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"I believe the battle of Rafah is unnecessary and may be very costly for the invaders in terms of lives and war materials. That's why I am calm knowing with certainty the Western double standard (I refer only to governments) and the necessary collaboration of all Arab countries with the invader. Also, the Western world, according to Carter, who signed the Camp David treaty, clearly stated that they are not interested in democracy in the Arab world, but in dictators for the sake of Israel, as a Christian. Now we understand why Israel is above the decisions of the UN. All of the West, Israel, and Arab monarchs (many of them of Jewish origin) want to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah. It's curious that Jews believe that the Virgin Mary had an affair with a Roman soldier and that he is the result of adultery, while Christians believe he is the son of a virgin. But Jews seek another Messiah for the temple and Jewish governance in all countries of the world, and they are especially using the American church to carry out their mission. That's why we see this blind support for this artificial being in this area. Absolute loyalty to a people without a map because they will devour all their Arab puppet governors, and they are in a hurry because we are in the last years of this people on this earth, if 80 years maximum according to their beliefs, and we will see a different world, but better than a world condemned by Vladimir Putin, who is no saint, to thousands of punishments, but does not move against Israel, which is untouchable, it kills more... thousands of children, but what a pity their eyes are not blue. Journalists should not be killed or imprisoned, but Israel does whatever it wants and not a peep. This world is hypocritical, except for a few protesting in universities, and this is our future. We must know that we are all equal, beyond races, so we must read more and learn more languages, and be pillars for a fairer world, in which no person or entity commits crimes and gets away with it. #Thirst_for_Justice"

“The Persistent Provocation: Israeli Leadership’s Rhetoric and the Echoes of Historical Tyranny” I find it startling that despite the considerable fallout and backlash directed towards Israel, its leaders continue to deliver incendiary speeches that seemingly encourage the mistreatment and possible obliteration of Palestinians. Listening to the recent statements of this particular Israeli politician, I am reminded disturbingly of the rhetoric used by Adolf Hitler. The level of malevolence and the potential for inciting genocide in her words are deeply concerning. It is imperative that such dangerous speech is not overlooked. These statements should be brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the politician in question must be held accountable. Her words, if unchecked, could lead to severe consequences and must be examined for their potential in inciting acts of genocide. Such a stance by a leader not only exacerbates tensions but also undermines the efforts for peaceful resolution and coexistence. In a world where we have witnessed the catastrophic outcomes of hate-filled rhetoric, it is crucial that the international community, including legal bodies like the ICJ, respond decisively to prevent history from repeating itself.

Within the battle for Israeli identity, the campaign that started with protest against judicial "reform" – the “reform" that tried, and is still trying, to transform Israel from a liberal democracy into a theocratic dictatorship – we will have to develop a new Israeli identity. Oct 7 intensified the urgency of this change of identity required of us, the need not based on murder and suicide but on a drive for life. That identity will have as partners everyone who shares this small and quite distressed land, Arabs and Jews alike. That is not what many of us dreamed of, but we need to recognize the Zionist dream in its original version was, from its inception, an illusion. Oct 7 made it unequivocally clear that not only highly significant segments of the Zionist dream are an illusion but also this illusion must be abandoned – and now – because the attempt to realize it is akin to suicide literally. We will need to forgo what most of us define as our exclusive right to this land, to part once and for all from territories we will never be able to truly take over, to stop pursuing attempts to annihilate everyone who isn't us, and above all: to rethink how to create a life space, and not a death space, that is Jewish-Palestinian. —Prof. Yoav Rinon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

NEWS FROM FRANCE - IS MARION MARECHAL ‘RIGHT’? Much has been said in recent months about the appalling atrocities committed by ‘Islamists’, most notoriously in recent months by Hamas against Jewish/Israeli girls and women, boys and men. It is not a new phenomenon but appears to be on the rise. Following is a brief post on one woman’s stand against what she sees as an existential threat to Europe and Democracy. France’s Marion Maréchal has made the “defence” of European civilisation and fighting against the “Islamification” of Europe a cornerstone of her platform. She has promised to strengthen borders to prevent migration and wants to enshrine “Europe's Greek, Latin and Christian roots” in EU treaties. As a candidate she has also embarked on a tour of France and Europe speaking out on “Islamification”. She has spoken out against the Ramadan decorations installed by the mayor of the German city of Frankfurt, the presence of what she called a “noxious Koranic school with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood” in Château-Chinon, and has accused certain elected representatives of French conservative party Les Républicains of being “Islamo-rightist”. “We are the only ones to make the defence of our civilisation the cornerstone of our programme,” Maréchal said at a May 13 press conference, vowing to “fight Islamification” as part of a “common European cause”. Despite some anti-EU rhetoric Maréchal is in favour of cooperation between European states, and intends to join forces with European Conservatives and Reformists groups in an attempt to change the more leftist/ stance of the European Parliament. One can agree or disagree with her stance but one thing appears to be clear – she is at least unequivocal in what she says - a far cry from the ‘waffle’, equivocation, lack of direction and shirking of issues one has come to associate with our ‘Leaders and politicians’. Or is this just pre-election ‘grand-standing’ ? You choose.

