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“US Aircraft Carrier Problems Tied to Iran’s Early Strikes on Bahrain Base – NYT”
by Palestine Chronicle Staff on Substack
@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@iran
@palestinenews
“Key Takeaways;
- Iranian strikes heavily damaged the US naval base in #Bahrain, forcing the #Navy to shift a major #logistics operation thousands of miles away to #DiegoGarcia.
-The USS #AbrahamLincoln has been at sea for nearly nine months without a liberty port, amid reported supply shortages and concerns about crew mental health.
- Despite mounting logistical pressures, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insist the US can sustain its naval operations indefinitely.”
https://palestinechronicle.substack.com/p/us-aircraft-carrier-problems-tied
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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There’s a reason why #Israel has done little to rein in settler violence. It’s not just #Netanyahu.
…[Israeli settlers in the #WestBank] are the tip of the spear for a much larger movement, supported by successive Israeli governments & supercharged under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that is aimed at cementing Israeli rule over the territory & preventing the establishment of a #PalestinianState.
#geopolitics #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes #TwoStateSolution
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-settler-violence-us-siege-west-bank-bd4ae76cec1773c1c09233cc0b33a378?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension
Fuck it. Israel has no right to exist.
#TheyLiedToYou #israel #usa #palestine #trump #netanyahu #psychopaths #terrorists #rapists #warcriminals #jewishterrorists #zionazis #crimesagainsthumanity #boycottdivestsanction #genocide #freepalestine 🇵🇸 🍉https://imeu.org/perspectives/apartheid/4-questions-for-an-expert-u.s-media-coverage-of-israels-genocide-in-gaza/498
Yeah yeah yeah, the Left always likes throw around words like 'Apartheid' and 'Ethnic Cleansing' 'Settler State' and, of course 'Genocide' when describing Israel. For most people it seems like exaggerated rhetoric.
Watch this 3 minute video by the totally mainstream news outlet Reuters. The tell me how Israel isn't all those things and worse??!! Ffs....
/jd
. . .
Reuters Video: As Palestinian crops dry up, settlers bathe in diverted spring
https://youtu.be/s36pdZxRhHQ
–– 'Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank diverted a spring that was a lifeline for the Palestinian village of Fasayil, cutting irrigation pipes in June and converting it into a tourist attraction, leaving nearby farms barren.'
#Israel #USpol #EUpol #Palestine #WestBank #Gaza #EpsteinWars #Genocide
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Thisl
Here's the thing about anti-Zionism.
Zionism is the belief that Jews should have self-determination in their ancestral homeland.
Anti-Zionist gentiles want to say that they shouldn't be allowed to do that, but that this isn't antisemitism.
But they also want to keep Jews out of public life, out of public schools, out of universities, out of the workplace, to hide their identity, not live according to Jewish laws or even speak our ancestral languages.
If they were really just anti-Zionist, they'd be doing their best to welcome Jews in. They'd be convincing Israelis to move to Berkley, Toronto, or some of their previous homes in Europe and the Middle East before they were forcibly expelled.
But they never do that. They always show their true intent.
A latest Reuters report documents how Israeli settlers have seized a freshwater spring near Fasayil in the occupied Jordan Valley, diverting the water Palestinian farmers relied on for generations.
Their fields now lie barren and their families are cut off from water for their homes and livelihoods, while the stolen water fills a pool at an archaeological site marketed as a biblical tourist attraction for Israeli settlers.
Farmers who approach say they are threatened and assaulted. Settlers now control an estimated 95 percent of the Jordan Valley's springs, part of a systematic campaign of dispossession driving Palestinians off their land.
An Israeli prime minister (a wanted war criminal) should not be sounding like a neo-Nazi. But here we are. Like #Trump, he has no real friends. The second anyone stops kissing his ass, they're an enemy. The UK included, and they're still looking away while Israel butchers Gazans.
[cue old Der Stürmer joke for poignancy here]
Why we put this nonsense out into the ether ourselves is beyond me.
