Israel kills American activist, terrorizes prisoners, as Biden admin shrugs – Day 335
CNN reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday was as clear as he has ever been that he does not believe a ceasefire and hostage deal is likely in Gaza in a sharp rebuke to the Biden administration’s insistence it’s close at hand. “There’s not a deal in the making,” Netanyahu told Fox News. “Unfortunately, it’s not close.” His comments stand in stark contrast to the relentlessly hopeful messaging from the Biden administration over the past months. On Sunday, President Joe Biden claimed that the parties were on the verge of a deal, and on Wednesday, a senior administration official claimed 90% of the agreement had been completed. That, Netanyahu said, is “exactly inaccurate.” UN Humanitarian Affairs: Israel is blocking entrance of explosive ordnance disposal equipment OCHA reports: The ongoing escalation of hostilities is resulting in widespread contamination by Explosive Ordnance (EO). While the exact number of EO-related casualties is unknown, there have been cases of people who died due to the explosion of EO, according to humanitarian partners. On 3 September, a Palestinian girl was reportedly critically injured by the explosion of an EO in southwestern Khan Younis and succumbed to her wounds on 4 September. Children face a heightened risk of being exposed to EO, as they usually play outside, tend to search for scraps amongst rubbish and rubble, and lack an awareness on the dangers of EO. Despite ongoing efforts by humanitarian partners to conduct in-person and digital Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) campaigns, educational material as well as minimum standard Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) equipment are refused entry into Gaza by Israeli authorities, therefore limiting the capacity of the mine action response. The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Cluster is concerned with the staggering increase in the cost of basic hygiene items. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), in July, the price of soap has increased 1,177 per cent and shampoo has increased 490 per cent across the Strip, compared to July 2023. Israeli army kills Palestinian girl in West Bank: Health Ministry Al Jazeera reports: A 13-year-old girl succumbed to her wounds after being shot by Israeli forces in Qaryout, a village south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. The village was reportedly attacked by Jewish settlers backed by Israeli forces when Bana Amjad Bakr was shot in the chest by an Israeli soldier. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams dealt with the “serious” injury after confrontations broke out in the village. Amjad Bakr was shot while she was in her bedroom, her father said. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she died. Settler attacks are common in the West Bank and have increased in scale and intensity since October 7. The Israeli army and settlers have displaced more than 1,200 Palestinians and destroyed hundreds of structures, according to UN figures. Israel pulls out of Jenin, but denies end of West Bank offensive Middle East Eye reports: Israeli forces have pulled out of Jenin after a 10-day assault, but the military has denied it is ending its operation in the occupied West Bank. The offensive, which has so far left at least 39 Palestinians dead, saw soldiers backed by armored vehicles and bulldozers targeting the city and its adjacent refugee camp, forcing the flight of many of the residents. Palestinians started returning to their Jenin homes on Friday, while those who had been trapped by the offensive were able to venture outside for the first time in more than a week. Israel said on Friday that it would continue its operation in Jenin until its “objectives are achieved”. The Palestinian Ministry of Health says at least 40 people (6 of them youths) have been killed in the West Bank since August 28 when Israeli forces launched a large-scale incursion into several towns and cities: 21 Palestinians were killed in Jenin; 8 in Tubas; 8 in Tulkarem; and 3 in Hebron. Footage originally shared by Israel’s Channel 14 correspondent showed Israeli soldiers detaining Palestinian children, women and men in Jenin, occupied West Bank, and forcing them to walk in one line. This is not Gaza. This is in the West Bank Israeli soldiers share footage with Netenyahu’s channel 14 depicting them humiliating young Palestinian girls, women and elderly in Jenin during their invasion to the city pic.twitter.com/y2DZz1rImP — Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) September 6, 2024 France arrests nurse who volunteered in Gaza Middle East Monitor reports: France yesterday arrested then released nurse Imane Maarifi who spent 15 days volunteering as a medic in the Gaza Strip. Notably, the arrest took place at a time when French soldiers who fight in Gaza enjoy total impunity. Thomas Portes, a lawmaker from the La France Insoumise, or France Unbowed (LFI) party, wrote that Maarifi has been released from custody. “The search of the home in front of the family leaves no doubt about the desire to intimidate the voices that are raised to support the Palestinian people and demand an immediate ceasefire,” he wrote on X. Maarifi attended pro-Palestinian rallies in France to share her testimony about the crippling situation in Gaza. She has also expressed her demand for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a boycott of companies supporting Israel.
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Photos and videos obtained by Haaretz show dozens of detainees lying on their stomachs while handcuffed, some without clothes, as a guard dog barks over their heads. The Prison Service described this as a "routine exercise." (screenshot)
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Israeli army kills American International Solidarity Movement volunteer during demonstration in West Bank

Various sources report:

During the weekly demonstration in Beita, Palestine, on the morning of September 6th, 2024, the Israeli army intentionally shot and killed an International Solidarity Movement (ISM) human rights activist named Ayşenur Eygi. The demonstration, which primarily involved men and children praying, was met with force from the Israeli army stationed on a hill. Initially, the army fired a large amount of tear gas and then began using live ammunition.

Ayşenur, who we (ISM) consider a martyr in the struggle, was the 18th demonstrator to be killed in Beita since 2020. She was an American citizen of Turkish descent.

She was involved with the Faz’a campaign, an organization that aims to support and protect Palestinian farmers from violations by illegal Jewish settlers and military forces.

The Israeli forces fired two rounds. One hit a Palestinian man in the leg, injuring him. The other round was fired at international human rights activists who were observing the demonstration from a distance, striking the human rights activist in the head.

Neither Ezgi nor the other wounded person posed any threat to the soldiers stationed on the hills adjacent to the site of the weekly march.

Eygi died shortly after being transported to a local hospital in Nablus.

The Israeli military admitted to firing at the demonstrators and said it was looking into reports that a foreign national was killed. The Israel Defense Forces said it “responded with fire toward a main instigator of violent activity who hurled rocks at the forces and posed a threat to them”.

The US has not said whether Eygi had been shot by Israeli troops. “We are urgently gathering more information about the circumstances of her death, and will have more to say as we learn more,” Matthew Miller, a state department spokesperson, said.

Asked if the US would take action against Israel, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: “First things first – let’s find out exactly what happened and we will draw the necessary conclusions and consequences from that.”

Eygi’s family released a statement declaring, “A US citizen, Aysenur was peacefully standing for justice when she was killed by a bullet that video shows came from an Israeli military shooter,” adding, “Given the circumstances of Aysenur’s killing, an Israeli investigation is not adequate.”

“We call on President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Secretary of State Blinken to order an independent investigation into the unlawful killing of a US citizen and to ensure full accountability.”

Ayşenur Eygi, 26, ‘was not a naive traveler – this experience was, according to one of her professors, the culmination of all her years of activism. Her friends say she was a longtime activist “bearing witness to oppression.”

She was remembered by friends and former professors as a dedicated organizer who felt a strong moral obligation to bring attention to the plight of Palestinians.

Eygi, who is also a Turkish citizen and leaves behind her husband, graduated from UW earlier this year with a major in psychology and minor in Middle Eastern languages and culture, Fani said. She walked the stage with a large “Free Palestine” flag during the ceremony, Fani said.

Ezgi is the third ISM volunteer to be killed by the Israeli forces in occupied Palestine. Rachel Corrie was killed in Gaza’s Rafah in 2003 after an Israeli soldier crushed her with a bulldozer. Tom Hurndall was killed in Gaza in 2004 by an Israeli sniper. An Israeli soldier shot Brian Avery in the face in Jenin in 2003. He survived the attack but was permanently maimed. The bullet ripped through his cheek and smashed his eye socket and jaw bones.

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Israeli Prison Guards Filmed Abusing Detainees; Prison Service Says It’s a ‘Routine Exercise’

Ha’aretz reports:

Israeli Prison Service personnel in the security wing of Megiddo Prison handcuffed and humiliated detainees on Friday morning, despite no unusual incident occurring in the prison.

Photos and videos obtained by Haaretz show dozens of detainees lying on their stomachs while handcuffed, some without clothes, as a guard dog barks over their heads. The Prison Service described this as a “routine exercise.”

The Prison Service said in response that it “maintains an operational routine for the safety of the prison inmates and the public. In this case, too, in an operation that includes intelligence [gathering], soldiers of the ‘Nachshon’ unit…raided terrorist cells, searched them and seized assault weapons and prohibited materials.” The service failed to present any of the assault weapons allegedly seized.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) has urged the United Nations to open an independent investigation.

The group has also said that the Israeli authorities are “deliberately” leaking images and footage of the torture of Palestinian detainees, explaining in a statement that this was “part of the competition between the ministers of the current government over who tortures and kills Palestinians more”.


UNICEF says Israelis refusing to facilitate polio vaccine campaign

Al Jazeera reports:

UNICEF says it is making every effort to distribute the polio vaccine in Gaza during the agreed-upon pauses in fighting.

However, it reported that Israel continues to deny medical teams access to communities in certain areas of southern Gaza.

Nearly 355,000 children have received the vaccine in spite of Israel’s lack of cooperation.

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from Khan Younis:



Israeli legislator calls on police to probe B’Tselem activist for ‘aiding the enemy’

Middle East Monitor reports:

Israel’s Likud Party Knesset Member Tally Gotliv called for the execution or life imprisonment of human rights activist Yuli Novak following her speech at the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

Novak, the executive director or Israeli rights group B’Tselem, told the UNSC: “Since Israel was founded, its guiding logic has been to promote Jewish supremacy over the entire territory under its control.”

She added that the far-right Israeli government has been “cynically exploiting” its citizens’ “collective trauma” since the 7 October 2023 infiltration of Israel by Palestinian resistance fighters.

It is doing this, she explained, “to violently advance its project of cementing Israel[i] control over the entire land … committing war crimes almost daily.”

Gotliv called for Novak to be probed by Israel Police “for the suspected serious crime of assistance to the enemy in war.”

She said that such a crime was an offense under the penal law, “which carries the death penalty or a life sentence”.

“Novak has shamefully put the state of Israel, currently engaged in a war for survival, at risk and assisted Israel’s enemies on various fronts,” the lawmaker wrote, accusing the activist of telling lies about Israel committing war crimes.

Gotliv was among the legislators that joined Israeli crowds to protest the arrest of soldiers accused of gang-raping a Palestinian detainee from Gaza held in the Israeli Sde Teiman prison.

NOTE: B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end. That is the future we are working towards.

B’Tselem (in Hebrew literally: in the image of), the name chosen for the organization by the late Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid, is an allusion to Genesis 1:27: “And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.” The name expresses the universal and Jewish moral edict to respect and uphold the human rights of all people.



Netanyahu is unequivocal about ceasefire and hostage agreement with Hamas: ‘There’s not a deal in the making’


Israel shells Lebanon with white phosphorus bombs, performs ground invasion drills

The Cradle reports:

According to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA), Israel targeted southern Lebanon with white phosphorus on Friday. “The area between Tal Nahas and Al-Hamams towards the Marjayoun plain is being subjected to artillery shelling with phosphorus shells, which caused fires to break out,” NNA said.

Israeli threats against Lebanon have escalated once again. The Israeli military said on 6 September that its Yiftah Brigade carried out drills this week simulating a ground invasion of Lebanon, moving along a “mountainous route” and “complex terrain.”

NOTE: Use of white phosphorus in civilian areas is considered a war crime due to its extremely dangerous effects on the human body.

White phosphorus ignites instantly when in contact with oxygen. It can burn through the human body, including through bone, causing severe, excruciating damage.

It can also cause extreme harm when inhaled, with risks of suffocation, cardiovascular failure, coma, death, and other lifelong effects. The substance burns at temperatures of up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7 – SEPTEMBER 5:

Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 5, 2024: at least 41,546* (40,878 in Gaza* – 11,308 women (28%), 16,715 children (41%) as of September 5. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.]

This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 691 in the West Bank (~148 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths.

Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

Ralph Nader earlier estimated 200,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza.

At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 23 from West Bank).
At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**.
About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced.
Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
Palestinian injuries from October 7 – September 5: at least 100,098 (including at least 94,454 in Gaza and 5,700 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how man Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.]

Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – September 5, 2024: ~1,452 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 288*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured.

NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.

*Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so.

**Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals.

***Approximately ten of the deaths listed above were Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah in fighting at the Israel-Lebanon border. The figure does not include the reportedly 53 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents.

† For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics.

Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here.

Hover over each bar for exact numbers.
Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org

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Big pharma corrupted medicine, I don’t trust it anymore
GUEST POST: by Julie Sladden, MD

Maryanne Demasi, PhD

Julie Sladden, doctor (retired) and writer, made the difficult decision in 2021 to decline the covid-19 vaccine and close her medical practice. Julie now works in politics, as a local government councillor and political adviser.


