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Trump’s willingness to embrace Israel’s claims that the war of choice against Iran will be a resounding success demonstrates how clueless he is about the Middle East region. He only cares about himself and increasing his financial wealth. I have no confidence that Trump will secure a lasting peace with Iran, or stability in the Middle East.
The Katz statement today that Israel will not relinquish the lands that it now controls in Lebanon, Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights shows that Israel has no interest in peace.
The United States and the other world powers will have to force the rogue state of Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders. Massive sanctions and the end of any military or monetary support will need to be used to bring Israel to its knees.
The political elites in Washington DC will need to be voted out of office if they are unwilling to listen to the America public, who no longer supports Israel’s genocidal and ethnic cleansing policies in Palestine and Lebanon and elsewhere.

Tthank you for reminding me who the real “beasts and savages” are. It means a lot.

“You do realize that Hezbollah are Shiites? And that their attacks have caused casualties among Arab civilians in Israel?”

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What % of your Israeli IDF are Jewish?

Who killed/massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians, women, children, infants/babies in Gaza/West Bank/Palestine over the last few decades … Israel’s IDF or Hezbollah?

Whose attacks have killed/murdered more Arab civilians, way more Arab civilians, in the region … Israeli IDF or Hezbollah?

Can you provide “caused casualties/Arab civilians” numbers by Hezbollah vs Israeli IDF?

So, now tell me about the inerrancy of the Book of Joshua. Us Jews really made mincemeat of the other tribes in our way.
And those victories inspire the ‘Greater Israel’ project, right?

‘John O’ thanks for the response, but there is very little humor in my posts. Really, none at all.

Not really sure where the laugh comes in that comment to which I replied. Given that millions of people – and, it seems, the author of the above article – are mistakenly thinking Israel controls the entire Western world’s governments, media, military forces and leaders, my reply was entirely appropriate. What next? The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to get a positive reappraisal? I’ve seen pro-Palestine commenters making a case for that.

Re: You do realize that Hezbollah are Shiites? And that their attacks have caused casualties among Arab civilians in Israel?

The Sword Battalion was known as Gdud Herev or Unit 300. It was an IDF unit predominantly made up of Druze. It participated in major northern campaigns like Operation Hiram (1948) and the Second Lebanon War (2006). Since 2015 the Druze and Circassian Israeli IDF members are integrated with Jewish units and serve in high numbers. I don’t suppose Shia who have been murdered, had their lands confiscated as “closed military zones” or occupied by soldiers and settlers view those people as the good guys or the victims.YMMV.

Ein Bokek and the southwestern Dead Sea shore came under Israeli control during the Six-Day War. This territory, historically part of the West Bank, was captured via military maneuver rather than acquired through purchase or treaty.

Looking at the lines on the map described in “Article 3. International Boundary” of Treaty Of Peace Between The State Of Israel And The Hashemite Kingdom Of Jordan, it stipulates:

“2. The boundary, as set out in Annex I (a), is the permanent, secure and recognised international boundary between Israel and Jordan, without prejudice to the status of any territories that came under Israeli military government control in 1967.”

The Israelis who keep murdering, raping, and seizing ships 400 miles away from Ashdod in international waters aren’t particularly well known for their map reading skills or good manners either. This West Bank encroachment looks like another example to me.

See: Did the Palestinians Sell Their Land? And Leave it to the Jews?!

Zionists organizations and private buyers purchased very little to no land directly on the Dead Sea between 1880 and 1947. Instead, early industrial operations and land access in that region relied primarily on British government concessions rather than private land purchases. The British didn’t buy any land their either.

There would be fewer Israeli-Arab casualties if the Israeli government provided them with air-shelters.

As a relative newbie here, you clearly don’t get Mooser’s offbeat humour. Lighten up, and stop trying to turn everything into an ad for the Revolution.

Thanks for mentioning me. It means a lot.

“The Dead Sea sits in the West Bank”

It’s usually a good idea to look at a map before posting an obviously inaccurate assertion. Are the hotels hosting the PrideLand festival in the West Bank?

I don’t expect interviews with representatives of the regime. How about members of the Opposition (Jews and Arabs)? Peace activists, human-rights activists, pro-democracy activists? Witnesses and survivors of Oct7? Former kidnapped hostages?

You do realize that Hezbollah are Shiites? And that their attacks have caused casualties among Arab civilians in Israel?

Nope, in 1882  Leon Pinsker published Auto-Emancipation and pronounced that anti-Semitism—or Judeophobia, as he called it— was a hereditary and incurable “psychic aberration” common to the whole of mankind. 

It is you who insists that antisemitism gives Zionists the right to direct murderous and unprovoked fire into northern Galilee and Southern Lebanon to kill Shia civilians.

So, the origins of Hovevei Zion (also known as Hibbat Zion or “Lovers of Zion”) apparently gave Zionism the right to do whatever it wants now. There is a monument, built on indigenous Shai-owned land, at Tel Hai to honor a non-resident Zionist, Russian, killed while pillaging the Shia land in 1920. not vice versa. The Ottoman Empire helped draft and ratified the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions that prohibited pillage and confiscation of private homes and lands, without exception.

Shia Islamic beliefs were first adopted in 632 CE. From the viewpoint of the inhabitants, they were a new, and improved theological belief, compared to Judaism. The first missionary, according to longstanding Shia oral tradition, was the very first teacher to bring Shia beliefs to Southern Lebanon and Galilee. He was Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, a close companion of Muhammad and a staunch ally of Ali. Once again the people living there accepted that viewpoint as an improvement over existing rabbinical Judaism.

Americans will never fight and die to promote the interests of Israel

but they will happily fight and die for US imperialism, of which Israel is a central component. This article’s thesis turns reality on its head. Israel, a tiny state with few resources of its own, does not control the largest, most powerful state on the planet. It is a willing attack dog for US imperialism.

FYI, See: Trump TARGETS Trita Parsi! for Deportation.

Did the IDF, Mossad, JDL, CIA , and friends suddenly stop making house calls to kidnap, imprison, deport, or murder Iranian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Israeli, Syrian, Iraqi, Qatari, American, French, British reporters, writers, or outspoken political activist in the media? It doesn’t look like it:

>NYC Palestine Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Out After Being Target of Assassination Plot

Neither Wikipedia nor LeMonde list any assassinated Mondoweiss reporters among the long list of people Israel actually has reportedly murdered while there.

There are no Synagogues or Jewish Temples in Western Kansas, or much demand for anyone to report from here. The Roman Catholics and Jewish Rabbinical authorities in Israel have never calmed my nerves about their conflicting Biblical and Talmudic accounts over possible involvement in the murders of Jesus, all his disciples, apostles, and other witnesses that mysteriously disappeared after reporting their stories during all the wars. I’d recommend MW take a pass. YMMV

There is still a lot of genocide going on there targeting the press and the media:
>The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has documented that Israeli forces have killed at least 258 journalists and media workers 

If Huckabee wasn’t already brain-dead, we’d demand some proof of life. For all we know he’s still being used as a Fox News-Netanyahu human shield. The Israeli press constantly show them together.
>REPORT: Israel BLOCKS ESCAPE, Uses US Citizens As HUMAN SHIELDS

>Here is a video of Israeli parliament member Ofer Cassif of the Joint List, being beaten during demonstration against Sheikh Jarrah evictions. Here is Jerry Seinfeld who says (Sheikh Jarrah) Palestine “doesn’t exist”. See, we can report that Zionist State viewpoint from home.

>Theo Von appeared visibly shocked during a podcast conversation with former CIA officer John Kiriakou as they discussed the killing of US journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot in the face by Israeli forces while reporting in the occupied West Bank. Kiriakou noted that Abu Akleh was clearly identified as press when she was killed by an IDF sniper. Von repeatedly reacted in disbelief as the account was presented. The conversation also addressed the aftermath of her funeral procession in East Jerusalem, where Israeli forces attacked pallbearers, and used batons and stun grenades on mourners.

The ICJ, General Assembly, and Security Council have adopted resolutions and legal advisories about Israel’s half-century flagrant violations of Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention . No High Contracting State Party has ever exercised universal jurisdiction. The ICC has been “investigating” the situation since 2015!

Article 4 of the Rome Statute stipulates that the Court has its own international personality and can exercise its own jurisdiction on the territory of any non-member State by its own special agreements. The Article 8bis definition was spelled-out “in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX) in 2010. It stipulated the term “State” is used regardless of recognition or UN membership, Acknowledgement of The Declaration of Establishment of the State of Palestine by the UN General Assembly in 1988 satisfied that minimum jurisdictional criteria.

