Tag: Israel

Two State Solution Bullshit

The US has used the two state solution as a dodge and an invitation for Israel to do as they want in the theft of land on the West Bank. We have legalized the actions of those thugs that go by the serene name of ‘settlers’…..they are bullies and criminals….period!

Since most people are ignorant on the situation let me describe the two state solution….

The two-state solution refers to a plan to create a Palestinian state separate from the state of Israel. The goal is to address Palestinian claims to national self-determination without undermining Israel’s sovereignty.

The first attempt at creating side-by-side states occurred before the independence of Israel in 1948. The year before, the United Nations passed Resolution 181 outlining a partition plan that would split the Mandate of Palestine (under British control) into separate Jewish and Arab states.

The UN’s proposed borders never materialised. Shortly after Israel declared independence, Syria, Jordan and Egypt invaded, sparking the first Arab-Israeli war. More than 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from the new state of Israel, fleeing to the West Bank, Gaza and surrounding Arab states

Recently the ICJ ruled against Israel on their theft of land and of course the US had to rush in and defend their masters.

The US has criticized the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling that said the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal and must come to an end, claiming it impedes a two-state solution.

“We are concerned that the breadth of the court’s opinion will complicate efforts to resolve the conflict and bring about an urgently needed just and lasting peace, with two states living side-by-side in peace and security,” a State Department spokesperson told Reuters in an email on Saturday.

The spokesperson said the ICJ ruling, which was a non-binding opinion, was “inconsistent with the established framework.”

In contrast, the US refused to condemn the Israeli Knesset passing a resolution that rejects the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, which covers all of the occupied territories.

“I’ll let Israeli officials speak to their own legislative chamber and the actions that that chamber takes,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said about the Knesset vote. He claimed the US was still committed to a two-state solution, but the US continues to back an Israeli government that’s explicitly opposed to the idea.

The ICJ ruling said the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem amounted to annexation. Since October 7, Israeli settlers have stepped up their attacks on Palestinians to steal their homes, and the Israeli government has approved the largest land grab in the West Bank in 30 years.

(antiwar.com)

The rhetoric of the two state solution is a con….all it does is allow Israel to steal whatever they want and the US will rubber stamp it.

I am sick of the scam of the two state solution after almost 50 years and the US meddling and allowing Israel a free hand to act out as it sees fit under the guise of self-defense.

It is all bullshit!

Either stand by the so-called commitment or stand aside and STFU.

Enough bullshit already!

“cognito ergo me agitare”

Deceit And Deception

Those two words describe what the US gets from Israel and for the past 70+ years.

It is well documented on how I feel about Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty….but it goes deeper than that….in the 80s after the Marine barracks was bombed in Beirut the US turned to Israel for help isolating the group an d its leader….We were told by their crackerjack intel service that a local iman was the leader of a group that bombed the barracks….the US went about putting together a plan to take out the leader and a bomb was set to remove the iman…..after the bomb civilians were killed and the iman was able to escape death……the problem was this person had nothing to do with the bombing.

Then there was the attack on Qaddafi in the 80s….a Israeli team has his compound under surveillance and the US was told he was in his tent on the compound grounds…..we called an airstrike to get Qaddafi the problem was he was not there and we killed family members .

We could go into the numerous American citizens that have spied for Israel against their very own country….but why bother some small minded person will justify all these incidents in some small  way or another..

But no matter how much one defends Israel the fact remains that it is always one sided…..

Israel’s history over the past 76 years is replete with examples of deceit.  This was true from the start, when the Israelis denied their role in expelling hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes during Israel’s War of Independence.  The Arab world refers to the expulsion as the “nakba” (the catastrophe), which is largely denied in Israel.  The Israeli legacy of denying the “nakba” is no different from those who deny the Holocaust.

The mainstream media bends over backwards to defend Israel’s case, and over the years it has said very little about the history of Israel’s deceit and deception.  As recently as last week, for example, the Washington Post carried a bizarre headline that read “Israel is on its honor to comply with U.S. intelligence limits.” The accompanying story was a significant one, detailing the importance of the U.S. intelligence provided to Israel to conduct the rescue of four Israeli hostages, an operation that took the lives of nearly three hundred Palestinians, mostly women and children.  By any definition of the requirement for proportionality in wartime, this was indeed a war crime.

The Post article went on to cite National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, an apologist for Israel since the start of the war on October 7th, who explained that the United States has “provided an intense range of assets and capabilities and expertise to Israel,” and that the provision of intelligence  is “not tied or conditioned on anything else.  It is not limited.  We are not holding anything back.  We are providing every asset, every tool, every capability.”  These remarks are dispositive of our complicity in Israel’s brutal and unconscionable assault against Palestinian civilians.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/21/biden-team-ignores-israels-history-of-deceit-and-deception/

There in this lies the problem….people will defend without looking at all sides of the argument and they use some pretty vague reason to hide their true feelings.

Sadly people will not challenge their biases to try and get to the truth….the truth is there just too damn lazy to look for it so fall back on the MSM to design their thinking for them.

Netanyahu has spoken privately about his ability to manipulate Democratic administrations because he has the power of the Jewish lobby behind him, and Democratic presidents are fearful of antagonizing the Jewish vote and Jewish fund raising on behalf of Democrats. He has insulted American presidents, vice presidents, and secretaries of state over the years, and has never missed an opportunity to demonstrate that he has the upper hand in negotiations with the United States. Netanyahu has always played hard ball with the United States. Now, it’s time for the United States to do the same.

I agree…the US needs to grow a spine and do what is needed to return to the prominence we once had in the world.

I have asked many question over the years and most responses are canned BS from the media or their idiot brother-in-law….critical thinking leaves the room when Israel is mentioned.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“cognito ergo me agitare”

Make Them Pay!

I am talking about reparations here.

Iraqi parliamentarians are demanding Israel pay billions of dollars in reparations for a 1981 Israeli attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, Baghdad’s daily al-Sabbah reported Thursday.

Mohammed Naji Mohammed, a member of parliament with the United Iraqi Alliance coalition, is leading a campaign for a parliamentary resolution obliging the Iraqi foreign ministry and courts to seek billions of dollars in reparations for an Israeli air strike on the Osiraq nuclear reactor, the newspaper reported.

The Iraqi lawmakers now pushing for reparations were reportedly careful to stress that they were concerned with Iraq’s development, and that the campaign did not imply an endorsement of the former Iraqi regime.

Mohammed reportedly said that if foreign governments could hold Iraq responsible for reparations for acts committed by Saddam Hussein’s regime, then Iraq could hold foreign governments responsible for reparations for acts committed against Iraq while Saddam Hussein was in power.

While the parliament has not yet taken any decision to act on the campaign, Mohammed’s affiliation with the United Iraqi Alliance, a coalition of mostly of Shiite parties that won the greatest share of seats in Iraq’s 2005 parliamentary elections, may smooth its passage through the legislative assembly.

They do have a point…somewhat……Iraq had to pay for damage done by Saddam in Kuwait….is it fair?  You decide.