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Israel is Becoming a Pariah on the Global Stage

Israel is becoming increasingly isolated on the world stage as the death count in Gaza nears 66,000 Palestinians.

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The Israeli military has destroyed block after block of Gaza City as part of a new ground offensive in what was once the territory's largest urban center. Though much of the city is still standing, satellite images show Israeli forces are flattening whole areas. nyti.ms/3WbpxZw

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Sep 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM

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After Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's disastrous visit to NYC and UNGA where several countries finally recognized the State of Palestine infuriating the lunatic Likudnik, he brayed: "A Palestinian state will not be established west of the Jordan!" Netanyahu boasted that under his leadership, Israel "doubled Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria and we will continue on this course." (The Times of Israel, 21 Sep 2025).

Netanyahu's bullying attempts at the PMs of Canada, the UK, France, and Australia failed, as these leaders have gained experience dealing with another bully, ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin. Moreover, these leaders and their citizens not only saw through Netanyahu's veneer of using the hostage situation as a pretext for ethnically cleansing Gaza, but they also hear the words of Israeli Finance Bezalel Smotrich who routinely calls for the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza to finally realize a homogenous Jewish state: uploads.disquscdn.com

Netanyahu's pogrom against the Palestinians has given NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (33) a significant boost. While AIPAC and Israel may conquer the Gaza Strip, they will probably lose NYC and all of the patronage positions, lucrative contracts, and CUNY academic appointments that go along with City Hall. Plus Mayor Mamdani will have an international platform as Mayor and will have access to foreign leaders and dignitaries when they visit UNGA: www.dataforprogress.org

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-28 07:52 AM | Reply

66,000?

Jeez...that's barely enough to fill a football stadium...what's all the fuss?

---conservatives everywhere

#2 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-09-28 04:48 PM | Reply

The 66,000 figure is likely an underestimate by a factor of 10.

More like 660,000 Deaths.

Real Genocide. The Usraelis are sick ---------.

No Right to Exist.

They Forfeited that.

Frankly they never had it to begin with.

Israel should have been created in GERMANY.

Nazism Largely achieved its objective of creating a Jew Free Europe.

Which Is Exactly why Israel was Located in West Asia.

The European States wanted Nothing to do with a resident "Jewish State".

Israel would have been as much a Catalyst for War in Europe as it is in the Levant.

As Mel Gibson so Eloquently and Drunkenly said.

"The Jews start all the Wars".

Lol.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-09-28 05:08 PM | Reply

"If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image."

- Oscar Meyer

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-09-28 06:14 PM | Reply

Fitting

#5 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-09-28 07:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Microsoft announces it has barred the Israeli military from using the company's services to spy on millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and stored in Microsoft's vast Azure cloud computing platform: www.democracynow.org

What in the world took Microsoft so long?

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-28 10:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 7

Lawyers filed a 100-page criminal complaint against German Government officials and arms trade executives in Berlin for their alleged complicity in aiding and abetting Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. The charges were filed at the Office of the Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe (Generalbundesanwaltschaft) against eleven high ranking officials of the former and current German government, including former Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as well as CEOs of arms manufacturers.

ichef.bbci.co.uk

What in the world took these German lawyers so long?

A criminal complaint is merely an allegation. All of the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a German court of law.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-28 11:08 PM | Reply

@#3

Was that on the taking point list that may have been issued to your trolling alias?

imo, Pres Putin needs to make his trolls less obvious.

Jus' sayin', imo, of course.

#8 | Posted by lamplighter at 2025-09-28 11:28 PM | Reply

@#6 ... Microsoft announces ...

Yeah, this was a big headline in the tech community when it was announced.

Major kudos to AP News for the investigation and reporting ...

Microsoft reduces Israel's access to cloud and AI products over reports of mass surveillance in Gaza (September 25, 2025)
apnews.com

...WASHINGTON (AP) -- Microsoft said Thursday it had disabled services to a unit within the Israeli military after a company review had determined its artificial intelligence and cloud computing products were being used to help carry out mass surveillance of Palestinians.

The action comes after The Associated Press and The Guardian published reports earlier this year revealing how the Israeli Ministry of Defense had been using Microsoft's Azure platform to aid in the war in Gaza and occupation of the West Bank. Brad Smith, Microsoft's vice chair and president, wrote in a blog post that the company was taking steps to enforce compliance with its terms of service.

An AP investigation in February showed that the Israeli military's use of Microsoft products skyrocketed after a deadly surprise attack by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023. The AP's report cited internal Microsoft data showing the Israelis were using gigabytes of cloud storage and massive amounts of AI-enabled language translation services.

The AP also reported that Israel's military used Microsoft Azure to compile information gathered through mass surveillance, which it transcribes and translates, including phone calls and text messages. That intelligence is then cross-checked with Israel's in-house AI systems for targeting airstrikes. ...

