He's Israel's version of Donald Trump...
Over-educated old potter. Cares: (1) growing US fascism; (2) what isn’t told in western media re Palestine. Posts from non-west sources & anti-musrump matters=FB suspension. Elephant’s Child: politics/science/art/history/theatre/kitties/books/garden/etc.
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He's Israel's version of Donald Trump...
ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING. Trump says he’s awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom [AP 9/1/27]
HEAR! HEAR! I am so angry...
Yup! Great little herders those BCs! LOL!
Hugs and tears ... so hard! But he'll be waiting for you ... ❤️❤️❤️
KNOW THEIR NAMES SEE THEIR FACES www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
"...including Al Jazeera, the British newspaper The Independent, French newspapers La Croix and L’Humanite, and the German newspapers Tageszeitung and Frankfurter Rundschau... BUT NOT, OF COURSE, THE "BIGGIES" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
IN THE ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK, PALESTINIAN TAPS RUN DRY 6:47 AM MDT 9/1/25 [Reuters / paywall] ---------- Not surprising since Israel controls water into the WB/EJ and settlers/soldiers systematically destroy Palestinian wells & H2O infrastructure. ---------- www.reuters.com/world/middle...
ABOUT TIME! apnews.com/article/geno...
Haaretz 8/31/25: • Israeli strikes have killed 88 Palestinians in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said, adding that 30 people were killed while seeking humanitarian aid. According to the ministry, 63,459 people have been killed in the Strip since the war began.
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? 😠💢😠💢 Haaretz[WaPo]8/31/25: 38-page Trump admin post-war reconstruction of Gaza doc: RELOCATE ALL PALESTINIANS FROM GAZA & ESTABLISH U.S. TECH HUB; U.S. to keep full control for at least a decade, transferring enforcement to local police from Western private military corps
(15:50 GMT) ISRAELI ATTACKS TURN PARTS OF GAZA CITY INTO ‘FIELDS OF RUBBLE’ Rept from Gaza City: “...we are seeing the systematic demolition of homes...heavy artillery & bulldozers are moving from one street to the other, destroying all these residential clusters...turned to fields of rubble..."
JOHN OLIVER! ❤️❤️❤️
FYI: (22:00 GMT) US SUSPENDS VISAS FOR ALMOST ALL TYPES OF PALESTINIAN PASSPORT HOLDERS: REPORT Stops Palestinians from obtaining visas for med treatment, university studies, visiting friends/relatives, business. Doesn’t apply to those with dual nationalities or who have already obtained visas
(AJ@21:30 GMT8/31/25) ELECTRICITY CUT AT AL-ASQUA HOSPITAL (central Gaza) due to the failure of most of its generators & no fuel needed to operate them. This threatens the lives of thousands of patients & wounded, particularly in the operating room, ICU, nursery...
(AJ@19:50 GMT8/31/25) ISRAELI FORCES KILL ANOTHER PALESTINIAN JOURNALIST IN GAZA 💢😠💢😠💢 Islam Muhareb Abed was targeted in an Israeli attack on Gaza City, bringing the total number of media workers killed in Israel’s war to 247. She worked worked for Al-Quds TV Today Al-Youm satellite channel
(18:30 GMT) LEAKED VIDEOS: PA: ISRAELI UNAUTHORISED EXCAVATION/DEMOLITION BENEATH AL-AQSA MOSQUE COMPOUND “...target Islamic antiquities dating back to the Umayyad period [661-750CE]...[removing] the historical identity of Al-Aqsa Mosque in favour of the future construction of a Jewish temple...”
Alas! Untrue -- but would be soooooo cool if true. Go Gavin!
LOL! PERFECT! (another pissed off grandma)
GORGEOUS! CONGRATS! : )
(11:15 GMT) GAZA KILLINGS IN #s •≥35 inc 4 aid seekers killed since dawn •Fri: 66 killed 345 wounded •≥63,371 killed 159,835 wounded •Since 3/18 ≥11,240 killed 47,794 wounded •≥10 famine & ≥15 aid seekers killed 206 wounded in last 24 hours •2,218 killed >16,434 wounded seeking aid
Unfortunately, the ICC has no real enforcement mechanism.
Wouldn't count on it ... he and trump are follow the same playbook ...
Great photo! Thanks! Owls are awesome --
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“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
YES!! ABSOLUTELY.
POOR FLUFF!
KITTIES RULE! : ) www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
(21:00 GMT) Israeli military attacked journalists with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle in the West Bank city of Ramallah during a massive raid in this week that left dozens of Palestinians injured.
SWELL newrepublic.com/post/199846/...
