As always Qasim you write the indelible truth. There is a pocket of hideous monsters intent on imposing their false realites for the destruction of a humanity that no faith has ever agreed to nor sanctioned by a higher power regardless of one's faith.
I wonder how the UN could possibly become strong enough to stop hideous wrongs while they are happening. Maybe the rules can change for who can vote on the security council. ( That would not be sufficient.)
The only good thing about the UN this week is that it was a public meeting of the world community where people all over the world have some idea what is true and can respond openly. We watched so many of the world's representatives shaming him publicly. How did it feel to Israelis to see so many condemning the actions of their country? Will it influence what happens? Maybe.
Then there's us! We are participating in this genocide because, I believe, of AIPAC's money flowing into our elections. They get what they pay for!
I am so proud of the candidates (all democrats?) who are refusing big money.
Anyone who opposes Israel's action has to overcome the accusation of anti-semitism, and all the worse if they happen to be Muslim. Will the American people be smart enough to decode this?
Absolutely true that we can be called antisemitic by opposing the massive ongoing slaughter of Palestinians with our weapons.
As far as why our country continues supporting Israeli atrocities, AIPAC funding for election candidates is minimal compared to US Government yearly funding to Israel generally stated as $3.8B. But that is far from what we hand over in many years.
US funding to Israel:
1974 $13B
1976 $11.7B
1979 $17B
2024 $6.8
2025 $6.8
The 2026 amount to date will be large. It does not show up on a precursory inquiry.
If they didn't have the gumption to arrest netanyahu, they should have at least denied him the opportunity to speak. Same for trump. I watched No Other Land the other day and one scene was IDF bulldozing a recently built school because it was "on Israeli tank training ground." Um, no. Also yesterday, video of bulldozers tearing up 100s of years old olive trees. Sure, it's just rambunctious teens.
I don’t blame the delegates at the UN for walking out (I couldn’t have stayed either) but I wonder if, instead, they had stayed and booed him loudly and vigorously at the end of his speech—or even during it—might have left more of an impression on him than walking out, which resulted in him calling them all moral cowards.
This is why trump and netanyahu are sympatico. They both make me sick. Religion does not play a part when someone is a disgusting human being. It does bother me that he was born the same religion as me (I am now an atheist), and for him to know what went on in Germany to 11 million people, and almost half of them not Jewish, and he and trump have no issues committing crimes against humanity, makes them inhumane. Evil is evil, no matter race, creed or color.
What’s so infuriating about seeing these claims laid out and answered one by one is how much of the justification depends on asking us to stop seeing Palestinians as individual human beings.
Palestinian children are not Hamas. Journalists are not Hamas. Doctors, aid workers and families seeking refuge are not Hamas. Nothing Hamas did makes their lives disposable.
I refuse to accept that condemning what has been done in Gaza requires choosing a “side.” Human beings are the side. What happened to Israeli civilians was horrific. What has been done to Palestinians is even more horrific. One can’t justify the other.
Thank you, Qasim, for taking these claims apart and documenting what is actually happening.
As a Christian visiting Jerusalem, the IDF pointed guns at us while we were praying at the Stations of the Cross. I have seen for myself the violence against Christians on the West Bank, it is unforgivable that the world’s governments let Netanyahu get away with his lies. It is he who incites antisemitism by claiming that he acts for the Jewish race, conflating Judaism with Israel, ignoring that Israel is a sovereign country, not a race, and also that Israel ‘s population is only 74% Jewish.
From the audio it seems he brought a cheering squad with him, who loved his mention of the pager killings. I also heard on Breaking Points that he had agents taking obvious note of who left the room when he went up to the podium to speak.
This is the same kind of intimidation that gets used on me when I demonstrate on the streetcorner. Zionists will make a big show of taking my picture as if to say, "we are going to report you and make what you are doing known"
Making what I am doing known could not make me happier. Let them show their videos or still photos to any and all. Those who support me will politely ask me if they can take my picture and occasionally will take a selfie with me though I did have one woman think twice and say, "I better not put myself in the picture". That is intimidation working powerfully enough to inhibit an American from standing with liberty and justice for all in America!
Resist the intimidation. It rules on campus and it rules my city mayor, city council, local newspaper publisher and the president of Northwestern University none of whom will respond to my request that they stand for liberty and justice for all and against Israel's ethnic cleansing.
The point could be made that Netanyahu's ability to come to the US unafraid of arrest is an example of the government of the US being intimidated. Things have become so bad that I think if some American(s) were to confront Netanyahu on the street, call him the war criminal he is, the authorities would be on that American in a second, demanding identification and putting the name in a database of people to be watched.
Appreciate every post - it's beyond understanding the heartbreaking depravity and inhumanity inflicted on the Palestinian people, animals, the land, food, water, shelter...there needs to be accountability - what's the matter with Americans who think this is fine and support the US giving weapons and facilitating ths ongoing annihilation and genocide
The framing matters: a head of state credibly accused of war crimes should not get a sanitized platform. Freedom and Democracy don’t defend themselves. That’s our job.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. Donald Trump is a war criminal. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. Every honest person must vigorously oppose offensive actions ordered by these war criminals. Each must be removed from office, prosecuted, convicted, and punished for their Crimes Against Humanity.
Netanyahu is the despicable bastard of the century, a political relic gnawing through power like some old rat that refuses to die. a pathological liar dripping arrogance, spinning chaos while pretending it’s leadership. every word he spits feels like rancid sewage, every move a shameless grab for control. he embodies the rot, the stench, the gutter‑level deceit that poisons an already broken political landscape.
As always Qasim you write the indelible truth. There is a pocket of hideous monsters intent on imposing their false realites for the destruction of a humanity that no faith has ever agreed to nor sanctioned by a higher power regardless of one's faith.
