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8/28: New Essay.’Where Are The Men? Military Action Against Israel. NOW!’ + Aug/Sept News Updates

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Where Are The Men? Military Action Against Israel. NOW!” is a new essay now on The Unz Review, home to dissidents from day one.

You can also find the essay now on IlanaMercer.com

https://www.ilanamercer.com/2025/08/men-military-action-israel-now/

The core ideas of the piece you are about to read were fleshed-out previously (with more details about geopolitical context), in the lengthy, January 2025 essay, “BRICS And Pan-Arabism Revived To Tackle Israel, Militarily.

Excerpt:

…  Libertarians worth their salt will apply to the collective the same moral code applied to the individual. If a lone serial killer and home invader must not be left to continue on his merry spree of murder and theft; neither may a band of killers armed with WMD do the same. If a lone serial killer ought to be hunted down by good men and women, cuffed, incarcerated and tried; so too must a gang engaged in high-tech, AI-assisted mass murder. That is the simple meaning and application of the libertarian axiom of non-aggression in a world in which defense is not privately produced.

Curiously—and considering the centrality of a values-based pretense in U.S. foreign policy, of good-vs-evil—if ever a clear, moral case for American military intervention presented itself; it is on the side of the civilians of Gaza as against the Israelis, who are armed with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

This must lead to an inescapable conclusion:

Since the United States of America is not a “global force for good,” it remains for the locals to do the job. A large-scale regional military intervention must be mounted post haste, for there is an affirmative, not a passive, obligation to stop Israel. The world, with some heroic exceptions, has so far breached that legal and moral obligation.  …

…As that most American of crime writers, Raimond Chandler, counselled, “It never pays to let the enemy make all the rules.” And Israel is the enemy, the enemy of humanity.

Similar counsel comes from a recently released, elderly, pro-Palestinian resistance fighter, who spent four decades in a French prison. Described in the French press as a “Lebanese leftist militant imprisoned in France since 1984,” Georges Ibrahim Abdallah remains a masculine force at full tilt.

Abdallah arrived in Lebanon on July the 25th. A large gaggle of press and supporters eddied around him. He told them, “If one million Egyptians try to break the siege on Gaza, the genocide would end.”

Abdallah deferred to lionheart Greta Thunberg as an example of courage: The Swedish young woman had sailed forth in international waters intending to reach the riparian territory of the people of Gaza. For wishing to administer kindness—to slake the thirst and assuage the hunger of some Palestinians—and to galvanize on behalf of Gaza; Israeli terrorists kidnapped Freedom Flotilla activists and forced them into their own benighted country.

Piracy on the high seas. What should have been a safe, peaceful voyage was terminated by pirates, perpetrators of genocide. Does Israel now rule the high seas as well?

I might have misunderstood Mr. Abdallah, but by praising a wee girl for her bravery he seemed to be asking, where are the men?

… READ THE COMPLETE ESSAY. “Where Are The Men? Military Action Against Israel. NOW!” is now on The Unz Review and on IlanaMercer.com

https://www.ilanamercer.com/2025/08/men-military-action-israel-now/

Screen-capture image via Ha’aretz.

August 27:  A crime? Intentional? Israel? You don’t say!

The double-tap murder:

https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1959881104569069708

The aftermath—which has happened countless times for the best part of two years.

https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1959918069104435401

With every new, daily, brazen butchery by Israel, the moron media contemplate, as the Guardian imbecile does, that “Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime.” Double-tap strikes—first target Gazans, then target the beautiful souls who invariably come to the aid of your initial victims—such as the latest by the genocidal entity, are what dissident media have documented for the best part of two years. And the Moron Media still persist in calling genocide a war (Glenn Greenwald, in particular, should know better than to use this misnomer). One more thing:  The legacy media’s language: quit the “were killed” usage. “Were murdered” is the correct appellation.

One of the beautiful people murdered yesterday: Maryam.

Via Euromed Monitor, some Church-of-Satan generated headlines since August 18, on left. On Right, Ha’aretz’s “Starvation Is Everywhere: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror.”

August 23 UPDATES:

No clue why Seymour Hersh, august journalist, thinks the Israeli obscene and grotesque future “plan” for Gaza, drawn up by members of the Israeli genocidal entity, is a “fantasy.” Is the Genocide a fantasy? Is the acquiescence in genocide of the Biden-Trump administrations a fantasy? Is the West’s complicity a fantasy? Is utter inaction—nay, assistance—a fantasy? Is the world’s creation of “a place of massive impunity” for Israel a fantasy?

