TRUMP ON TRACK FOR SHOCK WIN LMAO The news media weren't good enough, not convincing enough in brainwashing the masses.
Israeli' the 'victims', forever shitstirring and then shout "You're antisimetic toward us". Israeli settlers escalate violence against Palestinians as they pin hopes on Trump presidency Settlers torch cars on the outskirts of Ramallah , the seat of the Palestinian authority. Tuesday 05/11/2024 https://thearabweekly.com/israeli-s...-palestinians-they-pin-hopes-trump-presidency People check burnt vehicles at the site of an attack by Israeli settlers in a residential area on the outskirts of Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank, on November 4, 2024. REUTERS RAMALLAH, West Bank Jewish settlers torched 20 cars during an attack on Palestinian property on the outskirts of Ramallah on Monday, residents said, in one of their most brazen attacks in the area that serves as the Palestinians’ seat of government in the occupied West Bank. Around a dozen attackers, masked and carrying petrol bombs, targeted the Al-Bireh area, which adjoins Ramallah, at around 3 am (0100 GMT), torching the cars in a matter of minutes, they said. Resident Ihab al-Zaben said he yelled at the settlers but they carried on burning the vehicles regardless. “When we came down to try to extinguish the fire, they started shooting at us,” he said. The facade of a residential building was left blackened by fires set in cars that had been parked outside. The Israeli police and the Shin Bet security agency said they were investigating after receiving a report that a number of Palestinian cars had been burned. Jewish settler violence against Palestinian communities in the West Bank has drawn condemnation internationally and led to sanctions on violent settlers by some governments, notably the United States, which has urged Israel to do more to stop the attacks. But the assaults have not stopped. The Palestinian Authority (PA), based in Ramallah, condemned “the brutal attack by settler militias”. Its ministry of foreign affairs called for “comprehensive sanctions targeting the entire settler-colonial system”. Hamas official Abdul Rahman Shadid said the attack represented a boost in violence by settlers and required “escalating the confrontation and confronting these crimes”, a statement by the Palestinian group said. Israel has settled the West Bank since capturing it during the 1967 Middle East war. Palestinians say the settlements have undermined the prospects for the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital. Israel views the West Bank as the biblical Judea and Samaria, and the settlers cite biblical ties to the land. Settler violence had been on the rise before the eruption of the Gaza war, and has worsened since the conflict began just over a year ago. In an interview with Reuters last week, a leader of the settler community expressed confidence that Donald Trump, if he wins the US presidential election, will lift what the settlers see as the illegitimate sanctions imposed over attacks on Palestinians. Most countries deem the settlements illegal under international law. In 2019, the then-Trump administration abandoned the long-held US position that the settlements are illegal before it was restored by President Joe Biden. The United States on Monday urged Israel to take action over violence by settlers in the West Bank. “The United States is deeply concerned by these and other recent reports of increasing extremist settler violence in the West Bank,” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. In addition to the cars that were set alight on Monday, Miller pointed to West Bank settlers’ attacks on homes, killing of Palestinians’ livestock and hindering of olive harvesting. “It is critical that the government of Israel deter extremist settler violence and take measures to protect all communities from harm in accordance with its international obligations,” Miller said. “This includes intervening, preventing and stopping such violence. It is further incumbent upon the relevant authorities to do everything possible to de-escalate tensions and hold all perpetrators of violence against civilians equally accountable, no matter the background of the perpetrator or the victim,” he said. The Israeli parliament last week defied warnings by the United States and other Western countries and banned the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. The State Department had earlier said it was waiting to assess the impact of the law, which needed 90 days to go into effect, but Israel said on Monday it had formally notified the United Nations it was cutting ties with UNRWA. “There are other UN agencies that are operating inside Gaza, but we see UNRWA as continuing to play a critical role,” Miller said. “We’re endeavouring now to learn exactly what the implication if any of that [notification] letter is, separate, apart, from the legislation that’s already passed and has a 90-day timetable on it.”
Netanyahu replaces fired Israeli Defense Minister with 'another genocidal lunatic' Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams November 6, 2024 https://www.rawstory.com/netanyahu-...ense-minister-with-another-genocidal-lunatic/ Palestine defenders on Tuesday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of swapping one "genocidal lunatic" for another after the right-wing leader fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and replaced him with Israel Katz, who was serving as foreign minister. " Israel just doubled down on prolonging its genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza," journalist and genocide scholar Samira Mohyeddin said on social media following Netanyahu's moves. Netanyahu cited what he called a "crisis of trust" that "gradually deepened" as his reason for the changes, which came as Israel is waging war on Gaza and Lebanon while bracing for Iranian retaliation for recent Israeli attacks on the Middle East nation. "In the midst of a war, more than ever, full trust is required between the prime minister and the minister of defense," Netanyahu said Tuesday, according toThe Jerusalem Post. "This trust has cracked between myself and the defense minister." Katz, a member of Netanyahu's Likud party, previously held several Cabinet posts, most recently as Israel's top diplomat. He was the minister of energy and infrastructure on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants launched a surprise attack on Israel that left more than 1,100 people dead—at least some killed by fratricidal fire—and over 240 others kidnapped and taken to Gaza. Two days later, Katz issued an order to "immediately cut off the water supply from Israel to Gaza." "Electricity and fuel were cut off yesterday," he said. "What was will not be. All the civilian population in Gaza is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave." Katz's directive followed Gallant's order for a "complete siege" of Gaza. "There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed," Gallant said. "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly." These statements by Gallant and Katz are cited in the International Court of Justice's January 26 provisional order for Israel to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza. Israel—which is on trial for alleged genocide at the ICJ—has been accused of ignoring this and subsequent orders issued by the tribunal. On Tuesday, Israeli state media reported that the Israel Defense Forces has completed its division of Gaza into two parts, and that "there is no intention to allow the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes." Katz has also come under fire for declaring United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres "persona non grata in Israel" for criticizing the country's war on Gaza, which has left more than 155,000 Palestinians in Gaza dead, wounded, or missing and millions more starving and sick. While serving as Israel's foreign minister, Katz was also condemned for threatening "severe consequences" for nations that officially recognize Palestinian statehood. Nearly 150 of the 193 United Nations member states recognize Palestine. Katz also raised eyebrows in 2022 after he made a thinly veiled threat to ethnically cleanse Arab citizens of Israel. Responding to Israeli Arab students who displayed the Palestinian flag on college campuses, Katz said "remember '48," a reference to 1948, when Israel declared its independence amid an ethnic cleansing campaign in which more than 750,000 Arabs were expelled from Palestine to make way for Jewish settlement. Palestinians call this mass dispossession and expulsion the Nakba, which means "catastrophe" in Arabic. "Remember our independence war and your Nakba," Katz said. "Don't stretch the rope too much... If you don't calm down, we'll teach you a lesson that won't be forgotten." "Ask your elders—your grandfathers, and grandmothers—and they will explain to you that in the end, the Jews awaken, they know to defend themselves and the idea of the Jewish state," he added. In one of his final acts as foreign minister, Katz on Monday initiated the process of annulling a 1967 agreement between Israel and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which Israel accuses of being "infiltrated" by Hamas. The U.N. strongly refutes Israel's accusation.