I wonder how the UN could possibly become strong enough to stop hideous wrongs while they are happening. Maybe the rules can change for who can vote on the security council. ( That would not be sufficient.)
The only good thing about the UN this week is that it was a public meeting of the world community where people all over the world have some idea what is true and can respond openly. We watched so many of the world's representatives shaming him publicly. How did it feel to Israelis to see so many condemning the actions of their country? Will it influence what happens? Maybe.
Then there's us! We are participating in this genocide because, I believe, of AIPAC's money flowing into our elections. They get what they pay for!
I am so proud of the candidates (all democrats?) who are refusing big money.
Anyone who opposes Israel's action has to overcome the accusation of anti-semitism, and all the worse if they happen to be Muslim. Will the American people be smart enough to decode this?
Absolutely true that we can be called antisemitic by opposing the massive ongoing slaughter of Palestinians with our weapons.
As far as why our country continues supporting Israeli atrocities, AIPAC funding for election candidates is minimal compared to US Government yearly funding to Israel generally stated as $3.8B. But that is far from what we hand over in many years.
US funding to Israel:
1974 $13B
1976 $11.7B
1979 $17B
2024 $6.8
2025 $6.8
The 2026 amount to date will be large. It does not show up on a precursory inquiry.
If they didn't have the gumption to arrest netanyahu, they should have at least denied him the opportunity to speak. Same for trump. I watched No Other Land the other day and one scene was IDF bulldozing a recently built school because it was "on Israeli tank training ground." Um, no. Also yesterday, video of bulldozers tearing up 100s of years old olive trees. Sure, it's just rambunctious teens.
I don’t blame the delegates at the UN for walking out (I couldn’t have stayed either) but I wonder if, instead, they had stayed and booed him loudly and vigorously at the end of his speech—or even during it—might have left more of an impression on him than walking out, which resulted in him calling them all moral cowards.
This is why trump and netanyahu are sympatico. They both make me sick. Religion does not play a part when someone is a disgusting human being. It does bother me that he was born the same religion as me (I am now an atheist), and for him to know what went on in Germany to 11 million people, and almost half of them not Jewish, and he and trump have no issues committing crimes against humanity, makes them inhumane. Evil is evil, no matter race, creed or color.
What’s so infuriating about seeing these claims laid out and answered one by one is how much of the justification depends on asking us to stop seeing Palestinians as individual human beings.
Palestinian children are not Hamas. Journalists are not Hamas. Doctors, aid workers and families seeking refuge are not Hamas. Nothing Hamas did makes their lives disposable.
I refuse to accept that condemning what has been done in Gaza requires choosing a “side.” Human beings are the side. What happened to Israeli civilians was horrific. What has been done to Palestinians is even more horrific. One can’t justify the other.
Thank you, Qasim, for taking these claims apart and documenting what is actually happening.
There aren't enough kippurs in all of Judaism to allow for what Netanyahu has done. ❤️🇨🇦
As a Christian visiting Jerusalem, the IDF pointed guns at us while we were praying at the Stations of the Cross. I have seen for myself the violence against Christians on the West Bank, it is unforgivable that the world’s governments let Netanyahu get away with his lies. It is he who incites antisemitism by claiming that he acts for the Jewish race, conflating Judaism with Israel, ignoring that Israel is a sovereign country, not a race, and also that Israel ‘s population is only 74% Jewish.
From the audio it seems he brought a cheering squad with him, who loved his mention of the pager killings. I also heard on Breaking Points that he had agents taking obvious note of who left the room when he went up to the podium to speak.
This is the same kind of intimidation that gets used on me when I demonstrate on the streetcorner. Zionists will make a big show of taking my picture as if to say, "we are going to report you and make what you are doing known"
Making what I am doing known could not make me happier. Let them show their videos or still photos to any and all. Those who support me will politely ask me if they can take my picture and occasionally will take a selfie with me though I did have one woman think twice and say, "I better not put myself in the picture". That is intimidation working powerfully enough to inhibit an American from standing with liberty and justice for all in America!
Resist the intimidation. It rules on campus and it rules my city mayor, city council, local newspaper publisher and the president of Northwestern University none of whom will respond to my request that they stand for liberty and justice for all and against Israel's ethnic cleansing.
The point could be made that Netanyahu's ability to come to the US unafraid of arrest is an example of the government of the US being intimidated. Things have become so bad that I think if some American(s) were to confront Netanyahu on the street, call him the war criminal he is, the authorities would be on that American in a second, demanding identification and putting the name in a database of people to be watched.
Appreciate every post - it's beyond understanding the heartbreaking depravity and inhumanity inflicted on the Palestinian people, animals, the land, food, water, shelter...there needs to be accountability - what's the matter with Americans who think this is fine and support the US giving weapons and facilitating ths ongoing annihilation and genocide
Everything he says is a lie, an excuse or braggadacio.
Shouldn’t he be arrested? What would it take for him to be arrested? He is a terrible liar, almost as bad as our president
The framing matters: a head of state credibly accused of war crimes should not get a sanitized platform. Freedom and Democracy don’t defend themselves. That’s our job.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. Donald Trump is a war criminal. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. Every honest person must vigorously oppose offensive actions ordered by these war criminals. Each must be removed from office, prosecuted, convicted, and punished for their Crimes Against Humanity.
Netanyahu is the despicable bastard of the century, a political relic gnawing through power like some old rat that refuses to die. a pathological liar dripping arrogance, spinning chaos while pretending it’s leadership. every word he spits feels like rancid sewage, every move a shameless grab for control. he embodies the rot, the stench, the gutter‑level deceit that poisons an already broken political landscape.
The evil is mind-boggling.