New Zealand is seriously considering joining fellow nations of the five-eyes alliance, Australia, Britain, and Canada, in recognising Palestine come September. France initiated this sudden change of heart, Norway, Ireland and Spain have already done what should have happened decades ago. Germany has finally suspended arms sales to Israel, 22 months after the fact.
Not only does America stand alone amongst Western nations, they are also actively helping Israel strong arm smaller nations into accepting Palestinian refugees expelled from their homeland, a war crime. If you could imagine somewhere worse than Gaza, where would it be, apart from hell? South Sudan.
Israel supported the South in their decades long war with the North, and now it’s payback time. I come across many egregious stories during my research, but honestly, this is by far the most despicable and inhumane idea I’ve heard in a long time.
400 000 people died, at least 10% being children, during the South Sudan civil war. Child soldiers, famine, slavery, mass rape, the worst atrocities you cannot even imagine have been committed. And that was between two black ethnic tribes. The civil war between the North and the South started as far back as 1955, pitting the Arab Muslim North, against the Black Christian/Animist South.
Now America and Israel are pressuring South Sudan to take Muslim Arab refugees from Gaza in exchange for money and sanctions relief. New Zealand’s Prime Minister has described Netanyahu as having ‘lost the plot’, that he is ‘not listening’, and that his behavior is ‘utterly, utterly unacceptable’.
The madness is starting to reach Nazilike levels of depravity and sadism. Never mind the fact that Trump is allowing Putin to literally get away with murder. We are getting closer and closer to peak insanity. Sooner or later, something’s gotta give. How far do they have to go before We the People have had enough?
– THE TOLERANCE OF INTOLERANCE BREEDS INTOLERANCE OF TOLERANCE –
I’m probably going on the FB naughty list for posting this, c’est la vie. Project Esther can kiss my ass.
UPDATE 14/8: Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said he will approve plans to build more than 3,000 homes in a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank – a move he said will prevent the creation of a Palestinian state.
The so-called E1 project between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim settlement has been frozen for decades amid fierce opposition internationally. Building there would effectively cut off the West Bank from occupied East Jerusalem and significantly obstruct its territorial contiguity.
“The plan will bury the idea of a Palestinian state,” Smotrich said, according to Israeli media.
Settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. – Tom McArthur, BBC.
GREATER ISRAEL: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says talks are underway with several countries about taking in Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza.
The countries involved are South Sudan, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Libya, and Indonesia, a senior Israeli official told CNN. In exchange for taking in some of Gaza’s population of more than two million people, the official said the countries are looking for “significant financial and international compensation.”
All those who say they’re concerned for the Palestinians and want to help Palestinians,” Netanyahu said should “open their doors.”
“Why are they coming and preaching to us?! Open your doors,” he added.
Shaina Low, Communications Adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council, said any plans to relocate Palestinians, whether within Gaza or to foreign countries, was “a non-starter.”
“They aren’t acceptable under international law. They aren’t acceptable to Palestinians. And they should not be acceptable to the international community,” Low told CNN.
During the interview, Netanyahu was also asked by i24News network anchor Sharon Gal whether the prime minister “connects” to the vision of a “Greater Israel,” to which he responded, “Very much.”
The term “Greater Israel” refers to a state of Israel that is beyond the borders that exist today. It is also often used as a reference to Biblical Israel, which would include parts of today’s Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.
The comments were greeted by sharp statements from several Arab states, which condemned the use of the term as provocative and counterproductive to peace.
Egypt “demanded clarifications” on the use of the term, “given its implications of provoking instability and reflecting a rejection of the pursuit of peace in the region, as well as an insistence on escalation,” according to a foreign ministry statement.
Saudi Arabia said it “expresses its outright rejection of the settlement and expansionist plans adopted by the Israeli occupation authorities.”
Qatar said the use of the term is considered “an extension of the occupation’s approach based on arrogance, fuelling crises and conflicts, and blatantly infringing the sovereignty of states.”
By Tal Shalev, Irene Nasser, Kathleen Magramo, Nadeen Ebrahim, Eugenia Yosef for BBC.
Aug 14, 2025 12:11:35 am