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Jon Notabot's avatar

And world powers do nothing. Whatever Israel has over everyone else, or whatever Israel has that everyone else wants - it's more than enough to keep mouths shut. Even President Trump, for all his loud bravado, is powerless. He is impotent in the face of Israel. He is no more than a flea. And an absolute chickenshit on top of that.

Ed Nuhfer's avatar

And just how was Biden less impotent? When Netanyahu wanted a national guard and police force to violently suppress demonstrations, to shut up campus protests against genocide is when Israeli takeover of OUR college curricula and campuses through bought-out politicians changing out university administrations using the lying excuse of "anti-semitism" began. This was followed by blackmailing campuses and creating a massive national police force --"ICE"-- to occupy American cities and neighborhoods. Both Democrat and Republican politicians willingly SOLD governance of the USA to the Trump of Israel called Netanyahu.

Pat Duran's avatar

This obsequience by American politicians, including our presidents, towards Israel has been going on for decades and is nothing new. We are just waking up to the fact that Zionists have successfully infiltrated our government and taken control of most of our foreign policy, at least as regards the Middle East. The question is how to counter this pervasive influence and free ourselves from what is a form of occupation.

Ed Nuhfer's avatar

I agree, with all you say above, but it goes further than "foreign policy." Both cartel parties' politicians were pressured into destroying First Amendment rights at the states level. That's not foreign, it is up close and personal.

Realize that if Paramount incorporated in Israel, and you suggested boycotting it because of unelected Bari Weiss decision to exercise censorship, you would be in violation of the law in 38 states. Probably Zionist enabler Zuckerberg would shut off your Facebook account (see earlier Drop Site report on American citizens being removed from Meta and X at the insistence of Israel.) Many of us were removed from Meta and X for sharing Drop Site News articles with permission, after which our passwords on Facebook and our personal information were used by Meta insiders to hack into personal sites and steal our identities to "teach us a lesson."

Israel has more influence over our daily lives than do ANY of our elected representatives.Most have been bribed successfully by AIPAC to break their oath to defend our Constitution.

"Foreign policy" my ass. Zionist Nazi nutcases view this country as their "promised land Plan B" should things go south in the Middle East, and given the chance they would do the same things to us as they now do to residents of Lebanon. Few people have read Adam Rovner's book on "The Promised LandS" (yes that IS plural) one being started in upstate NY right here in the U.S.

Eddie Gomez's avatar

WHILE THE WORLD SITS AND WATCHES !

Safir Ahmed's avatar

Excellent report documenting settler colonialism -- this should be all over media outlets, whether liberal or conservative.

Israel is a rogue state, and any Republican or Democrat who doesn't support cutting off all aid and relationship with Israel should not get our vote.

Any candidate who is pro-Israel should be labeled un-American and pro-genocide.

Don Dagenais's avatar

Wha wha wha colonialism makes me butt hurt.

We were not all created equal - even Moe didn't buy that. He thought Islamics were superior, I am sure you do too,

But facts don't lie and banging your head on the floor 10 times a day has taken it's toll.

huey's avatar

Well over 20,000 children..come on the Palestinians had nothing to do with Holocaust.

Don Dagenais's avatar

They did have "something to do" with Oct 2023 thou., didn't they.

Karma baby, Karma.

julia eden's avatar

thousands of palestinians have died over decades of israeli occupation, due to operations such as "cast lead", "protective edge" and others which lasted for several days, and to those, like "mowing the grass", "knocking on roofs", the "straw widow tactic", were performed regularly. also, bc israel allowed only the humanitarian minimum of calories into the occupied territories.

int'l law states that an occupation may only be temporary. that occupiers must respect the borders of the territory they occupy. that they shall make changes neither to the territorial integrity nor to the demographic situation on the ground. that they must ensure the safety and wellbeing of both their own population and that of the people under their occupation.

has israel adhered to even one of these principles? would "7 october 2023" have happened if israel had not constantly expanded its nat'l territory?

int'l law is also clear about the fact that people under occupation [colonial and alien domination] have every right to resist that occupation and may, to shake it off [intifada], "include armed struggle" ...

Don Dagenais's avatar

Asked and Answered previously. Are you a BOT?

julia eden's avatar

of course NOT. [just like i wrote: no amount of facts will sway your way of seeing/doing things.]

Don Dagenais's avatar

Wha Wha wha Israel is not following the rules...

Did Hamas follow the rules when they committed crimes against humanity on Oct7th2023? raping and killing kids?

