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Open Thread – Mon 30 Oct 2023
- Guest Post: Wally Dali- Archibald Prize predictions
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 May 2024
- Bumtree #15
- Bumtree #14
Like the didgeridoo, the Six Seasons, Bruce Chatwin’s Songlines and Ernie Dingo’s Welcome To Country, Papunya dots have come from…
Kowtowing to the filth certainly isn’t working out the way Labore and NSWaffen believed it would. Fortunately for we plebs,…
Some people really deserve the nickname “1080”.
Wussia winning everywhere: Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk
The rate at which South Australians are dying is rising
…Closing The Gap from the top side? Cmon, Vic and Qld treaty states, start carkin’!
Not that simple Dot. Lithium is much lighter so one electron from lithium is the same as 7.3 electrons from vanadium oxidation states. Also vanadium chemistry is very messy and prone to side reactions. Flow batteries are OK though, since you have two big tanks of electrolyte and a compact cell. Too low energy density for anything movable though.
Lithium is still the one. Maybe aluminium could be made to work, although even there lithium is still ahead on weight per available electron.
Perhaps someone can tell me what ‘legitimate grievances’ are behind Shani Louk’s beheading?
Google Translate: Get some EU support in place unmittelbar, before it is too late. And, by the way, don’t even dream of going squish with the 2035 total ICE ban.
Headline last week:
QLD to build a regional network of 2,500 EV charging points!
[Small print: 2000 will be reserved for government vehicles.]
BoN, where does Ag4O4 sit in all this?
(my electrochem is pretty awful)
Perhaps someone can tell me what ‘legitimate grievances’ are behind Shani Louk’s beheading?
Monty, get in here and explain yourself.
How would the military genius’s at the A.B.C. handle said incursion?
And when are feminists going to protest Hamas’s rape culture?
Shani Louk, 23, who was kidnapped from the Supernova festival and paraded unconscious on the back of a truck, was beheaded by Hamas terrorists, according to Israeli officials
To paraphrase Iowahawk from a week ago, as it wasn’t recorded in HD from six different angles provided by Hamas, we’ll never know.
So when a Bibi led government allows aid in Gaza it’s “propping up Hamas” for which Bibi needs to pay the price (PS he wasn’t the only Israeli govt or PM allowing aid into Gaza).
But when Bibi stops it – only for a short period of time – he is worse than Hitler.
This is what’s coming from the cough, ahem, newspapers of record.
I can’t keep up.
Standby for reports of a thousand dead Palestinian children, as Hamas try to win back the high ground.
One to miss!
Boudica review – dreary take on Norfolk’s killer queen is as gritty as a sponge
This take on the first-century Iceni heroine looks like a home movie, and Olga Kurylenko’s lack of majesty in the lead role doesn’t help
Leslie Felperin
Boudica, the Iceni queen who led an insurrection against the Roman colonisers in first-century Britain, is one of the great feminist icons from ancient history, but there are surprisingly few cinematic representations of her.
There was a British TV show from 1978 called Warrior Queen that had the great Siân Phillips daubed in woad, a just-OK film from 2003 also called Warrior Queen that starred Alex Kingston, and a smattering of others in various languages, mostly for TV.
And, of course, there’s the utterly iconic segment in Horrible Histories where Queen B (Martha Howe-Douglas) sings a grungy ditty about how her bloody campaign. (“Bow man, yeoman, smash the Roman foe man / All say ‘Yah / It’s Boudic-a!’”). But all that still leaves room for a great feature film about the toughest, most heroic gal to come out of Norfolk, up there with Edith Cavell and Delia Smith.
Sadly, the vacancy remains after this dreary take on the killer queen, here played by Ukrainian-French actor Olga Kurylenko. Now, some may doubt this, but I have seen passable performances from Kurylenko – for instance, as a concert pianist in The Death of Stalin. That said, in general she’s better when speaking French or just standing around looking decorative. This, unfortunately, is one of her worst turns, in a role where everything hinges on the actor playing the lead being able to project majesty and grit.
Kurylenko is about as gritty as a used sponge, and has a thin, feeble voice that’s especially unconvincing in scenes where she’s meant to rally troops with impassioned rhetoric. About halfway through, there is a scene where her character is brought terrible news of a loved one’s death. As Kurylenko goes into despairing yowls, the film turns down the audio and cranks up tragic-sounding music, usually a strong sign that even the film-makers could tell this performance was going to convince no one, so best just smother it in a surge of treacly strings.
Writer-director Jesse V Johnson has scant talent for dialogue either; Horrible Histories had more gravitas. What Johnson is good at – and so he should be, given his earlier career as a stunt performer and coordinator – is choreographing fights and fisticuffs. Although the film often looks like a home movie shot with half a dozen live action role play devotees messing around in a forest, the thwacking of swords and plunging of knives is a bit of a hoot. At one point, someone gets their head cut off and the dismembered visage keeps on blinking and gasping with incredulity at this indignity – a sensation viewers of this film will undoubtedly relate to.
Murderous scumbag thinks the IDF are just like his boyos in the Rah.
Mohamed Elrafihi is the CEO of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, the peak council representing multicultural communities. Read this and weep from the Hun. FMD
Nuance! Empathy! Love! Education! It will conquer all in this shitshow according to the author of this article.
Australia is a place where diverse voices have a say. Tell that to the bloke escorted away because he had the temerity to fly an Israeli flag. And the Jews to stay away from the Opera House as it was lit up in those colours.
The pain is shared. Yeah I agree that the loss of life is shit. But this is all on Hamas. Elrafihi should know Hamas use civilians as shields, schools and hospitals as a tool of war.
As lotocoti said a couple of weeks ago, if you want to dance with a bear, you don’t decide when it’s over.
This take on the first-century Iceni heroine looks like a home movie, and Olga Kurylenko’s lack of majesty in the lead role doesn’t help
She’s one of my favourites.
I’ve sat through many a horrible movie with her in it.
Plan to keep doing so.
Interesting the Link to the Israel UN Ambassador QR Code on Hamas Atrocities is showing Goggle Eroor 404 again
Is Google deliberately censoring Israel and supporting Hamas?
Further to the Video above of the Hamas savages beheading an wounded Thai civilian with a Garden Hoe whilst he is still alive – Not a Jew, Not an Israeli Citizen, just like any number of Thai People around the World, working overseas to earn money to send back to his Family in Thailand
His crime? Being alive in Israel.
This is the true face of Hamas??
As I said on Michael’s Post on Labor Tony Burke supports the terrorists and their flag.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/tony-burke-supports-the-terrorists-and-their-flag.html
I suggest you put your Mobile Phone to the QR Code referenced below and see the Horrors & Barbarity of Gazan Palestinian Hamas the images on the QR Code of the 1 page on UN Ireland Desk are absolutely Horrendous – https://www.timesofisrael.com/erdan-shows-attempted-beheading-in-uphill-bid-to-block-unga-resolution-ignoring-hamas/
– The Dumpster Bin full of Charred Bodies – God only knows what happened to the Women with the Gag in her mouth, looks like she was burnt alive – the body burnt to a crisp with their hands tied together -the charred, totally blackened skull with white teeth standing out – bodies side by side burnt to a crisp – the 4 min video of brave Hamas Palestinian Barbarians shooting unarmed young people enjoying themselves
Charred bodies everywhere, beheaded soldiers, charred babies
How could any Australian especially The Australian Labor Party, Greens, some TEALS etc, support the Palestinian Gazan’s who rejoice at Hamas, having seen those images & video?
Gerry Adams. Another merchant of death speaking from both sides of his arse. It’s a conga line of the worst actors in the world and it’s an unedifying spectacle.
Nuance! Empathy! Love! Education! It will conquer all in this shitshow according to the author of this article.
Pretty sure if you send your kid to a Pali school, you’re only going to learn to hate Jews & get ready to murder.
Compare that to your typical Israeli education.
That would be because they’ve turned down the offer five times.
Next!
Nuance!
gawd- that’s what Trump haters say Clinton has.
Black Ball
Oct 31, 2023 9:36 AM
Mohamed Elrafihi is the CEO of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, the peak council representing multicultural communities. Read this and weep from the Hun. FMD
Australia is a place where diverse voices have a say. Tell that to the bloke escorted away because he had the temerity to fly an Israeli flag. And the Jews to stay away from the Opera House as it was lit up in those colours.
The pain is shared. Yeah I agree that the loss of life is shit. But this is all on Hamas. Elrafihi should know Hamas use civilians as shields, schools and hospitals as a tool of war.
As lotocoti said a couple of weeks ago, if you want to dance with a bear, you don’t decide when it’s over.
Black Ball,
Elrafihi should read
Not so innocent civilians
Would Guterres ever assert that the death of Gaza civilians past and future also does not “happen in a vacuum”? Hardly.
But just who are these “innocent civilians” of Gaza?
These are the same people who elected Hamas in 2006, knowing that Hamas’ charter called for the extermination of all Jews. That charter preceded Hamas’ election by almost two decades.
These “civilians” knew for whom they voted and why they voted for them.
There are the same “civilians” whose homes conceal entrances to Hamas’ tunnels, whose hospitals shield Hamas’ leaders, whose clinics and schools are used as launching pads for Hamas’ rockets.
These are the “civilians” who rushed across the border fence on October 7 to maraud, rape and murder.
These are the “civilians” who are used as human shields. My sympathy for them is lacking.
Certainly, infants are innocent, but all children pay the price for the folly of adults.
More troubling are the adults – civilians all – who birthed and raised monsters, such as one evildoer who called his father from Kibbutz Mefalsim to boast in real time of his mass murder: “Father, look how many Jews I killed with my own hands! Your son, I killed ten Jews with my own hands!’ To which the proud father responded: “God is great. May God protect you.”
Consider this for a moment.
Is there one reader among you who would be “proud” of a child who boasted of mass murder?
If I while driving accidentally struck a pedestrian who fell to the ground and tore his pants, I would have been too embarrassed to tell my father.
And here, this savage not only murders, beheads, tortures, and dismembers, but he also has the presence of mind to call his father, knowing that his father would admire his cowardly and dastardly deeds.
Those are not “innocent civilians”; those are people steeped in a sick culture of hatred that is inconceivable to normal human beings.
Those are people who willingly aid and abet mass murder and then cry about the consequences when they and their homes are bombed.
Gaza’s imams this week issued a fatwa calling it a crime against Islam for any Gazan to travel south to avoid Israel’s offensive.
They are not “civilians” but passive combatants, tools in Hamas’ arsenal.
They deserve no protections – certainly not international law – and humanity will be better off without them.
The recourse to international law to protect these murderers and their accomplices is farcical.
For decades now, the West has struggled with a response to radical Islam and the proper method for conducting asymmetrical warfare.
Consequently, radical Islam, as typified by Iran, has grown stronger, and even stronger due to the appeasement of the Americans and the West.
But the primary fallacy has been the West’s choice to indulge the grisly notion that Israel has to be bound by the rules of war while their enemy does not, that somehow proxies of Iran are excused from the norms of war that bind all others.
The grossest ongoing violation of international law is the holding of Jewish hostages, which somehow the “world” condones as, well, just the way it is.
We are expected to provide water, electricity, food, medicine, and other needs to our enemy to demonstrate our commitment to international law, notwithstanding that the enemy can flout international law with impunity.
That, too, is senseless and immoral, and we should not tolerate that.
We should be unafraid to tell the world – including Biden, Blinken, Macron and whoever else visits Israel – that if Hamas still has enough fuel to launch rockets, then they have enough fuel, period.
Let the hospitals procure their fuel from the leaders they elected. Let the million and a half “innocent civilians” revolt against their cruel leaders if indeed they are so innocent and so troubled by the conditions in Gaza.
We should have no interest in making more Arab fathers proud of their sons’ talent for murdering Jews.
Only Israel has every military action assessed and approved by its lawyers.
That is no way to run a war and no way to win a war, which has resulted in decades of Israel not winning any wars and even thinking that wars are not winnable.
That is a defeatist strategy that has brought disaster upon us.
The United States and allies have fought wars in the last century that have killed millions of enemy civilians, with reassessments coming only after the wars’ successful conclusions.
That is a good template for us as well.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/379261
Oh yes ejucashun- the expansion of unis over the last sixty years has been a disaster
Because every life is sacred, every individual has a family, and every child is a parent’s pride and joy.
Glib bullshit.
