"Christian" Zionists: We have met the heathen and they are us
Western pro-Israel Evangelicals reading in the Old Testament, assume that the heathen are someone else. But what if Western religious people themselves are the heathen?
Here’s your daily missile strike update for July 9, 2023
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://iz.ru/1525789/2023-06-09/na-vsei-territorii-ukrainy-obiavili-vozdushnuiu-trevogu
June 9, 2023
UKRAINE AIR DEFENSE EXPLOSIONS
Air alert on the night of Friday, June 9, announced throughout Ukraine. This is evidenced by the data of the official resource for alerting the population.
In addition, the Ukrainian media report the sounds of explosions in the Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy and Kharkiv regions. In Kharkiv, according to Strana.ua, an air defense system (air defense) is operating.…
https://ria.ru/20230710/trevoga-1883162540.html
07/10/2023 (through the magic of time zone differences, we present tomorrows news tonight)
An air alert was announced in the Kharkiv oblast
MOSCOW, July 10 - RIA Novosti. An air raid alert has been declared in the Kharkiv [RU: Kharkov] oblast of Ukraine, according to the online map data of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
The alarm signal sounded in the oblast at 00.40 (coincides with Moscow time).
Also, an alarm signal at 01.00 (coincides with Moscow time) simultaneously sounded in the Nikolaev oblast of Ukraine and parts of the Kherson oblast controlled by Kyiv.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://donbasstoday.ru/vesti-s-fronta-za-kleshheevku-idut-tyazhyolye-boi-karta-boevyh-dejstvij/
News from the front: Heavy battles are going on for Kleshcheevka
07/09/2023
Artyomovskoe area on July 9
At this moment, extremely heavy battles are going on at the flanks: in the south there is a battle for Kleshcheevka, the enemy today brought fresh reserves into battle and is trying to occupy the dominant heights. Thus far, our men have repulsed all attacks.
From the north, the news is more pleasant: it is reported that part of the enemy's positions southwest of Berkhovka have come under our control.
General front-line summary July 9th. Thirty-fifth day of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the Kherson area in the area of the Antonovsky bridge, aviation and artillery continue to knock out the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the final cleansing is somewhat delayed. There is information that the reserves of the RF Armed Forces have been brought up in this area; apparently, there is a possibility of attempts to carry out more powerful attacks across the Dnieper.
On the Zaporozhye front, in the Orekhovsky area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are still attacking in small groups near Rabotino, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka and Novopokrovka and withdraw when our artillery begins to work. The technique is used more carefully, they are not led by a group, but stretched into a line, which then moves towards our positions. But also unsuccessfully, the Russian troops hold their positions. There is information that American journalists arrived in the area of Kamyshevakhi and Orekhovo to shoot materials about the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the Vasilyevsky area, Pyatikhatki remain in the gray zone, the Armed Forces of Ukraine settled between Pyatikhatki and Zherebyanki. They do not try to attack, mutual shelling is occurring.
In the Yuzhno-Donetsk area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have moved a little towards Priyutnoye from the side of the Levadnoe-Novodarovka line, trying to gain a foothold a couple of kilometers from the borders of the village. The RF Armed Forces counterattacked from the area of Urozhaynoye to Blagodatnoye, but to no avail.
On the Artemovsk and Soledar areas, the RF Armed Forces continue to hold their positions in Kleshcheevka. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have advanced west of Andreevka, but the RF Armed Forces are holding the heights. Also our troops counterattacked near Berkhovka, but the AFU repulsed the attack.
