There is a madness currently being spread by the MAGA Trolls that Donald Trump deserves some sort of ‘praise’ for the ceasefire in Gaza.
What a load of bullshit for 3 reasons.
1 – All Trump did was threaten people who had suffered a Genocide with more violence.
2 – A ceasefire during a genocide isn’t justice, it’s just a pause in torture
and 3 – Fucking Trump cause this uprising!
WHY DO YOU ALL HAVE THE MEMORIES OF GOLDFISH???
In January of 2023, 9 months before Hamas launched their attack, I wrote that all the ingredients of another Palestinian uprising had been met thanks to Trump’s insane pandering to the evangelical vote to make Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
Trump made Jerusalem the capital of Israel in 2017 because his lunatic evangelical voter block believe one of the pre-conditions of the rapture is Israel going back to its Old Testament Boundaries.
This naked pandering by Trump to the happy happy joy joy evangelical Apocalypse club set off an explosion of Zionist land grabs focused in the West Bank while continuing to brutally occupy Gaza with a never ending blockade.
Those land grabs wound their way through Israel’s judicial system and went against the Zionists who in turn politicised and formed important fringe groups who cut deals with the deeply corrupt Netanyahu which culminated in a show down between the far right Zionists who wanted to over ride judicial orders against their illegal settlements and Israeli civil society who were disgusted by the abuse of power, state over reach and the strangling off of an Independent Judiciary.
The perverse outcome of Trump’s Abraham Accords that sought to normalise relations between Israel and the Sunni Petrostates, is that it cut the Palestinians out altogether meaning their suffering under the oppressive (and illegal) Israeli Occupation would never find hope and their aspirations silenced.
All these ingredients came together on October 7th as Hamas launched a highly organised attack on Israel murdering 695 civilians, 71 foreigners (mostly Thai), 373 security/soldiers and taking 250 hostages. That attack has generated a disproportionate genocidal response from Israel that has killed over 46 000 + the 10 000 under rubble + the 182 000 Palestinians that have died from secondary causes because of the immense violence.
We are knocking on quarter of a million dead, hundreds of thousands wounded, over 60% of Gaza flattened and the startling reality the IDF have in one year dropped more bombs on Gaza than London, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined…
…watching Israeli apologists scream that their disproportionate ethnic cleansing war crime against the Palestinians isn’t a Genocide and that you are anti-semitic for suggesting so in the shadow of the mountain of dead Palestinians they have killed, manages to encapsulate the insanity, malice and blind hate of the last year.
To congratulate Trump for a ceasefire to a conflict he triggered is a special type of intellect.
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Correct, as the last stanza of the hopelessness for the people of Palestine. We don’t believe in conquest anymore, Israel, and, our idealism clearing, we can now see you were the last conquest.
The fact that Gaza is smaller than Lake Taupo I think, means it’s like shooting fish in a barrel, obviously
Probably quarter of a million dead civilians starved, bombed , terrorized, and yet the Western world still not only does nothing but justifies it, proving there is no atrocity they will not stoop to to maintain and perpetuate their imperium
That’s ….looking like the facts.
Trump is like Bob the fist, arrogant, ignorant and takes credit for others success.
Remind me again what has Trump done ever in his life that has been successful? 4 bankruptcies don’t count and sex with multiple women doesn’t count.
I don’t think you get it NSC. To have had 4 bankruptcies and still be flying is a sign that you are above the ordinary, you do what you like and walk away not even wiggling out.
And sex, well that’s like having eggs for breakfast, supposed to be good for you and never done you no harm so why not when you are in the mood, but only then otherwise it would be a chore.
Gosh Sqeak thank you for comparing me with the President of the United States the worlds most powerful and important person.Golly I think I’m blushing.
Excellent insight and writing, absolutely correct.
Drones are my new hate thing. Casual introduction of new tools for being a nuisance, invading privacy, to hands-clean violence. Amoral attitudes in the 21st century; we just love our toys especially when they hurt.
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things” (I Corinthians 13:11). The apostle Paul’s admonition to believers is to put away childish things.
Putting Away Childish Things | The Institute for Creation Research
The Institute for Creation Research
https://www.icr.org The end sentence explains it for you so you don’t have to search in your mind for meaning. Obviously we have trouble with that process. We have adopted AI so we don’t have to think about anything ever again, so we need never feel guilty. Doh we can say to everything like Homer Simpson.
There is no genocide. Just another laughable version of the old blood libel.