HEAR! HEAR! ❤️❤️❤️
YES!!
AMEN! Thank you.
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Instead of fishing and foraging for berries like all other bears, Paul had wisely been investing the money he took from people he had mauled.
GREAT photo! Thanks!
LOVE IT! THANKS! LOL!
I LIKE IT!
DO IT! DO NOT LET TRUMP & HIS MINIONS DESTROY THE STERLING INTEGRITY OF THIS HALLOWED & HIGHLY RESPECTED INSTITUTION. Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...
A PALESTINIAN PIETA The aftermath of Israeli attacks on a tent in Gaza City, Gaza [Saeed MMT Jaras/Anadolu] AJ@15:45 GMT 8/29/25
THIS SAYS IT ALL: The US is no better than Israel...which isn't saying much. I am so ashamed of my country. How far it has fallen. 1. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/... 2. www.axios.com/2025/08/29/u...
LOTS OF QUESTIONS: A company with... • No experience • No website – no publicly available info • Address: a retired Naval officer • & Pentagon refuses to release contract or explain choice apnews.com/article/trum...
ANOTHER THOUSAND 💢😠💢😠💢 ISRAEL’S WAR ON GAZA KILLS OVER 63,000 PALESTINIANS, STARVES 322 (AJ@12:46 GMT 8/29/25)≥59 Palestinians, inc 23 aid seekers, killed, 224 injured, in last 24 hours • 63,025 Palestinians killed 159,490 injured. 2,203 aid seekers killed >16,228 injured [Abu Alkas/Reuters]
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? Instead of the targeted crime-fighting Trump promised, federal officers often cast a wide net for low-level offenses: traffic stops, low-dollar buy-&-bust drug operations,checking if someone is drinking liquor from an open container... NYT 8/29/25
(08:45 GMT) Satellite images reveal vast destruction by Israeli forces in northern Gaza Jabalia before and after [Sanad/Al Jazeera]
(05:45 GMT) ISRAEL HAS DEMOLISHED >1,500 HOMES IN ZEITOUN this month; no buildings remain standing in S part of the n’hood. Army uses construction machinery, bomb-laden robots detonating seven sites daily, quadcopter drones to drop explosives on house rooftops. 80% of residents forced out [Anadolu]
ARE WE HEALTHY AND SAFE YET? August 27, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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FYI: content.forensic-architecture.org/wp-content/u...
(18:18 GMT) ALL UNSC--EXCEPT US [OF COURSE]--SAYS ISRAEL MUST REVERSE COURSE IN GAZA •backed IPC •famine man-made •starvation as a weapon of war banned under internat’l law •immediate unconditional permanent ceasefire/hostage release •immediate unconditional lift of all aid delivery restrictions
PATHETIC (AJ@16:45 GMT) Israel demands retraction of UN-backed IPC report declaring famine in Gaza: “Israel demands that the IPC will retract immediately its fabricated report and publish a notice”... [L:Haitham Imad/EPA - R:Mariam Dagga (killed by Israel)/AP Photo]
MORE WB 8/27/25: (10:55 GMT) Ongoing Israeli raid in occupied WB city of Nablus injures ≥80 Palestinians, inc one wounded with live ammunition (15:45 GMT) Israeli military providing no info on raids --- Almost 1,000 WB Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces & settlers since 10/7/23
FROM THE WB (14:00 GMT 8/27/25) Settlers •estab/expand illegal outposts •began new outpost in Umm al-Khair village & expanded 2 others •attacked shepherds/flocks in ad-Dhahiriya town Israeli dozers & settlers razed ± 99 Palestinian-owned acres, uprooted trees, destroyed crops, paved 1.86-mi road
CERTAINLY HOPE NOT! (08:45 GMT) ‘NOBODY BUYING’ ISRAEL’S ‘JUSTIFICATIONS’ FOR DEADLY NASSER HOSP STRIKES Assoc prof of history, Georgetown Univ in Qatar: “...except for people who have already been sold essentially on the entire idea of a genocidal assault in which Israel can do no wrong”
THIS DOES NOT BODE WELL FOR PALESTINIANS... (AJ@06:30 GMT8/27/25) US Secretary of State Rubio to meet Israeli FM Saar today (06:45 GMT) US envoy Witkoff says Washington thinks Gaza war ‘to settle’ by end of year ------- BECAUSE EITHER BOMBED OR STARVED TO DEATH?