The ICC Member States had dozens of treaties in force with Palestine, including Article 90 agreements on terrorism and extradition. Many entered into force years before the Rome Statute itself did. The other State parties ratified the procedure in Article 12(3) and Article 90 for any third-party State to submit a Declaration accepting ICC jurisdiction. Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo engaged in obvious delays and obstruction of justice when he violated the rights the members of the Arab League and Islamic Conference had extended to third-states without their mutual consent. 

Resolving disputes regarding the existence of Statehood are a matter that demands the ICC to exercise its own inherent jurisdiction, not the UN. See for example: the ICTY Trial Chamber III “Decision on Motion for Judgement of Acquittal” Rule 98 bis test – Deportation, forcible transfer and cross border transfer – Definition of a State – Aiding and abetting genocide and complicity in genocide.

See: Former ICC Prosecutor Drops a BOMBSHELL on Israel’s Intimidation of ICC Officials! – YouTube

Judge Theodor Meron authored a prominent journal article titled “The West Bank and International Humanitarian Law on the Eve of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Six-Day War,” published in May 2017 in the American Journal of International Law (AJIL).

Theodore Meron was part of the Israeli government cover-up and obstruction of justice n 1967. He and the Former Prosecutors should be called now as a material witnesses, not just former officials or as Special Advisors to the ICC Prosecutor,

“Note that MW will interview an official of the genocidal Iranian regime, while adamantly refusing to report from Israel.”

Which official from the Israeli genocidal regime, would you like to see MW interview?

“I would also note that Hezbollah isn’t too popular among Palestinians.”

And from/on what basis does your “note” gives such a conclusion? Can you provide a link?

jrg “I suppose you’re trying to get me to mention that it was founded in 1982 in response to the Israeli incursion into Lebanon, which in turn was a response to the attempted murder of an Israeli diplomat. Presumably, you’re implying that that gives Hezbollah the right to direct murderous and unprovoked fire into northern Israel to kill Jewish civilians. So Hezbollah’s origins give it the right to do whatever it wants now. Logic, check logic, one-two, one-two.”

This is confusing as hell. Who actually won the argument between you and your straw man?

“Presumably, you’re implying that that gives Hezbollah the right to direct murderous and unprovoked fire into northern Israel to kill Jewish civilians.”

Of course not. Only Israel has this right to murder and expell civilians in southern Lebanon, apply the Dahiya doctrine and carpet bomb it.

“So Hezbollah’s origins give it the right to do whatever it wants now. Logic, check logic, one-two, one-two”

Again, of course not. Only Israel’s origin gives it this right, including genocide.

Any Democrat that the despicable Josh Gottheimer opposes is probably someone worth supporting. Susan Collins needs to be retired ASAP.

You are right SPS1946, Americans will never fight and die to promote the interests of Israel. Unless, of course, the US is immiserated by a bad recession and conscription is in effect. Not easy to do, we have a resilient economy, but Trump can manage it.
And as this melding of militaries is a long-term project, it should give the US plenty of time to convince our children (as we Jews are convinced) of the inerrancy of the Book of Joshua!

The idea is to capitalize on world opinion and take away the self-derence case.

Do you maintain a campaign for equality is not worhwhile.

This would be a treasonous action by the US Congress. Just look at historical events such as the Jonathan Pollard espionage case, the 1967 USS Liberty attack cover-up, and this calamitous Israel-inspired war of choice against Iran.
Israeli and US interests no longer match because the rogue state of Israel wants America to fund and weaponize Israel’s illegal aggression in the occupied territories and against its neighbors in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. These Israeli ambitions greatly harm US interests in the Middle East and around the world.
Section 224 needs to be blocked at all costs.

Israel’s unceasing cover-up of their massive war crimes won’t bury the truth. There will be in the near future a reckoning, and Israel will be exposed for the monster it has become.
Yes, most of the western governments have been complicit in these crimes, but the people who elect those governments are now seeing the full extent of Israel’s depravity.
Israel has transformed itself into a loathsome pariah state.

A bizarrely logic-free piece that claims a Jewish state used to be democratic (somehow, not sure how that worked) but not any longer because these days “democratic rights apply only to the dominant ethnic group”. Israel has never been a democracy and never could have been. It exists today only as a willing attack dog for US imperialism.

Israel is no haven for LGBTQ+ people. Because it is a society composed largely of Jewish supremacists with a large element of religious believers, public attitudes to LGBTQ+ people are far from positive and often violent:

A report published on Wednesday by the ‎the Association for LGBT+ Equality in Israel (the Aguda)‎ paints a troubling picture of the issue in Israel over the past year with a 127% rise in reported violent incidents against LGBT+ individuals. The data indicates a significant increase in incidents against the LGBT community, including physical and verbal violence, as well as property damage. 

“This has been the most homophobic year in the country’s history, with hundreds of cases of violence, assaults, and threats against LGBT+ individuals solely because of their identity,” said Yael Sinai Biblash, head of the Aguda. “We can clearly see how inciting statements from ministers and Knesset members have turned into violence on the streets, undermining a safe space for all of us. The data presents a worrying picture that LGBT+ people are experiencing violence during wartime but are left to deal with it alone,” she added.

According to the data presented in the report, 2023 saw a 93% increase in violent incidents compared to 2022 (259 reports in 2023 compared to 134 in 2022) – a 2.4-fold increase in reports of homophobic incidents in public spaces from the total reports that year.

(”People hurled stones at my house for three months’: survey shows sharp rise in anti-LGBT+ violence amid war’, YNet News 29 May 2024)

Videos of dead activists with placards demanding equality could sway public opinion.

Sorry to be rude, but even by your low standards that answer is revoltingly insensitive.

“Tell me when history starts.
Just give me a date.”

Presumably, it started when people began keeping written records of the past, but what a bizarre and irrelevant question!

“Really! Tell me how and when Hezbollah started.”

I suppose you’re trying to get me to mention that it was founded in 1982 in response to the Israeli incursion into Lebanon, which in turn was a response to the attempted murder of an Israeli diplomat. Presumably, you’re implying that that gives Hezbollah the right to direct murderous and unprovoked fire into northern Israel to kill Jewish civilians. So Hezbollah’s origins give it the right to do whatever it wants now. Logic, check logic, one-two, one-two.

jrg: “Of course, many if not most of MW’s commenters and contributors would salivate at such a prospect. Behind all of their quasi-academic sermonizing is a thirst for Israeli Jewish blood.”

Says JRG of all people, defending a genocidal state. Regarding your accusation of bloodthirst: it is interesting that you differentiate between Israeli Jews and non-Jews. Any prospect that would make you salivate?

Here is an example of misspecification error detection discovered by earlier ADMIXTOOLS in 2015:

David Reich identified that Amazonian groups (specifically the Suruí and Karitiana) share an unexpected genetic link with indigenous groups in Australia, New Guinea, and the Andaman Islands. The latest genetic analyses back up skeletal studies suggesting that some groups in the Amazon share a common ancestor with indigenous Australians and New Guineans. The find hints at the possibility that not one but two groups migrated across these continents to give rise to the first Americans.“Our results suggest this working model that we had is not correct. There’s another early population that founded modern Native American populations,” says study coauthor David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard University. Smithsonian Magazine.

Here are studies conducted by David Reich’s Lab or by others using whole genome testing statistical tool chains.

The genetic structure of the Turkish population revealed high levels of variation and admixture, unlike their Canaanite neighbors. See: The genetic structure of the Turkish population reveals high levels of variation and admixture. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Aug 23; and Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence, PLoS One. 2021 Jun 30

The genetic landscape of northeastern Iberian communities from the early to late Iron Age, Cell, Daniel R. Cuesta-Aguirre et al, (2026)

Iberian DNA remained largely unchanged for six centuries before Roman influence, study finds, University of Barcelona

Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century, Cell, David Reich, December 2022.
Genomes from a medieval mass burial show Ashkenazi-associated hereditary diseases pre-date the 12th century, Ian Barnes, et.al, Cell, October 2022.

brent: “Aaron Mate on pressure (note from 6:17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVkyGUegTcU”

Why should anyone watch it? Seriously? What point are you even trying to make? That you are intellectually lazy?

