Above: Nikki Halley signing artillery shells for Rafah, Gaza
Jonathan Cook – Middle East Eye June 12, 2024
Israel hasn’t just crossed the Biden administration’s pretend “red lines” in Gaza. With its massacre at Nuseirat refugee camp at the weekend, Israel drove a bulldozer through them.
On Saturday, an Israeli military operation to free four Israelis held captive by Hamas since its 7 October attack on Israel resulted in the killing of more than 270 Palestinians, many of them women and children.
The true death toll may never be known. Untold numbers of men, women and children are still under rubble from the bombardment, crushed to death, or trapped and suffocating, or expiring slowly from dehydration if they cannot be dug out in time.
Many hundreds more are suffering agonising injuries – should their wounds not kill them – in a situation where there are almost no medical facilities left after Israel’s destruction of hospitals and its mass kidnap of Palestinian medical personnel. Further, there are no drugs to treat the victims, given Israel’s months-long imposition of an aid blockade.
Israelis and American Jewish organisations – so ready to judge Palestinians for cheering attacks on Israel – celebrated the carnage caused in freeing the Israeli captives, who could have returned home months ago had Israel been ready to agree on a ceasefire.
Videos even show Israelis dancing in the street.
According to reports, the bloody Israeli operation in central Gaza may have killed three other captives, one of them possibly an American citizen.
In comments to the Haaretz newspaper published on Sunday, Louis Har, a hostage freed back in February, observed of his own captivity: “Our greatest fear was the IDF’s planes and the concern that they would bomb the building we were in.”
He added: “We weren’t worried that they’d [referring to Hamas] do something to us all of a sudden. We didn’t object to anything. So I wasn’t afraid they’d kill me.”
The Israeli media reported Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant describing Saturday’s operation as “one of the most heroic and extraordinary operations I have witnessed over the course of 47 years serving in Israel’s defence establishment”.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is currently seeking an arrest warrant for Gallant, as well as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The charges include efforts to exterminate the people of Gaza through planned starvation.
State terrorism
Israel has been wrecking the established laws of war with abandon for more than eight months.
At least 37,000 Palestinians are known to have been killed so far in Gaza, though Palestinian officials lost the ability to properly count the dead many weeks ago following Israel’s relentless destruction of the enclave’s institutions and infrastructure.
Israel has additionally engineered a famine that, mostly out of view, is gradually starving Gaza’s population to death.
The International Court of Justice put Israel on trial for genocide back in January. Last month, it ordered an immediate halt to Israel’s attack on Gaza’s southern city of Rafah. Israel has responded to both judgments by intensifying its killing spree.
In a further indication of Israel’s sense of impunity, the rescue operation on Saturday involved yet another flagrant war crime.
Israel used a humanitarian aid truck – supposedly bringing relief to Gaza’s desperate population – as cover for its military operation. In international law, that is known as the crime of perfidy.
For months, Israel has been blocking aid to Gaza – part of its efforts to starve the population. It has also targeted aid workers, killing more than 250 of them since October.
But more specifically, Israel is waging a war on Unrwa, claiming without evidence that the UN’s main aid agency in Gaza is implicated in Hamas “terror” operations. It wants the UN, the international community’s last lifeline in Gaza against Israel’s wanton savagery, permanently gone.
By hiding its own soldiers in an aid truck, Israel made a mockery of its supposed “terrorism concerns” by doing exactly what it accuses Hamas of.
But Israel’s military action also dragged the aid effort – the only way to end Gaza’s famine – into the centre of the battlefield. Now Hamas has every reason to fear that aid workers are not what they seem; that they are really instruments of Israeli state terrorism.
Nefarious motive
In the circumstances, one might have assumed the Biden administration would be quick to condemn Israel’s actions and distance itself from the massacre.
Instead, Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, was keen to take credit for the mass carnage – or what he termed a “daring operation”.
He admitted in an interview on Sunday that the US had offered assistance in the rescue operation, though he refused to clarify how. Other reports noted a supporting British role, too.
“The United States has been providing support to Israel for several months in its efforts to help identify the locations of hostages in Gaza and to support efforts to try to secure their rescue or recovery,” Sullivan told CNN.
Sullivan’s comments fuelled existing suspicions that such assistance extends far beyond providing intelligence and a steady supply of the bombs Israel has dropped on the tiny Gaza enclave over the past few months – more than the total that hit London, Dresden and Hamburg combined during the Second World War.
