Showing posts with label stupidity. Show all posts
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Thursday, 14 May 2026

RANT: LEAVING ON A JET PLANE, DON’T KNOW WHEN I’LL BE BACK AGAIN…

 
RECALL THE PROVERB
about the hole in the bucket—you know, the one where the farmer goes to the well to draw water, but no matter what he does the hole determines the carrying capacity of his water bucket. He will need to make more trips to collect the same amount he previously collected, costing him time, energy, and ultimately money. Or he will make do with less. Yes, he could repair the bucket but that's beside the point: In systems theory, there is the principle that an organism or an organization is only as strong, as viable, as its weakest link:
 
“The principle that "a system is only as strong as its weakest link" means a system's overall performance is limited by its most vulnerable component. [Italics mine] In system theory, this bottleneck or constraint—whether a person, process, or technology—determines the maximum capacity and failure point of the entire system. Strengthening the weakest part yields the highest improvements.” (Google AI)
 
THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ is the ‘weak link’ in the system of transporting crude oil and distillates from the Persian Gulf to the world. Functionally, it hadn’t been one before February 28 when Israel and the United States decided to once more attack Iran in round two of their illegal war of aggression against the Persian state. Prior to that, the Strait had been open and freely navigated by all. Iran closed the Strait (the sovereignty of which it shares with Oman), to vessels from nations hostile to it and those aiding and abetting their activities. Most Gulf oil goes to Asian markets (80 to 90%), with China receiving over one-third of all deliveries. Over 50% of China’s oil comes from the Gulf through the Straits of Hormuz, while ninety-eight percent of Filipino oil and nearly 90% of Japan’s crude oil comes from the Gulf. These countries and others (Italy, Greece, Poland, Spain, Malasia, India and Pakistan) have negotiated deals with Iran and now pay it toll fees, some as much as two-million dollars per tanker, for safe passage through the Strait. That amounts to billions per year in increased revenue which will go towards rebuilding Iran’s infrastructure damaged during the United States/Israel-Iran war begun in June of last year and reprised on February 28. There has been a tenuous ceasefire since April 7.
 
Note:
Dissatisfied with the pace of peace negotiations brokered by the Pakistanis in Islamabad, on April 13 the United States imposed its own blockade (a blockade of a blockade!), denying passage for ships bound for, or leaving from, Iranian ports. This was done to pressure Iran to open the Straits to all maritime traffic free of charge, as it was before the war.* [Surely, war planers in the Pentagon considered closing of the Strait was something Iran would probably do once the shooting started? Now the mess created by the U.S. and Israel has spread, with ramifications for the entire globe. Nice job, guys! Ed.] Over three-quarters of Iran’s oil shipments have, thus far, been confiscated by Trump’s illegal blockade. But with millions of barrels of oil already in tankers at sea and in its shadow fleet ships, with pipelines to Turkey and the Caspian Sea, and with higher crude oil prices due to market unease over how the war is gaming out, all these mean that Iran can sell its oil at premium prices, resulting in an overall increase1  in state revenues. 
STILL, there's the problem of Iran’s oil storage capacity being nearly full, which means oil wells must be capped, until their flow can be restarted at a future date (not an easy process.) And, don't forget the same problem exists for the rest of the Gulf States with uncapped oil wells filling up storage capacity, necessitating more and more wells be temporarily shuttered, adding to the time it will take to restart them and ramp up production after the war ends. 
👉That's unless Trump does something really stupid like starting the bombing campaign again. Which would trigger Iran to respond with a massive missile attack, decimating the Gulf states (and Israel, and American bases in the Middle East) and their oil infrastructure, taking offline 20% of the globe's oil supply. The resulting damage to economies throughout the world in the wake of such a clusterfuck would be incalculable.
 
MEANWHILE, in early May as I write this, countries around the world are beginning to feel pressure points in their economies as looming shortfalls in crude oil supplies are ‘baked-in’ and all but inevitable, with the resulting supply-chain disruptions already being felt in Asian countries, especially those with inadequate strategic petroleum reserves, or ones that are hard-pressed to pay for more expensive petroleum products. By now, most tankers that exited the Straits prior to February 28 have reached their destinations and have discharged their cargoes. Once that is used up, there will be a 20% shortfall in available crude until production levels once more meet the demand. Unless something is done to bring this war to an end real soon, some commentators predict a global recession by the summer and the possibility of a serious depression this autumn—one that could be on par with the Great Depression of the 1930s—unless crude oil and petroleum distillates are flowing full-throttle within the next few weeks. 
The American ‘counter-blockade’ against Iran must be lifted before the Iranians will even consider talks on opening the Hormuz Strait to pre-war traffic levels. Gulf states that aided Israeli and American attacks are not allowed to use the Straits at present. Global shortfalls in crude oil will mean shortages in dozens upon dozens of plastic products made from oil, including distillates like diesel and jet fuels.
 