Greg Foot about pressure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flYmFAe6OmU

Part 2
LINADMIX is open source and freely available for academic use. It is implemented in Python and designed to evaluate ancient admixture events in modern populations and has built-in error detection for misspecified admixtures. See LINADMIX: evaluating the effect of ancient admixture events on modern populations, 3.6 Misspecification of the model & 3.6.1 The effect of omitting a true source population :
“First, a population that did contribute to the target population may be omitted from the list of source populations. Second, a population that did not contribute to the target population may be included.

To account for the first scenario, we replaced the original source population with another population that is genetically remote. In this case, we expect the P-values reported by LINADMIX to fall below the 0.05 threshold, indicating that the model does not fit the data. To account for the second scenario, we included a third, unrelated, source population in addition to the original two sources populations. In this setting, we expect the estimator of the mixing coefficient of the redundant source population not to be significantly different from zero.”

Steven Parker’s critiques contradict the software utility user manual, best practices. Other than very rare chimeras and organ transplant recipients, there’s no reason to doubt a matching haplotype paternal or maternal germ line test result. That will always remain conclusive proof of common descent, despite autosomal percentages. If a Palestinian and Ashkenazi Jew share the same paternal haplotype, then they share a common male ancestor. If Steven hasn’t read the quality control instructions for performance simulations and the default population groups for and the use of proxies to simultaneously test near and distant haplogroups, he should read those first, when all else fails.

Then he should read the source code for each utility. Hint: it has all been peer-reviewed and is available for anyone to read and compile for themselves at home from source code. There’s no Zionist secret sauce hiding in there.

This indicates he wouldn’t know how to start: Surprise! Tuscans Are Israelites Now, Too! Together with this chart indicates he rejects basic science as “Y-DNA Claims”, thinks using LINADMIX (with built-in detection of a true source omission) is inferior to qpAdm – which warns against this very type of misapplication.

brent: “I don’t buy your reasoning an equality movement is not a good idea.”

Another phrase with no causal explanation, once again ignoring the political and material reality of the endgame of Zionism and any counter-argument that has been presented to you.

“Nor see a more effctive path to challenge the status quo, or the self-defense motif, led by Palestinans?”

After so many empty comments, you still haven’t demonstrated that it would work or be effective at all. The ball remains in your court, and I suspect it will stay there for quite some time.

What you refer to is happening in an Israeli state prison.

But Sde Teiman is Israel’s horror version “Abu Ghraib” for its sexual perverts and sadistsin the “most moral army in the world” and has a military internment camp where non Jews, including children, are subjected to sexual torture, including using hot rods or dogs.

The supreme Apartheid court has ruled a week ago that the Red Cross must be allowed to enter, but this ruling, too, can be one that is going to be ignored by the “beasts and savages” to borrrow jon s wording.

One distinction the lawyer representing Palestinian prisoners made clear>>> anytime a legal visit was arranged, the prisoner was raped. Shock rape therapy helped keep attorneys out of Sde Teiman.

Part 1
99.9 percent of Human DNA is identical. Dr. Alissa Mittnik worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the David Reich Lab at Harvard from 2018 to 2021. She was one of the team of authors on  Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines, 2019 cited in the Reich 2020/2021 Bronze Age Canaanite study that was followed-up when David Reich led Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors in 2025. If you had read those, and the many others conducted in conjunction, you’d top discussing the lack of Southern Italian DNA testing.

See: Your ancestors aren’t who you think they are | David Reich: Full Interview
And:: Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA as a Window into Human History and Biology | David Reich

FYI, I was taught the Harvard-MIT Unix Software Tools Philosophy in the 1970s because that was an integral part of my job, until i retired. It still serves as the backbone of every Communications-Electronics network today, like the Internet: See the GNU/Linux The Unix Tools Philosophy I served as one of the military representative to help jointly develop NIST Unix standards developed by bodies like the IEEE Standards Association, American National Standards Institute, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to ensure software portability across operating systems. 

The algorithms and the algebraic equations used to make comparisons, multiple matching or mismatching control sets, and solve for any unknown result are published and open source. It is standard practice to incorporate those variables with automatic exception and error handling subroutines. David Reich and Nick Patterson used standard methodology when they authored the first version of David Reich Lab utilities ADMIXTOOLS, including qpAdm in 2012. They are currently at version 2, Those are gold-standard software suite for analyzing population mixtures, formal tests of admixture, and inferring mixture proportions and dates using genomic data. See this warning note from Assessing the performance of qpAdm: a statistical tool for studying population admixture: “However, we caution against co-analyzing ancient and present-day data, the inclusion of an extremely large number of reference populations in a single model, and analyzing population histories involving extended periods of gene flow. We provide a user guide suggesting best practices for the use of qpAdm.”

[2] Central Mediterranean Genetic Continuum

If their paternal ancestry were meaningfully Levantine while only the maternal side were Southern Italian, they should cline away from Southern Italians and toward Bronze Age or modern Levantines. They do not. They remain in the Southern Italian and central Mediterranean cluster.

That is the key point. One cannot explain Italian Jews clustering with Southern Italians by invoking a Levantine paternal line unless that line is too small, too ancient, or too regionally Mediterranean to pull them toward the Levant.

The same pattern appears for Ashkenazi Jews. On PCA, they do not form a cline toward modern or Bronze Age Levantines. They sit in the central Mediterranean space, overlapping Southern Italians and near other Southern European populations such as Greeks, Bulgarians, and Albanians, while remaining clearly separated from Levantine populations.

So the simpler explanation is not “Levantine fathers plus European mothers equals Southern Italian autosomal overlap.” The simpler explanation is that much of the ancestry being labeled “Levantine” is actually part of a broader central Mediterranean genetic continuum, especially involving Southern Italy, Sicily, Magna Graecia, and older Greco-Roman Jewish populations.

The nomenclature Central Mediterranean Genetic Continuum is interesting. Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew consider Canaanite to be synonymous with merchant or trader. Maybe the proper continua are the Central Mediterranean Mercantile Genetic Continuum and the Inland Levantine Samarian and Judean Peasant Genetic Continuum.

Eventually during the Abbasid Caliphate the Jewish part of the Central Mediterranean Mercantile Genetic Continuum evolved into the European, N. African, and Mesopotamian Rabbinic Jewish financial/mercantile metapopulation that existed along Medieval Jewish trade routes. The inland Levantine Samarian and Judean Peasant Genetic Continuum was not part of the Medieval Jewish mercantile metapopulation as non-Jewish and Jewish literature attests.

I don’t buy your reasoning an equality movement is not a good idea.

Nor see a more effctive path to challenge the status quo, or the self-defense motif, led by Palestinans? Apparently neither do you or John.

Re: Yes, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”, It doesn’t matter whether the author is a Zionist or Anti-Zionist.

It matters tremendously whether an author is a Zionist pseudoscientist propagandist or a genuine genetic anthropologist scientist just as it matters whether an alleged archaeologist is a modern critical scientific archaeologist or a Zionist propagandist archaeologist

Zionist propagandists have been trying to prove for over a century that Jews constitute a race that originates in Judea. See The Genealogical Science The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology by Nadia Abu El-Haj.

Zionist genetic anthropology is an echo chamber, and it’s hard for one to obtain an academic position in this field unless one is willing to participate in the echo chamber.

Jewish history is another such echo chamber. It is interesting that both Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and also Heinrich von Treitschke correctly considered Heinrich Graetz, the founder of field of Jewish history, to be a charlatan. Scholars like Werner Sombart and Derek Penslar, who try to break out of the echo chamber of Jewish history, have routinely been called antisemites.

Gmirkin, who until about 2000 confronted an echo chamber in higher textual criticism, worked as an independent researcher and points out inconvenient facts that challenges this echo chamber. Gmirkin’s work has important implications for fields beyond higher criticism.

Parker, who is a similar independent researcher, makes an important point about the central Mediterranean genetic continuum.

[1] Central Mediterranean Genetic Continuum

The usual story asks us to believe that Ashkenazim have mostly Levantine fathers and substantially European mothers, and that this somehow produces an autosomal profile that lands directly over Southern Italy in PCA and FST space. But that interpretation collapses when tested against Italkim Jews.

Italkim Jews are the obvious falsification test.

ashkenaziresearch.org/2…

This Jewish community lived in Italy for roughly two millennia, including in regions such as Calabria, Sicily, and the old Magna Graecia zone. On autosomal PCA, inherited from both parents, they cluster directly over the same Southern Italian and Sicilian regions they historically inhabited, including areas close to Calabrians, Catania Sicilians, and Magna Graecia Dodecanese Greeks.

