Not Just a Granny

Not a hashtag

February 26, 2026 by notjustagranny

My friends, especially my friends in America,

I am Palestinian, from Gaza. Gaza is not a headline. It is not a hashtag on social media. It is my home. It is the room I grew up in. It is the street where I learned to ride my bike. It is my grandfather’s house, where he told stories of Jaffa and the orange groves. It is the voices of neighbors at night, the smell of bread in the morning, and my mother’s laugh as she tried to hide her fear.

All of it, every corner, every street, every home in this city, even my own home, has been reduced to rubble.

The sky is gray and heavy with smoke and dust, carrying the echo of destruction. There are no neighbors to greet, no streets to walk, no playgrounds for children, no markets, no life as we once knew it.

In Gaza, a home is not just walls and a roof. It is years of labor, hope, survival, and dreams. It is where stories are passed from generation to generation, where memories take root, where a family’s life grows. In a single moment, it can all vanish. Every coin saved, every hour worked, every plan for tomorrow can be destroyed.

Imagine for a single moment that you wake up in New York, Texas, or California and sirens scream through the city. The sky turns gray with smoke. A message flashes that your neighborhood no longer exists. You return and your home is gone. Every picture, every memory, every object that defined your life is erased.

Imagine all your work, all your extra hours, all the taxes you paid, every plan for the future destroyed in a single minute. What would remain of you? What would remain of your dignity?

In Gaza, this is not imagination. This is reality every day.

I do not write to incite hatred. I do not write to debate politics. I write because I am human. I watch my home erased. I watch my family’s life reduced to dust.

You in America understand hard work. You understand building a life step by step. You understand dreaming for your children. We are no different.

We do not ask for the impossible. We do not ask for privilege. We ask only for our children to sleep without memorizing the shapes of rockets before learning the alphabet, for death not to become a daily routine.

Imagine the world viewing your homes the way it views ours, as numbers, as collateral damage, as unimportant details in a security equation. How would that feel?

I am Palestinian. My home is not a number. My life is not a footnote in a report. My mother is not collateral damage. My dreams are not a postponed file.

My friends in America, I do not ask you to carry my grief. I ask only that you imagine yourselves in my place for one minute. If your home fell, if your labor was stolen, if your child asked, “Why is our home gone?” what would you do? What would you hope the world would do for you?

I do not write out of anger alone. I write out of fear for what remains of our shared humanity. When a home loses its meaning in Gaza, tomorrow it can lose its meaning anywhere.

See us as human beings, not as a conflict headline. Ask whether policies reflect your values. Ask whether peace can be built by erasing an entire people. Ask whether security can be achieved by denying millions their safety and rights.

During Donald Trump’s administration, American support for Israel continued without limits. The recognition of Jerusalem as the capital, the move of the embassy, and the Peace to Prosperity plan left Palestinian rights ignored. In Washington, these may be seen as political achievements. In Gaza, they are demolished walls, broken dreams, and nights filled with fear.

Every day and every hour, everything is under threat. Every step is a risk. Fear is constant. Life is measured in seconds of survival.

I do not ask for hatred. I do not ask for blind rage. I ask for fairness.

See us as human beings deserving of safety, just as you have in New York, Texas, or California. Imagine everything you built with your own hands disappearing before your eyes, your memories, your safety, your plans erased by decisions made far away.

I am still here. My dignity survives. I write so the world knows that Palestinian lives are not numbers in an election plan, but reality filled with rubble, loss, fear, destroyed homes, and broken streets.

Each day brings new destruction. Each hour is a test of survival. Every minute holds fear. This is not news on television. This is life here. Real blood. Real rubble. Real fear. Real loss.

Imagine walking down streets that once held children laughing. The shops are closed, the buildings hollowed, the walls collapsed. Every step could fall through ash or debris. Every breath carries smoke, dust, and memories of what once was.

Time does not heal here. It adds loss upon loss.

Look at us as human beings, not as a headline. Demand accountability. Ask whether policies made far away reflect your values. Ask whether peace can be built by erasing an entire people. Ask whether security can exist while millions are denied protection.