War is a bitch.

So is payback, which is what the Philistian people are enjoying now..

The laws created by man take a backseat to the the law of nature on the battlefield. Gaza is a battlefield, made that way by Hamas' actions.

julia eden's avatar

i was talking about decades before 2023.

decades ago, hamas was ready to have their rocket attacks investigated internationally, knowing full well that judgement would be harsh. israel never agreed to any investigation of its bombing campaigns.

and when 'operation cast lead' was investigated [first gaza war, dec 2008 to jan 2009] in which 1400 palestinians and 13 israelis died, judge richard goldstone, who led the related UN fact finding mission that blamed israel for extensive human rights violations, was coerced! to tone down his report, which amounted to its retraction. i.e. israel got away with murder again.

hamas tried marching peacefully so palestinians could return to their land in 2018 - only to be met by snipers in "shooting contests", who targeted legs, knee caps ... in order to maim marchers for life.

hamas tried international law, tried peaceful resistance, to no avail.

as your "wha-wha-wha ..." responses seem to indicate, no amount of facts will sway your view of things - while respectful, peaceful coexistence is the preferable path to follow.

huey's avatar

Bravery on display. They give baby body count medals out?

Don Dagenais's avatar

Not in Israel, but they do in Philistinai land.

Pay for Slay. Justify that!

huey's avatar

You are real good at goose stepping huh.

Pat Duran's avatar

The complete incoherence of Zionists is astonishing. Of course, anyone attempting to defend the indefensible, like genocide for the purpose of land theft, is likely to retreat into irrationality. Judeo-supremacism is racism, and racism has no basis in facts or logic.

Don Dagenais's avatar

"Judeo-supremacism is racism, and racism has no basis in facts or logic."

The war has nothing to do with racism. It has to do with Philistinians (funded by IRAN) keep attacking Israel and finally (for the third time)Israel has decided to fix their wagons.

Some Philisitians don't want to die? stop attacking Israel. Simple.

Those that do want to die, because they adhere to a death cult and want to bounce on allah's knee??? step right up!

Pat Duran's avatar

Israel is an anachronism, a throwback, to the age of European colonialism in the late 19th century, when it was perfectly acceptable to invade African and Middle Eastern countries and drive the indigenous people off their lands so European countries could establish colonies. Israel is the last of these colonial invasions, and has survived because it has been militarily useful for the protection of US and European interests in the Middle East and Africa. But our own American empire is fast contracting, as all empires eventually do, and we are not going to be able to maintain our hegemonic control over these distant regions as our economy is eclipsed. We will soon be forced to curtail our very expensive protection of the Zion colony, protection that costs us billions of dollars every year. And when the west finally tires of supporting a colony that has outlived its usefulness, Israel will fall, and its end will not be pretty. Israeli Jews should start looking now for ways to leave.

Don Dagenais's avatar

Meh, Jews have been in the region for thousands of years. A lot longer than Islam.

Nobody blew a whistle as in the game of Red Rover and everyone stops where they are.

Islam is a death cult and is going to blow it'self up, taking most of it's 2B followers with it. Too many people in the world any way.

Pat Duran's avatar

There are about 15 million Jews, worldwide. There are 2 BILLION Muslims. America and Europe are getting tired of paying for racist, apartheid Israel to slaughter people and steal land, and all the Zionist hasbara that million of dollars can buy aren't going to change their minds. Israel is doomed.

George Leone's avatar

This is what “facts on the ground” looks like in real time. A ceasefire followed by new outposts, roads, and demolitions isn’t de-escalation—it’s consolidation. The satellite evidence makes it hard to argue this is temporary or defensive.

Don Dagenais's avatar

It never was. But the Hamas charter states that they want to annihilate Israel, so what is wrong with Israel administering some preemptive medicine.

Thw cease fire prevented 2mm immediate deaths. Now they will die in groups of 10-20k in their containments.

BTW George do you know who made all the money on the wall Isrsel had built to contain the Phisitinans???? Yassar Araphatass. got rich selling cement to Israel.

How many frothy mouthed mad men do you want to take in?

huey's avatar

Sound like you think Israel is right.

Don Dagenais's avatar

How would you react if every few years so your neighbour falls off their meds and attacks you, because you worship differently?

Eventually you are going to go Clint Eastwood on them. Israel is fed up and is going to fix the problem once and for all. And if that means shovelling a lot of bodies into the ocean.