"There’s a different question being asked, largely in #Democratic circles, of today’s #Jewish #presidential# candidates: “Is he the ‘right’ kind of Jewish #candidate to be #president?” — a question that is almost entirely centered around a candidate’s position on #Israel and how openly he identifies with his #religious #faith.
A long list of Jewish candidates are considering a presidential campaign or are being touted as credible contenders, ranging from moderates like #Pennsylvania #Gov. #JoshShapiro, #Sen. #ElissaSlotkin (D- #MI) and former #Chicago #Mayor #RahmEmanuel to #progressives like #Illinois Gov. #JBPritzker and those who straddle the ideological divide, like Sen. #JonOssoff (D- #GA)."
https://jewishinsider.com/2026/08/jewish-u-s-2028-presidential-candidates-israel-antisemitism/
Our electoral importance is in the past. This focus is built on a fiction and will lead to street level violence eventually.
"#Polls show #Jewish #voters hold competing priorities in their minds: They’re increasingly concerned about #antisemitism and their personal safety in #America, and they hold complex and divergent views on #Israel, which often is not a defining #voting issue, even as it seems to be the dominant way strategists and pundits talk about this #electorate.
Here’s what the latest data has to say about what Jewish voters want and how their politics are changing this cycle."
The remarkable consistency of the Jewish electorate
Aside from Black voters, there have traditionally been no more loyal #Democratic voters than Jewish #Americans. Since 2008, between 60 and 80 percent of these voters picked the Democratic candidate, while about 60 percent have consistently identified with the party over the last two decades.
That changed slightly after 2024..."
"...Western countries, our governments are directly complicit and, many times, profiting from Israel’s genocide.
Whatever you do, please don’t judge the entirety of something by the actions of a few and please try and keep things – namely Internet etiquette and genocide – in perspective and ask yourselves what you would do if you were in their shoes."
- #QUOTE @aral
Post: https://mastodon.social/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/117092273556764874
#complicit #governments #genocide
#war #AralBalkan #Israel vs. #Palestine
#CIA had ‘low confidence’ in #Iran threat before #Trump switched planes in Turkey
#US #intelligence officials were skeptical of an Iranian assassination threat against Trump that was relayed by #Israel & prompted an extraordinary clandestine maneuver that saw him secretly fly out of Turkey in an alternate military aircraft, current & former US officials familiar with the intelligence said.
#AirForceOne #IranWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/12/cia-had-low-confidence-iranian-threat-before-trump-switched-planes-turkey/
…Some #US #intelligence officials saw Israel’s sharing of the warning about threats to #Trump’s life as designed less to inform than to influence the president’s decision-making & US #policy in the region, a current & a former US official said.
#Israel views #Iran as by far its most urgent near-term threat.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
Controversial: we should stop running for office in host countries.
Uncontroversial: Jewish president is a fantasy.
"#MichaelMorris is the publisher of the #Atlanta #JewishTimes, and the scathing letter he just wrote #Georgia #Sen. #JonOssoff signals yet another important shift among prominent #Jewish communal figures since #October7.
First, the background to this incident. In the 2024 campaign, the question was whether #Pennsylvania #Gov. #JoshShapiro’s #Jewishness would hold him back from being embraced as a national figure in the #Democratic Party. The answer was yes: A progressive campaign to cast him as a #dualloyalist was so successful that when he was being vetted as a possible vice-presidential nominee for #KamalaHarris, her team asked him whether he worked on #Israel’s behalf.
Many of us, myself included, wondered if #Shapiro would run for president in 2028 and thus test the party’s voters on this question. But it looks as if #Ossoff may be the one..."
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Palestinian people have a right in international law to defend themselves against #Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank & Gaza.
But scumbag #EdMiliband wants #Hamas to disarm, and leave #Gaza defenceless against the Israeli #genocide.
The rest of the statement is pointless waffle. No sanctions, no end to intelligence sharing, no opposition to Israel's war in Iran and Lebanon. 😡
New UK #ForeignSecretary same as old Foreign Sec. 🤮
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That moment when you cannot even admit that all human life has equal value. Do you understand why it’s so easy for Israelis to commit genocide?