Floated by Israel’s religious right was a “formal plan for the future of Gaza titled ‘The Riviera in Gaza—From Vision to Reality'”. It “is a blueprint for a future in Gaza without the Palestinians who now are living and dying there…”

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15:22 into a “visit” with perfidious Piers Morgan, the equally reprehensible Megyn Kelly disgorges this: “I am reluctant to put too much stock in the images coming out of Gaza, because they are manipulated and they are masters of propaganda. They are fine having their own children starve, just so long as they can put them on camera and show them off to the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCoiWisIbuo That’s Hamas, and frankly, that’s a lot of Palestinians. So, I’m very skeptical at [sic] taking those images at face value, and saying that it’s Israel’s fault.”

Some, not me, would add “c-nt and a cretin” to “complicit.” Not me.

A couple of weeks later, this actress begins to slightly rehabilitate her image. Poor Megyn is so independent and is being pushed by AIPAC. She and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene chat about their general admiration for Israel, but need to put America First. They conclude: “If we had the money; we’d give it to Israel. But we don’t.”

Israel, Thy Name is Death (8/3): AOC. Good Morning, Genocide ‘Scholars’. Red Heifer Murder, IDF, FIRE CENTER MASS. Deliberately. Don’t Let Them Lie.

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Israel is a criminal entity, and a threat to the comity of nations… … the IDF is not a fighting force; it’s an Airforce. Judged from its actions over time, this Airforce’s objectives are not to defeat a regular army. But to pound population centers into submission—in Gaza, across the Levant, and beyond, in Iran. …targeting them and their habitat for Total Warfare. …Since war against civilians is a war on civilization; Israel, by extension, is an ENEMY OF CIVILIZATION. ~ilana  

“Deniers of the Palestinian Holocaust—Bari Weiss, Biden, Bibi, Blinken, Douglas Murray, Dennis Prager, Donald Trump—should be parachuted into occupied, massacred, starved Gaza, so that Genocide becomes their ‘lived reality,’ not their rhetorical reality to deny.”~ilana (“The Real Israel Vs. Hasbara History“)

https://rumble.com/v6toq73-the-real-israel-vs.-hasbara-history.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_f

ISRAEL THY NAME IS DEATH

July 19: AOC, so-called woman of The People, fails to support Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment to cut-off substantial assistance to Israel, because she, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, says she supports Israel’s “self-defense,” namely supplying the “genocidal entity” with offensive, Iron Dome capabilities.

The Iron Dome stops a corrective feedback mechanism known as … punishment. At this stage of Israel’s genocide of Gaza, a majority of your constituents, AOC, want to see Israel punished militarily, not protected militarily. The woman, AOC, remains true to her original boss, Genocide Joe.

July 23: Kid looks for water. Gets sniped by IOF.

https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1947973395695505854
Quit interviewing—giving voice, soliciting “confessions” from IOF aka IDF active-duty-killers.
The same goes for Israeli politicians, celebrities, influences, the Piers Morgan media, and assorted Jane and Johnny-Come-Latelies, who have begun to denounce the Palestinian genocide, now that the genocide has been accomplished. Report on their convenient “change of heart” at the 11th hour. Raise an eyebrow. Pass the names to the Hind R Foundation. BUT DO NOT LEGITIMIZE the crime of all crimes with personalized coverage of the perps.

Please:  Interviews of teary genociders constitutes a reward. Makes you look like you are sympathetic.

As we speak, this many times over:

July 23: NO, Daily Express! Gaza Genocide shames you: the Piers Morgan media, your handler, Israel (state & society), its sponsors and collaborators: USA, UK, Germany & every other government, North and South, that has watched, denied, exculpated and refused to stop the 21 Century Holocaust.

Military action now!

Daily_Express Headline, “The suffering of little Muhammad clinging on to life in Gaza hell shames us all”

July 22: Eventually all newborns will die.

July 22: Middle East Eye

July 20: Times of Gaza. 

ISRAELI IMPERVIOUSNESS (7/19):   “The Israeli imperviousness to the suffering and horrors in Gaza will not conceal the truth.” So blares Ha’aretz Hebrew’s Headline for July 19.
As always, Hebrew content is different from the English fare served to the “goyim” (a derogatory coinage for non-Jews). As Ali Abunimah likes to say, “Israelis think Hebrew is their secret language.”