Modern “blood libel” would be all the Israeli lies about beheaded baby’s, mass rape, and the never ending (dead) human shields ,,, that zionists (like gaby) angrily scream about …. To give Israel support for them mass murdering children and other civilians.
gabys foamed at the mouth for genocide of Palestinians ,,, before Oct 7th ,,, he screamed blue murder over the non-existent 40 beheaded baby’s,, 100% blood libel from gaby and other zionists.
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‘I felt like a Nazi’: Zionists admit genocide https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/-i-felt-like-a-nazi—zionists-admit-genocide
“On December 23rd, 2024, “Israel’s” Haaretz published an extraordinary investigation into the “impact” of Zionist Occupation Force “brutality” on the “mental health” of its own militants. Specifically, “moral injury” incurred by Tel Aviv’s soldiers while perpetrating unabashed genocide in Gaza.
The article’s author, along with a ZOF “social welfare officer”, decades prior conducted academic research into why Tel Aviv’s soldiers regularly commit the most sadistic atrocities imaginable against innocent Palestinians.
The pair identified separate “groups” of ZOF soldiers, “based on personality traits”. First and foremost was a “ruthless and callous” faction, who “committed the most severe atrocities” and “viewed brutality as an expression of strength and masculinity.” The “power” they felt serving in “Israel’s” genocidal military was “intoxicating”. One boastfully described how he had “no problem” brutalising and murdering women, citing how he’d kicked a Palestinian female so hard bones in her groin “broke”, and “she can’t have children today”
the outlet’s little-noticed reporting offered extensive, unprecedented insight into routine horrors casually meted out to Palestinians by the entity, before and after October 7th, 2023.
“I felt like…a Nazi…it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the Jews,” one member of this contingent testified. Another bore witness to how a “new commander”, during their “first patrol” together in the early hours of the morning, hideously mutilated a defenceless Palestinian child:
“There’s not a soul in the streets, just a little four-year-old boy playing in the sand in his yard. The commander suddenly starts running, grabs the boy, and breaks his arm at the elbow and his leg here. Stepped on his stomach three times and left. We all stood there with our mouths open…He told me, ‘these kids need to be killed from the day they are born.’ When a commander does that, it becomes legit.”
What type of zionist personality does gaby have?
or Im right?
or Nathan?
Do we believe them that there is ‘no genocide’?
or do we believe : Amnesty International ,,,, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/01/more-than-250-humanitarian-and-human-rights-organisations-call-to-stop-arms-transfers-to-israel-palestinian-armed-groups/
Amnesty has specifically condemned Israel for using starvation as a method of war
Center for Constitutional Rights (US)
The CCR is a United States-based legal advocacy fighting for civil rights since 1966 that has also said Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation in Palestine, has concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
She noted that beyond denying life-saving aid and food to Palestinians, Israel was also bringing about the destruction of the people through systematically destroying hospitals and farmland.
International Court of Justice
The UN’s World Court ruled on January 26 that Palestinians were “at risk of” genocide.
The hearings in January saw the court issue a binding order for Israel to stop acts of genocide by scaling up humanitarian aid.
Until now, Israel has defied the court’s orders and has instead killed relief workers and civil servants in Gaza who are indispensable in distributing humanitarian relief.
“According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,” the official Vatican News agency cited the pontiff as writing”
Irish lawmakers approved a non-binding motion declaring that “genocide is being perpetrated before our eyes by Israel in Gaza.”
Humans right watch – https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-extermination-acts-genocide-gaza
Israeli authorities have deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the population in Gaza by intentionally depriving Palestinian civilians there of adequate access to water, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths
Doctors without Borders (MSF) https://www.msf.org/msf-report-exposes-israel%E2%80%99s-campaign-total-destruction
“what our medical teams have witnessed on the ground throughout this conflict is consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organisations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza.”
etc etc etc …..
do we believe our right wing zionists?? ,,,,,,, maybe, if you’ve had a lobotomy AND you’ve contracted rabies,,, maybe then.
I’m outraged and offended that you have excluded me from your list of those who rightly call out the “genocide” taqiyya. So unreasonable.
No surprise at all the TDB dislikes with intensity anyone saying anything favorable about Donald Trump.Its called bias,extreme bias,an inability to act objectively.
This genocide is on the outgoing administration, Biden, Blinken et al. Biden approved arms shipment after arms shipment to Israel and on the last day of his presidency claimed he had brought peace to the region with a ceasefire deal. Blinken is the modern-day equivalent of a Goebbels, preaching democracy and rules-based order where there is none. ‘Respect the process’ he says, a process of suppressing journalism and free speech, of bullying companies when they are too successful, of appropriating public funds for private gain, of destroying countries to steal their resources, of mass murder and terrorism. Why aren’t these people in the Hague?
So true.
Of course, just like Israel, they will never be held accountable.