"I'm done begging people to care about Palestinians. I'm writing this not because I hope to change any minds but because the only power I have, the only power that many of us have .. is to continually raise our voices & say that we do not consent to this"!!! FROM:
FROM WHCH "Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. Palestinians are being forced to choose between death or deportation. What we're witnessing dwarfs all the historical assaults on Palestinians."
Leaked audio obtained by The Grayzone from an off-the-record session at AIPAC’s 2025 Congressional Summit, clearly reveals some very important insights into the Israeli influence group’s political leverege!!
In the recording, AIPAC CEO Elliott Brandt refers to top Trump-era national security officials as “lifelines” for the organization - the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. He details the group’s close ties with figures such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Director Mike Waltz, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe - relationships cultivated over many years.
The audio recording also includes remarks by Dana Stroul ... a former Pentagon official under the Biden administration.
An unidentified speaker, also raises concerns about the future impact of AI on public discourse - warning that AI-generated content will really reflect the current internet landscape and vaguely alluding to the rise in pro-Palestine sentiments amid ISR’s ongoing genocidal war on the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank!
And NB: "Every debate IS A DISTRACTION. Genocide is happening right now. People are being starved to death under a torrent of bombs - this is the only story / every thing else is hasbara spin. Gaza is being exterminated - there is no other conversation and no, there are not « two sides » on this"! FROM ...
THAT ... "It’s been 60 days of total blockade. Israel, with full U.S. backing, is starving more than a million children in Gaza. No food. No medicine. Below are the latest images.
➤ Gaza’s Government Media Office reports more than 6500 children have been hospitalized with severe malnutrition.
➤ The heads of twelve major aid organizations now warn that famine is “likely rapidly unfolding in almost all parts of Gaza.”
➤ They call it “one of the worst humanitarian failures of our generation.” - FROM:
Superconductivity has been discovered more than a century ago. High-temperature superconductivity (at critical temperature > 77K, that of cheap readily available liquid nitrogen) has been known in cuprates since 1987, nearly an entire 40-year generation ago and it still lacks a good explanation.
The cuprates provide a hint to their superconductivity, though: its 2-D arrangement of atoms in a multiple layered crystal lattice molecule.
On the periodic table of chemical elements, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, and zinc are all transition metals. There are also magnesium, zinc, and oxygen three-element-only superconductors.
Physics' reigning Standard Model's using the Higgs mechanism to give all massive particles their mass via the cosmic spontaneous symmetry breaking resulting in the Higgs field means that we can ARTIFICIALLY design a Bose-Einstein condensate made of charge-carrying particles to create room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductors.
Can we design Goldstone bosons in crystal lattices out of charge particles such as electrons via symmetry breaking of the electromagnetic field of the atoms in molecules to conduct electricity? The answer is probably yes.
If quantum-fluctuating space is a superconductor of massive particles allowing masses to flow without any resistance(i.e. inertia), maybe a superconductor can also be a quantum-fluctuating space allowing an electrically charged Bose-Einstein condensate to flow without any resistance. Electron mass is currently a hindrance to room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductors by its not being small enough but fractionally charged aggregate-in-the-crystal-lattice particles of smaller mass than an electron may be possible.
Any tightly bound moiety can have a lower mass than their individual components not bound into the group so an aggregate of electrons can have a mass smaller than the sum of the electrons' mass. I suspect that the more relevant charge conductors in a material lattice is the electronic hole, though, because there are very few nearly free electrons in a highly conducting material with lattices.
Regardless of the type of the metal used in the cat's whisker crystal radio wave detector (i.e. a rectifier), the type of the surface states in the semiconductor (such as galena or PbS or silicon or Si) were always of the p-type with electrons missing, not the n-type of electrons conducting. Research effort trying to understand this independence of metal type led to the invention of the [bipolar junction] transistor in Bell Telephone Laboratories.
"In reality, Fascism never went away. The West simply outsourced it ... to a client state, whose job was, on the West’s behalf, to advance in the Middle East the same ugly ideas of a hierarchy of human worth.
"We identify with Israel because we are told it represents us, our values & our civilisation. And the truth is, it does; which is why responsibility for 18 months of genocide in Gaza stops with us. This is now our genocide. And before it’s even complete, it is coming back to bite us."
A long, sustained detailed, disturbing read, that's well argued and referenced, leaving one thinking, just WTaF is actually going on?! Finally, consider this video ...