MURDERED (7/18): “Yes, in Gaza about 100,00 human being were already ‘killed,” writes Ha’arets Hebrew, to which I will now subscribe, since fluent in proper Hebrew (as opposed to the bastardized, Pidgin, English-Hebrew hybrid Israelis speak).
Originally I had subscribed to the English, thinking these versions were identical. But, oh no. What Israel shares with the gentiles is oft quite different. Which is also why, deviously, the paper charges the full price for the adding the Hebrew edition to an extant subscription.

In September 20, 2024, I ventured, in “Genocide is a Crime, Not a War Crime; Israel is Waging Genocide, Not War,” that “by the time the Israeli serial killers are cajoled into stopping the genocide there could be between 250 to 500,000, maybe more, Palestinian deaths brought about by Israel, in the informed opinion of American patriots like Ralph Nader.”

https://www.ilanamercer.com/2024/09/genocide-crime-not-war-crime-israel-waging-genocide-not-war/

ISRAEL IS DEATH (7/16): You don’t come back from starvation. While the brain is plastic, damage it at crucial developmental stages and the child is doomed.
Via https://972mag.com comes the face of Israel and its helpers: “Israel is blocking 6,000 UNRWA trucks from entering Gaza while children die of hunger. UNRWA has over 6,000 trucks full of food, hygiene supplies, and medicine waiting just outside of Gaza’s borders. We also have over 1,000 [HEROIC SAINTLY] health workers who can provide lifesaving nutritional services to boys and girls across the Strip. We are ready to move in to help little children” like Salam Wadi. Via 972 Magazine.

SETTLER UPDATE (7/13): The “enlightened” West has not yet called for the outlawing of human sacrifice in Gaza and the West Bank—so what chance does the beautiful, gentle Red Heifer have? Israelis burn helpless children alive. So it goes for an animal: a Red Heifer, or rather an insufficiently-red heifer. Not quit fit for purpose.
Regarding the long-suffering animals Israel/Israelis exterminate, slaughter: For now, and for the 1st time in years, I’ve not been able to overcome my disgust over the silence of prominent animal activists to keep up my donations to peta (@IngridNewkirk) and other of my regular animal charities. Donated instead to Sulala Animal Rescue in Gaza. No idea if they survived.

July 25: Good Morning, Genocide ‘scholar’

On LinkedIn, you can’t interest activist Philip Lymbery (@philip_ciwf) in Gaza. Can we hear animal charities and activists call to outlaw this Red Heifer sacrifice and practice-sacrifice barbarism? Now? Silence—like the so-called genocide scholars, who carefully positioned themselves, at the onset, to direct public traffic away from certain story-lines and toward others. And who belatedly make the case that was manifestly clear to Craig Mokhiber, Francesca Albenese, and Josh Paul by the year 2023’s end. (“I’m a Genocide ‘Scholar.’ I Know It When I See It,” Omer Bartov, July 15, 2025, New York Times. Note Bartov’s appeal to authority.)

GAZA UPDATE (7/8): NEW Poll: “Overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis share genocidal belief there are ‘no innocent people in Gaza.” “A Hebrew University poll shows an overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis agree with the genocidal idea that there are ‘no innocents in Gaza.’”

As to this story: AFTER “An Israeli Soldier Killed a Palestinian [boy] Asleep in His Bed; His Fellow Troops Asked: ‘Are You Crazy?‘ No one believes it.

No one IN THE WORLD believes The LAST part of this IDF crime story. C’mon. It’s like Jeffrey Dahmer asking John Wayne Gacy, “What got into to you, dude?”

It’s just a day in the life of an IDF serial killer and his comrades: Burst into a private home, kill an occupant or two or all, treat survivors like dirt, cover the crime.

Jassem al Sidda was murdered in Jit, a West Bank village.

GAZA UPDATE (6/28):  “Harvard Publishes Report: 377,000 Missing or Dead in Gaza“: The following is nothing you will hear from mainstream, genocide-complicit American media. Or from its scummy politicians and loud podcasters (who’ve gotten away with an occasional nod to the murdered of Gaza but have failed to use their influence to STOP the genocide).

As I foresaw, from the evidence I had collected and the deductions therefrom, made by November of 2023—“twelve months on [we’ll] be speaking of the distinct possibility that—by the time the Israeli serial killers are cajoled into stopping the carnage, there could be between 250 to 500,000, maybe more, Palestinian deaths brought about by Israel.” So I surmised in November of 2023.