Twee muck
feelthebern
Oct 31, 2023 9:42 AM
Nuance! Empathy! Love! Education! It will conquer all in this shitshow according to the author of this article.
Pretty sure if you send your kid to a Pali school, you’re only going to learn to hate Jews & get ready to murder.
Compare that to your typical Israeli education.
feelthebern,
interesting, our Mulsim Palestinian Driver in Israel, on our Memphis Tours in March/April 2011 with Private Car/Driver/Guide in Egypt, Jordan & Israel, lived in Bethlehem behind the Wall, but sent his kids to Catholic Schools
When I asked Why? – Better Education was the response
AR – I haven’t looked up silver batteries. That is a two electron transfer reaction Ag2+ to Ag metal, and silver is heavy and expensive. Lithium is about half the price of silver but you get 8 times as many electrons. So on a dollar per electron basis silver is 16 times more expensive than lithium.
Solar panels use a lot of silver too, so adding in a new industry would force the price higher again.
“Peace”
Also
Twitch Millionaire Socialist LARPer Hassan Piker sez the babies in Israel “deserved it”
Cenk Ungyur’s nephew everyone!
And another…
Nolte: Robert De Niro’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ DOA at Box Office (30 Oct)
Sounds like Dances with Woke. That may be unfair but I’m not a fan of either De Niro or DiCaprio lately.
21st century feminists aren’t interested in anything as quaint as women’s rights.
That’s because 21st century feminists are members of the leftist tribe to which they have surrendered unconditionally.
The number one rule of the leftist tribe is that there is no dissent against tribal rules — and tribe loves the genocidal terrorists of Hamas because it hates the West.
If you hate the West, the tribe tells you to love Hamas — and no dissent is allowed.
That’s why 21st century feminists aren’t allowing themselves to be feminists with principles. That would mean expulsion from the tribe — a fate worse than death for the zombies of the 21st century left.
Kurt Schlicter
I know, Tom.
It was a rhetorical question 😀
But a good one to put to any individual feminist should the occasion arise.
Amplify the cognitive dissonance.
Schlichter
Putin criticises Russian law enforcement after antisemitic Dagestan chaos, warning police chiefs they need to take ‘firm, timely and clear actions’ as White House said carnage was ‘Like a pogrom’
Hundreds of thugs descended on to the runway of Makhachlaka airport in Russia
Vladimir Putin has called on Russian law enforcement to take ‘firm’ actions after antisemitic rioters stormed an airport in Dagestan yesterday.
Screaming parents and their crying children were forced to run the gauntlet through an angry anti-Semitic mob that had stormed Makhachlaka airport last night to hunt down Jews after their flight from Israel landed in a Muslim-majority region.
The Russian President today responded to the chaotic scenes, saying: ‘I want to draw the attention of heads of all regions, heads of law enforcement agencies and special services to the need for firm, timely and clear actions to protect Russia’s constitutional order, the rights and freedoms of our citizens, inter-ethnic and inter-religious harmony.’
Poor old Waleed Ali, lamenting the plight of civilian Pallies.
Worldwide the lefturd propaganda is cranking out that the downtrodden Pallies are simply innocent bystanders, while the sons, husbands, brothers, sisters and near every fkg Palestinian in Gaza supports and/ or rejoices at the baby beheading animals exploits in Israel.
Sorry Waleed. There is no coming back from what Hamas and the Pallies have wrought apon themselves. There are no buts or whatabouts. Israel must wipe Hamas out completely along with their Gazan support networks. Whatever it takes.
BB at 10.08:
Outstanding column. Recommended.
Australian Spectator has an excellent assessment of the preparations and perilous job of the IDF ahead.
If Its ca’t access this – I can post the article.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/will-israels-military-strategy-work-against-hamas/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020231031%20%20AL&utm_content=MDS%20%2020231031%20%20AL+CID_c0c1642e0db31a3d32dfb2e3c9b64c1c&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=asks%20two%20pertinent%20questions
Sorry – that should have read – “if Cats cant access the…”
Please post it Vicki?
Anyone going on a road trip to Tassie?
Australia Warns Ferries about EVs (29 Oct)
Be fun if a journo asks Bowen about this problem. The squirming would be epic.
Israel’s war against Hamas is a battle for civilization
Hamas terrorists have continued to use Gaza as a terror camp despite billions of dollars in aid for its residents
The most barbaric and widescale terror attack in decades took place on October 7, when Hamas Nazis invaded southern Israel and embarked on a killing spree, massacring 1,400 Israelis and taking over 220 hostages.
I will never forget the unfathomable images of death and destruction.
Hamas is a jihadi terror group and the atrocities they committed were exactly like those of ISIS and al Qaeda. It deliberately targets civilians and children. It is savage.
And these terrorists are solely responsible for the situation in Gaza.
In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip, removing all Israeli civilians and soldiers from the territory. Instead of becoming a peaceful entity alongside Israel, Gaza became a terror machine.
Hamas is internationally recognized as a terror organization by Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and many other countries.
In 2007, after it was voted into power by the people of Gaza, Hamas brutally took over, throwing Palestinian Authority representatives off buildings and beginning its reign of terror.
In the 16 years since, Hamas has ruled the Gaza Strip with an iron fist, seeking to impose sharia law on the population.
Hamas is sworn to the destruction of the state of Israel and the murder of Jews.
Its charter, written in 1988, explicitly states so.
These terrorists do not want dialogue! They want dead Jews, and they have been saying so for 35 years.
Nonetheless, the international community attempted to moderate Hamas’ behavior by offering economic incentives.
Billions of dollars in donations, supplies, and building materials from Europe, Qatar, the United Nations, and other donors have come pouring into the Gaza Strip.
Nonetheless, the international community attempted to moderate Hamas’ behavior by offering economic incentives. Billions of dollars in donations, supplies, and building materials from Europe, Qatar, the United Nations, and other donors have come pouring into the Gaza Strip.
While Israel seeks to mitigate civilian casualties in its military operations, Hamas seeks to increase civilian casualties – of both Israelis and Palestinians. How else can one rationally explain indiscriminately firing rockets at a civilian population from locations embedded within a civilian population?
The people of Gaza, after voting for Hamas, live within a terror war machine and sadly, we must recognize that they continue to support Hamas and its atrocities.
And Iran, the No. 1 global state sponsor of terror which funds much of Hamas’ terror budget, provides a lifeline of support.
The immoral and false comparisons between Israel, a law-abiding democracy, and Hamas, an internationally designated terror group, that we are seeing at the UN and in the media now is exactly what the terrorists want.
There is no clearer example of this deranged reality than the tragedy of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital. The proof is indisputable: the hospital was struck by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.
However, Hamas blatantly lied, leading many in the media and the UN to immediately blame Israel without verifying the facts.
Massacring Israelis is one part of Hamas’ heinous strategy.
The second part is to exploit public opinion and international bodies to pressure Israel into limiting its ability to defend itself.
And they are playing right into Hamas’ script.
Quite pathetic how Carsales.com.au has been pushing EVs. Their take on the above was EV owners face battery-fuelled discrimination on ferries
Wait for it, wait for it, nearly there…
Bingo!
And there we have it! The scrawny, fleabitten rabbit pulled out of the hat. Again.
I usually don’t click on twitter/X links because they are painfully slow to load, and when they do there is no sound, so you have to stop it, turn up the sound, and go back to the beginning.
Why can’t people just copy the content and put it up? If it is sufficiently interesting, readers might go back to the link.
Twiggy doing a bit of self-decapitation.
More climate violence rhetoric: When it was “time to put heads on spikes” (29 Oct)
Your neck is quite safe son, nothing much is happening climatewise except for the usual natural variations.
Black Ball
Oct 31, 2023 10:08 AM
Kurt Schlicter
Remember the Pax Romana?
Do you think that peace just sort of occurred because everybody shared their feelings openly and without restraint? Do you know how the Romans did sieges? Let’s talk about Caesar at Alesia. The Gauls had gotten uppity and killed a lot of Romans, so Caesar decided to pacify them. The barbarian leader Vercingetorix took refuge in the hilltop town, and Caesar immediately surrounded it. He had his legionnaires build a giant wall around it to lock the Gauls inside.
The Gauls called their friends for help, so Caesar built another wall around his besieging forces to keep the relief column at bay. He starved out Alesia, eventually forcing the Gauls to attack and defeating them handily.
Then he took Vercingetorix back to Rome, made him march in chains in triumph, and then had his defeated enemy strangled.
This was an important learning point for the barbarians. Don’t screw with civilized people, or everybody dies.
This is how you get a Pax Romana. There’s no other way.
The hard truth is that the world contains bad people who must be crushed through ruthless violence, which shocks and horrifies modern sensibilities. But it is reality nonetheless. When people want to kill you, you are at a decision point. You can either let them kill you or stop them. But stopping them often involves aesthetically displeasing actions, such as blowing them into little bits with bombs or shoving a bayonet into their guts and watching them die in agony. And it necessarily means inflicting death and damage on the noncombatant camp followers around them. That’s why they say war is hell. And that’s why starting one is probably not a good idea. But when someone else starts one, you have to choose them or you. Someone’s going to die badly, and you know, I propose it is those other guys.
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The West didn’t start this fight, but it damn well better finish it, or they will finish us. Time to stop being soft. It’s time to stop lying to ourselves. It’s time to stop pretending that human nature took a 180° change a few decades ago and that we are not the same animals we used to be because now we have cars, airplanes, and Instagram.
We are the same brutal, cruel, and warlike creatures we have always been. Every headline, every act of hideous violence, and every pro-genocide cheer by the grad school sociopaths who fetishize Third-World savages, proves it. What we have to do is lift the scales from our eyes, understand the situation we are in, and accept it.
For the last couple of generations, we in the West have told ourselves that we have changed. We told ourselves that we are beyond violence. And we told ourselves that everyone else was too.
But that was a lie.
We need to stop lying to ourselves. A society that suspends both kids when one of them slugs a bully is signing its own suicide note.
Long panel discussion on The Drum last night.
Summarised: Bibi is responsible for what happened. During the lead up to Oct 7 he laundered money which was passed on to Hamas.
This seems to be the play of the left. Take away the focus from Hamas and what they did/are doing. Make the discussion all about evil mastermind, Bibi. Get rid of him.
Also two state solution. As if.
What an obnoxious twerp
Allow me a suggestion to facilitate that:
Hamas lets their people evacuate and they remain to fight like men, not cowards hiding behind women and children.
There can be no peaceful solution to this. There is no solution. The intransigence of Muslims makes it so but nobody will talk about this.
A gigantic solar farm is currently being constructed 55km from Mudgee (in our “neck of the woods”) which will contain 660,000 panels.
The company that operates this construction is “Solar Megawatt Holding”. However, we have just received a newsletter in respect to current construction progress from “Beijing Jingneng Clean Energy” with the postal address of York St Sydney !!!
No guess where the solar panels come from & who will be making zillions from the construction side of the project.
Last year we were contacted concerning a rental property we own in Mudgee. We were offered double the rent we now get to relet to their construction workers. Not a chance in the world.
From the Sydney Moaning Herald – I thought Russia was losing according to some Cat Bloggers?
Wagner, without Prigozhin, returns to battlefield in Ukraine as Russia pushes to seize Avdiivka
The in Gaza and you will be presented with the following options:
Squalid’s journal of reference ‘ Jazza,
Hamas’s ABC,
Turnbull’s sewer,
SMH,
CNN,
The Conversation,
AFR
SBS taking a break from relentless blackfella propaganda.
Why is Albanese bothering with anti-free speech laws, it is already in place.
That Wagner has been redeployed suggests things haven’t quite been going to plan with the regular troops. Heavy losses, I believe.
The Australian Spectator, 30 October, “Will Israel’s military strategy work against Hamas?” , Sean Rayment:
Israeli soldiers are the masters of street fighting. It is unlikely that there has not been a single month in the 75-year history of the Israeli state in which members of its security forces have not been involved in some form of urban warfare.
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) have fought on the streets of Gaza and the West Bank during the first and second intifadas, as well as in towns and villages in southern Lebanon. They have developed tactics, now adopted by armies the world over, for moving through occupied urban areas by blasting holes through buildings. And through endless urban battles – known as FIBUA, fighting in a built-up area – the IDF have become experts in maximising enemy casualties while minimising their own.
