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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 | Newsworthy 1

-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 | Newsworthy 2

"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

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

You have stats and data and comparative information on everything to justify the genocide to yourself.

What is the Palestinian death count?

#18 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-14 11:12 AM | Reply

You have stats and data and comparative information on everything to justify the genocide to yourself.
#18 | Posted by redlightrobot

Population of "Palestine":
1960: 2,100,000
2020: 8,100,000

Worst genocide ever!

#19 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-14 11:23 AM | Reply

You have stats and data and comparative information on everything to justify the genocide to yourself.
#18 | Posted by redlightrobot
Population of "Palestine":
1960: 2,100,000
2020: 8,100,000
Worst genocide ever!
#19 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-14 11:23 AM

What is the current Palestinian death count?

Do you need it underlined as well?

#20 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-14 11:37 AM | Reply

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

Huh?
What does Election Day have to do with Israel's on going occupation of the West Bank and Gaza?

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-14 11:38 AM | Reply

What is the current Palestinian death count? Do you need it underlined as well?
#20 | Posted by redlightrobot

Why does it matter? Do you need me to underline that for you? Are you unable to articulate a reason besides trying to tug at our heartstrings with sheer numbers of deaths?

The Palestinians started a war by targeting 1,200 Israeli civilians for rape and murder. And now they cry about their own civilian casualties.

And, unlike when the Palestinians deliberately targeted Israeli civilians for rape and murder, the vast majority of Palestinian civilians deaths appears to be collateral damage. At a rate of about 1:1 for civilian/terrorist. A rate that is about par for the course for civilian casualty ratios in armed conflict. en.wikipedia.org

We killed 100,000 Japanese civilians in our firebombing of Tokyo in one night. en.wikipedia.org I'm sure the Japanese saw that as a war crime. We saw it as a legit military target that reduced Tokyo's ability to contribute to the Japanese war effort by 50%. That's the way war works. Americans have been sheltered from that reality for so long that a sizeable portion of our population erroneously believes that civilian deaths are abnormal.

Tokyo-firebombing

#22 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-14 12:34 PM | Reply

Censored is Trash.

No respect for human life whatsoever.

I'm glad that Coward Punk has me Plonked.

He's a -----------. A Loser who loves Murderers.

NO Depravity is too much for Him.

#23 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-05-14 01:26 PM | Reply

I have many blank lines in the thread, therefore liars and trolls have commented here but I am unable to read their blasphemies. I have just become aware from a third party that a troll wrote C0RI0LANUS is "Pro-Hamas" (whatever that means). This is an AIPAC talking point to smear and slander critics of Israel, a Pariah AND Rogue state. The other talking point commonly used is the "war" started on 7 Oct 2023. Ethnic cleansing is not a war and as the map in the OP shows, the forced displacement of Palestinians began long before 7 Oct 2023. This troll finds it shocking that the Apaches of today are fighting back with the only tactics, tools, and procedures (TTP) available to them (eg, guerrilla tactics, abduction). The Jewish fighters of the 1944 Warsaw Ghetto uprising would be on the side of the resistance in Gaza today, not on the side of the Israeli Death Forces (IDF).

Israelis are schooled that their lives are more important than Palestinian lives, making killing them with indifference easier. That's why we saw the IDF use Palestinians as "human shields."

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

And thanks to the third party who alerted me of the troll who polluted this thread with hackneyed tropes, AIPAC talking points, and other sacrileges.

;-)

#24 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-14 02:09 PM | Reply

Zionism is a morality-free disease.

#25 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-14 02:13 PM | Reply

I am unable to read their blasphemies [...] And thanks to the third party who alerted me of the troll who polluted this thread with hackneyed tropes, AIPAC talking points, and other sacrileges.
#24 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

Islamist religious nutjob says what?

Zionism is a morality-free disease.
#25 | Posted by redlightrobot

And Islamism is chock full of morals. Ones that would result in the deaths/dismemberment of many Useful Western Idiots.

#26 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-14 02:20 PM | Reply

#25: Indeed it is. Hannah Arendt summed it up similarly: pictures.abebooks.com

#27 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-14 02:31 PM | Reply

There are no good guys in this fight; there's bad guys and more prolific bad guys.

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-14 02:53 PM | Reply

US politicians from both parties that receive AIPAC money, support, and endorsements are responsible for this Palestinian Holocaust which has created the next generation of antisemites, Israel-haters, and enemies for America. The Islamophobia that AIPAC generated over the past several decades facilitated the second invasion of Iraq in 2003, the first invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, and the "Forever Wars" that cost the American taxpayer billions and billions of dollars, on top of the appalling casualties.

You can see who the enablers are in the following links:

Sources:

TrackAIPAC

opensecrets

https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/98/9/912734536-americans_die_for_israel1.jpg

#29 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-14 02:58 PM | Reply

Israel Celebrates Holiday By Killing 60 Palestinians

"Only 60?"
-Censored.

#30 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-14 03:26 PM | Reply

C0-RI0-LANUS-anti-semtic

Coriolanus-oven

Those are some high quality antisemitic images C0RI0LANUS. I hope Hamas pays you well for your efforts!

H-and-Pal

#31 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-14 03:28 PM | Reply

Zionism is a morality-free disease.
#25 | Posted by redlightrobot

And Islamism is chock full of morals. Ones that would result in the deaths/dismemberment of many Useful Western Idiots.
#26 | Posted by censored

"Would result"

Oh, a hypothetical.

Unlike the actual 50,000 Palestinian civilians killed by Israel in the past 18 months.

How'd you even get the idea that the ones killing more civilians are the good guys?

Explain it like I'm a small Jewish child who lost his parents when IDF went Hannibal on our Kibbutz.

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-14 03:46 PM | Reply

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