Other Gulf exports like LNG, urea and ammonia (used in fertilizers), aluminum, as well as helium used in the manufacture of computer chips, will soon be in short supply. 
And a shortage of certain pigments made with petroleum distalates, along with an accompaning price hike in the available stocks, has led one Japanese (potato) chip manufacturer to print their bags in black and white [The Horror! The Horror! Ed.] 
👉ALREADY, farmers here in Canada are predicting lower crop yields later this year and next summer, due to increased cost of fertilizers, herbicides, diesel fuel, etc. Canada uses approximately 2.4-million bpd of oil, including nearly 900,000 bpd that is imported and sold primarily to eastern Canada. In an oil crunch, I guess Canada could export less to fulfill the country's needs or access the nearly limitless Alberta oil sands. Problem there is getting the oil from the west to the east coast. There are no east-west pipelines for a variety of reasons, and so Canadians should not be too sanguine about easily accessing oil diverted from exports or topping up our tanks with oil sands bitumen in a pinch. All may not go according to plan. And it's interesting to note that Canada is the only member of the G-7 countries that does not have a federally-controled strategic oil reserve, relying, instead, on the vast bitumen deposits in the west. Hmmm...
 
AIR LINES were the first headline grabbers, with an insecure supply chain for jet fuel causing the immediate cancellation of flights or the elimination of air travel routes altogether. (Who wants to buy a return flight ticket when jet fuel might be in short supply at the other end.)
IN EARLY APRIL, farmers in Ireland protested the rising costs of diesel by creating roadblocks with their tractors and other forms of peaceful demonstrations. FOLKS, THE PAIN WILL COME HERE in the next few weeks with the fuel price rise (despite the Liberal government temporarily removing the federal sales tax on gasoline). Expect scarcity of some food products and consumer goods along with price increases. 
 
👉As long as the Straits of Hormuz remains closed, things will only get worse. A note, passed from the Iranian delegation to Pakistani mediators listed five prerequisites that the Americans and Israelis must accept before negotiations over Hormuz could be discussed. These ‘givens’ to any future treaty run headlong into America’s maximal demands of "zero enrichment" of nuclear fuels and limits on Iranian missile forces; etc.. It’s hard to see where a deal can be made, especially given the abysmal track record of Trump’s negotiating team of Mutt and Jeff Kushner and Witkoff; the continued use of those two suggests to all and sundry that the Americans are not interested in genuine peace negotiations. If they were, they would not send these two unserious people to do the hard work of negotiating on behalf of the American government.
 
IT'S a knock-em, smack-em, drag-out match to see who will groan first--Trump or Iran. It's about who can withstand the pain the longest as world markets crash and economies slide into Recession, and even into that razorback-filled pit of Depression, as supply chains crack and crumble. The United States started this thing, with Zionists at home and abroad aiding and abetting, and arm-twisting the American president into yet another foolish and costly escapade in the Middle East. It's not just Epstein's ghost that haunts the sleep of President Trump, it's also the Three Ghosts of Modernity: Hubris, Indifference and Envy.
 
👉I THOUGHT I would get back in writing mode now that Trump’s gone to China and all of us can take a breather and walk through sunlit fields far from The Donald's rollercoaster ride to Hell. Perhaps the Chinese will keep him. Wouldn’t that be nice?     
 

CHEERS, JAKE. _____________________________________
 
*
AS I UNDERSTAND IT, Iran’s blockade is legal because the Strait of Hormuz waters lay within its (and shared with Oman’s) maritime territorial waters. The United States is in breech of international law because it has no jurisdiction to seize Iranian ships in the Gulf of Oman’s waters. Iran’s blockade of this vital ‘choke point’ in the maritime supply chain for oil may set a precedent for other such bodies of water throughout the globe. 
 