These are sick people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoursTea/s/m8SVXwXBVA
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #StopIsrael #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine
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#gaza #israel #genocide #palestine
https://chuffed.org/project/162848-silvia-project-for-distributing-healthy-meals-to-children
We found a new park near our home and walked into this. 🌿
Spanish moss hanging down like curtains. Old oaks leaning over the path. An overgrown brick wall that has clearly stopped arguing with the vines. And a trail that just disappears into the green
I stood there a while. Because this is exactly what learning Hebrew feels like. It does not announce itself or demand anything from you. It simply opens, quietly, and invites you a little deeper. One word, then another, then a whole world you did not know was waiting behind the trees.
Nature in Hebrew is ‘te-va, טבע
Some things are not meant to be conquered. They are meant to be wandered into.
Where is the most enchanting spot near you? 💙
Going to Israel? Do not get on that plane without these. ✈️🇮🇱
Yes, you can get by with English in Israel. But there is a moment that changes everything, when you say a few words in Hebrew and watch the person in front of you light up. Suddenly you are not a tourist being served. You are a guest being welcomed.
It is live right now, and it is yours. The exact phrases to make that happen. Not textbook translations. The real ones Israelis actually use, chosen to keep you clear and confident whether you are asking for directions, ordering, shopping, or finding your way to the Kotel.
And here is my favorite part: I picked phrases that skip gender forms entirely, so you never have to stop and wonder which version to use. Just say it and be understood.
Go read it, save it, and take it with you. 👇
https://open.substack.com/pub/hebrewbyinbal/p/learn-essential-hebrew-travel-phrases?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios
Your trip is about to get so much better. 🧳💙
"The story of the #Soviet #Jewish #refusenik movement is often told through the courageous men who challenged the #Communist regime, taught #Torah in secret, and fought for the right to leave for #Israel. Less often told is the story of the Jewish women who bravely sustained their families and communities. Their resistance was often a private matter, but without them, the movement could never have survived.
Among those remarkable women was #IraDashevsky. Born in #Odessa in 1958 and raised near #Moscow before moving to Moscow, Ira grew up in a society where #Judaism was suppressed, religion was mocked, and #antisemitism was part of everyday life. As a child, she watched peers ridicule #Jews and destroy letters her parents had sent her at summer camp.
Yet rather than diminish her identity, those experiences strengthened her determination to understand what it truly meant to be Jewish."
https://aish.com/the-strength-of-jewish-women-behind-the-iron-curtain/
Going to Israel? Do not get on that plane without these. ✈️🇮🇱
Yes, you can get by with English in Israel. But there is a moment that changes everything, when you say a few words in Hebrew and watch the person in front of you light up. Suddenly you are not a tourist being served. You are a guest being welcomed.
Tomorrow morning I am handing you the exact phrases to make that happen. Not textbook translations. The real ones Israelis actually use, chosen to keep you clear and confident whether you are asking for directions, ordering, shopping, or finding your way to the Kotel.
And here is my favorite part: I picked phrases that skip gender forms entirely, so you never have to stop and wonder which version to use. Just say it and be understood.
It drops tomorrow, Monday at 8:00am. Subscribe now so it is waiting in your inbox before you pack. 👇
https://substack.com/@hebrewbyinbal
Your trip is about to get so much better. 🧳💙
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti/117062143810966501
I need to repost my post. Because it really did happen; The British Empire, and it’s child the USA, did in fact rewrite the most widely taught commentary of it’s holiest book, to include the modern state of Israel in end-times prophecy.
#bible #dispensationalism #israel #zionism
The #Scofield Reference #Bible with #dispensionalist end-times doctrine invented in 1830’s, was picked up and amplified by the British Empire because it suited their colonial aims in the Middle East
This doctrine is still considered #heresy by some nominations today, but the money and power was there, and the view that a modern Jewish state is according to biblical prophecy was aggressively marketed and pushed, especially in Baptist and Evangelical USA
The administration has removed 20 species from the protected list.
