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Margaret Treis's avatar

Israel has been a war criminal since its inception. The 1924 Balfour Document required no one already living in Palestine to be forceably impacted by the creation of an Israeli state. The UK backed out on enforcing that after WW2, and it was violated from day one. Wars have been fought by Israel against the Palestinians, there has been continuous terrorism and murder, encroachment, and walling-off, disenfranchisement, economic warfare against them since 1948. The world has decried the carnage to no avail. President Trump backed the takeover of the oil rich Golan Heights, clearly out of bounds, and aggressively moved the American embassy to Jerusalem from the capitol of Israel where it had been placed with the founding of Israel. In doing so, he emboldened them to atrocity. Christian religious fundamentalists in the US back Israel no matter the blood it spills or misery it causes. These people selectively thump only the Old Testament parts of the Bible they want, directly ignoring the New Testament instructions of their founder. Israel's moves since October 7th have been genocide of the most brutal, merciless kind, deliberately aimed at civilians, including children. Frankly, I think the Israelis started this war because WITHOUT DOUBT they left their boundary wide open, inviting Hamas in. This was noted by many commentators at the time and ignored since. Geopolitics is a duplicitous game and in case you haven't noticed, things are never done for the reasons we're told. I believe Israel invited this war believing they could depend on the US/Trump to come in on their side and they could destroy the Palestinians once and for all. They were right. Trump made suggestions like deporting the remaining Palestinians into neighboring Islamic states, like it was his decision, and suggested a US dominated Israeli Disneyland Palestine in the place of the Palestinian home of two millennia...like it was his decision. Despite Trump's recent prevarications with Netanyahu, we continue to send them weapons and we are setting the table for a conflagration in the middle east that may be intended to result in "Greater Israel" long talked about as the Israeli goal. It's time we called a spade a spade with Israel. The government is corrupt, allied with the tyrannizing international cartel we are fighting, and taking actions very similar to the German dictator they despise for victimizing them, meanwhile we see them victimize others just as ruthlessly. In case you think I sound like a liberal, I will tell you I'm not.

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Margaret Treis's avatar

Sez you, and you are an ignorant idiot as your statements show clearly to anyone who knows anything. GFY.

Roisin Dubh's avatar

The U.S. doctor, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa a volunteer trauma surgeon in Gaza's description makes it clear it is a genocide. He does not make political claims; he describes the horrific wounds from bombs and guns in young children that he cares for.

Steve  Mitzner's avatar

Yes, killing all Jews, "From the desert to the sea," is genocide! Then, when all the Jews are killed, Islam moves on to all the Infidels! For it is written in one of their 5 silly, man-made knock-off Korans! [Fact!] See expert Jay Smith explain @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40DclW84HkM

Roisin Dubh's avatar

He is doing a Bart Ehrman on Islam. Regardless, I don't see what this video has to do with colonialism?

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Roisin Dubh's avatar

I am not an Islamophobe. This strange lady was moved by Christian love and prayer for everyone. Christians don't love Muslims, she is deluded.

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Roisin Dubh's avatar

The U.S. is not a Christian country. It is a matter of law, constitutional law, the U.S. is a secular nation. This is key in a country with great religious pluralism, and many who are not religious at all.

I won't respond further as you resort to insults in your anger to differing opinions, therefore no debate possible.

frankly's avatar

Hate stew for breakfast? No thanks

Steve  Mitzner's avatar

So I bet you frankly just LOVE rocket attacks and baby baby-killing of Jews? Right? No "hate stew" for that? Right?

Margaret Treis's avatar

Israel need not complain of dying by the sword when they have lived by it for 77 years.

Steve  Mitzner's avatar

What a silly nosencel reply! If it weren't for swords to defend against Muslims, they would own the world today! [Fact!] Google: "How many nations did Muslims once control " Would you like to live under Islam's rules? Well, Jews & I don't want to either!