1. Recall that the United States originally allowed Iranian oil shipments (and Russian oil which remains tariff free) to reach their destinations, thus keeping the international price of oil from climbing too quickly. They subsequently placed sanctions on any country buying Iranian oil. Perhaps the most important aspect in this whole kerfuffle is the willingness on the part of more and more buyers to purchase Iranian oil using local currencies, chiefly the Chinese Renminbi (RBM) instead of U.S. dollars, thus avoiding American scrutiny of their dollar-trade activities. Not using the USD or “petro dollar”, is a sign of the weakening hegemonic power America exerts over global financial markets, with more dominoes set to fall in the coming months and years. 
Stay tuned!
 

 
  
       

Thursday, 2 April 2026

RANT: LOAVES AND FISHES? HELL, I WANT A BLT!

   
YOU WOULDN’T BE TOO FAR OFF THE MARK
if you thought the accompanying pic was of an audience full of red-eyed devils from hell. Or else it’s this senior demonstrating the extent of his Photoshop skills. Take your pick. For those who are strictly blue-pilled, this is a go-to monthly meeting held in the Pentagon* and led by “Secretary of War”, Pete Hegseth. What sort of meeting? Why, it’s a prayer meeting, a new meet-and-greet policy adopted by Born Again Pete to bring some old-time fire and brimstone back into the armed forces. 
Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth
I GUESS SecWar Hegseth wants to be sure his troops know that God is on their side, no matter what they do and that they're part of God’s earthly army dedicated to raising the third temple on the Mount in Jerusalem, announcing Armageddon, and ushering in the thousand-year reign of Christ on earth. Well, the SecWar may have to update that last part but, hey, it’s a work in progress. 
 
Yesterday, on an earthly plane, during Judge Napolitano’s "Judging Freedom" YouTube  podcast, Judge Nap played a short (thankfully!) clip of Hegseth’s prayer-casting or whatever he was doing Monday morning. [@21:50 to 23:12 of the show] For those of a more secular or agnostic bent, as well as most red-pilled folk, it’s advisable to keep an airsick bag nearby; it may be needed. And while the majority sit enthralled, eyes ablaze with light from a beckoning End Times, not everyone is happy to be there. Some thought coffee and doughnuts would be served before the praying got started. Live and learn, my friends, live and learn. 
👉NOTE: With a red arrow I've pointed out a possible apostate in the crowd. Naturally, he will be confined to the burning lake of fire for all eternity.1 However, an eternity spent in the fires of hell's dark ovens might be  preferable to listening to SecWar Hegseth's prayerifying.
👉AND THE EXPRESSION on this guy's face  is priceless! You can almost read his mind:
"What.. The fuck.. Is this? I'm going to punch him in his stupid face. Hard. No doughnuts or bagels? I'm outta here!"
 
CHEERS, JAKE.😜 _____________________________________
 
* You can tell the video is from the Pentagon because there’s a “Pentagon” icon at the bottom-right corner. But, if you thought the group looked more like lost souls trapped in a DEI meeting mandated by HR, you’d be excused for misidentifying the group. Folks, it's the Pentagon for Christ's sake! These are the people that shape and flesh-out the Department of War's trillion-dollar budget.2 Question is: Do they have their eye on the ball or on a blood-soaked End Times? And if contemplating that doesn’t give you pause or send chills up your withers, nothing will. Just sayin'.
 
1. Or he may be demoted, or passed over for promotion, or his job could be declared redundant.
 
2. Next year to become a bloated $1.5-trillion. 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday, 9 September 2025

RANT: WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?