There is a lull in the Krasnolimansky area, rotations continue and it is obvious that there will soon be further assault attempts. Our troops destroyed an ammunition depot and a parking lot of enemy equipment near Kupyansk. Aviation of the Russian Federation is actively working on objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In Kramatorsk, Kharkiv and Zaporozhye oblasts, our troops destroyed 4 large ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the Kerch region, air defense forces shot down a cruise missile, probably aimed at the Crimean bridge. It is noteworthy that just yesterday, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Maliar, noted “273 days since the first strike on the Crimean bridge was inflicted,” thereby taking responsibility for last year’s strike, although there were no doubts anyway. The air defense system worked in the Rostov region, the Strizh UAV was shot down. In the Bryansk region, air defenses also shot down two missiles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On what basis they decided that the targets of the strikes would be the Desnogorsk nuclear power plant in the Smolensk region and the military airfield in the Kaluga region - I don’t understand. All these attacks look like an attempt to raise the level of positive information in Ukrainian society and in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Moreover, these attacks are only part of the media strategy. [Certainly, if the Kiev forces were to succeed in causing an ecological disaster by striking the nuclear power plant, this would cause a scandal even in the West. It would also spoil the false accusation that the Russians are the culprits firing at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant]
Svatovsky sector of the front and fighting near Novoselovsky. Situation on July 9, 2023
In the vicinity of Novoselovskoye, west of Kuzemovka, fighting continues. After several attacks in Novoselovskoye and clearing two streets, Russian servicemen withdrew to positions near the railway, concentrating their efforts on the southern outskirts.
Assault detachments of the RF Armed Forces are advancing in the landing area, trying to break through to an important tactical hill of 190 meters. The path to it runs through the forest belt, half of which has already been cleared, and the other is in the gray zone.
This height will provide a safer exit to the village than an assault in a frontal attack. This will save the lives of the personnel and will keep the approaches to Novoselovsky and the settlement itself under fire control.
Kherson region
The islands in the Dnieper Delta are again completely under the control of the RF Armed Forces. The water receded, and the guys returned to their original positions.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Armed forces of Ukraine tried to hit a nuclear power plant in the Smolensk oblast with Storm Shadow missiles
07/09/2023
Russian air defense intercepted Ukrainian missiles in the Bryansk oblast and the Smolensk oblast [Both oblasts are in Russia proper. The fact that they are from British missiles is a problem for the UK if Russia should at some point decide to hit back on British soil. If it did so, it would no doubt strike at multiple targets, crippling the defenses – not likely to happen but Britain had better get a bit more humble]. Presumably, the Armed Forces of Ukraine planned to strike at the Desnogorsk nuclear power plant, the Donbass Today correspondent reports with reference to the Mash publication.
Ukrainian troops tried to attack the Desnogorsk nuclear power plant (NPP) in the Smolensk oblast. In addition, the enemy tried to strike at a military airfield in the Kaluga oblast.
Presumably, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired British Storm Shadow cruise missiles at the facilities. However, both missiles did not reach their targets and were shot down by Russian air defense systems in the sky over the Bryansk oblast.
As a result of a strike by one of the missiles, a sawmill in the village of Bytosh was completely destroyed. There were no casualties. Operational services are working on the spot, said the Governor of the Bryansk oblast Alexander Bogomaz.
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Our thanks to SJ for this tip:
They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.
The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.
By Chris Hedges, Scheerpost, July 2, 2023
EXCERPTS:
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a war crime, although one that was provoked by NATO expansion and by the United States backing of the 2014 “Maidan” coup which ousted the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych wanted economic integration with the European Union, but not at the expense of economic and political ties with Russia. The war will only be solved through negotiations that allow ethnic Russians in Ukraine to have autonomy and Moscow’s protection, as well as Ukrainian neutrality, which means the country cannot join NATO. The longer these negotiations are delayed the more Ukrainians will suffer and die. Their cities and infrastructure will continue to be pounded into rubble.
But this proxy war in Ukraine is designed to serve U.S. interests. It enriches the weapons manufacturers, weakens the Russian military and isolates Russia from Europe. What happens to Ukraine is irrelevant.
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Since the end of the Second World War, the [U.S.] government has spent between 45 to 90 percent of the federal budget on past, current and future military operations. It is the largest sustained activity of the U.S. government. It has stopped mattering — at least to the pimps of war — whether these wars are rational or prudent. The war industry metastasizes within the bowels of the American empire to hollow it out from the inside. The U.S. is reviled abroad, drowning in debt, has an impoverished working class and is burdened with a decayed infrastructure as well as shoddy social services.