I am Palestinian from Gaza. I write about lives stolen, futures erased, and safety lost.

Politics is not only about interests. It is life. It is humanity. It is everything.
الله غالب

Fares Abulebda
26 February 2026

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Letter from a Rabbi

November 10, 2025 by notjustagranny

The letter is from a mixed race Rabbi in the US

A rabbi’s response to our President calling Jews “lacking knowledge and disloyal” if they vote Democratic:

Rabbi Danny Maseng writes:
As a Jew
Since you called me out as a Jew, Mr. President, since you thought to call me disloyal or lacking knowledge by not voting for you, I’d like to respond to you personally, even though I have no illusions you will read this.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to love the stranger who dwells among us no less than thirty-six times in the Bible you claim to treasure. I am commanded to have one law for the stranger and the citizen. No exceptions.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to pay my employees on time, including undocumented workers at casinos, construction sites, or golf courses.
As a Jew, I am commanded to repay bank loans and investors.
As a Jew, I am commanded to never bear false witness.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to guard my tongue and speak no evil.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to never embarrass my fellow human being in public, lest I be accused of spilling their blood – including Ted Cruz or the late Senator and war hero, John McCain.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I take great offense in my president attacking Denmark, a country that gallantly saved its Jews from the Nazis, while most of Europe fell asleep.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I take umbrage in my Grandfather, the sainted Dr. Rabbi Harry S. Davidowitz, who inhaled poison gas in the trenches of WWI as a US Army chaplain, being called disloyal because he voted Democrat.
As a Jew, born and raised in Israel, I take offense at you calling me disloyal to America AND to Israel because I oppose your inept, ghoulish, uncouth, deceitful, inhumane farce of leadership. How many tours of duty have you performed for Israel during wartime? Or, for that sake, the USA?
As a Jew, Mr. President, I reserve the right to oppose Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (neither of whom called upon the help of a former KGB operative to help them in their election to office), while simultaneously condemning your divisive, racist rants and policies.
As a Jew who has proud Republican family members who I love and cherish, I am ashamed of what you have done to the Republican party; to conservative ideals – even if I do not share all of those ideals.
As a Jew whose Christian uncle fought heroically at the Battle of the Bulge for our country and for the salvation of Europe – I am ashamed by the mockery you visit upon his sacrifice.
As the son of a Christian pilot, later converted to Judaism, who led American pilots to glorious victory over Nazi Germany, I am outraged by your embrace of neo-Nazi’s and racists in America (that same pilot, who became a squadron commander in the Israeli Air Force, and fought for Israel’s independence).
As a Jew, I am disgraced by your fawning adoration of the worst dictators of our century – you violate Christian and Jewish values by doing so.
As a Jew; as a well-informed Jew who loves and cares deeply for Israel and for America, I condemn you and call you out for the divisive fool, the ogre, the ghoul that you are.
May my soul not enter your council, let me not join your assembly.

And my reply…

All very nice but what about the Palestinians dear Rabbi. As a Jew do you call out genocide? As a Jew, do you condemn the willful and deliberate starvation of babies.
As a Jew, do you condemn Israel’s deliberate slaughter of babies and children and their families using bombs made in America and dropped by Israel.
As a Jew, do you condemn the rape of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers (they insult the word soldier)…forces would be a better word, since that is what they use!
As a Jew dear rabbi, do you believe that gentiles (me and many of the people who have read this post) are less than you.
As a Jew and an Israeli (double whammy there) do you believe that Palestinians, human beings in God’s image, are subhuman?
Dear rabbi, are you a Zionist?
I’ll answer on your behalf…yes to all above.
Much as I despise the orange jackass, I despise individuals like you even more. Your skin is like parchment. You feel insulted by, and object to the words of a ghoul (in that I can agree with you).
As for the rest…I’ll spare you my true thoughts as to your Zionism and your vile Jewish rhetoric about people who are ALL made in the image of God.
And do I think you believe all that crap about gentiles and lesser humans, yes I do…You’re a rabbi, therefore you will have studied the Torah from cover to cover, and many of us know what lies (both aspects) between those covers.
And talking about WW2, lest you forgot, many Jews collaborated with the Nazis in the genocide of Jews from Europe, you’ve used your Holocaust victim card for nigh on 80 years, and yet here you, and your lot are, committing genocide against the Palestinians in whose land Israel are the occupiers…people who gave your Jews from Europe refuge, people whose families you forcibly displaced, whose villages (over 300) you deliberately destroyed, whose families your ancestors (maybe even some of your family) killed…deliberately.
And yet you have the audacity to whinge about one sentence.
The orange jackass is an idiot, he’s demented, and you’re absolutely correct (much as it behoves me to agree with you)…he’s a ghoul.
Put your hurty feelings under you tallit, and get over it.
There are way more important issues in the world right now than your fragile ego.
Signed by an Atheist who believes that ALL RELIGIONS are evil and should be banned.

