more than 60%).

Number of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine since 1967:

- 1972: 10,531
- 1983: 99,795
- 1993: 269,200
- 2004: 423,913
- 2007: 467,478
- 2010: 512,769
- 2018: 645,800
- 2020: 671,700
- 2022: 733,000
- 2024: 800,000 (estimate)


- Sources: Wikipedia - Articles 'Israel-Hamas War', '2023 Israel-Hamas war hostage crisis & ‘Israeli settlement’, 'Killing of journalists in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war'.

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Growin' up, brewin' up
Guerrilla gettin' trained up
Look out, look out
From over the rooftop x 2

Competition coming up now
Load up, aim, fire, fire, pop! x 2

- M.I.A.: Fire, Fire (2004)


- The numbers as per 2 February 2024 -

Killed:

- Gaza: 27,131+ killed - including 12,345+ children, 8,000+ women, 1,049 elderly, 339 paramedics and medical staff, 152 UN staff

[* These are official numbers from the Gaza Health Ministry.
Israeli government claimed numbers are - Killed: 10,000+ civilians (as of 6 Dec. 2023) + 9,000 resistance fighters (as of 14 Jan. 2024)]

- Israel: 1,442 killed - including 809 civilians (*number now includes 695 Israeli civilians and 29 who were hostages), 561 IDF soldiers, 62 police officers and 10 Shin Bet operatives

- Hamas fighters killed inside Israel (Oct. 7): 1,000+ (+200 captured - where are they held?)

- West Bank: 381 killed

- Lebanon: 226 killed

- Journalists: 200+ killed

- Syria: 109 killed


Wounded:

- Gaza: 66,287+ - 75% women and children
- Israel: 10,580+ [mostly IDF in Gaza]
- West Bank: 4,250+


Hostages:

- Taken: 254 (*has previously been reported in an increasing manner as 239, 245, 248 and 250, 253) - including more than 134 IDF soldiers, 120+ civilians (32 children), of whom 52 foreign or dual-nationals)
- Killed I: 60 (by Israeli bombing)
- Killed II: 39 («subsequently killed»; i.e. by IDF ground troops)
- Released hostages: 109
- Rescued hostages: 1
- Remaining hostages: 45 - Do the math
- Remaining hostages (Israeli claim): 107 living hostages and 30 dead bodies
- Recovered hostages (Dead bodies): 11


Missing:

- Gaza: 7,000+ - 70% women and children (in the rubble) [*number previously reported as 7,780+ / Not updated since before 1 January 2024]
- Israel: 1

Displaced / Refugees:

- Palestinians: 1,900,000
- Israelis: 200,000-500,000
- Lebanese: 76,000 [*not updated since 9 Jan. 2024]

Houses in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing:

- 10 October 2023: 1,000 houses
- 19 October 2023: 98,000 houses
- 22 October 2023: 42% of all houses
- * No longer reported on Wikipedia (but more than 60%).

Number of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine since 1967:

- 1972: 10,531
- 1983: 99,795
- 1993: 269,200
- 2004: 423,913
- 2007: 467,478
- 2010: 512,769
- 2018: 645,800
- 2020: 671,700
- 2022: 733,000
- 2024: 800,000 (estimate)


- Sources: Wikipedia - Articles 'Israel-Hamas War', '2023 Israel-Hamas war hostage crisis & ‘Israeli settlement’, 'Killing of journalists in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war'.


[* Photo rejected by the Filmphotography and [UMAMI] group.]

- Inappropriate!

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- Friday 26 January 2024: A truly historic day. South Africa’s genocide case against Israel is taken up by the International Court of Justice. Israel will be held accountable. Thank you, South Africa. You are the shining light and conscience of the World.

Star Wars: The Battle of Hoth Part 1/2 (1980)

- Dack: Feeling all right, sir?
- Luke: Just like new, Dack. How about you?
- Dack: Right now I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself.
- Luke: I know what you mean.


Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel)

The Court indicates provisional measures

THE HAGUE, 26 January 2024. The International Court of Justice today delivered its Order on the Request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel).

It is recalled that, on 29 December 2023, South Africa filed an Application instituting proceedings against Israel concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the “Genocide Convention”) in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In its Application, South Africa also requested the Court to indicate provisional measures in order to “protect against further, severe and irreparable harm to the rights of the Palestinian people under the Genocide Convention” and “to ensure Israel’s compliance with its obligations under the Genocide Convention not to engage in genocide, and to prevent and to punish genocide” (see press release No. 2023/77).

Public hearings on South Africa’s request for provisional measures were held on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 January 2024.

In its Order, which has binding effect, the Court indicates the following provisional measures:

“(1) By fifteen votes to two,
The State of Israel shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular:
(a) killing members of the group;
(b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and
(d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue (USA); Vice-President Gevorgian (RUSSIA); Judges Tomka (SLOVAKIA), Abraham (FRANCE), Bennouna (MOROCCO), Yusuf (SOMALIA), Xue (CHINA), Bhandari (INDIA), Robinson (JAMAICA), Salam (LEBANON), Iwasawa (JAPAN), Nolte (GERMANY), Charlesworth (AUSTRALIA), Brant (BRAZIL); Judge ad hoc Moseneke (SOUTH AFRICA);

AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde (UGANDA); Judge ad hoc Barak (ISRAEL);


(2) By fifteen votes to two,
The State of Israel shall ensure with immediate effect that its military does not commit any acts described in point 1 above;

IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue (USA); Vice-President Gevorgian (RUSSIA); Judges Tomka (SLOVAKIA), Abraham (FRANCE), Bennouna (MOROCCO), Yusuf (SOMALIA), Xue (CHINA), Bhandari (INDIA), Robinson (JAMAICA), Salam (LEBANON), Iwasawa (JAPAN), Nolte (GERMANY), Charlesworth (AUSTRALIA), Brant (BRAZIL); Judge ad hoc Moseneke (SOUTH AFRICA);

AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde (UGANDA); Judge ad hoc Barak (ISRAEL);


(3) By sixteen votes to one,
The State of Israel shall take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide in relation to members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip;

IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue (USA); Vice-President Gevorgian (RUSSIA); Judges Tomka (SLOVAKIA), Abraham (FRANCE), Bennouna (MOROCCO), Yusuf (SOMALIA), Xue (CHINA), Bhandari (INDIA), Robinson (JAMAICA), Salam (LEBANON), Iwasawa (JAPAN), Nolte (GERMANY), Charlesworth (AUSTRALIA), Brant (BRAZIL); Judges ad hoc Barak (ISRAEL), Moseneke (SOUTH AFRICA);

AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde (UGANDA);


(4) By sixteen votes to one,
The State of Israel shall take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip;

IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue (USA); Vice-President Gevorgian (RUSSIA); Judges Tomka (SLOVAKIA), Abraham (FRANCE), Bennouna (MOROCCO), Yusuf (SOMALIA), Xue (CHINA), Bhandari (INDIA), Robinson (JAMAICA), Salam (LEBANON), Iwasawa (JAPAN), Nolte (GERMANY), Charlesworth (AUSTRALIA), Brant (BRAZIL); Judges ad hoc Barak (ISRAEL), Moseneke (SOUTH AFRICA);

AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde (UGANDA);


(5) By fifteen votes to two,
The State of Israel shall take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II and Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip;

IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue (USA); Vice-President Gevorgian (RUSSIA); Judges Tomka (SLOVAKIA), Abraham (FRANCE), Bennouna (MOROCCO), Yusuf (SOMALIA), Xue (CHINA), Bhandari (INDIA), Robinson (JAMAICA), Salam (LEBANON), Iwasawa (JAPAN), Nolte (GERMANY), Charlesworth (AUSTRALIA), Brant (BRAZIL); Judge ad hoc Moseneke (SOUTH AFRICA);

AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde (UGANDA); Judge ad hoc Barak (ISRAEL);


(6) By fifteen votes to two,
The State of Israel shall submit a report to the Court on all measures taken to give effect to this Order within one month as from the date of this Order.

IN FAVOUR: President Donoghue; President Donoghue (USA); Vice-President Gevorgian (RUSSIA); Judges Tomka (SLOVAKIA), Abraham (FRANCE), Bennouna (MOROCCO), Yusuf (SOMALIA), Xue (CHINA), Bhandari (INDIA), Robinson (JAMAICA), Salam (LEBANON), Iwasawa (JAPAN), Nolte (GERMANY), Charlesworth (AUSTRALIA), Brant (BRAZIL); Judge ad hoc Moseneke (SOUTH AFRICA);

AGAINST: Judge Sebutinde (UGANDA); Judge ad hoc Barak (ISRAEL).” *


Judge XUE (CHINA) appends a declaration to the Order of the Court; Judge SEBUTINDE (UGANDA) appends a dissenting opinion to the Order of the Court; Judges BHANDARI (INDIA) and NOLTE (GERMANY) append declarations to the Order of the Court; Judge ad hoc BARAK (ISRAEL) appends a separate opinion to the Order of the Court.
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A summary of the Order appears in the document entitled “Summary 2024/1”, to which summaries of the declarations and opinions are annexed. This summary and the full text of the Order are available on the case page on the Court’s website.

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Earlier press releases relating to this case are available on the Court’s website.
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Note: The Court’s press releases are prepared by its Registry for information purposes only and do not constitute official documents.
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It was established by the United Nations Charter in June 1945 and began its activities in April 1946. The Court is composed of 15 judges elected for a nine-year term by the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations. The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands). The Court has a twofold role: first, to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States; and, second, to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized United Nations organs and agencies of the system.

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-Latest dispatch from Mahmood OD, an arab israeli from Haifa living in the UK who follows the news in both Israel and the arabic world and gives eloquent updates in english faster than most mainstream western news media.

Mahmood OD: Isra-Hell Day (published 23 Jan. 2024)

TRANSCRIPT

Hello everyone, welcome back to another video. We've had the most disastrous day on Israeli forces since the beginning of this war, following the 7th of October.

The Israeli Army admitted that 24 of its soldiers were killed when two houses detonated with all of the forces inside them. So what exactly happened, and why is Israel detonating homes in Gaza? They're detonating blocks of properties in Gaza.

I'm going to reach that in a sec, but firstly the Army spokesperson, he admitted that it was a very painful and disastrous day for Israel this morning he admitted that 24 were killed, and you need to make a note here, these are the numbers of soldiers who died after their families were informed. So Israel doesn't publish the numbers of the dead soldiers unless they notify their families. We also have 33 wounded. Now, the Telegram accounts in Israel were going mad this morning, many people reported hundreds of people dead, hundreds of Israeli soldiers in Gaza, and the IDF spokesperson he also said that people need to be considerate of the families and the people who lost loved ones, and they shouldn't spread rumours, so they were worried about the fact that people were already spreading rumours about the numbers of soldiers who died.

So what exactly happened? Israeli soldiers from Brigade 261 accompanied by engineering corps, they were planting explosives in 10 residential blocks of flats in Gaza. I'm going to get to why they're actually ruining these blocks in a sec. They were planting these devices, and all of a sudden a Palestinian resistance fighter from Al-Qassam brigades went out from a tunnel, most likely tens of meters away. Israel said that they went out from the bushes somewhere, and he targeted an Israeli tank. When he targeted the Israeli tank, apparently all of those explosives detonated, making a massive explosion. 24 were killed, 33 are wounded and 11 were in a critical condition.

These numbers don't include the soldiers with dual citizenship. Israel doesn't count them as Israeli soldiers who were killed, because they have a dual citizenship. So they could be from
Britain, or in any other part, but the fact that they're admitting to this number, the fact that we are having rumours of hundreds being killed, and the fact that Israel doesn't usually admit the real numbers of soldiers that are killed, all prove that this is the most difficult and lethal day since this war began.

We had joint press conferences for the first time in several weeks with Benjamin Netanyahu (b. 1949), Benny Gantz (b. 1959) and Yoav Gallant (b. 1958), to show a united front in front of the Israeli population, and obviously this event, it came down as a massive blast on the Israeli society. Many people are criticizing Israel, the whole campaign, the fact that so many people are dying, still over 107 days after this war started.

