I am being dishonest and insulting?

I also use the UN for my sources on casualties, RedLightRobot.

Some people on drudge.com may think I am anti-Israeli.

I am not.

I have been there many times and years ago I counted some IDF personnel as friends.

In college I dated an Israeli girl who was a classmate of mine in NYC.

I am merely pro-American, pro-justice, and always on the side of the underdog.

Nothing could make me happier than the Israel Communist, Green, and Labor Parties ousting the Likudniks and then holding them to account for their horrendous war crimes.

Thanks for the clarification, RedLightRobot.

Great parallel and imagery.

Jews being tattooed THEN being cremated during the Holocaust was a double "haram" for them.

Muslims being cremated during the Gaza pogrom is a singular "haram" for them.

"Thank you, hardworking American taxpayer for the US-manufactured mini-nukes! We put them to good use!"
Signed,
Bibi Netanyahu

There was an idea to carve out a piece of Germany to give to the Jews of Europe.

The Morgenthau Plan was the name of it, I think, and the Allies wanted to make Germany an agrarian country-- no more military-industrial complex or army.

But Cold War reality stepped in and the plan was scrapped.

The Marshall Plan then took shape to rebuild Germany and make it a military ally against the communist Soviet Union.

Then NATO formed around that concept.

Last century an elderly Israeli man told me, "after the war (WWII), Palestinians just wanted a place to live, but the Jews needed to have a country."

After centuries of Ottoman rule and then a post WWI British mandate, that made sense to me from the Palestinian perspective.

Hi Clownshack

Initially Israel was far left and created by the Labor Party and if anything, right-wingers in Wash DC were concerned this "socialist" state might tilt towards the Soviet axis. Israel had plenty of East European Jews and remember, the 1919-1920 Palmer Raids deported those East European Jews out of fears of Marxism.

Israel's alignment with the US came much later, after the 1950s UK/France/Israel Suez Canal crisis that Eisenhower stopped.

The aftermath of the 1967 IDF attack on the USS Liberty during the Six Day War is when Israel, sort of neutral between the USSR and the US, began tilting towards Wash DC.

A few years later, Nixon's support for Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War led to the subsequent oil embargo and crisis.

In the post WWII era, Turkiye (and then Iran) were the US intelligence frontline against the USSR. And then a short-lived CENTO was formed.

Likud's tactic was the same as the National Party in Suid-Afrika, divide the opposition.

The Boers secretly funded the Inkatha Freedom Party (who were Zulus) to target the ANC (who were predominantly, mot all, Xhosas like Nelson Mandela).

The Bedouins had a positive relationship in Israel for decades, many of them serving in the IDF as desert scouts.

One of the first IDF rescue missions in Gaza was to free a Bedouin.

The deplorable Benjamin Netanyahu admitted to activating a jihadist cell of young gangsters in Gaza to hijack UN and NGO food delivery trucks. This cell of quislings was later rendered ineffective by Hamas or PIJ operatives.

Many years ago I was lucky enough to meet one of the last Jews from Baghdad.

His English was excellent, but his Yiddish was minimal or non-existent from what I recall.

"R.I." said that while life under Saddam Hussein was bad, the Jews weren't targeted, liquor was freely available, women went to school in modern dress and in higher education, and he made himself a decent income. He didn't go into what his business was, but it was fairly lucrative.

"R.I." related to me that after Saddam Hussein was toppled in the aftermath of OIF, all of a sudden in Iraq "the Jews became Jews."

I told him those were basically the exact words of a musician in Vienna in the 1930s named Georg Kreisler:

"Before 1938 we were all Austrians. Hitler made us Jews." [sic]

*** USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier Group Heading to Middle East; Israel Prepares for War ***

Incredible that a tiny country the size of New Jersey with its own nuclear weapons and universal healthcare for all its residents has the ability to summon two nuclear-powered aircraft groups (ACGs) of a country as large and as powerful as the United States of America.

The millions of Americans in the antiwar bloc, a movement as old as the American Revolution itself, are watching which US politicians support attacking Iran and which aren't.

If the US attacks Iran in a few weeks as the Israeli High Command planned for, Democratic Party candidates that receive AIPAC money or support attacking Iran won't be getting the antiwar vote on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

Don't believe Coriolanus?

Don't care.

You will note there are Gold Star Family and Veteran's groups in this "Far Left" bloc.