The fighting is likely to be ferocious as Israeli infantry root out Hamas gunmen from the smouldering remains of Gaza city
This weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation against Hamas had now entered its ‘second stage’, adding that ‘the war in the Strip will be long and difficult and we are prepared for it.’ The early signs suggest that the IDF is taking Gaza piece by piece – a military concept known as clear and hold. Huge numbers of troops will be required and the fighting is likely to be ferocious and possibly hand-to-hand, as Israeli infantry root out Hamas gunmen from the smouldering remains of Gaza city.
Following the Hamas atrocities of October 7th, thousands of IDF personnel have been testing their tactics relentlessly in the street fighting training base known as Little Gaza at the Tze’elim training centre in the southern Negev desert. The £40 million base is designed to simulate a modern desert city, with more than 600 individual structures, including eight story high buildings, complexes, shacks, schools, stores and markets.
Israeli troops – many of them reservists who just a little more than three weeks ago were sitting behind desks in office blocks in Tel Aviv or tending their avocado farms –will have been trained in how to quickly identify ambush points, sniper locations and where home-made bombs are likely to be placed. Soldiers will also have received hours of refresher training in how to deal with a traumatic amputation, stop an arterial bleed and when and when not to administer morphine to a seriously wounded fellow soldier screaming in agony.
That knowledge, collated over decades, will now be invaluable as their troops begin to move through the bomb-cratered streets of Gaza in the hunt for Hamas terrorists and the search for the estimated 200 hostages snatched from southern Israel three weeks ago.
Israeli Intelligence planners will have pored over hours of satellite imagery and video footage from drones pinpointing likely Hamas strongholds and headquarters. Mossad spies placed inside the Gaza Strip will have been sending back covert messages on the terrorists’ battle preparations, dispositions and weaponry.
Additionally, Hamas fighters, like everyone else in Gaza, have been subjected to almost three weeks of relentless bombing, along with chronic food, water and electricity shortages designed to degrade the terrorists’ will to fight.
So it would be easy to assume that what resistance there might be inside Gaza would be weak and short-lived. But plans in war often do not go to plan. The 19th century military strategist Carl Von Clausewitz is often quoted as saying no plan survives contact with the enemy and history has proven time and again that he was correct.
Back in 2006 when British troops arrived in southern Afghanistan, Brigadier Ed Butler, a highly experienced SAS officer, once said that the ‘enemy always gets a vote’. What Butler, who was in charge of British forces in Helmand, meant was that the outcome of any combat plan, no matter how brilliant, is always dependent on how the enemy responds. And in the forthcoming battle for control of the Gaza Strip, all the indicators suggest that Hamas’s response will be to fight.
History has repeatedly shown that war is the most difficult and complex of all human endeavours and the most complex battles are those fought in the urban theatre. Military commanders avoid large-scale battles in cities at all costs. Look what happened to the Germans at Stalingrad – arguably the single most important battle of the entire second world war. Had Hitler ordered his generals to avoid the Russian city the entire outcome of the war may have been very different. In the battle for Berlin, which lasted a little more than two weeks, almost 200,000 Russians and German soldiers died fighting for every room in every house in every street. The very nature of urban warfare plays into the hands of the defender rather than the attacker. Trying to locate a sniper, for example, with the sound of rifle fire echoing off buildings is often impossible, as British soldiers patrolling the bleak streets of Belfast and Londonderry often found during The Troubles.
Throw into this bloody mix the unimaginable horror that is tunnel fighting and it is easy to see how Hamas’s vote might derail even the best laid Israeli battle plan. Tragically, Israel may have to endure many more months of loss and trauma before Benjamin Netanyahu can declare ‘mission accomplished’. And then what? How is victory defined – when every Hamas fighter is killed or captured? When all of the hostages have been released? Crucially the question also facing Israel is what happens if Plan A fails.
I heard a car “expert” spruiking EVs on radio the other day. Asked about range problems he dismissed it as a non issue.
“93.1% of all charging is done at home. No-one should worry about range.”
Err, dickhead.
That is 93.1% of the 10% who own EVs. A good proportion of the remaining 90% aren’t touching them because … range (and price).
And, of the 10% who own EVs, a good proportion of them use it as a city runabout and have an ICE vehicle as well.
Why? For long trips.
Are white cars a better buy? The definitive answer
Your wallet will thank you for buying a white car – even if it means looking like you live your life one spreadsheet at a time.
Are white cars cooler?
Yes. In 2010 in a tightly controlled experiment, scientists at the Berkeley Lab Environmental Energy Technologies Division, California, USA, parked two identical Honda Civics in the sun, one black and one silver.
After an hour, the silver car’s cabin temperature was a full 5–6 degrees (Celsius) lower than the black car.
A white car could perform comparably to silver or even better.
Do white cars use less fuel?
Yes. In the above experiment, researchers found the silver Honda required less air conditioning than the identical black Honda in identical circumstances. Both cars were left in the sun for a full hour before experimenters cranked the air conditioning on maximum cold for half an hour. The investigation concluded that cooling a black vehicle would use two per cent more fuel than a silver one. A white car, again, could perform similarly or even better.
In winter, an internal combustion vehicle is heated using waste energy otherwise dissipated into the atmosphere by the engine.
This is just our own speculation, but it’s possible a black electric car would require less energy for heating than a white electric car in winter, although you’d have to repeat the above experiment.
Comment rejected at the”West Australian”for daring to mention the link between Adolph Hitler,and the Grand Mufti of Jeruselum, one time spiritual head of the Palestinian people…
The only game changer in use. 3 thousand dollar drones destroy 5 million dollar tanks with ease.
The age of the tank has passed. Trenches, Foxholes and Bunkers are likewise useless.
1st Video Down
A few nights ago I caught the tail end of a terrifying Senate Estimates interrogation during which a Dept Secretary and an arrogant stooge were explaining how they refer commentary and articles to big tech if they believe the commentaries may breech the Tech’s policies.
I thought that it must have been a joke, but it was infact deadly serious. Possibly the most Orwellian horror I have ever witnessed.
My problem is that coming late to the broadcast I missed the details of the Dept and the two smug creatures justifying their treason, and I haven’t been able to track it down.
Can anyone help with the details or a link, I intend to be a relentless burr under the saddle of Dutton and the SFL until they at least make outraged comments.
The wire guided Anti Tank missile was supposed to have rendered the tank obsolete in 1973.
Vicki
Oct 31, 2023 10:39 AM
The Australian Spectator, 30 October, “Will Israel’s military strategy work against Hamas?” , Sean Rayment:
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) have fought on the streets of Gaza and the West Bank during the first and second intifadas, as well as in towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
They have developed tactics, now adopted by armies the world over, for moving through occupied urban areas by blasting holes through buildings.
Um, OldOzzie, it’s from the UK Telegraph. Amusing that they’re now so lefty that the Silly is reprinting their stuff.
And no, not much is happening around Avdiivka except the PBI dying on both sides. Not for want of trying by the Russian Army – they have 8 brigades committed. Shows how hard it is to overcome defense in built up areas, especially if the defenders have good weaponry. I’m sure the IDF has been watching this fight very closely.
Those Wagner guys are believed to be the ones that signed contracts with the Russian Army, ie they are no longer Wagner. The Kremlin has moved to scarf up all the PMCs as much as possible, although Rusich were still fairly autonomous. They’re a SF formation though. I’m not sure what’s happening in Africa, haven’t looked for a while. Putin appointed his guy as Wagner Africa head but the guys apparently elected another guy.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Oct 31, 2023 10:49 AM
The age of the tank has passed. Trenches, Foxholes and Bunkers are likewise useless.
The wire guided Anti Tank missile was supposed to have rendered the tank obsolete in 1973.
Zulu,
agreed re wire guided Anti Tank Missile
but having been watching a lot of the videos on the Ukraine/Russian impasse, and the use of cheap drones has escalated dramatically, and the desruction rate that has been shown by drones on Vehicles, Tanks, Foxholes, Ternches, Bunkers etc is quite amazing
Given the Spectator article above, I wonder what lessons Israel IDF has learnt fro those Drone Videos & the Ukraine/Russia Situation
Tens of thousands of people have been putting everything from lost pets to political messages on power poles for decades.
Suddenly, it’s very dangerous:
No other agenda here?
The Russians have been using their de-mothballed T-55s as infantry support assault guns rather than tanks per se. I thought that was interesting as the infantry tank concept led to the Matilda. We’re sort of getting back to that, although the survivability of anything on wheels is rather iffy these days with all the exotic weapon systems in service now.
The age of the tank has passed.
For the 47th time!
Roger
Oct 30, 2023 6:06 PM
Foreign Nationals?
Unlikely
They are Dual Citizenship types
Eh?
There is no Palestinian nationality (The PLA issues an identity/travel document called a passport, but not in the name of Palestine). Most Plaestinians who can travel aborad do so on a Jordanian passport.
These people no doubt have family links to Gaza, but they are nationalised citizens of other nations; ergo, foreign nationals.
That may not be correct:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Palestinian passport
Cover of an ordinary Palestinian passport
Type Passport
Issued by Palestinian Authority
Purpose Identification
Eligibility Residents of areas under the Palestinian Authority.
Expiration 5 years after acquisition
Cost US$19.90
The Palestinian Authority Passport (Arabic: ???? ??? ?????? ??????????) is a passport/travel document issued since April 1995 by the Palestinian Authority to Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories for the purpose of international travel.
The Palestinian Authority passport is available to anyone on production of a birth certificate showing that they were born in Palestine. What constitutes “Palestine” for this purpose is not clear. In practice, only residents of areas under the Palestinian Authority jurisdiction can apply
Dual citizenship does not necessarily relate to nationality, but to ability to have a passport of a country and thus claim assistance as a citizen.
You can argue semantics and find anything you want on the internet, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that people have diplomatic status identified by their passports, these people are generally called, Dual Citizens.
We’re going to run out of oil, coal, paper, steel, oxygen, water …
The end is nigh.
Forbes – The Russians Reportedly Knocked Out Two More Ukrainian Leopard 2 Tanks. That’s Five Leopard 2 Losses In A Week.
It seems Russian forces have knocked out another two Ukrainian Leopard 2 tanks. If so, they would be the fourth and fifth Leopard 2 loss in just a week or so along a single sector of the 600-mile front line of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine.
The apparent recent Leopard 2 losses all happened in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast, where the Ukrainian army’s 33rd Mechanized Brigade—the sole user of the initial 40 69-ton Leopard 2A4s Ukraine got from its European allies this spring—lately has assumed a lead role, replacing the exhausted 47th Mechanized Brigade four months into Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive.
“The enemy’s losses in that direction totaled as many as 85 personnel, three tanks including two Leopards, four armored combat vehicles and two motor vehicles,” the Kremlin told state media Thursday.
The Russian defense ministry frequently lies about Ukrainian losses, so be skeptical. But also note: there’s video seemingly depicting at least one of the recent strikes on a Leopard 2.
A spike in Ukrainian Leopard 2 losses isn’t unexpected. As the 33rd Brigade shifts into closer daily contact with Russian regiments along the axis between Verbove and Melitopol in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia, its Leopard 2 battalion—normally equipped with at least 30 active tanks—is exposed to more mines, artillery barrages and, most critically, explosives-laden first-person-view drones.
Drones seem to be responsible for most of the five recent Leopard 2A4 kills.
A surge in Russian drone ops might be the other big factor in the 33rd Brigade’s escalating losses. There are more and more FPV drones over Zaporizhzhia.
A two-pound FPV drone clutching a one-pound grenade isn’t a terribly powerful anti-tank weapon, explained Samuel Bendett, a senior non-resident associate with the Europe, Russia and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
“An FPV is not always better than other weapons since not every FPV hit results in an actual kill,” Bendett said. “Sometimes it takes multiple FPV drone strikes to destroy a target as large and well protected as a tank, while a powerful anti-tank [missile] can finish the job with a single hit.”
But FPV drones often attack in swarms. The first strike damages the tank, perhaps immobilizing it. The follow-on attacks incrementally wreck the tank.
It should go without saying that the more drones an army has, the more drones it can afford to deploy against a single vehicle.
In a year of determined effort, the Kremlin massively has expanded domestic production of small drones while also training up a corps of skilled drone operators.
Once the industrial and personnel infrastructure is in place, it’s easy for a military to scale up an FPV drone force. “FPVs are ubiquitous because of their cheap cost—around $400-500 per drone—and both sides in the Ukraine war are supplying many thousands of them per month,” Bendett said. “So we are seeing a drone saturation on the battlefield.”
