The pedestrian, uncontested reality is that the many ceasefires reflect power differentials untempered by a shred of American and Israeli honor or decency …
When Trump is gone, there’ll be a new Barnum to oversee the US-Israeli ceasefire circus.~ilana
Allow me to vent spleen over the many ceasefire “agreements”—10-point (April 2026), 15-point (August 2026), and the MOU, Memorandum of Understanding in-between—whose details the “experts” continue to belabor and rehash.
Enough already!
Can we quit the cretinous, make-believe commentary over fakery? Consult a Ouija board if you are in doubt as to how these unilateral things progress. But quit making a mystery of what are manifestly cover operations.
I’ll unburden you if you find it hard to untangle and flush what are layers of loo-paper.
The MOU, the “Hormuz talks,” the 10-point plan, the 15-point plan, the Gaza ‘Peace’ Plan, are all pointless as anything other than cover operations.
Ceasefires à la Israel and America, the two symbiotic, congenital liar entities lording it over the universe, are just one more weapon wielded to destroy the Axis of Resistance, or any resistance to Superpower and Sidekick.
Who the dominatrix is and who is the submissive in the US-Israel relationship—that vexation, I venture, has been adjudicated by reality, as well.
Each one of these farcical ploys, the ceasefires, is meant invariably to end in bombs, with blame imputed to their victims. How do I know? In the same way you ought to know. Reality. Res ipsa loquitur. The thing itself speaks. Screams. Writhes in agony under the rubble.
Did not all of these preordained “negotiated” traps begin with fanfare and end, as described above, in “bombs, with blame imputed to the victims”?
Islamabad was a burlesque to begin with. To arrive at their destination, in April of 2026, the amiable Iranian negotiators had to circumnavigate Israeli assassins, only to confront the tricks and turns and greasy chicanery of the diplomats deputized by another criminal Svengali: Trump.
Ivanka likes it when people ‘swing for things,’ as she puts it. Well, Ivanka and Jared Kushner swung for Sazan, an Albanian island. … As in the story of Narcissus in Greek mythology, we have here malignant narcissism, cruelty, as well as a body of water. But it’s all terribly pretty, you understand …
HOLISTIC BEAUTY, natural and built, a place where “the architecture” is “fully integrated” into the landscape: This is something “real estate developer”-cum-explorer Ivanka Trump knows all about.
Or, so Mrs. Kushner tells us, in a misty promotional production, in which viewers are tutored about the person, Narcissus herself, and the new “developments” she is pursuing, personal and material. A friendly podcast serves as Barbie Trump’s vanity press. Its title: “Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life.”
As in the story of Narcissus in Greek mythology, we have here malignant narcissism, cruelty, as well as a body of water. But it’s all terribly pretty, you understand.
Ivanka’s plot (as in scheme) is in the same vein as other assets and investment holdings in the Trump-Kushner crime family’s real-estate portfolio, in which Exhibit One is Gaza.
Late in January of 2026, husband Jared Kushner, a criminally acquisitive, empty husk of a man in his own right, presented a slide show in Davos even more garishly hideous than father-in-law’s earlier iteration of the production dubbed the Gaza Plan. The milieu was as ugly as any Trump family venture, or gathering, or trashy cotton-candy colored “couture.”
Kushner’s Master Slave Plan for Gaza—a cover for genocide, much as is the family’s Board of Peace he oversees—was presented before some of the world’s wealthiest men, all parading their greed for the property of the poorest, most-imperiled people in the world, the Palestinians.
As to the kitschy interior of the mystery “friend’s boat”: It relates to the “authentic” Gaza or South Lebanon as a centuries-old church relates to a methodist, big-tent revival pavilion. “Authentic” is another adjective Barbie Trump has appropriated to telegraph her essence.
Did I not dilate on Ivanka’s friend’s “boat”? My bad. Back to the more material aspects of the first daughter’s otherworldly quest:
Nat Rothchild’s superyacht, “Planet Nine,” is obscenely lavish—almost long enough for a 100-meter dash, it has space for two, eight-seater, explorer helicopters onboard, a helipad, a “surround cinema,” spas, desalination facility (the kind bosom buddies of the Kushners destroyed in Gaza), elevator to get you to all 5 levels, a “3,000-square-foot owner’s apartment,” and respectable ice classification.
The Kushners were sailing on this “friend’s boat,” as Mrs. Kushner relayed, when—Lo!—the acquisitive habit overpowered their conjugal happiness. Embarrassing.
Overcome—and fresh from pillage and rapine in Gaza—the insatiable lovebirds hit on a way to keep their urges in check. First order of business was to cool off. Unlike Narcissus, the two did not come to harm. They allegedly jumped off “the boat,” and proceeded to swim to an Albanian Island that beckoned in the offing. …
First, The modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, Israel, has done crimes many times more wicked than the crimes for which God erased the biblical sin city by that name. Second, a merciful God did not send Abraham over to ask the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah to weigh in. ‘Tell me, oh degenerates of Sodom and Gomorrah, what your opinion is about your own mass butchery, mass thievery, mass looting, and raping.’ Oh no! ~ilana
THE BIBLE has great significance to religiously-minded conservative Americans.