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿. 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: #Holocaust refers to “the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and those fascist and extreme nationalist partners and other collaborators who participated in those crimes. However, sometimes “Holocaust” is extended to include other targeted groups such as Roma and Sinti, communists, socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, persons with disabilities, Slavic peoples, and Soviet prisoners of war. Other times, the term is used as a universal symbol of suffering or simply to gather public attention, which leads to distortion. We use “Holocaust” only to refer to the Nazi-led and supported persecution and extermination of vulnerable groups in Europe between 1933-1945. The term “𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲” can lead to similar confusion. There can be tensions between the legal meaning in the Genocide Convention, other scholarly definitions, and the popular use to signify the most serious forms of harm – but that’s not technically genocide. 𝗪𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲 “𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲” 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁, 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹, 𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰, 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹, 𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽. 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿.

"Here, then, is another complex irony: how the classic victims of years of anti-Semitic persecution and the Holocaust have in their new nation become the victimizers of another people, who have become, therefore, the victims of the victims. That so many Israeli and Western intellectuals, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, have not faced this dilemma courageously and directly is, I believe, a trahison des clercs of massive proportions, especially in that their silence, indifference, or pleas of ignorance and non-involvement perpetuate the sufferings of a people who have not deserved such a long agony. Surely, if no one can come forth and say, frankly, Yes, the Palestinians actually do deserve to expiate for the historical crimes committed against the Jews in Europe, it must also be true that not to say, No, the Palestinians must not be allowed to go through these ordeals any longer, is an act of complicity and moral cowardice of singular dimension." The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said I discovered Edward Said's book 'The Question of Palestine', last month. It's a well-researched book written with passion and deep scholarship. Said traces the history of this geographical and political collision in the Middle East and its fatal repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied, as well as in the conscience of the West. In 1979, it may have been one of the first few books to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate—one that remains as critical as ever. Edward W. Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist. Note: trahison des clercs: a betrayal of intellectual, artistic, or moral standards by writers, academics, or artists.

an opinion that is a matter of fact, Any war or conflict brings out an reaction, what is the cause of the conflict or war ie is it political, sociological, philosophical, religious, sectarian, or question the facts of the war, conflict, whose side should one support, democracy vs autocracy, the side of the oppressed, are reactions that are common, or should one be silent , ie as in the 1930s, 1940s , the darkness of Europe that led to the systemantic annilihation of six million innocent Jewish peoples, that is the reaction of the general public, on the latest horrific Israel vs Hamas War, 10/11/23, the slaughter of innocents,babies, children, adults, living in Gaza, as the govt of Israel allowed an peaceful co existence between Arabs and Jewish Communities,while the reaction across the globe two opposite points of view, one is the support of Israel, and the Jewish Communities, the two hundred and forty four held captive, that includes Americans, Europeans, as well. The other side, an attack via Israel, on the Palestinian peoples , yet rockets barrage, destruction of Jewish Settlements, is not, while the media reports the innocent lives of the Palestinian peoples, ie Hamas is using an shield. But, the question is why the split sides across the globe. The answer the truth, reaction of the general public.It is not an question of popularity, but the truth. If one is familiar with the rapture, this is a mild reaction., ie the proohecy. No weapon that is fostered against you ,shall.. ...... Our prayers to all the innocent victims of this latest Israel vs Hamas War.

You're telling me that if I voice any criticism of Israel, I can be labeled anti-Semitic? That’s absurd! No one gets special treatment. This is America, where everyone is subject to criticism—we’re all in the trenches of life together. I’ll be damned if I allow anyone to infringe on my First Amendment rights, which are God-given! So it’s okay to criticize every other country, race, or group, but Israel is untouchable? Why? Don’t give me this Holocaust defense because if that were the case, why aren’t there similar protections for Africans, Native Americans, or any other group that has faced similar atrocities? We all share this earth, and no one is above anyone else. If I can be criticized, scrutinized, or held accountable, so can every other world citizen and nation. It’s all or nothing for me. And to those supporting this ideology—really? You call yourselves “American Constitutionalists”? Reflecting on the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, we remember that "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." Stifling speech doesn't protect democracy; it obstructs its very essence. Billy Carson’s explorations remind us that unity and understanding come from open dialogue, not suppression. Let’s remember our principles and not fall into the trap of selective immunity from scrutiny. #Awaken By: Mahesh Chookolingo

an opinion with a question: As the USA begins another year of the celebration of the Fourth of July, July 4th, 1776, 1780 to1790, decade long process of the US the US Constitution, that document till this very day has withstand the testing of time from the the original colonies to the fifty states , from those compromises of the 1820, 1850, the issue of slave vs free states, ultimately,as any history of an democratic nation, climax to an most bloodshed civilwar , 1860 to1865, that divided an nation, brother vs brother, as the moral issue of slavery was resolved ,As US President Abraham Lincoln, Emacipation Proclamation, began an period of reconstruction, with the hope of an better future for the US. Today, humanity is living in an period of an hopeful transition, with both social and political unrest, even , unheard of in the US, as one news outlet describes, a pogrom inLA, an attack on the Jewish Communities ,an reaction to current Israel vs Hamas ,10\07\23, an atrocitity of all atrocities, yet, our current US government either is on the sidelines, or that silence, as in the1930s, 40s, of the darkness of Europe, that led to that first horrifc Holocaust. Our Founding Fathers, under the most adverse conditions,overcame that darkness, Light, to forge an nation,and environment free of religious persecution,to assure of the protection of every US Citizen, life, liberty, pursuiant of happiness, even in the 21st century. Out of darkness, Light, Israel, Light of all nations..