It was one of those conversations you never forget. We were discussing – of all things – the Covid injections, and I was questioning the early ‘safe and effective’ claims put forward by the pharmaceutical industry.

I felt suspicious of how quickly we had arrived at that point of seeming consensus despite a lack of long-term safety data. I do not trust the pharmaceutical industry. My colleague did not agree, and I felt my eyes widen as he said, “I don’t think they would do anything dodgy.” Clearly, my colleague had not read the medical history books. This conversation slapped me out of my own ignorance that Big Pharma’s rap sheet was well-known in the profession. It isn't.

With this in mind, let’s take a look at the history of illegal and fraudulent dealings by players in the pharmaceutical industry; an industry that has way more power and influence than we give them credit for.

Before I continue, a word (not from our sponsor). There are many people working in this industry who have good intentions towards improving healthcare for patients, dedicating their lives to finding a cure or treatment for disease. Some therapeutic pharmaceuticals are truly lifesaving. I probably wouldn’t be here today were it not for a couple of lifesaving drugs (that’s a story for another time). But we must be very clear in our understanding. The pharmaceutical industry, as a whole and by its nature, is conflicted and significantly driven by the mighty dollar, rather than altruism.

There are many players and different games being played by the industry. We ignore these at our peril. The rap sheet of illegal activities is alarming. It seems that barely a month goes by without some pharmaceutical company in court, somewhere. Criminal convictions are common and fines tally into the billions. Civil cases, with their million-dollar settlements, are abundant too.

A 2020 peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association outlines the extent of the problem. The group studied both the type of illegal activity and financial penalties imposed on pharma companies between the years 2003 and 2016. Of the companies studied, 85 per cent (22 of 26) had received financial penalties for illegal activities with a total combined dollar value of $US33 billion. The illegal activities included manufacturing and distributing adulterated drugs, misleading marketing, failure to disclose negative information about a product (ie significant side effects including death), bribery to foreign officials, fraudulently delaying market entry of competitors, pricing and financial violations, and kickbacks.

When expressed as a percentage of revenue, the highest penalties were awarded to Schering-Plough, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Allergan, and Wyeth. The biggest overall fines have been paid by GSK (almost $US10 billion), Pfizer ($US2.9 billion), Johnson & Johnson ($US2.6 billion), and other familiar names include: AstraZeneca, Novartis, Merck, Eli Lilly, Schering-Plough, Sanofi Aventis, and Wyeth. It's quite a list, and many of the Big Pharma players are repeat offenders.

Prosecuting these companies is no mean feat. Cases often drag for years, making the avenue of justice and resolution inaccessible to all but the well-funded, persistent, and steadfast. If a case is won, pharma’s usual response is to appeal to a higher court and start the process again. One thing is clear, taking these giants to court requires nerves of steel, a willingness to surrender years of life to the task, and very deep pockets.

For every conviction, there are countless settlements, the company agreeing to payout, but making no admission of guilt. A notable example being the $US35 million settlement made, after 15 years of legal manoeuvring, by Pfizer in a Nigerian case that alleged the company had experimented on 200 children without their parent’s knowledge or consent.

Reading through the case reports, the pattern of behaviour is reminiscent of the movie ‘Ground Hog Day’ with the same games being played by different companies as if they are following some kind of unwritten playbook.

Occasionally there is a case that lifts the lid on these playbook strategies, revealing the influence of the pharma industry and the lengths they are willing to go to, to turn a profit. The Australian Federal Court case Peterson v Merck Sharpe and Dohme, involving the manufacturer of the drug Vioxx, is a perfect example.

By way of background, Vioxx (the anti-arthritis drug Rofecoxib) was alleged to have caused an increased risk of cardiovascular conditions including heart attack and stroke. It was launched in 1999 and, at peak popularity, was used by up to 80 million people worldwide, marketed as a safer alternative to traditional anti-inflammatory drugs with their troublesome gastrointestinal side effects. In Peterson v Merck Sharpe and Dohme, the applicant – Graeme Robert Peterson - alleged the drug had caused the heart attack he suffered in 2003, leaving him significantly incapacitated. Peterson argued the Merck companies were negligent in not having withdrawn the drug from the market earlier than they did in 2004 and, by not warning of the risks and making promotional representations to doctors, were guilty of misleading and deceptive conduct under the Commonwealth Trade Practices Act 1974.

In November 2004 Dr David Graham, then Associate Director for Science and Medicine in FDA’s Office of Drug Safety provided powerful testimony to the US Senate regarding Vioxx. According to Graham, prior to the approval of the drug, a Merck-funded study showed a seven-fold increase in heart attacks. Despite this, the drug was approved by regulatory agencies, including the FDA and the TGA. This finding was later supported by another Merck-funded study, VIGOR - which showed a five-fold increase, the results of which were published in the high-impact New England Journal of Medicine. It was later revealed by subpoena during litigation, that three heart attacks were not included in the original data submitted to the journal, a fact that at least two of the authors knew at the time. This resulted in a 'misleading conclusion’ regarding the risk of heart attack associated with the drug.

By the time Peterson v Merck Sharpe and Dohme, and associated class action involving 1660 people, was heard in Australia in 2009, the international parent of MSD, Merck, had already paid $US4.83 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits in the US over adverse effects of Vioxx. Predictably, Merck made no admission of guilt. The Australian legal battle was a long, drawn-out affair, taking several years with more twists and turns than a cheap garden hose (you can read more about it here and here). Long story short, a March 2010 Federal Court finding in favour of Peterson in was later overturned by a full bench of the Federal Court in Oct 2011. In 2013, a settlement was reached with class action participants which resulted in a mere maximum payment of $4629.36 per claimant. MSD generously waived their claim for legal costs against Peterson.

What's notable in this battle was the headline-grabbing courtroom evidence detailing the extent of alleged pharmaceutical misdeeds in marketing the drug. The pharma giant went to the lengths of producing sponsored journals with renowned scientific publisher Elsevier, including a publication called The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine. These fake ‘journals’ were made to look like independent scientific journals, but contained articles attributed to doctors that were ghostwritten by Merck employees. Some doctors listed as honorary Journal board members said they had no idea they were listed in the journal and had never been given any articles to review.

But wait, there’s more.

The trove of internal emails presented in evidence revealed a more sinister level of operation. One of the emails circulated at the pharma giant’s US headquarters contained a list of ‘problem physicians’ which the company sought to ‘neutralise’ or ‘discredit.’ The recommendations to achieve these ends included payment for presentations, research and education, financial support of private practice, and 'strong recommendation(s) to discredit.' Such was the extent of intimidation, one professor wrote to the head of Merck to complain about the treatment of some of his researchers critical of the drug. The court heard how Merck had been ‘systematically playing down the side effects of Vioxx’ and their behaviour ‘seriously impinge(d) on academic freedom.’ This alleged systematic intimidation was extensive as it was effective. Result? Merck made over $US2 billion per year in sales before Vioxx was finally pulled from pharmacy shelves in 2004. In his testimony, Dr David Graham estimated that between 88,000 and 139,000 excess cases of heart attack or sudden cardiac death were caused by Vioxx in the US alone before it was withdrawn.

These systems of influence, manipulation and tactics were largely operative when Covid arrived. Add to that the ‘warp speed’ development of novel ‘vaccines’, government green lights, pharmaceutical indemnity and confidential contracts. Now you have the makings of a pharmaceutical pay day the likes of which we have never seen before.

It should come as no surprise then, the recent announcement that five US states – Texas, Kansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Utah – are taking Pfizer to court for withholding information, and misleading and deceiving the public through statements made in marketing its Covid-19 injection. That these cases are filed as civil suits under consumer protection laws is likely to be just the tip of the pharmaceutical playbook iceberg. No doubt the discovery process will hold further lessons for us all.


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Dr. Harvey Risch Warns: Covid Shots Are TOXIC
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By Frank Bergman August 25, 2024

A revered Yale University epidemiologist is speaking out to warn the public that Covid mRNA “vaccines” are a “toxic shot.”

Dr. Harvey Risch is professor emeritus of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.

Risch has been a prominent voice challenging the mainstream narrative surrounding the pandemic response.

In particular, he has been raising the alarm about Covid mRNA injections.

Risch has just published a new book to highlight the issues, titled: “Toxic Shot: Facing the Dangers of the COVID ‘Vaccines.’”

The book provides a comprehensive examination of the scientific issues surrounding the injections.

He warns that the Covid mRNA shots were “a global biomedical catastrophe.”

He notes that the experimental injections “fail to qualify as real vaccines by any measure.”

Viral immunologist Byram Bridle, Ph.D., co-authored the book and wrote chapters exploring why the mRNA shots are not real vaccines.

Brindle also weighs in on the government’s justification for mass vaccination, the likely mechanisms of immune system harm, and the suppression of information about vaccine injuries.

The book contains a foreword by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).

Several chapters also include contributions by numerous physicians and researchers, including Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Kelly Victory, Dr. James Thorp, Jessica Rose, Ph.D., and others.

The writers explore links between the vaccines and skyrocketing numbers of unexplained excess deaths.

They also highlight how the injections have been repeatedly linked to a range of serious side effects, including heart failure, cancer, impaired fertility, and over 2 million newly disabled people in the U.S.

In a recent interview with The Defender, Risch discussed the limitations of Covid shots.

He cited a study published in Science Translational Medicine showing that unvaccinated people who have contracted the common cold or COVID-19 have a reduced risk of getting subsequent coronavirus infections compared to those who received the vaccine.

Risch explained that the study’s findings likely stem from differences in T-cell immunity:

“T-cell immunity is the longer kind of immunity, not the circulating-antibody immunity that lasts for 3 to 9 to 12 months, and then declines.

“T-cells get stored in the bone marrow and are ready to be reactivated when rechallenged.”

He notes that the study proves natural infection provides broader and more durable protection against various coronaviruses than vaccination.

Risch said the implications of the study are significant.

He pointed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) estimate that as of Q4 2023, 87.2% of the U.S. population already had infection-induced antibodies to SARS-CoV-2.

“This statistic underscores the importance of considering the role of natural immunity in public health strategies,” Risch said.

This perspective challenges the CDC’s continued push for universal vaccination and booster shots, particularly for people who have already recovered from COVID-19.

“Why are we still all anxious over this?” Risch asked.

“Why are we still trying to make boosters after boosters after boosters?”

Meanwhile, an explosive new study has just confirmed that millions of Americans who received Covid mRNA shots have died suddenly as a “side effect” of the injections.

As Slay News reported, the study, conducted by two researchers from German Jordanian University, SEEIT, Computer Engineering Department as well as the University of Petra, Faculty of Information Systems in the Middle Eastern nation of Jordan, found that almost 3 percent of Covid-vaccinated people died after receiving the shots.

The researchers sought to compile an extensive list of all known side effects from the Covid mRNA injections.

The study, published in Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, found that 2.9% of people who received the shots were killed by the “vaccine.”

With an estimated 230 million Americans deemed to be “fully vaccinated,” the study asserts that 6.67 million were killed by the injections in the United States alone.

Source: slaynews.com

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Dr. Harvey Risch Warns: Covid Shots Are TOXIC
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By Frank Bergman August 25, 2024

A revered Yale University epidemiologist is speaking out to warn the public that Covid mRNA “vaccines” are a “toxic shot.”

Dr. Harvey Risch is professor emeritus of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.

Risch has been a prominent voice challenging the mainstream narrative surrounding the pandemic response.

In particular, he has been raising the alarm about Covid mRNA injections.

Risch has just published a new book to highlight the issues, titled: “Toxic Shot: Facing the Dangers of the COVID ‘Vaccines.’”

The book provides a comprehensive examination of the scientific issues surrounding the injections.

He warns that the Covid mRNA shots were “a global biomedical catastrophe.”

He notes that the experimental injections “fail to qualify as real vaccines by any measure.”

Viral immunologist Byram Bridle, Ph.D., co-authored the book and wrote chapters exploring why the mRNA shots are not real vaccines.

Brindle also weighs in on the government’s justification for mass vaccination, the likely mechanisms of immune system harm, and the suppression of information about vaccine injuries.

The book contains a foreword by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).

Several chapters also include contributions by numerous physicians and researchers, including Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Kelly Victory, Dr. James Thorp, Jessica Rose, Ph.D., and others.

The writers explore links between the vaccines and skyrocketing numbers of unexplained excess deaths.

They also highlight how the injections have been repeatedly linked to a range of serious side effects, including heart failure, cancer, impaired fertility, and over 2 million newly disabled people in the U.S.

In a recent interview with The Defender, Risch discussed the limitations of Covid shots.

He cited a study published in Science Translational Medicine showing that unvaccinated people who have contracted the common cold or COVID-19 have a reduced risk of getting subsequent coronavirus infections compared to those who received the vaccine.