I’ve just clicked through to the Middle East section on the NYT’s website. The only story about the West Bank is No. 11 in the list. It’s not very good (too vague) and the writer is based in London rather than the Middle East.

The Guardian coverage is better: a live blog and eight stories dated 10 June, of which two concern the West Bank.

Off the topic of pinkwashing but on the topic of colonialism, this article in the Forward nicely shows how the ideas of Zionism are cracking up. Keep in mind that the Forward bills itself as “Jewish, Independent, Non-profit”:

The real anti-zionists are at the highest levels of the Israeli government… it’s time to acknowledge that a movement to undermine Zionism has taken hold within the Israeli government….If Zionism is the movement for a secure homeland for the Jews, then any forces that reject or undermine that homeland’s legitimacy or security are anti-Zionist. That includes the people whose positions and policies actively undermine the existence of a Jewish homeland.
The democratic Jewish state enshrined in the country’s Declaration of Independence has given way to something that looks a lot more like a herrenvolk democracy, in which democratic rights apply only to the dominant ethnic group. History has many examples of such arrangements, and — spoiler alert — they don’t end well for the majority. French Algeria until 1962, Rhodesia until 1980, South Africa until 1994 — all eventually faced one of three fates: negotiated transition to full democracy, violent collapse or ongoing instability and international isolation. To date, none have stabilized permanently….

https://forward.com/opinion/830510/israel-anti-zionism/

New report from Amnesty International”

Acceleration of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians must spur global action to halt West Bank annexation…The international community’s tacit or explicit support for Israeli crimes, including genocide and apartheid, or their failure to act resolutely to stop them has emboldened the Israeli authorities to escalate a brutal campaign to forcibly displace Palestinians and expand its control over land in the West Bank, said Amnesty International. In a new report, the organization details how Israeli authorities are accelerating annexation through a state-driven campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the occupied West Bank, while committing the crime against humanity of forcible transfer. 

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/06/acceleration-of-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-must-spur-global-action-to-halt-west-bank-annexation/

The report:

ERASING ANYTHING PALESTINIAN ISRAEL’S ETHNIC CLEANSING OF WEST BANK BEDOUIN AND HERDING COMMUNITIES

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MDE-1511032026-English.pdf

Videos of dead activists with placards demanding equality could sway public opinion.

You have a better idea?

Aaron Mate on pressure (note from 6:17)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVkyGUegTcU

brent: “Of course movements for self-determination or for equality are not identical. That doesn’t make the concept unworkable.”

LOL. It was you who argued that the concept works because the cases are comparable or effectively identical to the US or South Africa. Now you are implying that even if they were not, your concept would still work. So what is your argument now that it even works? Since John and I showed that your comparisons don’t work and why this concept woudn’t work based on the same reasoning.

Don’t get me wrong, one person one vote is the only just, non racist solution. But the Zionist Apartheid Junta simulating democracy doesn’t call Jews all over the world its only nation for nothing.

And the MSM has gotten tired of the story of the abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Al-Jazeera has put together an hour long documentary on this, partly consisting of interviews with former prisoners.

You can decide for yourself if it’s convincing.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/9/they-were-laughing-israels-use-of-rape-and-sexual-abuse-in-prisons

( Francesca Albanese is also featured in this documentary )

Hostage: “You shouldn’t doubt it.”

At this point, basic principles of reasoning are enough to raise serious doubts, even without any detailed legal background.

Although at first glance it seems like your conclusion comes from the sources you provide, it appears more that the conclusion is already assumed from the beginning, and the sources are then selected and interpreted as if they lead to that conclusion.

Again, what is missing is a clear step by step explanation of how these sources are supposed to lead to the conclusion that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional or beyond Congress’s authority under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18. Just pick one for a start.

Or how you resolve relying on Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 since this article gives Congress the power to pass laws that put its constitutional powers into practice.

We can get reporting from Israel elsewhere. Anyway, if they did report from Israel it would have a MW slant so I doubt you would like it.

You know what really stinks? Israel has not allowed any outside reporter into Gaza except for a few times with the IDF— I also saw one report from a British reporter briefly visiting a medical center. ( It might have been in a tent.)

There are Palestinian reporters in Gaza, but Israel keeps murdering them. We even got to see this happening occasionally, like when some rescue workers and reporters were killed by Israel while on the metal stairs outside a hospital.

Both of your comments are ad-hominem attacks. I invite you to say something that has actual substance.

jon s: “Note that MW will interview an official of the genocidal Iranian regime, while adamantly refusing to report from Israel.”

This is rich comming from a citizen and supporter of a genocidal regime that is actually committing genocide. But I must admit. MW should interview an official of your genocidal regime and take this as evidence to the Hague.

No one is saying that the “concept” (whatever you mean by that term) is unworkable. Assuming you mean non-violent protest, that works sometimes (e.g. the Bristol bus boycott in England, modelled on the boycotts sparked by Rosa Parks in the US). But when peaceful protest is met with persistent lethal violence – what then? (Contrast Kent State with the March of Return.)

If you answer, please give some concrete ideas, not vague abstractions.

Reading this comment, one would never guess that Israel has treated Palestinians with brutal violence and injustice since 1948.

Note that MW will interview an official of the genocidal Iranian regime, while adamantly refusing to report from Israel.
I would also note that Hezbollah isn’t too popular among Palestinians.

You shouldn’t doubt it. Many of the Constitution’s expressions were “terms of art” derived from 18th-century law. Words and phrases that look ordinary and innocent, were intended to convey specialized meanings. Two illustrations are “necessary” in the Necessary and Proper Clause and “the freedom of speech” in the First Amendment. The 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st, because a Statute, an Executive Order, or the Judgement of a Court are not listed in Article V. The “Necessary and Proper clause” cannot be utilized to supersede the provisions of the 27 Amendments that were adopted later in time.

Article I Vesting Clause: Asserts that “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” The non-delegation doctrine explicitly reinforces that Congress cannot abdicate or transfer its fundamental, coercive lawmaking authority to the executive branch, administrative agencies, or private entities.

I was in charge of the Deployment Planning Section of the 3rd Combat Communications Group. We had no mission at home station, other than stay packed and ready to go. We averaged over a 1,000 deployments a year. I was a functional area manager for 3 active and 11 Air National Guard Groups in the Combat Communications-Electronics Directorate at HQ Tactical Air Command for many years. I always spent more time dealing with the Armed Services Sub-Committees than the DoD.

The “Define and Punish” Clause, Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 empowers Congress to “define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations.” Article I, Section 8, Clause 16 stipulates Congress is in the driver’s seat, and can’t delegate the job to the President.

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

See The 158th National Guard Fighter Wing deployed with their F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter jets Dec 13, 2025 to Caribbean for Operation Southern Spear. A year later they were still there and supporting Operation Southern Spear in Caribbean and the attack on Venezuela. See: Guard Units Contribute to Epic Fury

Re: Reading this article, one would never guess that it was Hezbollah that initiated the clashes with Israel

Nope. Trumpeldor was a member of the Zionist Mule Corps who was supposed to withdraw to the British OETA under the terms of the Versailles Armistice (MOU )Agreement tabled by Lloyd-George and Clemenceau. He was a Russian ,in the French OETA, who otherwise wasn’t eligible to immigrate to Palestine until Britain first formally granted Jews the legal right to immigrate and settle via the Palestine Order in Council on August 10, 1922.

He was AWOL, an illegal emigre and claim jumper. He was shot by the Shia inhabitants who owned the land he was trying to pillage between Hunin (located closest to the Tel Hai outpost, near modern-day Margaliot), Abil al-Qamh (near modern-day Kfar Yuval), Nabi Yusha, Qadas, Saliha, Malkiyeh, and Tarbikha. on March 1, 1920.

The British Mandate was just an unapproved draft when he was dead and buried, It was awarded on April 25, 1920, but only entered into force when the League of Nations approved it in1922. IMHO you shouldn’t fire weapons at Shia landowners when they show-up to evict you, while trespassing. Just go peaceably and live to fight another day.

“Reading this article, one would never guess that it was Hezbollah that initiated the clashes with Israel...”

Tell me when history starts.
Just give me a date.

“Hezbollah exists specifically for the avowed purpose of destroying Israel…”

Really! Tell me how and when Hezbollah started.

“Behind all of their quasi-academic sermonizing is a thirst for Israeli Jewish blood.”

My blood type is A positive, I hear that’s the tastiest one.

Part 1
Re: I am hardly the only person that has noticed the mendacity of higher Zionist propagandists in academia.