Wasn’t the Russian military — because of poor morale, poor generalship, outdated weapons, desertions, a lack of ammunition that supposedly forced soldiers to fight with shovels, and severe supply shortages — supposed to collapse months ago?
Wasn’t Putin supposed to be driven from power?
Weren’t the sanctions supposed to plunge the ruble into a death spiral?
Wasn’t the severing of the Russian banking system from SWIFT, the international money transfer system, supposed to cripple the Russian economy?
How is it that inflation rates in Europe and the United States are higher than in Russia despite these attacks on the Russian economy?
Wasn’t the nearly $150 billion in sophisticated military hardware, financial and humanitarian assistance pledged by the U.S., EU and 11 other countries supposed to have turned the tide of the war? How is it that perhaps a third of the tanks Germany and the U.S. provided were swiftly turned by Russian mines, artillery, anti-tank weapons, air strikes and missiles into charred hunks of metal at the start of the vaunted counter-offensive?
Wasn’t this latest Ukrainian counter-offensive, which was originally known as the “spring offensive,” supposed to punch through Russia’s heavily fortified front lines and regain huge swathes of territory?
How can we explain the tens of thousands of Ukrainian military casualties and the forced conscription by Ukraine’s military?
Even our retired generals and former CIA, FBI, NSA and Homeland Security officials, who serve as analysts on networks such as CNN and MSNBC, can’t say the offensive has succeeded.
And what of the Ukrainian democracy we are fighting to protect?
Why did the Ukrainian parliament revoke the official use of minority languages, including Russian, three days after the 2014 coup?
How do we rationalize the eight years of warfare against ethnic Russians in the Donbass region before the Russian invasion in Feb. 2022?
How do we explain the killing of over 14,200 people and the 1.5 million people who were displaced, before Russia’s invasion took place last year?
How do we defend the decision by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to ban eleven opposition parties, including The Opposition Platform for Life, which had 10 percent of the seats in the Supreme Council, Ukraine’s unicameral parliament, along with the Shariy Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, State, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialists Party and Volodymyr Saldo Bloc?
How can we accept the banning of these opposition parties — many of which are on the left — while Zelenskyy allows fascists from the Svoboda and Right Sector parties, as well as the Banderite Azov Battalion and other extremist militias, to flourish?
How do we deal with the anti-Russian purges and arrests of supposed “fifth columnists” sweeping through Ukraine, given that 30 percent of Ukraine’s inhabitants are Russian speakers?
How do we respond to the neo-Nazi groups supported by Zelenskyy’s government that harass and attack the LGBT community, the Roma population, anti-fascist protests and threaten city council members, media outlets, artists and foreign students?
How can we countenance the decision by the U.S and its Western allies to block negotiations with Russia to end the war, despite Kyiv and Moscow apparently being on the verge of negotiating a peace treaty?
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Our thanks to our British friend ES for opining on my essayette on “that old time Judeo-Christianity.” ES expresses some views that were popular throughout most of the 20th Century and had been expounded in Europe and America by some of the best-known and revered preachers since the middle of the 19th Century.