What’s happening now, over Zaporizhzhia, was all but inevitable once Moscow got serious about deploying FPV drones.
Inescapable Russian drones make it extremely dangerous for a Ukrainian tank crew to break cover and travel across fields or along roads, especially in daytime: a brutal reality the 33rd Mechanized Brigade’s tankers surely appreciate.
To be clear, Ukraine isn’t about to run out of Western-made tanks.
The recent spike in tank losses belies Ukraine’s overall success in preserving its Western tanks, which so far include 40 German-made Leopard 2A4s and 21 Leopard 2A6s, a few dozen Leopard 1A5s, 10 Strv 122s from Sweden, 14 Challenger 2s from the United Kingdom and 31 American-made M-1A1s. Additional Leopard 1s and Leopard 2s are scheduled for delivery.
billie,
There is no Palestinian nation for them to be citizens of, dual or singular.
More than 100 passengers a year fly to Austria when they meant to fly to Australia
So Salzburg Airport has a special counter for them
Accompanying the post is a picture of a billboard at a Salzburg Airport luggage carousel.
The billboard in the photo – which was first posted to the meme website 9GAG in 2021 – reads: “Sorry, this is Austria not Australia! Need help? Please press the button.” To the right of the text, an image of an “SOS” button stands out against the advertisement’s solid blue background.
The claim about travellers mistaking Austria for Australia resurfaced again last week in a TikTok video and post on X that have both been viewed millions of times.
The problem, of course, is that none of it is true.
What started as a popular but misinformed meme on the less mainstream corners of the internet has exploded into a viral gag about the mistakes well-intentioned travellers can make.
Salzburg Airport confirmed that it does not, in fact, have a help desk for sunny Australian holiday hopefuls who found themselves in landlocked Austria instead.
“There is no such counter at Salzburg Airport, never has been, as a matter of fact. I have never heard of anyone travelling to Salzburg by mistake, when they actually wanted to go to Australia,” Susanne Buchebner, deputy head of public relations for Salzburg airport, said.
Buchebner said an ad run by a company called Commend, which sells intercom systems, several years ago was the root of the recent rumour.
Oldest son reports that Australian infantry are now doing training in trench warfare.
Looks more than slightly scatological in places. And with some interesting shaped um, shapes.
Vienna Blows Nearly $2 Million On The Ugliest Fountain You’ve Ever Seen (30 Oct, via Instapundit)
The United States has activated a large-scale air bridge to the Middle East.
<em>Over the past day, a total of at least 53 C-17A Globemaster III aircraft and 7 C-5M Super Galaxies were recorded flying between the continental United States and the Eastern Mediterranean/Middle East region.
One of our cadre staff in the 80s said ww3 would be more like WW1 than WW2.
Bruce of Newcastle
Oct 31, 2023 11:16 AM
Looks more than slightly scatological in places. And with some interesting shaped um, shapes.
Vienna Blows Nearly $2 Million On The Ugliest Fountain You’ve Ever Seen (30 Oct, via Instapundit)
Bruce,
was Vienna taking lessons from Loony Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore – see your 2 Million and Raise you $22 Million?
‘Vanity project’: Clover Moore feels the heat over $22m sculpture fail
A controversial art project that has already cost the City of Sydney millions of dollars has been labelled the lord mayor’s “vanity project” during a fiery council meeting.
Clover Moore’s opponents criticised the failed Cloud Arch sculpture as an “unmitigated disaster from the outset” as the majority of councillors voted to hit pause on the troubled project at the meeting on Monday night.
The council blamed cost blowouts and light rail construction for its decision to cancel the proposed tender for the Junya Ishigami-designed steel archway planned for George Street and defer consideration of the project until after the tram line is finished.
It emerged last week that the price for building the arch, which at one stage was to have cost about $3.5 million, had blown out to $22 million. That was on top of the $2.25 million the council has spent on the artwork over the past three years.
Council papers said the cost had increased again following a more recent estimate of $11.3 million because of design changes necessitated by the light rail construction, delays to work caused by the tram project and other associated costs caused by those delays.
Cr Moore said it was “a sad but sensible decision” to delay work on the $22 million sculpture. “There has been a lack of cooperation and in fact we have been hampered in every way with this exciting project,” she said.
But Councillor Kerryn Phelps, who sensationally quit Cr Moore’s group of independents in 2017, said she was angry that councillors had not been “fully informed” about “ongoing problems that have dogged the project since 2015”.
I wonder how many “joint operations” are aimed at senior Hamas members?
More movie fun.
That ‘Snow White’ Reboot Is Getting a Reboot Before It Even Hits Theaters (A Year Late) (30 Oct)
When the first stills came out the hilarity and mockery dialed up to 11½. Now at least Disney has decided to insert 7 CGI dwarves instead of the weird hipster actors, who looked like a perfect cross section of intersectional woke. Stay tuned: there’re going to be more popcornworthy disasters to come for this turkey, methinks.
CGI dwarf throwing just isn’t the same.
What is it with ‘environmentalits’ who are obsessed with stalking selected creatures?
To make themselves more ‘caring’, and to attract grant funds, they trap and attach tracking mechanisms to reptiles, birds and animals, and keep on trapping them to weigh and measure them
This is not science, it is grant harvesting. And it is not good for the animals.
For some reason, recording any kind of activity in the animal world is now worthy of taxpayer funds.
Thin pickings outside climate hysteria.
Random Historical Snippet.
On the 12th of October, 1942, an Australian soldier – a cook at the 112th Australian General Hospital at Adelaide River in the Northern Territory – was shot and killed by one of three U.S. Army officers of the 43rd Service Squadron intent on arresting him.
The Australian had allegedly displayed homosexual tendencies towards two U.S. soldiers swimming in a watering hole several days previously. (He had been witnessed masturbating, but the available record of inquiry does not contain any allegation of assault or attempted assault. He had also been suspected of undesirable tendencies by his own sub-unit – again, with no allegation of criminal behaviour such as assault – but no action had been taken prior to his death).
When the three U.S. officers approached him by the same swimming hole on the 12th, he was informed he was under arrest, but fled on foot. He was unarmed and offered no violence. One of the Americans began to chase after him, but the other two fired eight shots (in total) from their pistols, one shot entering his back and perforating the pulmonary artery, whereupon he fell to the ground and was declared deceased.
While the G.O.C. of Northern Territory Force considered the actions to apprehend the Australian excessive, and it was reported that the U.S. area commander ‘preferred a charge of homicide,’ it is not clear in the Australian record what legal outcome was arrived at. Based on an initial agreement when the Americans entered the theatre, U.S. servicemen were NOT to be subject to Australian civil courts, but were to be tried by their own service.
(Leonski in Melbourne was charged and sentenced to death by hanging by the U.S. Army, though the sentence was carried out at Pentridge, despite the Australian federal government’s reluctance. Similarly, the U.S. serviceman who stabbed to death an Australian soldier (Tatchell) in mid October, 1942 in Brisbane, was tried by the U.S. Army and acquitted by reason of self defense. Tatchell had not been armed. This manslaughter received publicity at the time, and roughly five weeks later, the Brisbane Riots/Battle of Brisbane took place in the city centre. Tatchell’s battalion had by then arrived in Papua).
The 36 year-old Australian cook from Sydney was buried in the Adelaide River War Cemetery.
So, a feelthy furriner doing feelthy furrin things.
We rock-jawed, steely-eyed Queenslanders know better than to staple things into cables. And even if we do, we don’t whinge about a bit of vaporised metal exploded into the face.
Now that genuine Nazis are parading through the streets in their thousands, his enthusiasm for punching Nazis has evaporated.
nope – Tanks will now be equipped with anti-drone weapons.
A quick little blat with a targetted .22 minigun, would sort out any drones quick smart.
I avoided watching the videos, but the two photos I saw were different. In the first, she still had her underwear on, although it was not in the correct places. In the second, the underwear seemed to be gone, and a Hamarse was sitting roughly where her head should be, with a boot planted between her legs. I suspect that she was dead in the second version.
spontaneous head separation.
The problem, though, is that the movie stinks of woke. Evil Americans murdering Noble Indians; it smells of 3.5 hours of a history lesson where we Americans are told to be ashamed of ourselves.
The sad fact is it is based on true story.
And everyone knew what was going on.
The Osage Murders | The “REIGN OF TERROR” that inspired Killers of the Flower Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZX4HjTwXsM
History should be taught/learned warts an all.
There’s enough true stories out there about indigenous groups having real contractual arrangements torn up without having to make up horseshit ones.
EMP?
Bons,
I think the clip you watched might be the one involving Senator Malcolm Roberts questioning ACMA. You night find more info via his web page, YouTube or Twitter page.
Basically the Government had subcontracted an outside agency to alert social media companies to breaches of their policies. This was so they could take appropriate action. Such action by coincidence also helped the Government. Senator Antic has also been hot on the subject of Government being involved in censoring comments did not like. FOI’s have revealed plenty of examples. Craig Kelly’s posts regarding vaccine and Covid in particular were censored. Even an Australian Facebook page for vaccine injured was shut down.
The big news from Senate Estimates was Senator Rennick questioning head of Gene Technology Regulatory Body. She was a disaster. The regulations clearly shows gene technology products need to be licensed. Pfizer and Moderna were not. She said it did not matter as they were not made in Australia and were imported. However the legislation clearly mentions imported. She even denied something that was shown on Pfizer web page. There is a very good Substack article about this by Dr Ark Kan Sad aka Ark Medic (I think that is correct). Well worth reading and it includes the video clip. There is no doubt she lied to the Senate.
Mouth piece of the US establishment Time Magazine has thrown Zelensky under the bus.
Contrary to the bold, supportive head-line, Time says it’s over.
The key ones to watch now are The Atlantic & WSJ to see if they follow this line.
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1719089058008457377?s=20
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
JUST IN – Time Magazine reports that Ukraine struggles to rally financial support after its failed counteroffensive and amid allegations of widespread corruption.
• A top Ukrainian presidential advisor warns that “people are stealing like there’s no tomorrow” when asked about bribes and corruption.
• 59% of Americans don’t want Congress to provide more weapons to Kyiv, up from 35% in June.
• The southeastern fifth of Ukraine, where the population is predominantly Russian speakers, remains under Russian control.
• Zelensky’s close advisor warns that “He deludes himself. We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.”
• Ukraine’s shortage of soldiers is more dire than its deficit in arms and ammunition. Draft officers pull men off trains and buses and send them to the front.
• The death toll has long surpassed 100,000 on each side of the war, forcing the draft of the elderly, raising the average age of a Ukrainian soldier to around 43 years.
• Corruption remains widespread despite Zelensky firing numerous officers and the Defense Minister.
• Zelensky is worried that the focus of Ukraine’s allies in the U.S. and Europe and of the global media has already shifted to Israel, Palestine, and the Gaza Strip.
Why are Time Magazine and the corporate media starting to throw Ukraine and Zelensky under the bus?
Bethlehem is one of the saddest places I have ever visited. The only respite from the misery dripping on every surface is in the beautiful churches that are run by Christians.
That misery has nothing to do with Israel, Christians or the West more generally. It is bred into the locals and fanned with the flames of hatred every second of the day.
Only they can fix it.
I commented today angrily at Adam’s about the Jew-hating comments (btw our newest commenter was there) and it looks like he has closed it down.
Props to Adam, but he had no idea what he was dealing with. Good luck to Dover.
Excepting the above, a large percentage of the media would be DEVASTATED if there was a truce/full release of hostages/h@m@s surrender (the latter is not going to happen, I know, but you get my point).
The hostages and Israel are simply carrion to them; to be used as sustenance.
I suspect that tune will change if the opportunity
for some broken field running ever presents itself.
Remember the US Army after they cleared the bocage in Normandy,
or the Red Army when they breached the Oder-Neisse line.
Eddie Jones gorne.
Wallabies fans savage Eddie Jones as Rugby Australia announces widely expected resignation from head coaching gig (31 Oct)
The Israel v Hamas / Palestinian events have certainly caused some issues between people who had previously been very much in sync in relation to vaccines and the Voice.
However some on Twitter with large followings can’t but help show their anti Israel stance. Or should I say anti Jewish?
nonsense.
Anyone looking at the video of her in the back of the ute being spat on would instantly recognise her distinctive tattoos and the fact that she was a corpse with no muscle tone.
Why?
