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Tehran, Qodsna - Speaking to Qods News Agency, a Canadian writer, senior journalist and political expert Eric Walberg talked about the latest developments in Gaza.
Following is an interview of qodsna reporter with Eric Walberg:
Qodsna: As you now, Hamas and Israel reached a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza. Many experts as well as Israeli experts and officials confess that Hamas has won the Gaza war and prevented Israel from achieving its goals (including destroying Hamas and releasing the hostages) and described the war as a disastrous Israeli failure in Gaza. What is your opinion about this?
Eric Walberg: The slaughter has ceased which is a temporary victory. Netanyahu and his right wing allies vow to continue the 'war', though it is not a regular war but a guerrilla war, where the Israelis cannot engage in regular combat. Hamas fighters live and prepare their homemade weapons in 700 miles of tunnels which Israel has been unable to destroy. It is a new type of highly concentrated urban warfare. Hamas scouts find Israeli soldiers and tanks, lay roadside bombs and shoot from destroyed buildings on the Israelis, using unexploded Israeli bomb parts to make their own and 'return to sender'. Their operations are heroic, precise, inspired by Islam and their commitment to liberate their nation.
The fury of Netanyahu is not enough. Whether the massacre continues all depends on Trump. Will he provide a blank Cheque like Biden? That would allow Israel to continue to bomb from the air but Hamas will survive this. It is up to Israeli soldiers to now resist a pointless, deadly 'war'.
Qodsna: The Zionist regime has committed the most serious atrocities during its 75 years of occupation. Indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against civilians, particularly women and children, targeting journalists, aid workers and other protected persons, civilian infrastructures including hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, refugee camps, residential buildings, ambulances, and places affiliated with the United Nations and other international organizations, are just parts of those atrocities. How do you see the necessity of considering the Legal aspects of Zionist regime’s war on Gaza in International assemblies?
Eric Walberg: Lawyers in Belgium and the Netherlands are prosecuting Israeli soldiers. The Hind Rajab Foundation is a genuine grassroots International Criminal Court. The official ICC is now under extreme threat from Trump who has imposed sanctions on its members and threatens to invade the Hague to 'rescue' any Americans arrested there. So Hind Rajab is doing its real work, using thousands of Tik Tok and other social media postings by Israeli soldiers where they expose themselves doing war crimes as if Israelis are above the law. Already they have submitted evidence against over a thousand Israelis now accused of war crimes. Israeli security forces, Mossad in the lead, are already working to try to discredit or disappear these brave, principled activists.
Many Israelis are dual nationals, so a Spanish Israeli can be nabbed say by Spain or wherever, at least in the EU, as Spanish citizenship makes them sitting ducks outside Israel. The founder of Hind Rajab, Dyab Abou Jahjah, was threatened by an Israel cabinet minister with a 'pager' warning. i.e., assassination. He is under state protection by the Belgian government. The EU is now splitting over Israel, with Spain, Ireland, Belgium and Holland less caught in Israelis clutches, more willing to defy threats by the US and Israel. Israel has had to smuggle out holidaying soldiers from Brazil, Cyprus and Thailand. The Israeli cancer is spreading and the 'doctors' are activists risking their lives to destroy it. Everywhere, activists are targeting craven politicians supporting Israel, putting their political careers in jeopardy. Biden lost the presidential election by the defection of hundreds of thousands disgusted with his blind support for the genocide. Trump must realize this political reality. He courted Muslim votes and they put him over the top.
Jerusalem's hard-fought liberation, now in process, is a recapitulation of the Christian Crusades of the 11th—13th cc, this time, not by the knight on a white horse of legend, but through the long march of guerilla warfare by the much maligned Shia. This follows on the liberation of Iran from its Judeo-Christian yoke in 1979 and Iraq 25 years later, ironically by the US, forming the second Shia majority state. But it is the Shia minority of Lebanon that holds the keys to Jerusalem. Their 40% of the Lebanese population punches well above their weight in a fractious country split among Christians, and Sunni and Shia Muslims.
The history of our Story
Firing the first shots: Honduras and odious debt
Out of control, permanent crisis, role of government
клин клином or Make love not war
Exercise: rethink the Story, demonetize
What you can do
Cold ugly cynicism or warm beautiful passion
Ben Stein, noting that about 60% of the top positions in Hollywood are held by Jews, says "Do Jews run Hollywood? You bet they do - and what of it?" Well, let's look at what this spectacular freedom for Jews during the past half century has resulted in:
*Israel and America are terrorizing the entire world with unrelenting, vicious, bloody wars and occupations.
*The collapse of the only serious attempt (if it was indeed serious) by Israel to make peace with the Palestinians in the mid-90s and the subsequent ascendancy of the Zionist neocons in Washington have ended any illusions about the innocence of the Jews in all this.
Dubbed an epic, one of 2024's best films, I had great expectations for The Brutalist. I thought it was about an actual Hungarian architect-immigrant, maybe a fictionalized Frank Gehry, who emigrated to the US in 1947 and became a world-famous architect. Gehry's life journey was similar to the fictional Lazslo Toth, though his parents emigrated from Poland to Canada in 1929 and on to the US.
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Review: Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher (2020)
Review: Richard Falk, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, Clarity Press (2021)
Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts. No!
