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Yes a good article. Most US commentators cite, the kneejerk reaction to the World Trade Centre atrocities -(nearly all, 15, were from the US proxy state of Saudi Arabia) eg bombing Afghanistan into the stone age in revenge as a turning point when radical islamic death cult groups started to form - along with the invasion of Iraq and subsequently Libya.

ISIS was borne out of Muslim people being bombed and their lands invaded. Wouldnt exist otherwise. quite simple really.

Who wouldn't want a house on the beach? For some on Israel's far-right, desirable beachfront now includes the sands of Gaza. Just ask Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel's settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately. "I have friends in Tel Aviv," she says, "so they say, 'Don't forget to keep for me a plot near the coast in Gaza,' because it's a beautiful, beautiful coast, beautiful golden sand". She tells them the plots on the coast are already booked. BBC

The US invasion of Panama was to depose Noriega, he didn't have as many fans as Allah

But not apparently to two million mainly women and children starving to death, and over 300 000 homeless women and children with life changing injuries that they perpetrated. They gave weapons and help to ISIS because they are useful proxy fighting Iran. They are 'rogue' because they sprung up from all the countries bombed and invaded by Western Countries. Same as Hamas, they wouldn't exist if Israel wasn't occupying Palestinian land killing men, women and children every single day. Before October 7th, 94% of deaths were Palestinian.

ISIS are useful bogeymen for some states. Israel looked after them, and gave them medical treatment in Syria

Stunning strike by Cuthbert seals the points v Wet Spam. Her 7th goal against them back on top of the table

Trump appears to be scrambling for funds to pay a $464m (£365m) fraud fine. Could the stock market ride to his rescue? Trump Media, which runs the social media platform Truth Social, is poised to become a publicly listed company, after a majority of shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp voted on Friday to acquire it. Trump is due to have a stake of at least 58% in the merged company, worth roughly $3bn at Digital World's current share prices. It's an astonishing potential windfall for Trump in exchange for a business whose own auditor warned last year it was at risk of failure.

UN Draft resolution by the US rejected by Algeria, Russia, China and many others. The US are being sneaky, mentioning a ceasefire, but deliberately having the wording not demanding a ceasefire. Shows the powerful Zionist lobby at work again. Meanwhile 32 000 dead, mainly children. babies and women. 12 000 permanently seriously disfigured and maimed, 74 000 injured, and thousands buried alive. Even Schumer, (Jewish Ukrainian) Senate leader, has called them a 'pariah state'.

Yes, the World teeters on the brink of WW3, as Macron moots marching his legionnaires into Odessa....

Probably unlikely the US will ever stop supporting its Middle East attack dog, Biden is just worried democrat support will ebb away as the genocide becomes evident to even the most blinkered. Meanwhile, Nutty Yahoo, thinks the harbour being built out of the rubble of Palestinian houses, including presumably the skulls and bones of buried alive children, is going to be used to exile the Palestinians out of Gaza in his fucked up ethnic land grab mentality.

True. Hamas and Nut Job Yahoos right wing fan club are a disaster for ordinary peace loving people. US tax payers must be fucked off as well 183 billion of weapons have been given to Israel, which the arms manufacturers have made BIG, BIG share dividends. There is money in slaughter and genocide, for a few rich people.Vile people.