And it didn't just end with this disaster. Another Hannibal directive event took place today. Al-Qassam brigades reported that they targeted another Israeli tank with Yassin 105 RPG missile. Israeli rescue forces tried to rescue the soldiers who were remaining, who were wounded after they attacked this tank, and Hamas continued to attack them. After the Israelis saw that they are unable to rescue the soldiers, they landed multiple bombs from airplanes and killed all of their soldiers. This was confirmed by the Palestinian resistance. So, you're talking about further killings of IDF Soldiers by the IDF yet again.

This isn't the first time: Killing them in tunnels, running over them, killing them in friendly fire, we've had a report the other day, that one in five Israeli soldiers who were killed in Gaza was killed due to friendly fire; imagine that. Imagine the accuracy and competency of this Army, and we're seeing it yet again today with this tank event in Gaza.

Now, with regards to wiping down whole blocks: Why is Israel destroying blocks? Previously they had air strikes, and they were destroying civilian buildings to make life hell for the people of Gaza and to expel the population of Gaza, but now that they're done with the first round of taking down buildings from planes, why are they taking down civilian buildings, whole blocks with tens of dozens of houses in them?

Well, we've had an interview with Daniella Weiss (b. 1945). Daniella Weiss was a former mayor in Kedumim settlement [and a notable figure in the extremist Gush Emunim settlement movement since the 1970s], and she's the current director of an organization called Nahala. Nahala is a settler organization.

[Note: Nahala is the present-day successor to the Gush Emunim settlement movent that Daniella Weiss founded together with Moshe Levinger (1935-2015) in 2005. You can see her own presentation of the Nahala settler movement from 2015 on YouTube]

Now, this woman is a real far right activist, far, far, right in Israel. She works on building settlements and outposts in multiple parts of the West Bank, and now she has a plan for Gaza, which clarifies why the IDF is taking down these whole neighborhoods.

She was asked in that interview in Arutz Sheva; Channel 7, about the day after in Gaza. She said that their purpose is to make life hell for the Palestinians. They need to create a human crisis so that the Palestinians in Gaza can leave. She said that eventually, Egypt, Turkey and the EU will have to take these refugees; like they took Syrian refugees, and that some of them might go to America, some of them might go to Southern America; across the world. They need to go, and leave Gaza, and she showed maps in that interview; 3D maps of new settlements in Gaza over the ruins of the homes in Gaza that the IOF destroyed during their genocide campaign. And when she was pushed about the actual population living in Gaza, she said outright: I'm not thinking about the Arabs, I'm thinking about the Jews, I'm thinking about Israel, I'm thinking about the Jewish people, these people need to leave because Gaza is ours, it's part of Israel.

So this is clarifying, and thankfully we have these people who actually say things as they are. I mean, we've got hints from the Israeli political and military leadership that they're going to return Gaza to the Stone Ages, that they're going to make Gaza uninhabitable, that they're treating them as human animals, but when you also see these people with organizations with
maps, with plans about the day after in Gaza, the whole picture starts to be clear, and these people are preparing the settlers to go and buy property; so they're promising them in their brochures, that now you're going to have a home with a sea view, because the West Bank, they don't have sea view, it's mostly mountains and valleys, but now this woman is promising the settlers that they're going to have a sea view over the ruins of Gaza.

And that's one of the main reasons that Israel is targeting so many blocks and civilian buildings, when there's no real need to, because if you talk about the tunnels; the Palestinian
resistance already proved that they can get out from the rubble, even from destroyed buildings - as a matter of fact, all of the videos that they show, and that they have shown for the past 3 months show that they're going out of ruins. They're getting out of tunnels, going into destroyed homes and attacking the Israeli IOF forces.

Israel isn't making it easier for its soldiers in Gaza by destroying these places, because in urban warfare it's much more complicated to fight an enemy on ruins. You would rather have Block C, where you're going, everything is intact, and then have urban warfare, but when you're ruining everything, the resistance fighters have more dynamics when it comes to hiding; popping out, popping back in, and it's much more difficult for the Israeli Army to identify them. So there is no real military reason for this destruction. Clearly, these people ARE preparing for the day after, and they ARE preparing for their delusions and fantasies of establishing more settlements in Gaza; enforcing and expelling the Palestinian population, saying that the countries of the World will have to accept these people.

We're also having more criticism as to what happened on the 7th of October. Channel 13 [See the the program mentioned here: Military’s 7 October claims refuted by Israeli journalist ]; they released images of Israeli soldiers, some of them participate in having tours with journalists from the World about what happened, according to them, on the 7th of October, and they brought one soldier claiming that there was a massacre for babies, that babies were hung on ropes, and that there was a Holocaust survivor, apparently telling them about all of these horrors that happened on the 7th of October, and the news reporter was criticizing him, saying that the spokesperson, an executive spokesperson of Be’eri denied that there were any massacres of babies, or that babies were hung, and imagine, these people are bringing journalists and reporters from across the world, giving them that narrative, a false narrative, a facade narrative, a manipulation propagandist narrative that some people still repeat to this day on mainstream media and online; those who are slaves to the Zionists of course, and it's getting criticism from Israel, I mean, we've had them publishing images of the tanks in Be’eri, they published images of the helicopters shooting on the revelers in the festival, which all confirm that the big massacres, the REAL massacres of civilians on the 7th of October have happened from the Israeli forces, and I spoke about them many times previously in several videos, so there's more and more criticism happening from Israel, and it's also hinting that the distrust in the mainstream narrative is growing day after day; people have no trust in mainstream media altogether, but to try and keep some sort of faith in mainstream media they're posting these criticisms, and people are clearly not believing the political leadership, and also, and more importantly; they're not believing the military leadership, especially when it comes to deliberate killings of Israeli hostages in Gaza; whether it's through the gas tunnels, whether it's through bombings, previously, or when it comes to the recent Hannibal directive implementation on the tank with wounded soldiers that Israel failed to rescue.

We also had a very intense day in Lebanon. Today; Hezbollah attacked the Meiron Command Center in Northern Israel; they attacked it previously as retaliation for [the assassination of] Saleh al-Arouri (1966-2024). The Meiron is one of Israel's main command bases in the country. They have one in the South, Mitzpe Ramon, and they have one in Meiron, which is in charge of the surveillance and control of everything to do with the Israeli forces and uavs across the region in the northern part of Israel; so anything to do with Syria, with Lebanon, with Turkey, with the Eastern Northern part of the Mediterranean, and some other parts in the Gulf, some Gulf States as well.

So they attacked it again, now last time they attacked it, they launched 62 missiles, all of which landed, and we had confirmed hits, and today we saw the same thing confirmed, landings and Hezbollah declared that this is a retaliation to the assassinations that are happening in Lebanon against senior figures, so they're clearly sending Israel a message that we are still retaliating for those assassinations, and it didn't just end with the previous attack, they also attacked one of the main command centers in Safed a couple of weeks ago as part of their retaliation campaign for the assassinations, and Israel also published images of direct targeting of that base.

So, it's intensifying, it's not reducing, and yesterday we had the Israeli defense minister saying that we will continue even if Hezbollah stop the war to create a new security reality and allow our citizens to go back to the North. So, they're having massive problems with citizens going back to settlements where they were evacuated from. I mean, the Israeli spokesperson, the IDF spokesperson today said that in Gaza they still have resistance movements active in the borders of Gaza. He said that they were individuals, but they were still active, and that the IDF is still carrying out attacks against them to make it secure for the people of the South to go back, and none of these people are trusting the Israeli authorities; some of them are saying, we're not going to come back ever; many of them already purchased houses in Central Israel, and it's similar with the North: You're talking about a quarter of a million people unwilling to go back to their homes, on top of the Israelis who already fled the country: We have 2.5 million now who fled Israel, AND you're talking about these people inside of Israel, refusing to go back to these settlements, and some of them are very crucial to the Israeli economy, whether when it comes to agriculture, production factories, many of them are in the South because there are massive spaces of lands, and they're used for many production industries in Israel - So; they're facing a massive crisis when it comes to these people, and they're putting a pressure on them to reach a solution when it comes to eliminating the threat, or any potential of another seventh of October happening again to them.

The last thing that I wanted to talk about is an interesting interview we had today from Al Jazera with Sami Abu Zuhri who is a senior Hamas official. He was talking about a new discussion regarding a deal; a ceasefire deal. Now, in my video yesterday I spoke about a Mossad proposal to the Israeli War cabinet to try and reach a ceasefire. Obviously Hamas declared that they're not going to negotiate under fire; that for there to be any hostage deal, that Israel must COMPLETELY stop this war, withdraw from Gaza, keep Hamas in power as well, and Israel obviously doesn't want to do that, because it would be a complete humiliation for them; I mean, from the beginning of this war, I said that Israel's target of eliminating Hamas is a recipe for failure. They've done this previously, in 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014; they didn't eliminate Hamas and Hamas were much weaker from a military equipment and sophistication perspective, so in this war, when they said we want to eliminate Hamas, they wrote their destiny.

It's a recipe for failure, we're almost 110 days in this war, and Hamas is still, and the other resistance movements, are conducting VERY hard attacks on Israel, and they're proving that they're so sophisticated, they still channel weapons to Gaza and they're still attacking Israel in ANY part that it has people in, soldiers in, across all of the Gaza Strip.

So this deal that I spoke about yesterday, it was proposed by the Mossad to the war cabinet, they didn't release details of this offer, however from what Sami Abu Zuhri is saying, this could well be the proposal that the Mossad gave to the war cabinet. Obviously they're trying to reach some sort of an agreement, they can't continue this mess in Gaza, but they don't want to be seen as if they're completely submitting to the Hamas conditions, similar to what they've done in the temporary ceasefire we've had over two months ago.

So what is this deal exactly? Well, apparently there's a proposal for a two-month ceasefire where many Israeli hostages from Gaza will be released, and many Palestinian hostages and prisoners in Israel will be released from prison, INCLUDING many senior ones. Now, the key thing here, is the longevity of the ceasefire and the level of prisoners that Israel is going to release.

So is Hamas and the Palestinian resistance, are they going to show flexibility when it comes to this? Because previously, they said we need to END the war, the war must be ENDED, and Israel must withdraw from Gaza. Now, this could be a way out for Israel, they're obviously saying that it's going to be a long-term campaign, everything we're seeing is showing that this is going to be a long-term campaign; a war of attrition or an ongoing campaign battle where people are just going to try and eliminate each other. When it comes to Israel, they still persist on demolishing Hamas; but when it comes to Hamas, they're not backing down, they want their historical rights, and their rights that they deserve, for the Palestinian people, and they're getting more and more support, they're proving that their defensive measures are VERY, VERY high quality, and their leaders are already there; Israel wanted to release the hostages; they haven't released one single Israeli hostage who's alive, at least, as a matter of fact, they killed over 70 of them; they're killing their own soldiers by going in to Gaza - I mean, they knew they're going to be annihilated in Gaza when they went in, because they were already attacked so SEVERLY in the 2014 War when they went in partial invasions, not as intensive as they did this time, but now they're feeling the WHOLE bitter truth of trying to attack Gaza, because they prepared for this day very well; the Palestinian resistance, and they're showing no signs of weakness, and this is coming at the same time that [Pentagon press secretary] John Kirby (b. 1963) made some interesting statements: He said today that the future of Gaza will be without the Hamas leadership. Okay, now obviously what the US Administration say, it doesn't represent Israel; Israel, we clearly have a disagreement between them and the Biden Administration; they tried to reach a complete ceasefire by the end of December, max mid-January; we’re way past that, and Netanyahu is very stubborn, and there's clearly differences between him and the American Administration.

However; John Kirby saying that the future of Gaza will have no Hamas leadership; he previously said, the White House released some statements a few weeks ago, saying that you can't eliminate Hamas, so this is signalling that they’re potentially happy to agree that parts of Hamas will remain in Gaza, maybe with the Palestinian Authority, but the leaders of Hamas need to leave Gaza, which is obviously not going to happen, they're trying to create friction between some of the members of the Palestinian resistance and their leadership, and obviously seeing as they failed in reaching them, they're trying to kind of propose a deal for them to leave Gaza, which is is NOT going to happen, however, the situation when it comes to the recent offer that the Hamas official spoke about, it hasn't been rejected by Hamas, and they said that we're open to any offers, and we also didn't have lots of information from Israel, apart from the fact that Netanyahu said, we have our own initiatives, we don't wait for Hamas to do something, to do a proposal, but we have our own initiative.