The brilliant Irish lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, has catalogued Israel's violations and total defiance of all international law at the ICJ this morning (28th April). It is a very clear and learned view of the facts and it is very important information for viewing/listening to, indeed. So,
Noting .. "Even from his hospital bed Pope Francis continued his near-daily video calls in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza."
Ending ... "More than anything, Pope Francis’s unwavering humanity will be missed. To cite some of his last words “May the principle of humanity never fail to be the hallmark of our daily actions. In the face of the cruelty of conflicts that involve defenseless civilians and attack schools, hospitals and humanitarian workers, we can't allow ourselves to forget that it is not targets that are struck but persons each of them possessed of a soul and human dignity.” Furthermore ...
"Having fled here from Chile after Pinochet seized power in 1973 my father feared the state’s arbitrary power to turn lives upside down. His outlook has never felt more relevant"!
Please frf ... don't revert to the wishingful thinking from a quater of a century ago & then imagine that things would be so much better right now!!! Feel free to re-read what I've said immediately above, but you'll fave to face the facts; "fun" or otherwise!! I blame BarHack Obomber, for way more things than I care to recall now but I equally know that the Democrap / Repugnant two-step and Genocide Joe and Clueless Harris, are also no less responsible for tRUMP in the White House right now! At this juncture, once again the question stands: When are Americans going to get on with a 3rd Party .. in the face of the Democrap bad faith and mendacity - and try to defend themselves?! After all, as you said yourself:
"Palestinians know they need moral legitimacy in their methods of resistance,write Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo, which raises the subject of Oct. 7, 2023." - WHILE ALSO ...
NOTING “Palestinian people’s use of force to resist foreign oppression a& complete the establishment of an independent state is an inalienable right... the struggle waged by peoples for their liberation, right to self-determination including armed struggle against colonialism, occupation, aggression, domination against foreign forces should not be considered terror acts.”
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 - 21 April 2025 ... was laid to rest this morning and by all accounts he was a good man & I am prepared to take that on face value because of some of the powerful people who stood in opposition to him and so I'll mark that sad occasion, with this video of another priest who I honour, Partigiano Padre Don Andrea Gallo (18-7-1928 ~ 22-5-2013, RiP)
& - "Heart of Compassion" for Palestine: Pope Francis Called for Gaza Ceasefire Until His Final Days" Rev. Munther Isaac & DemNow!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRWHgnFk9ok
Rev "Munther Isaac accuses world leaders of 'hypocrisy' and claims they have failed to acknowledge the late pontiff's true legacy of speaking out against war and Israel's apartheid policies"!
A majority of Americans now hold unfavourable views of Israel ... a Pew poll finds. This is highly significant. Now COMPARE & CONTRAST the insistence of the US political class to fund Israel & back Israel to a quite clearly extraordinary degree - WITH the views of the US public!!! Further NB:
In repeatedly targeting and destroying a cancer center in Yemen - the United States has carried on a long pattern of booming hospitals.
On March 24, the United States carried out a premeditated attack on the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Saada, Yemen ... turning it into rubble. At least two people were killed and 13 more injured.
This was not an isolated incident. 8 days previously, on March 16, Washington launched 13 separate airstrikes against the building, systematically destroying the hospital’s five blocks. The Anti-Cancer Fund, a local government medical organization, described the events as a clear “war crime.”
“These attacks are not just airstrikes, but systematic executions, intended to eliminate hope and wipe out life amid a suffocating blockade,” it said in a statement.
The newly built Al Rasool Al-Azam Hospital was the centerpiece of the region’s healthcare network. Costing over $7.5 million, the center provided crucial treatment to hundreds of cancer patients who previously went without any care at all or faced an eight-and-a-half-hour round trip to the capital - Sanaa, for therapy.
The repeated strikes on healthcare facilities in Yemen ... have received virtually zero attention in the United States. Indeed, Washington's attacks on Yemen have elicited almost no critical coverage, with corporate media seemingly more outraged that senior Trump officials used a Signal group chat to plan their operations than those deeds leading to the deaths of dozens of civilians.
