I pray that Biden does not eff this up. I am hopeful that a two-state solution is still viable in some people's minds. Probably because they are sickened at Israel's treatment of Gaza.
Certainly the US university student protests have introduced a new attitude, a welcome attitude. And .embarrased the university leadership who called the cops to deal with the protest. I keep reminding people of Kent State - "four dead in Ohio". Personally, I am grateful to the students for their protest. Somebody has to protest!!
There are TWO Realities: Dejure & Defacto. Just as the Constitution is ink on parchment, so is All of this NWO WHO rules/ proceedures. ALL just ink on paper with No INHERENT Force for either. Dejure is a Created Illusion that then USES Force to become Defacto.
Force Is the Enforcement of One Viewpoint on Another Viewpoint, typical of Our Demoncrazy.
A Republic as laid down by Constitutional Guarantees of Individual Liberties is meant to limit Deranged Demoncrazy.
BUT, The CHOICES are Brought into Reality by either Understanding Agreement on Basic Laws or Enforcement of One Tyrannical View.
At this point, Resistance to Tyranny may Require Force to Defend Liberty as laid out in a Republic.
A Restoration of a Republic would Guarantee the Indivuadals' Liberty as laid out in the Bill of Rights.
Everyone Wins, but the Tyrants.
How do you Identify the Tyrants??? They will Not Allow your Individual Liberty to live your own life within the Guarantees of Liberty.
Do Not Comply, Conduct Yourselves Accordingly*, and "Si vis pacem, para bellum" is the Essence of that 2nd Right in the Bill of Rights. Exersize It or Lose It. Same for the 1st Right to Speak Freely that relies on the 2nd. ..............Dejure/Defacto Your Choices in 2024 , Decides the Parameters of 2025 which "Rhymes" with 1775, imo. CYA*
All Well & Good, for "Afterwards" if there is a Re-Establishment. This Current USSA Is Going to Collapse. It matters not "What" I want or desire; It Just Is ...... as Was when these words were written in the Declaration of 1776 ...... "in the course of human events" .....
So Let's get Pre-pared while some weeks and a few months may remain to do so.
Israel is founded on the basis of a "two state solution." The UN General Assembly's Resolution 181 called for two states, a new Jewish state and a new Arab state for the Palestinians. UN officials never asked the Arab polities in the region or the Palestinians themselves if they agreed to such a partition which was forced on them without their consent. Because the Arab state has not been created to this day, you have the phenomena of stateless third-generation Palestinian "refugees" jailed in Gaza and being ethnically eliminated in the West Bank. The "two state" solution is only viable if the illegal settlements in the West Bank are eliminated. The Israelis viewed the Oslo Accord on 1993 as giving a green light to expand the murderous populations of the Jewish settlements.
Without some recking with the need to displace Jewish settlers from their illegal settlements, any discussion of a "two state solution" is simply political posturing. All Netanyahu's rhetoric about finishing off the job of eradicating Hamas in Rafah is simply a cover for creating the conditions to push out the Gazan survivors. If the Gazan survivors are forced to run for their lives away from the slaughter they are facing, the international community must intervene to make it clear that the ejected population can return to their ancestral lands.
Has the time come to outlaw Zionism as something like a terrorist operation. The "terrorist" word has been so abused and misused since 9/11, that we'd have to come up with a new term. But the genocidal excesses of Zionism may well spread to the USA itself if the crackdown we are now seeing on peaceful protestors is extended. The violent character of Zionism needs to be addressed by humanity maybe in some agency other than the failed United Nations.
Thank You, Professor Hall. We have not yet seen the implications of the Iranian strikes with ballistic missiles play out, let alone whatever it was that happened with the Israeli counter-response, shrouded in rumor of Russian-adulthood taking a preventive hand, and Iranian denial of being stricken...
Something different IS brewing this time. The hubris met and exceeded critical mass, but the machinations are hidden. Turkey is cutting off trade with "Israel". That is actually huge. Israel means to seriously attack Lebanon. Lebanon has hypersonic anti-ship missiles to deny Israel shipping to Haifa.
Israel's weakest point is that it relies over 90% on imports, and many Jewish Israelis can fly somewhere else if things get bad.
I agree with the long-term impossibility of a stable 2-state-solution, but it is the right intermediate move in the next few years, coupled with the Palestinian right-of-return to family property, and with UN enforcement of that.
The US is the bully in the UN, but the little kids on the playground no longer live in terror. They are biding their time and moving cautiously.
The UN can do better if the US (post-dollar-hegemony) will stop bullying.