So this could be Israel's latest initiative that was potentially proposed by the Mossad yesterday to the Israeli War cabinet, and in the next few days, potentially tomorrow or the day after, even, we will see if there's any potential for this coming to fruition; and these were the main things that I wanted to talk to you about today, I hope I added some beneficial information for you and I will see you soon in the next video; take care.

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Riad Awwad: Palestinian Revolution (1987) [2022 re-issue]

Just one week after the outbreak of the First Intifada in 1987, Riad Awwad brought his sisters Hanan, Alia and Nariman together in their living room and began recording The Intifada album on equipment he had made himself. One of the songs was co-written with their friend, the acclaimed Palestinian writer and poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008). Riad printed 3000 copies of the cassettes which he began distributing in the Old City of Jerusalem and across the West Bank. The Israeli Army immediately confiscated all the copies they could find, the vast majority of which remain in the military archives to this day. Riad was arrested, interrogated and detained for several months. Straight after his release, he formed a band, Palestinian Union, and put out a new album. He then founded a school, offering kids in the West Bank an alternative musical education, teaching them how to create their own electronic equipment. In 2005, Riad was tragically killed in a car accident. His legacy lives on through his family, his timeless music and his powerful story, which continues to inspire to this day.

Over several years, Mo’min Swaitat has amassed an archive of rare tapes and vinyl from Palestine and beyond. Many of these were acquired from a former record label in his hometown of Jenin, in the north of the West Bank. Majazz Project is a research project and record label borne out of the archive, focused around sampling, remixing and reissuing vintage Palestinian and Arabic cassettes and LPs, shedding new light on the richness and diversity of Arabic cultural heritage.


- The numbers as per 20 January 2024 -

Killed:

- Gaza: 24,927+ killed - including 10,000+ children, 7,000+ women, 678 elderly, 326 paramedics and medical staff, 135 UN staff (*not updated since 9 January 2024)

[* These are official numbers from the Gaza Health Ministry but in an obviously obfuscating attempt, Wikipedia now also includes numbers from two other sources; 1) Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor - Killed: 28,951 civilians + 2,546 resistance fighters and 2) Israeli government - Killed: 10,000+ civilians (as of 6 Dec. 2023) + 9,000 resistance fighters (as of 14 Jan. 2024)]

- Israel: 1,410 killed - including 810 civilians (*number now includes 695 Israeli civilians and 29 who were hostages), 529 IDF soldiers, 61 police officers and 10 Shin Bet operatives

- Hamas fighters killed inside Israel (Oct. 7): 1,000+ (+200 captured - where are they held?)

- West Bank: 368 killed

- Lebanon: 196 killed

- Journalists: 115 killed (*not updated since 9 Jan. 2024)

- Syria: 85 killed (*not updated since 9 Jan. 2024)


Wounded:

- Gaza: 62,388+ - 70% women and children
- Israel: 8,787+ (*not updated since 1 January 2024) [mostly IDF in Gaza] )
- West Bank: 4,000+


Hostages:

- Taken: 253 (*has previously been reported in an increasing manner as 239, 245, 248 and 250 on 1 January 2024) - including more than 133 IDF soldiers, 120+ civilians (32 children), of whom 52 are foreign or dual-nationals)
- Killed I: 60 (by Israeli bombing)
- Killed II: 37 («subsequently killed»; i.e. by IDF ground troops)
- Released hostages: 109
- Rescued hostages: 1
- Remaining hostages: 46 - Do the math
- Remaining hostages (Israeli claim): 108 living hostages and 28 dead bodies
- Recovered hostages (Dead bodies): 11


Missing:

- Gaza: 7,000+ - 70% women and children (in the rubble) [*number previously reported as 7,780+ / Not updated since before 1 January 2024]
- Israel: 2 - 1 Israeli, 1 foreign (*not updated since 9 Jan. 2024)

Displaced / Refugees:

- Palestinians: 1,900,000
- Israelis: 500,000
- Lebanese: 76,000 [*not updated since 9 Jan. 2024]

Houses in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing:

- 10 October 2023: 1,000 houses
- 19 October 2023: 98,000 houses
- 22 October 2023: 42% of all houses
- * No longer reported on Wikipedia.

Number of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine since 1967:

- 1972: 10,531
- 1983: 99,795
- 1993: 269,200
- 2004: 423,913
- 2007: 467,478
- 2010: 512,769
- 2018: 645,800
- 2020: 671,700
- 2022: 733,000


- Sources: Wikipedia - Articles 'Israel-Hamas War' & 'Israel-Hamas war hostage crisis & ‘Israeli settlement’ & 'Killing of journalists in the Israel–Hamas war'.

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Siouxsie And The Banshees: Israel (1980)


‘Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses

by Stephanie Kirchgaessner (published Jan. 18, 2024)

Revealed: review of internal state department documents shows special mechanisms have been used to shield Israel from US human rights laws

Top US officials quietly reviewed more than a dozen incidents of alleged gross violations of human rights by Israeli security forces since 2020, but have gone to great lengths to preserve continued access to US weapons for the units responsible for the alleged violations, contributing – former US officials say – to the sense of impunity with which Israel has approached its war in Gaza.

An estimated 24,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed by Israeli forces since Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, a death toll that has spurred condemnation of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Mileikowsky Netanyahu (b. 1949), and the US president, Joe Biden (b. 1942), who has been criticized for failing to rein in Israel’s “indiscriminate” bombing of Gaza.

An investigation by the Guardian, which was based on a review of internal state department documents and interviews with people familiar with sensitive internal deliberations, reveals how special mechanisms have been used over the last few years to shield Israel from US human rights laws, even as other allies’ military units who receive US support – including, sources say, Ukraine – have privately been sanctioned and faced consequences for committing human rights violations.

State department officials have in effect been able to circumvent the US law that is meant to prevent US complicity in human rights violations by foreign military units – the 1990s-era Leahy law, named after the now retired Vermont senator Patrick Leahy (b. 1940) – because, former officials say, extraordinary internal state department policies have been put in place that show extreme deference to the Israeli government. No such special arrangements exist for any other US ally.

The lack of enforcement of the Leahy law in Israel appears especially troubling to its namesake. In a statement to the Guardian, the former Vermont senator said the purpose of the Leahy law was to shield the US from culpability for gross violations of human rights by foreign security forces that receive US aid and deter future violations.

“But the law has not been applied consistently, and what we have seen in the West Bank and Gaza is a stark example of that. Over many years I urged successive US administrations to apply the law there, but it has not happened,” Leahy said.

Among the incidents that have been reviewed since 2020 were the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh (1971-2022), the Palestinian-American journalist who was shot by Israeli forces in May 2022; the death of Omar Assad, a 78-year-old Palestinian-American, who died in January 2022 after being held in Israeli custody; and the alleged extrajudicial killing of Ahmad Abdu, a 25-year-old who was shot at dawn by Israeli forces in May 2021 while sitting in his car.

A report in Haaretz describes how, after opening fire on the car, Israeli troops pulled Abdu out, dragged him a few meters down the road, then left his bloody body in the road and departed.

In the review into Abdu’s death, which reports suggest may have been a case of mistaken identity, internal state department documents note that Israel declined to respond to questions by state department officials about the shooting.

In Omar Assad’s case, the Israeli military said last June it was not bringing criminal charges against soldiers who were involved in his death, even after he was alleged to have been dragged from a car, bound and blindfolded after being stopped at a checkpoint. The army said the soldiers would not face prosecution because their actions could not directly be linked to Assad’s death from cardiac arrest, the Associated Press reported. Assad, a US citizen, had spent about 40 years in the midwest before retiring home to the West Bank in 2009.

Internal state department documents show that the incidents were reviewed under a little-known process established by the state department in 2020 known as the Israel Leahy Vetting Forum (ILVF), in which representatives from relevant state department bureaus examine reports of alleged human rights violations by Israeli forces.

Under the Leahy law, for most countries and in most cases, a foreign military unit is granted US military assistance or training after it is vetted by the state department for any reported human rights violations. The law prohibits the Department of State and the Department of Defense from providing funds, assistance or training to foreign security force units where there is “credible information” that the forces have committed a gross violation of human rights.

In the case of at least three countries – Israel, Ukraine and Egypt – the scale of foreign assistance is so great that US military assistance can be difficult to track, and the US often has no knowledge of where specific weapons end up or how they are used.

To close what was seen as a loophole in the law, Congress updated the process in 2019, by putting a system in place that prohibits the foreign government from providing US assistance to any unit of its security forces that the US identifies as being ineligible under the Leahy law due to a gross violation of human rights. The state department set up working groups to examine those countries where military assistance is considered “untraceable”.

But people familiar with the process who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Israel had benefited from extraordinary policies inside the ILVF, details of which have not previously been reported.

“Nobody said it but everyone knew the rules were different for Israel. No one will ever admit that, but it’s the truth,” said one former state department official.

First, under the Israel process, all of the parties involved in an ILVF review must reach a consensus that a potential violation has occurred, and must then be approved by the deputy secretary of state, according to three people familiar with internal deliberations. In theory, a single bureau could raise a potential violation to the deputy secretary of state level as part of a “split memo”, in which other bureaus would air their disagreement, but no such thing has occurred. Among the groups that are involved in the process are the bureau of near eastern affairs, the bureau of democracy, human rights and labor, the bureau of political-military affairs and the US embassy in Jerusalem.

For other countries, former officials said, such a Leahy law determination is made by state department staff, does not require the consensus of all parties, and would not require notification of and approval by the secretary of state or deputy.

Second, Israel must be consulted about alleged human rights violations that are under review and has 90 days to respond to claims, creating what some former officials said were significant delays. No other country’s government must be consulted under state department procedures, former officials said.

“Part of the reason why the ILVF has never worked is that the process is so gummed up with delay mechanisms that exist for no other country,” the former state department official said.
A state department spokesperson said details of internal department deliberations could not be discussed, but that there was “no requirement that consensus among ILVF participants be reached in order to move forward with an assessment under the Leahy law”.

“The department conducts Leahy vetting consistent with the law in the case of all countries receiving applicable assistance, including Israel,” the spokesperson added.

In response to questions about why consultation with Israel was considered part of the state department’s standard practice in all Israel Leahy vetting cases, the spokesperson said the department “routinely consults foreign governments on Leahy vetting matters, not just Israel”.


‘A broad impunity’

Some experts see a connection between the US’s hands-off approach to Israel on human rights violations and Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza. Israel receives $3.8bn in military assistance annually and the Biden administration twice bypassed Congress last month to deliver an additional $250m in weapons. Progressive Democrats led by Bernie Sanders (b. 1941), the independent Vermont senator, have called on aid to Israel being conditioned on the US investigating potential human rights violations by Israel in its war in Gaza.

“I think Israel feels a broad impunity when it comes to consequences within the US for its actions,” said Josh Paul, a former state department official who has emerged as a vocal critic of the Biden administration policies on Israel. “We may say that Israel should abide by international humanitarian law. We may say that it should not expand settlements. But when it comes to actual consequences, there aren’t any and I think that has given Israel at senior government levels the sense that it is immune.”

Paul also sees the lack of Leahy law enforcement having an effect on how Israeli units are conducting themselves. By not pressing Israel on Leahy violations and not designating individual Israeli units as gross violators of human rights, Paul said the US has enabled a culture of impunity at the unit level, which he said “we see on the ground in Gaza today” in the actions of some Israeli soldiers, including videos that have circulated showing Israeli soldiers ransacking private homes in Gaza, destroying civilian property and using racist language.

Nowhere is the US’s double standard on Israel more apparent than in a 2021 agreement that was signed by a senior state department official, Jessica Lewis, who serves as assistant secretary for political affairs, and the Israel ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog (b. 1952).

The two-page 2021 agreement, which has received little media attention, formalized changes in the Leahy law and included a statement about how Israel has a “robust, independent and effective legal system, including its military justice system”. The US signed more than two dozen similar agreements with other countries at that time – including Greece, Jordan, Georgia, Ukraine and Latvia – but none contain language endorsing the other countries’ military justice systems.

Former officials who spoke to the Guardian said they did not know how the language came to be included in the US-Israel agreement, but speculated it was probably added by Israel.

The Guardian requested a comment on the matter from the Israeli embassy in Washington, including on the provenance of the statement contained in the agreement, but did not receive a response.

Tim Rieser, a longtime senior adviser to Leahy, who helped write the Leahy law in the 1990s, said the inclusion of the language was probably intended to help Israel avoid scrutiny under the Leahy law, because it suggests as a matter of fact that Israel’s military justice system is independent enough to address any alleged human rights violations.

