Dear Europe and US: PLEASE stop calling yourselves “Christian” nations.
You’re giving Jesus a bad name He doesn’t deserve!
(Your air strike update is the last article on this page. Russia’s retaliation is hard!)
Houthis couldn’t stop genocide but expose the West’s moral bankruptcy
The British and American air strikes on Yemen since January 12, launched with support from Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands among others, demonstrate yet again how most Western nations value their money and profit much more than human life.
Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, the first livestreamed genocide in history, has claimed more than 27,000 Palestinian lives, many of them children, since October 7. Most of the Gaza Strip has been reduced to rubble and over a million people have been displaced due to relentless and seemingly indiscriminate Israeli bombardment. The near-total siege on the Strip, meanwhile, brought survivors to the brink of starvation and forced doctors to perform amputations without anaesthetics using unsterile tools. In the face of this undeniable humanitarian catastrophe, Western governments took no meaningful action. In fact, both US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak repeatedly made it clear that they will continue to unconditionally support Israel’s onslaught on Gaza and efforts to “eradicate Hamas” whatever the human cost may be for the Palestinians.
More here
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Jordan king faces possible insurrection over secret land corridor to enemy Israel
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Post by Torah Judaism
https://twitter.com/torahjudaism/status/1754420241847754920?s=43&t=8wimbNkU3EmK72yEvf0GVA
People calling themselves Torah Jews are generally anti-Zionist. I respect them.
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Looks like genocide Joe is actually appearing to be doing something about the chaotic situation in Palestine. He has sanctioned 4 Israeli settlers who attacked Palestinians.
Undoubtedly he chose the settlers to sanction instead of the Israeli government, which so far the US has always treated as sacred and untouchable,
But even this pussy-footed response to the whole genocidal government has unleashed a backlash. Smotrich wanted to ignore this but had to check in with Netanyahu first, but it appears no one wants to deal with this hot potato.
For the first time in US history, there is a conflict between Israel and the whole world, esp the Muslim world, which wants to see Israel wiped off the map. And the arguably most Zionist president ever is forced to at least appear to be taking serious action.
I wonder what Trump would have done. Both Trump and Biden are not in Kansas any more.
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Smotrich urges Israel banks not to enforce US sanctions on settlers
February 5, 2024
Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, seeks to prevent Israeli banks from taking action against four settlers on whom the US has imposed economic sanctions, due to their involvement in terrorist attacks targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Israel’s Channel 12 reported last night that Bank Leumi froze the account of one of the settlers targeted by American sanctions. This prompted Smotrich to try to intervene.
The report noted that two of the four settlers have accounts in Bank Hapoalim, which has not yet decided on the measures that will be taken in regards to the US sanctions.
Smotrich spoke to the banks supervisor in the Ministry of Finance in an attempt to prevent Israeli banks from taking similar measures and asked him to issue a clarification to all banks stating that the United States’ decision should not change anything in terms of Israeli law.
It is “unthinkable” for an Israeli bank to take action against an Israeli citizen following a US decision, Smotrich said.
“I will take action as the finance minister and do what I must,” he said, noting that “if need be, we’ll advance legislation on the matter.”
Officials in Israeli banks confirmed that they are obliged to enforce the measures Washington imposed on the four settlers, otherwise the US could sanction banks who continue to serve sanctioned individuals.
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https://israelpalestinenews.org/12000-gazan-children-killed-250-day-thousands-missing-day-122/
Over 12,000 Gazan children killed (250 a day), thousands missing – Day 122
CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG FEBRUARY 6, 2024 AID TO ISRAEL, COLONIALISM, GAZA CHILDREN, HUMANITARIAN AID, ISRAELI SETTLERS, JOE BIDEN, RAFAH, UNRWA, WEST BANK VIOLENCE
Over 12,000 Gazan children killed (250 a day), thousands missing – Day 122
Injured baby at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah (photo)
Gazan children are dying; humanitarian aid blocked, bombed by Israel; calamity in Rafah; Israel “provides no evidence to support its claim” against UNRWA staff; West Bank Palestinians have experienced “a brutal wave of violence” under the world’s radar; more illegal settler housing in the works; Israeli entrepreneur envisions a colonialist new post-war Gaza; bill in Congress earmarks $14 bn for Israel aid, $1.4 bn for Palestinians; Biden called Netanyahu a “bad f***ing guy”
By IAK staff, from reports
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Netanyahu’s big mistake is remembering how Israel could so easily overcome world opinion ever since the original genocidal action in 1948 that terrorized 700,000 Palestinians into leaving their homeland of centuries and never allowed them to return.
The reason the pseudo-state of “israel” was able to get away with this for 7 decades is the undying support it had from the US government, backed by millions of citizens in thrall to a Satanic doctrine known as "Christian" Zionism patched together from a thorough cherry-picking of the Bible.
