rattlesnake

It's not just the "pro-Hamas mob" that don't like it, the Balfour Declaration is an infamous document which sheds light on the irrationality of the Zionist project and the political manipulations which allowed it to come to fruition. The British authorities were opposed to the creation of a Jewish home in Palestine in the early 20th century, as it was an obvious recipe for disaster. During WWI, however, the Zionists, who were politically very influential, sealed a deal with Britain (which was poised to lose the war) to get the US to enter the conflict in exchange for support for Zionism. Hence the Balfour Declaration and the subsequent events. To those interested in this matter, I highly recommend reading Alison Weir's excellent book Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel. Here is an article on the Balfour Declaration based on her research: Who Wrote the Balfour Declaration and Why: The World War I Connection Future British Foreign Minister Lord George Curzon similarly stated that Palestine was already inhabited by half a million Arabs who would “not be content either to be expropriated for Jewish immigrants or to act merely as hewers of wood and drawers of water for the latter.” However, once the British were embroiled in World War I, and particularly during 1916, a disastrous year for the Allies in which there were 60,000 British casualties in one day alone, Zionists were able to play a winning card. While they previously had appealed to religious or idealistic arguments, now Zionist leaders could add a particularly powerful motivator: telling the British government that Zionists in the U.S. would push America to enter the war on the side of the British, if the British promised to support a Jewish home in Palestine afterward. https://imemc.org/article/who-wrote-the-balfour-declaration-and-why-the-world-war-i-connection/

Navalny was a racist, crooked scumbag. At least this thread will have shed some light on the Western establishment's latest "hero".

I rest my case. I have provided ample information on the matter, which those who read this thread can go into to broaden their view and knowledge if they wish to. I acknowledge your unwavering willingness to believe/claim that Putin and the Ukrainian situation are as portrayed by the Western establishment.

The opinion of a senior US diplomat who also goes on to say who she wants or doesn't want to see as the next president of Ukraine… and also presciently claimed in January 2022 that "Nord Stream 2 will not move forward if Russia invades Ukraine". The repression took place after the Donbas population (not an isolated group of secessionists as you imply) rejected the US-backed ousting of Yanukovych and installation of Porochenko. The repression of the Ukrainian government since then has targeted the whole civilian population of Donbass, which is culturally Russian: Copying the Maidan protest and earlier actions in the western regions that had been directed against Yanukovych’s government, groups of local Donbass citizens already in February began to occupy government buildings, calling for a referendum on the region’s autonomy and possibly its secession and annexation to Russia. These groups were initially unarmed, nor were they for the most part separatist. [...] But it is clear that the insurgents were, and still are, in their majority local people and that, at least until relatively recently, they enjoyed varying degrees of sympathy among the population, most of whom, however, did not want to separate but only a measure of self-rule. The article goes on to describe the repression of these civilians by Kiev, as I have already explained earlier in this thread. Also, for added context, regarding the "annexation of Crimea" and the issue of sovereignty and US interference: Crimea Overwhelmingly Supports Split From Ukraine To Join Russia The referendum had widely been expected to pass; Crimea's parliament has already voted to seek annexation by Russia. Government officials in Ukraine, the U.S. and elsewhere say they consider the referendum illegitimate, and the White House released a statement rejecting it. In a call to Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Obama said that the secession vote "would never be recognized" by the United States. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/16/290525623/crimeans-vote-on-splitting-from-ukraine-to-join-russia

Apologies for the delayed response. Mearshmeimer simply highlights the obvious interference of the US establishment in Ukraine, as he did previously regarding the Middle-East, but he does not support it, in fact he is very critical of it. What is interesting with Mearshmeimer is that his credentials are so solid that he can't be dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist", not in the age of the Internet anyway when information can actually be verified (unlike Anthony Sutton or Carroll Quigley who were ostracised to various degrees for similar endeavours several decades earlier). What repression took place before secessionists, with Russian assistance, took over parts of Donbas? The repression of the civilian population of Donbas (they were already living there and did not take over anything) began when the US removed Yanukovych and installed Porochenko in 2014. The confirmed implementation of secret spy bases by the NYT only confirms, again, that the US establishment was using the Ukraine crisis to further its long-standing project to weaken Russia (again, c.f. Brzeziński's The Grand Chessboard). The US establishment couldn't care less about protecting European interests and was, as always, only furthering its own, as Victoria Nuland confirmed in her leaked conversation from 2014: 'F**k the EU,' US envoy says in leaked recording “So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing, and have the UN help glue it, and you know ... F**k the EU,” she said in the recording. [...] Nuland is also heard weighing in on the make-up of the next Ukrainian government. She is heard telling Ambassador Pyatt that she doesn’t think Vitaly Klitschko, the boxer-turned-politician who is a main opposition leader, should have a role in a new government. https://www.france24.com/en/20140207-ukraine-usa-eu-nuland-leaked-audio

What surprisingly few people know is that Israel actively helped create and supported Hamas, in order to weaken Arafat's PLO. The strategy was to use this engineered terrorism threat to justify retaliation and the implementation of the occupation as per the Greater Israel plan (cf. Oded Yinon's book The Zionist Plan for the Middle East, 1982) and stall the creation of a Palestinian state. The Intercept wrote a good piece about it (pasting excerpts and the link below). Andrew Higgins also wrote a very good article for The Wall Street Journal on the matter in 2009, How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas, I am not posting it here as it is accessible behind a paywall, but I recommend it to those interested in furthering their knowledge on the issue. BLOWBACK: HOW ISRAEL WENT FROM HELPING CREATE HAMAS TO BOMBING IT “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

Smith out, Willis out, next.