“The language added to the US-Israel agreement, without any consultation with Congress, is factually inaccurate and wrongly suggests that the [Leahy] Law doesn’t need to be applied,” Rieser said.

Few organizations have been as critical of Israel’s military justice system than B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group.

“The military law enforcement system is used by Israel as a whitewash mechanism whose purpose is to block any criticism of Israel’s and the army’s policies in the territories. The percentage of convictions of soldiers is close to zero, even for the most serious violations,” said Dror Sadot, B’Tselem spokesperson.

Paul, the former state department official who resigned from his post in protest against the Biden administration’s “blind support for one side”, said he had long argued internally that the US ought not to consider Israel’s military justice system as a “responsible functional justice system” when it comes to abuses.

“I think the track record is really one of slaps on the wrist, temporary demotions, and short-term suspensions even for really serious violations,” said Paul.

Paul told the Guardian “numerous people”, including himself, raised concerns over the years inside the state department that the Leahy process “is not working” and that gross violations of human rights were occurring “without accountability”. Indeed, no Israeli unit has ever gotten to the point of being sanctioned under the Leahy law even though credible allegations of gross human rights violations exist.

Paul declined to name former colleagues and did not want to discuss specific cases that were reviewed by the forum, but said that typically, staff concerns about Israeli human rights violations were ultimately “killed” at what he described as the front office level or bureau leadership-level within several of the bureaus involved in the forum, including the Bureau of Human Rights (DRL).

Other cases that were reviewed by the ILVF, but where US officials ultimately declined to reach consensus and take action include: the killing of Sanad Salem al-Harbad, a Bedouin man who was allegedly shot twice in the back by Israeli police in March 2022; the killing of Ahmad Jamil Fahd, who was allegedly shot by police and left to bleed to death by a unit of undercover Israeli agents; the alleged assault in Israeli police custody of journalist Givara Budeiri; the 2020 killing of a 32-year-old unarmed autistic man Eyad al-Hallaq by Israeli police in East Jerusalem; the killing of a 15-year-old boy named Mohammed Hamayel; and the shooting of 16-year-old Palestinian Jana Kiswani.

For advocates of the Leahy law, like Rieser, the lack of accountability for the killing of Abu Akleh, the prominent Al Jazeera journalist, is particularly galling, and has been the subject of criticism by senior Democrats on Capitol Hill.

“If the US had been willing to apply the Leahy law in Israel the IDF would presumably have been more inclined to hold their soldiers accountable, which would have helped deter killings of civilians like Shireen Abu Akleh (1971-2022) and many others, and what we are seeing today,” Rieser said. “Or else they would have faced a cut-off of US aid, which would have been a real black mark and a thorn in US-Israel relations.”

Abu Akleh was killed by a bullet that hit the back of her head while covering an Israeli operation in the West Bank city of Jenin. A CNN investigation found that there was no active combat or Palestinian militants near Abu Akleh in the moments before she was killed, and footage obtained by the network corroborated witness testimony that suggested Israeli forces had taken aim at the journalist.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) apologized for the killing last year but the military advocate general’s office in Israel said in a statement that it did not intend to pursue criminal charges or prosecutions of any of the soldiers involved.

In a July 2023 letter to the secretary of state, Antony Blinken (b. 1962), four Democratic senators – Chris Van Hollen (b. 1959), Leahy (now retired), Chris Murphy (b. 1973) and Dick Durbin (b. 1944) – criticized the Biden administration for not following through on earlier calls for an “independent, credible investigation”. In questions to the administration, the senators asked what, if any, steps the United States Security Coordinator (USSC), who conducted an independent forensic analysis of the bullet that killed Abu Akleh, took to try to establish who specifically shot her and why.

Echoing statements by the IDF, the USCC released a short statement that there was “no reason to believe that this was intentional but rather the result of tragic circumstances”. The state department has declined to publicly release a report into Abu Akleh’s death by the USSC coordinator, Lt Gen Michael Fenzel (b. 1967). Citing a senior US official, Axios reported last year that Fenzel’s report did not include any new findings or conclusions.

When the Leahy law was first passed in 1997, it was designed with Central America and Colombia in mind. The US was providing hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to combat narco-traffickers and insurgents, but human rights groups were documenting serious human rights abuses by Colombian military and police units. While the state department does not publicly announce when it targets specific foreign units, experts say they believe it has been effective in Central America, Colombia, Nepal and other countries.

Israel, they say, is the outlier.


‘A disturbing number of reports’

Rieser said there was a long history of correspondence – from the George W Bush administration through to the Biden administration – between Leahy and successive secretaries of state seeking answers to why the Leahy law was not being implemented in cases involving killings of Palestinians.

In a May 2002 letter to then secretary Colin Powell (1937-2021), who served in the Bush administration, Leahy raised concerns that the Leahy law was not being applied to the Middle East.

In a January 2009 letter to then secretary Condoleezza Rice (b. 1954), Leahy expressed incredulity that the state department was “unaware” of a single incident involving the IDF that would trigger the Leahy law.

A month later, Leahy sent a new letter to then secretary Hillary Clinton (b. 1947), who was serving under the Obama administration. He attached copies of correspondence he had sent her predecessor.

A February 2016 letter from Leahy to the then secretary of state, John Kerry (b. 1943), cited a “disturbing number of reports of possible gross violations of human rights by security forces in Israel and Egypt”, including “extrajudicial killings by Israeli military and police”.

An October 2017 letter to Rex Tillerson (b. 1952), who served as secretary of state under Donald Trump (b. 1946), queried what steps the US embassy in Israel was taking to ensure the Leahy law was being applied to the IDF.

Later, in a May 2018 letter from Leahy to the then secretary of state, Mike Pompeo (b. 1963), who served in the Trump administration, Leahy sought a Leahy law review of the shooting deaths of about 100 Palestinian protesters from Gaza who had been killed since March of that year. “If credible information exists to trigger the Leahy law regarding any Israeli unit and the Government of Israel is not taking effective steps to bring the individuals responsible to justice, such a unit is no longer eligible for US assistance,” Leahy wrote.

In a follow-up letter in September, Leahy pushed for a “clear answer”, including whether the administration had ever sought the identity of the IDF units who shot the Palestinians. In another letter, sent by Leahy in December, he questioned how many times the US embassy had presented Israel with evidence of gross violations of human rights, and how many times those individuals were barred from receiving US assistance.

Several other letters from Leahy refer to gross violations of human rights by the IDF. None of the cases ever led to a unit being punished.

This article first appeared in The Guardian and is republished here under their Open License Terms.

[Personal note: I know for a fact that the illegal Israeli settlers and the child murderers of the Kfir and Nahal brigades have killed so many children, disabled people, and so many other civilians in Hebron from the 1990s until today because I have witnessed it with my very own eyes. There are tens of thousands of TIPH (1994-2019) observer reports about all of their atrocities that are preserved in the archives of the Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Swiss, Italian and Turkish governments.]

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Kjemi: Xtol (stock / 8 min. @ 21°C)

B'Tselem: Israeli soldiers drag 8-year-old from home to home looking for stone-throwers in Hebron (2017)

[This boy was lucky. The IDF in Hebron shoots and kills boys like this regularly. Kfir and Nahal brigades. Fucking child murderers.
I have seen them snipe and kill boys this age in cold blood myself - with no repercussions - and I can never forget. I will never forgive.]


How can you climb a mountain to kill a God?
Why do you cross unknown lands, to kill our Gods?
Why do you build walls, to starve our Gods?

Is it for the same reason you blind us?
Is this why you punish our children?
And rape our sisters?

When will we drown?
When will we burn?
Will you die with us? I think so

You are slicing your own wrists
You are tearing out your own hearts
And you are drowning your own children

So you can end it
Or we will

We are telling them the truth
And revealing all your lies
We do not need to climb a mountain
Or to cross the unknown lands
Because we are Gods
And we will drown you
We will burn your homes

We the people, we the spirits, we the Gods


- Anathema: We, the Gods (1995)

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CALAVERX: Tenochtitlan (2022)

A la tierra prometida
Desembarcan las flotillas
De ladrones eh impostores
Que acabaron con muchas vidas

El imperio Tenochtitlán
Vio como sustituían
A sus dioses ancestrales
Por las cruzes y estatuillas

Hemos venido de mucho tiempo atrás
De sacrificios de alma y de sangre
Donde el amor es algo espiritual
Donde la muerte se ofrece a los dioses!

Donde la muerte se ofrece a los dioses

Conocimiеntos ancestrales
Exterminados como animalеs
Templos sagrados profanados
Acompañados de enfermedades

Esclavizaron y robaron
Asesinaron como cobardes
Colonizaron y enterraron
Una cultura brillante!


- The numbers as per 12 January 2024 -

Killed:

- Gaza: 23,708+ killed - including 10,000+ children, 7,000+ women, 678 elderly, 326 paramedics and medical staff, 135 UN staff

[* These are official numbers from the Gaza Health Ministry but in an obviously obfuscating attempt, Wikipedia now also includes numbers from two other sources [not updated since 9 Jan. 2024]; 1) Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor - Killed: 28,201 civilians + 2,475 resistance fighters and 2) Israeli government - Killed: 10,000+ civilians + 8,000 resistance fighters]

- Israel: 1,397 killed - including 807 civilians (*number now includes 695 Israelis and 28 who were hostages), 520 IDF soldiers, 61 police officers and 10 Shin Bet operatives

- Hamas fighters killed inside Israel (Oct. 7): 1,000+ (+200 captured - where are they being held?)

- West Bank: 343 killed

- Lebanon: 190 killed

- Journalists: 115 killed

- Syria: 85 killed


Wounded:

- Gaza: 60,005+ - 75% women and children
- Israel: 8,787+ (*not updated since 1 January 2024) [mostly IDF] )
- West Bank: 3,949+ (*not updated since 9 Jan. 2024)


Hostages:

- Taken: 253 (*has previously been reported in an increasing manner as 239, 245, 248 and 250 on 1 January 2024) - including more than 133 IDF soldiers, 120+ civilians (32 children), of whom 52 are foreign or dual-nationals)
- Killed I: 60 (by Israeli bombing)
- Killed II: 36 («subsequently killed»; i.e. by IDF ground troops)
- Released: 109 [women, children and foreign nationals]
- Rescued: 1
- Remaining: 47 - Do the math
- Remaining (Israeli claim): 109 living hostages and 27 dead bodies

Missing:

- Gaza: 7,000+ - 70% women and children (in the rubble) [*number previously reported as 7,780+ / Not updated since before 1 January 2024]
- Israel: 2 - 1 Israeli, 1 foreign (*not updated since 9 Jan. 2024)

Displaced / Refugees:

- Palestinians: 1,900,000
- Israelis: 500,000
- Lebanese: 76,000 [*not updated since 9 Jan. 2024]

Houses in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing:

- 10 October 2023: 1,000 houses
- 19 October 2023: 98,000 houses
- 22 October 2023: 42% of all houses
- * No longer reported on Wikipedia.

Number of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine since 1967:

- 1972: 10,531
- 1983: 99,795
- 1993: 269,200
- 2004: 423,913
- 2007: 467,478
- 2010: 512,769
- 2018: 645,800
- 2020: 671,700
- 2022: 733,000


- Sources: Wikipedia - Articles '2023 Israel-Hamas War', '2023 Israel-Hamas war hostage crisis & ‘Israeli settlement’, 'Killing of journalists in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war'.

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Linse: Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f1.4 (1970)
Film: Cinestill BWXX (Kodak 5222) @ ISO 200
Kjemi: Xtol (stock / 8 min. @ 21°C)

Mahmood OD: The Darkest Day (published Jan. 8 2024)


- The numbers as per 9 January 2024 -

Killed:

- Gaza: 23,210+ killed - including 10,000+ children, 7,000+ women, 678 elderly, 326 paramedics and medical staff, 135 UN staff

[*** These are the official numbers from the Gaza Health Ministry but in an obvious attempt at obfuscation, Wikipedia now also includes numbers from two other sources; 1) Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor - Killed: 28,201 civilians + 2,475 resistance fighters and 2) Israeli government - Killed: 10,000+ civilians + 8,000 resistance fighters]

- Israel: 1,397 killed - including 807 civilians (*civilian number now includes 695 Israelis and 28 who were hostages), 519 IDF soldiers, 61 police officers and 10 Shin Bet operatives

- Hamas fighters killed inside Israel (Oct. 7): 1,000+ (+200 captured - where are they held?)

