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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

After the British mandate ended on 14 May 1948, Israel declared its independence. To commemorate the anniversary this year, the IDF killed 60 Palestinians and attacked a European hospital in the Gaza Strip. This murder and mayhem has been bought and paid for by the hardworking American taxpayer who provided Israel with a record $17.9bn since 7 Oct 2023 alone. The US has been heavily subsidizing Israel since 1950. With a massive heatwave about to set over Israel (temperatures reaching 115F in Eilat, 99F in Tel Aviv, and 101F in Jerusalem), the UN reports that 75% of Gazans report a decline in water access over the past month, amid deteriorating sanitation conditions. Sources: Link 1 Link 2 Link 3

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France President Emmanuel Macron called Netanyahu's policies in Gaza 'shameful' and 'unacceptable, but he has not yet recognized the State of Palestine. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dotard Trumpf fecklessly said that people in Gaza "deserve a much better future." AIPAC's mission is to ensure that the US and other Western countries never recognize the State of Palestine and to smear the muqawama (resistance) as 'terrorists.' An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC remains active for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. An indictment is merely an accusation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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"Some Israeli military officials have privately concluded that Palestinians in Gaza face widespread starvation unless aid deliveries are restored within weeks. Israel's government has publicly dismissed warnings of extreme food shortages after it blocked aid deliveries, but an internal analysis concluded that a crisis looms if food supplies are not restored. Since initiating the Nakba, 52,495 Palestinians have been killed, 57 from starvation, and 118,366 wounded or maimed.

The AIPAC talking point is that Arab-Americans that voted for Trumpf are somehow to blame for all of this Murder-Death-Kill, like a rape victim being asked in court why she wore a mini-skirt the day she was attacked. Only 21% of Arab-Americans voted for the Dotard and Palestinians make up 1% of the Arab-American population; 25% are of Lebanese descent. Palestinian fighters resorted to seizing hostages on 7 Oct 2023 in order to exchange them for any number of the thousands of their relatives being held by the IDF without trial or hearing in Israeli prisons. Amnesty International reported the number of Palestinians in Israeli military detention was at a record number before the infamous 7 Oct 2023 raid.

Whether a Democrat or Republican POTUS is in the White House makes no difference to Israel as you can see from the map below.

https://ifamericansknew.org/images/FourMaps2.png

US Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and John Fetterman (D-PA) must go.

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-14 05:46 AM | Reply

Israel has become what they fled Europe from.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-14 06:45 AM | Reply

All of you Genocide Joe asshats that voted for the corrupt criminal, look at what you have done.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-14 06:46 AM | Reply

#2 and 3: Hi Nixon. Yup, Jews fled persecution to now become the persecutors. But when you look at the map in the OP, whether an American voted for Kamala or the Dotard in 2024, this is irrelevant to the situation. Benjamin Netanyahu has been in power from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021, then 2022 to present. The Likud Party and AIPAC established the platform of 'NO' to a two-state solution in that timeframe, but played lip service to US presidents. Israel distracted us with Iran's so-called nuclear threat while Settlements were getting built. Meanwhile, US economic aid kept flowing in. Under "Genocide Joe," a Democrat, slightly under 50,000 Palestinians were killed during the entire course of 2024. Palestinians in the West Bank have also been getting killed, but at a much more slower rate. The IDF uses small arms fire in the West Bank in order to preserve the Palestinian properties for Settlers.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/618kWDUo1vL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-14 07:13 AM | Reply

Where's Censored to say that the Palestinians derseve to be exterminated because they broke out of the Ghetto and killed some guards.

---- Israel. They Never Had Any True Claim to Palestine.

Only Jungle Law. Violence and Oppression are their only "Right to Exist".

With Violence they Came and By Violence they will Fall.

---- Israel.

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-05-14 08:16 AM | Reply

attacked a European hospital in the Gaza Strip.
Posted by C0RI0LANUS

Yeah, shame that Hamas accidentally built a command center to shield its leader under a hospital. Definitely not a Palestinian war crime.

www.politico.eu

Clearly the Jews are to blame, because Hamas terrorists are beyond reproach. Always. At least according to the pro-Hamas crowd like C0RI0LANUS.