  
"Soldier and Death" by Hans Larwin
LAST MONTH, Canadian PM Mark Carney visited Kiev, as well as attending a meeting in Brussels to sign on to an EU arms deal that ensures military equipment gets to Kiev. [See PURL, below] He also went to a NATO summit in The Hague that discussed raising to 5% of GDP* the military spending of member states. So, Carney’s been a busy beaver. But what does signing various agreements around military expenditures mean for Canada and Canadians?
According to gov.ca, Canada has given Ukraine nineteen-billion dollars since Russia’s invasion in 2022. In last month’s Kiev stopover, PM Carney announced an additional two-billion or so down the rat hole for Zelensky’s war efforts, including additional arms and munitions, and humanitarian funding such as emergency food and medical aid. This most recent Canadian donation to Ukraine is through NATO’s new “Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List” (PURL) scam which organizes member states’ donations in handy half-billion-dollar tranches for weapons purchases. PURL greases the wheels to more efficiently restock Ukraine’s depleted equipment and munitions’ stores.
In June, Zelensky said Ukraine would require 40-billion dollars in aid annually and urged everyone to get with the program. Forty-billion bucks a year! Golly gee! Ukraine’s “Churchill” has come back in a big way following his disastrous February visit to Washington and that White House dust-up with President Trump we all saw on our screens. [Ouch! Ed.] After that fiasco he looked like he was on life support, but now he’s got the spring back in his step and, with the Eurocrats behaving like a mob of wet cats hosed into submission by the American president determined to make them pick up the tab for project Ukraine,  Zelensky is all smiley-face and kisses now that he got a transfusion of money and arms, coming primarily from European countries who will purchase the weapons from the US and pass them along to Ukraine. Now, all he’s got to do is defeat the Russian army and lay siege to Moscow. [He’d better have his lucky dice with him because facts on the ground will turn his gamble into a crap-shoot right quick! Ed.]
 
DOES THE TERM “money pit” come to mind? Though, Ukraine is more like the “Grand Canyon” of slush funds and money laundering operations, methinks. Has everyone forgotten that as late as October 2021, Zelensky was implicated in a financial scam involving offshore bank accounts and tax avoidance that he’s been running since before he became president in 2019. Folks, Mahatma Gandhi he ain’t! (Nor Churchill, for that matter.) With billions of dollars flooding Ukraine over the past three years, with little accountability and a president with sticky fingers…well, you connect the dots….
 
PM CARNEY also announced that like a good lick-spittle Canada would, “…be lowering the price cap for seaborne Russian-origin crude oil in alignment with measures announced by the EU and the UK…” in the hope this eighteenth package of sanctions (there’s been so many I’ve lost count!) will do the trick and sink the Ruskie economy once and for all. Good luck with that.😝
 
👉I guess the point I’m making here is that the collective West, for the most part, is run by Lilliputian leaders out of touch with their electorates, their priorities serving personal agendas or else promoting last year’s solutions for tomorrow’s problems. They're out-of-step and out of time in other words. And Canadian taxpayers will be picking up our share of the tab, along with our EU buddies, and we will continue to do so apparently until the end of time.
👉If things go pear-shaped in a big way, and the West is foolish enough to engage Russia in a land war in Ukraine, instead of pouring Canadian treasure onto Ukrainian soil, those two-thousand troops stationed in Latvia will be pouring their blood instead.
 
QUICK TAKEAWAYS:
👉Ukraine has a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning this conflict. It’s a numbers game: Russia has more manpower, more weapons, more industrial capacity to produce weapons than Ukraine. Far more. More, even, than the collective West combined (including the USA). That’s not going to change for some years to come.
👉Ukraine becoming a member of NATO is an existential threat to Russia and it will not tolerate such a state of affairs on its borders. Period.
👉Russia is willing to negotiate, but only if facts on the ground are recognized and its legitimate security concerns are addressed—like Ukraine adopting a policy of neutrality based on the Austrian model, for example.
Despite months of gab fests, discussions, proposals, tweets, and ham-fisted politicking on the part of the United States and its posse, the EU (and…sigh, Canada), Russia has concluded the West is “agreement-incapable” for addressing its concerns through diplomacy and will therefore solve the Ukraine problem on the battlefield.
The hashed lines represent possible Russian advances by war's end
👉The Russians are poised to advance to the Dnieper River by the end of 2025 and may then march on Kiev or Odessa (or both).
Providing Kiev with more weapons and money only prolongs the outcome—a Russian victory is inevitable. In the meantime, there may be as many as one-and-a-half-million dead Ukrainian soldiers.
👉How many more must die? How much territory will Ukraine lose to the Russians because Zelensky and the United States et al, refuse to acknowledge the fact that Ukraine is losing and  that they need to settle the conflict through diplomacy?
The political class and ‘talking heads’ of the West refuse to acknowledge reality: As valiantly as Ukraine’s soldiers have fought over these past three years,  they have lost. Their front lines are fraying and their infrastructure is crumbling under increasing Russian missile and drone attacks. Ukraine has nowhere to go but down. 
👉So, they need to make a deal now to save what’s left. But, Zelensky continues to sing the same song while the flower of Ukrainian youth dies along the front lines.
  