- West Bank: 340 killed

- Lebanon: 190 killed

- Journalists: 112 killed

- Syria: 85 killed


Wounded:

- Gaza: 59,167+ - 75% women and children
- Israel: 8,787+ (*not updated since 1 January 2024) [mostly IDF]
- West Bank: 3,949+


Hostages:

- Taken: 253 (*has previously been reported in an increasing manner as 239, 245, 248 and 250 on 1 January 2024) - including more than 133 IDF soldiers, 120+ civilians (32 children), of whom 52 are foreign or dual-nationals
- Killed I: 60 (by Israeli bombing)
- Killed II: 36 («subsequently killed»; i.e. by IDF ground troops)
- Released: 109
- Rescued: 1
- Remaining: 47 - Do the math
- Remaining (Israeli claim): 109 living hostages and 27 dead bodies

Missing:

- Gaza: 7,000+ - 70% women and children (in the rubble) [*number previously reported as 7,780+ / Not updated since before 1 January 2024]
- Israel: 2 - 1 Israeli, 1 foreign

Displaced / Refugees:

- Palestinians: 1,900,000
- Israelis: 500,000
- Lebanese: 76,000 [*number was 64,000 1 January 2024]

Houses in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing:

- 10 October 2023: 1,000 houses
- 19 October 2023: 98,000 houses
- 22 October 2023: 42% of all houses
- * No longer reported on Wikipedia.

Number of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine since 1967:

- 1972: 10,531
- 1983: 99,795
- 1993: 269,200
- 2004: 423,913
- 2007: 467,478
- 2010: 512,769
- 2018: 645,800
- 2020: 671,700
- 2022: 733,000


- Sources: Wikipedia - Articles '2023 Israel-Hamas War', '2023 Israel-Hamas war hostage crisis & ‘Israeli settlement’, 'Killing of journalists in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war'.

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Film: Cinestill BWXX (Kodak 5222) @ ISO 200
Kjemi: Xtol (stock / 8 min. @ 21°C)

- Here follows an interview with well-known Israeli anti-occupation, peace- and human rights activist Yossi Gurvitz, who sadly passed away in January 2023. In this interview you will be presented with some unpleasant facts about Judaism and what is actually going on in the head of Israel´s extremist religious zionists.

This foreboding interview was done in 2012, and you should take note about one important book mentioned: The genocidal King´s Torah, published by extremist settler rabbi Yitzhak Shapira (b. 1966) in 2009. Shapira has 12 children and lives in the illegal settlement of Yitzhar, just south of Nablus, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

Yitzhar is a veritable religious zionist extremist hub from where Yitzhak Shapira these days are peddling his latest books on Hamas, and especially targeting and exploiting gullible American Christian Zionists for influence and money. (<— Please watch this sick livestream with Shapira from USA December 27, 2023)

Apparently, Yitzhak Shapira is not extreme enough for the US State Department´s «visa restriction policy targeting individuals believed to have been involved in undermining peace, security, or stability in the West Bank, including through committing acts of violence or taking other actions that unduly restrict civilians’ access to essential services and basic necessities. Immediate family members of such persons also may be subject to these restrictions.» [Antony Blinken: Announcement of Visa Restriction Policy - December 5, 2023]


Yossi Gurvitz: When Israel is Mighty (2012)


When Israel is Mighty
an interview with Yossi Gurvitz

Now, we all know what rabbis say is the origin of Judaism: Moshe passed the Torah down to the elders, the elders passed the Torah down to the prophets, etc., all the way down to the Talmud, and there were no changes. The central motif of the Jewish understanding of history is that there were no changes [in the religion]. In other words, what the rabbis are saying now are merely minor refinements of what the rabbis had said during the time of the ‘Elders’ - the time of the Mishnah and the Talmud. Now first of all, the problem with this version of history is that it is completely baseless. And second of all, that it has a few historical problems, and these historical problems continue to this day, due to the fact that Judaism as a religion has been frozen in time for the last 1800 years. Generally speaking, Rabbinical Judaism, as it appears in the Talmud - unlike what is generally taught in secular schools - the source of Judaism is not the Bible. The source of Judaism is the Talmud. The people who wrote the Talmud are the ones who decided what books would be included in the Biblical canon. What they decided wouldn´t go in - didn´t go in. So for example, while the Catholic Church included the Books of the Maccabees in its version of the canon, Judaism did not preserve them, and in fact only the Greek version of them was preserved. Whether there were ever Hebrew or Aramaic versions of them is an interesting question, but only Christianity preserved them. The Book of Judith. The Book of Tobias. Many other books, mostly dealing with the Jews of the Diaspora didn´t make it into the Jewish Biblical canon, and were only preserved by Christianity.

Now, the Judaism that preceded Rabbinical Judaism was pretty much erased from history. In other words, there´s not enough information to know what happened then. We know there were Sadducees, there were Pharisees - the Pharisees are the Rabbinical Jews - there were Essenes - we don´t know anything about them for certain, and the reason we don´t know anything about them for certain is that when their enemies were victorious, the Pharisees established more than 10 religious holidays to celebrate their victories over the Sadducees, they simply erased them from history. So you have to eke a fragment [of information] out of a fragment [of information], so you can say, «Maybe it was like this» or «Maybe it was like that» - it´s impossible to know what really happened. What we do know is this: From very early on, Rabbinical Judaism is a Judaism that hates humans. It defines only Jews as humans - only Jews who believe in the religion as humans. Okay, let´s get this exactly right: It defines only Jews who believe in the religion and are men - as full humans. And everyone else is some level of ‘other’, that must be pushed aside, or, in extreme cases, destroyed. Rabbinical Jewish law does not prohibit - okay, that´s not accurate - Rabbinical Jewish law prohibits the killing of a non-Jew, but it does not punish a person for doing so. In other words, if you kill a Jew, even a Jewish woman, even the slave of a Jew - and here it is important to note that Orthodox Judaism has never abolished slavery - then there´s a penalty you have to pay. It could come to execution, or it could be a fine. They didn´t have jails. But if you kill a non-Jew then you´re guilty, but there is no penalty. God will punish you. And that is - how shall I put it? - A bit problematic. When you say something is a crime, but there´s no punishment for committing it, then it´s not really a crime. That´s the Talmud. When you come to the writers of later exegesis, especially the Shulchan Aruch (1565), by that point, he is already saying that there are situations where you can kill a non-Jew with impunity. Of course, it´s written in the 16th century, after the expulsion [of all Jews] from Spain [in 1492 C.E.], so he has to write what he wants to say in coded language. So he calls them ‘idolaters’. But just so you know, there weren´t any [pagans] left in that part of the world [by that point], not in Europe, and not in the Muslim world. So he calls them ‘idolaters’ or other such terms, but everyone knows who he´s talking about [non-Jews]. The worst case, in my opinion, is the case of Maimonides (1138-1204), who decrees, first of all, he decrees that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a 3-year-old girl. That age of consent is - problematic. And second of all, he decrees that if a Jew rapes a three-year-old non-Jewish girl, then she must me executed. Her, not him - because she tempted him to sin. And for this reason, you have to treat her like an animal that puts obstacles in a person´s way, and he quotes some verse about a bull or something like that.

And the rabbis know that these parts of the religion that are misanthropic, that are discriminatory to non-Jews - pose a problem for them. Because if they try to implement them , there are some rules that are very unpleasant, like that three-year-old girl we were just talking about; if they try to implement them - there will be a pogrom. So to avoid that situation, the Talmud defines two different states of reality. There´s one called ‘Darkei Shalom’ [Peaceful Ways]. In other words, «This is the actual religious law, this is how you are supposed to act. However, since it would cause a huge mess, and people will die, so due to ‘peaceful ways’, you don´t act that way». Now, until what point does the ‘peaceful ways’ rule still apply? Just as long as the other situation does not exist, which is «When Israel is Mighty». That´s when there is a Jewish regime. It is independent, and it is merciless, it can do what it likes. Under those circumstances - it´s all over, you go back to the letter of the law. No more ‘peaceful ways’, no more nothing. Now, when you think about Jewish history, lots of people talk about the Hasmonean Wars (67-63 BC), which was pretty much one of the only times that Jews wielded weapons, and they think about what the Hasmoneans did to the Hellenized Jews [who assimilated Greek culture]. Which was to make them extinct, to destroy them. A small genocide. And I remind people of this frequently, every time Hanukkah rolls around. But they didn´t stop there. They embarked on a campaign of looting and conquest, and at the beginning, during their first 20 years, wherever they arrived, they would destroy the local temples. It was prohibited for a place that was under Jewish rule to have a pagan temple. That´s what we´re talking about.

They also forced the Edomites to convert to Judaism on pain of death. It was a forced conversion. Something we learn the [Spanish] Inquisition did later on. They took people and told them: «Either you´re dead, or you´re converting to Judaism». And things only got worse from there. Now, when religious zionists look at reality, they say: «We´ve got a state. We´ve got weapons. We´ve got a Jewish army. This hasn´t happened for 2,000 years. What this means is that God wants us to bring about the Messiah, that God wants us to build the Temple.» They skip over all of the conditions that are imposed by the Talmud on what a Messiah must be, and they go back to Maimonides. And Maimonides says, «There is no difference between our time and the time of the Messiah, other than the subordination to kingdoms.» In other words, the only difference between the time of Maimonides - he died in 1204 - and the time of the Messiah, is who is subordinate to whom. Are the Jews subordinate to ‘kingdoms’, to other nations? Or can they subordinate other nations? And that is how Maimonides begins his Book of Kings. He explains what the rules are for a king, what a king can do. It emerges from the belief that, yes, there can be a king. You don´t have to first have a temple. You don´t need God to come down from the sky and point at someone and say, «That´s the Messiah». You can have a king, and if he´s victorious, then he´ll also be the Messiah. And then you look at what religious zionists are doing about this. They want a Messiah. They want him now.

There must be cleansings. Religious law prohibits contact with non-Jews. Of course, the Kosher laws prohibit you from eating with them. Other laws forbid you from treating them fairly. You are forbidden to return a lost item to a non-Jew - except in order to ‘keep the peace’. There is no prohibition on stealing from a non-Jew - except in order to ‘keep the peace’. You can´t say «Hello» to them - unless there is no alternative. And so on and so forth. There are all kinds of prohibitions that are entirely psychotic, that are based on a religion of vengeance. Religious zionists have a serious problem with the fact that there are any non-Jews here. The Land of Israel is supposed to be only for Jews. So, ironically, they would manage to get along with the Muslims, more or less, if we weren´t involved in a military conflict with them. Because according to Judaism, Muslims are not idolaters. Muslims believe in one God. They don´t have idols, they don´t have statues, they don´t have anything like that. So ironically, during the Medieval Era, Jews got along better with Muslims than with Christians. But what can you do? We conquered a territory populated mainly by Muslims, and the Muslims are fighting us - so those defenses fall away.

And look, now they are starting to talk about genocide. You have the [book] ‘Torat Hamelech’ [The King´s Torah], which tells that you can kill children if there is a reason to believe that one day they could cause harm. Now, if you killed someone´s entire family and left only him alive, he will indeed have a reason to cause harm. If you stole his lands, turned him into a refugee, tossed him to Jordan or Lebanon - he will indeed have a reason to cause harm. Many people said that the book´s arguments are not sound according to religious law, and so on and so forth, but no-one really tackled it head-on.

And it´s no wonder that it became a best-seller. Because in general, what religious zionists actually want is for the Land of Israel to be for Jews only. Now the situation for the Christians, on the other hand, will be really bad. [According to Judaism], they are idolaters, and you have to kill them, even if they do not resist Jewish rule. In Jerusalem, religious seminary students have a despicable habit: They urinate or defecate on churches. If you go there and talk to the church staff, you´ll hear it from every church. Spitting on clergymen in the street is something that happens regularly. If the priest has the gall to hit the person back, to slap him or something similar, then he is deported, quietly. They cancel his residence permit in the country. If you want to justify a pogrom, all you have to do is say the words «missionary threat». And from that perspective, Christianity, which is the historical arch enemy of Judaism, is going to get a serious beating once the religious zionists are in power. The Christian Fundamentalists who send them money apparently don´t understand what they´re dealing with. But you know, it´s really a case of ‘a pox on both your houses’.