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The NYC Zionists are running scared

November 4, 2025 by notjustagranny

Laura always manages to hit the soft spot with a brilliant summary of the idiocy of Zionist New Yorkers…
Zohran Mamdani has scared the bejezuz out of them. Forgetting of course that their precious Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinians…but they’re Muslim, they’re expendable…till you note that the Israeli terrorists have destroyed a Christian Palestinian church and community too.

“New York has gone to the polls in the mayoral election and there is huge concern that scary brown terrorist Zohran Mamdani could actually win. Victory would mean Zohran could fulfil his Islamist agenda of making life affordable for ordinary New Yorkers. The concern is so grave that one million patriotic Americans plan to leave New York rather than pay to make their city functional.

There is a strong chance that New Yorkers will make the wrong choice like voters in Latin American countries that happen to be rich in natural resources. New Yorkers must have been turned into woke, gay, Islamists by TikTok or something because they have such an easy choice.

Andrew Cuomo is on the ballot, the corrupt career politician who sexually harassed 13 women, but New Yorkers somehow prefer the charming guy with an adorable smile who wants to make their lives easier.

Andrew Cuomo is such a great candidate that he has been endorsed by almost every Republican and billionaire, including Trump, and Zohran Mamdani is such a communist that he can’t get endorsements from his own party. What do you mean, this proves there is only one party?

We’re talking about communism here. Communism. That thing that ushers in authoritarianism and makes life unaffordable for ordinary people, unlike the current capitalist model which is working so brilliantly that Americans have to invade every oil-rich country to keep it going.

Zohran’s terrifying communist manifesto makes for truly grim reading. His Islamist public transport policies include flying a plane into Mar-a-Lago, making bus travel free, introducing bus lanes, and closing roads around schools to stop kids being run over.

Clearly, Zohran wants to raise another generation of snowflakes because he wants to introduce free childcare for under fives. Apparently, it’s a “problem” that 80% of New Yorkers can’t afford childcare, but only if you ignore sensible alternatives such as bringing back child labour. Make the little brats pay their own way, I say.

Disturbingly, Mamdani plans to freeze the rents of one million New Yorkers, hurting the passive income of hardworking landlords. Even worse, he wants to build affordable housing units and social housing so low earners can exist in their own city without working a 168-hour week. He even wants to phase in a $30 minimum wage by 2030. Next, he will be saying workers deserve “dignity”.

Perhaps Zohran’s most sinister plan involves piloting subsidised food stores in each of the five boroughs so all the people who’ve had their Snap benefits suspended can eat. Personally, I would gun the poor down in aid queues like the IDF does in Gaza. I’m sure society would be better off if we culled low-paid essential workers, instead of worrying about “affordability” for them.

The very obvious question is how is Mr Free Stuff going to pay for all this “affordability”? And this is where we have a gotcha because everyone earning less than $50,000 is gonna be so mad.

Zohran intends to raise the corporate tax rate to a whopping 11.5%, which is half of what someone earning $47,000 pays in income tax. How is that fair to the corporations that have worked hard to avoid paying their workers a living wage?

You could be forgiven for thinking things could not get worse, but you would be wrong, so very wrong, because Zohran wants to increase income tax on people who earn $1 million a year by 2% – a move that would have zero impact on their quality of life, but would help pay for public services.