Risch explained that the study’s findings likely stem from differences in T-cell immunity:

“T-cell immunity is the longer kind of immunity, not the circulating-antibody immunity that lasts for 3 to 9 to 12 months, and then declines.

“T-cells get stored in the bone marrow and are ready to be reactivated when rechallenged.”

He notes that the study proves natural infection provides broader and more durable protection against various coronaviruses than vaccination.

Risch said the implications of the study are significant.

He pointed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) estimate that as of Q4 2023, 87.2% of the U.S. population already had infection-induced antibodies to SARS-CoV-2.

“This statistic underscores the importance of considering the role of natural immunity in public health strategies,” Risch said.

This perspective challenges the CDC’s continued push for universal vaccination and booster shots, particularly for people who have already recovered from COVID-19.

“Why are we still all anxious over this?” Risch asked.

“Why are we still trying to make boosters after boosters after boosters?”

Meanwhile, an explosive new study has just confirmed that millions of Americans who received Covid mRNA shots have died suddenly as a “side effect” of the injections.

As Slay News reported, the study, conducted by two researchers from German Jordanian University, SEEIT, Computer Engineering Department as well as the University of Petra, Faculty of Information Systems in the Middle Eastern nation of Jordan, found that almost 3 percent of Covid-vaccinated people died after receiving the shots.

The researchers sought to compile an extensive list of all known side effects from the Covid mRNA injections.

The study, published in Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, found that 2.9% of people who received the shots were killed by the “vaccine.”

With an estimated 230 million Americans deemed to be “fully vaccinated,” the study asserts that 6.67 million were killed by the injections in the United States alone.

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Former UN rapporteur for Iran under fire for sharing stage with MKO terrorists
Tuesday, 27 August 2024 10:50 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 27 August 2024 10:50 AM ]

The former UN special rapporteur for Iran, known for his close ties with the Albania-based anti-Iran terrorist cult MKO, is again under fire for attending an event hosted by the group.

Javaid Rehman, who until recently served as the UN special rapporteur on the "human rights situation in Iran," was seen participating in an event organized by the MKO terror cult, where he presented another fictitious report on the “human rights situation” in the Islamic Republic.

The event, sponsored by the MKO terror cult, has drawn sharp criticism for Rehman's association with the group.

The event was announced on X (formerly Twitter) by MKO terror group leader Maryam Rajavi, prompting widespread backlash on social media, with netizens slamming Rehman's blatant hypocrisy.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani also criticized Rehman, stating that the former rapporteur "has served the MKO terror group on multiple occasions."

"Javaid Rehman has provided numerous services to the terrorist MKO. It was no surprise to see him attend the gathering of MKO terrorists," Kanaani wrote on his X page on Monday.

“His evident alignment with this terrorist group under the guise of the UN Special Rapporteur had been notified on many occasions to the UN authorities,” he added.

Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaee, a senior member of Iran’s Constitutional Council, also took to X to denounce Rehman's association with the MKO.

“Reports by UNSR (UN special rapporteur) should be ‘free from any kind of extraneous INFL, incitement, PRES, threat or INTRF...,” Kadkhodaee, a noted legal luminary, tweeted.

“Presence of ex-HR rapporteur alongside terror cults speaks volumes. Such SRs r NOT #HumanRights Advocates BUT defenders of terror & atrocity crimes.”

Many others on social media echoed these sentiments, calling out the hypocrisy of the UN rapporteur in sharing a stage with members of the notorious terror group who have blood on their hands.

“Javaid Rehman, former UN Rapporteur, who issued biased reports favoring the MKO, now freely attends meetings of this terrorist group,” wrote the Habilian Association, which represents families of Iranian victims of MKO terrorism.

“We’ve warned that the UN's selection process for Iran rapporteurs is not transparent. Rehman’s support for the MKO must be investigated.”

The MKO is responsible for the deaths of more than 17,000 Iranians during the 1980s and 1990s, using terrorism as a weapon against the Iranian nation.

The group was listed as a "terrorist" organization by both the United States and the European Union until about a decade ago. However, tensions with the Islamic Republic led to its de-listing.

Dead but not buried: How MKO terror cult lost ground, slipped into abyss
Dead but not buried: How MKO terror cult lost ground, slipped into abyss
The turn of events in recent weeks, from Albania to France, bear testimony to what was clear from the beginning – the multi-billion dollar investments in the MKO terror cult have been an exercise in futility. The cult is dead but not yet buried.
Rehman’s association with the MKO is not new, but it deepened during his tenure as the UN special rapporteur when he was accused of frequently pushing the terror group's bogus narratives.

Last month, Kanaani dismissed a report released by Rehman on the human rights situation in Iran as part of broader efforts by adversaries to tarnish the Islamic Republic’s image.

“UN officials, specifically the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), are legally responsible for preventing the exploitation of their positions to pursue biased personal or collective objectives against countries,” Kanaani stated at the time.

Rehman’s reports on Iran have often reflected the MKO’s propaganda, a connection that was particularly evident during the West-backed riots in Iran two years ago.

In an interview with Newsweek in October 2022, Rehman remarked that the riots “posed a threat” to the Islamic Republic but declined to comment on Western support for the bloody unrest.

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TOWARDS THE PERFECT MAN!(JAMES 1:4)

WHEN GOD IS OUR BIG BOSS!

A little under a year ago,we studied this subject,and some of the feedback that came was perverse in nature,as it didn't actually go the way they expected. We have mostly be used to the positive side of God being our Boss through our earthly employers,and how if we're faithful to them,God rewards us.

But we don't often want to consider that God requires certain unsolicited commitments from us...more than the way we freely or seemingly freely give to our earthly employers. We fail to recognize and realize that God also demands loyalty from us,even more than we can ever imagine...voluntary loyalty,not conditioned or forced loyalty.
By God's Grace and Mercy, today is another Sunday... Some are still there,while some are home already.

What's your motivation for wanting to be in church... your passion...is it about you or God?

The truth is that,it gladdens God's Heart when He finds us loving Him unconditionally. And like I always mention,that was both Job and King David's secret of success in an already broken world where *no lunch* is actually free. Job was able to tell Lucifer to his face that, he doesn't love God because of God's blessings,but because of God's Undiluted Faithfulness and Love for man,when he least deserves it. Hear him;
15. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

16. He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. (Job 13: 15-16)

King David even took it to an extraordinary level, taking his love for God to a height beyond normal comprehension...the Book of Psalms is a testimony to this fact...the extent he humanly could go to prove his love for God changed the known dynamics,in much the same way, when after Abraham released Isaac, God desired to make Abraham know how pleased He was, *HE SWORE BY HIS OWN NAME to forever bless him,for there was nothing higher with which He can swear...but,in David's case,God actually went the extra mile...Hear our Loving God;

20. I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

21. With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.

22. The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

23. And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. (Psa 89: 20-23)

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. (Psa 89: 28)

34. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

35. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. (Psa 89: 34-35)

Of course,God doesn't lie and can never lie,but HE YET WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO EMPHASIZE IT TO DAVID,THAT HE WILL NEVER LIE TO hIM. Isn't that amazing?
Why, because David loved God unconditionally...not because of what he can get from God.

ELEVATING MAN AS OUR BOSS ABOVE GOD, OUR TRUE BOSS!
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In our present day world,anyone in charge or even remotely connected to our source of income,is held as a demigod from our perspective. We do all we can and could to be in their good books...all just for mundane aspirations.

But God, without*WHOM*,we can't have a boss,not to mention source of income,we hold with derision.
Indeed,as individuals,we value our own reputation more than God's Own. We can afford to listen to (and in some instances,even inwardly enjoy)vulgar jokes made in God's Name,but we are ready to flare up,if same is said of us,or our human employers.

In Christendom today,leaders have a cult like followership among their members...let any *son of a bitch*(apologies) speak any unpatronising word about their *Daddy or Mummy GO*, you would be counted lucky if you left in one piece. I am not exaggerating...very many christians go extra mile to please their earthly pastors,but can't do same for God...the Author and Finisher of our faith.

When we're sick,we struggle to go to work,but tiredness will deny us being present in church. We run frantically when late for work,but we chat and can even stop to exchange pleasantries no matter how late we are for church.

I am reminded of my adolescent years then, usually we prefer the 1st service,but my dad(a very diligent security personnel), always makes sure we arrive church at least 10-15 minutes to the end of that 1st service,and you know what,we share the Grace together and close with them ..we have been in service for that Sunday,and from there,off to visitations until evening. It was a routine.

Our pastors do not dare scold or reprimand us,when we're wrong...that may be the end of church,but our employers will bully us,even when we are right,and we would humbly say *sorry sir*

Discipline us for a misdeed that deserves it...how dare him...we cross to another church,but receive a query from our bosses,we would send emissaries,wine and brown envelopes to beg for us.

If we can give to GOD just a meagre 10% of the fear, respect, commitment and reverence (not even love)that we overflowingly display for our earthly employers, CERTAINLY, THE DEVIL WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THAT SUCCESSFUL IN THE WORLD, AND OUR LIVES WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE BETTER THAN WE ARE TODAY.

Yes, it's true God is angry with us, and rightly so too,*HE TRULY IS MORE SAD THAN ANGRY,THAT UPON HIS CONTINUED UNFATHOMABLE SACRIFICE FOR US, WE STILL REFUSE TO LONG FOR HIM....some of the strange happenings around us are evident signs of God's displeasure for our relegating Him to the background of our lives,when we should be living for Him...He is sad... really,really,very, very sad...

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (Gen 6: 6)

But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. (Isa 63: 10)

We have to reexamine our relationship with God...are we according God the loyalty,love, respect and commitment He more than deserves?
Our bosses here,want us to fear them,but God desires us not to fear Him, but to respect and rever Him as our FATHER. Hear Him again;

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (Rom 8: 15)

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? (Mal 1: 6)

Remember,our salvation is not received by ONLY accepting Christ Jesus as our SAVIOUR, but more importantly as our LORD.

Let us return to God His dues,and we shall be the better for it, Amen !

Israeli media’s coverage of the rape of Palestinian detainees shows support for sexual violence in service of genocide
[email protected] August 23, 2024 Media, prisoners, rape, Sde Teiman, torture
Screen image from an Israeli Channel 12 report on the sexual assault and rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman prison. (screen image)


Israeli media coverage of the rape of Palestinian detainees demonstrates the widespread acceptance within Israeli society of sexual violence as a weapon of genocide.

By Jonathan Ofir, reposted from Mondoweiss, August 12, 2024

Israel’s drama around the investigation of ten soldiers suspected of gang-raping a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman torture facility keeps reaching new lows. The reaction from Israelis, not just on the right, but also in the Israeli mainstream, has revealed a lust for sadistic revenge and an obsession with Hamas that is used to justify releasing all hell on Palestinians, including sexual abuse.

In fact, the media coverage of events last week paints a grim and revealing picture of Israeli society.

It began when the mainstream Israeli Channel 12 broadcasted a report concerning the gang rape case. The report features a segment from the security camera that caught the rape taking place — with three of the soldiers holding their shields up so as to obscure the crime from the camera. They knew exactly what they were doing.

But beyond the harrowing aspect of the act itself is the nature of Channel 12’s report. A full fourth of the four-minute report dedicates itself to the scrutiny of whether the detainee was a “Nukhba” Hamas member — an elite fighter who participated in the October 7 attack. Such a focus reflects an obsession. It suggests that some people deserve to get gang-raped and have objects inserted into their anus, some less so.

Let us see what Channel 12 says on this issue:

“The terrorist that appears in the documentation did not participate in the massacre of October 7 and was not among the Nukhba forces. According to AMAN (military intelligence) information, he is a Hamas policeman who was involved in the drug-control department. In the intelligence report that was submitted in his case, it was written that despite this, he is counted with the force perpetrating acts of terror against Israel and it was emphasized that he represents a grave risk if released. Likewise, the terrorist was not arrested at the beginning of the war but in March. In contradiction to what was claimed, he was not a (military) Company Commander in Jabalia — the source of the mistake is in the interpretation of the initials — that is, not [military] M.P. [in Hebrew, military terminology stands for ‘Mefaked Pluga,’ or Company Commander], but rather M.P., which stands for ‘Mahane Plitim’ — refugee camp [in Hebrew] Jabalia.”

So, let’s pause here to just reflect upon what was said – this is a civil servant, a policeman. But anyone remotely connected to Hamas is considered a terrorist, because Hamas is considered a terrorist organization. Actually, it doesn’t really matter for Israel, because like President Isaac Herzog said in October, there are simply no “uninvolved civilians” in Gaza; they are all involved with Hamas.

But why is Channel 12 really going into all of this if it doesn’t make a difference?