Yes, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”, It doesn’t matter whether the author is a Zionist or Anti-Zionist.

For example Behar claimed 1 in 5 persons in Spain are of Jewish decent because of forced religious conversion, and most were unaware of it. Those surveyed failed to report being Judean and did not recollect a family history of forced baptism and conversions, unlike their cousins the Zionists. See: Iberian Newborn DNA today remained largely unchanged for six centuries before Roman influence. University of Barcelona, Cell June 19, 2026. That and the Bronze Age to Roman era Levantine practitioners or other pagan religions suggests regular migration, assimilation of culture and language could be the best explanation.

Based on the three classic genetic studies (Current FTDNA compilation, Behar et al., and Penninx), approximately 46% to 50% of these 12 combined paternal lineages are considered Bronze Age Levantine (maximum) in origin See Y-DNA Frequencies in the Ashkenazi Population* Information on Y-DNA percentages on a cluster-by-cluster basis as determined through a 2022 analysis are posted here. That is inline with 50 percent Paternal DNA that is European (non-Levantine) according to Behar’s 2004 estimate before ancient DNA testing was possible. Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome variation in Ashkenazi Jewish and host non-Jewish European populations

I suspect very few people have noticed Steven Parker’s claim on Substack to date. Here is “A Tale of Two Steven Parkers”: The draft paper has not been published in an academic journal, such as MDPI’s Genes. The author included an MDPI disclaimer, but the draft only exists as a preprint. I requested the Wayback Machine add your URL to its Archive. Ashkenaziresearch.org did not exist before a few days ago on the 8th of May 2026. Both of the author’s two papers at Academia.edu are undated drafts, with zero followers. The same information is shown at Sciprofiles.com and PrePrints.org OTOH Stephen CJ Parker, PhD of the University of Michigan is Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Professor of Human Genetics, Medical School and Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health. He is very well published and cited in peer-reviewed literature, but doesn’t write about Jews.

Of course movements for self-determination or for equality are not identical. That doesn’t make the concept unworkable.

The more cameras the better…. as recent times attest.

Reading this article, one would never guess that it was Hezbollah that initiated the clashes with Israel, and that many Lebanese, including Shi’ite Muslims, are fed up with them; instead the author deceives his readers by writing about “Israel’s assault on Lebanon.” Hezbollah exists specifically for the avowed purpose of destroying Israel, and for that matter, so does the “Islamic Republic.” All of his pompous prattle about a new security architecture for the Middle East ignores and tries to distract the reader from the concrete state of insecurity in which the people of northern Israel live, thanks to Hezbollah, which no doubt would do to them what Hamas did to the people of the Gaza Envelope, if they could.

Of course, many if not most of MW’s commenters and contributors would salivate at such a prospect. Behind all of their quasi-academic sermonizing is a thirst for Israeli Jewish blood.

Hostage: “Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional.
He is correct.”

I doubt that.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 grants Congress the power: “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.” This shows that Congress is not limited to legislation explicitly spelled out in the Constitution, and that its laws are meant to implement and give effect to its enumerated powers rather than merely repeat them.

If the Constitution would not allow Congress to place any binding constraints on the President at all, it would not have granted Congress powers that directly limit executive action in practice, such as control over funding (Article I, Section 9), war powers (Article I, Section 8), and impeachment (Article I, Sections 2 and 3) in the first place.

The cited Supreme Court cases such as Marbury v. Madison and Perry v. United States establish only that statutes must comply with the Constitution and that the Constitution is the supreme law. They do not support the claim that legislation limiting executive military authority, is unconstitutional per se, nor that Congress is barred from enacting laws regulating or constraining executive power. Taken together, these sources rather highlight a system of checks and balances in which Congress and the President continuously constrain each other through funding, war powers, appointments, and legal regulation.

There’s nothing new under the sun. I was a fan of Aesop’s Fables bedtime stories and Rocky and Bullwinkle, long before I was old enough to be interested in reading Spinoza. If you were still a Zionist after all that experience, then all the supporting whole genome DNA evidence in the world won’t ever change your mind.

I never believed the legends in the Hebrew scriptures which said there were God-given commandments. The God represented there ordered Job’s children murdered. He ordered Israelites to murder their own people for picking up sticks. He ordered the complete replacement, by mass murder, of everyone else living in the land (including the men, women, children, and cattle). I don’t think that “God is love” or “thou shall not kill” precisely because he wasn’t and “the Bible told me so”. Yahweh sent the Angel of Death across Israel for three days, killing 70,000 people from Dan to Beersheba because David conducted a head count. Ananias and Sapphira were stuck dead because God changed more than a jot or tittle when the rule about offerings of one-tenth went up to 100 percent, without either Heaven or Earth passing away first.

I notice little things like fundamentalists mandating the 10 Commandments be placed on their kid’s classroom wall, while they are busy double-tapping people they want murdered in the Caribbean. All of their children will notice that. Some will grow up to be Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy anyway, others will not.

SPS1946: “The Golan Heights does not belong to Israel. Lebanon does not belong to Israel.”

Palestine doesn’t belong to a exclusively “Jewish” state.

brent “All of what I have theorized about has been designed to facilitate pressure on warriors for greater Israel…. and awaken public awareness.”

If your solution truly would be one person one vote, then it is not only incompatible with your “warriors for Greater Israel”, but with all Israeli Jewish position that seeks to maintain a Jewish state for a Jewish nation and a Jewish national character, which pressuposes a Jewish majority by all means.

“Israel has long engaged PR because it has been effective in characterizing Palestinian intentions… moulding public perceptions.”

If you look at polling and media coverage, the way Palestinians are talked about has become less central in many Western contexts, while there is more focus on Israeli atrocities. This shift seems less about organized pro Palestinian messaging and more about what people are actually seeing happening, and how that is being reported and framed after October 7.

“I see opportunity for Palestinians. You see burden.”

I see a Jewish state that would rather kill all Palestinians than risk becoming a state for all its citizens, with majority rule and minority rights regardless of faith or heritage. Therefor you see opportunies which would lead to the Palestinians ultimate expulsion or destruction.

brent: “Jews enjoyed a positive neighborly relationship in Palstine prior to the sejf-deception about it being a land without a people.”

Once again, you avoid engaging with the actual stated and evolving political positions of Palestinian representatives, because it is not compatible with your inherent claim, that the Palestinians endgame are not clearly communicated.

“Considered together, what does this all add up to?”

What it adds up to is that the only way out for Israel is to actually negotiate with Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinians, something it seems structurally incapable of doing – see Uri Ben-Eliezer’s “War Over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel’s Militaristic Nationalism”.
Do not believe that Israel’s technology is going to save it from another 20 years of a war of attrition in Lebanon, it’s only going to get worse:

Turkish volcanic spray-on coating claims major radar stealth boost for drones

Turkish volcanic spray-on coating claims major radar stealth boost for drones

[2] Re: You are ignoring a massive scientific breakthrough that I’ve already pointed out to you. It has fundamentally rewritten ancient history.

I am hardly the only person that has noticed the mendacity of higher Zionist propagandists in academia. Here is Steven Parker on Substack.

Ashkenazim cluster over Southern Italy on PCA and are very close on FST. This is autosomal DNA from both parents.

Nobody in 2026 can conclusively say who the ancient Khazarians were genetically, because the ancient Khazarian DNA data simply does not exist.

But we can say that Ashkenazim show massive genetic overlap in autosomal DNA with modern Southern Italians, and that this genetic continuity goes back to ancient Romans as well.

I discuss this in depth on my site:

ashkenaziresearch.org

These higher propagandists lie about the Levantine connection of Ashkenazim to imply

• that this connection is a cognizable defense to an accusation of genocide and

• that Palestinians were wrong to reject the theft of the Palestine Mandate from us Palestinians, who were and are the only legitimate beneficiaries of the Palestine Mandate.

Since 1881 the Zionists have been developing and evolving a specific malicious strategy (dolus specialis in the restrictive classic [not legal] Latin sense) of physical destruction of the Palestinian group. Genocide incitement against the Palestinian group is a Gesamtkunstwerk because it integrates many mendacious elements into a unified whole in order to assert that the Palestinian group has no place in stolen Palestine.

[1] Re: You are ignoring a massive scientific breakthrough that I’ve already pointed out to you. It has fundamentally rewritten ancient history.

Wow! David Reich Reich either purposefully or ignorantly overlooks elementary statistical population genetics that has been well known for over a century.