Truly, this would be communism x”
Normal Island News

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I am Israel

October 16, 2025 by notjustagranny

I am Israel. I never miss a chance to claim victimhood while inflicting violence.

In 1947, the United Nations handed me more than half of someone else’s land. A gift I didn’t earn, from colonial powers who didn’t own it. I accepted. My neighbors objected. I called it war —and in the chaos, I began my cleansing. Over 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes—some fled, yes—but many were forced out at gunpoint, their villages razed, their names erased.

Then I planted pine trees over the ruins—to hide the memory. Forests where homes once stood. Parks over cemeteries. I made it green so the world wouldn’t see the black underneath. I called it “reforestation.” They called it erasure.

I am Israel. I have never chosen peace—only dominance.

In 1967, I launched a pre-emptive war and seized Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and Sinai. I claimed it was for security. I held onto it for power. I built settlements, one by one, choking Palestinian towns. International law said it was illegal. I ignored it. My map grew. Their freedom shrank.

I am Israel. I could have ended the occupation. Many times. But I always said no.

In 2000, at Camp David, I offered a patchwork of disconnected enclaves surrounded by walls, checkpoints, and soldiers. I called it peace. Palestinians walked away. I called them extremists. Then I built a wall, not on my border—but deep in theirs. I called it security. They called it theft.

I am Israel. I glorify militarism. I raise children to believe they are chosen.

My textbooks erase Palestine. My soldiers patrol streets with rifles pointed at teenagers. My media justifies bombings. My politicians joke about flattening Gaza. I send airstrikes to refugee camps, schools, and hospitals. Then I say they were human shields.

I am Israel. I elected Netanyahu. Again and again.

Not once, by mistake. But knowingly. I voted for leaders who vowed to crush the Palestinians, to expand settlements, to never allow a Palestinian state. My ministers speak of “the Arabs” as a demographic threat. My settlers burn olive trees. My mobs chant “Death to Arabs.” I call it patriotism.

I am Israel. I speak of democracy—but deny it to millions under my control.

I rule over millions who cannot vote in the country that controls their lives. I build roads they cannot drive on. I issue permits for them to breathe, to move, to live. I bomb Gaza, then seal it off and say it’s their fault. I say I left Gaza— but I control its air, sea, and borders. I say they are free — then I starve them.

I am Israel. I demand recognition — but give none in return.

I demand that Palestinians accept me as a Jewish state — while refusing to even say the word “Nakba.” I ignore the homes, lands, and history of those I displaced. I hold their keys in museums, not their hands. I deny the refugees their right to return. I make laws that call them “absentees,” even when they’re just over the hill.

I am Israel. I cry antisemitism — when what I fear is accountability.

I call any critic a hater. I blur the line between Judaism and Zionism, using one to shield the crimes of the other. I weaponize history to excuse apartheid. I manipulate trauma to justify conquest. I say “Never again” — but let it happen to others, by my own hand.

I am Israel. I will never stop killing and bombing and stealing land…you are next!

