Day: December 27, 2023

Who Will Do The Absorbing?

We all know of the carnage in the Middle East these days….and that the IDF is pushing and pushing people into a position where they can be eliminated.

Good Old reliable BiBi has floated an idea for Palestinians……

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a meeting of his Likud party on Monday that he’s working to bring about the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and looking for countries willing to “absorb” them, Israel Hayom reported.

“Our problem is countries that are ready to absorb them, and we are working on it,” Netanyahu said. His comments are the latest sign that Israel’s ultimate goal is to cleanse Gaza of its 2.3 million Palestinian residents.

Netanyahu said the world is “already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration” and pointed to comments from former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who is currently running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Haley said last week that Palestinians in Gaza should migrate to “pro-Hamas” countries.

Netanyahu said that a team must be set up to “ensure that those who want to leave Gaza to a third country can do so. It needs to be settled. It has strategic importance for the day after the war.”

Last month, Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel penned an op-ed for The Jerusalem Postcalling for the “voluntary resettlement” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to other countries around the world. Two members of the Israeli Knesset wrote a similar op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that said Western nations should accept Palestinian refugees.

While Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have framed the plan as “voluntary resettlement,” Israel’s brutal campaign in Gaza is making much of the enclave uninhabitable. About 90% of Gaza’s population has already been internally displaced.

 A leaked document drafted by Gamliel’s Intelligence Ministry said pushing all 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza into Egypt was the ideal scenario for the Israeli government. But Egypt has refused to take in any Palestinian refugees, forcing Israeli officials to look elsewhere to facilitate their planned ethnic cleansing.

(antiwar.com)

I am sure that AIPAC has enough clout in Congress that the US could absorb these people….after all according to idiots we do have an open border.

Personally, I would give BiBi the finger and tell him he created the problem then he needs to deal with it….but that would take balls and those are sadly lacking here in the Congress and the country.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Russia/China Partnership

For years now we all have heard of the growing power that is China and then the South China Sea became part of that saga with the bull’s eye on Taiwan…and with all the chest thumping the War Department gets lots of cash…..and then as if on cue Russia invades Ukraine and BAM! we have new threat to American world domination…..and the War Department smiled a large grin.

And then the two also rans started working together…..on several levels and a new more potent adversaries emerges….one that should keep the War Department in cash for many years to come.

For decades, the military might of the US was unchallenged.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US was the world’s only military superpower, with its forces deployed all over the world to defend allies and deter aggression.

But as 2023 draws to a close, conflicts are flaring across the world, and Russia and China are growing increasingly aggressive in their shared ambition to topple the US as the world’s biggest power.

Their authoritarian leaders, Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia, are seeking to exploit global instability to damage the US and its allies, say analysts, and are drawing closer to forming a military alliance that poses the biggest threat the US has faced in decades.

“It is clear that the two states see themselves as military partners, and that this partnership is growing deeper and more experienced, even if it is not a formal alliance in the Western sense,” Jonathan Ward, CEO of the Atlas Group, told Business Insider.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-china-brink-military-alliance-may-overwhelm-us-putin-xi-2023-12

Now there is a new ‘spot’ that will need an influx of American taxpayer money if China is to be stopped….the Philippines.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi says the country will maintain military pressure on the Philippines amid a dispute over sovereignty in the South China Sea that could involve U.S. forces defending their treaty partner.

In a phone conversation Wednesday with his Philippine counterpart, Enrique A. Manalo, Wang “warned that if the Philippine side misjudges the situation, goes its own way, or even colludes with ill-intentioned external forces to continue to stir up troubles, China will defend its rights in accordance with law and respond resolutely,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Wang’s comments follow China’s mobilization of its coast guard and maritime militia to block Philippine supply missions to support its soldiers and fishermen. China claims sovereignty over virtually the entire South China Sea, one of the world’s most crucial waterways for shipping, putting it at odds with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei, who all maintain claims over islands, reefs and undersea resources in the region.

In particularly sharp comments, Wang was quoted as accusing the Philippines of having “changed its policy stance so far, reneged on the promises it has made, provoked troubles at sea, and undermined China’s legitimate and lawful rights.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-12-21/china-vows-to-keep-up-military-pressure-on-the-philippines-as-territorial-dispute-grows-tenser

Not to worry the War Department will be there with cash in hand to make things ‘better’.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”