Monday, November 27: Birds of a Feather
What do Benny Netanyahu and Elon Musk have to chat about? Apparently plenty
Genocidal Israeli leader Benny Netanyahu has been criticized around the world, even in his apartheid country, for his handling of the October 7th attack and the resulting fallout. He has done his best to avoid media and interviews, but yesterday he did take a break from his endless war mongering to do a photo-op with a foreign billionaire. Elon Musk put his casual antisemitism on pause and went on a walking tour of a kibbutz with Netanyahu. The Israeli leader claims the tour was to showcase the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas, but somehow I’m willing to bet Mr. Musk won’t venture into Gaza to witness the war crimes committed by the Israeli military.
As reported by The Intercept yesterday, the white house and Joseph Biden have requested the removal of any existing restrictions on all categories of weapons and ammunition that Israel is allowed to access from US weapons stockpiles stored in the apartheid nation. While the Biden administration has provided pages of detailed lists of weapons provided to Ukraine since last year’s hostilities began, the details about weapons provided to Israel could fit in a single, short sentence. That statement would probably be something along the lines of: “My blessed and pure zionist child may have any and all weapons desired to neutralize the Palestinian resistance.”
Eleven more Israeli hostages are set to be released today on the final day of the agreed upon ceasefire, leaving close to 180 hostages in Gaza. Authorities of the apartheid nation have claimed that they’re willing to extend the truce one day for every 10 hostages released by Hamas. Earlier today, the spokesperson for Qatar’s foreign ministry, a key mediator in the ongoing hostage negotiations said that an agreement has been reached to extend the Israel-Hamas truce for another two days. For Palestinians this means another 48 hours without the sounds of bombs dropping.
This article delves into the treatment of the Israeli hostages while trapped in Gaza, mentioning how some were fed irregularly and were forced to sleep on plastic chairs instead of beds. This treatment isn’t exactly comparable to the treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, where they’re routinely beaten, humiliated, and tortured.
It’s interesting how the Israeli hostages who were held by Hamas genuinely have a higher opinion of them than the average uninformed American liberal who’s spent the past month pretending like they couldn't endorse Palestinian resistance and liberation because of this ONE thing. The defense ministry of the apartheid state also recently claimed that during their murderous operations in Gaza, Israeli forces seized ~$5 million in various types of cash, allegedly from Hamas strongholds and the homes of operatives. In reality this money was almost definitely stolen from innocent Palestinian civilian homes. Regardless of its origin, the money will be forfeited by Gazans and seized by the apartheid state.
So many people look at what’s unfolding in Gaza and see Biden’s incompetence rather than calculated malice because these poor folks want desperately to hold onto the (incorrect) belief that the US government is basically good. Spoiler alert my pals, the sooner you let go of that baseless sentiment the better. The United States is in fact the greatest enemy of peace and freedom on this planet. But the empire is in decline, so we keep fighting.
Side Items
Vermont Shooting Update: After a day of searching, authorities in Vermont have arrested a suspect in the shooting of three young Palestinian men who were attending a Thanksgiving family gathering near the University of Vermont campus Saturday evening. A 48 year old man named Jason Eaton, was taken into custody and may face hate crime charges, assuming the police can withdraw their heads from their own posteriors