The USA returned to booming Yemen because its government - in an effort to halt the Israeli assault on Gaza, stopped Israel's ships from traveling through the Red Sea. And like Palestine, Yemen is under an international blockade, depriving its people of basic necessities.
as - "In this conversation, Frank Barat and Gabor Mate delve into the complexities of trauma, guilt & the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Palestine. They explore the psychological impact of witnessing atrocities, the historical roots of violence and oppression & - the emotional responses that arise in the face of such horror. Dr. Mate emphasizes the importance of acknowledging guilt and rage, while also recognizing the helplessness felt by those who wish to help.The important discussion also touches on the normalization of violence and the implications for the future of Gaza and global society."
As "Writing before his death on Easter Monday,Pope Francis called for safety and dignity for everyone in Palestine and Israel. Waging peace takes more courage than waging war, he argued in this posthumous op-ed." Also consider ...
"With his outspokenness about Israel’s outrages .. the late Pope showed up the hypocrisy of the media and politicians"!
STARTS: "The deaths of major public figures can provoke the most grotesque outpourings of hypocrisy & so it goes for Pope Francis - now lauded by leaders and media outlets that were complicit in the very evils he condemned. “Pope Francis was a pope for the poor, the downtrodden and the forgotten” - said Keir Starmer - a Prime Minister who stripped the winter fuel payment from many vulnerable pensioners before launching an assault on disability benefits predicted to drive up to 400,000 Britons into poverty & “He promoted … an end to .. suffering across the globe,” wrote Joe Biden, enabler of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza."
& ENDS - "But what matters is this. If you believe a monumental crime is happening in front of our eyes, then you should expect anyone with power & influence to take a stand. Let history record that this Pope took a stand against one of the great horrors of our time."
Note "Pope Francis suggested the global community study whether Israel's military campaign in Gaza constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people." FROM:
The Pope died this morning. 7:35 am Rome time. RiP - and in the closing days of his long life, Pope Francis continued to call the only parish priest in G/\Z/\ every evening from hospital.
"Palestinians, and Palestinian Christians in particular .. have lost a dear friend today. Pope Francis was beloved in Palestine. He conveyed true compassion to Palestinians .. most notably to all those in Gaza during this genocide.His pastoral heart was evident in his insistence on calling the Christian community besieged in Gaza on a constant basis, even from his hospital.
"The Pope left our world today and the occupation and the wall remained. Even worse,he left our world while a genocide continues to unfold. Back in November he wrote - “I'm thinking above all of those who leave Gaza in a midst of the famine that has struck their Palestinian brothers and sisters, given the real difficulty of getting food and aid into their territory. According to some experts what's happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a Genocide. It should be carefully investigated to determine whether it fits into the technical definition formulated by jurists and international bodies.”
"Today I wonder .. will the millions who will mourn his death these coming days respect this wish of his? Will they care for Gazans and Palestinians in the way he did?" FROM:
"As Maya Berry clearly stated in her testimony, the hateful stereotypes of Arab, Muslim and Palestinian Americans normalized in our media and by our elected officials contribute to the widespread hate felt by millions of Americans. We cannot afford to let Kennedy’s comments slide, because this isn't a one-off or an isolated comment, it is reflective of a harmful trend.
FURTHER .. "We've seen the tangible consequences of this play out in communities across the country. In November, three college students of Palestinian descent, were gunned down in Vermont, leaving one of them paralyzed. Just last December Wadee Alfayoumi, a six-year-old Palestinian American child was brutally murdered in Chicago and his mother hospitalized. Another horrific hate crime happened when a Pakistani American woman was stabbed multiple times in Texas." (FROM YOUR ^ LINK)
Now Note .. "Why does the US support Israel? A geopolitical analysis with economist Prof. Dr. Michael Hudson and Ben Norton"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AeAfFfTqMk [1hour]
Further - "How Gaza exposed the US empire ‘like never before’; Matt Kennard & Real Talk"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_EnBVsGO4 some deep history by a Chomsky disciple &...
NOTE THAT: "In this conversation, Kennard dives deep into US hegemony and foreign policy, especially in light of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza and he also unpacks the broader implications of US Imperialism, the upcoming US elections and why he believes Gaza has 'exposed the US empire like never before'"!!!
Above ^ link, is one of THE best expositions/explanations of US hegemony, I've heard in a long time tbh. It is an interview with an English independent journalist, with a UK perspective & is deeply revealing imo.
Note "As the war on Gaza spans a second year, we continue our conversation with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Message - is based in part on his own visit last year to Israel and the Occupied West Bank where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States. "It was revelatory," says Coates and. "I don't think the average American has a real sense of what we’re doing over there - and I emphasize 'what we are doing' because it is not possible without American support.
