Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than playing along with the persecution-LARPing of Zio uni students... more important than some privileged Ivy Leaguers pretending to feel “unsafe” on campus... than whatever you’re pretending to believe “From the river to the sea...” means.

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-24T23:41:55+00:00

Zionism is a false idol that has taken the idea of the promised land and turned it into a deed of sale for a militaristic ethnostate

It is a false idol that takes our most profound biblical stories of justice and emancipation from slavery – the story of Passover itself – and turns them into brutalist weapons of colonial land theft, roadmaps for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

It is a false idol that has taken the transcendent idea of the promised land – a metaphor for human liberation that has traveled across multiple faiths to every corner of this globe – and dared to turn it into a deed of sale for a militaristic ethnostate.

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-24T01:54:44+00:00

Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil

Facial recognition can determine whether you participated in the pro Hamas protests at the universities. Your jobs and your degrees will be worthless. Your hiring opportunities will be limited.

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-22T00:48:47+00:00

And yet somehow what we need to do is unclear to many?

Or is that just fear of doing what needs to be done?

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-18T23:42:50+00:00

Stop the Worsening UNDERCOUNT of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza By Ralph Nader

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-17T22:53:12+00:00

Iran is definitely Israel's mightiest military threat, but the truth of that matter is Israel doesn't have a viable way to deal with Hizbullah militarily.

In the past 48 hours or so, Hizbullah inflicted 20-30 casualties on Israel's northern front - all wounded, but some in critical condition.

Hizbullah has perfect visibility into northern Israel. It is equipped to precisely hit targets deep into Israel's north, all along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Hizbullah has hundreds of thousands of precise missiles, and it has excellent intelligence on Israeli positions and infrastructure. It has fighters who undergo some of the best military training available, and it has 30 years of guerilla warfare experience fighting against all relevant units of the IDF - including the absolute best.

Hizbullah has advanced weaponry for intercepting sea and air targets, and one of the biggest anti-tank arsenals in the world.

What complicates things much further is the fact that Hizbullah can escalate from 0-100 in two minutes. If the right order is given, thousands of rockets, missiles, and drones will make their way to Israel within minutes.

It doesn't need to mobilize and get reserves ready. it is war-ready at every minute. The IDF needs an extended period of time to prepare a major offensive: Hizbullah can do it in the time it takes you to make coffee.

And how will Israel prepare an offensive when Hizbulla tracks every movement many kilometers into Israel? How will the IDF get tens of thousands of soldiers to the northern border under an extremely heavy storm of precise missile and drone attacks, and shelling? Israel cannot do a wide reserve mobilization quietly. Once it even begins to prepare to attack Lebanon, Hizbullah will launch its own attack, wreaking havoc on civilian life and infrastructure, and making the mobilization effort a huge and bloody challenge.

Israel's air force is very powerful, but it doesn't win wars anymore. It didn't win the 2006 war with Hizbullah, and it will not be able to paralyze Hizbullah today. And, with heavy targeting of air bases expected as part of any major conflict, and with new air defense systems and strategies at play, Israel cannot rely on its air force to give it time to prepare a ground offensive.

Traditionally Israel played the role of the neighborhood bully that no one can stop. But now, facing tough competition for the first time in two generations, it is fast losing much of its invincibility aura. The stupid and inhumane Gaza campaign really only weakened Israel militarily, leaving it wounded, tired, and with almost zero room for maneuver of any kind.

Israel is pushed into a corner. Wisely, Iran did not make it quite existential as yet. It is playing a long game, acting like it knows it has the upper hand, but also knowing its position, relative to Israel's, is always getting more advantageous for Iran.
- Israel is paying now for the mistake it made by invading Lebanon and trying to colonize it in 1982. That vain attempt created Hizbullah. What the Gaza genocide will birth into existence, we can only guess.

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-17T21:08:22+00:00

It becomes a game to see what you can say that's so outrageous but so authoritative that you can get away with it.

It's also an assertion of dominance.

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-17T21:06:12+00:00

🇺🇸JEFFREY SACHS:

[Commenting on remarks by UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron regarding the Iranian response to the Israeli attack on the Iran's Consulate in Damascus.]

"I've learned something over the years—I know David Cameron personally, and I know a lot of British leaders.

For a long time, I just loved listening to them because they speak English so beautifully.

But what they say is so absurd, so stupid, yet it's so beautiful that it really had me fooled for many decades.

