City over the top

14 April 2024

Iran launching ballistic drone missiles directly into Jerusalem Israel is a crime against the State of Israel.

It has directly launched its missiles through Israel Air Space, with no real reason to do so historically, e.g. that the territory of Israel would belong to Iran.

Israel has every right to fight and retain that right on its borders, now under fire in the South and against the terrorist group Hezbollah in the north. With the war against persistent terror and terrorism on the borders here above mentioned it is in israel's Military right to stick with the strategy of its defenses. Iran should be aware of the military strategy concerning the sovereign border of this territory that is the State and Republic of Israel.

The attack on Israel's sovereign territory last night therefore With missiles directly launched from Iran into Israel is a violation and irrelevant of any historical or political meaning.

The writing ut supra is a personal op. Additional: Israel is standing a very strong case against Iran, that its barrage of missiles was not retaliation, but a right out provocation. Legally and military legally a second provocation of the same magnitude would mean that this is war Against the State of Israel . Therefore from 7 October 2023 and in April 2024 Israel has been pushed into war by its enemies on its territory. The God of Abraham is yet Israel's Strongest and supreme ally, when clearly that the enemies of Israel mean annihilation of its existence in the ancient land of Abraham, Jitzhak and Jacob/Rachel.

World order: Iran is a third world country, progressing to the rank of a second world country, and not as its attack on israel's sovereign territory last night suggested an imperial Iran to conquer the land of Israel. It is constraint by its limitations c.q. Republic. Its attack on Israel should be taken into consideration more broader and deeper, with intellectual prowess if Israel decides to extract a price from Tehran. There is oil, and is it impossible intellectually to go another way that will bring more incentives for Israel?

To be continued.

Word of the night: why would Iran underestimate the old world order? There are no new players in a new world order.

12 April 2024

Iran has two possible war scenarios in mind and they are not very difficult to understand. One is that the old world order likely will continue, if the new world order will suffer a setback for a while long before the world can speak of an aftermath. One week ago in the heat of the moment with the international world backing Hamas and the Palestinian resistance, from that the window to Iran and a new opportunity was clear that this was now or never. Loss of both borders first by holding the borders south and north in constant armed engagement with the IDF, and secondly by public opinion in the international world, the window of opportunity did bring Iran closer to the war scene and a bold declaration of war was made by its leadership in Tehran, that it will take revenge for the bombing of its high officials in Syria. The leadership in Tehran could with ease ignore the rest of the world of any order, as far as the Middle East was concerned. One week later the same threats do not make the same sense, if it will e.g. attack Israel within 48 hours, so they have announced over the last 48 hours. Public opinion doesn't stand with Iran, it does so with the Palestinians. From that point of view it looks very much that Iran is being pushed back into the corner of the old world order, of which it has a historical role to play here or risk a terrible gamble. In 2014 it was then Russian President Vladimir Putin with a similar gamble, and to challenge the world order. Incidently what can Iran expect to be left with if for theoritical reasons it should succeed in the world as we know it? Or they are not concerned with the kind of deterrence of most Nato Members coveting our planet earth? Iranian leadership should be wary of a total war scenario with the rest of the world, one can only see from the latest threat to Israel. A small faction of terrorists Hamas did the trick and has dwarfed the leaders and generals in Iran, when they crossed the border with Israel and came to massacre and rape the citizens of Israel in Ha Negev. Had it been Leonidas of Sparta the world would have certainly called him king of war. That however is precisely what the Middle East countries thought of Hamas after 7 October! Sometimes a rival brother (e.g. Cain and Abel) can be more deadly an adversary or mistrusted relation or relative... Especially when crowned by the people everywhere in the region as victors with waving palm trees leaves by women, old, young and elderly, standing by the side of the road to hail the king warriors. And the world stood by Hamas.