Margaret Treis's avatar

Oh, for Christ's sake, if you're going to apply history do it CORRECTLY AND CONSISTENTLY. You're trying to make a historical point without looking at the total history. (That happens when you use Google, by the way.) I guess I'm going to have to explain it to you, so lets start from the top. I used an old saying that makes a valid point...a Christian saying...you may recall it. Its point is that if you pick up a sword, odds are you will die by one picked up against you. In other words, violence will be met with violence. Simple equation, and it's true for ALL who act in violence, justified or not, in this case Muslim or Jew. My point is that Israel has long used violence against the Palestinians, and they drew the sword first. They've used it consistently for the 77 years since they invaded Palestine. It was the Palestinians who were at the disadvantage militarily in this era, and Israel used that to the full extent, far more cruelly than was necessary. Israel behaved no differently from 14th century Muslims, AND FOR THE SAME REASON! They both believed they were divinely chosen with the right to take the land. (A lot of self-serving rot on both their parts.) The Palestinians were not consulted any more than the 14th century Europeans were when Muslims invaded them. Why should Israel be surprised or cry foul when violence is turned against them, just as it was turned against Muslim invaders of Europe, who by the way were duly turned out BY THE SWORD?? What Israel is whining like babies about now is that the Palestinians have gotten outside help, just like Israel does, and Israel is now getting their collective asses kicked now and then. Oh, poor them!! What goes around comes around. Israel complains about Hamas hiding munitions in hospitals, but were happy to bomb those hospitals full of sick and wounded. Pot calling kettle black? No one but Israel has claimed the munitions were even there in the first place. Nobody denies that Islam has been violent or that they have shitty laws. But you'd be completely myopic not to see Israel has done the same since 1948. Maybe you ought to take a look at the Noahide laws of the Jewish takeover of the world that Israel's Chabbad rabbis and Netanyahu are overtly pushing for, because they, like the 14th century Muslims, believe the rest of us should live under their domination. Hey, the rabbis read it in their holy book, just like the Muslims did! Ask Jared Kushner, who is card-carrying Chabbad. Are you paying attention here?? Would you like to live under Israel and their laws? You will, if Israel gets its way. And not just live under their laws... ACCORDING TO CHABBAD AND THE TALMUD, it's destined for the "chosen" to live served by goyim slaves. Not my words...THEIRS.

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Roisin Dubh's avatar

You must have replied to the wrong comment; don't know what fictional character you are talking about?

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

I guess Hamas doesn't commit any "war crimes"....

michael janket's avatar

Israel has committed 50000 war crimes, compare that to Hamas, the Israeli creation. As if you think you can even out these war crimes so Israel doesn't appear like the butchers they clearly are. Cheap trick but it won't work

Steve  Mitzner's avatar

So if 50000 war crimes can't deter a murdering mad dog Islam, I say try 50 million war crimes or as many as needed to bring peace! And remember, it would be doing them a favor, considering all those 70 hot virgins they get, to bang! ( I don't know why they don't war crime themselves?)

michael janket's avatar

Bibi wants peace......AFTER all the Palestinians are either killed or driven away.

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

Beging a thousand pardons, praise to the pimp god Allah! It's not fair that we Christians don't get no stinking 72 virgins! (Maybe because spreading 72 anything over a trillion years or eternity, wouldn't be any fun!

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

Answer: The Bible tells when the world will become fair!

So live with it!

Margaret Treis's avatar

The people who defend Israel don't want logic or fairness or truth. They just want to see Israel win in whatever bloody way it takes and in the process will consume any bullshit they're handed.

Ruth Williams's avatar

OPEN YOUR EYES LOOK AT A MAP OF THE MIDDLE EAST

PATRICK C LEWIS's avatar

I guess all would be happy if we returned to the ottoman empire returned

Margaret Treis's avatar

It's all links in the chain of war criminality. The Ottomans were obviously terrible too. That doesn't excuse Israel.

PATRICK C LEWIS's avatar

That's how this all started ?????

Margaret Treis's avatar

I don't think there's a starting point. It's just an endless stretch of meanness. Before the Ottomans came the Romans and the Persians and the Assyrians and the Babylonians, cavemen whoopin' up on each other, and even further back probably warring pond scum. Question isn't where it started but where it will end. Hopefully, I will be gone on to glory before that happens.

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

So you're saying that we need more war crimes, Right?

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

So you're saying, the Jews should be swept from "The desert to the sea," I.e., like you're pal Adolf wanted, Right?

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Margaret Treis's avatar

Palestine has defended itself with inferior war material while the west has sent Israel state of the art equipment and armed them with the "dome." It's NEVER been an even fight DUE TO INTERVENTION BY THE WEST. And while it's never been equal, at times we have even had to witness children trying to defend their homeland by hurling rocks at Israeli storm troops. More recently Hamas has been helped by other Islamic countries who know that "Greater Israel" is the goal for their common destruction. Israel is a war criminal and the uninformed opinions of people like you enable our treacherous government to help them.

Ruth Williams's avatar

Not true. Equipment was appropriated, however not sent under the OBIDEN administration remember?

ShastaBetty's avatar

That statement shows just how propaganized you are.

Steve  Mitzner's avatar

Yes, it's the religion of peace! I.e., nothing more peaceful than dead, "From the desert to the sea." Jews! (With infidels beeing next in line!)

Warrior's avatar

Israel wants the land. They will stop at nothing! If it takes Genocide - these psychopaths in power will do it. The world is watching and the world will remember. It is a sad day. Because this type of relentless clearly deliberate and wrongful conduct may soon lead to something every person should fear. Escalation to WORLD WAR.

Margaret Treis's avatar

That's the long term goal. Way over a hundred years ago Albert Pike let us know in detail that the globalist plans were to get the smaller countries to exhaust/destroy themselves with war organized and enabled by globalists who would set artificial boundaries and provoke conflicts. The first and second world wars had definite goals that were achieved to this end, including the formation of Israel, key to the process. Why do we think the 20th and 21st centuries have been consumed by back to back false flagged wars?? The globalist end game, of course, is to gather up what's left of the world and rule it in a tyranny to end all tyrannies. This isn't (the most cunning term in the world) "conspiracy theory," it's the long touted, in-their-own-words, plan of globalists going back to the Illuminati plans of 1776 and much further. They've made no bones of it, but you can predict which dunderheads here will defend their own destruction rather than listen to the plain language of those who are our real enemies.