As ... "Israeli lawmakers are urging the military, to intensify genocide in Gaza by destroying any possible sources of energy, food, and water in the territory."
Also consider .. "Only 3% Of Jewish Israelis Think Trump's Ethnic Cleansing Plan For Gaza Is Immoral"!https://x.com/caitoz/status/1887132708066767149 (4m 28s Audio, read by Tim Foley) - and note:
Finally note this: ""The World After Gaza": Pankaj Mishra on Decolonization & the Return of "Rapacious Imperialism"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el9cg_V-N_g (14m) IMPORTANT!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 9 hours ago
"I'm done begging people to care about Palestinians. I'm writing this not because I hope to change any minds but because the only power I have, the only power that many of us have .. is to continually raise our voices & say that we do not consent to this"!!! FROM:
"What is happening is, quite simply ... annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it"!!
Further NB "Gaza edges closer to famine as Israel’s total blockade nears its third month"! https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/gaza-edges-closer-to-famine-as-israel-s-total-blockade-nears-its-third-month/ar-AA1DUbbj (report by CNN)
and also for more facts & figures on this matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_famine
Finally: "The Last Chapter of the Genocide" https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/the-last-chapter-of-the-genocide/ by Chris Hedges
FROM WHCH "Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. Palestinians are being forced to choose between death or deportation. What we're witnessing dwarfs all the historical assaults on Palestinians."
waaay beyond any latin epithets!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 12 hours ago
Leaked audio obtained by The Grayzone from an off-the-record session at AIPAC’s 2025 Congressional Summit, clearly reveals some very important insights into the Israeli influence group’s political leverege!!
In the recording, AIPAC CEO Elliott Brandt refers to top Trump-era national security officials as “lifelines” for the organization - the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. He details the group’s close ties with figures such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Director Mike Waltz, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe - relationships cultivated over many years.
The audio recording also includes remarks by Dana Stroul ... a former Pentagon official under the Biden administration.
An unidentified speaker, also raises concerns about the future impact of AI on public discourse - warning that AI-generated content will really reflect the current internet landscape and vaguely alluding to the rise in pro-Palestine sentiments amid ISR’s ongoing genocidal war on the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank!
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1910101949648617522 (1m 48s video) and
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/09/aipac-access-trump-natsec-officials-leaked/
PS, & this b-s - https://x.com/StevePowers_/status/1909624760985665611 [34s]
And NB: "Every debate IS A DISTRACTION. Genocide is happening right now. People are being starved to death under a torrent of bombs - this is the only story / every thing else is hasbara spin. Gaza is being exterminated - there is no other conversation and no, there are not « two sides » on this"! FROM ...
THAT ... "It’s been 60 days of total blockade. Israel, with full U.S. backing, is starving more than a million children in Gaza. No food. No medicine. Below are the latest images.
➤ Gaza’s Government Media Office reports more than 6500 children have been hospitalized with severe malnutrition.
➤ The heads of twelve major aid organizations now warn that famine is “likely rapidly unfolding in almost all parts of Gaza.”
➤ They call it “one of the worst humanitarian failures of our generation.” - FROM:
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1917701170094657729 [WARNING: HARROWING IMAGES]
et veritas vos liberabit ...
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago
This May Day, Chomsky ails, Trump unleashes hell & Fascism prevails!!! Further consider this
Noting ... "The order directs the government to provide legal resources to police officers accused of wrongdoing"!
WTaF USA?!
[-] 0 points by grapes (5232) 1 day ago
Here are some helpful videos for people, even novices, to get into this fascinating area of physics with potentially huge technological and financial significance: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5-CrYPoLfxqefVXg5UAq9u6NDV1O0lB5&si=UPvBah5lczTXoj58
Superconductivity has been discovered more than a century ago. High-temperature superconductivity (at critical temperature > 77K, that of cheap readily available liquid nitrogen) has been known in cuprates since 1987, nearly an entire 40-year generation ago and it still lacks a good explanation.
The cuprates provide a hint to their superconductivity, though: its 2-D arrangement of atoms in a multiple layered crystal lattice molecule.
We have recently discovered nickelates to have amazingly high-critical-temperature superconductivity, too: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00450-3
On the periodic table of chemical elements, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, and zinc are all transition metals. There are also magnesium, zinc, and oxygen three-element-only superconductors.