@gwb-trading ET's #1 Troll, fervent Trump hater and supporter of Israel's violence is on the wrong side, but that's what Trolls are all about, they're wrong about everything.
Netanyahu’s Firing of Israel Defense Chief Gallant Draws Ire and Praise Prime minister saw removal of Gallant as stabilizing coalition Opponents say move prioritizes politics over national security By Galit Altstein November 6, 2024 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...llant-draws-ire-and-praise?srnd=homepage-asia Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s shock firing of his defense chief on Tuesday night removed a cabinet critic, but also deepened anger among opponents about his handling of the country’s multi-front conflict. In Yoav Gallant, Netanyahu had a defense minister who challenged many of his plans for the war against Hamas in Gaza and threatened the stability of his fragile coalition. Netanyahu is betting he can conduct military policy with fewer obstacles by picking Israel Katz, formerly the foreign minister, to replace Gallant. It might even be enough to hold his government, the most right-wing Israel’s ever had, together until the next planned election in 2026. The upshot is that Israel could continue pursuing “total victory” against Hamas and defying pressure from the White House, Europeans and Arab states to accept a deal for a cease-fire and release of the roughly 100 hostages held by the Iran-backed militant group. Netanyahu got a boost hours later when it became clear Donald Trump had defeated Kamala Harris in the US presidential election. The premier was quick to praise former president, congratulating him on “history’s greatest comeback.” Some of Netanyahu’s ministers openly backed Trump, believing he would be less critical than President Joe Biden about the deaths of Palestinian civilians and give firmer support for Israel’s operations in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as against Iran. Announcing his move, Netanyahu said the trust between him and Gallant had broken down. In late August, Gallant was the only cabinet member to vote against maintaining a military presence in Gaza’s so-called Philadelphi corridor. Netanyahu’s insistence that troops remained in the strip of land running along the Gaza-Egypt border was a key reason truce talks with Hamas stalled. Gallant, who spoke regularly with Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and helped Israel and the US weather tensions between Netanyahu and Biden, cited three reasons for being fired. One of them, he said, was to do with the conduct of war in Gaza. Gallant long said the best way to get the hostages released was to accept a phased cease-fire even it it meant withdrawing from parts of Gaza. “It requires painful concessions, which Israel can carry and the IDF can bear,” Gallant said on Tuesday, referring to the Israel Defense Forces. Hardliners in the cabinet, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, disagreed with Gallant and were happy with Netanyahu’s decision to oust him. Another reason was growing divisions over a recent Supreme Court ruling that overturned Orthodox Jews’ exemption from military conscription. Gallant said the ruling had to be implemented, while Netanyahu and his Orthodox political allies wanted to bypass it. In recent days, Netanyahu failed to introduce a policy allowing Orthodox men, known as Haredim, to avoid economic sanctions if they refused to serve. Haredi parties, critical members of the coalition, have threatened to topple the government if that doesn’t happen. Gallant, as well as many secular politicians and even the central bank governor, say Israel needs to draft more Haredim to lessen the burden on other communities and the economy as the military grows to cope with increased external threats. The third point of contention between Gallant and Netanyahu was over the former’s call for a commission of inquiry “to uncover the truth and learn lessons” about Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza, triggering the war. It was the worst day in Israel’s history in terms of the number of Israelis killed. Netanyahu says a state inquiry would be a distraction while the conflict continues. His critics say he’s simply trying to avoid a report that would showcase his failings in the run up to Oct. 7 and the day itself. For all that Gallant’s departure may stabilize Netanyahu’s coalition, it weakens him in other ways. Opponents — including a business forum containing chief executives of some of Israel’s biggest companies — cried foul and said he was prioritizing his political survival over the nation’s security and the hostages. Protesters took to the streets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, though they couldn’t persuade Netanyahu to change his mind. “Lawlessness,” read a headline in Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s largest newspaper on Wednesday. “This is how democracy dies,” wrote the paper’s main columnist, Nahum Barnea.
Seriously desperate attempt at spin by the Israeli Ambassador. Children's drawings hoping for peace are Israel hating. Though in a way he's right: when an entire state relies on war and occupation for its existence, calls for peace represent an existential threat.