The British are the worst at this; they're even worse than the Americans because they had a longer imperial reign.

What empire does is make you so arrogant that you think you can say anything and squash anyone that opposes you.

It becomes a game to see what you can say that's so outrageous but so authoritative that you can get away with it.

And so, the British are the most hypocritical country in modern times.

They're not the most powerful—they used to be the most powerful—but they're the most hypocritical because they had the most violent, militaristic empire in the modern world.

They left behind all of these problems.

Now, they want to be a sidekick of the United States, cheerleading on but with their good old imperial ideas.

It's a kind of absurdity at this point, but it's a lot of nerve because—why are we in such a crisis in the Middle East?

Because Britain wrecked the Middle East after World War I."

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-16T02:37:14+00:00

🇷🇺VASILY NEBENZYA:

"What was it that we heard from Western delegations? That everything was not 'so obvious' to them and that it was still necessary to weigh up whether such a signal from the Council would help to stabilize the situation in the region.

The United States, Great Britain and France, in fact, refused to confirm that the basic principles of international law on the inviolability of diplomatic and consular facilities, enshrined in the relevant Vienna Conventions, are valid for and apply equally to all states.

You see the result.

You are aware that an attack on a diplomatic mission is a casus belli under international law.

And if Western missions were under attack, you would not hesitate to retaliate and then you would be proving your case in this chamber.

Because for you everything that concerns Western missions and Western citizens is sacred and must be protected.

But when it comes to other states, their citizens and their rights, including the right to self-defense, then 'it’s different', that’s what you say. And you use your favorite arguments about 'a lack of information', invoke legal casuistry, etc.

The parade of hypocrisy and 'double standards' that is unfolding in the Security Council today is so gross that even being an onlooker feels embarrassing.

Russia has repeatedly warned that failure to resolve the numerous crises in the Middle East, primarily in the area of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which are often fueled by irresponsible unilateral provocative actions, will trigger an increase of tension in the region.

We have repeatedly said that no country in the Middle East and North Africa should become an arena for regional and international confrontation or for settling political scores.

What happened on the night of April 14 did not happen in a vacuum.

Iran's steps were a response to the UN Security Council's shameful inaction on Israel's blatant attack on Damascus (not the first one, for that matter). Syria is being constantly bombarded by Israel.

Many of you did not have the courage to point out directly that the current outbreak of escalation in the Middle East is unfolding against the backdrop of West Jerusalem’s operation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which has been going on for more than six months on an unprecedented scale, despite the unequivocal demand of UN Security Council resolution 2728 for an immediate ceasefire.

We consider such 'silencing' of the root causes of the current crisis unacceptable, all the more so against the background of the situation around Iran, which is being escalated by our American and other colleagues.

And Israel's failure to fulfill the requirements of the UNSC resolution (which I mentioned) is an obvious disrespect for the Council – for all of you sitting in the chairs of member states – and a complete disregard for the decisions of the Security Council.

No one should be able to get away with non-compliance with UNSC decisions. This is fraught with sanctions against the violators.

We all remember the dangerous escalation in January 2020, when the region was almost on the verge of conflict after the illicit killing of Qassem Suleimani and a number of Iraqi officials committed by the United States on the territory of Iraq.

Washington failed to draw the right conclusions.

And now its allies, too, commit irresponsible actions that undermine the stability, security and sovereignty of Iran's neighbors in the region."

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-14T09:50:23+00:00

On Iran’s strike:

At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.

One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:

He asked us:

“Say the US decided to attack Iraq with a new stealth jet it hadn’t used before that evaded all radars? The attack was a success. Was it strategic?”

Many in the class raised their hands to say “yes, it achieved its goal”. But the professor said: “It may not have been”.

Why?

“Because now your adversaries know your capabilities and it’s a matter of time before they find ways around them. If this attack could be done with conventional weapons, it’s better to keep your top weapons until you need them. Using them creates a disadvantage.”

My analysis is that the scale of Iran’s attack, the diversity of locations it targeted, and weapons it used, forced Israel to uncover the majority of anti-missile technologies the US and it have across the region.

The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them. But the Iranians likely now have almost a full map of what Israel’s missile defence system looks like, as well as where in Jordan and the Gulf the US has installations. It also knows how long it takes to prepare them, how Israeli society responds…etc

This is a huge strategic cost to Israel, while Arab regimes now are being blasted by their peoples, particularly the Jordanian monarchy, for not doing anything to protect Gazans but then going all out to protect Israel.