[-] 0 points by grapes (5232) 1 day ago
The concept of mass is malleable.
Physics' reigning Standard Model's using the Higgs mechanism to give all massive particles their mass via the cosmic spontaneous symmetry breaking resulting in the Higgs field means that we can ARTIFICIALLY design a Bose-Einstein condensate made of charge-carrying particles to create room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductors.
Can we design Goldstone bosons in crystal lattices out of charge particles such as electrons via symmetry breaking of the electromagnetic field of the atoms in molecules to conduct electricity? The answer is probably yes.
If quantum-fluctuating space is a superconductor of massive particles allowing masses to flow without any resistance(i.e. inertia), maybe a superconductor can also be a quantum-fluctuating space allowing an electrically charged Bose-Einstein condensate to flow without any resistance. Electron mass is currently a hindrance to room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductors by its not being small enough but fractionally charged aggregate-in-the-crystal-lattice particles of smaller mass than an electron may be possible.
Any tightly bound moiety can have a lower mass than their individual components not bound into the group so an aggregate of electrons can have a mass smaller than the sum of the electrons' mass. I suspect that the more relevant charge conductors in a material lattice is the electronic hole, though, because there are very few nearly free electrons in a highly conducting material with lattices.
Regardless of the type of the metal used in the cat's whisker crystal radio wave detector (i.e. a rectifier), the type of the surface states in the semiconductor (such as galena or PbS or silicon or Si) were always of the p-type with electrons missing, not the n-type of electrons conducting. Research effort trying to understand this independence of metal type led to the invention of the [bipolar junction] transistor in Bell Telephone Laboratories.
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
Now note ... "The New Fascism: Israel is the template for Trump and Europe’s war on freedom"!
"In reality, Fascism never went away. The West simply outsourced it ... to a client state, whose job was, on the West’s behalf, to advance in the Middle East the same ugly ideas of a hierarchy of human worth.
"We identify with Israel because we are told it represents us, our values & our civilisation. And the truth is, it does; which is why responsibility for 18 months of genocide in Gaza stops with us. This is now our genocide. And before it’s even complete, it is coming back to bite us."
A long, sustained detailed, disturbing read, that's well argued and referenced, leaving one thinking, just WTaF is actually going on?! Finally, consider this video ...
e tenebris, lux?
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
The brilliant Irish lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, has catalogued Israel's violations and total defiance of all international law at the ICJ this morning (28th April). It is a very clear and learned view of the facts and it is very important information for viewing/listening to, indeed. So,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP4FR5fYeQ4 (39m) and
also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqXvc_wL8Xg (12m)
fiat lux et fiat justitia ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
"Pope Francis Refused to Be Silent on Gaza ... Will His Successor Follow Suit?" ... by Seraj Assi:
Noting .. "Even from his hospital bed Pope Francis continued his near-daily video calls in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza."
Ending ... "More than anything, Pope Francis’s unwavering humanity will be missed. To cite some of his last words “May the principle of humanity never fail to be the hallmark of our daily actions. In the face of the cruelty of conflicts that involve defenseless civilians and attack schools, hospitals and humanitarian workers, we can't allow ourselves to forget that it is not targets that are struck but persons each of them possessed of a soul and human dignity.” Furthermore ...
et ecce homo ...
[-] 2 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
"I used to laugh at my Chilean father’s paranoia about life in the US – not any more"! - by Stacy Torres:
"Having fled here from Chile after Pinochet seized power in 1973 my father feared the state’s arbitrary power to turn lives upside down. His outlook has never felt more relevant"!
respice, adspice, prospice - et caveat!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 5 days ago
Please frf ... don't revert to the wishingful thinking from a quater of a century ago & then imagine that things would be so much better right now!!! Feel free to re-read what I've said immediately above, but you'll fave to face the facts; "fun" or otherwise!! I blame BarHack Obomber, for way more things than I care to recall now but I equally know that the Democrap / Repugnant two-step and Genocide Joe and Clueless Harris, are also no less responsible for tRUMP in the White House right now! At this juncture, once again the question stands: When are Americans going to get on with a 3rd Party .. in the face of the Democrap bad faith and mendacity - and try to defend themselves?! After all, as you said yourself:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/why-liberals-have-to-be-radicals/ &
http://occupywallst.org/forum/to-preserve-our-existence/ - by agk
et dum spiro, spero ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 5 days ago
Meanwhile - Protect Israel at all costs!!! Further question ...