CHEERS, JAKE.  ____________________________________
* Canada currently spends 1.37% of its GDP on defence, but it’s looking to up that to 2% in fiscal 2025-26. And like a kid playing hopscotch, Carney hopes to land on the 5% mark by 2035, at least on paper. However, it's unlikely that any NATO member will reach this target except, perhaps, Germany and Poland. Most will wait for Trump’s term in office to end and a more congenial president is elected in 2028.👌
 
    "I am the king..."
 
 
 

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

HOTEL GAZAFORNIA: YOU CAN CHECK OUT ANY TIME YOU LIKE, BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE

 
ADOLF HITLER AND HEINRICH HIMMLER must be jumping for joy and high-fiving amid the fires of Hell where their black souls are sequestered for an eternity or two. Why do I say this? Check out what an Israeli parliamentarian, a member in good standing in the Knesset, said last week. It’s a short clip at the 10:05 mark on Judge Napolitano’s go-to "Judging Freedom" YouTube channel. Judge Nap interviewed retired American diplomat Chas Freeman and asked him to comment on MP Zvika Fogel’s poisonous rant. Ambassador Freeman says:
 
“Well, it's both the best impersonation of a Nazi that I've ever seen and it does represent the government policy of Israel. That's why they're talking about building concentration camps as a way to expel  the Palestinians from that part of Palestine. Meanwhile, of course, while no one's watching, they're busily expelling everybody from the West Bank. There's quite an effort going on there to achieve what is called ‘transfer’, which is ethnic cleansing and expulsion. So, you know, one of the crazy things that's been going on is that normally when you deal with genocide, you have great trouble demonstrating intent, but [here] there's no question about the intent. You just heard it. That is, as I said, the best demonstration of Nazilike thinking that you could possibly imagine. And it is now the majority opinion in Israel.” (ret. U.S. Ambassador, Chas Freeman on the "Judging Freedom" podcast, 8 July 2025)
 
THE "CONCENTRATION CAMP" plan the ambassador mentions comes from the very real, recent proposal by Israel’s  Defence Minister, Israel Katz, to establish a “humanitarian city”, as he calls it, in the southern Gaza district of Rafah near the border with Egypt. The first stage of the plan is to entrap house several hundred thousand Palestinians from the local area inside a fenced off zone and keep them there until they ‘voluntarily’ choose to leave Gaza or until other arrangements can be made to “transfer” them abroad to a country willing to host them. [That's a war crime, the forced displacement of an indigenous population from their homeland. Ed.] To this end, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will build feeding stations and work with “partners” to construct housing (tents, actually), water and sanitation facilities, medical clinics and even a school. It will be policed internally by mercenaries private contractors while outside the fence, IDF soldiers keep watch. The idea, according to Israel Katz*, is to screen all entrants, digitally identify and “tag” them, and arrest any Hamas militants that may be uncovered during the screening process. Food and humanitarian aid would, of course, be distributed inside the camps. And, one more thing: once you enter the camps, you can never leave (except for 'voluntary' migration outside of Gaza and the state of Israel).
 
    "Barbed Wire" by David Ludwig Bloch
THIS FIRST prison camp will be a demonstration model where all the kinks in the system can be worked out. Minister Katz envisions that the place, and others like it, will eventually come to house two million Palestinian Gazans. These are “transition” camps, temporary stops for inmates as they make their way out the door and out of Gaza forever. Where they will go is a good question. Recall that in 2024 Egypt constructed a sixteen-square-kilometer fenced-off area abutting the Rafah Crossing into Gaza. I’d like to think they cleared the land for vegetable and flower gardens but it’s probably more likely the Egyptian President El-Sisi cucked to pressure from the Biden administration and threats and cajolement (aka “bribes”) from the Israelis and new Trump administration to prepare for an eventual exodus into the Sinai of some or all of the Gazan population. And Egypt may not be the only potential 'landing pad' for all those Palestinians soon to be bottled up in concentration camps in southern Gaza. I read recently that Cyprus may be petitioned to set up reciprocal “transition” camps to help Israel offshore its unwanted millions. We’ll have to wait and see which governments cuck first to the U.S. and its Levantine pit bull. It should be noted: There’s a fair bit of walking around money to be had in offshore oil and gas fields. Will Israel work a deal with Cyprus to share in the petroleum profits with a quid pro quo that Cyprus take in Gazans? Stay tuned.
 