How long did Carthage exist?
Using the traditional foundation date:

• Founded: 814 BCE

• Destroyed: 146 BCE (when tremendous numbers of Carthaginians were enslaved and transported to Italy)

Carthage existed as an independent Phoenician-Punic state for approximately:
668 years

For comparison, Carthage existed for roughly as long as the period from the Norman Conquest of England (1066 CE) to the present day. That helps illustrate that Carthage was not a short-lived colony but a major civilization that endured for many centuries.

In 700 years suppose a colonist population incorporates 10% local genetics every generation, what will be the percentage of local genetics be at the end of the 700 year period?

Using the following assumptions:

• 700 years

• 25 years per generation

• 28 generations

• Each generation acquires 10% local ancestry

The calculation is:

1−(0.90)281 – (0.90)^{28}1−(0.90)281−0.05233≈0.947671 – 0.05233 \approx 0.947671−0.05233≈0.94767So after 28 generations, the population would be approximately:

• 94.8% local ancestry

• 5.2% original colonist ancestry

This illustrates how even a seemingly modest amount of admixture per generation accumulates rapidly over many generations. A population that incorporates 10% local ancestry every generation for 700 years becomes overwhelmingly local in genetic composition.

The same applies to the Greeks and Phoenicians/Cathaginians of Southern Italy/Magna Graeca and Sicily as they converted to Hellenistic Judaism and fused to become one population as Latin and Greek sources describe. Instead of pointing out that Ashkenazim have the genetics of this mixed population of Southern Italy, Hebrew University pseudoscientists, who engage in higher propaganda, assert mendaciously that Ashkenazim have half Italian/half Levantine ancestry. These higher propagandists imply that the Levantine ancestry is Judean even though Jewish sources tell us that Judeans, who departed Judea after 70 CE, almost invariably went to Mesopotamia/Babylonia.

I have more faith in Chris Hayes, but the rest on your list are a shameful embarrassment to what journalism used to stand for – speaking the truth to the powerful.

The ICC and the other International legal bodies need to finally act. Words do nothing to stop Israel’s warmongering brutality. Actions with severe consequences are the only path to ending the zionist extremism in the Middle East.

The Palestinian people are’t leaving their lands in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The American voter has had enough and wants to end America’s unconditional support for the Gaza Genocide and the ethnic cleansing – all perpetrated by Israel.
In addition, the occupied territories do not belong to Israel. The Golan Heights does not belong to Israel. Lebanon does not belong to Israel. And the Gaza gas reserves off the coast of Gaza do not belong to Israel.

See: OpinioJuris: A Forgotten Detail: The Right of Return was a Condition of the Establishment of the State of Israel: “The right of return for these refugees is engraved in the document which founded the state of Israel. A reading of the official records on the admittance of Israel as a member of the United Nations, demonstrates that the recognition of the Palestinian right of return was a condicio sine qua non (“a condition without which it could not be”) for the recognition of the state of Israel.” 

That is another detailed article. It’s major shortcoming is that the explanation skips over the terms in Chapter 4 of the legal instrument and Israel’s Declaration which actually made the condition legally enforceable in the ICJ, in the event of any dispute regarding the condicio sine qua non.

Note: any State party to the ICJ statute or the General Assembly can refer any dispute over interpretation of the terms to the Court for a mandatory judgment, in case the parties cannot agree. After 78 years, this case is ripe for a decision.. The States should file contentious cases. The General Assembly should have brought the compromissory clause in C. Declaration Chapter 4 to the Court’s attention in Advisory Opinions requesting an judgement on the legal consequences of Resolution 181(II). That is one of the “rare cases where it is expressly provided that Advisory Opinions shall have binding force 

Jews enjoyed a positive neighborly relationship in Palstine prior to the sejf-deception about it being a land without a people.

All of what I have theorized about has been designed to facilitate pressure on warriors for greater Israel…. and awaken public awareness.

Nothing interferes with pressuring abhorent policies or standing in the way thereof. Perhaps you have a theory for altering this long standing reality. Meantime the destruction of Syria, Libya, Iraq, Lebanon and possibly Iran.

Israel has long engaged PR because it has been effective in characterizing Palestinian intentions… moulding public perceptions.

I see opportunity for Palestinians. You see burden. I doubt I can shake your view or your interpretation of ideas I’ve advanced…”evety single person”…

Re: Trump has denounced the War Powers Resolution, claiming that Democrats “are fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and that the four Republicans who voted for it are “GRANDSTANDERS” who “should be ashamed of themselves.”

Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional.

He is correct. The SCOTUS ruled that once the People ratified the Constitution and Amendments that bound the government’s obligations. It could not be overridden by subsequent legislative or executive will. See Marbury v. Madison and Perry v. United States. The War Powers Act is flagrantly unconstitutional, because Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 stipulates: The Congress shall have Power . . . To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations for acts committed by Trump, Hegseth or Rubio. Not vice versa.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 doesn’t allow Congress to adopt a resolution that allows a veto or series of ceasefires to be employed to conduct forever wars without a Declaration of War. [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.

The People and the representatives they elected ratified a Constitution that doesn’t permit the President to act as Commander-in Chief without permission. It definitely does not allow a veto to be substituted for a congressional declaration, Article II  Section 2 Powers Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;

Trump and Hegseth can’t recall retired Article I branch Senators to active duty in Article II or III branch in order to court-martial them or reduce their pension. Any portion of the U.S. Code 10 UCMJ is blatantly unconstitutional if it contradicts Article 1, Section 6, Clause 2: No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, ,,, and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office. The 14th Amendment Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions … shall not be questioned.

Brent, talking to you is like having a discussion with a fortune cookie.

You don’t respond to points. I am responding here fully expecting it will just bounce off and you will reply with another imitation of a sugar- coated Zen koan.

What America has to do first and foremost is put pressure on Israel to stop killing people and stop stealing land and in general, stop acting like they have a license to commit atrocities with America’s help. This requires pressure. The civil rights movement dramatized the brutality of Jim Crow for whites ( humanist whites in your terms) who turned against it but what happened was that the rest of the country forced the South to end its apartheid system. The pressure comes first. Then, after the South was forced to change, some individuals changed.

We don’t need a universally agreed- upon solution to achieve this first step of ending Israel’s genocidal behavior, which is a good thing because there is no consensus on the endpoint. With most Western politicians and diplomats the assumption is that it will be a 2ss, but not everyone agrees, I don’t know what most Palestinians want. They may not feel like they want to live side by side with the people who have been murdering them. There is no doubt plenty of hatred on both sides, no matter who one sympathizes with more.

We don’t need not need to get every single person agreed on the form of the solution before putting pressure on Israel to stop killing, starving, and torturing Palestinians. We aren’t going to get people gathered around a campfire singing songs. Maybe someday. Not now. You refuse to get this.

I said this before and will say it one more time though I fully expect you will ignore it— your stance is functionally identical to the position of pseudo- liberal Zionists who claim to want a solution but put all the burden of achieving it on Palestinians. They had to agree to be pacifists first and to reassure Zionists first and they all had to unite in this and only then would Israel be expected to change.

Pressure first. The majority of Americans, having become aware of just how badly Israel behaves, would be more than willing to exert pressure, And at least some politicians get this.

Re The Big Picture:

The region’s power brokers aren’t talking much about the Palestinians these days. Israel continues to restrict aid and keep up a patter of violence in a bomb-chewed and immiserated Gaza Strip, and Palestinians in the West Bank are still suffering daily repression at the hands of settlers and soldiers. But make no mistake: The unanswered demand for Palestinian sovereignty sits at the heart of all the regional upheaval, unacknowledged though it may be.

Opinion | An Aggressive Israel Is Shaking the Middle East – The New York Times

Israel is a democracy. Initially, its most moral army in the world denied that Adam Hamawy was even a doctor! But when public pressure even outside of Israel became too high, it had no choice but to investigate his case and then, finally, after much of the self-self-scrutiny for which it has become famous, justice prevailed. It demoted and IDF officer, showed greatness, offered a sincere apology, and admitted that it was a terrible, terrible, human mistake to let him leave Gaza alive.