"Shabtai a Jewish society based at Yale, hosted the extremist far-right politician convicted of supporting terrorism. Why did Yale allow this?"
quid pro quo?
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 5 days ago
PLEASE NOTE: "Palestinian Armed Struggle and The Law"!
"Palestinians know they need moral legitimacy in their methods of resistance,write Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo, which raises the subject of Oct. 7, 2023." - WHILE ALSO ...
NOTING “Palestinian people’s use of force to resist foreign oppression a& complete the establishment of an independent state is an inalienable right... the struggle waged by peoples for their liberation, right to self-determination including armed struggle against colonialism, occupation, aggression, domination against foreign forces should not be considered terror acts.”
veritas vos liberabit!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 - 21 April 2025 ... was laid to rest this morning and by all accounts he was a good man & I am prepared to take that on face value because of some of the powerful people who stood in opposition to him and so I'll mark that sad occasion, with this video of another priest who I honour, Partigiano Padre Don Andrea Gallo (18-7-1928 ~ 22-5-2013, RiP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePP9AHrncjQ (2m 41s) Padre Don Gallo singing 'Bella Ciao'
& - "Heart of Compassion" for Palestine: Pope Francis Called for Gaza Ceasefire Until His Final Days" Rev. Munther Isaac & DemNow! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRWHgnFk9ok
also .. "Pope Francis’s Legacy of Love and Peace Remembered on the Day of His Funeral" https://www.palestinechronicle.com/pope-franciss-legacy-of-love-and-peace-remembered-on-the-day-of-his-funeral/
and furthermore, note - "Pope Francis’s Enduring Legacy on Palestine and the Middle East" https://www.juancole.com/2025/04/franciss-enduring-palestine.html
Meanwhile .. "Israel's muted response to Pope Francis's death signals tensions over Gaza" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2ekk5kjzno
Finally ... "Bethlehem pastor criticises world leaders for ignoring Pope Francis' Gaza plea"! https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-bethlehem-pastor-criticises-world-leaders-ignoring-pope-francis-gaza-plea - as the ...
Rev "Munther Isaac accuses world leaders of 'hypocrisy' and claims they have failed to acknowledge the late pontiff's true legacy of speaking out against war and Israel's apartheid policies"!
pax vobiscum ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
"Never Again Means Never Again for Anyone"! (Dr. Marek Edelman)
By one of the leaders of The Warsaw Ghetto and an explicit Anti-Zionist!
respice et adspice!!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
A majority of Americans now hold unfavourable views of Israel ... a Pew poll finds. This is highly significant. Now COMPARE & CONTRAST the insistence of the US political class to fund Israel & back Israel to a quite clearly extraordinary degree - WITH the views of the US public!!! Further NB:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-americans-hold-unfavourable-view-israel-pew-poll-finds
also note .. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/04/08/how-americans-view-israel-and-the-israel-hamas-war-at-the-start-of-trumps-second-term/
& .. https://forward.com/opinion/712714/jewish-university-presidents-trump-antisemitism-campus/
Meanwhile https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-crazy-and-evil-to-support-israels (incl. audio option)
ad iudicium?
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
Note: IT'S NOT JUST ISRAEL ...
In repeatedly targeting and destroying a cancer center in Yemen - the United States has carried on a long pattern of booming hospitals.
On March 24, the United States carried out a premeditated attack on the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Saada, Yemen ... turning it into rubble. At least two people were killed and 13 more injured.
This was not an isolated incident. 8 days previously, on March 16, Washington launched 13 separate airstrikes against the building, systematically destroying the hospital’s five blocks. The Anti-Cancer Fund, a local government medical organization, described the events as a clear “war crime.”
“These attacks are not just airstrikes, but systematic executions, intended to eliminate hope and wipe out life amid a suffocating blockade,” it said in a statement.
The newly built Al Rasool Al-Azam Hospital was the centerpiece of the region’s healthcare network. Costing over $7.5 million, the center provided crucial treatment to hundreds of cancer patients who previously went without any care at all or faced an eight-and-a-half-hour round trip to the capital - Sanaa, for therapy.
The repeated strikes on healthcare facilities in Yemen ... have received virtually zero attention in the United States. Indeed, Washington's attacks on Yemen have elicited almost no critical coverage, with corporate media seemingly more outraged that senior Trump officials used a Signal group chat to plan their operations than those deeds leading to the deaths of dozens of civilians.