👉ONE HOLD-UP to Minister Gatz’s wet dream of Gaza ethnically cleansed of Palestinians is that he needs a sixty-day ceasefire with Hamas to give him time to build his “humanitarian city" that will be sited atop the ruins of Rafah. It should come as no surprise that the idea of screening and “concentrating” Gaza’s population into IDF-controlled camps doesn’t sit well with Hamas and, so far, there is no ceasefire agreed upon, though negotiations continue in Doha. If the camps are filled with non-combatants, it stands to reason that anyone outside the camps will be considered a militant, whether they are one or not. And it’s quite probable that many Palestinians will refuse to enter the camps because they see what fate has in store for them behind the wire, meaning they will be considered “militants” by the IDF and treated as legitimate targets. 
Ethnic cleansing is still very much on the agenda in Tel Aviv and in Washington. Recall that the American president mused earlier this year about "deporting" Palestinians from Gaza, taking over the Gaza Strip and turning it into a "Riviera of the Middle East", with "big and beautiful" condos and casinos.
 
Pipe dream though that is, there are serious players in West Asia and elsewhere who are interested in turning Israel and Gaza into an "energy and commercial hub" with rail lines, oil and gas pipelines, and shipping lanes linking India, the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia Israeli ports
and eastern Europe. The proposal by the Balsillie Paper think tank [see above link] envisions a rebuilt Gaza with Palestinians participating in an energy and commercial network (the "India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor"), and by having Gazans share in the growing regional prosperity, the besieged Palestinian enclave would stand a better chance at becoming a stable and peaceful entity. Growing indigenous Palestinian wealth is a legitimate goal which should be discussed and analyzed. But, I don't see the Israelis wanting to share their toys with the Palestinians. Do you? Their racist project of ethnic cleansing and genocide has gone too far. Too much blood has been spilled. And the IMEC corridor, should it ever come to pass, would bring onto the scene global financial interests and energy corporations whose bottom lines might not be in the best interests of Palestinians. So, there's that. If I were to hazard a guess, by the time either Trump or an IMEC consortium ever break ground to redevelop Gaza, there will be no Palestinians left; they will be gone, one way or another. 

👉BUT, FIRST THINGS FIRST. Minister Katz’s plan for a “humanitarian city” in Rafah, something Ambassador Freeman sardonically calls: “Auschwitz on the Mediterranean”, is still on the drawing board. How long it will stay there, we’ll have to wait and see. Don't forget, the defence minister needs a ceasefire so he can build his concentration camp that's slated to hold several-hundred-thousand Gazans. So far, no ceasefire is in the offing. 
👉Who would have imagined in this bright, new century of ours that descendants of survivors of the Holocaust would be complicit in creating the same type of system under which so many of their relatives and co-religionists were murdered by the Nazis during WWII? It's not exactly the Circle of Life, is it? (Circle of Death is more like it.)
 
    GHF aid station June 15, 2025. Chaos, Inc.
EACH DAY IN GAZA, dozens of people are killed by Israeli bombs and gunfire--often the figure is over 100 dead, mostly women and children. And since the end of May, around 780 Palestinians have been killed near the four Gazan Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) feeding stations and five-thousand-five-hundred have been wounded attempting to receive food aid.  What kind of humanitarian aid system is this, where people risk their lives for a box of food?! ANSWER: It's not humanitarian aid. It's cheese in a mousetrap, and there are so, so many hungry mice everywhere. As I mentioned in a previous post,  the GHF stations are purposely designed to induce stress and strife among Palestinians entering them, thus creating an inherently unstable environment where IDF troops are given license to fire on the crowds. But, I'm sure the "humanitarian city" Israel Gatz hopes to set up will be better organized and all the nutritional, medical, social, and psychological  needs of Palestinians living inside the wire will be met in a robust and forthright manner. 😝 Yeah, right. Fuck Israel.
 
Cheers, Jake. ____________________________________ 
 
* One Haaretz newspaper wag suggests calling it “Camp Israel” after the innovative and forward-thinking Israeli defence minister.
+ The main Israeli port of Haifa and a proposed Gazan port.  $$$$$$$$$$$$