Mad dog Israel - bombing all of Gaza, attacking hospitals in Gaza, and storming cities in the West Bank.

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In breaking news, we’re seeing reports that the IDF is “storming” the city of Hebron in the West Bank. The Hamas-affiliated Shehab news agency and Al Jazeera report that IDF forces have stormed the city, with Shehab also reporting arrests. The Guardian has not verified these reports independently.

“Israeli occupation forces storm the city of Hebron in the south of the West Bank and launch a campaign of raids and arrests,” Al Jazeera reports.

The AP has this recent report from the West Bank:

When Israeli warplanes swooped over the Gaza Strip following Hamas militants’ deadly attack on southern Israel, Palestinians say a different kind of war took hold in the occupied West Bank.

Overnight, the territory was closed off. Towns were raided, curfews imposed, teenagers arrested, detainees beaten, and villages stormed by Jewish vigilantes.

With the world’s attention on Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there, the violence of war has also erupted in the West Bank. Israeli settler attacks have surged at an unprecedented rate, according to the United Nations. The escalation has spread fear, deepened despair, and robbed Palestinians of their livelihoods, their homes and, in some cases, their lives.

Before the Hamas assault, 2023 already was the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank in over two decades, with 250 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, most during military operations.

Over these six weeks of war, Israeli security forces have killed another 206 Palestinians, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, the result of a rise in army raids backed by airstrikes and Palestinian militant attacks.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/11/25/locals-on-the-dublin-riots-what-good-is-all-that-going-to-do-for-that-teacher-and-the-five-year-old-in-hospital/

Sounds like Dublin was briefly in the cool zone. I'm having a rough time tracking down just what happened, but it sounds like someone was stabbed and reactionaries used it as an excuse to blame the Irish housing crisis on migrants.

I was watching a CNN vid and the narrator mentioned "Hostages Square" without defining it. Obviously I could guess it was in Tel Aviv and the general idea but that was it so I was forced to google.

Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, as the space in front of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is now known, was filled with more than a dozen independent art exhibits — a giant, working sand clock, tiny birdhouses for each of the hostages, and an empty Shabbat table filled with homemade treats and crocheted stuffed animals.

I wonder when CNN stopped defining it and started to expect viewers to know what it is.

Just call me Mr. 1000th Post

CW/TW: SA

Chinese official warns Milei it would be a mistake to cut ties

Chinese authorities congratulated Javier Milei on his victory in Sunday's runoff but warned it would be a step in the wrong direction for Argentina to cut ties with Beijing.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said Tuesday it would be a “big mistake” for Argentina's future government to cut ties with “countries as big as Brazil and China,” something now President-elect Javier Milei has warned during his campaign. In addition, Milei's proposed Foreign Minister Diana Mondino assured that “we will stop interfering with the Brazilian and Chinese governments.”

“The relationship with both countries will be excellent as it should be,” but “we must distinguish what is the Government from what is the State,” Mondino had also said. In an interview with Russian agency RIA Novosti, Mondino said Argentina would “stop interacting” with the governments of China and Brazil, which did not mean stopping trade. “What we are not going to do are secret contacts. Argentina, this government, in the last 20 years, has had multiple secret negotiations,” Mondino explained. “That is not normal and that is what we have said we are not going to do.”

Mao insisted that “no country can separate diplomatic relations from the development of economic and commercial cooperation” and recalled that “China is Argentina's second trading partner and the first export market for its agricultural products.”

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In the last debate, Milei told Economy Minister Sergio Massa that products not sold to China could be traded elsewhere or triangulated towards the Asian giant.

C5N reports that Daniel Scioli, former governor of Buenos Aires and current Argentine ambassador to Brazil, will be the new Secretary of Tourism in Javier Milei's government.

Daniel Scioli was the Peronist candidate in 2015, in elections that were marked by being the first elections in which a second round was held in Argentina.

He was defeated by Mauricio Macri by 51.5%.