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- Monday 1 January 2024: Thank you, South Africa.

International Court of Justice: Proceedings instituted by South Africa against the State of Israel (29 Dec. 2023)


- The numbers as per 1 January 2024 -


Killed:

- Gaza: 21,978+ killed - including 9,000+ children, 6,450+ women, 678 elderly, 311 paramedics and medical staff, 135 UN staff

- Israel: 1,380+ killed - including 804 civilians (*number now includes 695 Israelis and 25 who were hostages), 506 IDF soldiers, 60 police officers and 10 Shin Bet operatives

- Hamas fighters killed inside Israel (Oct. 7): 1,000+ (200 captured)

- West Bank: 326 killed

- Lebanon: 150 killed

- Journalists: 103 killed

- Syria: 85 killed


Wounded:

- Gaza: 57,697+ - 75% women and children
- Israel: 8,787+ (previously reported as 7,288+) [mostly IDF]
- West Bank: 3,456+


Hostages:

- Taken: 250 (*has previously been reported as 239, 245, 248) - including 120+ civilians (32 children), of whom 52 are foreign or dual-nationals
- Killed I: 60 (by Israeli bombing)
- Killed II: 33 («subsequently killed»; i.e. by IDF ground troops)
- Released: 109
- Rescued: 1

- Remaining: 47 - Do the math


Missing:

- Gaza: 7,000+ - 70% women and children [*number previously reported as 7,780+]
- Israel: 5


Displaced / Refugees:

- Palestinians: 1,900,000
- Israelis: 500,000
- Lebanese: 64,000


Houses in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing:

- 10 October 2023: 1,000 houses
- 19 October 2023: 98,000 houses
- 22 October 2023: 42% of all houses
- * No longer reported on Wikipedia.


Number of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine since 1967:

- 1972: 10,531
- 1983: 99,795
- 1993: 269,200
- 2004: 423,913
- 2007: 467,478
- 2010: 512,769
- 2018: 645,800
- 2020: 671,700
- 2022: 733,000


- Sources: Wikipedia - Articles '2023 Israel-Hamas War', '2023 Israel-Hamas war hostage crisis & ‘Israeli settlement’, 'Killing of journalists in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war'.

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I WILL NOT BE SILENT. NEVER AGAIN.

For those of you who want a better understanding of the ongoing genocidal Israel-Hamas war, it is imperative that you educate yourself on the current political situation inside Israel itself, and especially on how American extremist zionist jews to a large degree have been instrumental in exporting their extremism into Israel and radically transforming Israeli society ever since the start of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights after the Six-Day War in 1967.

For this very reason, you need to know about one very important key figure: american-born jewish terrorist and extremist Meir Kahane (1934-1990), his legacy and his followers; past and present.

Mad 'rabbi' Kahane´s racist, fascist, ultranationalist, supremacist and religious theocratic ideology - Kahanism - lives on like never before and has grown immensely among his many supporters in Israel - not only among extremist illegal settlers any longer, not only among the odd ordinary Israeli citizen - No, today, this ideology permeates Israeli society itself.

Today, Kahane´s followers are even represented in the jewish fascist Benjamin Netanyahu government; many holding quite influential and powerful minister positions - like (and these are just a few of them):

1.) The infamous terrorist and so-called "Minister of Security" Itamar Ben-Gvir (b. 1976 and hailing from the extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron, Occupied Palestine)

2.) The terrorist and so-called "Finance Minister" Bezalel Smotrich (b. 1980 and hailing from the extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Kedumim, Occupied Palestine)

3.) The old-skool Moshe Levinger (1935-2015) follower and Gush Emunim settler extremist and so-called "Minister of Settlements" (!) Orit Strook (b. 1960 and hailing from the extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron, Occupied Palestine)

4.) Yitzhak Wasserlauf (b. 1992), so-called "Minister for the 'Development' of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee".

Therefore, here for your consideration I will present to you three important lectures held on the subject by what must be one of the bravest men in the world: David Sheen [his website is no longer available], an exceptional Israeli Canadian former journalist of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz; now an independent investigative journalist.

This is all very well researched and explained.

In his lecture ‘Kahanistan’ you will get a broader understanding of political thought and development in Israel and how in the past few decades it has become more and more deeply connected to the Kahane movement:

- David Sheen: Kahanistan (2022)

In the lecture ‘Messiah Mode’ you will become much more familiar with the history of Meir Kahane himself, the Jewish Defense League in the USA and the Kach party in Israel; in addition to several other influential kahanist religious figures and politicians:

- David Sheen: Messiah Mode (2019)

In his latest lecture, ‘False Messiah’s Donkey’, David Sheen delves deeper into the Kahane movement´s influence on U.S. society and politics in general and the Democratic party in particular:

- David Sheen: False Messiah’s Donkey (2022)


A TRULY SHAMEFUL LIST OF JUST A FEW PEOPLE MENTIONED:


- Baruch Goldstein (1956-1994), american-born jewish extremist physician and religious mass-murderer from Brooklyn, New York. Goldstein immigrated to Israel in 1982 and moved to the jewish extremist settler hub in Kiryat Arba / Hebron. In 1994 during Ramadan on the Jewish holiday of Purim he perpetrated the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron. Wearing an IDF uniform and armed with an IMI Galil assault rifle, he opened fire on 800 Muslim worshippers inside the Ibrahimi Mosque, managing to kill 29 and wounding 129 before he was beaten to death by the survivors. Baruch Goldstein was a follower of Meir Kahane and a member of terrorist organization Jewish Defense League. Goldstein was number three in the Kach party after Meir Kahane (1932-1990) and Yisrael Ariel (b. 1939). Goldstein´s grave has become a site of pilgrimage and veneration for Jewish extremists, especially during Purim. The tomb of Baruch Goldstein is located in the Meir Kahane Memorial Park in the illegal extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

- Itamar Ben-Gvir (b. 1976), the current Minister of Security and party leader of Otzma Yehudit since 2022. Son of a mother active in the Irgun terrorist organization. Previously convicted of supporting the Kach terrorist organization. Exempted from service in the IDF due to extremist political background. Lawyer known for representing far-right Jewish activists suspected of terrorism and hate crimes; most notably representing the american-born extremist settler Baruch Marzel (b. 1956 in Boston, USA) in Hebron, the «right-hand man» of american-born rabbi Meir Kahane (1932-1990) and a fellow Otzma Yehudit party member. Known for displaying the portrait of american-born extremist settler and terrorist mass-murderer Dr. Baruch Goldstein (1956-1994) in his living-room. Itamar Ben-Gvir has 6 children and is a permanent resident of the illegal extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

- Baruch Marzel (b. 1959), american-born kahanist originally from Boston. His family immigrated to Israel when he was 6 weeks old, when he was 13 he joined the Jewish Defense League. At the age of 14 he was arrested for the first of many times, and when he was 17 he was imprisoned for the first time. An early member of the Kach party, he was Meir Kahane´s parliamentary aide in Knesset and the spokesperson for Kach for 10 years. Marzel is a physically violent man who has been harassing, threatening and assaulting countless Palestinians in Hebron for decades in addition to police officers, left-wing activists, peace activists and journalists. Marzel is known to have shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy and he has been arrested for conspiring to bomb a Palestinian school. He has also advocated violence against homosexuals in Israel and calling for religious war against them. Together with Bezalel Smotrich (b. 1980) - Israel´s Finance Minister - he arranged the «Beast Parade» in 2006, leading goats and donkeys through the streets in opposition to the Jerusalem gay pride parade.

Marzel is an important and instrumental figurehead for the extreme right in Israel. After the Kach party was banned in 1994, he founded the party Jewish National Front in 2004 and ran for Knesset. After not winning enough votes to enter Knesset, he joined the National Union party and served as fellow extremist and kahanist Michael Ben-Ari´s (b. 1963) parliamentary aide. Together with Bentzi Gopstein (b. 1969) he started Lehava in 2005, a jewish supremacist organization that stricly opposes jewish assimilation, objecting to any relationships between Jews and non-Jews - in 2010 he was urging Israeli model Bar Refaeli (b. 1985) not to marry her non-jewish boyfriend at the time, Leonardo DiCaprio (b. 1974). In 2013 he ran for Knesset again, this time for the Otzma Yehudit party, which had splintered from the National Union party; again not winning enough votes to enter Knesset. In 2015 he ran for Knesset again, but the Election Committee disqualified him from running in the election because of racism. Otzma Yehudit was not extreme enough for Marzel, so in 2022 together with Michael Ben-Ari he started the process of launching a new party to the right of Otzma Yehudit. Baruch Marzel has 9 children and is a permanent resident of the illegal extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Tel Rumeida in Hebron, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

- Michael Ben-Ari (b. 1963); Ph.D. in Land of Israel and Archaeology studies. If you have ever heard about Gustaf Kossinna (1858-1931) and Nazi archaeology - that´s the kind of scholar Michael Ben-Ari is. Previous member of the Kach terrorist organization; Ben-Ari was banned from running in the 2019 elections due to his extremist political views. He was also a member of the Jewish National Front, a political party founded by american-born extremist settler Baruch Marzel (b. 1956 in Boston, USA) in Hebron, the «right-hand man» of american-born rabbi Meir Kahane (1932-1990). When Jewish National Front merged with the far-right religious Eretz Yisrael Shelanu, Ben-Ari gained a seat in the Knesset 2009-2012, electing Marzel and Ben-Gvir as his aides. Eretz Yishrael Shelanu was not extreme enough for Ben-Ari, so together with Marzel and Ben-Gvir he founded the Otzma Yehudit in 2012. Ben-Ari has been denied US visa several times for his extremism. After he was banned from Knesset in 2019, he has since found that Otzma Yehudit was not extreme enough for him, so he has recently started planning a new party together with Baruch Marzel. Ben-Ari has 9 children and is a permanent resident of the illegal extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Karnei Shomron, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

- Baruch Ben-Yosef and Israel Fuchs, both of them american-born jewish Israeli kahanist settlers whose names are originally Andy Green and Keith Fuchs. Together with convicted murderer Robert Manning they are the suspected assassins of Alex Odeh (1944-1985), a Palestinian activist in the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. In Israel in 1980, Ben-Yosef was subjected to administrative detention for 6 months together with Meir Kahane for plotting to blow up the Dome of the Rock. In 1983, on the Jewish holiday of Purim, Fuchs sprayed a passing Palestinian car with bullets. Ben-Yosef later studied law and together with Fuchs he established the lawfare American Center for Civil Justice. Fuchs later mentored Simcha Rothman (b. 1980), a settler and religious zionist member who now serves as chairman of the Constitution, Law and Justice committee in the Knesset. Ben-Yosef mentored kahanist lawyer Itamar Ben-Gvir (b. 1976), current leader of the Otzma Yehudit party and Israel´s Minister of Security. In 2004, Ben-Yosef was one of 20 extremists who carried out the black magic kabbalistic curse of Pulsa diNura at the gravesite of Irgun terrorist Shlomo Ben-Yosef (1913-1938) in order to kill prime minister Ariel Sharon because of the 2005 Israeli disengagement from Gaza. Both Ben-Yosef Green and Keith «Israel» Fuchs are permanent residents of the illegal extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

- Mike Guzofsky, american-born jewish extremist from New York and a former member of Terror Against Terror, a militant organization that was active in Israel that openly espoused the ideology of perpetrating terrorism and committed several violent attacks directed at Palestinians, ranging from vandalism to mass shooting, bombing and murder. The group consisted of many Jewish-American settlers living in Hebron who considered themselves acolytes of ‘rabbi’ Meir Kahane. About mass-murderer Baruch Goldstein he said: «He was the sweetest jew who have ever lived.» Also known for, among other things, being a breeder of fierce patrol dogs with the purpose of instilling fear in the Palestinian population. Guzofsky is a permanent resident of the illegal extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Kfar Tapuach, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

- Bentzi Gopstein (b. 1969), american-born jewish extremist who got away with murder in 1990, an ardent anti-christian and founder of the Lehava movement, a jewish supremacist organization that stricly opposes jewish assimilation, objecting to any relationships between Jews and non-Jews. Gopstein advocates the expulsion of Christians and the banning of celebrating Christmas. He is a member of the Otzma Yehudit party, has 8 children and is a permanent resident of the illegal extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

- David Ha'ivri (b. 1967), american-born extremist orthodox jew whose real name is Jason David Axelrod. About the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin he said: «It was not a jew who was murdered; it was a traitor who was liquidated. The liquidation of an enemy is a positive thing.» Today, David Ha'ivri acts as an Israeli diplomat and is a spokesperson for Israeli illegal settlements. He has 8 children and is a permanent resident of the illegal extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Kfar Tapuach, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

- Ovadia Yosef (1920-2013) was the chief rabbi of Israel and spiritual leader of the religious orthodox Shas party. Ovadia Yosef had many controversial remarks; among them the following: «Gentiles were born only to serve us. Without that they have no place in the world, only to serve the jewish people. Why are gentiles needed? They´ll work, they´ll plow, they´ll reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat.» His son Yitzhak Yosef (b. 1952) is now the chief rabbi of Israel; a man who has likened people of black African descent to monkeys and has compared secular women to animals because they dressed immodestly.