My intertextual notes are in bold and in [brackets] as usual
Dear Don,
Of course, I defend your right to give your opinion freely. [In this first sentence do I catch a glimpse of the old notion that even the slightest criticism of modern “Israel” is tantamount to the cursing of Israel that Genesis warns about?:
Gen. 12:3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
I was born and raised in a “Christian” Zionist family and, thanks to my father’s admonitions, I too once felt dread when I thought of anyone cursing Israel. However, I am convinced that occupied Palestine is not a late iteration of ancient Israel. I have several reasons for saying this, but chief among them is verse 24 of Ezekiel 37, the chapter that “Christian” Zionists rest their case on. That verse prophesies that the resurrected Israel – the reassembled dry bones – will be “obedient to God’s decrees” or in one rendition: “will observe my statutes.” The only scripture passage we hear from Zionists on forums such as Quora, for example, is “God gave us the land.” Quoting that is not tantamount to observing God’s statutes. In fact, a recent Pew poll shows that 64% of Israelis oppose applying religious law as opposed to secular law – and BTW, I don’t fault them for that, but I merely cite this as an example showing that today’s so-called “Israel” is not an iteration or extension of ancient Israel, and therefore, none of the Israel prophecies apply to it. Clearly, modern “Israel” is in favor of man’s laws over God’s laws. Further, only 50% of Israelis said they believed in God with some certainty. And, ironically, while these same “Christian Zionists generally oppose the LGBTQ agenda, modern “Israel” is one of the strongest promoters of this agenda. This is definitely not the Israel described by Ezekiel and I don’t have any further exegesis for you]
I am not a “Christian Zionist” and rather deplore the effects of the Balfour Declaration, as it seems rather ill-mannered of Britain to have given away a piece of somebody else’s country. Although this was an expedient of total war in a very dark hour, I can’t entirely rule out the thought that it could have been a working of Providence [all crimes against humanity have been ascribed to divine causes. German military belt buckles in WW I bore the inscription “Gott mit uns.” But if Christians believe that Israel’s creation was a work of God, then would it not follow that this state should obey the Levitican commandment to love their neighbors, including the foreigner in their midst?]. Some years ago I did go on pilgrimage to the Holy Land and we were looked after throughout by Christian Arabs, so I did get some insight into the trials and tribulations which they have suffered. Equally, I had to reflect that the Israelis were there, surrounded by millions of people who would like to exterminate them and they were not going to volunteer for a second and more final Holocaust [The trope that Israel is surrounded by people that hate it has long been used by Zionists to garner sympathy, but firstly, Jews had lived in relative peace in Palestine for centuries before the onslaught of the hordes of European Jews, and further, few of those who hear this trope or are swayed by it realize how “Israel” was founded by European Jewish terrorist groups like Haganah, Stern Gang and Irgun, whose leaders later became presidents of Israel. How could the Arabs NOT hate a state founded by terrorists that killed them to get their land? Anyone who REALLY wants to know how this pseudo-nation was founded needs to at least see the video documentary al-Nakba and wake up to the truths that have been covered up by the Zionists and their millions of enablers ever since 1948. It is also important to learn the horrific history of the extermination of whole families that took place at Deir Yassin. Also please read the following article below, entitled “A story from Deir Yassin.”]
Today’s readings from the psalms in the Book of Common Prayer (1662) includes psalm 44 which is rather assertive. (The prayer book uses the Coverdale translation which is earlier than the King James version)
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us: what thou hast done in their time of old;
How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy hand and planted them in: how thou hast destroyed the nations and cast them out.
[There is an unspoken assumption among Western Evangelicals that, in the modern world, the heathen are those who either fail to align politically with the US – or in the case of the Zionist entity, who refuse to recognize it as a nation. It is assumed that the “heathen” are those who reject the Christianity claimed (falsely) as the religion of the US. But in fact, if we were to start labeling as heathen those nations that behave inhumanly toward others, in violation of the Lord’s commandments, we’d have to admit that the most heathen of all nations is the one that has slaughtered millions of innocent civilians with aerial bombs. But to even name that nation as heathen is perceived as blasphemy in the “Christian” West, where zero value is place on real genuine godliness that reflects the love-centered teachings of Christ. The preference among “Christians” for passages that describe how God commanded the Hebrews to mercilessly slaughter the “heathen” is very telling of our attitudes and of who we are.
But then the religious hyperpatriots will ask whether we have the right to reject those passages that actually speak of God’s command to annihilate the heathen?
I say in response that, in today’s world, the “heathen” are not the Palestinians, and further, that Jesus gave us two great examples of how He would answer.