Because the Hiden Administration has realised this will inevitably end in a “last Huey out of the Saigon embassy moment” and are trying to extricate themselves from the gluepot.
Albo needs a photo op with Eddie Jones. Only the 2nd least popular guy in the room.
Biden threw Zelensky under the bus when he greenlit Putin’s invasion.
Don’t ever forget that.
I also reckon if Biden plans on abandoning Zelelnsky it is because he has realised that Zelensky and Trump’s phone call exonerated Trump.
All the Establishment’s useful idiots have use-by dates. As a corrupt tool of the Washington Establishment, I doubt Zelensky (a professional performer before his political career) has the self-awareness to understand he has a shelf life for his benefactors before they source what they want from somewhere else.
Zelensky should count himself lucky if he avoids an Epstinian demise.
Pretty sure hamarse wouldn’t be cheering.
Won’t happen. The opportunities for graft by the US and EU elite classes are so vast that they’ll keep it going as long as possible.
General Dynamics (GD) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript (25 Oct)
[Raytheon] RTX (RTX) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript (24 Oct)
I wonder who is benefiting from all the donations and consultancy arrangements?
Because the war is lost. Has been for a very long time – ab initio, even.
The same people who were proud of sniffing out the lies of the ‘pandemic’ rushed like gullible morons to believe the Ukwaine bullshit story.
This is “Mockingbird” socializing the eventual Ukraine abandonment by the US.
Pro tip.
If you are going to go into full SS Extermination Camp mode, you probably should check if your main benefactor is Jewish.
I love the bit where the Proud Pali-Pali acting CEO tries to claim there was a “word limit” on protest banners so no room to include bits condemning Ham-Arse.
The two factors delineating the inevitable denouement are Biden’s disappearance and the unaffordable strategic risk of maintaining an eastern European sink-hole for money and materiel – when other theatres of crisis (and military programs) need bolstering. Politically, Biden (or his replacement) requires the war to go until next Christmas.
If Trump wins, he will do the formalities and the Democrats will attribute the debacle to him – just like they did to Nixon.
Or putting the begging bowl out. Secondly, Mockingbird doesn’t need scare quotes, it is real.
Read this.
Only an autist could write that without cringing.
He won’t win. Slow Joe is just a figurehead, there’s a cast of thousands behind him who’re on the take.
It is possible that so much will be stolen that Ukraine collapses through lack of stuff making its way to the front line. Not the first time in history that has happened. on the other hand there’s a bit of the same going on in Russia too, although oligarchs who aren’t sufficiently helpful have a sad habit of falling out of high windows.
Third executive at Russian oil giant that criticised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine dies suddenly (25 Oct)
Joh, there’s been something amiss over there for a while now.
That’ll work:
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1719083609070682404
Who is/was the Adam who ran Adam’s Cat?
It is funny in a dark humour sort of way.
I can’t find it so I’ll paraphrase.
Mass killers in the US are either killed by the cops, suicide, executed or receive 250 year jail sentences. In Gaza, they run the joint.
Roger, it’s AdamD, who was a long time contributor at SincCat. When Jacques pulled the pin, AdamD cloned the site and it continued much as the previous.
With one exception – Adam moved interstate during the quarantine period, started a new business and during the hiatus the site was used as a playground by Bird amongst others. By the time he got around to cleaning it up, many had left.
My view is that he just hasn’t had the time to monitor the site. And also the old adage, no good deed goes unpunished.
Adam Piggott.
I haven’t been to Adam’s Cat for a while, but he’s posting on his own blog.
Yes. Yes, there has.
A creeping progression from ‘thoughts and prayers’ to ‘mistakes were made on both sides’ to ‘yes but’ to ‘what are Israel’s real motives here?’ to ‘Israel sorta created Hamas so really it’s their own fault’ to ‘Israel mandated covid jabs so the chicken are coming home to roost’ to ‘Netanyahu is a closet Nazi’.
It’s exactly the sort of thing one used to see, incrementally and appearing over time, from Graeme in his more-medicated weeks.
Nearly certain, but I am going off memory. He was open about it so I’m not doxxing.
You’ll see Dover’s Cat on the blog roll.
I
I know, which is why I posted it.
The begging bowl has been out since the start, nothing new there. But when the CIA starts calling time on Zhelenskiy and Ukraine, it’s pretty clear that the winding up is underway.
Thanks calli.
No, it isn’t Adam Piggott, Bruce. He has his own site. Adam Piggott was overseas when Covid hit (the Netherlands from memory). He commented briefly but did not run the other site.
Oh ok, stand corrected Calli. Sorry for the misrepresentation. Adam P’s blog is well worth following though.
The US and the EU can win in Ukraine.
All they have to do is commit 250,000 troops and run bombing missions inside Russia.
GO!
It is, Bruce. He was caught on the hop with Covid, ended up in quarantine and was quite ill. He also re-committed his life to Christ somewhere in the middle of it all after years in the wilderness, marriage breakup and other challenges.
He’s an interesting person, not everything he says I agree with, but so what. 🙂
If time has been called on Ukraine, I wonder how the narrative will be built around it.
So – the tattooed bogan queen lives in a country town, drives a car sporting three bumper stickers “Free Palestine”, “End the live sheep trade” and “Vote Yes to the Voice”, and complains when the locals spit on her car?
Tucker And Farage: Why Aren’t Muslim Countries Taking Muslim Refugees?
BY TYLER DURDEN
Tucker Carlson sat down with former UK politician Nigel Farage to discuss where refugees from current conflicts in the Middle East should go, considering that there will be “hundreds of thousands, possibly millions” of them in the coming weeks, months and years.
“So if you were to suggest ‘well why isn’t Israel take them in, it’s their War’, the response you would get would be… ‘that’s insane these people are dangerous.’”
Likewise, a country with Christian roots such as the United States – which feels it should try to help people, should remember that “the duty of any government its primary duty is the Integrity of its own country and its citizens,” Carlson continued.
Carlson then observes that there’s a distinct lack of voices calling for countries with booming economies, such as China, to bear the refugee load.
Why instead are Christian countries, historically bastions of refuge, the only ones saddled with this “obligation”?
“It’s interesting that no one ever says well China’s got the fastest-growing economy in the world they have an obligation to take in millions of refugees,” he said.
Farage noted the UK’s “great history in the UK of taking refugees,” noting that “they did very, very well in Commerce, Finance, the military in our country,” in terms of persecuted groups that the country has taken in throughout history.
But juxtapose this with the recent waves of refugees, and a disturbing pattern emerges.
A significant number of these refugees, especially from regions like Gaza, are potential sympathizers of extremist groups like Hamas.
Given the spate of extremist-driven incidents in the West, particularly in the UK, one can’t help but wonder: are Western countries knowingly or unknowingly sowing the seeds of their own societal unrest?
“So if you take any significant number from Gaza into our country, you will have a significant percentage of Hamas sympathizers and supporters among them,” said Carlson.
To which Farage replied: “And if anyone should take them Tucker, shouldn’t it be the Egyptians? Shouldn’t it be the Saudis? Shouldn’t it be their co-religionists in that part of the world? And how interesting that Saudi Arabia didn’t take a single person from Syria because they were worried of the impact it would have on Saudi Society.
Right. And the same goes for Egypt.”
Marxism and ‘conservative cowardice.’
According to Farage,
“We have allowed the virus of Marxism to take hold in our countries,” noting how Britain and the United States are being indoctrinated with a toxic blend of guilt over their colonial pasts, allegations of institutional racism, and a host of other divisive narratives.
All the while, conservative voices, which could counter this downward spiral, remain silenced by a spineless media establishment.
“Conservative cowardice through politics and media has led to so very much of this,” he continued.
Simple, Bern.
Ukraine was a great place — until it was invaded by Nazis.
I’m listening to David D. on Spaces explaining that Israel is pumping purple smoke into tunnels and bombing wherever the purple comes up elsewhere
Considering the vast network, I’d imagine you’d need a lot of smoke.
Nasty GOP stopping the spiraling USG debt, would be a good starter.
Then again, who needs narrative when you have the corporate media.
A week after Kabul was handed back to the Taliban they pretty much stopped reporting it.
If it’s not reported, did it ever really happen ?
Why would they want to win? Things are going exactly as they want them to go. Oodles of grift and Russia weakened greatly. It’s exactly the same as in Syria, which has been going on now for 12 years. The only downside is the poor ordinary people who are suffering and dying and that’s not particularly important to the elites.
Calls for Albanese to follow ‘powerful’ lead of former PMs on Middle East war amid ‘division or splinters’ in Labor government
The Opposition has urged the Albanese government to stand united on the Israel and Hamas war like all former living prime ministers have amid accusations Labor has fractured over the matter.
Yashee Sharma – Digital Reporter
The Opposition has called on the Albanese government to follow the lead of the nation’s former prime ministers and make its stance on the Israel and Hamas war clear.
A joint statement, drafted by Malcolm Turnbull, explicitly condemned Hamas for its October 7 terrorist attack and supported Israel’s right to defence on Monday.
The statement was signed by John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison – every living former prime minister aside from Paul Keating who abstained.
Shadow foreign affairs minister Simon Birmingham said it was a “powerful” statement and urged the Albanese government to also be “firm and in lock stead” on the matter.
“Even with the division or splinters in the Labor Party, from Paul Keating or from different Ministers, they’ve got to be solid and firm about Israel’s right to self defence and its right to remove Hamas as a threat in the future,” he told Sky News Australia on Tuesday.
“We have to – Penny Wong, Kevin Rudd, Anthony Albanese, and all on our side as well – need to be making sure, in our statements, we are being crystal clear about the causes and genesis of this which is Hamas as a terrorist organisation and a reminder of those atrocities from October 7.”
Mr Birmingham’s call comes off the back of comments from his federal opposition, Penny Wong, who appeared to issue a stern warning to Israel over its unrelenting retaliation in Gaza.
“When Israel’s friends urge Israel to protect civilian life, as we have, it is critical that Israel listens,” the Foreign Minister told ABC Radio on Monday.
“We are seeing continuing civilian deaths. I think we saw in the United Nations vote that the international community will not accept continuing civilian deaths.”
Ms Wong has maintained the Albanese government’s sentiment that Israel has the right to defence but added “the way it does so matters”.
The government has also called for an immediate ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into the war-torn enclave of Gaza but has stopped short of condemning Israel for its bombing and complete siege on innocent Palestinians.
Labor frontbenchers and ministers have, however, broken ranks with their public support for Palestine, creating accusations of the party’s fractured stance on the flaring conflict in the Middle East.
Employment Minister Tony Burke last week backed a decision of the Canterbury-Bankstown Council in his electorate of Watson to fly the Palestinian flag in two locations until a ceasefire is declared.
Labor Cabinet Ministers Ed Husic and Anne Aly have argued Israel’s attacks on Gaza constituted the crime of collective punishment, as more than 2.2 million Palestinians have been cut off from food, water, fuel and other essential supplies.
In New South Wales, 12 Labor MPs were among 20 signatories on a statement urging the Albanese government to call upon all actors, including Israel, to comply with international humanitarian law.
Thanks calli – enjoy your holiday !
Adam is the guy with the lolly shop in the NSW South Coast IIRC.
Spaces explaining that Israel is pumping purple smoke into tunnels
Im speculating there may also be a marker dye in the smoke. Purple wack-a-mole anyone?
If the war in Ukraine ended tomorrow Russia would start to rebuild. They don’t want that. They want to suck Russia’s energy as long as possible. Russia is enemy to neocons like bourgeoisie are to Marxists, it’s a matter of religion.
Well, that explains some of the language used.
Which tells us quite a lot about the ‘people’ involved.
Dim lives matter.
Ukraine was a great place — until it was invaded by Nazis.
Before that, Stalin stole all the wheat harvests and around 6 million Ukrainians starved to death.
I think it was on Outsiders, topic brought up re Sacchi Advertising by old ad man Rowan Dean. Malcolm Roberts was asking the questions in Senate Estimates.
Check his website, further info probably there.
IIRC, Sydney Ontario is where an occasional misdirected traveler ends up.
That is going a bit far, however, for Ozzi travelers, a t-shirt with the slogan: There are no Kangaroos in Austria is a must-have souvenir from Austria.
Asking if they have Kangaroos = okay & starts a conversation.
Asking if Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Eidelweiss is the Austrian National Anthem = faux pas of the first order.