Harvard Publishes Report: 377,000 Missing or Dead in Gaza“:

A newly published dataset on Harvard University’s Dataverse platform reveals a catastrophic estimate of the scale of human loss in Gaza. The report, authored by Professor Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University, estimates that 377,000 Palestinians are missing or presumed dead since the start of the Israeli military assault in October 2023. This represents roughly 17% of Gaza’s pre-war population, an unprecedented demographic collapse.
The analysis appears in the Harvard-hosted dataset titled “The Israeli/American/GHF ‘aid distribution’ compounds in Gaza: Dataset and initial analysis of location, context, and internal structure”

8/3/025: I myself have not been able to see this study, but here is another secondary source that appears to have collated some data points from the Garb study:

 Gaza’s Disappeared

The report shows that prior to the 2023-25 siege, Gaza’s population was approximately 2.227 million. Israeli Defense Forces estimate that the three main populated enclaves now contain only 1.85 million people:

Gaza City: 1 million

Mawasi: 0.5 million

Central Gaza: 0.35 million

That leaves 377,000 Gazans whose whereabouts are unknown. While some may be displaced or trapped in inaccessible areas, the report strongly implies that the missing are dead—many likely buried under rubble, dismembered beyond recognition, or perished from starvation and disease in isolation.
This number dwarfs commonly cited death tolls and challenges the sanitized statistics reported in international media. It is not the product of speculation, but of direct analysis of Israeli military data. What Garb calls a “demographic horror story” is also a legal and moral reckoning.

Will anyone pay, starting with Biden and his administration (AOC and Sanders included), Bibi and his entirely complicit coalitions (left and right), Trump (ditto), and down to the still-enthusiastic and orgiastically murderous Israel Defense Force cowards? Still shooting center-mass at starved human beings en route to the Israel-US scam feeding foundation, really a shooting gallery for hundreds of Isra-American cowards in fatigues?

Ha’aretz, amping-up its come-clean coverage, bemoans reports from IDF detritus that, “‘It’s a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid.”
These lax mama’s boys, IDF, could have refused orders to murder ANY TIME. They could miss. They fire center mass. I explained recently, again, in the lecture, “The Real Israel Vs. Hasbara History.” Don’t allow them The Nuremberg Defense, “I was only following orders”.

Image credit.

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Iran war

“Little Satan Launches War Of Aggression On Iran; The Great Satan Claims Ignorance, Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink”:

The mad-dog medinah (country in Hebrew) strikes Iran, launching a war of aggression on its people. The Great Satan claims no involvement. (Actually, America might need to forfeit this title.) Much like the US has denied involvement in the genocide in Gaza. The US, of course, arms Israel. It could have brought the genocide to an end at any stage of this 21st Century Palestinian Holocaust.

Little Satan’s spokespersons on i24, an Israeli TV station (and a real piece of work), seem pleased. These audacious ghouls—most Israeli news stations are similarly staffed—say they are liberating the Iranian people.  That reminded me of the American endeavor to disarm Iraq of WND. Twelve-year-old Ali Ismail Abbas was indeed disarmed. Hundreds like him.

Most of my information about Iraqi civilian casualties had come from the CBC. Abbas lost both his arms when an American missile smashed into his home, killing both his parents. Sixty percent of his body was covered with burns that turned septic. The hospital director at the Saddam General said there were hundreds like Ali, killed, orphaned or maimed. Their faces are not seen on American networks.” (ON PIMPS AND PRESSTITUTES,” Ilana Mercer, April 23, 2003)

“… a CNN anchorwoman who has probably never had an independent thought in her carefully coiffed head conducted an interview with the befuddled physician of another Iraqi child amputee. The vapid woman repetitively inquired as to whether Ali had been told why he had been ‘disarmed.’ The boy should be ‘helped’ to understand that it was for a Greater Good that he has two bleeding stumps for arms, the woman doggedly insisted.” (MURDER BY MAJORITY, Ilana Mercer, April 23, 2003.)

Nothing changes.

Iranian scientists and military personnel were targeted in their homes—and continue to be eliminated. For, as I said in my address, “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History,” May 16,

The Axis of Genocide … the Woke Masters of the Western Universe, consider non-woke societies as without the natural right of resistance [or even governance, I might add]. Their resistance we call terrorism.

Israel, as I have documented and anatomized over 22 months, loves nothing more than wiping out Arab and Persian human capital, civilians—intellectuals, reporters, doctors, men and women in the applied and theoretical sciences, in the arts, dogooders, humanitarians. And historical beautiful structures.

Yes, with its bombing of civilian neighborhoods and the unlawful, immoral “decapitation” murders of leaders in Iran, a sovereign state; Little Satan claims to be liberating the Iranians. (And, of course, because of the Holocaust, in case you forgot.)

There is no casus belli.

