resolution 242

'Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict' Res. 242

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Tale of Two Maps

by Scott Creighton

Some IDF soldiers wear a map of Greater Israel as a patch on their sleeves. Notice how Lebanon needs to be absorbed completely in order to complete the Greater Israel dream.

 

Also notice how Greater Kurdistan fits neatly beside Greater Israel. This is one reason why the Israelis are so present in Iraqi Kurdistan today and fully support the project to bust off pieces of 4 sovereign nations in order to make Greater Kurdistan.

 

 "Emphasizing the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security." UN Resolution 242 1967

Just sayin.

Hezbollah denies Israeli troops crossed into Lebanon

(This was published 17 minutes ago as of posting this news. That would be 10:45 GMT or 6:45am Eastern)

(Ori Goldberg (from Tel Aviv) reports he thinks BOTH sides are telling the truth about this. If that's the case, Ori of all people should know, it would be the FIRST TIME Israel told the truth about anything they do during wartime.)

(Fox 'News' launches some hasbara propaganda demonizing Hezbollah and Lebanon)

 (NYT starts the tried trope of 'no government in Lebanon' which is something they do when they want to seize land from someone)

 (NYT claims Israel has invaded Lebanon but only shows images of Israeli tanks... in Israel)

from al Jazeera

Hezbollah has denied that Israeli forces crosses into southern Lebanon after Israel said its forces were carrying out “limited” raids there.

“All Zionist claims that [Israeli] occupation forces have entered Lebanon are false,” Hezbollah media relations official Muhammad Afif told Al Jazeera.

He added there had “not yet been any direct ground clashes between [Hezbollah] resistance fighters and [Israeli] occupation forces.

“Our fighters are ready to confront enemy forces that dare or attempt to enter Lebanon,” he said...

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'Violation of sovereignty': Türkiye slams Israel's Lebanon invasion

from Daily Sabah

Turkey condemned Israel's ground offensive in Lebanon on Tuesday, calling it a violation of sovereignty and territorial integrity and labeling it an unlawful act of occupation.

"This attack must be halted immediately, and Israeli soldiers must withdraw from Lebanese territory," a Turkish Foreign Ministry statement said.

The statement said that the attack targets not only the security and stability of countries in the region but also those outside the region.

As a result of this dangerous occupation attempt, it is highly likely that a new wave of migration will emerge and extremists around the world will gain ground, the ministry warned.

"It should not be forgotten that these developments will also affect the countries that provide political support and weapons to Israel," it said.

The ministry called on the U.N. Security Council to uphold international law and take necessary measures against the offensive.

The statement emphasized that every crime committed by Israel is "a blow to international law and the U.N. Charter."...

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Israel invades Lebanon – LIVE UPDATES

from RT

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the beginning of “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids” against the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday. The move comes after two weeks of bombing by the Jewish state that killed over one thousand people and displaced one million more.

During the bombing campaign, the IDF killed several senior Hezbollah members, including the group’s long-time leader, Hassan Nasrallah. A rumored Israeli operation to simultaneously explode communications devices belonging to members of the militant group also reportedly killed children as well as its intended targets. 

The goal of the IDF ‘incursion’ is to ensure the safety of citizens living in the northern part of Israel. West Jerusalem has claimed. Hezbollah has been launching barrages of rockets into Israel in what it had said was an act of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza...

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NATO member calls for use of force against Israel

from RT

The United Nations should approve the use of armed force to stop Israel’s war in Gaza, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. He sharply criticized the Israeli operation in the Palestinian enclave and the ongoing airstrikes on Lebanon.

Almost a million Lebanese civilians have been displaced due to Israeli attacks, Erdogan said after a cabinet meeting in Ankara.

At least 1,300 people have been killed in just over a week, according to the Lebanese authorities.

“Standing up for Palestine and Lebanon means standing up for humanity, for peace, for the culture of coexistence of different faiths,” the Turkish leader said...

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At least seven killed in Israeli strike on UN-run Gaza school sheltering displaced people

from PressTV

At least seven Palestinians have been killed in an airstrike on a school housing displaced people in the besieged Gaza Strip.

At dawn on Tuesday, Israeli warplanes bombed the UN-run Shuja'iyya School in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City which was housing displaced people.

Palestinian sources said at least seven people were killed and several others injured in the attack.

The attack brings to 185 the number of shelters and centers targeted by Israel since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza last October, reports said.

Meanwhile, Oxfam said in a report on Tuesday that Israeli explosive weapons hit civilian infrastructure in Gaza - including schools, hospitals and aid distribution points - every three hours.

According to Oxfam, Israeli explosive weapons hit schools and hospitals every four days on average...

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Hezbollah targets Mossad HQ, Glilot military base near Tel Aviv in ‘largest attack’

from PressTV

The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says it targeted Israel's Glilot military base and Mossad headquarters in the outskirts of Tel Aviv with salvos of Fadi-4 rockets.

Israeli reports said several settlers were injured in the rocket barrage from Lebanon on Tel Aviv.

The reports said the rocket attack from Lebanon was “the largest” since the beginning of the war.

Hezbollah earlier said it struck gatherings of Israeli troopers in artillery and rocket attacks on the northern part of the occupied Palestinian territories in retaliation for Israel’s deadly strikes on Lebanon.

In separate statements released on Tuesday, the resistance movement said the gatherings of the enemy troops were hit at the Shtula, Metulla, Avivim and Rosh Pina settlements.

The resistance also targeted the Doviv barracks with a Falaq-2 rockets as well as the gathering of Israeli forces near the settlement of Rosh Pina with a rocket barrage.

The resistance group added that it had conducted the operations in support of “steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and … their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people.”...

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Guilty (C.J. Hopkins)

 'In 2022, (Hopkins) tweeted pictures of the cover of his essay-collection The Rise of the New Normal Reich (2022). The cover included a swastika, and he was charged according to German law regarding "propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization." Reporter James Kirchick commented that "One can call his method of argument likening anti-COVID policies to Nazism misguided, intellectually lazy, or tasteless—I personally find it to be all three—but endorsing "the aims" of National Socialism it is not." Wikipedia

by C.J. Hopkins

So, the Berlin Appellate Court overturned my acquittal today. I am now, officially, at least according to the New Normal German authorities, a “hate-speech” criminal. I’m officially a “hate-speech” criminal because I compared New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany, and I challenged the official Covid narrative, and I used the cover art of my book to do it.

The New Normal German authorities didn’t like that, and were determined to punish me for doing that, and to make an example of me, in order to discourage other people from doing that. It took them two tries, but they pulled it off. The judge in my original trial screwed up and acquitted me, but the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s office didn’t give up. They appealed the verdict — yes, they can do that in Germany — and this morning the Appellate Court overturned the verdict and declared me guilty.

I’ll report on all the ugly details of my day in court in a proper column sometime later this week, when I’ve sufficiently recovered from the hangover I am currently about to start working on.

I’ll also be resurrecting my legal defense fund and telling you about that in my next column, because the only recourse my attorney and I have left at this point is to try to get the German Constitutional Court (i.e., Germany’s supreme court) to hear the case...

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