Indeed, it is almost as though the Israelis channeled all of the efficiency and efficacy that failed their military on October 7 into the deployment of a vast edifice of insta-mythology designed to bolster a notion of Palestinians as an inherently subhuman people. Chief of this project is a man named Yossi Landau, an ultra-Orthodox first responder who operates throughout Israel and, occasionally, in South Florida. Landau, who is interviewed in the documentary, was the original source of the beheaded babies lie, and most of what formed the basis for the New York Times’ debunked investigation into the alleged systematic sexual abuse perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, among other enthusiastically shared tales of horror. In interviews, Landau comes off like the used-car salesman you’d expect. Discussing one claim about finding a pregnant woman whose “stomach was butchered open” and whose “baby that was connected to the cord was stabbed,” he insists to a reporter that “if you want to see the picture I have the picture of it.” When the reporter apologizes that he “can’t see a baby here,” Landau stammers that he “didn’t think when we were, we didn’t think, we didn’t think to camera everything …” The photo, it turns out, depicts what the narrator describes as “an unidentifiable piece of charred flesh,” which as it happens is not so unlike many of the bodies that fill Landau’s accounts of unspeakable depravity. “The bodies is telling us the stories that happened to them,” he explains in one video. As October 7 notes, the IDF has repeatedly debunked those stories on the basis of basic forensic evidence, most notably when it revised downward by 200 its estimated body count upon realizing some of the dead bodies are Palestinian. Which brings us to one of the incomprehensibly less-scrutinized parts of the disaster explored in October 7: the hundreds of civilians, dozens of their cars, and numerous homes and buildings charred beyond comprehension on the day of the attack. Hamas had some rockets, but did it really have the weaponry capable of mounting this level of destruction? Western journalists have reported that Hamas was fully responsible. Al Jazeera’s documentary is much more circumspect, and in a way, so is the IDF. By November, the IDF conceded that it had, actually, deployed Apache helicopters and tanks to the Nova music festival that “may” have killed “some” of the Nova festival concertgoers, in accordance with something called the Hannibal Directive, a doctrine named for a Carthaginian general who poisoned himself rather than be questioned by his Roman captors, whereby the Israeli army is ordered to fire upon its own troops to prevent the enemy from taking those troops hostage. Around noon on October 7, according to Israeli newspapers cited in the documentary, the IDF may have invoked a version of the Hannibal directive, expanded to include Israeli civilians, and in accordance began blindly opening fire with rockets and helicopter gunships on any person or vehicle seen moving across the border with Gaza. In particular, the documentary visits Kibbutz Be’eri, which looks a bit like present-day Gaza in parts, with a munitions expert who demonstrates strong evidence that some of the houses had been hit with IDF tank fire. It was Israeli troops, not Hamas “murderers,” according to one resident, who killed 12 longtime residents there. Virtually all these facts have been reported widely by the left-leaning media outlets; October 7 mostly synthesizes these accounts with compelling footage, helpful maps of the region, and a minute-by-minute timeline that compellingly conveys a sense of the panic and alarm the unprecedented breach unleashed on both sides of the conflict. What remains elusive, however, is a sense of what proportion of the 782 unarmed civilians who died in southern Israel that day were killed by “friendly” Hellfire missiles and IDF bullets, and how many were killed by Hamas fighters. Israel has refused to release any forensic evidence on the dead it has identified, and it is likely in many cases that none exists; ZAKA and other ultra-Orthodox organizations delegated to examine and collect the bodies of the 10/7 dead are staunchly opposed to medical examinations on religious grounds, and ZAKA further recommended that Nova festivalgoers be buried in their cars. We may never know the portion of civilian deaths attributable to the Israeli counterattacks, though the IDF does. But October 7 wisely steers clear of engaging in such reasoning, since the whole point of the movie is that the fiction of October 7 matters far more than the fact. And regardless of what the true figure is, within three or four days of disseminating the fiction that Hamas had killed 1,400 Israelis in a single morning, Israel had exceeded that death count in Gaza, just as the Gaza-born journalist Ahmed Alnaouq knew it would upon hearing the terrible news of the attack. “When October 7 happened I was terrified, because whenever an Israeli man [is] killed, they’re gonna kill a hundred or two hundred Palestinians,” he tells the interviewer, voicing the heartbreaking math of Palestinian resistance. Here again, the documentary shows restraint, placing the death count in the Gaza war thus far at the conservative estimate of 31,000 with no discussion of, for example, the impact Israel’s destruction of some 155 Gazan hospitals and health facilities has had on the effort to count the dead. The documentary cuts to Azzam Tamimi, an older man, the author of the definitive book on Hamas, who chillingly invokes the millions who perished during the Vietnam War to suggest that the bloodbath may yet be worth it, reasoning that “there is no small price for freedom and independence.” Alnaouq is not so sure: Whatever the ultimate meaning of October 7, the aftermath has already proven, he says, “a trauma that the Palestinians will never heal from. ”Israel admits it killed its own at Nova music festival https://thecradle.co/articles-id/13111 'Unlawful, U nethical, Horrifying': IDF Ethics Code Author on Alleged Use of 'Hannibal Directive' During Hamas Attack Asa Kasher, the philosopher who wrote the IDF's Code of Conduct, tells Haaretz that incidents in which the infamous operational order may have been used on October 7 must be investigated immediately: 'There is absolutely nothing [in the code] to allow someone to kill an Israeli citizen, in uniform or not' https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-17/ty-article/.premium/unlawful-unethical-horrifying-idf-ethics-expert-on-controversial-hannibal-directive/0000018d-186c-dd75-addd-faedd2b80000 Haaretz initially reported cars and people using the Hannibal Directive were liquidated and blown up by Israeli Apache helicopters given to them by the US. And the respective response times being 8 hours, 13 hours and 20 hours. They then pulled the story. Almost as if it was allowed to happen to keep Nutty Yahoo in office......