The USA returned to booming Yemen because its government - in an effort to halt the Israeli assault on Gaza, stopped Israel's ships from traveling through the Red Sea. And like Palestine, Yemen is under an international blockade, depriving its people of basic necessities.
THIS^IS MY BRIEF EDIT OF THIS IMPORTANT, INDEPENDENT ARTICLE: by Alan Macleod https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/12/with-yemen-attack-us-continues-long-history-of-deliberately-bombing-hospitals/ & for an alternate link ...
see: https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-bombing-hospitals-yemen-history-war-crimes/289368/
respice, adspice, prospice!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
"Zionism will be looked upon as one of the greatest disasters in Jewish history"! Dr. Gabor Mate
as - "In this conversation, Frank Barat and Gabor Mate delve into the complexities of trauma, guilt & the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Palestine. They explore the psychological impact of witnessing atrocities, the historical roots of violence and oppression & - the emotional responses that arise in the face of such horror. Dr. Mate emphasizes the importance of acknowledging guilt and rage, while also recognizing the helplessness felt by those who wish to help.The important discussion also touches on the normalization of violence and the implications for the future of Gaza and global society."
respice, adspice, prospice ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
NEVER FORGET THAT: "Everybody Wants Gaza's Gas"!! by Rachel Donald:
Re. "The $500 billion windfall shoring up EU supplies" - & try to see:
MULTUM in parvo!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
"Pope Francis: The bloodshed in Palestine/Israel must end"!
As "Writing before his death on Easter Monday,Pope Francis called for safety and dignity for everyone in Palestine and Israel. Waging peace takes more courage than waging war, he argued in this posthumous op-ed." Also consider ...
pacem in terris ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
"Look to his stand on Gaza: Pope Francis gave us moral leadership - in amoral times!" by Owen Jones:
"With his outspokenness about Israel’s outrages .. the late Pope showed up the hypocrisy of the media and politicians"!
STARTS: "The deaths of major public figures can provoke the most grotesque outpourings of hypocrisy & so it goes for Pope Francis - now lauded by leaders and media outlets that were complicit in the very evils he condemned. “Pope Francis was a pope for the poor, the downtrodden and the forgotten” - said Keir Starmer - a Prime Minister who stripped the winter fuel payment from many vulnerable pensioners before launching an assault on disability benefits predicted to drive up to 400,000 Britons into poverty & “He promoted … an end to .. suffering across the globe,” wrote Joe Biden, enabler of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza."
& ENDS - "But what matters is this. If you believe a monumental crime is happening in front of our eyes, then you should expect anyone with power & influence to take a stand. Let history record that this Pope took a stand against one of the great horrors of our time."
fiat lux et amor vincit omnia ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
Note "Pope Francis suggested the global community study whether Israel's military campaign in Gaza constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people." FROM:
"'Rewriting the Bible' and calling Israel's war 'shameful' ... Pope Francis' changing stance on Israel"! https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-850893
& https://www.palestinechronicle.com/pope-francis-passing-his-key-statements-on-gaza-and-the-ongoing-genocide/
vade in pace et multum in parvo!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
The Pope died this morning. 7:35 am Rome time. RiP - and in the closing days of his long life, Pope Francis continued to call the only parish priest in G/\Z/\ every evening from hospital.
"Palestinians, and Palestinian Christians in particular .. have lost a dear friend today. Pope Francis was beloved in Palestine. He conveyed true compassion to Palestinians .. most notably to all those in Gaza during this genocide.His pastoral heart was evident in his insistence on calling the Christian community besieged in Gaza on a constant basis, even from his hospital.
"The Pope left our world today and the occupation and the wall remained. Even worse,he left our world while a genocide continues to unfold. Back in November he wrote - “I'm thinking above all of those who leave Gaza in a midst of the famine that has struck their Palestinian brothers and sisters, given the real difficulty of getting food and aid into their territory. According to some experts what's happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a Genocide. It should be carefully investigated to determine whether it fits into the technical definition formulated by jurists and international bodies.”