Ben Shapiro, a stupid and sickening influencer, once referred to the Hebrew Bible as the Torah. It’s Tanach, dummy.
The Tanach has three sections: Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim, for a total of about 37 books.
To me, the Hebrew Tanach is a great literary work. I know it in the Hebrew, through secular study as a school girl. It’s a literary accomplishment that sports a lot of shit-hot writing.
A story worth considering is Sodom and Gomorrah, and, in particular, how The Almighty approached Sodom and Gomorrah, the Sin City of antiquity.
The all-knowing Almighty possessed full-knowledge of the evidence for Sodom and Gomorrah’s utter debauchery and murderous decadence.
In front of Him, The Almighty had the totality of the crimes. The cumulative evidence was spread before him.
What did He do?
Did He dispatch a group of wise men to further “investigate” the Sodom and Gomorrah Sin City, a place where crime was law?
Did He solicit the perspective and opinion of the City’s top criminals about their crimes?
No. He had in evidence His infinite knowledge, much like an AI archive.
In other words, did the Almighty do what the complicit, narrative-shaping, collaborator, Western corporate media do, at this stage of Israel’s crime spree?
Of course not.
Take UK’s Channel 4 collaborators, and all western media, for that matter.
“Oh, Almighty Israel, give us your side of The Story,” these media persist in pleading with the Serial-Killer State.
“Give us your take on your latest mass butchery, thievery, looting, and raping. We’re listening, Oh Almighty Israel.”
What is wrong with the Sodom and Gomorrah media!
Even “Democracy Now!”, decent dissident journalists, even they insult reality, this way. Still! They reported, on April the 23rd, that Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil “was killed by an Israeli strike.”
WTF. And what dross!
Like hundreds of Gaza’s journalists before her, Amal Khalil was first targeted by the serial-killer thugs. Next, she was threatened by the serial-killers, who warned her that her head would be separated from her body, if she didn’t quit reporting on their crimes.
Finally, Ms. Khalil was martyred in a triple-tap hit:
Double-tap or triple tap attacks are all terms from the genocidal entity’s lexicon of crime and cowardice:
First, they hit the target, almost always civilian, a journalist in this instance. They follow up with a strike on survivors and rescuers. For good measure, they repeat the “feat.”
The biblical Sodom and Gomorrah was a city whose crimes, the least of which were carnal, did not come close to those of the modern Serial-Killer State.
By bringing up the Sin City of antiquity analogy, you have not heard me advocate that The Almighty’s solution to Sodom and Gomorrah be applied to the modern-day Serial-Killer State.
What you hear me point out, rather, are three things: ….
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The US merely ‘boards’ them. This is how consent is manufactured in real time”:
The South is being ethnically cleansed of the brave resisting population, predominantly Shia. And the media stands by. By now you will easily believe it, but there is but one foreign correspondent documenting genocide in Southern Lebanon.
More than 56,264 hectares of agricultural land have already been affected across approximately 285 towns in the south, Bekaa and Baalbek-Hermel regions, representing nearly 22.5% of Lebanon’s total agricultural areas … According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), during the November 2025 to the March 2026 period, around 874,000 people in Lebanon – or 17% of the analysed population – were already facing “Crisis” or “Emergency” levels of acute food insecurity. The report now estimates that 1.24 million people are expected to face acute food insecurity between April and August this year.
Lebanon is now classified under IPC Phase 3, or “Crisis” – meaning many families can no longer consistently afford basic food and are being forced to skip meals, cut portions or take on debt.
… For decades, Lebanon focused more on banking, trade and tourism than building domestic food production. But the country still relies heavily on the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon for local food production, including wheat, potatoes, leafy vegetables, olives and fruits. The Bekaa Valley alone supports around 42% of Lebanon’s agricultural production.
…with 95% of [banana growth] affected, citrus orchards at 97%, olive groves at 91%, in addition to major damages to fruit trees, protected agriculture and smallholder farming systems.
The livestock and fisheries sectors have also suffered major losses. The ministry estimates that around 1.8 million cows, goats, sheep, poultry and other animals have died, alongside the destruction of 29,121 beehives and losses exceeding 2,030 tons of fish production.
…According to the ministry’s Rapid Needs Assessment, 23,611 farmers have already registered damages. In southern Lebanon, 77.9% of farmers have been displaced, while only 22.1% remain in their towns.
…’Production across the entire zone, from livestock to beekeeping, has come to a halt in the zone south of the Litani, even north of it,’ he says. ‘Farmers cannot reach their lands due to the constant threat.”
