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Thursday, October 02, 2025

The IDF detained Swedish Samaritan Greta Thunberg and other volunteers aboard a fleet of Gaza-bound aid ships, sparking global outcry. Two NATO ships had been protecting the flotilla from IDF drone attacks. The flotilla was trying to break Israel's 18-year blockade of Gaza and get aid into the war-ravaged enclave. 29 GSF boats were still sailing and were about 46 nautical miles from Gaza, while 15 boats had been intercepted. Flotilla organizers labeled Israel's interception of the ships "an illegal attack" on humanitarians, while Israel bleated the Samaritans were "not interested in aid, but in provocation." Angry people gathered in Italy, Turkiye, Greece, Tunisia, and Argentina to denounce the immoral act of piracy. Rome and Paris warned Israel to protect their detained citizens from harm. Colombia cancelled its free trade agreement with Israel and began expelling their entire delegation. Turkiye called the interception an "act of terrorism."

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Meanwhile the corpses in Gaza continue to amass. In the past 24 hours, the IDF killed 85 human beings according to the Palestinian Health Authority. Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement after the GOP budget was passed thanks to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and so on 18 March the IDF promptly resumed the Nakba to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Since 7 Oct 2023, the IDF has killed 66,148 Palestinians, mostly women and children; 168,716 are injured or maimed. By contrast, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong (VC) guerrillas needed twenty years to kill 58,281 of our Servicemembers in SE Asia; the IDF easily surpassed this number within two years. Unless stopped, my pencil and paper estimates, as well as AI calculations, projects the IDF will probably kill 72,000 to 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza before the end of 2025 as they rid the enclave of Muslims to make way for Israeli real estate developers and rabid religious Settlers. An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC remains active for Benjamin Netanyahu. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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  • Amnesty International sent a letter to FIFA and UEFA calling on them to suspend the Israeli Football Association (IFA) from their tournaments, in the same manner that Russian athletes are banned from participating from competition in the civilized world:
    "As Israel's national football team gears up for World Cup qualifiers against Norway and Italy, Israel continues to perpetrate genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Over 800 athletes, players, and sports officials are among the more than 65,000 people Israeli forces have killed in a deliberate campaign of wholesale devastation, forced displacement, and starvation of civilians," wrote Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International's Secretary General.

  • Eurovision 2026 is holding a vote in November to impose a similar ban on Israeli performers. Several EU nations vowed to withdraw if the Pariah Nation participates.
  • As predicted, the Gaza genocide is fueling support for Progressive Democratic NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani (33). Besides his sound economic plan to make NYC more affordable for poor people, which can be easily paid for by taxes on Wall Street and the oligarchs, his defiance of Dummkopf Trumpf and Benjamin Netanyahu has given him a commanding 20-point lead over disgraced ex-NYS governor Andrew Cuomo, who is seen as nothing but a Judas Iscariot to the Democratic Party and an obvious shill for AIPAC and wealthy landlords in NYC.

    Sources: www.amnesty.org; www.cnn.com; www.nytimes.com

  • #1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-02 02:42 AM | Reply

    To no one's surprise, NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo declined to say whether Israel was committing a genocide in the Gaza Strip, as a growing number of Democrats and some Republicans have condemned Israel's actions amid the ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing.

    "I believe it is obviously a horrific situation. We want peace. It's long overdue. To watch on a daily basis the carnage that is going on in Gaza is difficult," Cuomo whined in an interview.

    Pressed on whether that meant he was not going as far as calling it a genocide, Cuomo replied, "I don't, I don't " it's not my place to provide terminology in this political context."

    The Judas Iscariot of the Democratic Party then went on to bleat AIPAC talking points about the hostages and Hamas, completely dismissing the need to recognize the State of Palestine or stopping the greedy land grab by a cabal of Israeli real estate developers, Jared Kushner, and Tony Blair's nefarious involvement.

    Here are the standard talking points, including Cuomo's vague use of the word "peace" (meaning conquest):

    "But return the hostages. Eliminate Hamas, which is a terrorist organization, and let's have peace finally, and that " that is long, long overdue," he added. "Now my opponent talks about it all the time. It's not really a mayoral issue, but it is his main political issue because it is a very emotional issue."

    Source:
    Benedict Arnold

    Benjamin Netanyahu had two years to release any of the THOUSANDS of Palestinian prisoners being held in IDF custody without hearing or trial. In Nov 2023, three prisoner swaps took place before Netanyahu unleashed the Nakba, stopping the trades. The Israeli population know Netanyahu doesn't give a darn about the hostages who he considers korbans for the greater good of Israel.

    The disgraced ex-NYS governor is on Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team at the Hague. An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for war crimes remains active for Benjamin Netanyahu. An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

    A vote for the likeable Zohran Mamdani (33) translates into a vote against an indicted war criminal through his self-serving mercenary proxy, Andrew Cuomo, now shunned by progressive Democrats, as well as the Kennedy clan.


    #2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-03 02:27 AM | Reply

    The IDF captured poor Greta Thunberg and it launched numerous airstrikes on Lebanon on Friday, marking yet another violation of the ceasefire agreement reached in November 2024.

    Earlier this summer, Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan told Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman ("Muhammad Bone Saws") that Israel was the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East, which was echoed by other academics in the US and UK.

    Sources:

    cdn.abcotvs.com; www.tasnimnews.com; www.middleeastmonitor.com; www.commondreams.org; www.theguardian.com

    #3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-03 06:09 AM | Reply

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