On two famous occasions, he upended the letter of the law. (And BTW, He once said “I have not come to abolish the law but to “fulfill” the law – at least as normally translated. However, the Greek word used there almost certainly did not mean “fulfill.” It has an additional meaning of “ supplement,” and I suspect that is what he meant, because he did in fact interpret the law in ways that supplement its usual interpretation.)
When the hypocrites of Jesus’ day were about to stone an adulteress, he said “let he who is without sin cast the first stone,” whereupon the murderous throng threw down their stones and slunk away. The literalists believed that the law must be followed to the letter. Jesus showed that love must sometimes transcend the harshest laws.
And on another occasion, He and His disciples were, upon a Saturday, picking and eating the grain along the edge of a harvested field, and the Pharisees – Jewish religious leaders – came and accused them of failing to keep the Sabbath holy. But Jesus reminded them of how silly that was, saying what farmer would not rescue his ox if it fell into a well on a Sabbath day?
Thus, Jesus clearly taught a form of humanitarianism and common sense. With regard to Israel Western Evangelicals countenance savagery, the law of the jungle, and they excuse themselves with such scripture passages as those quoted by our British friend.]
For they gat not the land in possession through their own sword: neither was it their own arm that helped them;
But Thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance : because thou hast a favour unto them. [This is a mysterious passage that proclaims that Israelite armies got the land ONLY from God and yet, it was in fact gotten by their slaughter of the “heathen,” as recorded in the same scriptures. I will make no attempt to explain or dispute this, but will reiterate that common sense must prevail. Would the God that taught us – in the Hebrew Torah, in Leviticus – to love our neighbor, really respect our decision to support the genocidal “Israel” or would the Father of Jesus ask us to be merciful to the Palestinians? I think you know the answer. Here Christians think they are in a dilemma, but we need to look to Jesus for the right choice. If it is Christ-like to refrain from stoning an adulteress, then the choice ought to be clear. But if we choose to blindly support the genocide, then how can we call ourselves Christians? In fact, it we take Christ’s teachings as our cue, there really is no dilemma at all. If an atheist would know that genocide is wrong, then how is it that a person steeped in the teachings of Jesus could possibly approve of such evil?]
Thou art my king, O God : send help unto Jacob.
Through thee will we overthrow our enemies; and in thy Name will we tread them under, that rise up against us. [Here again, who really are these “enemies” in today’s world? Since the entity calling itself “Israel” does not answer the definition of the resurrected Israel in Ezekiel 37, the real enemy, it seems to me, is the Zionist entity that expelled 700,000 people from their ancestral homeland and continues to harass and murder them today. The fact that most Evangelicals misinterpret the scriptures does not make them right. Broad is the way that leads to hell]
For I will not trust in my bow: it is not my sword that shall help me;
But it is thou that saves us from our enemies and puttest them to confusion that hate us… [This does not apply to the present because the Jews lived in relative peace for centuries in Palestine until the terrorists invaded. The only Westerners who could see the Palestinians as the heathen would be people with no knowledge of the savagery that took place in 1948, and also before and after that date]
( and so on)
Whilst it has gone off its head at the moment, the Church of England in its Articles of Religion ( No VII “ Of the Old Testament”) had a rather common sense attitude to Old Testament scripture - “….Although the law given from God by Moses as touching ceremonies and rites do not bind Christian men, nor the Civil precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian man whatsoever is free from the Commandments which are called Moral”. [Yes, I agree with both statements, but the conjecture that the creation of the pseudo-state of Israel may have been a result of divine intervention is only true to the extent that all things that happen are God’s will in the broadest sense. It goes without saying that this applies as well to the uncomfortable fact that the US and NATO have lost almost all of their wars – or rather, genocides – in the decades since WW II and are losing their proxy war (genocide) on Russia in Ukraine. If – or rather when? – Russia wins that conflict, will American and European Evangelicals be willing to admit that this too was most likely God’s will?]