- Ya'akov Yosef (1946-2013) was another son of Ovadia Yosef, also a rabbi and a Knesset representative for the Shas party 1984-1988. In the Knesset Ya'akov Yosef worked ardently on changing and doctoring the laws of Israel so that racism would be allowed so long as it was justified by religious arguments. Ya'akov Yosef openly endorsed rabbi Yitzhak Shapira´s book ’The King's Torah’ (2009) where it is argued that it is permissible for Jews to kill non-Jews, including children, under certain circumstances, and that there may be a reason to kill babies on the enemy side, even if they have not violated any laws, due to the potential future danger they might pose based on the assumption that they will grow up to be evil like their parents. ’The King's Torah’ also proposes that indirect killing of children could be justified as a means of exerting pressure on enemy leaders or if the children are obstructing a rescue operation and their presence contributes to murder.

- Yonatan Yosef, son of Ya'akov Yosef and also a rabbi, an illegal settler in East Jerusalem and former spokesman for the settlers in Sheikh Jarrah. He has been a Jerusalem City Council member since 2018, representing the ultra-orthodox religious zionist party Yachad. When he was 18 years old, he smuggled and collected caches of weapons from the army, plotting to murder Palestinians. He was arrested, but was tipped off by a government minister that the Shin Bet was coming for him; so he managed to get rid of much of the evidence and got off easy. In 2023, he was marching in Sheikh Jarrah with a group of supporters, chanting «We want Nakba, Nakba now!»

- Aryeh King (b. 1973) is the current Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, representing the ultra-orthodox religious zionist party Yachad. In 2014, he was inciting a group of hundreds of ultra-orthodox men by telling them "This Sabbath we will read about Zimri and Kosbi. Phineas committed the act; he was zealous for God. He got up and committed the act - It´s like that today. Every single person here is like a small Phineas. I call out to all the small Phineas's here! I call on all of us to make a great commotion, wake up! The Lubavitcher rebbe is here with us - I have no doubt he expects us all to commit acts of Phineas." Zimri and Kosbi is a story in the bible, and according to this legend there was a jewish man and a Midianite woman, in other words, it was an interracial relationship. And this priest, Phineas, was so incensed, so disgusted at this miscegenation, at this interracial love that he actually took a spear, according to legend, and he murdered them in the middle of the act of lovemaking. In fact, according to the Talmud it says exactly what that act was: "Miracles were done for Phineas... His aim was through the penis of the man and the vagina of the woman" - that is; he pierced them in their intertwined genitals. Hours later after Aryeh King's speech; religious jews went out and mutilated and murdered 16-year old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir. They kidnapped him outside his home, stuffed him into a car and drove him out to the forest, where they forced petrol down his throat and they burned him to death from the inside out. Aryeh King is the father of 6 and is a permanent resident of the illegal settlement of Ma'ale HaZeitim in East Jerusalem, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

- Moshe Feiglin (b. 1962), a kahanist, Likud politician and former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. As Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, during the 2014 Gaza war he said that «The IDF shall designate certain open areas […] in which the civilian population will be concentrated subsequent to the elimination […] Gaza […] will become part of […] Israel and will be populated by Jews.» Also in 2014, he was inciting for Jews to go and take over the Al-Aqsa mosque. Feiglin has made so many controversial statements that he was banned from entering the United Kingdom in 2008. Moshe Feiglin has 5 children and is a permanent resident of the illegal extremist jewish fundamentalist and religious zionist settlement of Karnei Shomron settlement, West Bank, Occupied Palestine.

- Yoel Lerner (1941-2014), american-born extremist from Brooklyn, New York who grew up in South Africa. In 1960 he immigrated to Israel where he became a linguist and translator. He became a student of Meir Kahane and a member of the Jewish Defense League; and later became an aide to Kahane. In 1973, Lerner was arrested in a case of arson involving a fire in a shop selling Christian missionary books. In 1975, he was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to harm Henry Kissinger (1923-2023). Newspaper reports said that Lerner «had expressed threats to assassinate Kissinger». In 1978 he was imprisoned for 3 years for conspiracy and illegal possession of weapons. He had founded an underground ring of militants called ‘Gal’ with the aim to overthrow the government and establish a state based on religious law, and kill Arabs. In 1982, Lerner had formed a small youth organization whose aim was to destroy the Dome of the Rock in order to rebuild the Temple Mount, and for this he was sentenced to 5 years in jail, but 2 ½ years of his sentence was suspended. Lerner was married and had eight children.

- Alan Goodman (b. 1945) american-born extremist who moved from Baltimore to Israel in 1977. On Easter morning 1982, wearing an IDF military uniform and armed with an M-16 automatic rifle, he shot his way into the Dome of the Rock, killing two and wounding 11 Palestinians. Sentenced to life imprisonment plus 40 years. Goodman was released after 15 years.

- Yisrael Ariel (b. 1939), number two in the Kach party after Meir Kahane; these days he is propagating the re-introduction of ancient Sanhedrin rabbinical courts in Israel. Arrested several times; in the early 80s for sedition because he was planning to dig a tunnel under the Al-Aqsa mosque in order to take it over and turn it into a jewish settlement. Today, he is the chief rabbi in the state-sponsored Temple Institute, which has a focus on educating children on jewish temples and the establishing of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

- Craig Leitner, american-born lawyer and former terrorist member of the JDL and Kach who served 30 months in jail for firebombing the Palestinian newspaper Al-Fajar and being involved in the shooting at an arab bus in Ramallah in 1984, injuring 6-7 Palestinians. Together with his lawyer wife Nitsana Darshan-Leitner (b. 1973) in the Shurat Hadin lawfare organization he is mostly involved with legal matters defending terrorists like for instance Yigal Amir (b. 1970); the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), and Jonathan Pollard (b. 1954); an American-Israeli civilian-employed US Military intelligence analyst who in 1986 was sentenced to life in imprisonment for spying on the United States of America for the State of Israel. It is sickening to see that this man, who betrayed ALL of the NATO countries at the HEIGHT of the Cold War, not just the USA, but ALL WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES has been living as a free, war-mongering, obvious and public kahanist in Israel since 2021.

- Rafi Peretz (b. 1956), chief military rabbi of the IDF, Minister of Education 2019-2020 and Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister of Israel 2020-2021.


See also:

- Unpacking Israeli History: Baruch Goldstein - Legacy of a Massacre (Nov. 2020)
- David Sheen: «Three Decades After his Death, Kahane’s Message of Hate is More Popular Than Ever», Middle East Report Online, February 02, 2021.
- Jeff Halper: «How Israel Undermines International Law Through ‘Lawfare’», The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, August 18 2014.
- Wikipedia: 2021 ban of Palestinian human rights organizations

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Tuesday 26 December 2023: First off, I want to share with you the knowledge of the Koenig Memorandum (1976); a secret document which will show you that zionist Israel´s intention of eradicating, subjugating and expelling the Palestinians is far from a new thing:

Wikipedia: Koenig Memorandum (1976)

Secondly, I want to share with you a Christmas message from one of my favourite comedians:

Alexei Sayle: Alternative Alternative Christmas Message (2023)

Hi, there.

You know, I have generally fought shy of giving speeches or pronouncing directly on matters of politics or human rights or social justice. My feeling is that the comedian's job is to make comedy. To find humour in even the darkest situations. But there has been a trend in recent years for elderly Jewish comedians to bloviate without going through any artistic process on various topics. Now, being the most elderly of all the Jewish comedians, I want to get me some of that action. I've also dragged my cat Wilf into the proceedings in a blatant attempt to increase the clicks.

Wilf: «Victory to Palestine!»

Now, the other elderly Jewish comedians have followed a line that entirely plays into the establishment ruling class narrative. They are an alternative to nothing. In the last few months, we have seen something I thought I'd never witness in my lifetime. A genocide carried out in Gaza with the complete connivance of our government and our stinking, spineless opposition. How many people know that Bethlehem is a Palestinian town in the territories illegally occupied by Israel? Palestinian Christians would normally be getting ready to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem. Peace, love, hope, etc… Not this year.

Nothing has shown the hypocrisy of our political class and the gap between them and all decent people more than their silence in the face of mass murder. One of the elderly Jewish comedians has urged us all to stand with the Jewish people. Well, fair enough. The Jews I'm going to stand with are those of the Jewish bloc who I've marched with on all the pro-Palestine demonstrations. Over a thousand Jews. And we've always been greeted with love, kindness and support from all those around us.

I like what I heard from young Jews in the Jewish bloc on one of the huge demos. We were marching with thousands of people. Muslim, Christian, atheist, black, white, brown, gay, straight, trans, you name it. Everyone was marching together, wanting an end to war and slaughter. In their leaflet, the young Jews said, instead of looking to Israel to make Jews safe, we look instead to solidarity, freedom, justice and equality for Palestinians and Jews everywhere. If you want to stand with Jewish people; stand with the Jewish bloc.

One final thing. If you see anybody advocating for Israel on the TV or radio. One of their repellent spokespeople say; then they will be lying, because that's what they do.

They lie, and they lie, and they lie.

And they lie. And they lie. And they lie.
And they lie. And they lie. And they lie.
And they lie. And they lie. And they lie.
And they lie. And they lie. And they lie.
And they lie. And they lie. And they lie.
And they lie. And they lie.

[Pause]

And they lie. And they lie. And they lie.
And they lie. And they lie. And they lie.
And they lie.

So let's keep Palestine in our Hearts and Minds this Christmas.

Wishing you all love and joy, but especially wishing for lasting peace and justice for Palestine.

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Monday 25 December 2023 - Christmas Day: Today is a special day for everyone around the world celebrating Christmas. Because even today we are still witnessing the ongoing massive Israeli bombing of innocent defenseless civilians in Gaza and Israel´s unjust brutal military occupation of the West Bank and Bethlehem where Christ was born.

So today, I want to give all of you who are oppressed a story for inspiration and a powerful song to accompany it.

During the Nazi occupation of Norway 1940-1945 there were many ways of showing civilian resistance. Wearing a paper clip as a lapel pin was one of them. "We hold together". But the most powerful - and peaceful - civilian display of resistance right in the face of the Nazis happened in my town, Trondheim, on the 1st of February 1942.

On this day, the Nazis were celebrating their installment of norwegian fascist leader Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945) as "Minister President" (Prime Minister) of Norway. For this occasion the Nazis were using the Cathedral in my town, a national symbol, for their ceremonies.

Inside this Cathedral in Trondheim, Olav the Eternal King and National Saint of Norway is buried. Today, it is only in the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem that you will find the most ancient rendition of Saint Olav.

So, in 1942 bishop Arne Fjellbu (1890-1962) had been asked to hold a sermon for the Nazis but he refused. Instead, he let people know about what was happening and people started gathering in the thousands outside the Cathedral before the police managed to arrive. As the Nazi celebration was going on; outside in the courtyard the bishop and 4000 people started loudly singing Martin Luther´s (1483-1546) strong and powerful protestant battle hymn of hope, resistance, fighting evil and oppression - 'A Mighty Fortress is our God'. The message to the Nazis was very clear:

We shall never surrender!

I hope these words can still inspire - here are the lyrics in several languages - including strong Norwegian and original German:


Martin Luther: A Mighty Fortress is our God (1529)


In English:

A Mighty Fortress is our God

1
A mighty Fortress is our God,
a Bulwark never failing;
our Helper He, amid the Flood
of Mortal ills prevailing.
For still our Ancient Foe
Doth seek to work us woe;
His Craft and Pow'r are great,
and Armed with cruel Hate,
on Earth is not his Equal.