A Biden official disclosed to the Axios website that US soldiers belonging to a so-called American hostages unit had participated in the rescue operation that massacred Palestinian civilians.
Additionally, footage shows Washington’s floating pier as the backdrop for helicopters involved in the attack.
According to Axios, citing a U.S. administration official, the American hostages unit in Israel assisted in the release of the four Israeli captives in Gaza.
Footage published by an Israeli occupation soldier confirms Israel's use of the American temporary pier in central Gaza… pic.twitter.com/GJJp1ZSA7T
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 8, 2024
The pier was ostensibly built off Gaza’s coast at huge cost – some $320m – and over two months to bypass Israel’s blocking of aid by land.
Observers argued at the time that it was not only an extraordinarily impractical and inefficient way to deliver aid but that there were likely to be hidden, nefarious motives behind its construction.
Its location, at the midpoint of Gaza’s coast, has bolstered Israel’s severing of the enclave into two, creating a land corridor that has effectively become a new border and from which Israel can launch raids into central Gaza like Saturday’s.
Those critics appear to have been proven right. The pier has barely functioned as an aid route since the first deliveries arrived in mid-May.
The pier soon broke apart, and its repair and return to operation was only announced on Friday.
Now the fact that it appears to have been pressed into immediate use as a beachhead for an operation that killed at least 270 Palestinians drags Washington even deeper into complicity with what the World Court has called a “plausible genocide”.
But like the use of the aid truck, it also means the Biden administration is joining Israel once again – after pulling its funding to Unrwa – in directly discrediting the aid operation in Gaza when it is needed most urgently.
That was the context for understanding the World Food Programme’s announcement on Sunday that it was halting the use of the pier for aid deliveries, citing “safety” concerns.
‘Successful’ massacre
As ever, for western media and politicians – who have stood firmly against a ceasefire that could have brought the suffering of the Israeli captives and their families to an end months ago – Palestinian lives are quite literally worthless.
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz thought it appropriate to describe the killing of 270-plus Palestinians in the freeing of the four Israelis as an “important sign of hope”, while the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expressed his “huge relief”. The appalling death toll went unmentioned.
Imagine describing in similarly positive terms an operation by Hamas that killed 270 Israelis to liberate a handful of the many hundreds of medical personnel kidnapped from Gaza by Israel in recent months and known to be held in a torture facility.
The London Times, meanwhile, breezily erased Saturday’s massacre of Palestinians by characterising the operation as a “surgical strike”.
Media outlets uniformly hailed the operation as a “success” and “daring”, as though the killing and maiming of around 1,000 Palestinians – and the serial war crimes Israel committed in the process – need not be factored in.
BBC News’ main report on Saturday night breathlessly focused on the celebrations of the families of the freed captives, treating the massacre of Palestinians as an afterthought. The programme stressed that the death toll was “disputed” – though not mentioning that, as ever, it was Israel doing the disputing.
The reality is that the savage “rescue” operation would have been entirely unnecessary had Netanyahu not been so determined to drag his feet on negotiating the captives’ release, and thereby avoid jail on corruption charges, and the US so fully indulgent of his procrastination.
It will also be very difficult to repeat such an operation, as Haaretz’s military correspondent Amos Harel noted at the weekend. Hamas will learn lessons, guarding the remaining captives even more closely, most likely underground in its tunnels.
The remaining captives’ return will “probably occur only as part of a deal that will require significant concessions”, he concluded.
Leveraging murder
Benny Gantz, the politician-general who helped oversee Israel’s eight-month slaughter in Gaza inside Netanyahu’s war cabinet and is widely described as a “moderate” in the West, resigned from the government on Sunday.
Although ostensibly the dispute is over how Israel will extricate itself from Gaza over the coming months, the more likely explanation is that Gantz wishes both to distance himself from Netanyahu as the Israeli prime minister faces possible arrest for crimes against humanity and to prepare for elections to take his place.
The Pentagon and the Biden administration see Gantz as their man. Having him out of the government may give them additional leverage over Netanyahu in the run-up to a US presidential election in November in which Donald Trump will be actively trying to cosy up to the Israeli prime minister.