Right wingers in the US have backed Israel to the hilt for decades and yet, 70 per cent vote for and throw billions of dollars at far left causes. Maybe some people on the Right would appreciate a ROI.
All that talk telling naughty Israel to tiptoe around Gaza citizens. Hamas are Gaza citizens. They aren’t aliens dropped in on the last UFO. Gaza isn’t the sort of place that attracts immigrants for the lifestyle.
Paraphrase – Hit them a bit but when we call “war crime” you have to stop. We won’t allow it to really be effective.
The CIA is so out of control they could have 12 competing sections anonymously competing with each other.
It has always been utterly irresponsible and it arguably outlived its usefulness 30 years ago.
The purple smoke would be a great way to see where the current unsealed entrances are – use that instant wall foam and they will be able to control the fewer entrances remaining.
It is one thing to get all fired up and doing the Allan’s Snackbar thing, but I wonder if a slow subterranean siege might affect the Hams differently – the boredom, the claustrophobic spaces, the slowly diminishing food and water supplies, and having nothing to do to get out.
I was going to suggest bacon smoke but that would not be good for the hostages. Tell them the purple smoke is made from dog? That will get the fleeing. Or burned Korans!
maybe.. but the sewerage utilities do it all the time to detect non-compliant waste traps etc.
Let me guess…piercings, “body art” and haircuts that cost $100 but look like they were done at home?
Lukashenko two days ago, now Time?
Biden and Putin might have worked something out already.
When Zelensky had that bizarre peace conference with no Russian reps. (Very odd).
Have the Ingersoll Lockwood stories/conspiracy theories been raised at the Cat?
If not, do not look them up.
Also, do not google anything about Trump’s uncle & Tesla.
And, of the 10% who own EVs, a good proportion of them use it as a city runabout and have an ICE vehicle as well.
Why? For long trips
Wait wait Mr Panzer. Do you mean that well off inner city elites, gasp, don’t care for the environment? I shan’t have it I tells ya, I simply shan’t!
Which reminds me, Davos will be running again in a couple of months. I’m sure the electric ships and planes will be operable by then. If they haven’t exploded.
Ukraine was a great place — until it was invaded by Nazis.
Only been to Kiev and some surrounding areas. Not fair to judge a place by one visit – but I really didn’t like the locals much. Admittedly, all in the tourism industry. But a bit uppity.
Did, however, love the beautiful old Opera House, where I saw Lucia di Lammermoor.
From BB’s article @9:36
Yeah, right.
I can’t see enough pro war Congresscritters being worried about being primaried. There has been free money since 2008. No party has acted with much responsibility.
It could well go to late 2024.
130 bn of spending from 33 trillion of debt is not insignificant but it is small enough to be set aside and preserved.
Joe Biden is unpopular but he still ties with Trump in polls before cheating.
Unless Newsom comes out as anti war – well, he has been vocally pro Ukrainian. Haley is pro war.
Trump would have to win.
Clock right twice a day etc…
Hillary Clinton: No ceasefire.
Actions Now have Consequences!
How a sign at Melbourne’s Collingwood Yards wine bar slamming ‘dumb white dogs’ and calling for Israel to be abolished backfires as law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler withdraws as a partner
. Anti-Israel sign backfires
. Lawyers withdraw partnership
A community activist group’s banner labelling Israelis ‘dumb white dogs’ has cost their centre the support of a prestigious law firm.
Aboriginal group This Mob Arts Collective has faced fierce criticism since displaying the racist banner, which reads: ‘Free Palestine from the colonising dumb white dogs!!! Abolish Israel!!! P***y a** baby killing b***h a*** Bibi (Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu)!!’.
Now major law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler is withdrawing its financial support of community arts hub Collingwood Yards where the banner was produced as part of a protest workshop hosted by community radio station Hope St.
The collective arts space also has a rooftop wine bar.
‘From what I understand, one of my partners was asked for advice on the appropriate wording of a statement you planned to issue in response to the banner.
‘However, Collingwood Yards proceeded to issue a statement noting that antisemitism is unacceptable but made no mention of the context in which the banner had been produced and promoted, namely the torture, murder and kidnapping of Israeli Jews, as though it had never happened and had no relevance to the offensive behaviour facilitated by your tenants.’
Mr Leibler said his firm had received plenty of flak over its support of groups that produced the offensive banner, and wanted all their branding removed immediately.
Collingwood Yards acting chief executive Nail Aykan told the Australian Financial Review that Hamas’ actions were not referred to for the sake of the banner’s brevity.
‘Word count matters,’ Mr Aykan said. ‘It was really a matter of keeping it succinct and keeping the word count down; otherwise it becomes beyond people’s attention span.’
The law firm was a founding partner of Collingwood Yards in 2021 and has donated more than $1million in pro bono legal advice along with cash donations and firm partners sitting on the board.
After photos of the banner workshop and its finished products began circulating on social media, condemnation began pouring in.
Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dvir Abramovich savaged the contents of the main poster.
‘All the moral guardrails that we took for granted have fallen off and it is no surprise that the Jewish community feels besieged and under attack,’ Dr Abramovich told Daily Mail Australia.
‘Such ugly and open displays of antisemitism, that cross all red lines, are tearing to shred the values we as Australians hold dear.
‘I never thought I would see such hate-fuelled events taking place in the country that I love, and the ripple effects of such demonisation are being felt deeply by us.
‘This venomous poster, calling for Israel to be erased, fans the flames of hostility at a dangerous time when anti-semitism in Australia is skyrocketing.’
PS
Congress has an incumbency rate over 90% and it usually only ends with death or retirement.
Incumbents lose infrequently and losing a primary election is more rare.
Of topic, but I must ask…what is all the fuss about Matthew Perry’s cause of death?
Anyone who has used expanding foam for plumbing or wall patching will know what extraordinary stuff it is. The extent of expansion is extraordinary and it sets rapidly.
If the Israelis have created a means of deploying large quantities it would certainly be spectacular.
I have never learned how to control it and wind up with foam all over the place which I guess would not worry the IDF.
That bastard Trump stole free energy devices from Tartaria AND Tesla.
He was a a huge shill for the COVID vaccines like Colbert. He even sold merchandise.
His body was destroyed from decades of drug and alcohol abuse. His heart had stopped in one OD episode and he previously had a perforated colon. He had spent $9 mn on rehab but was still unable to shake his addiction to liquor & drugs.
It was a miracle that he survived past 50 at all.
A Place NOT to Eat if you live in Victoria
High-profile Burgertory CEO issues open letter to Jewish community after video surfaced showing him chanting anti-Israel slogan at Melbourne protest – but he stops short of apologising
. Hash Tayeh, founder of Burgertory, led protest chants
. Some have labelled the chants anti-Semitic in nature
. Mr Tayeh since issued ‘open letter to my Jewish friends’
Burgertory has 18 stores in Melbourne, including one in the suburb of Caulfield which is home to 20,000 Jews.
Mr Tayeh has rapidly expanded Burgertory, claiming earlier this year he hopes to have over 50 stores in operation, including 10 new restaurants in NSW, by the end of 2023.
The company turned over $30 million in burger sales in 2021.
His statement to Melbourne’s Jewish community comes just a day after the co-owner of Australia’s most popular bakery was forced to issue a grovelling apology over allegedly anti-Semitic comments.
Cameron Reid, who runs the wildly popular Lune Croissanterie with his sister Kate, questioned Israel’s right to exist and claimed hostages taken by Hamas were ‘lucky not to be corpses’ in a leaked Instagram message.
He later said he accepted if he was ‘cancelled’ and apologised for his comments.
Over 1,400 Israeli’s died in the Hamas terror attack on October 7, which has since been dubbed ‘Israel’s 9/11’.
In addition to the slaughter of innocent civilians, almost 230 hostages were taken, among them young children and the elderly. Only four have been released so far.
Read Lune Croissanterie owner’s extraordinary rant about Israeli hostages being held by Hamas – as he’s forced to issue a grovelling apology: ‘I understand if I’m cancelled now’
His body was destroyed from decades of drug and alcohol abuse.
He was very open just how long & depraved his booze & drug abuse was.
Surprised he made to 40 let alone 50 odd.
Made Anthony Kiedis look like a suburban mum smoking weed.
Apologies are insufficant.
These bastards have broken the law and acted against our national interests.
They need to be prosecuted.
Zelensky ‘feels betrayed’ by West – Time
The Ukrainian president said that the conflict has “become like a show” to the Western public
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky feels “betrayed” by his Western backers, who have denied him the support and attention he has grown used to, his aides told Time magazine.
According to the report, published on Monday, the president’s circle now see him as “delusional” and the conflict with Russia as impossible to win.
Zelensky and his advisors spoke to the US magazine after the Ukrainian president visited Washington last month. Unlike the hero’s welcome he received last December, the most recent visit saw Zelensky grilled about corruption in Ukraine and forbidden from addressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Despite US President Joe Biden’s pledge to support Kiev “for as long as it takes,” Congress has failed to agree on a new aid bill for Ukraine.
Ten days after Zelensky returned to Kiev from Washington, lawmakers managed to pass a spending bill to avert a government shutdown, but only after stripping $6 billion in Ukraine funding from it.
“Zelensky feels betrayed by his Western allies. They have left him without the means to win the war, only the means to survive it,” Time wrote, citing a member of his team.
“The scariest thing is that part of the world got used to the war in Ukraine,” Zelensky said. “Exhaustion with the war rolls along like a wave.
You see it in the United States, in Europe. And we see that as soon as they start to get a little tired, it becomes like a show to them: ‘I can’t watch this rerun for the 10th time’.”
Zelensky told Time that he still believes that his forces can defeat Russia on the battlefield, and that he will not entertain any negotiations with Moscow, despite Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive failing to achieve its objectives and resulting in what the magazine called “enormous losses.”
According to the most recent Russian figures, the Ukrainian military lost more than 90,000 men between early June and the beginning of this month.
“He deludes himself,” one of Zelensky’s closest aides told Time. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.”
The outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war has drawn the attention of the West away from Kiev in recent weeks, with the Pentagon surging troops and weapons to the Middle East and US House Speaker Mike Johnson prioritizing a vote on military aid to the Jewish state instead of Ukraine.
“It’s logical,” Zelensky told Time, adding that while “the world’s help is needed” in Israel, “we lose out.”
CL
How would you just chronicle Russia’s attack on Ukraine as a just war in the Christian definition. While there, you could also assist in justifying Russia’s war against Georgia and the earlier one against Grozny.
Zelensky to search for scapegoats over failed counteroffensive – Time
A big reshuffle is looming in the Ukrainian government, according to the magazine
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is expected to launch a “major shake-up” of the country’s military and political leadership, Time magazine has reported, citing his aides.
The looming reshuffle is intended to demonstrate “accountability” for the lack of progress in the stalled counteroffensive against Russia, as well as deal with the apparently growing opposition to Zelensky’s desire to continue the hostilities no matter what.
Zelensky remains adamant in his desire to ‘defeat’ Russia on the battlefield, but his “stubbornness” has become borderline “messianic,” one of the president’s advisers said, on condition of anonymity. “He deludes himself. We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.”
The reality on the ground, however, is very different from Zelensky’s vision of scoring an ultimate victory over Moscow, and dissent is apparently growing.
According to one of his aides, “some front-line commanders … have begun refusing orders to advance, even when they came directly from the office of the president.”
“They [the military] just want to sit in the trenches and hold the line. But we can’t win a war that way,” the aide said, admitting the troops were not actually “moving forward.”
In addition, the country is not very well-prepared for the upcoming winter, the aides suggested, adding that pinning failing infrastructure and other hardships exclusively on Russia might not work this time.
“Last year, people blamed the Russians,” one of them said. “This time, they’ll blame us for not doing enough to prepare.”
To fix the situation, Zelensky is expected to launch a major reshuffle of his team shortly, with the “shake-up” affecting both military and civilian leadership. “At least one minister would need to be fired, along with a senior general in charge of the counteroffensive,” the article suggested, citing the aides, who did not provide the exact names of the potential scapegoats. The move is primarily meant to create “accountability” for the lack of progress on the frontline, they said.
Kiev launched its counteroffensive against Russian forces in early June, but it has so far neglected to achieve any tangible results.
In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the counteroffensive had effectively failed, resulting in minor gains and heavy losses for the Ukrainian military. According to Moscow’s estimates, the push cost Kiev more than 90,000 troops, as well as hundreds of military hardware, including assorted Western-supplied tanks and armored vehicles.