Mike Wood's avatar

War Crimes? Who is going to hold Hamas accountable for killing, raping, beheading, terrorizing? Hamas was so proud that it released the video of this. FUCK war crimes. A war crime would be if Israel did not KILL EVER FUCKING HAMAS IN THE ENTIRE GAZA AREA. So stop your Satanic complaining that the EVIL is getting killed. YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE..

Sam's avatar

Trump recently became a Chabad Jew. Not sure if his son in law Jarad is one too.

Thanks, Meryl for posting this article and for linking to Vera’s. I’m sure the trolls will invade the comments because they can’t actually defend what Israel is doing. Any that are on board with slaughtering children don’t deserve the time of day.

Me's avatar

" there is no evidence to suggest that he has formally converted to Judaism or specifically to the Chabad movement."

Brian Trappler's avatar

This is the same Ehud Olmert who was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for corruption. When he was Prime Minister of Israel during the Second Lebanon War in 2006, the Goldstone Report found him guilty of war crimes. Had he visited the U.K. following the war he would have been arrested. An internal investigation done to determine why Israel lost that war discovered that, among other factors, Olmert had initiated the war without a plan or mission statement.

Moshe's avatar

Meryl, keep in your lane. You cover health issues splendidly and that's why I signed up for your Substack.

This particular posting is particularly irresponsible and sinister.

Why do you quote Etienne et Al lock stock and barrel, without reading Olmerts article?

I did and I wrote a comment in. Etienne site, which I copy here. The comment is aimed at you, too.

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In Olmerts article in Haaretz, there is no mention of the word "messianic" . Nor of the words "Chabad" and "Lubavitch" . Why are you interpolating them into your article, making it seem as if that is the word he said and what he had in mind? and why do you make an additional biographical note about the history of Lubavitch at the end? Do you have an ax to grind? Is this journalism or activism dressed up as pretend reporting. I find this writing very dishonest. Retract this article.

Lone Star's avatar

Israel is letting aid into Gaza. Within hours, cadres of military age Gaza’s males formed up and started jumping the line, pushing orderly people out, seizing the aid packages, and gaining control of the aid contents. Par for the course. Not Israel’s fault. Believers in the Hamas bullshit cannot seem to help themselves.

Sam's avatar

Wow. Your comment could have come from Netanyahu’s mouth.

Steve  Mitzner's avatar

Would fire bombing Tokyo citizens be War Crimes? Would nuking fewer Japanese citizens with A-Bombs be "War Crimes"? Do we need to take the Hell out of war and make it more caring? Inquiring minds want to know! Question: IF mad dog baby killing, 911 type Muslims from the religion of peace had ICBM nukes, how long before a launch on infidel Jews and Americans? What, maybe 1 or 2 days? What do you think?

Drew Skonberg,DC's avatar

Kill and/or basically enslave Palestinians to meet the objective of full elimination has been the plan all along. Carter and Khalidi’s books confirm my position.

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Rob D's avatar

Meanwhile, Americans are being told (and legislation is being drafted constantly) that we are not allowed to say one bad thing about "our greatest ally" Israel. We can't criticize their evil war policy because if we do we are accused of hating Jews. Personally, I'm tired of it. I *loathe* America's military policies as well (along with a whole list of other countries), does this mean that I hate the people of America? American's have been brainwashed into believing that there's no difference between the *government* of Israel and the people of Israel. That anything regarding Israel is free from criticism because somehow anything they do is blessed by God. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's time for Americans, and *especially* these bought and paid for politicians, to stop trampling on our amazing Constitution thinking that somehow they are currying favor with God or who knows. If my neighbor is doing something I don't like, I don't kill them, I figure out a way to deal with them. I'm sure there are a lot of things behind the scenes that none of us knows about, and if that's the case, then Israel and the U.S. should come out and tell the truth. Even then, I *refuse* to take sides in *any* war and I call out both sides to stop the madness. Doesn't matter which countries are doing it. Israel should *not* be free from criticism. What they are doing is only making people even more polarized and all the censorship in the world can't stop the people once it goes too far. Wise up Israel.

PATRICK C LEWIS's avatar

Caesar freaking idiot a Persian sympathizer like I said after the Ottoman Empire when Israel was displaced from its Homeland granted in the Bible the Persians inserted the Palestinians it was the English that coined the term they were never there before due to the war crimes that Hamas has committed against the Jewish people there is no place on Earth for them genocide is the only fair option

Ruth Williams's avatar

Antisemites! Which side are you on ??? Nevermind I can see you’re, at the very least, a relative of himmler.