Hey NZ – this image is from Yemen who we attacked with no explanation from our politicians as to how we enabled this.
Instead it’s a daily update on shoplifting allegations.
Helping bomb one of the poorest nations on earth is less important than shaming Golriz.
Charming country we have here now.
Did any signals comms from our intelligence agencies help target for America? We have a long history of our Defence Force enabling American military actions and lying about it to the NZ public.
We are enabling an escalation of conflict by attacking the Houthies.
The Houthies are attacking shipping lanes because of the disproportionate ethnic cleansing war crime response by Israel to the October 7th attacks.
An immediate ceasefire will do more to stop Houthie attacks than bombing them will.
NZ is now a legitimate target for protest against Israeli war crimes.
24000 dead Palestinians equates to one of the worst attack on civilians in the 21st Century.
The disproportionate Israeli response has started a chain of events that are now spinning out of control.
Netanyahu’s corrosive and conflict generating Prime Ministership has created a never ending assault on Palestinian rights and interests that have driven the latest spasm of violence.
I was arguing last year that Israels new far right Zionist Government was pushing Israel to a new uprising.
We are choosing sides with the side generating the conflict.
That makes us a legitimate target for protest, by enabling the attack in Yemen, we are enabling Israeli war crimes.
The next trigger event will be Breaking News that Iran has successfully tested a nuclear bomb.
Netanyahu, Putin and the American Military Industrial Complex are the only winners in this latest escalation.
It’s only going to get worse from here.
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Israels main defense at the ICJ is the court does not have “Jurisdiction” as there is no dispute between the parties of the crime of Genocide.
Israel is openly admitting that the accusations by South Africa are in fact correct, the claims of self defense have no basis under international law as the courts have already ruled Israel is an occupying power.
So their defense is “We are not committing acts of ethnic cleansing or genocide, just a little harmless crimes against humanity”?
What kind of freedom, what level of material existencecould Jews expect in that forsaken land? What had a movement of this kind in common with their messianic hopes? Anglo-Jewry did not engage in open polemics against the visions of these well-meaning but obviously eccentric compatriots; its members acknowledged them gratefully, promised support if someone else would take the initiative, and shelved the whole idea. Nor did east European Jewry at the time take much notice. The British had no monopoly of blueprints of this kind; several Jewish writers on the continent were also advancing similar projects at the same time. They usually entered into surprising detail but it was no doubt in anticipation of a hostile reception that most of them were published anonymously.
The various plans were not devoid of political vision, but the link between the dream and its realisation was missing, and for that reason, in the last resort, they were bound to have no effect. They were premature, just as the ideas of the Utopian Socialists had no lasting impact because they were propagated in a vacuum, without reference to the political and social forces which could provide leadership in the struggle for their realisation. Even Moses Hess’ Rome and Jerusalem , the most important by far of these appeals, belongs to this genre. Published in 1862, it had no immediate effect. Isaiah Berlin, who compared it to a bombshell, exaggerated its impact; 160 copies of the book had been sold one year after publication and soon after that the publisher suggested that Hess ought to buy back the remainder at a reduced price. When Herzl wrote his Judenstaat more than thirty years later, he had not even heard of it. And yet Rome and Jerusalem stands out in the literature of the time for reasons that will be immediately obvious.A History of Zionism, Walter Laqueur.
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=hEt5PWCTMJMC
The projects of the 1840s showed a great deal of ingenuity, acute analysis, and sometimes a remarkable gift of prophecy. But in the last resort they were all romantic and artificial constructions suspended in mid-air; they did not provide an answer to one all-important question: who would carry out theseprojects, who would lead the Jews in their return to their homeland? The anonymity of the authors made it clear that they were not volunteering for this mission. The spate of projects at this time was a direct outcome of the acute crisis in the Near East, the beginning of the dissolution of the Ottoman empire. But they did not coincide with any marked rise in Jewish national awareness. Despite all the setbacks on the road to emancipation, the overwhelming majority of western Jews were by no means willing to abandon that goal. The idea of settling in an uncivilised, backward country, subject to the whims of arbitrary and cruel Turkish pashas, was unlikely to appeal to them.