(My edit).
She was the wrong type of female; not an ‘Inside’ woman. Feminism now is about protecting and advancing the status of those ‘accepted’ females (the initiated gang members) who are already comparatively privileged. The goal is to maintain and expand that privilege or power, at the expense of all others, including non-approved women.
‘Disingenuous’ parents offended by a Sydney Catholic school’s stance on lesbian prom couples can simply take their children elsewhere
The political uproar generated by an Australian school’s policy for its end-of-year formal is a sad indictment on Australia’s commitment to religious freedom, writes James Macpherson.
James Macpherson
SkyNews.com.au Contributor and Political Commentator
Catholic girls graduating from a Catholic school got the surprise of their lives last week when they discovered they really had been attending a Catholic school after all.
Mass confusion broke out when Saint Ursula’s College in Sydney advised its female students they could not bring another female as their partner to the end-of-year formal- something to do with the church’s 2000-year-old doctrine on sexuality.
Outrage ensued.
Sure, the Bible says “yada yada”, but hadn’t Australia voted “Yes” to same sex marriage in 2017?
Moses said. Jesus said. The Apostle Paul said. But then 62 per cent of Australians said!
“It is written …”
You know, in the Marriage Act.
Sydney radio hosts slammed the Catholic school, with 2GB’s Chris O’Keefe telling listeners.
“That is a disgrace. That is a disgrace,” he said.
“I went to a Catholic High School. It’s 2023 people. Seriously, get over yourselves.”
So, O’Keefe went to a Catholic school. Who died and made him the Pope?
He should know that stating the date is not the same as making an argument.
What he fails to understand is that church doctrine doesn’t “get with the times” for the simple reason that it is beyond the times.
God does not sit in heaven, constantly updating his thinking on things so as to more accurately reflect the mood of the Australian people.
To imagine he does is to imagine a God created in our image, rather than the other way around.
Radio 2GB’s Ben Fordham told listeners: “We did vote on this back in 2017.”
“We weren’t voting on school formals. We were voting on same sex relationships and same sex marriage.
“It has now been legal for almost six years. So you can marry another woman, you just can’t take one to your school formal.”
I like Ben Fordham.
But he demonstrates just how secular Australia has become when he expresses genuine surprise the Catholic Church hasn’t updated its doctrines to conform to cultural trends.
Huh? The church still believes in Christianity? But didn’t we vote?!?!
What if the next opinion poll shows most Australians no longer believe in God? Should the Catholic Church kill Him off?
Yeah, look God. We’re sorry to tell you this, but we took a vote, and you don’t exist anymore.
The powers running the school are now under pressure from none other Catholic Premier Chris Minns who told the Sydney Morning Herald:
“I think in this day and age you should be able to take anyone you like to your Year 12 formal – we are after all talking about teenagers who are close to or over the age of 18.”
Premier, it’s not the girls’ age that is the sticking point, it’s the church’s doctrine.
The girls could be 75 with whiskers and it still wouldn’t change the fact that same-sex relationships aren’t how Catholic schools roll because, well – they’re Catholic.
Equality Australia CEO Anna Brow lamented the fact “exemptions” in federal and NSW law currently allow?religious schools to discriminate against students?because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Note how religious freedom, once an inalienable right, has been redefined as an “exemption” generously granted by the political class.
“These discriminatory practices are not theoretical or academic, as this incident sadly demonstrates, and one in three students attend non-government schools, most of which are religiously affiliated,” Ms Brow said.
Don’t let Ms Brow fool you.
She is not anti-discrimination.
Ms Brow simply favours discriminating against families enrolled in a Catholic school for its doctrine and in favour of families enrolled in the same school wanting to dismantle the religion’s teachings.
She added: “These legal gaps could be addressed very simply and quickly. The law should reflect what the vast majority of Australians already believe, including many people of faith.”
So, the ability of Catholics to practice their religion is a “legal gap” that needs to be plugged.
Tell me again we live in a free country.
Education Minister Prue Car went where angels fear to tread, urging the school to change its stance.
“I think you should be able to take who you want to take in 2023,” she said.
Sure. Go ahead and tell that to the local Islamic school, Prue. See how you go.
You’d think the Education Minister would understand that faith-based schools are based on faith.
If taking your same sex partner to the school formal is a high priority, there are plenty of public schools that will happily accommodate.
The private education system exists, in large part, because its public counterpart makes it very clear it does not welcome or accommodate families with conservative and/or religious values.
But it’s disingenuous to enrol your kids in a Catholic school and then complain that your kids are in a Catholic school, as if you have been hoodwinked.
Ol’ Musky trying to recreate his youthful pre-Paypal days at X.com ?
On the one hand, Twitter – even the Elonified version – being able to financially cancel you in addition to socially cancelling you is not a good risk.
On the other hand, the banks that are devaluing our currency (from the RBA on down) could maybe use some competition from a parallel payment system.
It’s big, but is it too big to succeed?
What Abronese is walking into in Beijing:
Beyond loose bowels over oil security in the Persian Gulf, China really doesn’t give a frying fluck about Gaza or Palestinians. They are troublesome and neither consumers or suppliers or potential clients – and the world knows exactly what China would do in Israel’s circumstances.
What would bring eternal golden joy to Emperor Xi however, would be a wedge driven into the US’s reliable foothold in the Pacific.
How better to do that than to purchase a small flabbyman, with a tribal group propping up in his leadership while yelling ‘From the River to the Sea’ in tongues.
A retro joint communique on everlasting global peace and win-win-win prosperity would go down a treat. Followed by a token gift card offering access to the Middle Kingdom for Aussie wine and lobsters.
And peace in our time for Western Sydney – with a Happy Ending next erection.
Just enough to convince Congress that Australia May not be quite top shelf enough for AUKUS.
Perhaps the term ‘friend’ has been redefined and I missed the email?
What a feckin’ embarrassment my country is sometimes.
Just got a Fred Hollows rep door knocking, no thank you I politely said (a Voice spruiking NGO).
Now burgertory is off my list.
Not that I’ve been there.
I hope the Caulfield branch goes broke, quick.
‘From the river to the sea
Genocide we want for thee.’
They all know they are chanting a hamas slogan and they don’t care.
Dr Faustus
Oct 31, 2023 2:33 PM
What Abronese is walking into in Beijing:
Beyond loose bowels over oil security in the Persian Gulf, China really doesn’t give a frying fluck about Gaza or Palestinians.
They are troublesome and neither consumers or suppliers or potential clients – and the world knows exactly what China would do in Israel’s circumstances.
Tucker And Farage: Why Aren’t Muslim Countries Taking Muslim Refugees?
Carlson then observes that there’s a distinct lack of voices calling for countries with booming economies, such as China, to bear the refugee load.
Why instead are Christian countries, historically bastions of refuge, the only ones saddled with this “obligation”?
“It’s interesting that no one ever says well China’s got the fastest-growing economy in the world they have an obligation to take in millions of refugees,” he said.
1. What are the terms of holding an account at Twittter? Does your deposit receive FDI protection if it’s within the insured limit? If so, Twitter would have to register as a bank, so good luck getting through the 350 pages of regulations and onerous capital requirements.
2. If there’s no protection, would any sane person hold all their money with Twitter when the owner took out a huge loan to make the acquisition and the bonds are currently trading at junk level. It’s a big risk.
3. Is it going to be more of a payments system similar to Paypal then?
You mention banks are devaluing the currency from the “RBA on down”.
1. How are regular banks devaluing the currency?
2. Don’t you really mean central banks are?
3. What would it solve in moving Australian dollars from a bank account to a Twitter account when they are the same dollars and being devalued simultaneously?
Anyone else having this problem .. running BRAVE on my desktop and since yesterday whenever I click on a Twitter link I can’t get back .. have to re-click Cat via the saved address and start again ……. duuuh!
@Bruce of Newcastle
At last something interesting is being discussed. I keep all my Li Ion batteries away from where I live. Lots of stored energy … My knowledge of Chemistry is Matric in Tazzie.
I am thinking of buying and electric bike to complement my RV home. Dont like walking down to the shops from my free camp site.
But is scares me to have such a device folded and stored beneath where I sleep.
The sales guy told me these batteries are heavier than LiIon …but far less prone to catch fire… I wasnt listening hard enough .. He said it was a diffeerent chemistry?
Your take ?
From nyt, paywalled.
Of course civilians living in buildings over tunnels have had the option to evacuate for three weeks, I think, most of the time, they know.
Doesn’t sound like idf are necessary calling in air support, sounds pretty close up and personal.
One issue is that bombs that hit tunnels can still kill civilians through a kind of aftershock. When bombs explode underground, buildings above can collapse into a crater. “The craters become mass graves,” said Eyal Weizman, the director of Forensic Architecture, a research group…Israeli troops drop smoke grenades into a tunnel, and then watch for purple smoke to come out of any houses in the area. The smoke, the soldier said, signals that a house is connected to the tunnel network and must be sealed off before soldiers descend into the tunnels. The smoke moves like strands of hair throughout the tunnel system, he said.
Zelenskyy aide on corruption in Ukraine: ‘People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow’
One aide said officials were told, ‘Don’t buy anything. Don’t take any vacations. Just sit at your desk, be quiet, and work,’ to avoid seeming corrupt
An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the government has suffered “reputational damage” on the world stage for its sluggish efforts to battle corruption.
TIME senior correspondent Simon Shuster wrote about his experience following Zelenskyy and his team back to Ukraine after they visited the U.S. in September to appeal for aid, noting in Washington they had faced “insistent calls for Zelensky to fight corruption inside his own government, and the fading enthusiasm for a war with no end in sight.”
Shuster reported that similarly grim sentiment appears among the public as well, as those with the money available “sometimes bribe their way out of service” and that such cases “became so widespread by the end of the summer that on Aug. 11 Zelensky fired the heads of the draft offices in every region of the country.”
“The decision was intended to signal his commitment to fighting graft. But the move backfired, according to the senior military officer, as recruitment nearly ground to a halt without leadership,”
Shuster wrote. “The fired officials also proved difficult to replace, in part because the reputation of the draft offices had been tainted.”
“Who wants that job?” an officer asked the reporter rhetorically. “It’s like putting a sign on your back that says: corrupt.”
As a key source of aid for Ukraine’s war effort, Shuster noted that the White House “prepared a list of anti-corruption reforms for the Ukrainians to undertake.”
“These were not suggestions,” one of Zelenskyy’s close aides said, but, rather, “conditions.’”
Shuster wrote that Zelenskyy fired his Minister of Defense, Oleksiy Reznikov, a member of his inner circle, as a means to address American corruption concerns, after Reznikov was suspected of corrupt behavior in his ministry.
Two presidential advisers claimed Reznikov had not been personally involved, “But he failed to keep order within his ministry,” one said, noting the ministry had been over-paying for critical supplies, including eggs
“Amid all the pressure to root out corruption, I assumed, perhaps naively, that officials in Ukraine would think twice before taking a bribe or pocketing state funds. But when I made this point to a top presidential adviser in early October, he asked me to turn off my audio recorder, so he could speak more freely,” Shuster wrote.
“Simon, you’re mistaken,” an aide said. “People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow.””
The same official claimed that the Defense Minister’s firing did not have the desires effect because it took so long to occur.
Another advisor similarly noted that by the time of Zelenskyy’s crackdown, “it was too late,” as the “reputational damage was done.”
The TIME correspondent observed that even Ukrainian soldiers at the front have begun “making off-color jokes about ‘Reznikov’s eggs,’ a new metaphor for corruption.”
I’ve been thinking about the attack on Israelis and how they can solve it once and for all, but unfortunately, I’ve hit a wall. From a young age, the kids are brainwashed into believing they have to kill Jews. Killing Jews would form a decent part of the curriculum from the time they learn how to walk, and there’s the parents egging it on.
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but kids form 50% of the population, which means the mass murder of Jews is going to be generational. Let me say that I don’t for a second advocate it, but what solution is there other than also removing their children from this earth? These kids are having their minds filled with hate, and it’s a form of programming. How can there ever be peace when this is occurring? Of course, there won’t be, which means this is going to go on indefinitely.
David Menzies@ Rebel News.
Rebel News’ David Menzies speaks with residents in New York City about deporting foreign nationals who support terrorist organizations.
Let’s make deportation great again!