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Civilised we are not

October 15, 2025 by notjustagranny

I know we’re not meant to refer to the FACT that the Israelis are Jews, because it might hurt their feelings, but that is the reality…the Zionist Israeli Jews are… Jews. Apparently it’s also antisemitic!? Except that the Palestinians are Semetic, their history is Semetic, their DNA is Semetic. Whereas the majority of Jews in occupied Palestine are not, at all. It’s not in their DNA, it’s not in their history. Yes there are Jews living in Occupied Palestine who have a history there; Semetic Jews, like the Semetic Christians, the Semetic atheists, the Semetic Muslims, all with hundreds of years of history in Palestine.
Yes there are many Jews living in Israel; Occupied Palestine, who abhor what their government is committing in Gaza, but realistically they are still Zionists, (they support the state of Israel)…they have lived there quite comfortably for X number of years while just a few miles away, a whole population has been kept virtually prisoner in a tiny strip of land, that has been repeatedly targeted, abused, killed, deprived of human rights, by the Israeli jews and occasionally the IGF has ‘mown the lawn ‘. It’s abhorrent. And much as I appreciate them speaking out now against the genocide, why have they been so silent for the previous X number of years? Living in luxury, free medical aid, plentiful food, freedom of return if they go away for a while. Palestinians don’t have that luxury. As for the Jews of the US, and the UK and Europe and wherever else they have settled, what gives you the right to say the land is yours? It’s not. But that’s what Europeans have been doing for centuries; invading, occupying, subjugating, enslaving, killing, and even genociding millions of people in other lands. Hitler wasn’t the first…although he at least restrained his depraved ideology to Europe and Russia, and it’s apparent he’s not the last. The Israeli, Zionist Jews are upping the ante. Hitler exterminated babies to grandparents regardless of age, and Netanyahu is doing exactly the same. It’s abhorrent. You’d think that history would have taught us something. Civilised we are not. It’s clear that there are millions of people in the world who are more than comfortable with the genocide of other humans…Even in the so-called civilised world. Because of course we can’t possibly consider the Africans to be civilised, so Congo, Sudan, Darfur – all uncivilised countries, ergo it’s ok for them to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing, it’s what Europeans in their white supremacist arrogance expect. Civilised we are not. Racists? Definitely.

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Trump’s Peace Plan

October 11, 2025 by notjustagranny

Trump’s ceasefire
(It is a sadistic game. A merry-go-round of death. This ceasefire, like those of the past, is a commercial break.)

Via Chris Hedges; American journalist, author, commentator and Presbyterian minister.
“There is no shortage of failed peace plans in occupied Palestine, all of them incorporating detailed phases and timelines, going back to the presidency of Jimmy Carter. They end the same way. Israel gets what it wants initially — in the latest case the release of the remaining Israeli hostages — while it ignores and violates every other phase until it resumes its attacks on the Palestinian people.
It is a sadistic game. A merry-go-round of death. This ceasefire, like those of the past, is a commercial break. A moment when the condemned man is allowed to smoke a cigarette before being gunned down in a fusillade of bullets.
Once Israeli hostages are released, the genocide will continue. I do not know how soon. Let’s hope the mass slaughter is delayed for at least a few weeks. But a pause in the genocide is the best we can anticipate. Israel is on the cusp of emptying Gaza, which has been all but obliterated under two years of relentless bombing. It is not about to be stopped. This is the culmination of the Zionist dream. The United States, which has given Israel a staggering $22 billion in military aid since Oct, 7, 2023, will not shut down its pipeline, the only tool that might halt the genocide.
Israel, as it always does, will blame Hamas and the Palestinians for failing to abide by the agreement, most probably a refusal — true or not — to disarm, as the proposal demands. Washington, condemning Hamas’s supposed violation, will give Israel the green light to continue its genocide to create Trump’s fantasy of a Gaza Riviera and “special economic zone” with its “voluntary”relocation of Palestinians in exchange for digital tokens.