Channel 12 is a centrist channel and is the biggest news provider. By taking us through these details, it is distancing itself from the perpetrators and their defenders, who are mostly from the far right. The channel also aired interviews and unhinged statements of the gang rape suspects’ attorneys. One of the attorneys, Nati Rom, claims that the Israeli soldiers were acting in self-defense, as if it wasn’t a premeditated gang rape case at all:

“He [the Palestinian detainee] tries to bite two soldiers, he tries to scratch another soldier, and when a taser is used on him he also resists, and attacks and scratches this soldier, and that’s why they are forced to use force in order to restrain him”.

Another attorney, Adi Kedar, complains that

“the military attorney office and military investigation unit are recruited fully, in a targeted and intentional way with all their forces … We are in a war — to invest all these resources for the sake of the rights of the terrorist against these ten heroes who really acted above and beyond, and against whom the suspicion is very very vague, it’s very disappointing, both at the legal level, as well as the personal level, and I hope this arrest will soon end.”

Channel 12 gave the lawyers airtime for their egregious statements without comment — supposedly a neutral stance. As Tali Shapiro commented on social media: “According to Israeli media, what’s important in the rape case involving military personnel is not so much the rape but rather how much of a Nukhba the victim is.”

Then, on Wednesday, Channel 14, the far-right channel which aired several snuff videos of these torture facilities earlier this year, featured a 10-minute interview with one of the rape suspects on its program, “The Patriots.” He is sitting there in an army uniform and a gun across his shoulder, with a black mask. The host begins by stating that the masked suspect is charged under the case with “the Nukhba terrorist, cursed be his name.” The suspect is complaining about what he sees as a witch-hunt and congratulates the right wing for rising up to protest it. He receives countless ovations. Asked about the security camera footage and the soldiers holding up the shields like that, he says this is just standard procedure. He chided Channel 12 and their journalist, Guy Peleg, for slandering the soldiers in the other mentioned report.

This is an unbelievable sight to behold — here is a partially subtitled version in Middle East Eye. And imagine, this guy is calling for law and order. While hailing the right-wing protests of the arrest, he nonetheless urges them not to “break into camps,” because it “hurts our good name.”

Another shocking development came the same day, during a Channel 12 morning news discussion.

The Channel 12 journalist and panelist Yehuda Shlezinger commented on the gang rape case:

“It interests my anus what they did to this Hamas person…From my perspective, the problem here is that it is not a regulated policy from the state to abuse prisoners. First of all — they deserve it. Maybe it will serve as deterrence.. It’s a worthy revenge, it’s just a pity that it’s not done in an institutional manner.”

Later, Ynet published an article with a title suggesting that Shlezinger “apologized.” Here is his “apology”:

“It was a mistake to say those things in a live broadcast. I was wrong. We need to get into them (sic), in the strongest possible manner, like I saw the heroic soldiers do it in Khan Younis, Jabalia, and Rafah … The terrorists need to be executed according to law. To let the state deal with them, to remember and to remind what Amalek did to you.”

So, Shlezinger is now once again referring to the biblical Amalek story, suggesting total genocide down to babies and animals. This is his “apology.” By the way, the systematic abuse of prisoners is already established state policy — but not necessarily gang rape.

Channel 12 tried to distance itself from Shlezinger’s views expressed on air. The production “regretted” the discussion and noted that it was said to Shlezinger that those things should not have been said. The host, Niv Raskin, said that he “distances himself from those sayings,” and that “it would have been right to do so in the broadcast itself” (which he didn’t do — the challenge to Shlezinger came from Haaretz journalist Josh Breiner). Raskin notes that “Shlezinger expressed remorse over the sayings and issued an apology.” But the “apology,” as we see, invokes genocide and is merely a regret of having advocated for rape on air.

The broadcaster Keshet “unequivocally condemned the statements that were said today on live broadcast,” asking the production “not to invite Shlezinger to the morning program in the near future.”

A day later, on Thursday, Middle East Eye released another testimony of a male Palestinian prisoner who was subject to rape, reporting on the systematic sexual abuse, but this time with an additional angle — female teenage soldiers raping men. It must be noted that the whole phenomenon of men testifying openly, with their name and on video, is something that had not existed pre-October 7. The shame related to such occurrences meant that, on the rare occasion where it was reported, it would be anonymous. But now we have seen a series of such testimonies, which demonstrates not only the systematic nature of the abuse but also the fact that these men are now willing to put their privacy and personal dignity aside to help change the reality for their brethren still undergoing the abuse on a daily basis.

Ibrahim Salem, who was released last week after nearly eight months of detention, told Middle East Eye of his torture and interrogation at Sde Teiman (trigger warning):

“I noticed that [the soldier] was glueing something on me. Then I started shaking. He was electrocuting me. He electrocuted me in sensitive spots and hit me in these spots.”

The report continues:

“Though it was rampant, inmates rarely spoke about it to each other, he said. It was embarrassing for many to admit, especially when they were raped by female soldiers, who were sometimes in their teens. It was common practice for soldiers to strip detainees naked, insert objects into their rectum and grab their genitals aggressively when they changed. When word got around that a prisoner in his 40s was raped, Salem kept getting close to him until he told him what happened to him.

‘He told me he was raped by a female soldier,’ Salem told Middle East Eye. When he asked him how it happened, the prisoner explained it would take place in the presence of another soldier in the room. The prisoner would be bent over a desk with his hands placed in front of him, handcuffed. The female soldier, standing behind him, would insert her fingers and other objects into his rectum.

Salem said he was also touched in his private parts by a female soldier and had objects inserted in his rectum at some point.”

Last week began with the Israeli human rights non-governmental organization B’tselem releasing a new report on Monday titled “Welcome to Hell – The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps,” which makes the point that Sde Teiman is “only the tip of the iceberg.” So everything above is not exceptional. It’s the product of a system.

And this is partly why this one story of gang rape is making the headlines in Israel, although for various and opposing reasons. The right wing wants the story to be justified and to go away so that soldiers can continue abusing Palestinian detainees with impunity. The center and left mostly want it prosecuted so that it can be chalked up to a few “bad apples.” This was the case with the murder case of Elor Azarya in 2016 — where the medic-soldier shot an already incapacitated Palestinian suspect in the head at point-blank range. Azarya was also caught on video. Although what he did happened “tons of times,” according to his comrades, he was to serve as the “bad apple,” which in turn would prove the innocence of the system. Azarya’s trial was a sham, and he eventually returned home to a hero’s welcome after a nine-month prison term. This is roughly what we should expect here. The Israeli center needs to differentiate between the murdering Zionist, the gang-raping Zionist, and the liberal Zionist.

But the rot is way too overwhelming. It won’t help to close down Sde Teiman. This story is about the systemic usage of sexual violence as a weapon of genocide. And Sde Teiman is just a reflection of Israeli society, a cog in a network of torture that reflects and replicates an overall rape culture.

Jonathan Ofir is an Israeli musician, conductor and blogger / writer based in Denmark.

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JUST A MINUTE PLEASE !(THE PREACHER'S CORNER)

AND CHRIST JESUS WEPT AND WEEPS FOR US STILL! (JN.11:35 and ISA.53:3)

Brethren, there are hard practical christian facts we need to know about our relationship with God. As usual, I am not left out. I am talking to myself as I talk to you.

Now, Jn. 11:35 is the shortest verse in the Bible. Jesus wept, isn't it?
What about this;
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isa 53: 3)

God's emotions look closest to ours when we look at Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus being God in human form, cried just as other people (Philippians 2:6–11). When Lazarus died, "Jesus wept," even though He knew that He would raise him from the dead (John 11:34–44).

Christ Jesus' life on the earth shows us the empathy of God the Father. In fact, Christ Jesus told His disciples this truth: "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9).

How many of us have taken time to wonder why God will cry? Forget the excuses given in Jn. 11 by idlers. Our lack of absolute trust in Him, TRUST THAT IS ABSOLUTELY STRONG ENOUGH FOR US TO KEEP US FROM "DELIBERATELY" DOING THINGS THAT HURT HIM,[EVEN IF IT MEANS TO DIE], AFTER HIS GREAT SACRIFICE FOR US!

God has emotions too, after all He breathed His Life into us . He desires an untainted relationship with us. Especially in the most seemingly impossible of all times.
INSTEAD, WE CAST OUR BLAMES ON HIM WHEN THINGS TURN SOUR, EVEN YELL AT HIM AS THE CAUSE OF OUR MISFORTUNES, WHEN WE OUGHT TO, AND SHOULD BE BLAMING OURSELVES.
I REPEAT, GOD HAS EMOTIONS TOO.

But, 99.9% of the time, after yelling at Him, He chose to yet LOVE US, instead of becoming angry, because HIS VERY ESSENCE IS LOVE... THE REASON WHY THEOLOGY IS ACTUALLY AN INSULT ON GOD'S PERSON, (ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT WANTS TO KNOW THE COLOUR OF HIS PANTIES)
I foresee us having a part two of this, so I will take it slowly.

FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE DO KNOW THAT GOD DESIRES A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM;
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for THY PLEASURE they are and were CREATED. (Rev 4: 11)
Before we go to Eden's Garden, take a look at prophet Isaiah in Chapter 6. He forgot his relationship with God... for chapter 1-5, when he feels like it, he goes out proclaim God's Word and return to relax in the comfort of King Uzziah's palace. But that wasn't what God wanted with him and for him, thus Uzziah had to leave the scene for ISAIAH TO COME TO SELF REALIZATION;{Isa.6:1-13};

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. (Isa 6: 1)

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. (Isa 6: 5)

7. And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. (Isa 6: 7-9)
I hope we understand this. Isaiah thought his relationship with God as His prophet was okay, but it wasn't. JUST LIKE SOME OF US TODAY... GOD WANTED MORE, BUT WE AREN'T WILLING TO. AND WHEN THINGS DON'T GO THE WAY WE WISH, WE NEVER YELL AT OURSELVES, BUT WE YELL AT GOD FOR FAILING US.

Isaiah was fortunate, not everyone has that grace(I consider myself to be fortunate too when I think of this). God loved Isaiah so much that HE HAD TO REMOVE THE BARRIER... KING UZZIAH, TO ALLOW HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH ISAIAH TO THRIVE.

This is why I tell us always that politics and state affairs can NO LONGER thrive together. The current political terrain is no longer healthy for a consecrated believer. What we owe them is our prayers not participation, you will compromise as a matter of fact. We don't have many Daniels and Josephs today,and even if we do,they can't get there without soiling their garment of praise.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. (Dan 1: 8)

7. And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
8. But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
9. There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? (Gen 39: 7-9)

And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. (Gen 39: 12)

All what I have said so far is about our SELF-REALIZATION, WHOM WE ARE IN CHRIST JESUS. ARE WE SERIOUS ENOUGH WITH THAT SELF-REALIZATION TO JUMP OVER EVERY SNARE THAT THE DEVIL WILL CERTAINLY THROW ON OUR PATHS?

When we lose the knowledge of Whom we are with God, we lose our position with God. At that point, anything can happen, and if it does happen, please don't YELL AT GOD. He has emotions. If He chooses to be angry, we can't survive it, and if He chooses to continue in His Love for, He will flog us through chastisement. I am a living testimony of this, believe it or not.

Like I said, it seems we have to take this gradually for a better comprehension. We shall be back. There's more to say, by His Grace and Mercy !

JUST A MINUTE PLEASE !(THE PREACHER'S CORNER)

CHRIST JESUS WASN'T KIDDING ON OUR LOVE GETTING COLD AT THE END TIMES! [REV.2:4]

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. (Rev 2: 4)

I think a good question will be how we lose our first Love and grow cold in the End Times?

We have spoken a lot on Christ Jesus' return . It has not happened yet; it’s yet to come in the future. When? We don't really don't know (even as people continue to set false dates). But what is certain is that the signs HE GAVE US AS A HINT TO HIS UNPUBLISHED RETURN ARE ALL AROUND US TODAY. EVEN IF WE DENY THEM,WE DO SO AT OUR RISK. AND ONE OF THE MOST COMMON OF THE HINTS IS *OUR LOVE GROWING COLD!* WE WANT TO LOOK AT IT.

Now please remember again,we are all in this together. Whatever I say applies to me too,though I always pray that these don't stand as judgement against me,when I get to meet our FATHER,I think it should be your prayer too...and it can only come about our obedience not as card carrying Christians but as Children of the Most High God.

Now in Matt.24:12, Christ Jesus Himself broach the subject;
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. (Mat 24: 12)

And our ever serious Paul made a reference to it when admonishing his son in the Lord, Timothy;

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2Ti 3: 1)

Undoubtedly, it's happening around us... perilous times (when there will be no brother's keeper). Then the rules of the jungle takeover "survival of the fittest!"

HOW IT ALL BEGAN.

Christ Jesus had just looked at the temple in Jerusalem and said, “Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down” (Matthew 24:2). And then the disciples asked him, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” (Matthew 24:3).