The focus on Israeli politicking – rather than US complicity in the Nuseirat massacre – will doubtless provide a welcome distraction, too, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tours the region. He will once again wish to be seen rallying support for a ceasefire plan that is supposed to see the Israeli captives released – a plan Netanyahu will be determined, once again, to stymie.
Blinken’s efforts are likely to be even more hopeless in the immediate wake of the Biden administration’s all-too-visible involvement in the killing of hundreds of Palestinians.
Washington’s claim to be an “honest broker” looks to everyone – apart from the reliably obedient western political and media class – as even more derisory than usual.
The real question is whether Blinken’s serial diplomatic failures in ending the slaughter in Gaza are a bug or a feature.
The stark contradiction in Washington’s position towards Gaza was exposed last week during a press conference with State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
He suggested that the aim of Israel and the US was to persuade Hamas to dissolve itself – presumably by some form of surrender – in return for a ceasefire. The group had an incentive to do so, said Miller, “because they don’t want to see continued conflict, continued Palestinian people dying. They don’t want to see war in Gaza.”
Even the usually compliant western press corps were taken aback by Miller’s implication that a crime against humanity – the mass killing of Palestinians, such as took place at Nuseirat camp on Saturday – was viewed in Washington as leverage to be exercised over Hamas.
But more likely, the seeming contradiction was simply symptomatic of the logical entanglements resulting from Washington’s efforts to deflect from the real goal: buying Israel more time to do what it is so well advanced doing already.
Israel needs to finish pulverising Gaza, making it permanently uninhabitable, so that the population will be faced with a stark dilemma: remain and die, or leave by any means possible.
The same US “humanitarian pier” that was pressed into service for Saturday’s massacre may soon be the “humanitarian pier” that serves as the exit through which Gaza’s Palestinians are ethnically cleansed, shipped out of a death zone engineered by Israel.
According to the above source ( the yellow bit ) – London had a greater tonnage of bombs dropped on it than Dresden & Hamburg combined!
Truthseekers beware!
The majority of the sheeple of the West are pretty good at looking tfhe other way when it comes to the atrocities in Palestine and elsewhere. Sometimes they protest and make a lot of noise but rarely escalate things.
See where that has got them with politics, immigration, law and order, food,pollution et. al.
Collateral damage is used as an excuse by those causing it.
Idiots in charge of the asylum of the world…
I can’t understand why people from minority communities like Nikki Haley in the US and David Lammy in the UK who go into politics often do so by joining aggressive or reactionary parties. They ignore their own history and can become unpleasant themselves because they must talk the talk to advance. To sign an instrument of death like Haley did when the victims are brown-skinned like she is was most unwise. She can’t claim that image is taken out of context nor can she claim it’s an anti-Semitic attack when someone reminds us all about it on a protest placard when the time comes.
Jewish Power….that’s what it is all about……since the great humanitarians OWN THE MEDIA OUTLETS OF THE WEST….THEY DETERMINE WHAT GETS PUBLISHED….
This stuff even takes place in NZ…….it demonstrates there is cooperation and coordination between jewish dominated countries……AND they target people who say so using the police who use others to do their dirty work.
Naturally this is illegal….and they dont give a damn….since very few members of parliament would ever object….
So that means total domination of the countries where jews call the shots.
Sort of a replay of former Eastern Europe.
They target people across the world….IVE EXPERIENCED IT……from gunshots in Vienna to stuff in the Caribbean.
Hold on a minute….Jews are supposed to be innocent sufferers of persecution…..yeah right….the stuff going on in Gaza says different…..you’ll notice the human rights organisations like Amnesty are remarkably silent….guess what…they’re controlled by jews….@#$%^
The sympathy of most people in the West – the native populations of Europe lies mostly with israhell brainwashed as they are by the holocaust hologram and the Scofield bible both RotSchild products….(litmustest : no ban for israhell in the Euro song contest)
The West includes of course also US Canada Australia etc. and the populations of middle and south America….but – the majority of – these populations are not exactly the native populations of these large parts of the world…
They are for the greater part descendants of European settlers…
Take for example the Argentinian football Maestro Diego Maradonna who is now Jenseits in a Heaven while here on Earth / he openly declared his sympathy for the Palestinians….