More extreme interpretations arose from the non-conforming sects of Protestantism who would be far more rigid and take such a quotation (as above) literally as a guide for present conduct - like those disagreeable puritans who settled in New England! [It seems to me that millions of Americans and Europeans think like those “disagreeable Puritans,” namely, that God blesses US/NATO-approved genocide. It it were not so, we would not be witnessing one genocidal war after another waged by this country and its despicable allies. In fact, I have witnessed pastors praying aloud, during each US-waged war, saying “Lord bless our men in uniform and keep them safe.” And yet, I have never heard a pastor saying “and keep the Iraqis, or Syrians, or Libyans, etc, safe from US bombs.” It would seem blasphemous to most US Evangelicals, or even Catholics, to pray for the invaded country in that way – in contradiction to US war propaganda. Despite the horrendous stories of US war crimes, we have never changed our minds. I only hope and pray that the US-led West is prepared for another massive loss of prestige and reputation, as well as economic power, of the kind we have gotten used to in the last few decades. Or will we keep swallowing the propaganda from Washington and Langley – where our gods have their headquarters?]
So I pray for the peace of Jerusalem without endorsing the behaviour of either of the present opponents contesting for its possession. An equitable and practicable solution is beyond my imagination. So it’s the best I can do. [It is not a matter or behavior, it is a matter of property rights. Both the Zionist entity and Palestine cannot be joint owners when the Israelis are squatting on their land. Only one – the group of 700,000 that was there when the European Jews started to uproot them and settle there – is the true owner. The rest is “Christian” Zionist propaganda. And it is not up to me to say where the Zionists should go to live. It is only up to me to dispel the lies. And that is, BTW, the purpose of my site.
Finally, it is my perception that many American Evangelicals and others firmly believe that God favors America just as He favored ancient Israel, and therefore, they have no fear of nuclear war. This childish belief in America’s inherent goodness is what gives ordinary Americans, as well as hyperpatriotic politicians with low IQs – like Lady Graham and John Bolton (who recently said the shipping of cluster munitions to Kiev was a “great idea”), the brashness it takes to advocate for more and more escalation of war with Russia. Analogously to the officials on the staff of the Titanic, they have no concern at all that a nuclear war might actually happen or at least that it would affect them and their families. But what they ignore is that the Atlantic Ocean is no longer a meaningful barrier to an attack on the US mainland, and even so, God may not love us more than our enemies.]
Regards
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A story from Deir Yassin
This is a translation from a Spanish-language report I found. My notes are in bold and in [brackets]
Don Hank
The delegate of the Red Cross in the area, Jacques de Reynier, was the first person to arrive at the place while the Irgun militias were still present: "Among the troops there were some very young people, almost adolescents, all in military clothing and helmets, men and women armed to the teeth with pistols, machine guns, grenades and also big knives, most of them still bloodied. A very beautiful young woman showed me her blood still dripping like a trophy [from her knife]... [this description matches the Old Testament passage quoted above. And since that description is biblical, the description of this massacre would be received with reverent benevolence by millions of Evangelicals, who, while not claiming to approve it, would simply sigh “it was God’s will.” Because these millions are believers that the Israel described by Ezekiel was modern Israel, despite the evidence to the contrary]
I made my way between them and entered a house. The first room was dark with everything in disarray but nobody could be seen. In the next room I found, under the furniture and the busted mattresses, several corpses, aIready cold.
The cleansing operation had been done first with machine guns, then with grenades and finally with the long knives, without any worries that it would be discovered. The same scene we found in the next room but as I was about to leave I heard what I thought was a sigh.
I removed the corpses until I touched a small foot that was still warm. She was a ten-year-old girl, badly injured by a grenade but still alive. I picked her up and one of the officers tried to block me at the door, I pushed him and left with my precious body ...
We checked the other houses and in all of them we find the same spooky scene. We only found two other people alive, two women, one of them an old woman huddled in the kitchen, she had been hiding there for hours ...