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-28 11:34 PM | Reply

What in the world took Microsoft so long?

The check from Hamas finally cleared.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-29 08:22 AM | Reply

---- that war criminal Netanyahu and the Israeli right-wing extremists that have teemed up with him.
They're committing genocide and aren't any better than what they professed they hated.

Coincidently, Trump's pissed at Microsoft and is demanding they fire its president of global affairs, calling her a "menace to the U.S. national security."

That's right, all you MAGA morons that cried out about "government interference" and "cancel culture" and "censorship." YOUR Orange Fuhrer is telling Microsoft who it can hire and who it has to fire, or else. Yep, he's still taking his order from the right-wing lunatic Loomer, who has called for all government contracts with Microsoft to be cancelled. See that word there? "Cancelled"?

#11 | Posted by YAV at 2025-09-29 08:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Coincidently, Trump's pissed at Microsoft and is demanding they fire its president of global affairs, calling her a "menace to the U.S. national security."

That's right, all you MAGA morons that cried out about "government interference" and "cancel culture" and "censorship." YOUR Orange Fuhrer is telling Microsoft who it can hire and who it has to fire, or else. Yep, he's still taking his order from the right-wing lunatic Loomer, who has called for all government contracts with Microsoft to be cancelled. See that word there? "Cancelled"?

LyinYav, because MS was farming out DoD server coding and duties to the CCP exposing the military to hackers from China.
www.propublica.org

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-29 09:08 AM | Reply

Americans are simply fed up with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, AIPAC, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), Andrew Cuomo (ersatz Democrat), Dummkopf Trumpf and the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF). The hatemongering of Laura Loomer and her Islamophobic hysteria may still work on MAGAts, faux Christians, or Likudniks, but not anymore with Main Street America or even House Republican Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) for that matter.

progressive.org

www.politico.com

i.ytimg.com

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-29 10:49 AM | Reply

#13: Israelis themselves are fed up with the "Crime Minister": english.wafa.ps

Why are Americans the last ones on the planet to be fed up with "Bibi", unlike Canadians, Frenchmen and women, Brits, Australians, Irish men and women, Slovenians, Spaniards, Maltese, Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Germans, Italians, Greeks, Turks, et al? thumbs.dreamstime.com

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-29 12:20 PM | Reply

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#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-28 11:34 PM
Yeah, this was a big headline in the tech community when it was announced. ...
Israeli military's use of Microsoft products skyrocketed after a deadly surprise attack by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023. ...

It wasn't a [big] secret, or anything unexpected. Israeli cyberintelligence Unit 8200 was fully prepared to switch to their own cloud.

Just a little history: in 2015 Microsoft spent $320M to acquire cloud cybersecurity SaaS company Adallom, which was based in Menlo Park and founded by three former Unit 8200 members. Their Smart Engines technology eventually evolved into Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

In 2020 the co-founders of Adallom left Microsoft and started NYC-based cybersecurity company Wiz, which was acquired earlier this year by Google/Alphabet for $32-$34B. Most of the engineering team is located in Israel.

Alphabet previously bought Israeli map company Waze, at the time less than 100 employees, for $1.3B in 2013, which was also founded by three former members of Unit 8200.

Seems like Google had a lot of success acquiring companies that start with the letter W?
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#15 | Posted by CutiePie at 2025-09-29 10:45 PM | Reply

Well ya know... the support for Israel had less to do with altruism than appeasing the religious delusionals. Nuttywahoo exploited the Christian obsession with persecution and the second coming of Jayzus.

#16 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-09-30 03:52 AM | Reply

#16: Concur. This is a combination of menticide (religious zealotry) and the lucrative military-industrial complex. In a country slightly larger than New Jersey, look at these figures: forbes.co.il and www.f6s.com.

Oracle oligarch counts Benjamin Netanyahu as a 'close friend': www.mintpressnews.com

And between AIPAC backing both the 2024 POTUS candidates, the Palestinians simply never had a chance: images.squarespace-cdn.com /// images.squarespace-cdn.com

If Empty Suit Marco Rubio ever runs for POTUS, he'll be well-funded as well: images.squarespace-cdn.com

#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-30 04:25 AM | Reply

What in the world took Microsoft so long?

The check from Hamas finally cleared.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-29 08:22 AM

Pretty funny, after you realize that Bibi has been funding Hamas for years in order to minimize the "moderates" voice in negotiations.

This was pretty instructive, too.
www.youtube.com

#18 | Posted by morris at 2025-09-30 06:01 PM | Reply

Isn't it in their ideology that the fight the world?

#19 | Posted by Brennnn at 2025-10-01 01:33 PM | Reply

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