The only species that still remains protected is the rich pedophile.
#trump #epstein #EpsteinFiles #iran #republicans #MAGA #Israel #news
It’s Live!
What is it actually like to vote in an Israeli election? 🗳️🇮🇱
Not the headlines. Not the analysis. The real thing. The paper slips, the blue envelope, the little booth, the walk to the polling station in your neighborhood. It works nothing like it does in America, and most people outside Israel have never seen it.
I am taking you inside the whole experience from a voter’s point of view, with the Hebrew you would actually hear and use along the way.
Democracy in Hebrew, from the inside out.
Head here 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_297gi-2iM
Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin: "Either displacement or death by thirst for all of Gaza's population."
This is the regime, EU, Canada and US support, back and protect.
Isn't it lovely?
Tomorrow (Sunday) at 12pm EST, I am taking you inside the whole experience from a voter’s point of view, with the Hebrew you would actually hear and use along the way.
Democracy in Hebrew, from the inside out.
Not subscribed yet? Fix that now so it lands the moment it drops. head here 👇
https://www.youtube.com/hebrewbyinbal
Hit the notification bell too. See you at the ballot box. 🇮🇱
The #Scofield Reference #Bible with #dispensionalist end-times doctrine invented in 1830’s, was picked up and amplified by the British Empire because it suited their colonial aims in the Middle East
This doctrine is still considered #heresy by some nominations today, but the money and power was there, and the view that a modern Jewish state is according to biblical prophecy was aggressively marketed and pushed, especially in Baptist and Evangelical USA
Had Dr. Fauci been named in the Epstein files, Republicans would have made him a hero.
#fauci #trump #epstein #EpsteinFiles #iran #war #republicans #MAGA #news #Israel
“Jews are execrable insects with parasite-hijacked brains.”
– Gad Saad, Zionist, at the World Symposium Against Antizionism
Zionism is antisemitic and always has been antisemitic.
To conflate antizionism with antisemitism is, itself, antisemitic.
Zionism is fascism.
Antizionism is antifascism.
(Oh, does it matter that he was only talking about “the wrong kind of Jews” – those who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people – while denying that a Holocaust survivor couldn’t possibly be a Holocaust survivor because they do so? Yes, actually. It makes it even worse.)
#israel #zionism #fascism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #StopIsrael #FreePalestine #Palestine #Gaza
7.35 million eligeable voters. 100k eligeable Jewish voters.
'The Jewish Vote™' is irrelevant.
We allow ourselves to be used as foils in these elections because we foolishly think it shows importance. And so, win or lose it'll be a 'triumph over the Jews' story now. 🙄
Btw, combined Muslim and Arab vote, accounting for crossover populations, is~300k.
“I think #ElSayed has an uphill battle to try to convince #Jewish #voters to support him," said Porn, who is not Jewish.
"He needs to make the case and it will be a tough case to make. There are a lot of Jewish voters who have talked to me who have said they will have a tough time voting for El-Sayed."
Asked about El-Sayed campaigning with #Piker, “if I were advising El-Sayed I would tell him to throw him under the bus," Porn said.
Though concerns about El-Sayed's views on #Israel extend beyond Jewish voters, Porn noted that there are about twice as many #Muslim or #Arab voters in #Michigan as there are Jewish..."
@Codeberg I just received this email, titled “Your recent Mastodon post” from @dpk on behalf of the Codeberg “Presidium”:
***
Dear Aral Balkan
In your Mastodon post at <https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117041803584140945> you publically criticized a repository that was hosted on Codeberg, despite linking to an issue thread in which it was made clear that the content should be reported through our usual internal channels for moderation. The repository in question was reviewed by the moderation team and removed. We understand that you suffered reputational damage as a result of this repository’s content, but this does not justify damaging the reputation of Codeberg e.V. in turn. The moderation team is still a volunteer operation and sometimes it takes a few hours for someone to be available to deal with reports or to ensure that consensus exists.