” Away from Latin America, Maradonna consistently expressed solidarity with Palestine and the idea of a Palestinian state. In 2012, while Maradona was managing Al-Wasl, a Dubai-based club, he told reporters: “I am the number one fan of the Palestinian people. I respect them and sympathize with them.” (Nov 26, 2020)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/26/in-my-heart-i-am-palestinian-maradona-backed-palestine-cause
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgYB2rbiZQM
The Hand of God repudiated “this human trash Bush II” / called potus 45 “a cartoon character” / told pope JP II – “hijo de puta to El Pais “- to sell the golden ceiling of the Vatican if he wanted to help the starving kids in poor countries he visited / lost his faith but papa di Roma Fransesco brought him back….( he must have taken bad coke when the latter happened)
CIA O
Notice all these articles always affirm that Oct 7 was a real attack by ‘Hamas’. Intelligent people know it was a hoax–an IDF-Mossad-Hamas blackop/psyop. Thus one must be skeptical of anything else in the article, such as Jews & Palestinians being killed. Notice they never show us any of these supposed dead arabs/jews–just news reports that this number of semites have been ‘killed’ today…
It would be correct to assume that current events and their predictable and loathsome trajectory to a nadir of hitherto unseen depths…indicates that what’s in store for the perpetrators of these crimes will be at the very least commensurate…
and quite probably final… and eternal…
Nikki Haley bomb signing was a psyop, she had her hair in pigtails just like the Israeli girl who signed the bombs years earlier. The only time I ever saw Nimrata in pigtails was at the bomb signing, over memorial day weekend, where she was getting her instructions to take the Republican Nomination away from Trump next month at the RNC.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/AP_060717034791.jpg
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/3/30/israel-the-house-of-hate
every zionist is a NAZI . not even the germans
danced in the streets when their troops fought
against polish + soviet troops . and behind the
zionists are the rabbis + all different talmudists .
they are all one on different ways to glory .
THEY ARE ALL ONE TO LIQUIDATE US GOYIM !
white traitors + freemasons are stupid !
@ GABREAL JONES
in the west only the jew propaganda medias keep
sympaty for israhell, not the people . surely many
are brainpissed by holomyth (poor jews but rich) .
I am enjoying more + more propalestinian feelings
in the whole world . east + west, north + south .
JEWS HAVE SHOWN ONCE + FOR ALL THEIR
UGLY FACE TO THE WORLD . all men in the
world must learn to despise breeding with a jew
woman !
If those demonic kikes really wanted to clear out Gaza, they should have strapped Nimrata Street-Shitter Randhawa, aka “Nikki Haley”, to that missile and launched that psycho festering cunt into that beleaguered country rather than just her satanic genocidal wishes she scrawled on it. Nobody in their right mind would want to be within 100 miles of that toxic sludge sack and Gaza would be cleared out to realize Jared Lubavitcher Kushner’s dream of beachfront property there. Ugghh, two reeking shit-stains in the same paragraph who both deserve to have their f*cking heads chopped off and used as public piss pots.
@ MM
She is just one more politician climbing up the power ladder. She knows that unless she sucks up to the right people she will get no where. Then in being able to use her skin color and appearing as a minority she feels she can garner a good hunk of the non-white no matter how or who she sucks. As a politician it is all doing anything you can to increase your plurality and be elected. Then one elected it is all about getting reelected and making the right deals in the climb. If you have any principles to begin with which will interfere with your success you generally have to cast them off or hide them so they will do you no harm. For cut down on the corruption and save any semblance of democracy the only solution is to make it a serious crime for politicians to lie to or to deceive the public. Also, there ought to be full disclosure of all relevant facts to the general public on any topic our legislatures touch BEFORE any legislative vote. For instance, the democratic systems of all nations totally failed on every single lockstep issue and mandate during Covid, and they failed because every single politician failed us and simply went along as sycophants to that top-down order they serve. Covid proved that none of them really serve the people or any way properly and honestly represent their interests.
Yes. Agreement and appreciation for this.
A murderous, racist, warring state, Israel. And its accomplice, America.