FANS GETTING PROGRESSIVELY FUCKED OFF WITH CLOWNLAKE Chelsea are facing more supporter dissent after being warned that a slide towards “irreversible toxicity” in the stands is likely to end in protests against the ownership. In a letter sent to Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali this month, the Chelsea Supporters’ Trust cited concerns about higher ticket prices, the cost of merchandise and travel to games, and a lack of communication from the board. The CST, which said Chelsea had “become a laughing stock on and off the pitch” since being bought by Boehly and Clearlake Capital in 2022, pointed to anger and frustration over a sense that supporters are being used to raise revenue streams. The low mood has been reflected at recent games. Raheem Sterling was booed after struggling during Chelsea’s win over Leicester City in the FA Cup last Sunday. Mauricio Pochettino, the head coach, and Boehly, the controlling co-owner, were abused during the recent 2-2 draw away to Brentford. “The current feeling amongst Chelsea supporters in our opinion is at its lowest since the early 1980s,” the CST said. “While this may be expected with our current run of form and position in the league table, a significant number of supporters that we speak to are quick to express concerns that the lack of any public-facing vision from the new ownership has led to an overwhelming sense of helplessness. “Supporters are saying that there currently seems a fast-growing lack of trust from much of the fanbase, especially matchgoers towards the board, partially due to severely limited communication. Many supporters have significant concerns about the future of our club. “The views of a quiet few became a vocal expression of a larger number of Chelsea supporters present at the [Brentford] game. Much of our recent dialogue with supporters reveals a lack of belief in the decision-makers at the top of our club. The current mood amongst supporters is critically low and cannot be ignored. The feeling that the club has become a ‘laughing stock’, both on and off the pitch, is growing. “The Chelsea Supporters’ Trust regretfully believes that we are close to, if not already experiencing, a significant shift in supporter opinion that could result in irreversible toxicity, almost irrespective of results on the pitch. Unless the situation improves, this seems likely to manifest itself in more targeted chanting, especially at televised games, and quite possibly more organised, overt, and impactful forms of protest by some sections of the fanbase.” The Trust said the owners had communicated after their takeover that they would explore every commercial avenue possible in an attempt to bring Chelsea’s income in line with other major Premier League clubs and that charging supporters more would be done as a last resort. It claimed this pledge had been broken by a number of price increases and budget cuts. Examples cited included prices for coaches to away games increasing by £53, replica kits by £5, tickets to cup games by £1-£13, programmes by 50p, youth fixtures by £2, women’s matches by “record amounts”, and food and drink in general admission areas by 5-15%. It remains to be seen whether Chelsea raise season ticket prices this summer. “The Chelsea Supporters’ Trust acknowledges you are seeking to optimise income, but we have significant concerns regarding ticket pricing going forward,” the CST said. It said many fans were “fearful that they will be priced out of watching the club they love by above-inflation increases”. Complaints over a lack of engagement with fans centred around silence from Chelsea, who are 11th in the league despite spending more than £1bn on signings in the past two years, over their stadium redevelopment plans. Chris Jurasek, Chelsea’s chief executive, responded to the CST on 20 March. “We deeply value the dedication, commitment and desire from all our supporters to continue to develop Chelsea FC into the most successful and admired club in the world, both on and off the pitch,” he said. “Part of achieving that goal will be done by working with our supporters. We want to ensure we engage with our supporters regularly to provide them with clear lines of communication. “With the establishment of the Fan Advisory Board, who liaise with the Club on a regular basis, we are confident that there is a great deal of shared discussion and an intention to work closely with a number of key stakeholders. “Our goal is the same as your goal: to ensure Chelsea Football Club has a bright and successful future. To do so, there is a necessity to increase club revenue to put us on a par with our rivals and allow us to compete in both the Premier League and Women’s Super League, as well as in domestic and European competitions. There are several ways we are already doing that and will further explore. “We recognise there is a concern about rising costs on a matchday and the impact ticket prices can have on our supporters. Rest assured, we are taking frequent advice and engaging in regular consultation with the Fan Advisory Board to ensure that we take a holistic approach in this vitally important issue.” Mark Meehan, the chair of the CST, criticised Jurasek for failing to respond to concerns raised in the original letter. “We are supporters, not customers,” Meehan said. Guardian

Chelsea will meet Premier League rivals Manchester City and La Liga leaders Real Madrid on the clubs' pre-season tour. The Blues have confirmed a five-game pre-season series in the United States to prepare for the 2024-25 campaign. The two latest fixtures join a line-up that begins with a match against League Two Wrexham on 24 July and is followed by games against Scottish Premiership giants Celtic and Mexican side Club America. The fixture against City will take place on 3 August at Ohio Stadium in Columbus before the tour concludes against Real on 6 August at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Chelsea return to the US for the third summer in a row.

Paedophile Arsenal fan, 39, becomes first person in England to be jailed for cyberflashing after sending picture of his genitals to 15-year-old schoolgirl Typical Gooner

Comfortable 0-3 win in CL v Ajax

Citeh in semi

3rd has been given to Nusken too

2-0 up v Gooners James and Cuthbert

I notice Poch is at the Brighton Roma game on his own Probably looking to see which Brighton players we can get for 100m

Come on Porto - penalties

That pouting smouldering Arteta. Gorgeous, must be the eyeliner that does it

I'd keep Madueke and Gallagher But offload Eggman and Boehly to the head choppers

Chelsea could be set for a summer of dealings with Saudi Arabia after it emerged the club's chairman Todd Boehly met with Michael Emenalo during a recent visit to the capital of the Middle Eastern country. Emenalo is the Saudi Pro League’s director of football, having previously held a position in the Chelsea boardroom. The meeting, which was understood to have been held in Riyadh in the last fortnight, will only add to speculation that the club are looking to offload players to Saudi. Riyadh Air have also been linked with becoming the club’s new shirt sponsor for next season. Chelsea will look to offload several stars this summer, including Romelu Lukaku, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Armando Broja, Trevoh Chalobah, Marc Cucurella and Raheem Sterling.