Of the myriads of peace plans over the decades, the current one is the least serious. Aside from a demand that Hamas release the hostages within 72-hours after the ceasefire begins, it lacks specifics and imposed timetables. It is filled with caveats that allow Israel to abrogate the agreement. And that is the point. It is not designed to be a viable path to peace, which most Israeli leaders understand. Israel’s largest-circulation newspaper, Israel Hayom, established by the late casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to serve as a mouthpiece for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and champion messianic Zionism, instructed its readers not to be concerned about the Trump plan because it is only “rhetoric.”
Israel, in one example from the proposal, will “not return to areas that have been withdrawn from, as long as Hamas fully implements the agreement.”
Who decides if Hamas has “fully implemented” the agreement? Israel. Does anyone believe in Israel’s good faith? Can Israel be trusted as an objective arbitrator of the agreement? If Hamas — demonized as a terrorist group — objects, will anyone listen?
How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which reiterated that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end?
How can it fail to mention the Palestinian’s right to self-determination?
Why are Palestinians, who have a right under international law to armed struggle against an occupying power, expected to disarm while Israel, the illegally occupying force, is not?
By what authority can the U.S. establish a “temporary transitional government,” — Trump’s and Tony Blair’s so-called “Board of Peace” — sidelining the Palestinian right to self-determination?
Who gave the U.S. the authority to send to Gaza an “International Stabilization Force,” a polite term for foreign occupation?
How are Palestinians supposed to reconcile themselves to the acceptance of an Israeli “security barrier” on Gaza’s borders, confirmation that the occupation will continue?
How can any proposal ignore the slow-motion genocide and annexation of the West Bank?
Why is Israel, which has destroyed Gaza, not required to pay reparations?
What are Palestinians supposed to make of the demand in the proposal for a “deradicalized” Gazan population? How is this expected to be accomplished? Re-education camps? Wholesale censorship? The rewriting of the school curriculum? Arresting offending Imams in mosques?
And what about addressing the incendiary rhetoric routinely employed by Israeli leaders who describe Palestinians as “human animals” and their children as “little snakes”?
“All of Gaza and every child in Gaza, should starve to death,” the Israeli rabbi Ronen Shaulov announced. “I don’t have mercy for those who, in a few years, will grow up and won’t have mercy for us. Only a stupid fifth column, a hater of Israel has mercy for future terrorists, even though today they are still young and hungry. I hope, may they starve to death, and if anyone has a problem with what I’ve said, that’s their problem.”
Israeli violations of peace agreements have historical precedents.
The Camp David Accords, signed in 1978 by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin — without the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) — led to the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, which normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and Egypt.
Subsequent phases of the Camp David Accords, which included a promise by Israel to resolve the Palestinian question along with Jordan and Egypt, permit Palestinian self-governance in the West Bank and Gaza within five years, and end the building of Israeli colonies in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, were never implemented.
The 1993 Oslo Accords, signed in 1993, saw the PLO recognize Israel’s right to exist and Israel recognize the PLO as the legitimate representatives of the Palestinian people. Yet, what ensued was the disempowerment of the PLO and its transformation into a colonial police force. Oslo II, signed in 1995, detailed the process towards peace and a Palestinian state. But it too was stillborn. It stipulated that any discussion of illegal Jewish “settlements” were to be delayed until “final” status talks. By then, Israeli military withdrawals from the occupied West Bank were scheduled to have been completed. Governing authority was poised to be transferred from Israel to the supposedly temporary Palestinian Authority. Instead, the West Bank was carved up into Areas A, B and C. The Palestinian Authority had limited authority in Areas A and B while Israel controlled all of Area C, over 60 percent of the West Bank.
The right of Palestinian refugees to return to the historic lands that Jewish settlers seized from them in 1948 when Israel was created — a right enshrined in international law — was given up by the PLO leader Yasser Arafat. This instantly alienated many Palestinians, especially those in Gaza where 75 percent are refugees or the descendants of refugees. As a consequence, many Palestinians abandoned the PLO in favor of Hamas. Edward Said called the Oslo Accords “an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles” and lambasted Arafat as “the Pétain of the Palestinians.”
The scheduled Israeli military withdrawals under Oslo never took place. There were around 250,000 Jewish colonists in the West Bank when the Oslo agreement was signed. Their numbers today have increased to at least 700,000.
The journalist Robert Fisk called Oslo “a sham, a lie, a trick to entangle Arafat and the PLO into abandonment of all that they had sought and struggled for over a quarter of a century, a method of creating false hope in order to emasculate the aspiration of statehood.”
Israel unilaterally broke the last two-month-long ceasefire on March 18 of this year when it launched surprise airstrikes on Gaza. Netanyahu’s office claimed that the resumption of the military campaign was in response to Hamas’s refusal to release hostages, its rejection of proposals to extend the cease-fire and its efforts to rearm. Israel killed more than 400 people in the initial overnight assault and injured over 500, slaughtering and wounding people as they slept. The attack scuttled the second stage of the agreement, which would have seen Hamas release the remaining living male hostages, both civilians and soldiers, for an exchange of Palestinian prisoners and the establishment of a permanent ceasefire along with the eventual lifting of the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
Israel has carried out murderous assaults on Gaza for decades, cynically calling the bombardment “mowing the lawn.” No peace accord or ceasefire agreement has ever gotten in the way. This one will be no exception.
This bloody saga is not over. Israel’s goals remain unchanged: the dispossession and erasure of Palestinians from their land.
The only peace Israel intends to offer the Palestinians is the peace of the grave”.