Trump, as Chas Freeman and Scott Ritter divulged early on, engaged in “diplomacy-as-deception.” He knew. He connived. With the help of CIA, Mossad and the UK poodles of MI5—the Israelis (genocidal terrorists) smuggled the materiel needed into Iran. Meanwhile, Israel has imposed an Internet blackout in Gaza, all the better to continue its murderous bacchanalia, backed by a majority of Israeli-Jews.

Stuff to turn the stomach, raise the BP.

What you get from me, as readers know, is intellectual honesty. If you want the best, most assiduous analysis and investigation of the mad-dog medinah’s war of aggression on Iran—again, there is no casus belli—it is the latest podcast from Dimitri Lascaris, “award-winning lawyer and journalist based in Montreal, Canada and Kalamata, Greece,” who, in “Reason2Resist,” has, over the last 22 months, built a formidable broadcast in terms analytical, empirical and ethical.

The episode “After Playing With Fire, Israel Is Getting Burnt: A Missile War That Israel Can’t Win,” is far and away his best. (Israel, in its unadulterated evil, has shown it can win, but Dimitri’s a positive outlook is probably wiser than my gloom.)

After launching a criminal war of aggression on Iran, the Netanyahu regime waited less than 48 hours to plead with Trump to deploy U.S. military forces against Iran.

While refusing to rule out direct U.S. military intervention at a later date, Trump denied Netanyahu’s request.

Dimitri Lascaris argues that this is mere Kabuki Theatre. Trump’s refusal cannot conceal the obvious reality that the U.S. is already waging war on Iran.

Air defence is one of the many vital ways in which the Trump administration is already assisting Israel. From an air defence perspective, Israel is probably the most highly protected military asset in the Western world, yet Iran has now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that its missiles and drones can penetrate Israel’s layered air defences with relative ease.

As a result, in the past 24 hours, Israel has suffered severe damage. Moreover, there’s good reason to believe that Iran’s military has not yet hammered Israel with its most powerful weapons.

Will the Trump administration finally rein in its rabid Israeli attack dog, or will Washington become even more desperate to preserve Anglo-American hegemony?

My extensive list of recommended real-news media resources:

https://barelyablog.com/blogroll/

Stand With Iran.

UPDATE (6/20): Two broadcasts are all you need vis-a-vis Israel’s criminal aggression against Iran. The one is above, “After Playing With Fire, Israel Is Getting Burnt: A Missile War That Israel Can’t Win.

The next is “Iran Has A Right To Defend Itself From Israel’s Relentless Aggression w/ Craig Mokhiber.” Craig Mokhiber is someone I often defer to in my own Gaza essays. A fine mind and a good human being.

Screen Picture courtesy of https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.3304711204.5641/raf,750×1000,075,t,101010:01c5ca27c6.jpg

UPDATE VIII (3/13/025): Israel Breaks Ceasefire. BACK TO Fellating Bibi. Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Proves That Biden Could’ve Easily Stopped Genocide

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As Trump tells it, nobody quite knows  how or why Gaza became a ‘demolition site.’ …The other thing nobody can quite determine is which of the two countries, America or Israel, is the Great Satan and which is the Little Satan ~ilana

UPDATE VI (3/2/025): Israel is resuming its open killing sprees in Gaza (low-grade killing had continued throughout the “ceasefire”), and is halting the meager aid temporarily let into a starving Gaza.

The serial-killer state is hoping, with Trump’s backing, to wriggle out of the ceasefire agreement.

If past is prologue; this stage of Israel’s Genocide of the Palestinians will also be permitted by the co-belligerent in crime, America.

“Make no mistake; serial killer Israel ought to have been militarily resisted; its victims protected. You don’t placate a John Wayne Gacy and a Jeffrey Dahmer…You stop them.

In fact, in international humanitarian and customary human rights law there is what is called a ‘responsibility to protect’ a community that is being evicted and eradicated. Arguably, #resistance fighters are heeding this highest calling: The “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P).”

MORE: https://www.ilanamercer.com/2024/10/why-israel-occupied-levant-must-be-liberated-sos/

READ: “Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must Be Liberated, S.O.S.

UPDATE IV (2/4/025): BACK TO Fellating Bibi.”

A continuum of evil. First, America, under Genocide Joe, participated in and facilitated the genocide of the Palestinians; now, under Donald Trump, the country is committing to cover up the Crime of all Crimes; remove the pitiful exhibits, and bail out the Demon State, Israel.

Who said crime doesn’t pay? When the Superpower inverts the moral order of the universe; the Crime of all Crimes pays—and then some.