Thanks John. The politics of Lebanon-Hezbollah relations are complex and delicate. Hezbollah is deeply intertwined with Iran but Lebanon is not. There are many factions in Lebanon who aren't comfortable at all with Hezbollah's role in the country and internationally. Still, there probably would be no Lebanon now if it wasn't for Hezbollah's defensive orientation to Israel. Hezbollah is something of a unique polity in the world with a brilliant military strategist for a leader, Hassan Nezrallah.
Hezbollah seems to me to be the principled, yet unofficial government of Lebanon.
My understanding of the official government and military of Lebanon is that they have been captured by the empire through bribery, but that is just my longstanding impression.
Factionalism has destroyed "The Riviera of the Mideast" since about 1978, I think. ;-(
Islamic Radicals Purged the Lebanese Christians is "What" Happened.
There are No or little other Ideas permitted in Islamic countries under Sharia Law. Lebanon was the Jewel of the Mediterranian, "multicultural" could not be Tolerated, and any tolerance for "Others" had to be eliminated.
Hezbollah has a political wing that is well represented in the Lebanese government, which is indeed notoriously corrupt. Lebanon also has a very unusual constitution inherited from France so a fairly wide array of ethnic and religious groups get apportioned representation in the legislature. Its a fragile structure. To my way of thinking is important not to equate Lebanon and Hezbollah whose co-existence involves an elaborate and esoteric diplomatic dance.
First rule of 'reconstruction of Gaza' has to be that no Israeli-UK-US organisations can benefit a single penny as those three nations, more than any other, promoted and abetted the genocide and infrastructural destruction.
The Arab world should rebuild Gaza for Palestinians and Israel and the USA can pay for it.
It's the only way to break the cycle of war: make every war an unbearable cash drain on Israel and the USA.
Every time that the US warmongers bomb somewhere, the US construction companies get paid to rebuild. That's a double helping of corruption right there. The war industries get massive new contracts, so do the builders. Make sure that neither get a single dime as a result of the next foreign war the USA aids and abetts.
Secondly, all the gas belongs to the Palestinians, not to the USA nor the Israelis. The land all belongs to the Palestinians, never to the Israelis. Any port built in Gaza must serve Palestinian interests, not the interests of Israelis and US criminals. And the economic benefits of reconstruction must go to friends and allies of the Palestinians, not to the genocidal animalos that wreaked genocide upon them.
It's all so terribly simple when implacable consequences of natural justice are demanded.....
What about the no state solution? No Israel but a disarmed land not a nation sacred to three large populations. No government overall but each "Canton" if you wish, as Administrative region exists to keep peace and to promote friendliness among Abrahamic faiths. That England as Empire lacked even a category of friendliness by 1945 does remind me of Israel coming about by sustained expensive terror. Hah, and here we are.
I think not. Pitting ethnic group against ethnic group is not unique. What seems unique more or less after 1965 is the ability of a Jewish state to do so with US government money.
The Jewish state is deeply opposed to multiculturalism for itself. Israel First Zionists, however, found lots of ways of sabotaging our Western nationalities with massive immigration from hard to assimilate sources. In other word, multiculturalism for thee but not for me. Moderate , monitored and regulated multiculturalism has a place but what we are seeing now, especially at the US Southern border, is full-fledge assault on our polities by ruthless people with ruthless aims.
If a two state solution is enough to satisfy HAMAS and the Palestinians it’s good enough for me, however,,,,
Anyway on the subject of Boeing and it’s failing business generally, add to that Lockheed Martins F35 ‘paperweight’,,,whoever runs America might consider making things that people want to buy (rather than being forced or bribed) is the way forward, ie the way things were before the financial community completely took over the country. America used to be a world leader in quality control and i know from experience that clients internationally were prepared to pay for that. Before the dollar becomes worthless it would seem essential to me, unless 99% tax is appeals? I read the other day that China is now building perfectly decent passenger aircraft for half the price that Boeing does, Russia also and they have vast expertise in aviation.
I pray that Biden does not eff this up. I am hopeful that a two-state solution is still viable in some people's minds. Probably because they are sickened at Israel's treatment of Gaza.
Certainly the US university student protests have introduced a new attitude, a welcome attitude. And .embarrased the university leadership who called the cops to deal with the protest. I keep reminding people of Kent State - "four dead in Ohio". Personally, I am grateful to the students for their protest. Somebody has to protest!!
Thank You, Susan.