Reply to AO
Marxxists are on to something? Well no, you’re on a hiding to nowhere. But if you were prepared to drop the ideological blinkers for a moment you could learn a thing or to from recent immigrants to the west who have managed to escape totalitarian communist govts and are desperate to warn us of the signs they see appearing in our once free liberal democracies. And why are we no longer free? Well now, those people whose lives have been threatened by the bearded bully boy brigade, could also give you some indication but as you seem to think an ex-teacher’s life in hiding is trivial compare to a “real oppressor/oppressed” dynamic you’d hardly be likely to listen huh?
I don’t know what a Marxist is, I am not anything other than a for-the-people-Lettie. I’m a simpleton, what is influencing the world around me, is it the will of the people or is something else? If the latter, what is that something else! This is how I view the world. Simple, dimple. For a good deal of my time, I believed, perhaps foolishly, that the forces shaping my world were a relatively even mix of people power and special interests. But come the 1980’s, that all changed – drastically. There was no question what forces were now predominately shaping my world. People had little say and special interests, namely money, held majority say over the world around me. Of course, I look back now with the understanding that I didn’t have back then, of the larger forces at play in reshaping the entire world, let alone ours…too busy in dealing with local politics and issues of the day to see the bigger picture/forces behind them.
So, this is the power of money, the ability to predominately shape the world we all live in. And yes, power corrupts, with oppression being but one, terrible expression of this. We all know this, and thanks to you, I now know that Marxists understand this as well, albeit within whatever context they typically run within.
And, again, what is taking place in Gaza-Palestine right now is one of the worst examples of the act of oppression – ever – because prior to Oct 7th, 2023, Palestine was merely an occupied land, with little agency, that the international world didn’t care about resolving. But since Oct 7th, occupation has been superseded by genocide, as Israel has its way with any already beleaguered people, with many an Israeli official voicing their oppressive intentions on top of the actions they are committing. And worst of all, the international world, namely the large part of the world that has the money and power to stop this genocide, at best, at best, just turns a blind eye to this calamity.
OK, after all this palarva, I realize now, oh how slow I often am, that you’re the ideological one between us two. You’re the one that speaks in ideological lingo, Marxism, communism, liberalism, blah, blah, blah. Heck, you came up with the oppressed-oppressor dynamic to boot. You have all this concepts that then shapes your views and how you believe others to be thereafter.
As for triviality in the context of power. One of us is speaking in terms of how power has the ability to shape the world, from a local to a national to an international level. The Powell Memo, mentioned/linked to earlier addresses this. While the other one of us is speaking power in local terms only. The discrepancy here between the levels of power being discussed is the triviality. The abuse of power – never trivial.
Umm …. didn’t the originator of the class conflict theory – you know that ideological giant (cough, splutter) of the early nineteenth century come up with the oppressed/oppressor dynamic? At the same time as he lived off the charity of Engels and other friends, doomed his family to poverty, three of his children to an early death and fostered out the illegitimate son borne of an affair. Such a moral man wouldn’t you say. But hey ho, he catalogued the evils of capitalism for us and led us to believe that money rules the world.
Could have saved his breath, it had been spelled out nineteen centuries earlier but Marx may not have heard of 1 Timothy 6:10 … from all accounts he wasn’t too fond of religion – an oppressor force evidently. Maybe that held him back from examining too closely those societies which put religion and/or the protection of traditional ways of life ahead of economic needs. And which still do. Gaza, with their patriarchy’s love of sharia rule is one of them.
Bit late to this party, but never mind. Ideology – meaningless – in the face of the genocide that Israel and their main sponsor, the USA, are committing against Palestinians. Take the main sponsor, aka big-money, away and the occupier will be no more. It is simple dimple stuff albeit tragically so.
Oh the most interesting tete a tete’s happen between those few who remain after the party exodus.
To what do you attribute the Arab conquest and occupation of the Holy Land and the subsequent centuries of dhimmitude for Christians and Jews? Big money? Class conflict? Israeli oppression?
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