We therefore warn you not to make posts of this kind that could damage the association’s reputation in future. Acting against the interests of the association can be grounds for exclusion from the membership (§5 (5) of the by-laws). If you have issues with content posted on our site in future, please report it to our moderation team at abuse@codeberg.org. In general, reports sent to that email address will usually receive a reply describing what action was taken once the moderation team has considered how to deal with the reported content.
Kind regards
Presidium
***
So, I have a problem with this.
My post in no way damaged the reputation of Codeberg. It publicly asked them to do something about it and to state, publicly, where they stand on an issue. An issue, may I add, that has to do with real people facing actual genocide as we speak. Not to mention I thanked them for making the right decision (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117043586669877395). If anything, until this email, it made the organisation look better. Unless, of course, opposing certain genocides is something that damages reputations in Germany.
I do not agree with the public issue being closed either. An issue was reported and the response was not “oh, this is serious, we’ll look into it”. It was, rather, “you reported it wrong. Report the same thing at this other place instead.”
And that other place is an entirely opaque internal system where no one gets to see what decision-making process is employed.
This is not the transparency that should exist in a member-run organisation.
So at the end of the day, I am the one being threatened with being removed from membership while the person who is actively trying to harm genocide victims (https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/) is still welcome on Codeberg?
This is a very insidious form of bothsidesism and, I can only imagine, is to ensure that I keep quiet in the future and to create a chilling effect where we cannot discuss certain things publicly for fear of reprisals.
Well, that won’t be happening.
I am sick and tired of people who cannot provide a proportional response when asked to choose between people harming genocide victims on the one hand and those trying to protect them on the other.
If this means I cannot be a member of Codeberg, so be it.
Let me know if I’m not welcome there and I will leave.
And you can show the world that Linux-Is-Best is welcome and I am not. If that’s who you are.
#codeberg #israel #germany #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #fediverse #mastodon #transparency #ethics #morals
“How the Epstein Network is Privatizing the Government & Building Out the Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb)
by Chris Hedges in the Chris Hedges Report on Substack
@renewedresistance
@blog
@antizionist_
@antizionist
@palantirwatch
@palantir
“Under the radar, the billionaire class is building the infrastructure and models necessary to create a dystopian future in which cities become billionaire fiefdoms - completely privatized, governed by dictatorial CEOs and financed by subservient taxpayers. The buildout of data centers is one essential part of the effort to construct a totalitarian capitalist society, which is already advancing”
[..]
“Hedges and Webb expose the connections between the billionaires behind this effort and the State of Israel”
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/how-the-epstein-network-is-privatizing
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #DataCenters #Dystopia #Dictatorship #Capitalism #LateStageCapitalism #Thiel #Palantir #Israel #Epstein #EpsteinClass #BigTech #AI #NeoFeudalism
Israel Cut Off
Have you noticed how poor their reputation is lately? But have you read the prophecies in God's word? Most churches will not talk about them.
The prophecy in 1 Kings 9:7 KJV was fulfilled when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. Today there is a Muslim mosque on the temple mount, but the temple of the Lord is gone.
Similar prophecies pertain to all who reject Jesus.
I don't typically follow this lawfare stuff. Whether I like a protest or not is politically irrelevant. This one is different.
McGill was fucking brutal. Physical. Gross. Scary.
Also famously the place where a professor yelled go back to Poland.
"A #Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class action alleging #McGillUniversity failed to adequately protect #Jewish #students from #antisemitism, harassment and intimidation on campus following the #Oct7, 2023, #Hamas attack on #Israel.
The #lawsuit was brought by #DavidCobrin, who was a #McGill #undergraduate when the events described in the case began, and covers Jewish students registered at the #university between Oct. 8, 2023, and the publication of an official notice of the ruling. The plaintiffs are seeking reimbursement of 33 per cent of tuition and student fees, along with $5 million in collective #punitivedamages. The ruling allows those claims to proceed but does not determine whether McGill is liable."