The American president continues in the tradition of fellating Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump, duly, promises to assume control over Gaza, rebuild it and evict the survivors of a genocide committed by his ostensible client state, Israel.

Not that you’d know it; and as Trump tells it, nobody quite grasps how or why Gaza became a “demolition site.” Somehow the soil is soaked through with the blood of Palestinians, and a toxic mix of 50-million tons of building debris. Somehow, piles of bodies decay beneath the surface. And garbage is piled as high as the bodies, were they to be stacked. Open sewage runs through what remains of the streets, and the byproducts and contaminants of munitions, such as unexploded ordnance, are everywhere.

Again: It’s all a big mystery.

But none of that matters: What counts is that America will be there to cover the crime scene for the love of Israel and remove the pitiful exhibits.

The other thing nobody can quite determine is which of the two countries is the Great Satan and which is the Little Satan.

UPDATE VI (2/16/025):

UPDATE V (2/13/025):

What a force of nature. What a little poet. May The Force be with this fiery, brave Palestinian child. She puts us all to shame.

Population transfer plotted in …1937. The document in Hebrew. I vouch for its contents.

I bet your American kids don’t endure a checkpoint and hours of bartering before being allowed back into their neighborhood.

January 15, 2025: The ceasefire.

It appears that Donald Trump, an Alpha Male, does not like a kept man, Bibi Netanyahu, to order him around. Fellating genocider Bibi Netanyahu as foreign policy is now over.

We hope.

In a nutshell, Steven Witkoff, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides, and I paraphrase: I don’t care that today’s your Sabbath [they seem to continue killing during the Sabbath]. Get your ass down here and sign this old ceasefire on the dotted line. “Old” because  Hamas has not changed its reasonable stipulations.

Via Ha’aretz:

[Bibi’s] aides politely explained that was in the middle of the Sabbath but that the prime minister would gladly meet him Saturday night.

Witkoff’s blunt reaction took them by surprise. He explained to them in salty English that Shabbat was of no interest to him. His message was loud and clear. Thus in an unusual departure from official practice, the prime minister showed up at his office for an official meeting with Witkoff, who then returned to Qatar to seal the deal.

Note that it was the bitch Bibi who had been allowed by Team Genocide, Biden and Blinken, to do as he pleased and reject the terms just agreed upon.

In fact, Witkoff has forced Israel to accept a plan that Netanyahu had repeatedly rejected over the past half year. Hamas has not budged from its position that the hostages’ freedom must be conditioned on the release of Palestinian prisoners (the easy part) and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza (the hard one). Netanyahu rejected this condition and thus was born the partial deal proposed by Egypt.

Initially, the talk was of a limited humanitarian deal. More and more conditions were slowly appended until it grew into a much bigger proposal with clear outlines – a hostage release, new regional arrangements and full withdrawal. The Philadelphi Corridor, which Netanyahu last summer termed the bedrock of Israel’s existence, is part of the deal. At Egypt’s request, Israel will fully withdraw from it in the first phase.

Trump ordering a ceasefire into being within in days indicates that, at any point, Team Genocide, Biden and Blinken, could have done the same: stopped genocide at its inception. Team Genocide took a decision not to stop genocide.

MORE.

UPDATE I (1/31/025): There is great evil in fudging language, in using euphemisms or just being too stupid to accurately distill the truth so as to accurately label events and situations:

The image below depicts IDF serial killers and psychopaths rummaging through the effects of those they killed or dispossession. This time in the West Bank.

This is invasion, looting and vandalism of private property, following on the murder or eviction of the rightful owners.

“Machismo” is how a writer at Ha’aretz labels the act of invading homes, looting, vandalism.

ANOTHER SUCH EXAMPLE:

UPDATE (3/4/2025):

Mentioned above is the evil of fudging language, or using soft, imprecise words, thereby mislabeling that which is brutal and criminal.

Example of such Fake News bafflegab comes via Ha’aretz (the only reasonable newspaper in Israel).

Ha’aretz turns the realities of IDF invasion, occupation and the violence of conquest into nothing but an “overbearing embrace”:

Israel’s Overbearing Embrace Threatens Syria’s Druze at Critical Juncture

On, bout those condoms to Ingaza, in Mozambique.

UPDATE II (1/23/025):

Trump starts to channel Jared Kushner.

If you recall, Kushner, the nepotistic scion of a dodgy New York realtor, and an empty husk of a man, had his eye on the waterfront property of a conquered and dying people.

READ. Scroll down to read what the vulgar Kushner said. It is in the essay, “ISRAEL: In Violation Of God’s Law, Natural Justice, The Laws Of War, And All Customary International Humanitarian Law,” Ilana Mercer, March 31, 2024

In essence, some of the world’s wealthiest men are coveting the property of the world’s poorest and most persecuted people.