"Today I wonder .. will the millions who will mourn his death these coming days respect this wish of his? Will they care for Gazans and Palestinians in the way he did?" FROM:
https://x.com/MuntherIsaac/status/1914241976947343578
Also note - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munther_Isaac and
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/262479/cna-explains-pope-francis-still-calls-gaza-parish-every-day
Further see: Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis
Finally: https://israelpalestinenews.org/the-suppression-of-christianity-in-jerusalem-its-birthplace/
requiescat in pace ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
"This Passover, We Must Reckon With Israel’s Massacre of Children in Gaza" - by Brant Rosen:
"The Passover story decries a ruler who inflicts atrocities on children. The Israeli military is doing that now in Gaza."
respice; adspice; prospice et spero meliora ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
"As Maya Berry clearly stated in her testimony, the hateful stereotypes of Arab, Muslim and Palestinian Americans normalized in our media and by our elected officials contribute to the widespread hate felt by millions of Americans. We cannot afford to let Kennedy’s comments slide, because this isn't a one-off or an isolated comment, it is reflective of a harmful trend.
FURTHER .. "We've seen the tangible consequences of this play out in communities across the country. In November, three college students of Palestinian descent, were gunned down in Vermont, leaving one of them paralyzed. Just last December Wadee Alfayoumi, a six-year-old Palestinian American child was brutally murdered in Chicago and his mother hospitalized. Another horrific hate crime happened when a Pakistani American woman was stabbed multiple times in Texas." (FROM YOUR ^ LINK)
And also try to consider this recent item "The Violent “Othering” of Palestinians Has Political Roots" https://truthout.org/articles/the-violent-othering-of-palestinians-has-political-roots/ by TO's George Yancy .. and also try to note:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-bannons-plan-to-hijack-europe-for-the-far-right from 8 years ago but still very highly relevant imo!
Now Note .. "Why does the US support Israel? A geopolitical analysis with economist Prof. Dr. Michael Hudson and Ben Norton" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AeAfFfTqMk [1hour]
Further - "How Gaza exposed the US empire ‘like never before’; Matt Kennard & Real Talk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_EnBVsGO4 some deep history by a Chomsky disciple &...
NOTE THAT: "In this conversation, Kennard dives deep into US hegemony and foreign policy, especially in light of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza and he also unpacks the broader implications of US Imperialism, the upcoming US elections and why he believes Gaza has 'exposed the US empire like never before'"!!!
Above ^ link, is one of THE best expositions/explanations of US hegemony, I've heard in a long time tbh. It is an interview with an English independent journalist, with a UK perspective & is deeply revealing imo.
FINALLY "Inside the Hind Rajab Foundation, the organization hunting Israeli war criminals around the globe"! ... https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/inside-the-hind-rajab-foundation-the-organization-hunting-israeli-war-criminals-around-the-globe/ by David Kattenburg & as ... "A year ago today (1/29/25) - six year old Hind Rajab was killed by an Israeli tank as she hid for safety in Gaza. Today, a Belgian foundation is hunting Israeli war criminals in her name." +PS see this info
https://www.972mag.com/tunnels-hamas-lethal-gas-bombs-gaza/ They Used Gas To Kill - ffs!!!
PPS https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/a-brief-history-of-israels-theft-and-trafficking-of-palestinian-organs/ A VERY DETAILED ACCOUNT/EVIDENCE OF YET MORE UNSPEAKABLE HORROR!
& https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/11/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-ice-columbia
respice, adspice et spero meliora!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
So consider .. "I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth"!!!
Note "As the war on Gaza spans a second year, we continue our conversation with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Message - is based in part on his own visit last year to Israel and the Occupied West Bank where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States. "It was revelatory," says Coates and. "I don't think the average American has a real sense of what we’re doing over there - and I emphasize 'what we are doing' because it is not possible without American support.
Soldiers' testimony describes children being shot in central Gaza and posthumously branded 'terrorists'!
Noting that 'My decision is an acknowledgement that this status never held any legitimacy to begin with'!
As ... "Israeli lawmakers are urging the military, to intensify genocide in Gaza by destroying any possible sources of energy, food, and water in the territory."
Also consider .. "Only 3% Of Jewish Israelis Think Trump's Ethnic Cleansing Plan For Gaza Is Immoral"! https://x.com/caitoz/status/1887132708066767149 (4m 28s Audio, read by Tim Foley) - and note:
that "It's also his son-in-law": https://x.com/SamuraiElf/status/1886951266464751761 (48s audio)
Finally note this: ""The World After Gaza": Pankaj Mishra on Decolonization & the Return of "Rapacious Imperialism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el9cg_V-N_g (14m) IMPORTANT!
fiat lux et fiat justitia ruat caelum ...