Palestinian’s gas that Israel is stealing needs to be frac’d. This is why I believe 1) Canada’s supreme court judges (7/9 at the time were Harper appointees, Harper is good pals with Netanyahu) intentionally published lies and denigrated me in their ruling in Ernst vs AER to enable AER’s crimes serving the frac industry which serves Israel.
2) Harper’s judges shit on Canada’s charter (Harper, as with most extreme right evangelicals, hates our charter rights) and my valid claim of AER violating my right to freedom of expression. Netanyahu hates our right to freedom of expression (free speech in USA) and for years seems intent on destroying it globally, including getting his goons to attack academic freedom. I think to con the world into changing the definition of anti-semitism to criminalize citizens publicly protesting Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians, the way AER criminalized me in 2005 because I asked the regulator to regulate and sent them documented evidence of Encana/Ovintiv breaking the law.
Steve Harper’s Cabinet (yes, that’s Bibi Netanyahu on his right)
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social Dec 15, 2023:
Platforming Nazis isn’t a free-speech issue, it’s a social acceptability issue. The right understands this extremely well, which is why it defends far-right extremism on private platforms under the cloak of “free speech” while using the state to suppress expression it doesn’t like.
Fascist and Nazi ideas aren’t stopped by “the marketplace of ideas.” They’re stopped by social stigma. Each increment of destigmatization is a massive victory for the far right. Even if 95% of the “audience” thinks a Nazi “loses” a “debate,” they still grow their movement.
Kenneth Roth@KenRoth Dec 17, 2023:
It weakens the important fight against antisemitism when “donors, alumni and politicians” pressure universities to censor legitimate speech that is pro-Palestinian or opposed to Israeli government war crimes as supposedly antisemitic.
Reelect Biden or enjoy Trump’s dictatorship. #WTFU@tbluvoter:
The right-wing very much wants make it illegal to speak out against brutality and atrocities, and they won’t stop with criticisms of Israel.
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Tiberius@ecomarxi:
The corpses of the children are still smouldering, and Washington has the drilling contracts lined up.
This is who the Western Bloc is. Never let them convince you otherwise.
Mohammed El-Kurd@m7mdkurd:
This is what it has always been about: occupying our land and exploiting our natural resources.
TIAA-Divest!@TIAADivest:
This is sickening. Clearly Israel is engaged in a land grab. But that they, with U.S. encouragement, want to develop gas offshore of Gaza, is insane in the climate-impacted region. Biden has never understood methane — or Palestinians as humans. Call Senators, reps: No Gaza gas!
Haaretz.com@haaretzcom Nov 20, 2023:
U.S. President Joe Biden’s energy security advisor is visiting Israel to discuss potential economic revitalization plans for Gaza centered around undeveloped offshore natural gas fields
U.S. to Push Israel on Allowing Gaza Offshore Gas Reserves to Revitalize Palestinian Economy
Israel gave preliminary approval for the development of a gas field off Gaza’s coast in June.
‘We shouldn’t exaggerate its potential, but it can absolutely be a revenue stream for a Palestinian government,’
That Israel will steal or likely declared in June as its own, or to be shared with the white racist colonizing nations like USA that finance Israel’s kid killing machine and land and resource thefts. An oil and gas blood partnership.says Amos Hochstein, President Biden’s energy security advisor, who is currently visiting Israel
Mariam Alsaraji@Mariam_Alsaraji:
It weird how when a country has natural resources it automatically gets a US presence and a war as a bonus.
@_NicoleNonya:
Israel is stealing #GAZA’s gas.
American fools believe #ApartheidIsrael talking point: USA give 600 million in aid? Israel has been STEALING billions from Palestinians in gas revenue.
The #PalestineHolocaust is nothing more then oil theft.
Israel has single payer healthcare since 1995. They’re blackmailing and buying US congress to BLEED America dry. 33 trillion in debt = 100k per US citizen.
DefundIsrael #IsraelPalestineConflict #Palestinemarch #PalestineProtest #Palestine #WestBank #BDS
Sahel OSINT@Sahelosint Dec 10, 2023:
Inside the Israeli plan that propped up Hamas
Dec 11, 2023, New York Times:
“For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the #Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of #Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them.”
“The Qatari payments, while ostensibly a secret, have been widely known and discussed in the Israeli news media for years”
“For years, Israeli intelligence officers even escorted a Qatari official into Gaza, where he doled out money from suitcases filled with millions of dollars.”
“Each payout was a testament to the Israeli government’s view that Hamas was a low-level nuisance, and even a political asset.”
“The administrations of three American presidents — Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. — broadly supported having the Qataris playing a direct role in funding Gaza operations.”Oil, gas and frac rots the souls of humans.
“Among the team of Mossad agents that tracked terrorism financing, some came to believe that — even beyond the money from Qatar — Mr. Netanyahu was not very concerned about stopping money going to Hamas.”
“Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right politician who is now Mr. Netanyahu’s finance minister, put it bluntly in 2015, the year he was elected to Parliament. ‘The Palestinian Authority is a burden,’ he said. ‘Hamas is an asset.’“
“Suitcases filled with cash soon began crossing the border into Gaza.
Each month, Israeli security officials met Mohammed al-Emadi, a Qatari diplomat, at the border between Israel and Jordan. From there, they drove him to the border crossing and into Gaza.”
“During meetings with security officials, Mr. Barnea, the Mossad chief, expressed opposition to continuing the payments — certain that some of the money was being diverted to Hamas’s military activities.”
“#Israel was blessing these #Qatari payments, even as Mossad intelligence assessments concluded that Qatar was using other channels to secretly finance #Hamas’s military arm.”
Snaps to support the above quotes at tweet below:
Tiberius@ecomarxi Dec 17, 2023:
“Don’t compare us to the Nazis”
Israeli councillors:
@JoshuaPHilll:
As a Jew I cannot fathom saying this. I cannot ever fathom saying anything remotely like this. Never again means never again for anyone, not let us enact a Holocaust ourselves upon others.
I would hope it’s safe to say “as a person” but I say as a Jew because I was a taught and taught and taught again the horror of those dark days. To see this from the mouth of a fellow Jew evokes such a sinking in my stomach and such pain in my heart.
Refer also to:
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Justin Amash@justinamash Dec 17, 2023:
Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy and celebration. But for Christians in Gaza—whose family members have been killed or maimed, whose homes and churches have been destroyed or badly damaged, and who suffer through sleepless nights of bombings—this Christmas will be one of great sadness and mourning. Please pray for peace and reprieve from the IDF siege that is devastating this ancient community.I think we need to do much more than pray.
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Wishing Steve Harper & MP Kevin Sorenson Merry Christmas: O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Subject: Merry Christmas
Date: 07 Dec 2010
From: jessica ernst email hidden; JavaScript is required
To: email hidden; JavaScript is required, Sorenson, Kevin – M.P. email hidden; JavaScript is required
O Little Town Of Bethlehem by Francis A. Boyle, December 3, 2010, Countercurrents.org
It was December of 1991 and I was serving as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations in Washington DC. The Israelis were stalling, not even negotiating in bad faith, and the Americans under Baker and Ross were doing nothing to get the negotiations started.
This had been going on for 3 weeks and Christmas was fast approaching. Those of us on the Palestinian Team who were Christian were wondering if we were going to be able to get home for Christmas–many Palestinians are Christian, the original Christians, going back to Jesus Christ and the Apostles themselves. I would periodically check in with my wife and 2 sons at the time–little boys. My poor, sweet wife had to do all the Christmas preparations by herself without me.
So the weekend before Christmas I called her up to say I still did not know if or when I would be coming home. My oldest son who had just turned 5 talked to me on the phone:
“Daddy why aren’t you home for Christmas?”
“Well son, I’m trying to help the Palestinians.”
“Daddy, why are you doing that?”
Hard to explain the entire Middle East conflict to a 5 year old, so I put it into terms he could understand:
“Son, you know that Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem don’t you?”
“Yes Daddy.”
“Well I am here with the Mayor of Bethlehem and some other Palestinian leaders. They are my friends and I am their lawyer. I am working with the Mayor of Bethlehem to help all the Palestinian Children have a merry Christmas.”
“Ok Daddy.”
We got the word we could go home for Christmas on December 23 and I got on the first flight out of DC. getting home just on time for Christmas Eve with my family.
Periodically I had attended UCC Christmas Season Church Services in town with my family. When it came time for prayers from the congregation, I always got up and asked everyone to help the Palestinians along the following lines:
“…Bethlehem is cut-off and surrounded by the Israeli army–the Church of the Nativity too. The Israelis are inflicting ethnic cleansing upon all the Palestinian, both Muslims and Christians. They are also pursuing a policy of deliberately forcing Palestinian Christians out of Palestine as part of a perverse strategy to turn a war of national liberation into a religious crusade, figuring it would play better in the United States. And these are the original Christians, going back to Jesus Christ and the Apostles. Meanwhile, the United States government is financing it all to the tune of $5 billion per year. Everyone in this Congregation has gifts given to them by God. So go out and do something to help the Palestinians!”
Despite my best efforts over many years, that UCC Congregation refused to lift one finger to help the Palestinians. So several years ago, I quit their Congregation and severed all ties with them. They are just a gang of moral cowards and hypocrites. They have nothing to teach me or anyone else about Christianity, let alone about peace, justice and human rights. They constitute the paradigmatic example of what the anti-Nazi martyr and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer called Cheap Grace
Francis A. Boyle, Champlaign, IL.
Professor of International Law
Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations (1991-93)
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Neither Harper nor Sorenson replied, thanked me or wished me Merry Christmas. I am not racist enough for them? Not cruel enough? Not white enough? Not evil enough? Not selfish and evangelical enough? I don’t steal and murder so do not deserve a response?
2013: Gerald Scarfe cartoon for Sunday Times, Bibi Netanyahu building his wall with bodies of Palestinians