Via Ha’aretz:

“I looked at a picture of Gaza, it’s like a massive demolition site. It’s really … it’s gotta be rebuilt in a different way. Gaza’s interesting, it’s a phenomenal location. On the sea, the best weather. Everything’s good. Some beautiful things can be done with it. It’s very interesting. Some fantastic things can be done with it.”

AND:

“It’s not our war, it’s their war. But I’m not confident. But I think they’re very weakened on the other side,” he said, adding he “can’t imagine” Hamas playing a role in post-war Gaza.

“You certainly can’t have the people that are there – most of them are dead. They didn’t exactly run it well,” Trump added. “They ran it viciously and badly. So you can’t have that.”

UPDATE III (1/24/025):  On the other hand, this is purity of soul:

UPDATE VIII (3/13/025):

Decadence and death = Israel.
A very Woke country, mind you.

Check out the Electronic Intifada report of filled condoms left by the IDF, in evicted and vandalized West Bank homes.

During “military” raids, the IDF is a male-only “fighting” force.

Leaving behind human waste is another IDF signature.

The screen-picture image of Purim, a children’s festival, comes via Ha’artez: Wholesome.

Women don’t partake in IDF so-called ‘combat’ raids, so the condoms in vandalized Palestinian homes, during the bacchanalia in the West Bank, are for what… ?

Oh yeah, Republicans. Oh yeah, conservatives. I give you your protégés.

The IDF equals moral filth and actual filth.

“Feces, urine and used condoms – these are just some of the things that Israeli soldiers left behind in #Palestinian homes during their 11-day assault on the al-Faraa refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley, south of Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank, last month.

As I wrote in ‘Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must Be Liberated, S.O.S‘:

‘Israel’s soldier sons and daughters are the stars in the country’s #genocide constellation.’

NEW (UPDATED 3/25/025): SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto

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The IDF’s ‘Aktion’ in northern Gaza resembles nothing short of the ‘liquidation’ of the ghettos of East Europe ~ilana

1/5/025: Speech restrictions stateside in the form of the Antisemitism Awareness Act mirror the worst of British and western Europe’s anti-speech tribunals. Tabled by a Republican and a Democrat and passed by the Upper Chamber, S. 4127 would embed Israeli agitprop throughout American education. For posterity.

Aside being in violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Antisemitism Awareness Act would utterly enervate discourse in our country, and would actually criminalize tracts like my last:

SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto

12/29/024: Emanations from the collective that is the Israeli mind continue to be as septic as an open sewer. The Church of Satan, IDF, sets up a spa-like facility on the northern coast of Gaza, stolen land. Breakfast, BBQ, mani-pedi and massages are on offer to the killing squads in the killing fields of Gaza.

There’s a lounge for treats, Belgian waffles and pretzels, there are also popcorn and cotton candy machines, as well as a barber and a pedicurist for the fighters.

Surrounded by synthetic grass, and the putrefying bodies of murdered Palestinians.

12/17/024: Yet even the solidarity camp has to keep intoning that Jews oppose the vampiric Zionists. Not quite.  

According to a 2024 Pew Research survey, which misleadingly labels the genocide in Gaza a “military operation,” “Opinion about Israel’s current military operation against Hamas,” reveal that, “Jewish Americans… are quite divided on this question:

28% say Israel’s military operation is going too far.
24% say it has not gone far enough.
32% say it is taking the right approach.
13% are unsure.

The Manhattan Institute polls Jews about a variety of anodyne issues, and buries this tidbit deep down:

“Across all of American Jewry, support for Israel is strong, consistent, and bipartisan (83% of Democratic Jews, 86% of Independents, and 94% of Republicans)”

A disgrace.

“A new ‘non-partisan’ survey by the Jewish Electorate Institute (JEI) released [before the election] shows very high levels of Jewish voters backing Kamala Harris and Democrats in the 2024 elections.”

Kamala Harris had never repudiated Genocide-Joe’s genocide, and had promised to continue doing what was in Israel’s interests. It is fair to deduce then, that genocide was not an overriding issue for Democrat-supporting Jews.

12/11/024: Israelis and their lickspittles pitch a fit when the language of the Nazi Holocaust is applied to the genocide Israel is perpetrating upon the Palestinians.