;-(
There are TWO Realities: Dejure & Defacto. Just as the Constitution is ink on parchment, so is All of this NWO WHO rules/ proceedures. ALL just ink on paper with No INHERENT Force for either. Dejure is a Created Illusion that then USES Force to become Defacto.
Force Is the Enforcement of One Viewpoint on Another Viewpoint, typical of Our Demoncrazy.
A Republic as laid down by Constitutional Guarantees of Individual Liberties is meant to limit Deranged Demoncrazy.
BUT, The CHOICES are Brought into Reality by either Understanding Agreement on Basic Laws or Enforcement of One Tyrannical View.
At this point, Resistance to Tyranny may Require Force to Defend Liberty as laid out in a Republic.
A Restoration of a Republic would Guarantee the Indivuadals' Liberty as laid out in the Bill of Rights.
Everyone Wins, but the Tyrants.
How do you Identify the Tyrants??? They will Not Allow your Individual Liberty to live your own life within the Guarantees of Liberty.
Do Not Comply, Conduct Yourselves Accordingly*, and "Si vis pacem, para bellum" is the Essence of that 2nd Right in the Bill of Rights. Exersize It or Lose It. Same for the 1st Right to Speak Freely that relies on the 2nd. ..............Dejure/Defacto Your Choices in 2024 , Decides the Parameters of 2025 which "Rhymes" with 1775, imo. CYA*
All Well & Good, for "Afterwards" if there is a Re-Establishment. This Current USSA Is Going to Collapse. It matters not "What" I want or desire; It Just Is ...... as Was when these words were written in the Declaration of 1776 ...... "in the course of human events" .....
So Let's get Pre-pared while some weeks and a few months may remain to do so.
Semper Fi, Do or Die is upon us. I wish you well.
Israel is founded on the basis of a "two state solution." The UN General Assembly's Resolution 181 called for two states, a new Jewish state and a new Arab state for the Palestinians. UN officials never asked the Arab polities in the region or the Palestinians themselves if they agreed to such a partition which was forced on them without their consent. Because the Arab state has not been created to this day, you have the phenomena of stateless third-generation Palestinian "refugees" jailed in Gaza and being ethnically eliminated in the West Bank. The "two state" solution is only viable if the illegal settlements in the West Bank are eliminated. The Israelis viewed the Oslo Accord on 1993 as giving a green light to expand the murderous populations of the Jewish settlements.
Without some recking with the need to displace Jewish settlers from their illegal settlements, any discussion of a "two state solution" is simply political posturing. All Netanyahu's rhetoric about finishing off the job of eradicating Hamas in Rafah is simply a cover for creating the conditions to push out the Gazan survivors. If the Gazan survivors are forced to run for their lives away from the slaughter they are facing, the international community must intervene to make it clear that the ejected population can return to their ancestral lands.
Has the time come to outlaw Zionism as something like a terrorist operation. The "terrorist" word has been so abused and misused since 9/11, that we'd have to come up with a new term. But the genocidal excesses of Zionism may well spread to the USA itself if the crackdown we are now seeing on peaceful protestors is extended. The violent character of Zionism needs to be addressed by humanity maybe in some agency other than the failed United Nations.
Thank You, Professor Hall. We have not yet seen the implications of the Iranian strikes with ballistic missiles play out, let alone whatever it was that happened with the Israeli counter-response, shrouded in rumor of Russian-adulthood taking a preventive hand, and Iranian denial of being stricken...
Something different IS brewing this time. The hubris met and exceeded critical mass, but the machinations are hidden. Turkey is cutting off trade with "Israel". That is actually huge. Israel means to seriously attack Lebanon. Lebanon has hypersonic anti-ship missiles to deny Israel shipping to Haifa.
Israel's weakest point is that it relies over 90% on imports, and many Jewish Israelis can fly somewhere else if things get bad.
I agree with the long-term impossibility of a stable 2-state-solution, but it is the right intermediate move in the next few years, coupled with the Palestinian right-of-return to family property, and with UN enforcement of that.
The US is the bully in the UN, but the little kids on the playground no longer live in terror. They are biding their time and moving cautiously.
The UN can do better if the US (post-dollar-hegemony) will stop bullying.
Nice overview Dr. Day..
You write, "Lebanon has hypersonic anti-ship missiles to deny Israel shipping to Haifa."
I'd be surprised if that is true. Hezbollah in Iran has high-tech weaponry like the example you give.
I mean "Hezbollah" when I say "Lebanon".