Now,that particular event our Lord referred to has come and gone, when He wept that Jerusalem didn't know the time of its visitation (may it not be our portion) That event took place around 70 AD.

But we missed out something, most of us that think that event is the end times spoken about. There is a phrase there *end of the age* This refers to the phase of history that we are in right now that will culminate in the ending with the coming of Christ Jesus ,not as SAVIOUR anymore but as JUDGE in judgment, separating the sheep and the goats, raising the dead. We know that because of the way the phrase is used in Matthew 13:39–43, where Jesus interprets the parable of the weeds like this:

The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

But the disciples couldn't get the full picture,and so continued to ask for more understanding. And it wasn't permitted to name the year, month,week,day or time. So, Christ Jesus gave another clue;

Many will come in my name, saying, “I am the Christ,” and they will lead many astray. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the END IS NOT YET. (Matthew 24:5–6)

“Hate is the final outcome of hypocritical love — just the shell of love where the warmth has gone out.”
So, Christ Jesus says, “THE END IS NOT YET.”
Christ Jesus has the end in view, but He warns them that there’s going to be SOME TIME LAPSE HERE. It’s not the very end yet. The end is not yet. These things will be happening on the way to the end. This will be your experience leading up to the end. Then Christ Jesus adds, “All these are but the BEGINNING OF THE BIRTH PAINS” (Matthew 24:8), to make clear that there is some time lapse before the end. This is the beginning of the birth pangs. They will last for some unspecified time, and then there will be the END OF THE BIRTH PANGS AS THE NEW ORDER IS BROUGHT TO BIRTH.

THEN TO THE FIRST LOVE GROWING COLD!
Hear Christ Jesus again;

And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because LAWLESSNESS Will BE INCREASED, THE LOVE OF MANY WILL GROW COLD. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, AND THEN THE END WILL COME. (Matthew 24:10–14)

SO HOW DOES LOVE GROW COLD AND THE SIGNS?

Cold love is the opposite of warm familial affection.
For example, in Genesis 43:30, when Joseph was about to reveal his identity to his brothers, it says, “Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep.” We see the same thing in Hosea 11:8. God says to Israel, “How can I give you up, O Ephraim? . . . My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.”

So, cold love is the shell of love that has lost its inner familial warmth.

Cold love betrays.
The effect of this coldness is that brother betrays brother. Matthew 24:10, “Then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.” That hate is the final outcome of hypocritical love — just the shell of love where the warmth has gone out, and ice has come in, and the upshot is no longer just hypocritical love but rather hate that betrays brother to brother.

Cold love results from lawlessness.
Christ Jesus says that the reason for this upsurge of cold, hypocritical love that eventually betrays a brother is owing to the increase of lawlessness. Matthew 24:12, “Because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.” That’s worth thinking about, because you might want to turn it around like this: “Because love grew cold, there’s a lot of lawlessness.” The root of this growing coldness of love in the church toward each other is a deep hostility to authority. That’s a plausible interpretation of lawlessness: a deep hostility to authority, especially God’s authority. That’s what lawlessness is, at root. “I will not submit to law from outside my sovereign self. I’m not going to yield to authority anymore.”
WHY DO YOU THINK PASTORS ARE FIGHTING ONE ANOTHER FROM THEIR PULPITS AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA? THE FIRST LOVE HAS DIED,NOT ONLY GROWN COLD... IT'S WHY LAWLESSNESS THRIVES IN OUR PULPITS TURNED PODIUMS.

Now, to use the language of Paul, the church becomes infected with “the mind of the flesh” rather than “the mind of the Spirit”:

The mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. [That’s lawlessness.] Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 8:7–8)

The upsurge of lawlessness is the upsurge of self, the mind of the flesh over God, the insubordinate, “I will not submit,” stiff-necked self. And Paul speaks directly to this lawlessness in 2 Thessalonians 2 in relation to the second coming. He says that a GREAT APOSTASY MUST COME BEFORE THE END, along with “the MAN OF LAWLESSNESS” (2 Thessalonians 2:3). Make that connection between Matthew 24 and 2 Thessalonians 2.

ISN'T THIS WHAT'S CURRENTLY HAPPENING IN OUR PULPITS (ESPECIALLY IN NIGERIA CURRENTLY?) HAVE WE NOT NOTICED THE THREADS OF THE APOSTASY PAUL SPOKE OF?

The mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Christ Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. (2 Thessalonians 2:7–8)

So, just when anti-authoritarian lawlessness inside and outside the church seems to be reaching its fevered peak in history, Christ Jesus will step forward and return on the clouds, and there will be a great reversal.

Cold love must be combatted.
How can we prevent coldness of love from taking over our own hearts. Since cold love, Christ Jesus says, comes from the increase of lawlessness, we must fight upstream, so to speak, from the river of love. We’ve got to get up there to the springs. We must fight against arrogance and pride and self-sufficiency — that is, against the spirit of lawlessness in our hearts that says, “I will not submit. I don’t like people telling me what to do, least of all an omnipotent God.”

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. (Rev 2: 4)

“The root of growing coldness of love in the church toward each other is a deep hostility to authority.”
Lawlessness means we want to be our own law. We don’t want anybody — especially an Infallible, Omnipotent God — telling us what to do. We want to create our own meaning, create our own identity, create our own rules. And when this happens, we have cut ourselves off from Christ Jesus and from the Holy Spirit — and therefore from love.

Let me end with the way Hebrews 10:24–25 exhorts us in view of the second coming:

Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and do good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
May these words minister to our hearts in Christ Jesus' Name Amen! ,!

Palestinians’ harrowing stories of rape by Israeli soldiers (including female soldiers)
[email protected] August 11, 2024 palestinian prisoners, prison rape, Sde Teiman, sexual violence
A new investigation from Israeli human rights organization reports that Israel is carrying on a "systematic, institutional policy focused on the continual abuse and torture of all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel." (screengrab)


Two stories of Israeli sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners, and the sadistic reason why they do it

After spending eight months in Israeli detention, Ibrahim Salem was released last week and is now in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)
After spending eight months in Israeli detention, Ibrahim Salem was released last week and is now in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar) (photo)
‘Raped by female soldiers’: Palestinian in leaked Sde Teiman photo speaks out

The man in the famous photo, Ibrahim Salem, spent eight months in Israeli detention, where rape, electrocution and beatings were routine

By Mohammed al-Hajjar in Deir al-Balah, occupied Palestine and Nader Durgham in Beirut, reposted from Middle East Eye, August 8, 2024

Editor’s note: This article contains distressing details

Blindfolded, arms behind his head and standing by the barbed wire fence of the Israeli Sde Teiman detention camp.

It was one of the first photos leaked from the notorious army base, where thousands of Palestinian prisoners were held without charge and routinely tortured.

The man in the picture, Ibrahim Salem, was released last week after nearly eight months of detention.

He told Middle East Eye that the photo, first published by CNN, was just the tip of the iceberg of his horrific experience in detention, which included rape, electrocution and frequent beatings.

“Most of the prisoners will come out with rectum injuries [caused by the sexual assault],” Salem, 36, told Middle East Eye.

The prisoners will tell each other it is hemorrhoids, he added, but most are just avoiding admitting they had been raped, sometimes by female soldiers.

In the following eyewitness account, Salem recalls his ordeal, starting from his arrest at a hospital in Gaza until his release.

The abduction

Salem was in the intensive care unit in northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital when Israeli forces raided the facility in December 2023.

He stayed beside his children, who were severely wounded in an Israeli strike on their home.

His siblings, along with several of their children, were killed in the attack.

“When the army came in, they asked for all the men to go down to the square,” Salem said.

But the doctor handed him his children’s reports and instructed him to stay with them in the ICU to explain their critical condition to the soldiers if they came.

“The army came in and asked me: ‘What are you doing here?’ So I gave them the reports and told them in Arabic: ‘Those are my children; they cannot move in the ICU.’ And they were truly in a coma, two of them and the third one was burned,” he recalled.

“Another soldier held the reports, read them and told them ‘take him’.”

As Salem was taken alongside many other men, Israeli soldiers ordered them to take off their clothes before being placed in a big hole at an unknown location.

There, under the rain, soldiers started beating and insulting the Palestinians, who had their hands and legs tied.

Salem says the insults included “we fucked the Nukhba [an elite unit in Hamas’ military wing]” and “we fucked your mother”.

“They went to the man near me and told him: ‘Raise your head.’ So, he did that and they told him: ‘Say, I am the son of a whore. Say, my sister is a whore.’ And things like that, and the man would repeat after them.”

Eventually, the group of roughly 100 men was taken to a detention centre in the Negev desert.

They were left in their underwear while it rained for two nights before being given light overalls and taken to the barracks, he said.

“Of course, your hands are tied behind your back, your legs are also tied and you are blindfolded.”

In the cell, the prisoners’ legs were untied but they were left without food for two days. One small bottle of water was shared among all of them.

Afterwards, they were called in one by one for interrogations.

Sde Teiman

One day, Salem complained, asking the soldiers why he was detained and what he might have done.

That is when he was taken to Sde Teiman, an Israeli military base doubling as a detention camp for Palestinians taken from Gaza since Israel launched its ground invasion of the besieged enclave in October of last year.

“It was the worst nightmare,” Salem said about the 52 days he spent at Sde Teiman.

Detainees were punished regularly there and constantly insulted by guards in what he called an attempt to “harm you mentally”.

“Anyone who moves in a certain way gets punished. If you ask to go to the bathroom, you get punished,” he explained.

“You stand on one leg for two hours, then they would tell you: ‘Do you want me to help you?’ And when you say yes, they tell you to say, ‘I am the son of a whore, I am the brother of a whore’, to say ‘Netanyahu fucked my sister, am Yisrael chai [the people of Israel live]. Now repeat after me, am Yisrael chai! Am Yisrael chai! A hundred times’.”

“They would say: ‘No, I didn’t like that, repeat it once more.’ And you keep repeating it hundreds of times and then you see that you have been standing for two hours, so all this was for nothing.”

Then there was the beating, he said.

“I remember a chair was broken on my chest. While I was tied and handcuffed, he slammed a chair [on me] and it broke on my chest. I do not know [why].”

During that incident, the soldier was on the phone with his girlfriend, Salem added.

He turned the screen to him and had his girlfriend insult him as well.

“He would tell me: ‘We will play football with your heads in Gaza. We will turn Gaza into a football field to play with your heads and your women’s heads.”

Electrocution

Some of the worst forms of torture took place during interrogations.

One time, when Salem confronted a soldier over the killing of his young nephews, his punishment was electrocution.

“He asked me where the rockets were and where the hostages were. You are asking me? What do I have to do with the hostages and how am I supposed to know where they are anyway?”

“I was in Kamal Adwan [Hospital]. You killed my siblings; you bombed our home. How am I supposed to know where the hostages are?”

When Salem said this to his interrogator, the soldier replied: “We don’t kill children.”

“What about my sister’s children, aged three and five, are those soldiers?” Salem replied.

“This is not a soldier. The kid was five. My sister wanted to just shower her children on a Friday. Is she a fighter? And what about my kids? What did they do to you? Did they participate in the 7 October attack? You kill children.”

The soldier then brought a chair, got someone to blindfold Salem and tied his hands as he asked him why he spoke like that.

“I noticed that he was glueing something on me. Then I started shaking. He was electrocuting me.

“He electrocuted me in sensitive spots and hit me in these spots.”

Raped by female soldiers

Another traumatic episode for many prisoners like Salem was the sexual abuse.

Though it was rampant, inmates rarely spoke about it to each other, he said. It was embarrassing for many to admit, especially when they were raped by female soldiers, who were sometimes in their teens.

It was common practice for soldiers to strip detainees naked, insert objects into their rectum and grab their genitals aggressively when they changed.

When word got around that a prisoner in his 40s was raped, Salem kept getting close to him until he told him what happened to him.

“He told me he was raped by a female soldier,” Salem told MEE.

When he asked him how it happened, the prisoner explained it would take place in the presence of another soldier in the room.

The prisoner would be bent over a desk with his hands placed in front of him, handcuffed.

The female soldier, standing behind him, would insert her fingers and other objects into his rectum.

When he reacted or moved back, the soldier standing in front of him would hit him in the head and force him to bend again.

It was one of many stories he heard in detention, Salem added.

Salem said he was also touched in his private parts by a female soldier and had objects inserted in his rectum at some point.

‘Exposing the occupation’

Salem spent 52 days in Sde Teiman, a few nights in Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank and most of his detention in the Negev.

He was released along with 14 other detainees last week, left at a checkpoint near Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

Initially, he thought the war might have been over, but a soldier told him: “The war will not end until we kill you all.”

They were warned that anyone looking back would be shot and soldiers started shooting when Salem slowed down to help a released woman.