The village had four hundred inhabitants, some fifty managed to flee, three had survived, the rest had been thoroughly massacred, following the orders of their chiefs as they are admirably disciplined troops ... "[3]
Jacques de Reynier gives the figure of 347 dead in the killing of Deir Yassin; other sources speak of 250. In any case, it is not about the number of victims – because in those months of 1948 there were similar massacres in many other villages of Palestine – but it was the echo that the killing had, the panic movement it provoked, which made Deir Yassin one of the keys to the exodus of the Palestinian peasants.
[In my debates with Israelis and Zionists at Quora, I keep encountering the argument that the Arabs left of their own free will and that the Zionists are not responsible for this. They never mention these massacres, of course.]
In fact it became one of the elements of the military strategy to achieve the "spontaneous" evacuation of the Arab population of rural Palestine. A pattern that was repeated with assiduity was to surround the villages and broadcast through loud speakers a messages to its inhabitants: Leave the village or you will get the Deir Yassin treatment.
In view of the above, it seems that when the Israelis say they have a right to this land, what they really mean is that the Arabs have no rights, not even the right to life, and that the Israelis have the right to kill them with impunity. [Ironically, one of the features of US Evangelicals is their campaign for life. Yet to them, this does not apply to Palestinians]
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Documentary video
Bandera's dark shadow
The entire Western elitosphere has turned traditional time/honored values on their head.
Isaiah 5:20
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
If we were to be perfectly honest with ourselves, we’d have to admit that when Britain started to send Storm Shadow missiles to the Banderista [Nazi] regime in Ukraine, the responsible decision makers knew full well that these maniacs would not hesitate to fire them into Russia proper – thereby making the UK a party to WW III. Yes, let’s admit that the decision makers throughout NATO – including the moribund Mr. Biden and his crew – are all parties to WW III and that Russia is now being attacked by the entire Nazi-sympathizing West.
A chilling repercussion of this state of affairs could be an attack by Russia on a NATO country, and such an attack could be nuclear. Well-informed people know that this whole circus was started by Obama-Biden’s invasion of the Kiev Maidan Square in 2014, and that could make this demonic team responsible for wiping out all of life on earth.
Don Hank
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I hereby invite everyone to be afraid, very afraid.
The irony of this authoritarian attempt to muzzle the world is that the EU wholeheartedly endorses the military doctrine of the Nazi regime in Ukraine and welcomes all opinions favorable to these despicable Nazis while attempting to strictly ban all opinions that favor the Russians or traditional family for that matter. We’re supposed to eschew everything to do with family but hew to the Nazis!
The values represented – and enforced! – by the EU are clearly much closer to those of Hitler’s Third Reich than they are to the teachings of Jesus – even though there is a general belief that Europe is a “Christian” continent. They generally speak of embracing some amorphous phenomenon they call “Western values” without ever even attempting to define them, because they change with the weather.
I fear we are headed into a cold place we can only compare to Orwell’s novel 1984.
The EU's Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global?
BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, JUL 08, 2023 - 09:30 AM
Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com,
Government censorship of public online discourse in the West’s ostensibly liberal democracies has been largely covert until now, as revealed by the Twitter Files. But thanks to the EU’s Digital Services Act, it is about to become overt.
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After watching the documentary “Bandera’s dark shadow,” I can only think that they entire political West has lost every ounce of decency, has literally fallen in love with the Ukrainian terrorist Nazis and has gone over to the dark side.
But that happened decades ago.
And now this sickening piece of news:
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://donbasstoday.ru/v-nato-poobeshhali-ukraine-vechnoe-finansirovanie/
NATO promised Ukraine eternal funding
07/09/2023
The North Atlantic Alliance is in a hurry to gather countries to agree on security guarantees for Kyiv, a Donbass Today correspondent reports.
“We will equip and finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine for a long time. We will also advise them and train Ukrainian soldiers, ”writes the American publication Politico, citing its sources in NATO.
[What they forget is that, if Russia keeps gaining ground in Ukraine, it could eventually wind up controlling most of what we now call “Ukraine,” and this would put the kybosh to the vainglorious plans of the corrupt Western powers.]