So I compare. Read. You’ll learn some history:

Newest round-ups for death marches toward the south, the Sinai desert:

NEW COLUMN IS “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto.” It was, on November 27, a main feature on The Unz Review. It was also featured on antiwar, anti-empire LewRockwell.com. And on the Mises Institute’s Power & Market.

You can read “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto,” now at IlanaMercer.com

Excerpt:

Israelis and their lickspittles pitch a fit when the language of the Nazi Holocaust is applied to the genocide Israel is perpetrating upon the Palestinians. So here goes:

The northern part of the Gaza Ghetto is being “liquidated” (as remarked on October 31).  Israel’s methodology there is that of the Nazi death squads, who were said to have “liquidated” the ghettos of Eastern Europe before transporting their involuntarily confined Jewish occupants to the extermination camps, in cattle cars.

Going up against ghettoized civilians were the soldiers of the Nazi Party, the SS, the toughest in the Wehrmacht. Like the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the SS presided over a Kafkaesque apparatus of propaganda, intelligence, police and military bureaucracies.

Plainly put, the purpose of liquidation was deportation to the death camps for extermination. Israel, of course, has further streamlined and industrialized mass eviction and murder by collapsing liquidation and extermination into one. Duly, the IDF is currently attempting to shoo about 400,000 broken and starving human beings in the Strip’s northern most section toward a “safe zone,” the narrow midsection that is the Netzarim Corridor.

The IDF’s “safe zones” bafflegab is reminiscent of the upbeat postcards which deported Jews were urged to mail to their associates: From these condemned Jews, the Nazis, clever and coldhearted, had coerced messages of good cheer: reassuring postcards to folks back home from those who were never coming home. Don’t worry. We’re safe. We’re being ‘resettled’ in a wonderful place. (“Dear wife, I am healthy and I work as a tailor…”)

Since the Palestinians know all too well what is meant by “safe zones”; they are mostly standing their ground. Consequently, the SS IDF is slowly exterminating the residents of northern Gaza in-situ.

As the field monitors of Euro-Med Monitor reported, in the waning days of October, 2024, “Israel is systematically and extensively working to drive out the Palestinian population and forcibly displace them from their residential areas in the northern Gaza Strip.” To that end, they are “using massacres, mass killings, bombings of hospitals and shelters, and the destruction of [the little that remains of the] basic necessities of life.” ……

… Grossaktion Gaza is how the Nazis would have dubbed the SS IDF’s actions.

Aktion or Grossaktion is the term the Nazis used for their assorted ghetto-liquidation operations. Grossaktion Warsaw was the Nazi code name for the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto—again, deportation for the purpose of extermination.

The IDF’s Grossaktion Gaza resembles nothing short of the “liquidation” of the ghettos, as detailed by the National WWII Museum (carpeting your victims with bombs is Israel’s contribution to the annals of genocide):

“The liquidation of ghettos involved rounding up all Jewish inhabitants, shooting any resisters, deporting Jews to killing centers, and the physical destruction of the ghetto. Blanka Rothschild describes her memory of the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto: ‘[When] came our time, we had to be taken out. The entire population of our [building] was walked to the place where the cattle cars were, and we were loaded. It was a horrible thing because people had to stand. There was no place to sit or squat. If somebody was sick or even dying, he died on his feet standing up. It was just unbearable.’ While some were able to escape or were transferred to forced labor camps, the vast majority of Jews who lived in ghettos in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe perished either from horrid conditions or mass deportations to extermination centers.”

Images are everywhere in Gaza, the north especially, of large groups of naked Palestinian men sitting amid the ruins. CNN had finally deigned to report and depict, on October 30, men old, frail and infirm, wilting out on Gaza’s ruined streets. These images had been uploaded by Satan’s army on earth, by the IDF itself. The separation of the men from the women on arrival: This, too, was a feature of the Nazi death camps. Stripping was the lot of all the condemned. …

…These days, Gaza looks worse than the Polish Kutno Ghetto of yesteryear, for example, depicted in Hugo Jaeger’s photography, curated by Time & Life. On the one hand are the heartbreaking images of the Polish shantytown, its many makeshift shelters, and its hopeless inmates amid the collapsing ruins. On the other are the nylon tents that have come to typify Gaza, set against a Hiroshima-like hellscape, from which all signs of collective Palestinian life have been erased. The similarities are too conspicuous to ignore. …

… READ THE REST. NEW COLUMN, “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto,” was, on November 27, a main feature on The Unz Review. It was also featured on antiwar, anti-empire LewRockwell.com, and on the Mises Institute’s Power & Market.

You can read “SS IDF Is ‘Liquidating’ The North Gaza Ghetto,” now at IlanaMercer.com