“Knew or Should Have Known”
Governments Complicit in Genocide Will Not Be Able to Plead Ignorance at the Coming Nuremberg Tribunal
February 4, 2024–We summarize the strategic situation, and what must be done to immediately reverse the current rush to genocide and global war, as follows:
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Jan. 26, 2024 that it is plausible that genocide is actively being carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza, as charged by the government of South Africa.
The ICJ further ordered that “Third States must, therefore, also act independently and immediately to prevent genocide by Israel and to ensure that they are not themselves in violation of the Genocide Convention by aiding or assisting in the commission of genocide. This necessarily imposes an obligation on all States to cease funding and facilitating Israel’s military actions, which are plausibly genocidal,” as South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor stated on Jan. 31.
ICJ rulings are binding on participating governments and responsible officials in those governments, and Israel was given 30 days to report back to the Court and document its compliance with the Court’s Order.
Instead of following the Court’s requirements, Israel and its principal international allies have arrogantly flouted those rulings from the moment they were issued on Jan. 26, 2024.
On Jan. 26, the very day that the ICJ Order was issued, the governments of Israel and the United States colluded to suspend all funding to UNRWA, which provides the vast majority of the life-and-death humanitarian aid for Gaza, doing this on the basis of a questionable Israeli dossier charging a dozen UNWRA employees (out of 13,000 in Gaza and 30,000 in the region) with working with Hamas, a secret dossier which has yet to be made public.
A total of 17 countries plus the European Union (United States, Germany, Sweden, Japan, France, Switzerland, Canada, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Austria, Finland, New Zealand, Iceland, Romania, Estonia, and the European Union) have now frozen their funding of UNRWA, guaranteeing that the threatened famine now besetting 2.3 million people in Gaza will become an actual famine with hundreds of thousands of deaths, as UNRWA’s funding totally disappears by the end of February.
On Jan. 30, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced that they were flooding the tunnels in Gaza with seawater, which will predictably not only kill Hamas and hostages alike but also destroy the possibility of having any fresh water or agriculture in the region for decades.
As of Feb. 4, the forces of the IDF are poised at the outskirts of Rafah in southern Gaza, preparing to launch a full-scale military assault on the over one million desperate Palestinians whom the IDF has driven there from other parts of Gaza, in order to impose a policy that the ICJ has characterized as “plausible genocide” and which therefore could end up being the “final solution to the Palestinian problem.”
The combined military forces of the United States and the United Kingdom – the two countries most directly responsible for financing, arming and unleashing today’s Israeli depopulation war against Palestine – launched air strikes over the weekend of Feb. 3-4 against selected “enemy targets” in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, with a manifest intent of sending a “Shock and Awe” message to terrify the entire world into submission.
These developments now threaten to spread the war in Southwest Asia to Iran and engulf the entire region in war, which could rapidly become a nuclear World War III. Therefore, the following immediate actions are called for:
DEMONSTRATIONS: Demonstrations should be held world-wide in front of the embassies or consulates of the 18 countries which have frozen funding for UNRWA, demanding that they immediately restore that funding, vastly increase the flow of humanitarian aide to Gaza, bring about an immediate and permanent cease-fire, and convene an international conference to develop concrete steps towards establishing a two-state solution for the region based on mutually-beneficial economic development.
CEASEFIRE RESOLUTIONS: City Councils and state legislatures across the United States, and elected bodies in all countries around the world, should follow the example of the City Council of Chicago, the third largest city in the U.S., which on Jan. 31 passed a resolution, which stated that they “support the United Nations implementation of Resolution 377, known as ‘Uniting for Peace,’ which called an emergency session of the General Assembly which voted in favor of ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in Gaza.”
CONTACT REPRESENTATIVES: Every Congressman and Senator in the U.S. should be told that they will be thrown out of office if they do not publicly express their adherence to both the Constitution of the United States and to international law to which our nation has subscribed (including the decisions of the ICJ), both of which now demand action to stop the genocide before it goes any further. Elected officials in other countries should also be called on to abide by their corresponding legal and moral obligations.
All governments around the world, all public officials, are now on notice: Not only is it the case that they “should have known” what was happening in Gaza on their watch; they now know. And history – and a likely coming Nuremberg Tribunal – will judge them accordingly.
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http://www.diwaninc.com/palestine-digest/
Israel Apartheid, Occupation & Settlers’ COLONIALISM OF PALESTINE
Israel’s War Against Palestine, Day 123: New testimonies emerge of Israel torturing detained Palestinians in Gaza
Euro-Med publishes new testimonies of Palestinian detainees subjected to dog attacks, forced nudity, and sexual harassment in Israeli jails, as Israeli soldiers continue posting images and videos of themselves committing atrocities in Gaza.