Chris Hedges: American journalist, author, commentator and Presbyterian minister.

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Zionism, what it is, and why it has nothing to do with religion, and the big lie

October 10, 2025 by notjustagranny

A “Zionist” is a supporter of Zionism, a nationalist movement for the creation and support of a Jewish state in Palestine, the historical homeland of the Jewish people. The term comes from “Zion,” a hill in Jerusalem, and describes someone who believes in the Jews’ right to self-determination in the Land of Israel. NB: There were 3 or 4 possible locations in countries other than Palestine that were considered for the establishment of this ‘Land of Israel’. It had little to do with Christ or the supposed Holy land. See the end of this for other locations that were considered. None of which have any links to where Christ was born.

Zionism emerged in the late 19th century in Europe as a response to antisemitism, aiming to establish a homeland for Jewish people.
Israel is a Zionist project. Conceived by
Theodor Herzl: The founder of the modern Zionist movement, Herzl, envisioned an independent Jewish state in the 20th century.
The movement is rooted in an ancient connection and religious attachment of Jews to the historical region of Palestine.
NB: PALESTINE!!!
Zionists support the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their historic homeland.
NB: That historic ‘homeland’ is ALSO the historic homeland of the Arabs; Palestinians who ultimately converted to either Christianity or Islam.
At that time, the population was a mix of Semetic peoples; Christian, Islamic, Jewish…the true Semites – NOT the Ashkenazi Jews from Europe who have NO genetic link to Palestine.
A central goal of Zionism was the creation of the state of Israel, which was declared in 1948 after World War II.
NB: AFTER WW2.

Zionism[a] is an ethnocultural nationalist[b] movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe, seeking to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine.[2] This region corresponds to the Land of Israel in Judaism and is central to Jewish history.[3] Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible. Ref Google

Zionism initially emerged in Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment.[5][6] The arrival of Zionist settlers to Palestine during this period is widely seen as the start of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Zionist claim to Palestine was based on the notion that the Jews’ historical right to the land outweighed that of the Arabs.
NB: this notion of a ‘right’ to a particular land is based on white supremacist colonialism.

The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
NB ‘ a small MINORITY!! But typical of white supremacist colonialism.

In 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence and the first Arab-Israeli war broke out. During the war, Israel expanded its territory to control over 78% of Mandatory Palestine. As a result of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, an estimated 160,000 of 870,000 Palestinians in the territory remained, forming a Palestinian minority in Israel.
NB: this was the Palestinians land as much as it was the land of the small minority of Jews in 1947/48.
But the Israelis forced 750,000 Palestinians out of their homes, their farms, their lands, their villages, and displaced to Arabs countries surrounding the newly formed Israel. If they refused to leave, they were killed.
The villages were razed to the ground and either rebuilt as Israeli settlements or covered with pine trees from EUROPE to hide the destruction.
Alternatives like British East Africa (Uganda) and Argentina were also seriously discussed. Other locations that were explored include Cyrenaica, Mesopotamia, Brazil, Paraguay, Nevada, Australia, Siberia, Cuba, Canada, Cyprus, Mozambique, the Sinai Peninsula, Suriname, and Madagascar.

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Kidnap in international waters

October 4, 2025 by notjustagranny

Somebody fixed the incorrectly worded BBC headline to reflect the truth.

Israeli pirates illegally board Gaza flotilla and kidnap activists including Greta Thunberg – far more accurate than “Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla and detains activists including Greta Thunberg”.