AJ headline 8/27/25 😠💢😠 Two children among 10 more Palestinians starved to death in Gaza
: ) OF COURSE THEY ARE! www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
CAVEAT FOR TRUMP CRITICS: 43 YEARS IS A LONG TIME. A royal pardon frees a Thai woman serving a 43-year prison term for defaming the monarchy [AP headline 8/27/25]
OF COURSE THEY WERE...PROBABLY FIGURED THEY WOULD BE www.npr.org/2025/08/27/n...
HEAR! HEAR!
From October, 2024: Everything that has happened was predictable, and indeed predicted youtu.be/pHDVpBLMiFI?...
Oh, my. I wonder why? 😜
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Perhaps Israel should stop giving cause for the rise of antisemitism ... just sayin'.
"See these needle sharp sabers?"
angle and lighting. besides, brain surgery doesn't cross the forehead!
August 26, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
OF COURSE! PA conservative election researcher/activist Heather Honey, whose distorted findings on voter data Trump cited trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, appointed deputy ass't secretary for ELECTION INTEGRITY in Homeland Security Dept’s Office of Strategy, Policy and Plans [JS/AP]
ARE WE SAFE YET? DOGE members uploaded “a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight,” Social Security Administration’s chief data officer Charles Borges said in a whistleblower complaint released yesterday [Just Security 8/27/25]
A TRUE MUST READ.
he has a brain?
www.justsecurity.org/119583/raisi...
(12:45 GMT) WHICH FOODS ARE DENIED ENTRY INTO GAZA BY ISRAEL. 430 types of basic foods needed by children, the sick & the starving. Includes: Eggs Red meat Poultry Fish Cheese Dairy products Fruit Vegetables Nutritional supplements Nuts & other supplements needed by pregnant women & patients
"It’s hard to find Right or Left these days. Instead we have something no one has ever seen in America — a personal takeover of nearly all the institutions of government and, increasingly, the private sector, by a would-be dictator." Trump’s downfall open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
"This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections." August 25, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
(16:35 GMT) ISRAEL SHOOTS DEAD 6TH PALESTINIAN JOURNALIST in separate incident in Khan Younis. HASSAN DOUHAN, investigative journalist & academic was correspondent for Gaza's Al-Hayat al-Jadida publication. In his final FB post he paid tribute to journalists killed earlier at Nasser Hospital.
WHILE ISRAEL KILLS JOURNALISTS ... currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news...
NOTE: ISRAEL NOW USING UNKNOWN TOXIC GAS ON CIVILIANS (per meds) Read below. Five journalists killed in a double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital, 11 die of Gaza’s famine in the past day, Kilmar Abrego Garcia detained again by ICE open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
(13:55 GMT)The moment of the hospital attack that killed journalists, medics: two strikes, the second coming when journalists and medics were at the scene of the first attack. [copy/paste link] aje.io/ej259o?updat...
WHY ISRAEL KILLS JOURNALISTS (10:50 GMT)Slain journalists reported on malnutrition, aid site killings: “Because Israeli authorities have not let any international journalists into Gaza [they] have been their eyes and ears, the source for millions of people following the news across the Strip”
(AJ@06:45 GMT) DOCTORS POWERLESS AGAINST FAMINE KILLING MALNOURISHED CHILDREN, say there’s little they can do to stop children dying of starvation from the Israeli-engineered famine. It’s getting worse as attacks step up, with Israel intent on seizing Gaza City & forcing out nearly 1mm Palestinians
KNOW THEIR NAMES
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? 20 KILLED IN ISRAELI ATTACK ON HOSP. Hussam al-Masri (Reuters), Mohammad Salama (Al Jazeera), Mariam Abu Daqqa (freelance), Ahmed Abu Aziz (Quds) and Moaz Abu Taha (ind). Also killed: several docs & CD workers who had rushed to help wounded www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
LOL! I know the feeling!
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(10:30 GMT) Israel blocking access to areas it bombed: ES Dir •Occupation prevents our vehicles from entering to rescue civilians in the areas it has targeted •Displaced people don’t know where to go due to lack of safe areas •Hospitals are damaged and severely lack supplies and medical staff
HERDING PALESTINIANS (09:30 GMT)Deir el-Balah “...lost track of...blasts... people...find themselves...sandwiched betw...lines of fire coming from the NW side of Gaza City [&]...forces pushing in from the SE towards Gaza City’s W areas...Nearly 1mm... now crammed into this area on the city’s W edge”
MTG STRIKES AGAIN! Definitely worth a read. Copy/paste link: (AJ@ 07:00 GMT) Every US taxpayer is ‘contributing to Israel’s military actions’ Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene has again lambasted US support for what she described as Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. x.com/RepMTG/statu...
True!
www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...