They eventually made it to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.

When asked about the photo that went viral, Salem said it was taken during a five- or six-hour punishment he was enduring, as he heard a camera click at the time.

He had argued with a soldier after they let a prisoner urinate himself by preventing him from using the bathroom.

Salem was made to remain in that position for long hours, a punishment that, he said, does not begin to describe the ordeal he faced in detention.

“There are greater punishments, greater beatings,” he said.

“Nothing was more humiliating than when they made me take off my clothes, or when they inserted this object into my butt, or when a young female soldier kept [touching my penis].”

“But it is good that people saw the reality of the occupation and I insist on exposing the occupation.

“This is the message of every prisoner I have spoken to.”

Earlier this week, Israeli rights group B’Tselem said the Israeli government has been conducting a policy of institutionalized torture against all Palestinian detainees since 7 October.

Torture was recorded in civilian and military detention facilities across Israel, leading to the deaths of at least 60 Palestinians while in Israeli custody in less than 10 months.

The systematic nature of the abuse across all facilities left “no room to doubt an organized, declared policy of the Israeli prison authorities”.

The policy has effectively turned Israeli prisons into “torture camps,” the rights group said.

In its 182-page report, B’Tselem said the torture prisoners faced included: “frequent acts of severe, arbitrary violence; sexual assault; humiliation and degradation, deliberate starvation; forced unhygienic conditions; sleep deprivation, prohibition on, and punitive measures for, religious worship; confiscation of all communal and personal belongings; and denial of adequate medical treatment.”

The Israeli violations against Palestinian detainees amounted to war crimes and even a crime against humanity, B’Tselem said.

Founded in April 2014, Middle East Eye is an independently funded digital news organisation covering stories from the Middle East and North Africa, as well as related content from beyond the region.
Second article:

Israeli rape of detainees is the result of a society that sees Palestinians as ‘human animals’

A still image, captured from a video recently released, shows Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner, hiding their faces, and taking cover behind shields to avoid being seen on cameras.
A still image, captured from a video recently released, shows Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner, hiding their faces, and taking cover behind shields to avoid being seen on cameras. (screenshot)
Israel has claimed that it is fighting “human animals” in Gaza. But now, Israeli society’s own monstrous sadism, deriving from a deep hate of Palestinians, is on display for the rest of the world to see.

by Jonathan Ofir, reposted from Mondoweiss, August 6, 2024

On August 3, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim shared an interview on social media with two Israeli security officials involved in the Sde Teiman torture facility, which has become a cause célèbre for right-wing protesters demanding the right of Israelis to gang rape Palestinian prisoners with impunity.

Ben-Ephraim is an academic who left UCLA as a post-doctorate following allegations of sexual harassment. He describes himself as “Israel analyst. Fighting for liberal democracy. Fanatic Mets fan. Host of Israel Explained and History of the Land of Israel.”

Ben-Ephraim describes his two sources, saying that “the IDF source is quite high up. The other source is not but works there every day.”

The “IDF source” says:

“The 100 unit has been assigned to guard the prisoners. Their job is supposed to be to intervene when there is disorder. They are rough people. So they are guarding the prisoners. You are letting animals guard animals without supervision and in nightmarish conditions.”

This is an interesting usage of the idea of “human animals,” a description first uttered during this genocide by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant on October 9, saying “we are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.”

The interviewed security personnel provide the emotional rationale for the sadistic torture enacted upon the Palestinians, it is a hate crime geared toward revenge. The “facility source” says:

“Everyone who served in Gaza is full of hatred. They have an urge to release the animal in them. Anyone who is put in a room with those who raped their girlfriends or killed their friends without supervision – will get whatever we got.”

So they believe their girlfriends got raped or killed by Hamas. This doesn’t need any evidence as such, and it doesn’t matter whether those people whom they are torturing are involved in any way:

“They all tell us they are innocent. So we don’t believe any of them. But yeah, some probably did nothing wrong.”

It is at this point worth remembering Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s claim from October 14 that there are simply no “uninvolved civilians” in Gaza.

The “facility source” knows this is bad and that it shouldn’t be done, but “things happen”:

“Things happen. Bad things. People have been beaten. People have been killed. I saw one person die. People have been sexually assaulted. Yes. Nothing compared to what they did. But we all know we shouldn’t be doing it.”

To date, at least 36 Palestinians have died under torture in this facility. But somehow, it doesn’t compare, it’s “nothing compared to what they did.”

The murdered Palestinians are kept in refrigerators at the base. The “IDF source” says:

“Another thing nobody talks about is all the bodies in fridges near the holding pens. There is no place to store them. Just containers full of dead bodies of inmates.”

And there is simply no oversight: “There is not a single security officer on sight to oversee. So that even if there is a major event no one is responsible.”

The level of sadism enacted upon Palestinians really defies description. Palestinians are now coming forth with the most graphic details about their sexual torture, like this victim on video (trigger warning):

“I’ve been shocked by electricity through my anus. I’ve been shocked by electricity on my testicles! This is literally what happened to me – not just me but others who were shocked by electricity. You know why? Because we refused to speak dirty of [Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya] al-Sinwar.

You can imagine what I’m saying… Just because I refused to spill out the dirty words, they said ok and then five of them gathered around me, five soldiers, they came to beat me up.

One of them forced me to lie down on my back, he opened my thighs and smashed my private area – he literally smashed my testicles. He said: ‘I don’t want you to have kids anymore’.”

One must reflect upon the additional humiliation of speaking like this about one’s own person and body, openly. But these people have been subjected to such physical and emotional destruction, that they are now shouting out to the world to make it stop, not least for their brethren still undergoing this torture.

It is shocking, but is it shocking to the majority of Israelis?

The fact is Israelis have been consuming snuff videos of these torture facilities at least since the beginning of this year, where coverage of the systemic torture has appeared on several Israeli mainstream channels. Has there been outcry?

When there has been criticism of the soldiers actions, it was primarily couched in terms of how these actions reflect on Israel, not on the legality or morality of the abuse. In fact, Israeli leaders have even implicitly justified these heinous actions even while condemning them.

“There were days when [the military investigators] applauded us.”

In the end, any Israeli leaders who have come out in support of the investigations of those accused of raping Palestinian detainees have done so simply for public relations reasons, not for anything more.

Remember, Israel is currently facing multiple international legal cases, at ICJ for genocide, and at ICC for crimes against humanity (arrest warrants sought for Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Galant), and similar to those charges, the threat of the accusations of rape is seen primarily as an optics issue for Israel, not a legal one. Netanyahu just likens the ICC Chief Prosecutor to a Nazi judge and incites more biblical revenge.

Now, the sadism of sexual torture is becoming so obvious it is starting to reflect on Israel’s image and thus, President Isaac Herzog issued a call for calm, to allow the gang rape investigations to occur without the brouhaha of mass protests at army bases against the proceedings.

Being a liberal racist and genocide inciter, Herzog’s message qualified that “hate” towards “the damned Nukhba terrorists” was “surely understood and justified.” But we must consider that “our enemies” are “persecuting us”, also in the “international legal arena”:

“The morality of IDF and its soldiers has always been our pride, towards ourselves and towards the family of nations and international law.

This morality stood and stands tested also against the most cruel of enemies, among them the damned Nukhba terrorists, the hate towards whom is surely understood and justified.

We must not forget that our enemies attempt to persecute us again and again, also in the international legal arena – the commanders, the fighters and the public representatives.

We must under no circumstances provide them with allegations against IDF and the state of Israel.”

In other words, Israel should be showing itself as managing the few bad apples in a serious way, so that the persecutors (who are also prosecutors) are countered with Israel having certain legal processes which should thus be sufficient to rebuff international legal intervention.

But it really is too late for that. Israel’s genocide is so massive, that prosecution of a few bad apples won’t change it. The Israeli narrative of hate and revenge is so encompassing, that it will have its outlets in one way or another, whether it is a soldier smashing testicles, or a soldier blowing up a whole building in Gaza as a photo-op.

To judge by the testimony of one of the rape suspects, the “interrogation” was a sham anyway. “You feel they [the interrogators from Military Police] want to thank you”, he said. “There were days when they applauded us.”

Human animals

There is now apparently nothing that Israelis can do which Israeli leaders wouldn’t try to justify. What they are fighting against has been defined authoritatively (as far as they are concerned) as inhuman, so there is no way to apply human rights here – human rights apply to humans, not to “human animals.”

The response to this is also beyond rationality – “hate” is now sanctioned by the highest authority as “understood and justified.” Everything is understood through this lens, and if Israeli soldiers end up acting like animals, it’s only a natural response to the real animals.

Israel’s late Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once said “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother,” and this ‘mad dog’ and ‘master of the house gone mad’ doctrine has instructed Israel for many decades. Variations on this idea have been repeated by Israeli officials time and again.

Former Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon, the initiator of the false flag terror attack on Cairo in 1954, advocated “going crazy” if ever Israel were crossed. During the 2006 war with Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Palestinians need to understand that “the master of the house has gone mad,” while promising “James Bond-type operations, bim bam!”

After Israel’s 2008-9 Gaza onslaught, Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s Foreign Minister at the time, Tzipi Livni, stated that “our troops in the Gaza strip behaved like hooligans, which I demanded of them.” She also stated that Israel “is a country that when you fire on its citizens it responds by going wild — and this is a good thing.”

Israel has indeed gone wild, and is apparently trying to behave like a mad dog. But whatever happens, it’s “nothing compared to what they did.”

Every accusation is a confession. Israel has claimed that it is fighting “human animals.” But now, its own monstrous sadism, deriving from a deep hate of Palestinians (which didn’t first start on October 7), is on display for the rest of the world to see. The “self-defense” claim, which was reportedly used by the lawyers defending the gang rape suspects, is something that Israel has been using for everything it does to Palestinians.

It just might be that the gang rape of a shackled prisoner will finally help some people understand that this racist justification is really just an excuse for something else far more sinister.

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Welcome to Hell
[email protected] August 5, 2024 administrative detention, btselem, itamar ben gvir, torture
“Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges. Their testimonies reveal the outcomes of the rushed transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities, military and civilian, into a network of camps dedicated to the abuse of inmates as a matter of policy. Facilities in which every inmate is deliberately subjected to harsh, relentless pain and suffering operate as de-facto torture camps. (graphic)
Executive summary reposted from B’Tselem, the Israeli information center for human rights in the Occupied Territories

When we got off the bus, a soldier said to us, “Welcome to hell.”

– From the testimony of Fouad Hassan, 45, a father of five and resident of Qusrah in Nablus District. Read the full testimony here.

This report concerns the treatment of Palestinian prisoners and the inhuman conditions they have been subjected to in Israeli prisons since October 7, 2023. B’Tselem’s research for the report included collecting testimonies from 55 Palestinians who were incarcerated in Israeli prisons and detention centers during this time.

Thirty of the witnesses are residents of the West Bank including East Jerusalem, 21 are residents of the Gaza Strip, and 4 are residents of Israel.

The testimonies of the witnesses were given to B’Tselem after they were released from prison, the overwhelming majority of them without being tried.

The testimonies indicate a systemic institutional policy focused on the continual abuse and torture of all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

Frequent acts of severe, arbitrary violence, sexual assault, humiliation and degradation, deliberate starvation, forced unhygienic conditions, sleep deprivation, prohibition on and punitive measures for, religious worship; confiscation of all communal and personal belongings; and denial of adequate medical treatment – these descriptions appear time and again in the testimonies in horrifying detail and with chilling similarities.

Over the years, Israel has incarcerated hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in its prisons, which have always served, above all, as a tool for oppressing and controlling the Palestinian population.

The stories presented in this report are the story of thousands of Palestinians, residents of the Occupied Territories and citizens of Israel, who have been arrested since the beginning of the war, as well as Palestinians already incarcerated on 7 October who experienced the massive increase in hostility from prison authorities since that day.

In early July 2024, there were 9,623 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, almost double the number just before the war began. Of these, 4,781 were detained without trial, without being presented with the allegations against them, and without access to the right to defend themselves, in what Israel terms “administrative detention.”

Some were jailed simply for expressing sympathy for the suffering of Palestinians. Others were taken into custody during military activity in the Gaza Strip, on the sole grounds that they came under the vague definition of “men of fighting age.” Some were imprisoned over suspicions, substantiated or not, that they were operatives or supporters of Palestinian armed groups.

The prisoners form a wide spectrum of people from different areas, with varying political opinions and only one thing in common – being Palestinian.

The prisoners’ testimonies lay bare the outcomes of a rushed process in which more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities, both military and civilian, were converted into a network of camps dedicated to the abuse of inmates. Such spaces, in which every inmate is intentionally condemned to severe, relentless pain and suffering, operate as de-facto torture camps.