Part of the definition of genocide is the deliberate attempt to make life impossible for a particular group of people. From September of last year:

This summer, Israeli bulldozers rolled through the West Bank city of Hebron with ruthless efficiency, targeting not soldiers or weapons caches, but something deeply vulnerable: Palestine’s only surviving national seed bank….Within hours of the bulldozers’ arrival on July 31, 2025, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees’ seed multiplication facility lay in ruins – its propagation materials scattered, its infrastructure demolished, and with it, generations of Palestinian agricultural heritage reduced to rubble...What happened in Hebron fits the legal definition of ecocide — the deliberate destruction of ecosystems to undermine human survival. The Union of Agricultural Work Committees condemned this attack as “an act of erasure intended to sever the generational ties between farmers and their land.”

Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage | Truthout

brent: “Think civil rights movement.”

Another phrase with no causal explanation, once again ignoring the political and material reality of the endgame of Zionism and any counter-argument that has been presented to you. In this case, I have explained to you many times why the case of Israel is neither comparable to the US nor the SA case. Do you have any access to this memory?

bent: “Setting your opinion on Israeli humanists aside, what about the needed PR work waiting to be done, to move Americans beyond revulsion of the barbarity, to becoming an ally on a political solution… ultimate pressure.”

Is this a teaser? Nooo, it can’t be. Or can it? Oh my Lord, could this be …? I mean … is this a cliffhanger for the second season? It really looks like a teaser for another brent new second season in the ongoing alternative-history serial drama now titled: “Setting Israeli humanist aside. If only Americans knew whether Palestinians want coexistence and equal rights under Jewish control, they would make them stop terrorizing, dispossessing, disenfranchising, denationalizing, ethnically cleansing, and committing genocide against Palestiniasn in order to expand their ‘Jews only’ state and maintain a Jewish majority, which has never been their endgame since the Balfour Declaration and only caused by Jewish Angst claiming to be the victims of the victims (of Zionist supremacy) of the victims (of Nazism supremacy)””

Here we go again. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve told you that there is no comparison with the [US] civil rights movement (I assume, since you’ve never denied it, that that is the movement to refer to). Did the US government deploy the Army to shoot protesters? Did it bomb African-American areas in US cities? Did it send white settlers to drive native Americans from their homes? (OK, it did that, but 150 years ago.)

Speak the “truth” rather than uttering endless the hasbara fiction.
You constantly speak with a “forked tongue,” as the American Indian would say to the white man.

Brent: “There is PR work waiting to be done to bridge with American and Israeli humanists.”

Thank God! A brent new episode in your ongoing alternative-history serial drama titled: “If only Jews knew whether Palestinians want coexistence and equal rights under Jewish control, they would stop terrorizing, dispossessing, disenfranchising, denationalizing, ethnically cleansing, and committing genocide against them in order to expand their ‘Jews only’ state and maintain a Jewish majority, which has never been their endgame since the Balfour Declaration and only caused by Jewish Angst claming to be the victims of the victims (of Zionist supremacy) of the victims (of Nazism supremacy)”

Oh, sorry, I misread your comment. You actually want to expose Israeli intentiones, endgame and crimes against humanity even more than you allready do, right?

Triple-Bingo!!!

Think civil rights movement.

This is an incredible, well warranted win! Dr. Hamawy is an honorable humanitarian!

Qassam “Sam Abu Haikal was seven months old. On Friday night, Israeli soldiers opened fire on his family’s car in Hebron. He was pulled out of it dead.
The family lives in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron’s old city, an area surrounded by Israeli soldiers, checkpoints, and settler outposts, and where Palestinians live under constant harassment and restrictions to their movement.”

Another brutal and heartbreaking real life story based on facts. What most of us are so clearly aware of is that Palestinian’s lives are not as valuable as Israeli Jews lives to Israel to the U.S. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced, had homes, land stolen, olive trees destroyed, humiliated daily, illegally imprisoned for years, maimed, killed in the thousands by Israel. Israel’s military, and illegal land thieves have killed, killed with barbaric regularity. Yes, Oct 7 was also barbaric, however, Israel decades long record of heinous killings of Palstinians.

What anyone else paying attention knows multi millionaire media host like Rachel Maddow, Nicole Wallace, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, Kristen Welker, Joe Scarborough, Chris Hayes, Ari Melber will not be reporting about this tragedy.

If Sam Abu Haikai and his family were Jewish the tragedy would be reported about by,Scarborough, Maddow etc.

Re: My conclusion is completely consistent with the data of The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant even though the text of this paper is sneaky propaganda that alleges Rabbinic Jews have an ancestral connection to Greco-Roman Judea despite the complete lack of evidence for such a connection.

Nope. In 2016, before the 2025/2026 Bronze Age studies on Philistines and Carthaginians, the oldest ancient remains from Carthage to be DNA tested dated back to the late 6th century B.C.E. (approximately 2,500 years ago). They belonged to an elite Phoenician individual known as the “Young Man of Byrsa” (or Ariche) with Iberian MtDNA. This individual’s remains were originally discovered in 1994 in a Punic burial crypt on Byrsa Hill, the ancient citadel of Carthage in modern-day Tunisia. See: Popular Archeology– University of Otago Ancient DNA study finds Phoenician from Carthage had European ancestry: A 2500-year-old Phoenician shows ancient ancestry on the Iberian Peninsula. Like the Bronze Age Philistines scientific study published in Nature revealed, his ancient Carthaginian DNA was genetically closer to Greeks and Sicilians than to their Levantine founders.

I get it, you don’t like the idea we might share the same ancestors as the Canaanites and the uninvited distant shirttail genocidal Ashkenazi relatives from Europe. But the report is not just a hairbrained Zionist-inspired conspiracy to support birthright citizenship in Eretz Canaan, in any case. It doesn’t suffer from the shortcomings you claim, and the teams working on these studies are still conducting more investigation of the DNA from the Bronze Age to the present to fill in the existing gaps. There always are discoveries that rewrite history, including these recent conclusions. Some of them will inevitably be overturned.

My Congresswoman, the Democratic WHIP, again displays her usual cowardice. Her district is one of the most Progressive in the United States, yet she continues to ignore the pleas from those voters to end the unconditional support for the warmongering state of Israel.

Re: Nahum Slouschz developed a Phoenecian origin hypothesis. 

Even when he published “Travels in North Africa”, his theory contradicted the known facts discovered by 19th century archeological inscriptions, and their linguistics. The Judeans spoke and wrote Targums in Aramaic during the Maccabean era. 

The ancient DNA study confirms that the traditional idea of “colonization”—where a vast population of invaders physically relocates and displaces or heavily outnumbers the indigenous inhabitants—did not happen in Carthage, its sister settlements, or Gaza. Instead, the history of Ashkelon and Carthage is a story of profound cultural assimilation and integration of Canaanite culture, religion, and language.

FYI, the people of Canaan gave the people their alphabet and their language. Aramaic and Hebrew are roughly the same age, as both emerged as distinct spoken and written languages in the Levant during the late 2nd millennium BCE (around 1200–1100 BCE). Slouschz was simply wrong (page 227-228) when he claimed “so-called Phoenician language is nothing more nor less than Hebrew—a pure Hebrew dialect, nearly the same as was spoken in the country of Israel in the days before the Aramaic, and before the Masora came to fix its orthographic rules artificially.” Science has also shown he was incorrect. When he claimed: Thus language and script show us that this Phoenician is for us Hebraists nothing but Hebrew. The population of Carthage was Palestinian in origin and Hebraic in civilization, and if, instead of succumbing, the city of Hannibal had triumphed over Rome, it is probable—nay, almost certain—that Hebrew, and not Latin, would have become the dominant language of the Mediterranean countries. He was wrong about child sacrifice: “And yet, after all, can we be sure that all the Carthaginians worshipped Moloch, Saturn, Baal-Chronos, or Melkart, the gods of human sacrifice?” They actually had typical infant mortality rates and merely practiced cremation.

Linguistically, neither Hebrew or Aramean is “older” than the other; they developed concurrently as sister branches of the Northwest Semitic Canaanite language family. Hebrew didn’t even develop a large vocabulary. Tzedek the root for righteousness is the same Canaanite god Zedek who ruled Jerusalem when Joshua and the Israelites supposedly utterly destroyed the Canaanites, leaving no survivors. The line of King David’s High Priest Zadok comes from the same Canaanite root.

Given his sense of humor, I’m pretty sure someone with the surname “Gold” would also appreciate jokes from certain German deniers of atrocities against Jews.

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Re: Hostage ignores the big elephants in the room. Canaanites/Phoenicians were planting colonies (with a Canaanite genetic signal) around the Mediterranean in Europe and N. Africa since ~1100 BCE

Not guilty. 1200 BCE era remains of Canaanite, Philistine, and Carthaginian populations show assimilation, not colonization. Zionists do not support exclusive birthright claims to “The Land of Israel” with test results that establish 55 percent of their DNA is Canaanite. Full Stop.