The wealth of jewish/Israeli/Zionists on display. How it has worked its way into governments to criminalize dissent, continue its destructive operation to a Greater Israel, on display. No matter how much verbiage is spewed to justify it all.
there us only one answer to al this
” kill every jew”
3.06 ” I wonder what T. and Milei the new pres. of Argentine have in common?”……Besides the fact that they are both fake j.´s of the synagogue of satan & are heavy into chabad lubavitch so pushing 1948 israhell no matter what…
https://rumble.com/v4xz2mz-pedophile-psyop-donald-trump-is-also-a-satanic-pedophile-freemason-2024.html
3.21 Javier Milei as he is known now alongside of a pic of his youth
https://www.rosario3.com/__export/1691976032117/sites/rosario3/img/2023/08/13/milei_arquero.jpg_1192065467.jpg (it is the same psycho only years later)
https://time.com/6308324/donald-trump-mug-shot-georgia/ the mugshot of Don the Con Joo d.d. 25 August 2023 shows that he had no time when he was arrested to do his nosejob….
His actual nose is quite similar to the smellorgan of his father Fred
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E047/production/_114751475_a7fd3b7f-8a79-4f9e-87c0-14afb3261e3a.gif
A short trailer vid at yidtube about his book The Art of the Deal years ago clearly showed that the future father of the vaccine has the same “curve” in his nose as his dad….vid got deleted…
concluzion : their original porems (faces in yiddish) show what T. and M. have in common…
The original name of netanyaWhodid911 was btw Milei(kovsky)…as the saying goes “face is the index of the heart” / u can change your face in whatever way but that does not change your psychological / mental & emotional content of which the actual face is an expression…
( this milei persona will not have been amused by the support of Palestine of Diego Maradona)
CIA O
@ ” j´s have shown once + for all their ugly face to the world” / yes & no*
What do I mean with it ? The radical reconstruction of his original clearly demonic face by the newly selected pres. of Argentina / Jorge Milei / whenever he did that I don´t know / but I find this to put it decently amazing….
read the todays19 June gj comment https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=289664ted
Da bit chute was a place to show vids vorher refused or deleted by yidtube…but it is fake j. controlled as well…they are pushing his totally fabricated porem under each vid since yesterday
Denmark guy Kim Osboel made that vid 3 weeks ago / I saw it & struck me yesterday / your line antiJHWH / was a kind of profetic….
He is “their” new kid on the bloc / speeched at Klaus anal Schwab WEF etc. etc. read the chabad tweet…on this monsters visit to the grave of chabad tunnel schneerson…milei is a non jew etc. etc. but he is great fan of israhell & greatly inspired by tunnel rat schneerson….
You see what is happening here? It is the normalisation of what `us yidz´ say is true- meaning what we lie- is true….& whatever you find of it is of zero importance….
They should be brought to the no-way-to-hide guillotines and have their radically reconstructed originally ugly- heads chopped off…
I told them often in the esp xyz files of my ora @ labora fact tory and also in their faces in a normal day to day situation if you are the superior chosen shitbags why all these nose jobs?
I guess many fake j. actors in their hollywood movies are pathetic nosejobbed idiots as well…
*Lastbutnotleast / no / …. cathosick Belgian leopold II killed at least 10 million Congolese
rec. earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZQ21nz5ims
plantation slave workers / many who did not reach the quota : simply cut off their hands….
8.52 Malcolm X…..”Congolese have been massacred in the Kongo for years and years and years….if the shoe is now on the other foot ….the only thing I can say is like : chickens….”
It´s an excellent vid compilation / how the true (black) Hebrews fled further into Africa after the Romans slaughtered many of their fellow men in anckient Israel (part of Afrika) 70 AD (2000 yrs ago)
The first of 6 western “academic scholars” / 7.21″Ignore ..just refuse to publish any facts of African history that don´t go along with our racial theories….”
The vid dating from 2016 is called the “Secret video the Vatican does not want black people to watch”
“Victim Max Lowen Confirms Satanic Ritual and Child Sacrifice Beneath Vatican”
February 18th, 2024. https://www.bitchute.com/video/d6YRrMSOvrwx/
What about that one / bergooglio ¿ Better come clean with this child murder and worse under your holy see / St Peter – who is honored with a large black statue in your Vatican – will definitely kick your ass out of even the waiting room for Heaven / Jenseits…
Btw this Milei mask persona forms an interesting Buenos Aires triangle – Oh My Cut ! open the window please it stinks as hell – with jab pushing Maxima Zorreguieta & dito papa di coma Bergoglio…
CIA O
MM- “…brown-skinned”? So politics is only about Race and Race is only about melanin?