2
Did we in our own Strength confide,
Our Striving would be losing,
Were not the right Man on our side,
The Man of God's own choosing.
Dost ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is He;
Lord Sabaoth His name,
from Age to Age the same;
And He must win the Battle!

3
And though this World, with Devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we will not Fear, for God has willed
his Truth to Triumph through us.
The Prince of Darkness grim,
we Tremble not for Him;
His Rage we can endure,
for Lo! his Doom is sure;
One little Word shall fell Him.

4
That Word above all Earthly Pow´rs
No thanks to them Abideth
the Spirit and the Gifts are ours
Thru Him who with us sideth
Let Goods and Kindred go!
This Mortal Life also!
The Body they may kil!l
God´s Truth Abideth still!
His Kingdom is forever!


In Norwegian:

Vår Gud han er så fast en Borg

1
Vår Gud han er så fast en borg,
han er vårt skjold og verge.
Han hjelper oss av nød og sorg
og vet oss vel å berge.
Vår gamle fiende hård
til strid imot oss står.
Stor makt og arge list
han bruker mot oss visst.
På jord er ei hans like.

2
Vår egen makt er intet verd,
vi vare snart nedhugne,
men én går frem i denne ferd,
for ham må allting bugne.
Vil du hans navn få visst?
Han heter Jesus Krist,
den høvding for Guds hær,
i ham kun frelse er.
Han marken skal beholde!

3
Om verden full av djevler var
som ville oss oppsluke,
vi frykter ei, vi med oss har
den mann som dem kan true.
Er verdens fyrste vred
og vil oss støte ned,
han ingenting formår,
fordi alt dømt han går.
Et Guds ord kan ham binde.

4
Og Ordet skal de lade stå,
og utakk dertil have.
For Herren selv vil med oss gå,
alt med sin Ånd og gave.
Og tok de enn vårt liv!
gods, ære, barn og viv!
la fare hen, la gå!
De kan ei mere få!
Guds rike vi beholder!


In German:

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

1
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott,
ein gute Wehr und Waffen.
Er hilft uns frei aus aller Not,
die uns jetzt hat betroffen.
Der alt böse Feind mit Ernst
ers jetzt meint;
groß Macht und viel List
sein grausam Rüstung ist,
auf Erd ist nicht seinsgleichen.

2
Mit unsrer Macht ist nichts getan,
wir sind gar bald verloren;
es streit' für uns der rechte Mann,
den Gott hat selbst erkoren.
Fragst du, wer der ist?
Er heißt Jesus Christ,
der Herr Zebaoth,
und ist kein andrer Gott,
das Feld muß er behalten.

3
Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär,
und wollt uns gar verschlingen,
so fürchten wir und nicht so sehr,
es soll uns doch gelingen.
Der Fürst dieser Welt,
wie saur er sich stellt,
tut er uns doch nicht;
das macht, er ist gericht':
Ein Wörtlein kann ihn fällen.

4
Das Wort sie sollen lassen stahn
und kein' Dank dazu haben;
er ist bei uns wohl auf dem Plan
mit seinem Geist und Gaben.
Nehmen sie den Leib!
Gut, Ehr, Kind und Weib!
Laß fahren dahin!
sie habens kein' Gewinn!
das Reich muß uns doch bleiben!


In French:

C'est un rempart que notre Dieu

1
C'est un rempart que notre Dieu :
Si l'on nous fait injure,
Son bras puissant nous tiendra lieu
Et de fort et d'armure
L'ennemi contre nous
Redouble de courroux :
Vaine colère !
Que pourrait l'adversaire ?
L'Eternel détourne ses coups

2
Seuls, nous bronchons à chaque pas,
Notre force est faiblesse.
Mais un héros, dans les combats,
Pour nous lutte sans cesse.
Quel est ce défenseur ?
C'est toi, puissant Seigneur,
Dieu des armées !
Tes tribus opprimées
Connaissent leur libérateur.

3
Que les démons forgent des fers
Pour accabler l'Église,
Ta cité* brave les enfers,
Sur le rocher assise !
Constant dans son effort,
En vain, avec la mort,
Satan conspire :
Pour briser son empire,
Il suffit d'un mot du Dieu fort !

4
Dis-le, ce mot victorieux,
Dans toutes nos détresses !
Répands sur nous du haut des cieux
Tes divines largesses.
Qu'on nous ôte nos biens,
Qu'on serre nos liens,
Que nous importe ?
Ta grâce est la plus forte,
Et ton royaume est pour les tiens.


In Portuguese:

Castelo Forte é nosso Deus

1
Castelo forte é nosso Deus.
Espada e bom escudo;
Com seu poder defende os seus
Em todo transe agudo.
Com fúria pertinaz
Persegue Satanás,
Com artimanhas tais
E astúcias tão cruéis,
Que iguais não há na terra.

2
A nossa força nada faz,
Estamos, sim, perdidos;
Mas nosso Deus socorro traz
E somos protegidos.
Defende-nos Jesus,
O que venceu na cruz,
Senhor dos altos céus;
E, sendo o próprio Deus,
Triunfa na batalha.

3
Se nos quisessem devorar
Demônios não contados,
Não nos podiam assustar,
Nem somos derrotados.
O grande acusador
Dos servos do Senhor
Já condenado está;
Vencido cairá
Por uma só palavra.

4
Sim, que a palavra ficará,
Sabemos com certeza,
E nada nos assustará
Com Cristo por defesa.
Se temos de perder
Filhos, bens, mulher;
Embora a vida vá,
Por nós Jesus está
E dar-nos-á seu reino.


In Spanish:

Castillo fuerte es nuestro Dios

1
Castillo fuerte es nuestro Dios.
Defensa y buen escudo;
Con su poder nos librará
En todo trance agudo.
Con furia y con afán
Acósanos Satán,
Por armas deja ver
Astucia y gran poder;
Cual él no hay en la tierra.

2
Nuestro valor es nada aquí,
Con él todo es perdido;
Mas con nosotros luchará
De Dios, el escogido.
Es nuestro Rey Jesús,
Él que venció en la cruz,
Señor y Salvador,
Y siendo él solo Dios,
Él triunfa en la batalla

3
Y si demonios mil están
Prontos a devorarnos
No temeremos, porque Dios
Sabrá cómo ampararnos.
Que muestre su vigor
Satán, y su furor
Dañarnos no podrá,
Pues condenado es ya
Por la Palabra Santa.

4
Esa palabra del Señor,
Que el mundo no apetece,
Por el Espíritu de Dios
Muy firme permanece.
Nos pueden despojar
De bienes, nombre, hogar,
El cuerpo destruir,
Mas siempre ha de existir
De Dios el reino eterno.


In Japanese:

神はわがやぐら

1
神はわがやぐら
わが強き盾
苦しめるときの
近き助けぞ
おのが力
おのが知恵を
たのみとせる
よみのおさぞ
げにおぞましき

2
いかに強くとも
いかでか頼まん
やがてはくつべき
人のちからを
われとともに
たたかいたもう
イエスきみこそ
万軍ばんぐんの主なる
あまつおお神

3
悪鬼おには[2]世にみちて
よしおどすとも
神のまことこそ
わがうちにあれ
よみのおさよ
ほえたけりて
せまりくとも
主のさばきは
なが上にあり

4
くらきのちからの
よしふせぐとも
主のみことばこそ
すすみにすすめ
わがいのちも
わが妻子[3]つまこも
とらばとりね
神の国は
なおわれにあり

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Man Ray: Emak Bakia (1926) [Cinépoème]


- The numbers as per 21 December 2023 -

Killed:

- Gaza: 20,000+ killed - including 8,000+ children, 6,200+ women, 678 elderly, 310 paramedics and medical staff, 135 UN staff

- Israel: 1,419+ killed - including 876 civilians (Oct. 7 by Hamas and IDF), 469 IDF soldiers (Oct. 7 and later), 59 police officers (Oct. 7) and 10 Shin Bet operatives (Oct. 7)

- Hamas fighters killed inside Israel (Oct. 7): 1,000+ (200 captured)

- West Bank: 303+ killed [*numbers updated 17 December]

- Journalists: 96 killed


Wounded:

- Gaza: 52,586+ - 75% women and children [*numbers updated 17 December]

- Israel: 8,745+ (previously reported as 7,288+) [*not updated since 7 November] [*note: mostly IDF soldiers in Gaza post Oct. 7 ]

- West Bank: 3,450+ [*numbers not updated since 10 December]


Hostages:

- Taken: 248 (*has previously been reported as low as 239 and as high as 245) - including 120+ civilians (32 children), of whom 52 are foreign or dual-nationals

- Killed: 83 (*60 by Israeli bombing +23 mentioned «subsequently killed»; i.e. by IDF ground troops)

- Released: 109

- Rescued: 1

- Remaining: 54 - Do the math


Missing:

- Gaza: 8,000+ - 70% women and children

- Israel: 7


Displaced / Refugees:

- Palestinians: 1,900,000

- Israelis: 500,000

- Lebanese: 55,000


Houses in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing:

- 10 October 2023: 1,000 houses
- 19 October 2023: 98,000 houses
- 22 October 2023: 42% of all houses
- * No longer reported on Wikipedia.


Number of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine since 1967:

- 1972: 10,531
- 1983: 99,795
- 1993: 269,200
- 2004: 423,913
- 2007: 467,478
- 2010: 512,769
- 2018: 645,800
- 2020: 671,700
- 2022: 733,000


- Sources: Wikipedia - Articles '2023 Israel-Hamas War', '2023 Israel-Hamas war hostage crisis, ‘Israeli settlement’ & 'Killing of journalists in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war'.

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- You are just an ordinary citizen. So how can you protest, when our politicians don´t listen? What can you do? Let these lovely old english ladies show you the way:

Graham Wroe: Boycott Israeli Goods protest at Sheffield Waitrose (Dec. 16 2023)

- So be a conscious person. Boycott any and all Israeli goods and services - and when you´re at it you should boycott any and all US goods and services as well - since all money going to the USA goes straight to their military–industrial complex supporting Israel´s genocide.

- Don´t buy any Israeli goods and services. Don´t buy any American goods and services. Join the BDS movement.


- The numbers as per 19 December 2023 -

Killed:

- Gaza: 19,667+ killed - including 8,000+ children, 6,200+ women, 678 elderly, 310 paramedics and medical staff, 135 UN staff [*numbers updated 18 December]

- Israel: 1,414+ killed - including 876 civilians (*has previously been reported as 1,033 and 868), 464 IDF soldiers, 59 police officers and 10 Shin Bet operatives

- Hamas fighters killed inside Israel (Oct. 7): 1,000+ (200 captured)

- West Bank: 303+ killed [*numbers updated 17 December]

- Journalists: 96 killed


Wounded:

- Gaza: 52,586+ - 75% women and children [*numbers updated 17 December]

- Israel: 8,745+ (previously reported as 7,288+) [not updated since 7 November] [note: mostly IDF soldiers]

- West Bank: 3,370+ [*numbers not updated since 10 December]


Hostages:

- Taken: 248 (*has previously been reported as low as 239 and as high as 245) - including 120+ civilians (32 children), of whom 52 are foreign or dual-nationals

- Killed: 83 (*60 by Israeli bombing +23 mentioned «subsequently killed»; i.e. by IDF ground troops)

- Released: 109

- Rescued: 1

- Remaining: 53 - Do the math


Missing:

- Gaza: 7,000+ - 70% women and children [*previous number was 7,780+]

- Israel: 7


Displaced / Refugees:

- Palestinians: 1,900,000 (*has previously been reported as 1,800,00)

- Israelis: 500,000 (*has previously been reported as 200,000)

- Lebanese: 55,000


Houses in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing:

- 10 October 2023: 1,000 houses
- 19 October 2023: 98,000 houses
- 22 October 2023: 42% of all houses
- * No longer reported on Wikipedia.


Number of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine since 1967:

- 1972: 10,531
- 1983: 99,795
- 1993: 269,200
- 2004: 423,913
- 2007: 467,478
- 2010: 512,769
- 2018: 645,800
- 2020: 671,700
- 2022: 733,000


- Sources: Wikipedia - Articles '2023 Israel-Hamas War', '2023 Israel-Hamas war hostage crisis, ‘Israeli settlement’ & 'Killing of journalists in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war'.