The lead geneticist of the study has said as much: “David Reich (Harvard University) has frequently spoken about how genetic science disrupts political and nationalist mythologies globally. In public lectures and interviews, Reich routinely cautions that “people’s stories about their history are almost always wrong” and that ancient DNA reveals that pure, unmixed ancestral homelands do not exist. See: Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no, Harvard Gazette. Geneticist explains analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement

The lead authors cited 65 other scholarly and scientific papers with lengthy inline analyses about misuse of mythology that you falsely claimed weren’t even discussed. See: Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines, Sci. Adv. 2019; Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences, Am. J. Hum. Genet. 2017; Genetic origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Nature. 2017; 548:214-218, Lemche, The Canaanites and their land : the tradition of the Canaanites, JSOT Press; The Canaanites and Their Land Ugarit-Forschungen. 1994; 26:397-418; The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press, 2010

You are ignoring a massive scientific breakthrough that I’ve already pointed out to you. It has fundamentally rewritten ancient history. Ancient Mediterranean DNA confirms old truths: People contain multitudes, Brown University, By Jill Kimball and “Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors”, Nature, David Reich. et.al.

A landmark genetic study published in the journal Nature led by David Reich at Harvard University directly disproved the old historical assumption that Carthaginians were genetically Levantine (Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon).

brent: “Sharing the land is the only workable future.”

Another phrase with no causal explanation, once again ignoring political and material reality of the endgame of Zionisn and any counter argument that has been presented to you.

Why would “sharing the land” be a “workable” future, when Zionism has been working against it from the get go and it would not compatible with their expanding work called a “Jewish state” with a Jewish majority and the fact that Jews in the land of Palestine are a minority.

“As Palestinian intentions become clearer, more Americans and Israelis will challenge their zealots.”

Another phrase with no causal explanation, once again ignoring political and material reality and blaming the Palestinians for the “one person, one vote” solution, although the intentions of the Zionists have been very clear from the get-go and have always been incompatible with it.

And what is unclear about the existence of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, and the two-state-solution having been constantly reaffirmed? February 2025: “PLO official reiterates leadership’s firm position that the two-state solution guarantees security and peace.”
https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/154329

How could American and Israelis challenge the existence of Israel as a “Jewish state” which is are not only the intentions of their “zealots”?

Your whole collection of assumptions (not arguments) are nothing more than just another episode in your ongoing alternative-history serial drama titled: “If only Jews knew whether Palestinians want coexistence and equal rights under Jewish control, they would stop terrorizing, dispossessing, disenfranchising, denationalizing, ethnically cleansing, and committing genocide against them in order to expand their ‘Jews only’ state and maintain a Jewish majority, which has never been their endgame since the Balfour Declaration and only caused by Jewish Angst allegedly being the victims of the victims (of Zionist supremacy) of the victims (of Nazism supremacy)”

Setting your opinion on Israeli humanists aside, what about the needed PR work waiting to be done, to move Americans beyond revulsion of the barbarity, to becoming an ally on a political solution… ultimate pressure.

The film “Planet Israel” is now coming out in theaters in Britain. Here’s the trailer:

https://planetisrael.co.uk/

“After October 7th the world was shocked and sympathetic following the Hamas attacks in Israel. Within a few short months most of this sympathy had gone as the world recoiled in horror at the brutality of the Israeli response to these attacks, while few Israeli Jews seem to have noticed anything untoward. As a British/American Jew, Gillian Mosely wanted to know what has happened to make any Jews, a people who have experienced oppression, othering, and genocide, exhibit such moral and humanitarian numbness. More widely, how does the moral disengagement that allows atrocities the world over, happen? Gillian thought she was making a film about trauma. But the reality turned out to be so much darker than she’d imagined as the mechanisms behind our disintegrating democracies and international laws are exposed.”

Hopefully it will be released in the U.S. soon. Also see:

https://www.wrmea.org/music-and-arts/planet-israel-how-trauma-politics-and-narrative-shape-a-nation.html

Set almost a year after Oct. 7, 2023, this feature-length documentary uses interviews, artificial intelligence animation and archival footage to explore how Israeli society, so steeped in its own individual and collective trauma, justifies such violent attacks on Gaza carried out in its name.

“The click of handcuffs”, guns, drones, solitary rooms’ door locks, keyboards in hands of paid analysts and intellectuals etc etc are all, these days, meant to control how citizens think. May the clicks of your handcuffs produce results for you and your fellow citizens and the world. They must.

Just to clarify, the hate speech law in effect under the EU Framework Decision on Xenophobia actually says “Sexual violence and human suffering shall s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ never be mocked or minimized.

I’m pretty certain Israeli’s are aware of the fact their country is charged with genocide in a current case before the ICJ and with extermination and persecution in the ICC. That and “publicly condoning, denying or trivializing rape” actually is a pretty big deal: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) made history in the 1998 Prosecutor v. Jean-Paul Akayesu case. It became the first international tribunal to classify rape and sexual violence as instruments of genocide and crimes against humanity, specifically recognizing rape as a weapon of war.

P.S. Maybe we’re related. I’ve been busy and meant to comment that CeCe Moore of “Finding Your Roots” and FtDNA show that Henry Louis Gates, Sr, (the father of Educator Henry Louis Gates Jr,) and I share matching maternal DNA. His line runs through a slave Hannah, b.1813 in VA, wife of Daniel Duke, Hardy Co. Globally the rate of MtDNA matches is much less than one percent. The exceptions are 9.1 percent of persons tested in Zimbabwe, 2.7 in Macedonia, 1 percent in Croatia, and 0.9 percent in the Netherlands.

Anyone can plug-in the names, dates, and birthplace info of their Father and Mother at Family Search. They have a tool My Famous Relatives that looks up your ancestors and shows a diagram of that person’s family connection to your tree from the records collected by the LDS Church. Several of mine have black ancestry too: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is my 11th Cousin; Emperor D. Pedro I do Brasil, IV de Portugal (1798–1834) is my 11th cousin twice removed; and Emperor D. Pedro II de Alcântara do Brasil (1825–1891).

RE: Ethiopian Jews were the only group that didn’t have over 50 percent Canaanite DNA, not the Ashkenazi. 

Hostage ignores the big elephants in the room.

• Canaanites/Phoenicians were planting colonies (with a Canaanite genetic signal) around the Mediterranean in Europe and N. Africa since ~1100 BCE long before the Roman Expulsion that never happened and long before the late 4th-early 3rd century BCE when the Ptolemaic Kingdom transferred some polytheist Yahwist Judeans and Samarians to Alexandria in Egypt.

• The authors of  The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant are more committed to Zionism than to science and are desperate to demonstrate that Rabbinic Jews are descendants of Greco-Roman Judeans even though Greco-Roman Judeans are ancestors of us Palestinians and not of Rabbinic Jews.

• Nahum Slouschz like many others was trying to understand the origin of Western Rabbinic Jews when there is no evidence whatsoever of emigration of Greco-Roman Judeans to the Roman West. Nahum Slouschz developed a Phoenecian origin hypothesis. He went a little too far in his ideas and focused too much on N. Africa. Yet Slouschz was fundamentally correct, and his analysis is consistent with the data that The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant presents.

• Sometimes, an analyst must apply Occam’s Razor. Claiming that the Ashkenazi Matriarchs have South Italian/Magna Graecian or Sicilian origin while Ashkenazi Patriarchs have Levantine origin is ridiculous because during the Greco-Roman period South Italy and Sicily hosted Greek and Phoenician/Carthaginian towns or communities just like the Levant. Sicily hosted an Egyptian colony. Large conversion of Greco-Roman South Italians and Sicilians to Biblical Judaism completely explains the genetic similarity of Ashkenazim and South Italians even though Zionist propagandists are desperate to imply that Ashkenazim have Judean origin when Ashkenazim and Rabbinic Jewish communities of the Roman West don’t demonstrably have such ancestry.

My conclusion is completely consistent with the data of The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant even though the text of this paper is sneaky propaganda that alleges Rabbinic Jews have an ancestral connection to Greco-Roman Judea despite the complete lack of evidence for such a connection.

Israeli humanists to the extent they exist, are already on the side of the Palestinians. Americans are starting to see just how badly Israel behaves— some still think this is a recent development.

What we need is pressure on Israel, something you seem to oppose.