The abuse consistently described in the testimonies of dozens of individuals held in different facilities was so systematic, that there is no room to doubt an organized, declared policy of the Israeli prison authorities.

This policy is implemented under the direction of the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, whose office oversees the Israeli Prison Service (IPS), with the full support of the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The heinous attack by Hamas and other armed Palestinian organizations on 7 October and the widespread targeting of civilians deeply traumatized Israeli society, evoking deep-seated fears and an instinct for revenge among many. For the government and Minister Ben Gvir, this provided an opportunity to press harder with applying their racist ideology, using the oppressive mechanisms at their disposal. These include the prison system, for which they designed a policy aimed at trampling the basic rights of Palestinian prisoners underfoot.

On 18 October, the minister in charge declared a “prison state of emergency” as part of emergency legislation, producing a serious, substantive violation of the most basic human rights of Palestinian prisoners. Koby Yaakobi, a close associate of Minister Ben Gvir, appointed by him as IPS Commissioner in the height of the war, declared his intent to “revolutionize” the IPS in keeping with the minister’s policies as soon as he took office, naming the downgrading of prison conditions a top priority.

As the testimonies reveal, the new policy is applied across all prison facilities and to all Palestinian prisoners. Among its main tenets are unrelenting physical and psychological violence, denial of medical treatment, starvation, withholding of water, sleep deprivation and confiscation of all personal belongings.

The overall picture indicates abuse and torture carried out under orders, in utter defiance of Israel’s obligations both under domestic las and under international law.

A clear indicator of the severity of the situation and the moral degradation of the Israeli prison system can be seen in the number of Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli custody – no less than 60. The report includes testimonies given to B’Tselem regarding three of these deaths.

Thaer Abu ‘Asab, a 38-year-old from Qalqilyah held in the Negev (Ketziot) Prison, was found dead in his cell on 18 November 2023. On his body were severe signs of violence.

Arafat Hamdan, a 24-year-old diabetic from Beit Sira who relied on insulin treatments, was found dead in his cell on 24 October 2023, two days after his arrest. The testimonies reveal he was denied proper medical treatment.

Muhammad a-Sabbar, a 20-year-old from the town of a-Dhahirya who had an intestinal disease requiring a special diet, died at Ofer Prison on 8 February, according to testimonies, due to lack of proper nutrition, poor medical care, and brazen disregard for his condition.

The transition from what appears to have initially been spontaneous acts of vengeance to a permanent, systematic regime stripping away all protections designed to uphold and ensure the most basic rights of Palestinian prisoners was made possible when the government exploited its powers to enact draconian, injurious “emergency regulations,” and applied them in a brazen, gross violation of multiple norms and obligations under Israeli law, international human rights law, the laws of war, and humanitarian law.

The violations included the widespread, systematic and prolonged commission of the crime of torture. Equally important, in these actions, Israel is trampling basic human morality underfoot along with the most protected human rights of prisoners held in state custody.

The legal gatekeepers, such as the High Court of Justice and the Istat Attorney’s Office, ostensibly entrusted with upholding the rule of law and protecting human rights, have bowed their heads in submission to Ben Gvir’s agenda, and allowed abuses and the total dehumanization of these prisoners to become the premise for the entire system’s operation.

The result is a system that specializes in torture and abuse, where, at any given moment, many thousands of Palestinians are kept behind bars, most without trial, and all in inhuman conditions.

Read the full report here.

B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, is an independent, non-partisan organization that was founded in 1989.

NOTE: Torture has been ongoing at the hands of Israel since at least 1968. In the case of Gazan prisoners since October 7th, many were restrained so tightly for so long, that they required amputation of limbs; others were sodomized with burning hot objects.

Israel has long denied UN investigators and international human rights groups entry to Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Human rights groups have documented Israel’s failure to self-investigate when it comes to aggression against Palestinians – for example, this, this, this, this, and this.

FURTHER INFORMATION ON ISRAEL’S ABUSE OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS:

What Christians Don’t Know About Israel
Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
No Access, No Information: Thousands of Gazans “Forcibly Disappeared” by Israeli Forces
‘Disappeared, buried, detained’: The horrors of Gaza’s missing children
Inside the Base Where Israel Has Detained Thousands of Gazans.
How Israeli prison doctors assist in the torture of Palestinian detainees
WATCH: Israel – a major human rights violator – is training US police (2 min.)
Israel committed 3,532 human rights violations against Palestinians in January 2023
Facebook report concludes company censorship violated Palestinian human rights
288 Orgs Demand Biden Condemn Israel’s Crackdown on Human Rights Groups

https://israelpalestinenews.org/welcome-to-hell-palestinian-prisoner-torture/

Thousands of health experts call for immediate halt to 'unsafe' mRNA gene-vaccines
Australia's Health Department continues to ignore specific questions over product safety and conflicts of interest

Alison Bevege
More than 45,000 people including 5000 healthcare workers have urgently called for the covid mRNA gene-vaccines to be suspended on safety grounds in a new initiative launched on July 3.

Among those signing on to the Hope Accord are more than 1400 medical doctors.

The accord calls for the immediate suspension of all covid mRNA gene-vaccines on the grounds that a growing body of evidence shows the controversial products are contributing to an alarming rise in disability and death.

“The association observed between the vaccine rollout and these concerning trends is now supported by additional significant findings,” the accord states.



The accord calls for a comprehensive re-evaluation, immediate recognition and support for the injured, and the restoration of ethical principles abandoned during covid including informed consent and bodily autonomy.

Among the highly respected signatories is US physician Joseph Fraiman, one of the authors of a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Vaccine that re-analysed Pfizer and Moderna’s trial data and found a 1-in-800 serious adverse event rate. The influential study has been cited 195 times.

UK pathologist Claire Craig, another key signatory of the accord, said the gene-vaccine injured were still getting abuse instead of help.

“The thing that upsets me the most … is that I genuinely believed these people would be getting better and that they’d be mostly better by now,” she told Dr John Campbell in an interview uploaded to YouTube on July 19.

“But they’re really not. There’s a few that are, but the vast majority are still incredibly sick and I find that really depressing … that they’re still no better off, and that there are so many of them.”

Ms Craig pointed out that the known injuries - alarming as they are - are just the tip of the iceberg because not everyone realises that the gene-vaccine caused their illness.


Some of the key signatories. Source: Hope Accord
Australia’s drug safety system relies largely on self-reporting to the Database of Adverse Event Notications.

However, due to overwhelming propaganda and censorship during the covid pandemic, both the public and doctors were discouraged from suspecting the gene-vaccines could be harmful. Many did not know they were supposed to report despite the products being only provisionally registered for the two key years of the pandemic. Both doctors and patients simply blamed other causes.

As a result, Australia’s drug regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) cannot know the exact number of people who have been injured and killed by these products.

Australia’s Department of Health and Aged Care refuses to release the raw all-cause mortality data stratified by gene-vaccine status and age, which is the only reliable metric that can show the true extent of the problem after the Pfizer and Moderna clinical trials destroyed their control groups by offering them the products in December 2020.

Letters From Australia asked the TGA if they would consider suspending the mRNA platform, given the growing and urgent calls - and if not, then why not.

Instead of answering the question, the TGA responded with links to its website and email newsletter.

Letters From Australia also asked the TGA, part of the Department of Health and Aged Care, about the apparent conflict of interest in getting procurement advice from the chair of CEPI, an organisation tied to Big Pharma interests, whose stated mission is to promote the mRNA gene-vaccine platform.


Screen grab of Sarah Jane Halton in 2020, courtesy: ABC 7.30 Report
Sarah Jane Halton, head of Australia’s Health Department from 2002 to 2014, reviewed the purchase of vaccines for covid, despite being chair of CEPI at the time of the review.

The federal record of tenders shows she earnt $100,000 in 2022 for her independent review of Australia’s covid vaccine and treatment procurement.

Professor Halton also earnt $118,800 on the board of the National Covid-19 Coordination Commission, advising the Morrison Government during 2020 when crucial procurement decisions were being made - even though she was also chair of CEPI.




CEPI chair Sarah Jane Halton advised the Health Department on covid vaccine procurement, Source: AusTender
Letters From Australia reached out to Professor Halton at CEPI via email for comment. This story will be updated if any reply is received.

CEPI also did not respond to questions on whether it will consider suspending its mRNA push in light of the Hope Accord’s safety concerns.

For an in-depth discussion of the Hope Accord, see Dr John Campbell’s video below.



To see compelling testimony from last month’s Senate inquiry into Excess Deaths see the video below.




https://substack.com/home/post/p-141115130


https://youtu.be/Ue6mXBrUD6U


https://youtu.be/Pz4QEP82e7s


https://youtu.be/9-Zg_In_s3o

THAT I MAY KNOW HIM (Phil.3:10)!

PREACHING OF SELF, AND NOT CHRIST JESUS IS BIRTHED BY OVER ASSESSMENT OF SELF. (2COR.4:1-)

This is the concluding part of *NEVERTHELESS AT THY WORD!*

13. For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isa 14: 13-14)

Before even talking about Christ Jesus, this hydraheaded monster has already been at work between senior pastors and their associate pastors.

INDEED,SATAN WAS CRAFTILY ABLE TO IMPROVISE THIS *SELF FIRST ISN'T SELFISHNESS* CENTURIES AGO WHEN HE USED MAN AS AGENT TO DERAIL,OR BETTER STILL DELAY GOD'S PLAN OF A UNIVERSAL CHURCH.

To start with, Apostle Peter, on whose charge Christ Jesus left the early church, NEVER bore the title of Pope no matter what the Roman Catholics claim. It was after the era of Peter and the other early disciples that human doctrines were introduced into the church by the obstinate Jews who became Christians and the ambitious heathens converted to Christianity because of what they stand to gain and not genuine love for Christ Jesus

I hope we remember 2Cor.4:4,where we are told that the devil blocked the hearts of men to the Gospel. You see, the purpose of that post was that the purpose of Gospel ministry was not to amuse the goats, but to call the sheep. But we discovered the world’s problem: they are blind to the glory of Christ. Therefore, the Church’s mission is to solve that problem. If we’re doing something that won’t solve that problem, we need to stop...the preaching of self instead of Christ Jesus.

The question is, then, what solves that problem? How can the Church be instrumental in the opening of blind eyes? Well, Paul gets to that in verse 5. Just as we must know the purpose and the problem of Gospel ministry, we must also know the proclamation.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. (2Co 4: 5)

What does it mean to “not preach ourselves?” It means that we don’t put ourselves—the messengers—forward as the appeal to unbelievers in our ministry. FOR THE MESSAGE IS GREATER THAN THE MESSENGER.
We don’t make our methodology or our style the draw. We don’t appeal to that which is fleshly or worldly in the unbeliever in order to attract and compel their participation. Instead, we do everything we can to get ourselves out of the way so as to be merely incidental—merely the finger that points to the substance, to the content of the message: that Christ Jesus is Lord.

1 Corinthians 2:1-5 really sheds light on what it means for Paul that he not be preaching himself. He says,;
1. And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. (1Co 2: 1-5)

What is absolutely amazing about that is superiority of speech, human wisdom, and persuasive words were exactly what you needed if you were going to get your message heard in first-century Corinth. Remember, eloquence and oratory were the prerequisites of cultural engagement and credibility in that society. And Paul says: I determined—I resolved—to be just the opposite. They were seeking wisdom, and all I knew was Christ and Him crucified. They were looking for rhetorical skills and eloquence and I was with you in weakness and fear and much trembling. They wanted someone skilled in the art of persuasion, and my message and preaching had no persuasive words.

Unfortunately,that is exactly where today's modern church stands. People want to be persuaded with high sounding words...they desire oratory skills from pastors. Not just that,but also acrobatical displays. *THIS WHY AT THE END OF THE DAY'S SERVICE, WHEN YOU HEAR MEMBERS DISCUSSION ON THEIR WAY HOME, IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT ELOQUENCE AND DEMONSTRATION, OFTENTIMES, HOW WELL THE CHOIR SANG AND THE INSTRUMENTALISTS PLAYED!*

Outside that,ask them what they are taking home for the day... nothing. This almost all these generational pastors have become MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS, AND PULPITS ARE TURNED INTO PODIUMS.
Like I said in the part one, a motivational speaker (sorry, pastor) will mount the altar of God and read a scripture, from there on to the end, IT WILL BE THE TALES OF THE COUNTRIES AND CITIES THEY'VE VISITED AND THE MIGHTY WORKS THEY DID...after all Christ Jesus said greater works than these shall ye do. AS IF CHRIST JESUS VALUED MIRACLES THAN SALVATION OF SOULS.