Casualties
27,585+ killed* and at least 66,978 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
562 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**
*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health on Telegram channel. Some rights groups put the death toll number at more than 35,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.
** This figure is released by the Israeli military, showing the soldiers whose names “were allowed to be published.”
Key Developments
Israeli soldier takes video of interrogating handcuffed Palestinian man from Gaza and posts it on his social media account.
Israeli forces kill three sheep while standing in middle of road with persistent gunfire in Bani Suheila town.
Israeli forces prevent ambulances from accessing Ansar Square, Abu Mazen Roundabout, and Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City.
Euro-Med publishes testimonies of detained Palestinians subjected to torture in Israeli jails, including “forced nudity, sexual harassment, and threats of sexual torture, calling for urgent international action to stop these violations.”
Israeli forces lay siege on Al-Nasser Hospital and trap 300 medical staff, 450 wounded, and 10,000 displaced Palestinians inside it.
UN chief Antonio Guterres announces independent panel to “assess the neutrality of UNRWA” and respond to allegations of “serious breaches”.
Guterres says Israel’s accusation of UNRWA comes when “it is working under extremely challenging conditions to deliver life-saving assistance to the two million people in the Gaza Strip”.
Israel’s Foreign Minister calls UNRWA chief to resign and says Israel “will submit all evidence.”
President Joe Biden threatens to veto standalone aid package for Israel amid row with GOP representatives over powers to restrict migrants crossing to Texas.
Israeli forces kill 14-year-old Palestinian in occupied Jerusalem.
Please read as much of the stories presented by Diwaninc.
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UK's greatest ever chancellor standing down as MP
Goodbye, Kwasi, your contributions will never be forgotten
LAURA K
FEB 7
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One brave senator
Give a listen
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Not since Auschwitz!
https://www.972mag.com/israel-torture-camp-gaza-detainees/
Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees
Palestinians arrested in the northern Gaza Strip describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence.
https://www.972mag.com/palestinians-west-bank-settler-pogroms/
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Palestinians struggle to rebuild their lives after West Bank settler pogroms
A surge in settler violence since Oct. 7 has robbed multiple Palestinian communities of their land and livelihoods. Now they don't know where to go.
Yuval Abraham
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Yuval Abraham
January 18, 2024
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https://www.972mag.com/rafah-children-hunger-aid/
‘My children are crying from hunger. This is a war of starvation’
With insufficient aid and skyrocketing prices across Gaza, Palestinians in the overcrowded city of Rafah are struggling to feed their families.
By Ruwaida Kamal Amer January 31, 2024
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Here’s your air strike update for Feb 7, 2024 plus further details and comments.
Russian war correspondents sometimes refer to the Ukrainians as “non-brothers,” alluding to the pre-war years when Putin had said that Russians and Ukrainians were Slavic brothers, and ought to get along with each other. Gradually, theUS-linked Nazi regime in Kiev showed that it did not want to be brothers. As early as 2014, the US-controlled regime started shelling Donbass, whose citizens rejected the results of the Maidan coup and the decree forbidding the official use of Russian language. The decree was a provocation intended to start the war.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
MASSIVE IMPACT ON Kyiv AND BONUSES: THE SUNK "IVANOVETS" GETS ITS REVENGE ON THE NON BROTHERS
A massive combined attack hit Kyiv and a number of other Independence cities today. Neither the sunken Ivanovets nor the terrorist attacks on Russian cities have been forgotten and will be avenged.
Roared and thundered
Hints of a morning attack began at night. On the night of February 7, Ukrainian resources reported strikes by Gerans [Russian made drones] on targets in the city of Uman, Cherkasy oblast, and Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk oblast. The takeoff of Russian strategic bombers carrying cruise missiles was also reported.
In the morning, missile strikes on the enemy are possible, the authors of the channel “Turned in the Z-War” assumed.
And they turned out to be right.
Already in the morning, the non-brothers began to record endless missile launches, then Ukrainian monitoring sources announced that a large number of Russian military aircraft Tu-95, Tu-22M3, MiG-31K were in the air.
And then it roared and thundered - the air raid siren sounded throughout the entire territory of the Ukraine, and explosions swept through the cities. At the same time, both “Gerans” and high-precision missiles began to operate. There were reports of hits in the Sloboda district of Kharkov on non-residential infrastructure, about Geran strikes in Nikolaev and subsequent fires; also, according to the non-brothers gas and water supply networks were damaged.
In the Novomoskovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk oblast, damage to a utility company was reported.
And then it thundered in Kyiv
Then explosions began to be heard in other cities. Loudly in the Dnipropetrovsk and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts. Russian missiles also struck in Drohobych, Lviv oblast. There are many infrastructure enterprises located there, such as engineering production and an oil refinery.
