Chris Hedges – Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, best-selling author & activist……. “When those who are occupied refuse to submit, when they continue to resist we drop all our pretence of our civilising mission and unleash as in Gaza”.
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Gaza War …. Widening Warfront with More Participants?
Fair Dinkum sends Thuppahi some ‘NOTES’ that suggest such a course
* Take note of a few recent developments in News items (below) that suggest that Israel’s plan for Gaza isn’t going as well as they say.
* The Axis of Resistance is preparing for war with Israel.
* The former head of Mossad has condemned Netanyahu over Israel’s utter destruction of Gaza and the lives and livelihoods of Palestinians.
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Operation Eagle Claw: USA Special Forces’ Failure in Iran in 1980
Gp Capt Kumar Kirinde, [SLAF retd] as compiler presenting US special forces operation for the rescue of hostages at the US Embassy in Iran in 1980 that ended in a failure …. Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw and Google Images
Introduction: Operation Eagle Claw was a failed operation (carried on 24 April 1980) by the United States Armed Forces ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to attempt the rescue of 52 embassy staff held captive at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran.
The operation, one of Delta Force’s* first, encountered many obstacles and failures and was subsequently aborted. Eight helicopters were sent to the first staging area called Desert One, but only five arrived in operational condition. One had encountered hydraulic problems, another was caught in a sand storm, and the third showed signs of a cracked rotor blade. During the operational planning, it was decided that the mission would be aborted if fewer than six helicopters remained operational upon arrival at the Desert One site, despite only four being absolutely necessary. In a move that is still discussed in military circles, the field commanders advised President Carter to abort the mission, which he did.
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Debating the Value of Tangential Historical Forays
Michael Roberts
A FEW DAYS BACK, on 28th November 2023, I circulated this item among Lankan aficianado…. [ Let me add, here, that I was prompted to do this by the burgeoning world debate on the Palestinian-Israeli War that has been raging since August]. ………………………………………………………………….. https://thuppahis.com/2014/11/18/cartographic-photographic and -illustrations-in-support-of-the-memorandum-analysing-the-war-in-sri-lanka-and-propaganda
ROHANTHA GUNARATNA in Canada responded in critical fashion. …. So I circulated his Memo to some personnel with this NOTE: “I encourage responses [to his Memo] from interested personnel – here, quite deliberately, reaching out beyond Lankans to Indians and Brits familiar with the Lankan scene in that period past.”
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King Abdullah Speaks Out: A “Two-State Solution” for Palestine Arena
Item in Washington Post, 14 November 2023
King Abdullah of Jordan penned an op ed for the Washington Post yesterday. It can be found at, …. https://www.washingtonpost.
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein is king of Jordan. For more than a month now, the war in Gaza has been dividing the world, with the deepening split aggravated by intense emotions. Two narratives, Palestinian and Israeli, have pitted demonstrators, media outlets, religions, peoples and regions against each other. In the process, the moral clarity that we should and must share about basic human values has turned into moral confusion.
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Gideon Levy in 2015: A Reading Doubly Pertinent Today
VISIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnaacT4eBrA
An old video featuring Israeli journalist Gideon Levy discussing the long-standing Israel-Palestine conflict has gone viral on social media. The journalist Gideon Levy’s insights on the situation have proven to be prophetic, given the current state of affairs in the region. Israel’s ongoing conflict with Hamas and the resulting devastation has raised concerns worldwide. Gideon Levy is an award winning journalist.
ADDENDUM from Thuppahi: ………….. “WHERE the mainstream Western Press, for the most part, emphasizes this message ad nauseum.”
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USA encourages Israel’s Nazi Pathways
Blackjack Bibi …. with the title and the highlights being impositions by The Editor, Thuppahi
I was interested in the “NOTE from VB, an American citizen from Sri Lanka” which refers to Nikki Haley advocating the final solution for the Palestinians with the words “finish them off” in a hail-blaze glory of mass extermination which has come to embody what the West and Australians refer to as “Western values”. Haley doesn’t seem to realize what she is advocating is what Hitler advocated for the Jews. These two “final solutions’ can never be right under any circumstances.
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Madness at the Heights of Power in USA: Electoral Demogogy
A NOTE from VB, an American citizen from Sri Lanka … responding to the Item in Thuppahi from “A Sri Lankan in Brisbane”
Future Leadership in USA – Republican Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley
Citizen: “What will you do with Iran if you were President?”
Hayley: “What I said to Netanyahu …. Finish them! Finish them! They are only going to try and kill us and kill Israelis …..”
No worries, guys! The land of the free and the home of the brave will be in good hands!
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The GAZA Clash & Its Ramifications: Fundamental Grounding …. A Sri Lankan’s Reading
A Sri Lankan in Brisbane … responding to my Thuppahi Question: Why did HAMAS launch an attack in Palestine [with implicit awareness of extreme Israeli retaliations] ? … with the highlighting in red being that of the Editor, Thuppahi and that in black being the author’s.
HIS RESPONSE
Dear Michael,
Israel has never been a country that abided by International rules.
Although the majority of Jews migrated to Israel from Russia & Eastern Europe, the British & US heavily back Israel because the wealthy Jews who fund US Congress are in the US & UK. The US Congress is beholden to these wealthy Jews for their election funding. In addition, almost all Arab countries are headed by corrupt US cronies, beholden to the $.
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On the Brink of World War III?
Fair Dinkum …. with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
As this war escalates, it’s only a matter of time before these US warships are sunk. They are sitting ducks in the Red Sea. The US is not in a position to deter anyone except perhaps for the occasional dolphin.
What has not been reported is that not only is Yemen launching drones and air strikes, but that a major escalation of Hezbollah attacks occured last night on the Lebanon-Israel border and that Hezbollah successfully hit a number of US interests in the region.
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