In that case he should be more than willing to showcase his lightspeed wit in a live context. Trump says he will debate Biden 'anytime' After skipping GOP primary debates, the former president challenged his successor to step onto a stage with him before the November election. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-will-debate-biden-anytime-rcna142140

I am also observing this. The funniest thing is to watch the media still trying to defend the guy. Priceless. Latest addition to the clown list: Joe Scarborough. “Start your tape right now because I’m about to tell you the truth,” Scarborough continued. “And f*** you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever." https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2909317/the-best-biden-ever/

Please don't scream or break anything when he wins.

Allow me to formulate more clearly for you: I will be happy to provide you with much-needed insights, context and clarifications about the topic discussed here where necessary.

I will have a look when I have a moment, I recall there was too much bickering going on there for my liking but I will check again. The information I have provided in this present thread, "Nicaragua files case at World Court accusing Germany of aiding Israel’s ‘genocide’", aimed at providing the political and ideological context to understand that the Zionist project is genocidal in nature, so I don't find that to be off-topic at all.

Absolutely.

I will be happy to provide you with much-needed insights, context and clarifications where necessary.

I avoided these topics as they are a distraction from the fact that removing the Palestinian population is an end, not a means, all the rest is noise. The tweets you posted by Israeli spokesman Eylon Levy are not neutral and contribute to the intentional confusion and distortion of facts.

I have been through the 44 pages and there was no mention of what I am referring to here, which is the de facto genocidal tenor of the Zionist project, deeply steeped in religion and explicitly mentioned by its leaders, such as the Amalek and Isaiah prophecies. Those 44 "noisy" pages of bickering reminded me why I have refrained from partaking in debates on this highly contentious issue, I preferred to wait a bit. For what it's worth, Zionism is an issue I am very familiar with, having studied it for ten years and having read lots of books on the topic. I have always been convinced that covertness was what allowed the Zionist project to go unabated, and that widespread exposure would cause its undoing. Actually I did post this in October: I might be more present now on these topics as I believe we are reaching breaking point.

The case at this stage was not to make a finding of genocide, but to confirm if the Israel's actions in Gaza could be plausibly regarded as genocidal acts in violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The court said yes on all counts.

I am merely stating facts and am happy to discuss them in further detail. Netanyahu, in the context of his speeches pertaining to the Israeli military intervention in Gaza, explicitly and unequivocally refers to the Biblical annihilation of the Amalek. This is what the scripture referred to states: “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass”. "… but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling…": are those Hamas terrorists? Please take the time to read this: Genocide case against Israel: Who were the Amalek, whose mention by Netanyahu came up at the ICJ https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/who-were-the-amalek-netanyahu-gaza-israel-icj-9105643/

"Facilitating humanitarian aid"? Siege and Starvation: How Israel Obstructs Aid to Gaza https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-briefs/siege-and-starvation-how-israel-obstructs-aid-to-gaza/ The World Food Programme (WFP) says its first attempt in two weeks to bring food aid to northern Gaza was blocked by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68486248

‘Old-time religion’: Netanyahu invokes scripture as Hamas fight becomes Israel’s ‘holy war’ [...] In a news conference on Monday, Mr Netanyahu again invoked the Bible as he insisted there would be no ceasefire. [...] London-based pro-Palestinian not-for-profit Middle East Monitor (MEMO) claimed Mr Netanyahu had “[declared] holy war against Gaza, citing the Bible”, writing that “critics have highlighted that the text in the Hebrew Bible which addresses revenge on the Amalek constitutes a narrative of ‘genocide’”. [...] The passage from Samuel referenced, in which the prophet commands King Saul to wipe out the Amalek, reads, “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.” https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/oldtime-religion-netanyahu-invokes-scripture-as-hamas-fight-becomes-israels-holy-war/news-story/be3a19446c5e151e087e77b20ebdf145

Sounds a lot like my place, France. No wonder the PM is off to see Macron, they can both discuss their respective plans to wreck their countries.

It's called empirical management, i.e. the implementation of policies based on experience. Political correctness does not exist in Thailand (yet).

I know and like that Feynman quote, I have used it myself when discussing other topics. Actually the data is overwhelming, but is deemed not "credible" on this forum, that's all. As I told eisfeld, there is a deep chasm between those who believe the doxa (which at this point I consider to be akin to a Potemkin village) and those who don't, and as I told TallGuyJohnInBkk, my empirical observations (i.e. from the real world and I am not a recluse, over the past three months I have been to the UK and France in addition to Thailand and have observed a growing distrust and bitterness towards the authorities in general, from multiple-jabbed, previously pro-lockdown people who therefore can't be accused of being conspiracy theorists. This is the reality, but there still is a (shrinking) category of people who will accept what the media and official bodies say as incontrovertible truth.

Your invaluable geopolitical insights are, as always, highly appreciated.

Don't give yourself too much importance, I use this platform and several others to shed light on the reality of Zionism.