The US is violating Iran’s territorial sovereignty and denying that country’s riparian rights in the waterways that abut its territory. ~ilana
…[Israelis] don’t have to explain themselves to the world. Israel[should just]focus on the things that make them incredible …their ingenuity, their innovation, their compassion, …on being exceptional. ~Jared Kushner
Jared, You forgot killing. Israeli pleasures and pastimes are killing. ~ilana
We have a “good negotiating team, the best,” blathered Trump, with respect to the individuals he dispatched to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, April 10, to dictate the terms of surrender to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Team Trump was led by Israel firsters and Israeli assets like Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoaff (sic), and Vice President JD Vance, whose eyeliner only enhances the “degeneracy of manners and morals” he embodies and represents.
I’ll make this very simple. Against the Islamic Republic, victim of the US-Israel’s untrammeled criminality, the president’s men have committed the most egregious crime, the crime of aggression, categorized as such in international customary law—and in all systems of law, codified and uncodified.
By violating Iran’s territorial sovereignty and denying that country’s riparian rights in the waterways that abut its territory—by strafing Iranian cities, targeting life-sustaining infrastructure and industries; hospitals, healers and first responders.; historic sites and schools; wantonly murdering thousands of Iranian people, assassinating esteemed political and scientific leaders—Trump has demonstrated that he has assimilated Israel’s military doctrines. The president of the United States of America has Israelized the US Military and is ‘going Amalek’ on the Jewish State’s designated enemies.
The “accumulated evil,” another legal term invoked in international customary law with respect to the “supreme crime” of unprovoked aggression—this rot is evident in all Trump’s dealings and deeds. It is etched on his decaying Dorian Gray like countenance and is manifest in what is disgorged from the American president’s mouth.
By extension, it was quite clear what tone Trump’s team of choice would set for any and all “negotiation” proceedings with Iran.
Once the talks in Islamabad predictably collapsed, it transpired that Vance had likely been holding all information in reserve for Bibi Netanyahu’s edifications and approval.
Confirmed Netanyahu: “I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations.”
One wonders why Iran’s foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, would sit down at the negotiating table with this coterie. After all, “in a phone call with his German counterpart, … Araghchi had proclaimed that Iran entered the failed April 10/12 talks in Islamabad with full distrust because of the US repeated breaches and betrayals of diplomacy.”
Foreign Minister Araghchi is certainly a class act. Team Trump/Netanyahu are class enemies. To wit, during the farcical negotiations, the US sneakilyattempted to breach the Strait of Hurmuz, over which Iran has natural, riparian property rights. Simultaneously, the Washington Post ran an article by Marc Thiessen, a mediocre neoconservative, calling for the assassination of the Iranian negotiators if they refuse to submit.
Was it, then, prudent for Iran’s finest to grace with their presence such proven bad-faith actors? More important still, why trust Israel’s proxies—the detritus of humanity, human waste by any other name—with your life, Mr. Araghchi? Had not Mr. Araghchi’s predecessor, former Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi and his wife, been murdered in “a targeted United States-Israeli strike on their Tehran home”? Indeed. So, too, is the supreme leader’s successor, Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, said to be languishing after wounds inflicted on him by this merged criminal cabal.
Just how duplicitous and vicious a people are we and our Israeli overlords?
A man is only as good as his word. Knowing that America’s word is shit, the Pakistan Air Force is purported to have “deployed an aerial shield” to escort the Iranian delegation, led by Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf,” safely into Pakistani airspace. On departure, their Pakistani hosts scrambled “advanced fighter jets” to protect the Iranians (to whom they had given a rock-star welcome).
True, one negotiates with foes, not with friends. Known, too, is the bravery and self-sacrifice of the Iranians and their leaders. Hours before his murder by Murder Inc., the equally impressive late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had stated that, as long as 90 million Iranians are without bomb-sheltering bunkers, so too will he, their spiritual leader, remain above ground, outside the shelter. He did. He died.
Iranians and their leaders seem to have so much more love and loyalty in them than their oppressors. But this does not mean you sacrifice your finest to Israel’s American idolaters. Trump and team are capable of surprising calculated, calibrated evil. Jared Kushner, in particular.
Behind Kushner’s sylphlike appearance is a boa constrictor anticipating its next meal. …
… Parenthetically, I’ll say that I’m sick of Gaza being reduced to no more than an ‘open-air concentration camp.’ Legally, this is true. But Gaza before the Holocaust was quite beautiful, certainly unique. It was a quaint community with a character and a history, some of it ancient. All of it well reflected in its public spaces. Gaza had nothing of the vulgar gilt of a Trump tower. To compare Gaza of yore to the Gaza dreamt up in the Kushner consortium’s Master Slave Plan for the Strip is like comparing a centuries-old church with the heavily adorned Trump White House and White House ballroom. …