Crucially, Iran can now reverse engineer all the intel gathered from this attack to make a much more deadly one credible. While the US and Israel will have to re-design away from their current model which has been compromised. Its success in stopping this choreographed attack is thus still very costly.

Moreover, with the threat of a regional war that neither the US nor the Arab regimes want feeling nearer, it’s likely their pressure on Israel to back down will increase, making a ceasefire more feasible.

Anyone assuming this is just theatrics is missing the context of how militaries assess strategy versus tactics. Theatre is an important factor, but gathering intelligence of the “enemy’s” posture is more valuable, especially if one believes they’re in a long war of attrition.

Netanyahu and the Israel government prefer a quick hot and urgent war where they can pull in America. The Iranians prefer a longer war of attrition that bleeds Israel of its deterrence capabilities and makes it an ally for Arabs and the US that’s too costly to have.

Lastly, if you are a person who hates war, if you want peace, the best and only way to get there in the region is to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and dignity.

There is no sustainable peace possible as long as Palestinians live under an oppressive system of apartheid.

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-09T23:51:24+00:00

The main reason I’ve focused so hard on Gaza these last six months isn’t so much because of how evil and horrific Israel’s mass atrocity is in and of itself, but because it’s so intimately intertwined with all our world’s other problems, and with the future of the human species.

In a very real way, the destruction of Gaza appears to be a moment in history where humanity is collectively mulling over whether it wants to keep behaving in a crazy, self-destructive way and continue along its trajectory into dystopia and toward self-inflicted extinction, or abandon this madness and push for something better. Whether it wants to keep buying into the lies and propaganda and tacitly consenting to the psychopathic murderousness of the powerful, or let the light of truth shine in.

A live-streamed genocide happening right out in the open forces a civilization to start asking questions about itself. If something like this can happen in plain view of everyone, and the people in charge not only do nothing but actively facilitate it, then you have to start wondering if everything about your entire nation is deranged, and if everything you’ve been told about the world is a lie.

If something so nakedly evil — undisguised by anything besides a thin veneer of Zionist gaslighting telling us we’re not seeing what we’re seeing — can be allowed to stand by those we’ve entrusted to run things, then it means our entire society is diseased. Our government. Our political systems. Our media. Our education systems. Our worldviews. Our culture. It’s all rotted and corrupted, right down to the core.

The future we are being shown through the window of Gaza is dark. Dark, dark, dark, dark. They’re currently using artificial intelligence to create kill lists and to determine when its targets will be at home with their families to ensure maximum civilian deaths. We used to worry about a dark future where humans send machines to go kill people indiscriminately, but it turns out it’s actually happening the other way around — we’re programming machines to tell us who to kill. The horror in our present dystopia isn’t so much autonomous murderbots as ethical decisions about killing being outsourced to AI.

We’re being asked to accept this and move forward in this direction into the future. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for our governments to knowingly support an unforgivable act of mass slaughter upon the inhabitants of a giant concentration camp. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for the mass media to lie and distort and misinform the public about a matter of such urgent importance day after day, month after month. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for a blatant genocide to take place right in front of our faces, and then move on as though nothing happened.

And right now we’re collectively ruminating on the question of whether we’re going to decide to do those things, or if we’re going to decide to do something else instead.

The Gaza genocide is such a massive thing in and of itself — the injustice, the murder, the loss, the unfathomable suffering. But what’s happening in Gaza is also about so much more than Gaza. It’s a moment in history where humanity is thinking seriously about real revolutionary change, and weighing the options between that and continuing along this tired old blood-soaked path we’ve been travelling on for millennia.

Gaza proves that our entire civilization is cancerous, and that everything we’ve been doing has failed. When you come across information which blows apart your worldview in your personal life, you can either collapse under the weight of cognitive dissonance until you find some way to plug yourself back into the comforting lies, or you can set about the hard work of forming a new way of looking at things. That’s the sort of moment we’re being collectively offered with Gaza. We’ll either accept the invitation, or continue our slide into darkness.