Ask yourself, honestly, why does Egypt or Syria not take them in?

Hamas has steadfastly said they will not lay down their arms - so Israel's only solution is total neutralisation.

huey's avatar

You sound like the Nazis talking about the Jews.

Don Dagenais's avatar

I'm gad you brought that up.

Hitler did not develop the "Final Solution" His plan was to banish the Jews from Germany. It was The Mufti Of Palestine who convinced him to build the ovens and the gas chambers.

So maybe in some Jews hearts, it's payback for more than half their world population from being wiped out.

Again, Karma sucks!

huey's avatar

So now your blaming the Palestinians for the "Final Solution". Heydrich & Himmler would be so proud of you.

Patricia Panitz's avatar

Lies, lies, lies, all you zionists do is lie to cover up your settler colonialism, genocide and ethnic cleansing

javahut's avatar

Much like the Trump criminal cabal (except even more malignantly narcissist, racist, supremacist, and murderous), Israel has been 100% lies and propaganda from the start... and yet all these self-purported beacons of civil society, human rights, and peace promoters in the West not only stand by and do NOTHING in face of the rogue little militant racist terrorist state of Israel... they actively fund and promote Israel's 'right' to commit endless human rights abuses, war crimes, terrorism, murder, and full on genocide of a poor people that Israel has already abused, murdered, and stolen from for 8+ decades.

Just remember this total abject failure of humanity of the majority of Western countries' governments the next time they want you to stand up for and profess your allegiance to their lies and propaganda.

Absolutely disgusting and pathetic.

marth frez's avatar

May this and all of their evil plans never see the light of day. May they all be tried and imprisoned along with their enablers for life.

huey's avatar

Israel seems more of disease like affliction on the Middle East which seems to have terminally infected GAZA.

Don Dagenais's avatar

So you are saying that Philistians are peace loving people and just caught mad cow from jews?

Don Dagenais's avatar

At what period of history were Philistians at peace with any neighbour?

Why won't ANY Arab country take in Philistian ' fugees?

Don Dagenais's avatar

Waiting... for your response. But not holding my breath.

huey's avatar

The question is stupid. Your defending extermination.

Richard Biggar's avatar

Why don’t the world’s governments do anything to stop the atrocities committed by the Synagogue of Satanyahu?

Remember that Israel has nukes. How many and what sizes and where they are nobody really knows. However, maybe they really do know where some of them are located: one each under the Israeli Embassy (and the Consulates, too?) in the capital of every major power that could be a real threat to the Zionists. Remember also that the Zionists stole and smuggled out of the U.S. the raw materials to make their first bombs and later the technical knowledge for making larger and better bombs. They could surely smuggle the finished product back the other way.

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Remember also that for the Jew anything is moral if it generates advantage and/or profit.

Don Dagenais's avatar

"Remember also that for the Jew anything is moral if it generates advantage and/or profit."

You are thinking Ferengi from StarTrek. Any encounters, all my life, I have with Jewish people, they are the most generous and gracious people. Including Netanyahu. whom I have met

You are propagating a stereotype, to justify your position without fact.

They are ruthless now, as a reflection of Oct 2023, and rightfully so.

huey's avatar

You spelled Jewish wrong.

John alder's avatar

For years Isreal been building separating palenstine residents from Jewish redintsthen the isreali army terrorists the palenstines much in the same way. The US army terrorized our native indigenous

Don Dagenais's avatar

This is what happens when your neighbour wants to kill you and take your house, but is too stupid to understand they are a superior force. Israel has given Gaza every opportunity to grow up and learn how stupid they have been.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. So Gaza will be left in bite sized chunks. If they act up, all Israel has to is choke off that locality.

Heidi Dhivya Berthoud's avatar

You are beyond ignorant and disgusting.

Don Dagenais's avatar

Is Israel not a superior force, proven over and over again? Are Philitianas are patently stupid for trying kill all the Jews and take their land?

The Arab Philistines lost! They need to get over themselves! They are not the "Chosen People".

huey's avatar

There is no excuse for the amount of killing that Israel is doing.

Don Dagenais's avatar

Do you believe in a tit for tat killing ratio?

Until this war, far more Philistians had died at the hands of other Arabs, than Israel had killed. Now it's about even

No ARAB wants a Philistian living next door to them. Do you not understand that?

huey's avatar
Dec 20Edited

Israel should stop stealing! You understand that!