But I guess the BBC News wouldn’t let a little breaking of international law and piracy get in the way. They’re not here to present the truth, the reality of Netanyahu’s war crimes. Their journalists, editors et al are paid to suppress the truth, twist the reality to suit the Zionist Israeli terrorist agenda, and to ably assist with the #genocide of the Palestinians, and now the abuse of #globalsumudflotilla activists and volunteers trying to #BreakTheSiege and deliver #humanitarianaid to the people of #Gaza who are currently, deliberately, being starved by the #IGF and the devil’s spawn Netanyahu…another war crime, but they won’t let that get in the way of their hasbara. (Hasbara, a Hebrew word for “explanation” or “public diplomacy,” is a strategic communicative effort by the Israeli state and its supporters to explain and justify its actions and narratives to an international audience. While intended to provide information and a specific perspective, critics often describe it as a form of propaganda used to shape public opinion, promote a positive image of Israel, and counter negative narratives about its policies and the conflict with Palestinians.)
We simply can’t have the truth being reported…that would not fit the agenda of Keir Starmer or David Lammy and the rest of the government’s narratives. No. No. No. Can’t have that. 726 days of lies, untruths and dishonesty, plus 75 years of occupation. The British Broadcasting Corporation needs to keep up the pretence.

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The denial

October 4, 2025 by notjustagranny

Unfortunately the UK government The Labour Party and Keir Starmer and David Lammy are also complicit in the crimes being committed by Israel; now and for the past two years.
Israel has broken so many international laws and committed so many war crimes its difficult to keep up..the latest being piracy and abduction of humanitarian aid activists.
The government’s consistent denial of genocide muddies the water and deceives the electorate, especially those too uneducated or lazy to investigate for themselves.
We have to wonder why exactly, when it’s painfully, and horrendously clear that Israel is committing genocide, its been confirmed by various bodies of experts, our politicians continue to deny the reality, deny international law, ignore breaches of international law, ignore war crimes, ignore the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of human beings; Palestinians – babies, children, teenagers, pregnant mothers, fathers, grandparents and whole families!! Bombs (2,000lb US bombs on tents), snipers, drones, innumerable weapons of war aka killing machines, starvation, denial of basic medical equipment, denial of basic human rights (remember that Keir), and the basic tenets of human decency, all denied. Why?? What does Netanyahu have on you all? Because there is definitely something very dark and nefarious about this denial.
As normal citizens of the UK we are being harassed, arrested and incarcerated for lawful protest and free speech – against tenets of democracy. Even the International Criminal Court – ICC is dragging its heels. It’s gone beyond any reasonable conclusions, beyond any reasonable doubt. The evidence of a whole state gone rogue isn’t just mounting up, it’s already conclusive, undeniably conclusive; Israel is committing genocide and ethnic cleansing. Why are the majority of the world’s ‘leaders’ denying this? What exactly does Israel have on these individuals.

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The slaughter of babies

September 25, 2025 by notjustagranny

While our attention is focus on the #globalsumudflotilla the terrorist state of Israel is intensifying the slaughter of the Palestinians!!!! How are we not stopping this Keir Starmer David Lammy Yvette Cooper You’ve apparently recognised Palestine, mealy mouthed words, but what do you actually mean by this recognition. Because you’ve done absolutely nothing to stop the genocidal maniacs of Israel’s #IGF Is that vile monster Netanyahu keeping you on a short leash? Are you compromised? Are you actually working for the Zionist entity? We know you get paid by the LFoI, that’s already clear, but gas the illegal state of Israel upped the ante? Do you get paid extra per child beheaded or shredded? Do they give you a bonus for limbs ripped off? For the elderly obliterated? How do they keep count when so many people are buried under the rubble? When so many Palestinians are eviscerated and the pieces of body parts need to be collected by survivors and packed into plastic bags! How does it work then? A 💰 per bag of flesh, or is it weighed for payment per kg? How are the Israelis keeping you from being human and halting these atrocities? SANCTION. BOYCOTT. DIVEST. stop providing parts from your pot Starmer!!! Stop providing the RAF intel from those hired planes out of Akrotiri!!! There are independent journalists who ARE doing their jobs! They DO uncover your complicity !! Unlike the saps at BBC and ITV and Channel 5 and The Guardian The Telegraph CNN and so many others.
When are The Labour Party MPs going to dig their morals out the sewer and clean off the stench of Israeli money. But you know retirement…lush islands, swimming pools, fancy homes, free flights, good food, young girls…I guess that’s all way more attractive than stopping a genocide.

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