Lol

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Gaza Strip being bombed ‘from north to south’: AJ correspondent

Hani Mahmoud reporting from Khan Younis, southern Gaza

There are more airstrikes taking place right now at different locations in the Gaza Strip from north to south.

Literally the entire northern part of Gaza City right now is under heavy bombardment and airstrikes. Confrontations with the Israeli military are also taking place right at the centre of Gaza at the axis were the Israeli military pushed their armoured vehicles.

Where we are reporting from, in Khan Younis, has also been a major target of Israeli airstrikes. We are talking about both sides – the eastern side of Khan Younis and the western side of the city.

People from the eastern side who were told to move to the western side have found themselves the target of Israeli airstrikes. We are talking about more residential homes and an apartment was also targeted in one of the residential towers.

- Al Jazeera

Day 2 of no ADHD medication:

I feel bad right now.

wth Milei has 4 cloned English mastiffs named after Chicago school economists?

My friend is just out of frame, agreeing with me about Gaza too.

I was messaging with my Palestinian friend in Gaza before we went on air. He is lightly injured and things are tough but he thinks overall it is good because Gaza needs to be rid of Hamas.

Nitter

There's video. I have no idea who the guy is. Bio...

Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons

Author of "Israelophobia”. Editor, Jewish Chronicle. Sunday Telegraph columnist. Spectator writer. Sky broadcaster. Former foreign correspondent. Scurrilous

Make Holland Geert Again

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Fascist spy, who should have been shot after conviction, says families of people captured and imprisoned by Palestinian freedom fighters should themselves be imprisoned as those "hostages'" families are being used by the international community and by the Maki Communist Party of Israel as a weapon against the Israeli government in prosecuting its campaign of genocide against Gaza.

The hostages' families should have been jailed to shut them up, says former US citizen who was an Israeli spy

Seriously this dude should've been kicked to the ground and shot like an animal.

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Jonathan Pollard, a former US intelligence analyst imprisoned for spying for Israel, has called for hostages' families to be silenced and arrested.

See? Evil Fascist spy.

Pollard told Israeli media that the families of Israeli hostages should have been jailed to shut them up. He also said posters of the captives should never have been hung up.

"When Israel declared war, the first thing that the government should have done was declare a state of national emergency and told all the hostages: 'You will keep your mouth shut or we will shut them for you,'" Pollard said.

Evil man.

💥Freed spy Jonathan Pollard says families of Israeli hostages should have been jailed to shut them up and posters of the captives should never have been hung so as to allow Israel a free hand in prosecuting this war. pic.twitter.com/vxC9yk3dE3 — Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي💙 (@NTarnopolsky) November 23, 2023

He said the Israeli government should have prevented the hostages' families from "interfering" with their management of this war. He implied that the hostages' families were being "used by the international community" or "by our own leftists" as a weapon against the Israeli government.

"If that means imprisoning to silence certain members of the hostage families, then so be it — we're in a state of war."

"I was dead set against these 'kidnapped' posters because each one of them was a poison dart," said Pollard.

Pollard is a convicted spy who spent three decades in a North Carolina prison for providing top-secret information about the US to Israel.

Should've died in prison.

The former Navy intelligence officer — using his Top Secret and Sensitive Compartmented Information access to national defense information — provided Israel with thousands of pages of US intelligence on military and technical intelligence on the Soviet Union, Arab states, and Pakistan.

While one would assume the U.S would've already shared most of this info with Israel, one has to understand there's still a layer of cool pragmatic thought among the war ghouls in the DOD in regards to maintaining American supremacy - especially when it comes to not giving the rabid dog named Israel information it could use to trigger ww3 because it can't stop itself from biting everything around it. Like biden's dog funny enough.

Pollard's emigration to Israel in 2020 was the culmination of years of lobbying by the Israeli government to secure his release.

Should've put a bomb on his airplane so it would've taken him and Benny Mileikowsky out on the tarmac.

Some Israeli hostages are due to be released later today as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes into effect. At least 50 of the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas are set to be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian detainees over four days over four days.