@Bruce of Newecastle …. opps I forgot the link ..
https://www.leoncycle.com.au/batteries-kits/battery-only/
Peace.
shatterzzz
Oct 31, 2023 2:47 PM
Anyone else having this problem .. running BRAVE on my desktop and since yesterday whenever I click on a Twitter link I can’t get back .. have to re-click Cat via the saved address and start again ……. duuuh!
shatterzzz
on Firefox – have had the same problem on a number of youtube links – unable to get back – have to start again
I’d argue there’s no such thing as a “civilian” in Gaza.
I suppose it would be no surprise but Indians seem to be generally very supportive of Israel.
I wonder why that might be.
IDF update on twitter.
Pakistan and the 300 million Muslims living in India. The Hindu majority know very well what evil Muslims can get up to.
Education Minister Prue Car went where angels fear to tread, urging the school to change its stance.
“I think you should be able to take who you want to take in 2023,” she said.
Okay Prue. Anyone you want eh? So an effeminate 18 year old year 12 student can take a 12 year old boy?
Pandemic of stupid.
Considering the vast network, I’d imagine you’d need a lot of smoke.
If its anything like stench gas then a little bit goes a very long way.
That’s what mines release underground to warn of an emergency, based on 2 theories.
1: not everyone will be in radio comes
2: the stuff goes absolutely everywhere you have airflow.
It’s very clever if the Israelis are using a coloured version to find ventilation & portals for wrecking.
I do wonder if hamarse thought to put in scrubbers of some sort.
Gaza hospitals will be blowing smoke like a Papal conclave voting between Mel Gibson and the Antichrist..
Roman emperor hailed as ‘black Briton’ – even though he wasn’t black – Paywalled
Lucius Septimius Severus has been included in teaching material and children’s books
A Roman emperor who appears on numerous lists of “black Britons” was not black.
Lucius Septimius Severus died on campaign in Britain in 211AD, and has also been named in overviews of “black British history” distributed by councils, teaching colleges, and children’s publishers, despite the emperor being of Middle Eastern and Italian descent.
The suggestion that Severus had black ancestry has been widely repeated, and the Museum of Cambridge this month hosted “Black History Lectures” that included a talk on the ancient ruler.
Last year, the Museum of London created a timeline outlining “Black Londoners through time”, which included the emperor.
Severus was also included on the front cover of a 2022 Puffin children’s book by This Morning presenter Alison Hammond, called Black In Time, which was billed as a history of “the most awesome black Britons”.
Some depictions of the emperor appear to encourage the confusion by showing him with dark skin, compared to the women alongside him.
However, this is typical of Roman portraiture, as tanned skin was considered a sign of masculine outdoor activity and vigour in the ancient world, contrasted to women who would stay indoors, and therefore were depicted as pale.
Local authorities have produced similar material, and Hammersmith and Fulham council has created a timeline of black British history that includes the emperor as its first entry.
These materials do not elaborate on him being a black man but instead qualify his identity as “African”, because he was born in a city on the coast of north Africa called Leptis Magna, now a Unesco site.
Mistake made in US
On the streaming service BBC Select, a documentary on Severus was included in a range of programmes for Black History Month 2023, which takes “a contemporary look at black history” and “celebrates icons from the past and present”.
It is understood the inclusion of the emperor on the BBC Select site was a mistake made during Black History Month in the US, and the programme has now been removed from the listings.
Others have made firmer claims to his ancestry, including Sheffield teacher training college the SCITT, which, in online guidance, published following Black Lives Matter protests asked: “Why don’t we teach our students about Septimius Severus, the black Roman emperor?”
In online learning resources for the Black Lives Matter-inspired charity Anti-Racist Cumbria, Severus is also included, along with the claim that he is “widely believed by historians to have been a black man”.
The ruler was born in the Roman city of Leptis Magna on the coast of what is Libya, and the emperor’s connection to Britain lies in the fact that he died near York in 211AD during a military campaign, ending a reign that began in 193AD.
His mother was of Roman descent, and his father’s ancestry was Carthaginian, a Semitic people with origins in the Middle East.
The ancient biographical collection Historia Augustus explains that Severus was disturbed by the sight of a black person on one occasion, taking his “ominous colour” as a bad omen while on campaign.
‘Silly and patronising’
The inclusion of the emperor in a range of educational material claiming him as a “black Briton”, despite the reality of his ancestry, has been criticised as being “patronising” for black people in the UK
Cambridge historian Prof Robert Tombs said: “Pretending that Britain had a centuries-old black population is silly and rather patronising.
“Apart from tiny numbers, our black population dates overwhelmingly from the last few decades. Why be ashamed of this? Claiming otherwise leads to embarrassing mistakes, as in the recent removal of a plaque to the ‘first black British woman’, who turned out to be from the eastern Mediterranean.
“For the Romans, ‘Africa’ was North Africa, before the arrival of the Arabs, and part of the Graeco-Roman world. Hence, the emperor Septimius Severus was an ‘African’ of Phoenician and Italian descent.”
Fellow historian Zareer Masani said: “The attempt to claim past figures as black is pathetic and unhistorical, referring to a time when the concept of racial identity was non-existent.”
The BBC and others have been contacted for comment.
JC objected:
Okay fair point, but it is underpinned by the same assumption that I made, which is that the X payments would use an existing currency and not… something else. Something with a doge as a mascot, perhaps?
That’s the only way it would be revalued differently.
RBA, `nuff said.
Regular banks – fractional reserve banking, where they can loan out money they don’t have with the promise of repayment being the debit half of the transaction.
The west’s mass psychopathy moment
Melanie Phillips – Oct 31, 2023
The Palestinian cause has destroyed the free world’s moral compass
Berka
I’ve seen this argument now 1.23 billion times at the Cat. Bank cannot lend money they don’t have, because if the money isn’t there then there’s no money to lend.
A bank balance comprises of Assets ( loans) on one side and liabilities (deposits + bonds) + equity, and both side must balance.
A bank cannot lend money it doesn’t have. Banks of course lend long and borrow short ( deposits can be removed any time) but this doesn’t mean banks can lend money they don’t have. If their deposits disappear they are broke and end up in liquidation or some form there of.
Whoops. Should read
A bank balance sheet comprises
I recall Adam writing in a post that he had one or two children with extra needs, so I think that with family responsibilities and the new business, he didn’t have a lot of time to monitor AdamCat. It’s a shame, because I was grateful for several individuals who provided various ‘rescue’ forums upon the retirement of SinCat.
It’s worth acknowledging that a handful of regulars at AdamCat did their best to keep it going with comments and guest posts, including, but not limited to, Bar Beach Swimmer.
OldOzzie
Oct 31, 2023 2:07 PM
A Place NOT to Eat if you live in Victoria
High-profile Burgertory CEO issues open letter to Jewish community after video surfaced showing him chanting anti-Israel slogan at Melbourne protest – but he stops short of apologising
. Hash Tayeh, founder of Burgertory, led protest chants
. Some have labelled the chants anti-Semitic in nature
. Mr Tayeh since issued ‘open letter to my Jewish friends’
Let’s hope the big thug goes bankrupt. To be plain the phrase From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free literally is a call for the eradication of Israel and Jews. It is viciously antisemitic. People uttering it should be charged.
Mohammed, You’re Fired
The problem of former workers mapping out the communities they raided.
If you’re following the war against Hamas now, you’re likely bombarded by news of suffering of Palestinian Arabs, almost as much as we have been bombarded by Palestinian Arabs’ rockets. Much of this is fake news, perpetrated by Hamas and other Arab/Islamic terror groups using images and “statistics” of “suffering” to play to your sensibility. Don’t get me wrong. There is suffering, and it’s a shame.
But any real suffering is largely self-inflicted, and you’re simply not seeing the whole story and context. Let me explain.
It’s not only the “suffering” that you are seeing that we should care about, but the suffering that you are not seeing. There are many Palestinian Arab victims of the war, but these are all a direct consequence of Hamas’ terror.
One that you’re not seeing is economic.
I live in a Judean mountain community south of Jerusalem with Palestinian Arab communities surrounding us. Before October 7, there was not peace in the sense of the relationship as between the US and Canada. But there was peaceful coexistence, even mutual respect, and a sense that we relied upon one another.
Before October 7, hundreds of Palestinian Arab men and women came to work in our community from adjacent Arab communities daily.
I joked that on some days, there were more Arab men in our community than Jewish men, because the Arabs come in to work here, and Jewish men commute to their work elsewhere.
In my home alone, we’ve had Arab workers such as Ahmed, Omar, Mustafa, Fares, Imad, Auni, Morad, and Mohammed among others. In all cases, ALL cases, we had cordial to friendly and respectful relations with all these people, and their staff.
They provide services we need at a good value and we pay them much more than they could earn in their communities (if any work were to be found there). A free market can do wonders for coexistence. We offer them coffee and cake regularly, and cold drinks and watermelon on hot days.
Now, after October 7, all these people and many others who earned a living in Israeli Jewish communities (about 1/3 of the Palestinian Arab economy) will suffer, as people like us no longer want to risk having Arabs in our community and homes.
Across the street from my daughter’s home is an elementary school where a Palestinian Arab woman cleans the school and is there all hours of the day. After the slaughtering of scores of infants and children on October 7, no parent is going to want an Arab woman working among their children.
The same can be said in one of our shopping centers, and across Israel.
Maybe indeed many of these people are truly good people, that they want peace, or at least accept and respect us enough not to drink the terrorists’ vile Kool Aid that we are foreign occupiers and must be killed. These are not hollow threats. Maybe. But in the wake of October 7, Israeli authorities have detained and interrogated many who once worked in the communities in which they committed inhuman atrocities.
There are reports of former workers mapping out the communities which they raided, identifying homes of security personnel, who had dogs (that might threaten the terrorists), and more.
How do I know that Ahmed, Omar, Mustafa, Fares, Imad, Auni, Morad, or Mohammed are not spies for Hamas, or that Hamas won’t threaten them to commit a similar act of murder here, by threatening their own families?
The year we moved to Israel there was once such instance. A Palestinian Arab worker who was well known and had been hosted in many of my Jewish neighbors’ homes came into town on a Friday, the Moslem sabbath and usually a day off.
A curious neighbor followed him until it became clear he was about to detonate a bomb under his coat. Fortunately, my neighbor was armed, and quicker than the terrorist. But the carnage inside the grocery store could have been vast.
In Jerusalem it’s worse. There have been widespread celebrations of the massacre of October 7 by Jerusalem Arabs: in public, on social media, and even where they work, “peacefully” among Jewish Israelis.
To say that Israeli Jews feel insecure and unsafe around their Arab Moslem coworkers and neighbors is an understatement. It is the literal and proper definition of Islamophobia, and for good reason.
It’s a thin line between celebrating the inhuman massacre of civilians, and perpetrating those acts themselves.
As a result, many Jerusalem Arabs are going to find themselves out of work too. All thanks to their terror masters of Hamas, and in Iran.
Whether in Jerusalem, or Gaza, or Judea where I live, let’s be clear, there is no perceived wrong to anyone that justifies the horrors that we’ve witnessed and, from which, more than two weeks later, bodies are still not yet able to be identified.
The rape, beheading, burning alive, and execution of Jewish Israelis in their homes is not “resistance” or the work of “freedom fighters.”
It is the work of evil, an evil that goes to the core of extremist Islam housed in Iran, with tentacles around the world in places like Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and more.
But let’s return to sympathy for the “suffering” Palestinian Arabs. It cannot be overstated enough that all this suffering is self-inflicted.
It is self-inflicted because of the evil of Hamas using its own civilians as human shields, and robbing them of any opportunity for prosperity as billions in cash and tons of supplies have been used to build up its war machine rather than investing in the well-being of average Gazan Palestinian Arabs.
But let’s also be clear about one more thing.
A majority of Gazan Palestinian Arabs, 57 percent, actually support Hamas, according to a recent poll by a respected Arab pollster.
Many more support other even more extremist groups (if that were even possible).
So, before anyone turns to blame Israel for any of their suffering, let them look into the mirror, and let the rest of the world hold their lies under a microscope on full view for all to see.
Indeed, the economic consequences will be significant. But it’s far more than economic.
To the extent that there were opportunities for peaceful coexistence, these are also Hamas’ victims.
Palestinian Arabs who used to be able to make a good living in places where they were appreciated and respected, and be able to put food on their own tables, will no longer be able to do so—thanks to Hamas.
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From the Comments
– After Epstein, are we really surprised??