Well then, don your bicycle helmet. No! Drivers actually pay less attention to you if they see a helmet, figuring they're not likely to kill a smarty-pants, and are less careful around you (2x as likely to pass close). A toque or baseball cap in case of rain is more practical.
Walberg's bike adventures in and around Toronto (ok, walking around Gaspe and some religion too)
Peterborough-Oshawa-Toronto by bike 14 July 2024
Biking the Grand: Reinventing tourism 06 July 2023
Shakespeare by bike 25 June 2022
Tehran, Qodsna - Speaking to Qods News Agency, a Canadian writer, senior journalist and political expert Eric Walberg talked about the latest developments in Gaza.
Following is an interview of qodsna reporter with Eric Walberg:
Qodsna: As you now, Hamas and Israel reached a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza. Many experts as well as Israeli experts and officials confess that Hamas has won the Gaza war and prevented Israel from achieving its goals (including destroying Hamas and releasing the hostages) and described the war as a disastrous Israeli failure in Gaza. What is your opinion about this?
Eric Walberg: The slaughter has ceased which is a temporary victory. Netanyahu and his right wing allies vow to continue the 'war', though it is not a regular war but a guerrilla war, where the Israelis cannot engage in regular combat. Hamas fighters live and prepare their homemade weapons in 700 miles of tunnels which Israel has been unable to destroy. It is a new type of highly concentrated urban warfare. Hamas scouts find Israeli soldiers and tanks, lay roadside bombs and shoot from destroyed buildings on the Israelis, using unexploded Israeli bomb parts to make their own and 'return to sender'. Their operations are heroic, precise, inspired by Islam and their commitment to liberate their nation.
The fury of Netanyahu is not enough. Whether the massacre continues all depends on Trump. Will he provide a blank Cheque like Biden? That would allow Israel to continue to bomb from the air but Hamas will survive this. It is up to Israeli soldiers to now resist a pointless, deadly 'war'.
Qodsna: The Zionist regime has committed the most serious atrocities during its 75 years of occupation. Indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against civilians, particularly women and children, targeting journalists, aid workers and other protected persons, civilian infrastructures including hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, refugee camps, residential buildings, ambulances, and places affiliated with the United Nations and other international organizations, are just parts of those atrocities. How do you see the necessity of considering the Legal aspects of Zionist regime’s war on Gaza in International assemblies?
Eric Walberg: Lawyers in Belgium and the Netherlands are prosecuting Israeli soldiers. The Hind Rajab Foundation is a genuine grassroots International Criminal Court. The official ICC is now under extreme threat from Trump who has imposed sanctions on its members and threatens to invade the Hague to 'rescue' any Americans arrested there. So Hind Rajab is doing its real work, using thousands of Tik Tok and other social media postings by Israeli soldiers where they expose themselves doing war crimes as if Israelis are above the law. Already they have submitted evidence against over a thousand Israelis now accused of war crimes. Israeli security forces, Mossad in the lead, are already working to try to discredit or disappear these brave, principled activists.
Many Israelis are dual nationals, so a Spanish Israeli can be nabbed say by Spain or wherever, at least in the EU, as Spanish citizenship makes them sitting ducks outside Israel. The founder of Hind Rajab, Dyab Abou Jahjah, was threatened by an Israel cabinet minister with a 'pager' warning. i.e., assassination. He is under state protection by the Belgian government. The EU is now splitting over Israel, with Spain, Ireland, Belgium and Holland less caught in Israelis clutches, more willing to defy threats by the US and Israel. Israel has had to smuggle out holidaying soldiers from Brazil, Cyprus and Thailand. The Israeli cancer is spreading and the 'doctors' are activists risking their lives to destroy it. Everywhere, activists are targeting craven politicians supporting Israel, putting their political careers in jeopardy. Biden lost the presidential election by the defection of hundreds of thousands disgusted with his blind support for the genocide. Trump must realize this political reality. He courted Muslim votes and they put him over the top.
not assassinations, torture, hannibal directive, PAGERS. just trust in god, courage and smarts. (and unexploded israeli ordinance 'return to sender'.) with syed muhsin abbas from london. i'm on at 5:20.
hi readers, I have just let AI write a book for me. I haven't read it yet. how's that for irony. I'm publishing my book which I haven't yet read, let alone written! it cites books i haven't heard of and seems to be crazily formatted. i tried to clean it up. a quick glance suggested it was thrown together without much actual use of my writing. i will write a review of it. lol
Twilight of Hegemony: A Multipolar Dawn
youbooks.com & Based on content by Eric Walberg
Twilight of Hegemony: A Multipolar Dawn
Chapter I. Twilight of Hegemony: A Multipolar Dawn
Chapter II. Introduction: A Critical Eye on a World in Crisis
Section 1. My Journey of Understanding
1. Early experiences and influences shaping the author's worldview.
2. The author's background in journalism and international relations.
3. The author's personal experiences in the Soviet Union and their impact on his views.
Section 2. A Methodology of Critique
1. The author's approach to analyzing global events: critical analysis, historical context, and nuanced perspectives.
2. Deconstructing dominant narratives and challenging established power structures.
3. A commitment to truth-telling and exposing hidden agendas.
Section 3. Setting the Stage: Key Themes and Questions
1. Introduction to the core themes that will be explored in the book: imperialism, conflict, alternative visions, and the search for meaning.
2. Preview of the structure and argument of the book.
Macron schmoozes with Trump at Notre Dame but shafts France's own Trumpian.
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