Go to the Bible,every signs and wonders Christ Jesus performed led to genuine salvation of souls...NOT THE ABRACADABRA MAGIC GOING ON TODAY. INSTEAD OF LEADING PEOPLE TO CHRIST JESUS, THEY ARE LEADING THEM TO THEMSELVES. THAT'S THE REASON FOR THE PROLIFERATION OF CHURCHES. WITHOUT EXAGGERATION, I HAVE WALKED INTO A GROUP OF SIX YOUNG MEN PRACTICING HOW TO SPEAK IN TONGUES IN 1996.

Look at Paul's view on this;

“Because if I did that, I’d be preaching myself! And then your faith would rest on the wisdom of men, and not on the power of God!”

And so as ministers of the same Gospel, we don’t preach ourselves. In fact, Paul even says in 1 Corinthians 3:5, “What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Slaves through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.” And back in 2 Corinthians 4:7, Paul says: Listen, we’re just earthen vessels, just clay pots. We don’t do anything to make much of ourselves, because we want “the surpassing greatness of the power [to] be of God and not from ourselves.”

Christian ministry is not about trying to gain a following, fill seats, and get famous. The problem we’re trying to solve by our preaching and teaching is,how to open the world’s blindness to the glory of Christ Jesus.And so we don’t preach ourselves, because no matter how slick or clever our presentation is, that’s not what saves people. That’s not what opens their eyes to see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ.

And today, if there is anything that plagues contemporary evangelicalism today it is an epidemic of preaching ourselves. One of the greatest marks of the unhealthiness of the Church is that rather than manifesting the glory of Christ Jesus and His Huge and unfathomable Sacrifice on the Cross, instead, we are making it look like a circus show. The merchant pastors of today attempt to show the world how much alike we are. In so doing, professing Christians present themselves to the world, and, purposefully or not, implicitly ask unbelievers to receive them long before calling them to receive Christ Jesus.

They thereby turned the church of God into a money making venture. REMEMBER,A YEAR OR SO AGO,I TOLD US,(THOSE WHO BELIEVE), THAT,FOR EVERY MIRACLE OF GOD, THE DEVIL HAS A MAGIC, AND FOR EVERY GOD'S LAW,SATAN HAS A COUNTERFEIT.
13. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (2Co 11: 13-15)
When God kept His Promise on Pentecost Day and released the Holy Spirit,the devil also did same to his followers.

Believe you me,if you can,THERE ARE SOME PASTORS IN THIS ERA THAT ARE READY TO DIE WITH YOU IF YOU DARE TO CALL THEM FAKE. YOU KNOW WHY? THEY EQUALLY RECEIVE LOOK ALIKE (AKA COUNTERFEIT) REVELATIONS TOO,AND ARE GREATLY CONVINCED AND ASSURED THAT IT'S FROM GOD.

Before you shake your head, remember King Saul's visit to the witch at Endor he believed to have spoken with dead prophet Samuel. Then the question arises,how do we know or identify them?

First,get committedly loaded with God's Word and ask for the gift of the spirit of discernment. Every true believer in our today's world must cry to God for the spirit of discernment.

Secondly, watch out for their methods of operation. If you carefully look deep enough and disallow yourself from being hypnotized, you will discover that they're actually sorcerers... bringing snakes from people's mouths, vomiting razor blades and lizards,selling of *special* spiritual items,etc. The list is inexhaustible.

Thirdly,watch out for who takes the glory. You have to be extra keen to observe this.
Truly,we can go and on. May God keep us from esteeming the glory of Christ Jesus so lightly that we’re willing to haggle with unbelievers about His worth, by seeking to entice them by something other than Him. “Theatrical lighting” and “cutting-edge music” will never open blind eyes. Only the gospel of Christ crucified, risen, and reigning as Lord, can solve the problem that the Church is called to solve:

And so Paul declares that we Christians do not preach ourselves, because that will never solve the world’s problem. Instead, we preach—that’s our method—Christ Jesus as Lord—that’s our message. That is Gospel ministry, friends. May we not be confused about our task.
! Amen.

Congress applauded the genocide in Gaza, but Netanyahu’s speech showed the political consensus on Israel is over
Mitchell PlitnickJuly 28, 2024
File photo: Benjamin Netanyahu concludes his third address before a joint meeting of Congress in March 2015. Netanyahu gave his fourth address before Congress on July 24, 2024. (Official Photo by Caleb Smith)
File photo: Benjamin Netanyahu concludes his third address before a joint meeting of Congress in March 2015. Netanyahu gave his fourth address before Congress on July 24, 2024. (Official Photo by Caleb Smith)
In one of the most shameful displays in Congress’ history, Israeli Prime Minister delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.

The speech was heavy on militarism, racism, and lies so brazen that even the mainstream American media caught some of them. Netanyahu paraded one Muslim and one Ethiopian IDF soldier, bragging about how many Palestinians they killed in a shallow effort to refute the idea that Israel is a racist, apartheid state.

He lied about Israel targeting Palestinian civilians, which it has done to an unprecedented degree; about the ratio of civilians to combatants killed in Gaza; and the death toll in Rafah. These were all obscenities, a display of genocide denial in the halls of Congress on par with the worst deniers of the Holocaust. Even worse, this denial was done by the murderer himself, while still committing the heinous crimes, and the lies were greeted with standing ovations and cheers from the members of Congress on hand to witness this.

Netanyahu even dug up long-debunked lies about October 7, stories of babies burned alive, and babies killed while hiding in an attic. These have been debunked by Israeli sources, but that didn’t stop Netanyahu from repeating them to a welcoming crowd of Islamophobes and anti-Palestinian racists in Washington.

As expected, he also claimed the large numbers of protesters outside his speech were financed by Iran, bolstered by the false and wholly unsubstantiated recent testimony from the U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.

Netanyahu’s speech was meant to bolster congressional support for the genocide in Gaza, and to bring jingoistic, militaristic reinforcement to the notion that Israel is fighting the front line of America’s battle against Muslim barbarism. The racism oozed from his every word and was greeted with overwhelming warmth and appreciation from Republicans and the Democratic hawks in attendance.

But beyond the bombast, there was little substance to the speech, which held nothing new, just the same old talking points, falsehoods, and basic racism. It was, in the end, a reflection of the event itself: an attempt at grandstanding by the Christian Nationalist Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, which Democratic leaders, in their typical cowardice, refused to stand up to.

Netanyahu’s goals

The substance of the speech, though, was not really the point for Netanyahu. He had two main goals with this appearance. One was to shore up American support, mostly from Republicans, but as much as possible from both sides of the aisle. The second was for Israelis to see the way he was feted in Congress.

On the first score, he was reasonably successful, with some of the most loathsome Democrats like John Fetterman, Kyrsten Sinema, and Steny Hoyer front and center with their Republican colleagues in their zealous support of a war criminal. While half the congressional Democratic caucus boycotted the speech (Rashida Tlaib attended holding a sign that said “war criminal” on one side and “guilty of genocide” on the other), Netanyahu expected this, and couldn’t have asked for more than the support he largely got from those Democrats who were in attendance.

That’s enough congressional support for Netanyahu to ensure that Congress will continue to open the checkbook for Israel’s military and its genocidal actions.

But on the second goal, he didn’t score as well.

Israelis will notice that not only did the president of the Senate, Kamala Harris, skip the event, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, while he did attend, also declined to preside over the affair, which would have meant sitting right behind Netanyahu, with the camera on him every second. That was an image he didn’t want. Schumer was replaced by Senator Ben Cardin, the outgoing Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is not seeking reelection.

Many believe that bipartisan support has been Israel’s greatest strategic asset. It’s no longer a consensus, and it is moving farther in a partisan direction. That can only be good news for advocates for Palestinian rights.
Netanyahu tried to speak of bipartisanship, but what he demonstrated to his constituents in Israel was that he has severely damaged the bipartisan support that his predecessors, not to mention the American pro-Israel lobbying groups, worked tirelessly for decades to maintain.

Many believe that bipartisan support has been Israel’s greatest strategic asset. It’s no longer a consensus, and it is moving farther in a partisan direction. That can only be good news for advocates for Palestinian rights.

Moreover, while Netanyahu spoke in grandiose terms about Israel’s military might and how he intends to bring the Israeli hostages home, Israelis will surely notice that he didn’t mention diplomacy or a hostage release deal even once. Since that is what has freed almost all of the hostages that have been returned, he was telling the Israeli public that he is still refusing to back down from his insistence that they be freed by military means, which has killed more Israeli hostages than it has rescued. That is now an overwhelmingly unpopular stance in Israel, so much so that even Netanyahu’s own hostage negotiating team is denouncing him for blocking a deal.

What next for Democrats?

After his speech, Netanyahu met separately on Thursday with both Joe Biden and the presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Biden had little to say, leaving the spotlight to Harris, and the White House readout of his meeting with Netanyahu matched the substance of Harris’ public statement about their meeting.

However, the tone Harris struck was slightly different from Biden’s. She spoke at more length and with more conviction about the “suffering in Gaza” than Biden ever has. She also said she told Netanyahu that the ceasefire deal must be completed, but made no claim, as both Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have both repeatedly and falsely done, that it is Hamas that is holding up the deal.

Still, Harris spoke about the suffering in Gaza as if the United States had nothing to do with causing it. She recycled the tired and disingenuous line of “how Israel defends itself matters,” but spoke of conditions in Gaza as if they had come about with no outside agency, without Israel committing massive war crimes, and taking no responsibility for the fact that the United States provided most of the weaponry and all of the political protection for those crimes.

Israeli officials blasted Harris for even the mild rebuke she offered, accusing her in Orwellian fashion of somehow making it harder to close a deal to release Israeli hostages with her words. This is a standard Israeli step, and Harris responded to it by asking, “What are they talking about?” just as Biden did when Netanyahu accused him, even more absurdly, of failing to arm them sufficiently.

Harris gave no indication that she is prepared to take steps, once in office, to pressure Israel to stop its behavior, which the International Court of Justice just confirmed is criminal. Netanyahu certainly noted that, and the jab at Harris from his team over her minor rebuke was simply him testing her, seeing how she would respond.

Chuck Schumer refusing to preside over Netanyahu’s speech, but still attending and sitting in the front row sent its own message. Schumer, who is as passionate a supporter of Israel as any in Congress, is well aware that Netanyahu has done unprecedented damage to Israel’s standing in the world, and even in the United States.

For Schumer, Netanyahu and his association with the Israeli far-right, embodied in figures like Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, is the problem. He supports figures like Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, despite the fact that Gantz recently voted for a Knesset statement opposing an end to Israel’s occupation and apartheid. Lapid and his party refused to vote against that bill, abstaining instead by leaving the room.

Schumer is not ignorant of these realities. He is one of the main catalysts behind the Democratic strategy to isolate Netanyahu as the problem while refusing to acknowledge the structural issues in Israel and Israeli society that give rise and strength to the far right and which, themselves, sustain and strengthen the apartheid system and the occupation.

At this point, it seems that this is the wing of the party that Harris will draw her policy from, while paying lip service to the more progressive wing.

GOP balancing act

On the Republican side, there is less nuance, but it would be a mistake to think there is complete unity.

Donald Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu was more private, but Trump’s statements show some of what he is balancing. He criticized Harris for what he called an “insulting” meeting with Netanyahu. This was likely a reference to her remarks after that meeting, as Israeli officials said the meeting itself went smoothly.

Trump has repeatedly spoken about the need for Israel to finish the job quickly. This reflects several of Trump’s views.

The most important is the cheapness of Palestinian life, as he is clearly expressing a desire for a massive Israeli wave of strikes that flattens and destroys Gaza once and for all. That also reflects the desires and views of his Evangelical base, which sees Israel as entitled to claim all of the Holy Land and that any counter claims are claims against the will of God and must be forcefully and uncompromisingly confronted.

But Trump also wants this over because of the strands within the Republican party that insist on ending large-scale financial support to foreign allies, even Israel. They may not oppose annual aid to Israel, but the much larger amounts that have gone to Israel are less popular. This wing of the party focuses mainly on aid to Ukraine, but the isolationists in the Republican party make up a significant minority of Trump’s base, and they oppose foreign aid completely.

Trump doesn’t want aid to Israel to become an issue within his party, as it might if massively expanded American support continues into 2025, and he is in the White House in January.

But outside of that point, Trump is keen to portray Republicans as pro-Israel and Democrats as anti-Israel. Netanyahu, who certainly wants to see Trump win in November, seems willing to cooperate in that endeavor, albeit less openly.

Most sensible Israel advocates don’t agree with that approach, but many of the more conservative Jewish Zionists and virtually all of the Christian Zionists are not prepared to compromise on Israel’s right to wage war, kill, and destroy wholesale in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and beyond. This has already crippled Israel’s traditional bipartisan appeal, and if it continues, there will be more and more opportunities for advocacy for Palestinian rights in the Democratic Party.



https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/congress-applauded-the-genocide-in-gaza-but-netanyahus-speech-showed-the-political-consensus-on-israel-is-over/


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