"Two sources in Lebanon familiar with the Iran-backed group's arsenal say he was referring to Hezbollah's greatly enhanced anti-ship missile capabilities, including the Russian-made Yakhont missile with a range of 300 km (186 miles)." https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollahs-anti-ship-missiles-bolster-its-threat-us-navy-2023-11-08/
Noor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_(missile)
Thanks John. The politics of Lebanon-Hezbollah relations are complex and delicate. Hezbollah is deeply intertwined with Iran but Lebanon is not. There are many factions in Lebanon who aren't comfortable at all with Hezbollah's role in the country and internationally. Still, there probably would be no Lebanon now if it wasn't for Hezbollah's defensive orientation to Israel. Hezbollah is something of a unique polity in the world with a brilliant military strategist for a leader, Hassan Nezrallah.
Hezbollah seems to me to be the principled, yet unofficial government of Lebanon.
My understanding of the official government and military of Lebanon is that they have been captured by the empire through bribery, but that is just my longstanding impression.
Factionalism has destroyed "The Riviera of the Mideast" since about 1978, I think. ;-(
Who benefits?
Islamic Radicals Purged the Lebanese Christians is "What" Happened.
There are No or little other Ideas permitted in Islamic countries under Sharia Law. Lebanon was the Jewel of the Mediterranian, "multicultural" could not be Tolerated, and any tolerance for "Others" had to be eliminated.
Hezbollah has a political wing that is well represented in the Lebanese government, which is indeed notoriously corrupt. Lebanon also has a very unusual constitution inherited from France so a fairly wide array of ethnic and religious groups get apportioned representation in the legislature. Its a fragile structure. To my way of thinking is important not to equate Lebanon and Hezbollah whose co-existence involves an elaborate and esoteric diplomatic dance.
First rule of 'reconstruction of Gaza' has to be that no Israeli-UK-US organisations can benefit a single penny as those three nations, more than any other, promoted and abetted the genocide and infrastructural destruction.
The Arab world should rebuild Gaza for Palestinians and Israel and the USA can pay for it.
It's the only way to break the cycle of war: make every war an unbearable cash drain on Israel and the USA.
Every time that the US warmongers bomb somewhere, the US construction companies get paid to rebuild. That's a double helping of corruption right there. The war industries get massive new contracts, so do the builders. Make sure that neither get a single dime as a result of the next foreign war the USA aids and abetts.
Secondly, all the gas belongs to the Palestinians, not to the USA nor the Israelis. The land all belongs to the Palestinians, never to the Israelis. Any port built in Gaza must serve Palestinian interests, not the interests of Israelis and US criminals. And the economic benefits of reconstruction must go to friends and allies of the Palestinians, not to the genocidal animalos that wreaked genocide upon them.
It's all so terribly simple when implacable consequences of natural justice are demanded.....
There is a lot of natural gas off the coast which can pay for rebuilding.
Some of it is off the coast of Gaza. The Zionists see it ALL as theirs, including Lebanon's share.
They have hubris.
They might not get it all...
What about the no state solution? No Israel but a disarmed land not a nation sacred to three large populations. No government overall but each "Canton" if you wish, as Administrative region exists to keep peace and to promote friendliness among Abrahamic faiths. That England as Empire lacked even a category of friendliness by 1945 does remind me of Israel coming about by sustained expensive terror. Hah, and here we are.
How about a big multicultural freeforeall like the Zionists have been pushing on us?
I think not. Pitting ethnic group against ethnic group is not unique. What seems unique more or less after 1965 is the ability of a Jewish state to do so with US government money.
The Jewish state is deeply opposed to multiculturalism for itself. Israel First Zionists, however, found lots of ways of sabotaging our Western nationalities with massive immigration from hard to assimilate sources. In other word, multiculturalism for thee but not for me. Moderate , monitored and regulated multiculturalism has a place but what we are seeing now, especially at the US Southern border, is full-fledge assault on our polities by ruthless people with ruthless aims.
There was co-existence (not the bumper sticker version) for a millennium before WW-1.
If a two state solution is enough to satisfy HAMAS and the Palestinians it’s good enough for me, however,,,,
Anyway on the subject of Boeing and it’s failing business generally, add to that Lockheed Martins F35 ‘paperweight’,,,whoever runs America might consider making things that people want to buy (rather than being forced or bribed) is the way forward, ie the way things were before the financial community completely took over the country. America used to be a world leader in quality control and i know from experience that clients internationally were prepared to pay for that. Before the dollar becomes worthless it would seem essential to me, unless 99% tax is appeals? I read the other day that China is now building perfectly decent passenger aircraft for half the price that Boeing does, Russia also and they have vast expertise in aviation.