Clif Brown's avatar

You are a champion of might makes right, Don. You would get many likes from those in power around the world. It would be interesting to see how you would react if authority appeared at your door, told you to leave your home with whatever you could carry and, as soon as you left, moved in to live there.

Don Dagenais's avatar

I assume that if I voted for HAMAS (as 93% of Gaza did), yes I could expect a knock on the door by the IDF.

And how would feel if when that knock at the door came you discovered your beloved HAMAS leadership were poolside in Qatar sipping a cool drink? You sir are cannon fodder!

In the end, no one owns anything not even their skin.

Don Dagenais's avatar

Cliff, when you are dead, what will you still own?

An Urn on a mantle? I rotting wooden box?

You did not responded as to how you feel about the Gaza leadership sitting in Qatar safe and cozy? People make bad choices, the current state of Gaza is a direct - DIRECT - result of Hamas thinking it would be fun to attack Israel in 2023. It's all on them, and people who chose them. Dumb and much dumber.

If someone attacks me and my family, as Hamas did in 2023, then you can rest assured, you will die, and your entire bloodline will be erased - full stop!!! And no amount of tisk tisking from the US and gasping of horror from the Liberal left faint of hearts, as you clutch your pearls, is going to stop me.

Don Dagenais's avatar

Read it and will read the other chapters too! Thank you.

Based upon the fact that Hamas and like use medical facilities to hide out in with the blessing of the Palestinian medical community, it's entirely likely that Abuelaish attracted the attention of the IDF for something other than his radio show.

They don't tend to waste ammo on shooting practice. And I note that there was no denial on the part of Abuelaish, just that he lost his kids which were being used as shields.

Mosty on here do not wish to hear this, but the IDF is the most moral army the world. They drop leaflets before bombardments. Whereas Hamas uses bait to draw the IDF in. And since they are an army with no uniform - anyone in Gaza is part of them and a valid target.

Hamas will not lay down their weapons in spite of being on the losing end. What does that say - mental illness perhaps?

Don Dagenais's avatar

Thanks, will read.

Bobs Yorunkl's avatar

Thank you DSN for your good work.

Linda Slezak's avatar

Trump has been completely bulldozed by Netanyahu just as he has been with Putin.

He admires "strong men" and doesn't realize that they are playing him. His lauded ceasefire agreement is a sham. Israel doesn't heed it. Gaza is still a colony of Israel.

The Arab states need to step in. They seem not to want to be bothered with Gaza and their Arabic brethren. It sends a message to the world - if they don't care, why should we.

Don Dagenais's avatar

No Arab state will ever take in Philistians, they are considered hillbillys.

Patricia Panitz's avatar

Why should Arab states "take in" Palestinians? You're implying Palestinians should leave their native land so no good Israelis can steal it. This is the reason Arab states won't take them - they would be vindicating rabid genocidal Israel's viewpoint.

AS usual you twist everything into lies to try to defend indefensible Israel

Don Dagenais's avatar

Gaza and West Bank was never the Philistinas "native land". That in Syria and Jordan. Get your facts straight!

Until this war, more Philistinas died at the hands of other arabs than Israel ever exterminated. Now, it's about equivalent

huey's avatar
Dec 22Edited

You like the words exterminate and solutions. Your moral compass needs a bit of adjustment.

Don Dagenais's avatar

My compass and GPS are awesome, thanks.

huey's avatar

For an AI you are very good..Don't be shy about it.

James Staudt's avatar

Excellent reporting and analysis. Unfortunately, no major media outlets will bother to do work like this or report it. They simply want to ignore what is happening and pretend that there is a "ceasefire."

It is clear that we don't have a democracy or an honest media in the West anymore. Most people, when they see this want to stop subsidizing Israel. But, our politicians won't stop sending bombs and money to this settler colonial state that every human rights organization in the world has stated is committing genocide. We need to act as a community on our own and boycott and divest from Israel, even if our governments refuse to sanction it.

Garrett Ward's avatar

Of course they are. That’s been the endgame since they began their apartheid campaign years ago. Israel will erase Palestine from the maps…

Don Dagenais's avatar

You need to disabuse yourselfof the concept that the Philistians are indigenous. There were NO Philistians in Gaza or west bank. They were in Jordon and Syria.

The Hebrew Temple Mount was there 1300 years before the mosque was built on top of it - what a class act to do that!

Or are you saying demolishing a Hebrew sacred structure - good, demolishing Islamic dung hole of no architectural value - bad.