FreedomUltd · 2024-04-09T10:36:22+00:00

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FreedomUltd · 2024-04-08T12:42:51+00:00

There are growing signs that Iran will respond militarily to the blockade in Damascus. It is difficult to overstate the significance of this moment. Israel is at the greatest strategic disadvantage in its history. But the government responsible for this brings us, in a promiscuous and shocking manner, to the brink of degenerating into a war with an enemy more powerful, sophisticated and sophisticated than anything we have known in the past -

In the political dimension - a rift with the US and the administration's complete lack of trust in the government and its leader. A rift with the European countries who see the war as an injury to their strategic agenda, and an opening to a dangerous regional deterioration for them as well. A crisis also with the Arab countries, including Egypt, Jordan and the Emirates, who understand that Netanyahu thwarts their initiatives to end the war, and to alleviate the humanitarian disaster. Israel's international image is at a historic low, and it is seen by large publics as conducting a war of extermination against innocent civilians, for reasons of "revenge", and for reasons of religious-Christian-racist fundamentalism. Israel is also in the midst of unprecedented legal proceedings in their severity and scope at the ICJ and ICC. The Israelis are still far from understanding the depth of the blow that will be suffered by hundreds, perhaps many thousands of officers, soldiers and civilians who will face the threat of international arrest in any democratic country they try to set foot in. In the military dimension - the IDF is in the most serious crisis in its history. The Chief of Staff, the entire General Staff, and most of the senior officers are responsible and guilty for the failure of the 7/10. And since investigations have not yet been carried out, and there is real difficulty in carrying them out, the failures that led to the failure are still there. The Americans and the rest of our friends in the world are shocked by the depth of the military failure, and the manner in which unrestrained force is used in Gaza. Their professional assessment of the IDF was greatly damaged. The fighting force is very worn out after an intense six months. The reserves are under an unprecedented load, and the IDF claims that it lacks forces. All this, of course, before opening a full front in the north, and/or against Iran.

In the managerial-strategic dimension - the decision-making processes have been corrupted, eradicated and distorted beyond recognition. The lack of trust between the military and political ranks is enormous and unprecedented. All decision-making processes are infected, diseased, and abnormal. Starting with the prime minister, who assumes illegal powers, and uses extraneous and criminal considerations. Go to the irreparably damaged relationship between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense, who do not speak to each other unless they have no choice, and without a doubt every exchange between them is recorded and lawyers are consulted. Continue to the fictitious "War Cabinet" which has no legal authority, and among some of its members Hostility and suspicion prevail. Come to the statutory cabinet, where the transcripts of the discussions are transmitted almost in real time to the media, when the ministers compete among themselves who will leak louder and faster, and the exchange of words is reminiscent of Opira and Barko in their less good days. The cabinet and the government plenum have been emptied of all content and meaning. Most of them function as "Norwegian ministers", empty suits, weightless, place holders. The critical professional elements - the military, the intelligence, the political, the legal, the economic - have been destroyed by Netanyahu and his partners, castrated and deterred. Some of them enslave their judgment, only a minority still try to fulfill their professional and ethical mission, under impossible conditions.

Economically - Israel is in a severe and unfolding crisis. The deficit is spinning, the budget is fictitious, the financial management is extremely irresponsible. The costs of the war are astronomical, and if God forbid it expands, they will bring the economy to unknown regions. Hundreds of thousands are evacuated from their homes. Abandoned tracts of land. Public morale is low. The majority of Israelis understand the seriousness of the situation, are disillusioned with the illusion of "absolute victory", feel abandoned by the government, and demand its replacement.

Against the background of all this, the decision to carry out the countermeasures in Damascus, which was apparently taken with the knowledge that it would result in a fairly high probability of an Iranian response, and could degenerate into a direct war between Iran and Israel, appears to be one of the most promiscuous and scandalous in Israeli history.

Therefore, at this moment, even before Iran reacts, if it does react, it is necessary to look at the difficult reality. Israel is being led from disaster to catastrophe, from a terrible historical low, to a much deeper and worse low. Netanyahu and his clearly incompetent government must not be allowed to continue spinning the country into the abyss. Israel needs responsible, professional, balanced leadership, connected to reality and the international arena. A leadership that recognizes the limitations of power, and that is able to design a realistic strategy to get out of the crisis. It is a huge challenge, which requires the best minds and forces. In our most difficult hour, we are led by the person least qualified for the task, our national systems are damaged, strained to the limit, and in part mismanaged. Under Netanyahu and his dysfunctional government, it is forbidden to degenerate into a war with Iran and/or Hezbollah. This is a war that will start with very bad opening conditions, and will only deteriorate from there. Even if there is an Iranian response, it is necessary to reach a hostage deal and a ceasefire immediately. to replace the government, to negotiate the end of the war, and to enter into procedures for the restoration and rebuilding of the state's systems and infrastructure.

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