Tag: Israel
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Cease What?
A couple of hours before the 8 PM deadline, it was announced that a two week ceasefire had been agreed to between Iran and the US. That is good news, no matter how you put it. The price of oil has plummeted down and the Dow Jones rose over 1000 in response to this announcement.…
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Seemed Like A Good Idea
Five weeks ago today, the US and Israel launched a coordinated attack on Iran. The strike resulted in the death of the supreme leader, and 48 other top Iranian officials. It was an attempt to decapitate Iranian leadership and it seems like a good idea at the time. I myself admit to the fact that…
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Iran At First Blush
Woke up this morning, turn on the TV, expecting to see news on Bill Clinton’s testimony yesterday and renewed calls for Trump to be deposed. Instead, the news was all about Israel and the US, striking Iran, and Iran striking back at various facilities in the Middle East. Donald Trump gave a speech calling for…
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Give Him Credit
Donald Trump is a narcissist. Many think that he is destroying democracy, in America, and replacing it with an autocracy. In his immigration battles, he has separated children from parents. He is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, in order to send troops to cities such as Chicago and Portland. He is weaponizing the justice…
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Needs To End
A floatilla of 40 boats containing food and medicines for the people of Gaza was intercepted by Israel military. The second image shows the Israeli take on it. Gaza is in famine. People especially children are dying of hunger. No two ways about it, the Israeli war on Gaza has turned into genocide. All the…
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Gaza Is Burning
In my much younger days, the holocaust was still fresh in the minds of the world’s population. Israel had stood up against the entire Arab world, it seemed, in wars in 1967 and 1973. Israel had a lot of world sympathy at that time. One of my favourite authors back, then was Leon Uris. He…
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Hell Week Continues
There is so much bad news happening for Donald Trump this week that one does not know where to start. Donald’s Nobel peace prize prospects are literally going up in flames. Israel launched an attack on Doha Qatar going after Hamas leadership. Qatar is an ally of the US. Qatar gave Donald a 747 airplane…
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Occupy What?
The Israeli security cabinet approved a plan, last night to occupy Gaza. Close to 50,000 Palestinians have already died in Gaza. Israel plans to do this in phases. The first phase would be occupying Gaza city and increasing food distribution by October 7. October 7 is significant because that was the date when Hamas attacked…
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Two State
The world was fairly unified behind Israel, after the October 7, Hamas attack . With all the stories of famine, in Gaza, of late, and of children dying from starvation this unification has broken down. In the US, support for the Israeli incursion, in Gaza, is down to a level of 32%, within independents it…
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Not So Rosy
From CNN Website The Trump administration was doing handstands this weekend after the bombing of Iran. Trump’s apologists went on the Sunday talk shows to say that the nuclear facilities in Iran were obliterated. They were using that word a lot. Trump came out and said the same thing, that the sites were OBLITERATED. Then…