However, judging by reports from local resources, the most powerful attack was launched on Kyiv [city] and Kiev oblast. After the first wave of missiles, part of the capital was cut off from power, and problems with water supply also appeared. Later, the head of Zelensky’s office, Andriy Ermak, added that not only part of Kyiv, but also other cities are without electricity.
Meanwhile, Kiev residents are posting photographs of craters after attacks - whether these are traces of PPO (air defense) or Russian missiles is currently unclear.
The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, only squeezed out the classic “PPO pratsue” [Ukrainian language] (“Air defense is working”) and called on everyone to go to shelters.
Air defense detection, reconnaissance, and strikes on industrial facilities are underway. The munitions fly very well around Kyiv,” wrote blogger Sergei Kolyasnikov, noting that, meanwhile, in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet there are continuous cries: “What is it for?!” - What does “for what” mean? You wanted reparations? Well, here they are.
And then the Poles tensed up
During the massive attack on Kyiv, they also perked up... in Poland. Warsaw scrambled planes, as reported by the Polish command. The Internet immediately joked about this topic. [This was propaganda. The Poles had no reason to suspect that Russia would attack their country. Correction: The entire Combined West had been shrieking in their media for weeks that Russia would attack NATO if they won the war with Ukraine. It was a juvenile trick]
Poland has scrambled three Ukrainian F-16s, the authors of the Saloboy channel write.
Earlier, on February 4, the Poles issued a navigation warning to all pilots that a “threat from the eastern border” was likely. This means that flight problems may arise in areas bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Moreover, the navigation warning applies specifically to civil vessels. You can read more about the no-fly zone over Poland in the article by the Tsargrad author Vadim Egorov.
Retribution?
The Internet suggested that such a massive attack could be revenge for the sunk missile boat Ivanovets. Let us remind you that on the night of February 1, a swarm of enemy drones attacked the Russian ship. Judging by video materials published by the enemy, the crew of the Ivanovets noticed the approach of the drones at the last minute. If this had happened earlier, the boat, capable of reaching speeds of more than 30 knots, would have had every chance of escaping them. But due to lack of time, it did not have time to gain speed.
The first drone hit the left side in the middle part of the hull. As a result of the impact, the boat received a gaping hole, but did not stop fighting, continuing to actively maneuver; Spotlights were burning on the bridge, and machine guns were firing at the approaching drones.
Then a Ukrainian drone hit our ship on the bow, but the warhead did not explode. Another blow hit the same place where the first explosion occurred. That is, the operator directed the drone directly into an existing hole. Amazingly, even after this, the small ship remained afloat and continued the battle. And then came the third blow - to the stern. By that time, the Ivanovets already had a strong list to the left side. And after the third explosion, the missile boat listed to the stern and sank almost vertically under the water.
It is known from sources that the crew of Project 12411 Molniya missile boats, depending on the modification, numbers 40 or 41 people. Meanwhile, various sources report that 32 crew members managed to leave the Ivanovets ship. What happened to the others? The question is still open. But it should be understood that about 40 crew members are exactly the regular number of boats of this type. Who knows, maybe Ivanovets was not fully staffed. For example, the author of the telegram channel RAG&E - Razvedos Advanced Gear & Equipment reports that the crew managed to escape.
To say that today’s missile attack on facilities in Ukraine was a response to the sinking of Ivanovets is like predicting the weather by signs - maybe so, maybe not. And it is worth noting that, in addition to “Ivanovets”, terrorists from “country 404” [the nickname for Ukraine based on the no. 404 assigned to internet failures. US commentators, eg, Andrey Matyanov, also use this designation in jest] on of all the potential in Ukraine is much better than individual “strikes of revenge.”
"They're targeting civilian targets only"
Earlier, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev explained what was behind the Ukrainian terrorist attacks. He emphasized that the enemy “strikes purely at civilian targets” in order to intimidate the population and destabilize the situation in Russia.
Patrushev made this statement while speaking in Kurgan at a meeting on security issues. He noted that Ukrainian terrorism is directly related to the military failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The worse things get at the front, the more actively the Kiev regime kills civilians. His goal is to undermine the situation inside Russia, causing discontent among the local population.
Kyiv mercilessly and deliberately strikes purely civilian targets, as was the case during attacks on residential areas and crowded places of civilians in Belgorod, Donetsk, Lisichansk and other cities, the head of the Security Council explained. [Not quite. The attack on the Ivanovets and a strike on an oil refinery inside Russia were examples of attacks on military targets]
Nikolai Patrushev also noted that in the Urals alone, 9 sabotage and terrorist attacks were made last year. Law enforcement agencies were able to prevent another 23 terrorist attacks. At the same time, according to the Russian Security Council, Ukrainian special services are still trying to recruit saboteurs to set fire to relay cabinets on railways and military registration and enlistment offices. [also military targets]
Don Hank goes up strong!
Jesus, please save us from your followers' idolatry.