#6 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-14 09:17 AM | Reply

"Clearly the Jews are to blame, because Hamas terrorists are beyond reproach."

One side has killed 50,000 civilians since Oct 7.
One side has killed 1,000 civilians since Oct 7.

Are you sure there's only one terrorist organization active in this conflict?

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-14 10:11 AM | Reply

Weird how the missiles (mostly) missed the multi-story hospital and appeared to be aimed at the ground beside it. Almost as if Israel was targeting underground structures that a terrorist group was attempting to shield using civilians.

Gaza-European-Hospital-35-GX55-N43-VKVNDHGOBI5-KJQ3-KI

Unleash the Useful Western Idiot Outrage!

#8 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-14 10:14 AM | Reply

If you're not outraged by 50,000 dead civilians, you just might support terrorism!

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-14 10:16 AM | Reply

If you provide material support to a terrorist organization, you just might support terrorism!

Israeli support for Hamas
en.wikipedia.org

Another alternative to the PLO encouraged by Israeli officials was Islamist politician Ahmed Yassin, a Muslim Brotherhood member who ran a network of mosques, clubs, and schools in Gaza. During the 1970s and 1980s, Israel granted licences and support to Yassin so that he could build and expand his network.[2][18] American research Jonathan Schanzer wrote that "by the late 1970s, the Israelis believed that they had found Fatah's Achilles' heel ... Fatah had become anxious over the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza," saying that the Israelis subsequently "made the ill-fated decision to permit the Brotherhood to operate with relatively little oversight" so that it would undermine the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).[19] In the late 1980s, Yassin's network would evolve into the armed Islamist and nationalist group Hamas.[20]

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-14 10:18 AM | Reply

-If you're not outraged by 50,000 dead civilians, you just might support terrorism!

40 million dead civilians during WW 2. Some of them as a result of dropping 2 bombs on them.

I wasn't around for it but doubt there was much of a platform for folks like you running around calling people terrorists if they failed to display enough "outrage" over it all.

We can move on to Korea and Vietnam and even back up to the Civil War if you'd like to count up civilian deaths.

Has America ever passed your purity test?

#11 | Posted by eberly at 2025-05-14 10:29 AM | Reply

"Has America ever passed your purity test?"

Has it ever failed yours?
Was it when Obama got elected?

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-14 10:39 AM | Reply

Weird how the missiles (mostly) missed the multi-story hospital and appeared to be aimed at the ground beside it. Almost as if Israel was targeting underground structures that a terrorist group was attempting to shield using civilians.
Gaza-European-Hospital-35-GX55-N43-VKVNDHGOBI5-KJQ3-KI
Unleash the Useful Western Idiot Outrage!
#8 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-14 10:14 AM

What is the total death count?

#13 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-14 10:48 AM | Reply

What is the total death count?
#13 | Posted by redlightrobot

What does it matter to you?

A single dead Palestinian terrorist is too much for you. And 10 million dead Jews is not enough (and also, none of those Jews actually died, all a psyop).

If they want to claim the moral high ground, the Palestinian terrorists could surrender at any time. Or at least release the civilian hostages they've been holding on to for the last 16+ months. But never a peep from you or your ilk about that.

#14 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-14 10:56 AM | Reply

"And 10 million dead Jews is not enough (and also, none of those Jews actually died, all a psyop)."

Are you counting the Holodomor or something?
The number of dead Jews in WWII is six million, not ten million.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-14 11:01 AM | Reply

"If they want to claim the moral high ground, the Palestinian terrorists could surrender at any time."

As could Israel.
Israel could stop occupying the West Bank at any time.
Israel could have stooped occupying the West Bank at any time in the past fifty years.

Israel had been occupying the West Bank since before Hamas even existed!

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-14 11:03 AM | Reply

"Has it ever failed yours?
Was it when Obama got elected?"

I voted for Obama. but you're admitting it's all about what you don't get on election day. IT's not actually about dead civilians.

#17 | Posted by eberly at 2025-05-14 11:04 AM | Reply

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