The other war scenario that is most unlikely and to hit Israel directly is one that is making no sense in terms of provoking the world order in a total war. Unless they are ready to gamble in an all or nothing scenario. They will be needing at the same time a new planet in the day after, when we know how this planet is quietly being controlled from its apogee. Why would Iran make a terrible miscalculation of its own 'greatness' and not remember what happened with the Russian President in 2014 after he had challenged the global world? To take Crimea was like peanuts to an elephant and then he came back in 2021. Also perhaps thinking that this was the moment to be even far more greater, and bearing in mind Russia's powers in space. In the new world order what perhaps is part of its rationale is that the world has learned many lessons from the past, and that the future will therefore be run by only those nations in which its populations believe in allegiance that they stand for justice and freedom. Iran may underestimate that allegiance completely. And where the people are most and best served by governments (even when difficult), there is no other peoples which have alien ways of understanding living conditions of all. Why would they support in any sort of way or public opinion a people not known for their human kindness as a governing body and government? With the old world order it is maybe good for Iran to remember the Iran- Iraq wars. To say this is for a reason, that when again feeling the ambition of going to war once again against another nation. The writing on the wall: first Shiite and Sunnies, and now Shiite and Jews. How will we know whether Iran will become a new player in equally the new world order?

Intriguing never to ask why Hamas provoked the IDF on 7 October 2023.

3 April 2024

It is on paper very clear that Hamas when it had invaded Israel's old borders since 1948 that this was not meant to attack the people of greater Israel, at least from an overview when an army wants to plan an attack against another. But it had a better plan and it decided to massacre the part of Israel that was closest to the border with Gaza. 75 Years of occupation, the Palestinian people are saying is what the presence of Israel means in this part of the Middle East. And also that Israel is known to be a brutal army like no other in the world. How do the Palestinians know that? How does Hamas know that? From the military point of view it should have been the ten dollar question to anyone: that having been in wars before with Israel one has empirical understanding how the apartheid regime conducts its wars against its enemies or threats from the enemies. Why then provoke Israel in such an unprecedented way as never before to break through the high concrete barriers of the borders to rape, massacre and incinerate Israelis from the kibbutzim? It is this what the world labels as unjustified Israeli war against the Palestinian people/ innocent civilians? In military science disproportionate is then what will follow, and that only in the aftermath of the war can one investigate or examine why there was disproportionate use of force in this or any other war. The military works differently and it is not the same as civilian order in the rest of the western world. Civilian order is under Police order, and governments are part of the military order as a deterrence against any alien invasion of its sovereignty. The future of Israel will not be secured by winning the war against Hamas, as many are saying among the enemy nations. De facto Israel does not need a war to have a future, because if it did the Balfour Declaration has sold them a cat in the bag Jewish Home without sovereignty or State building. Why do they see that State building in the non State next door? Here the act or deed of intent has never come to any fruit bearing for the people of Israel de jure. The future of Israel however continues and that is its real first line. And also it does not owe any other nation a penny to exist and be a Jewish Home. This sharade of a so called State for Israel, aka the Jewish Home, must end here and today pronto.

Another version of the 'occupation' among the enemies of Israel in the Middle East is another unofficial military on paper 'rationale', e.g. that Iran insist it does not share responsibility with Hamas on the 7 October massacre in Ha Negev Israel. And that is difficult for the IDF to prove that Iran's denial is the strategy they are using to blur the image and continue their fog of 'silent' war against Israel and its persistence to be a country and State in this region. Here we see nothing new in tactics when coming from Iran. The accusation against the State of Israel and its defense forces is that Israel wants a wider war in the Middle East, as its latest. With Hezbollah in the north and attacking Israel on the border will make that of the accusation the harder to accept, as also the meetings with Hamas Officials in Teheran. The wider conflict now imposed on Israel is a direct triumph by Iran and Hamas against Israel and widely in the region praised by all supporters of the right to the land of Palestinian people struggle, on Social Media messages. It is low cowardice to deny this glorious mission when they mean by that Israel is occupying the land of the Palestinians and should be removed from the whole of its territory. It looks as if on this occassion the war was imposed on Israel... Or, there are bigger fish to catch with Israel as easy bait. In simple words: Sonny is hot headed and Barzini knows this. Until Michael came and said that if history has taught man(kind) anything it is that nothing is impossible, difficult maybe, but not impossible, referring to reaching the impossible enemy... Michael being a military man and hero.) And more simple words: who will become Israel's Michael Corleone? Especially when in Israel there are too many Fredo's and are not having any respect for a brother like Michael, even when warned never to take sides against family. That happens since the beginning of time: Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau. What else is on the paper for Israel and its nation? Democracy, be that a little more asymmetrical than the usual symmetry of a two- party system democracy. It is perhaps naive to say at the moment, when the world is turning its responsibility away from Israel's pangs of a new birth in another hundred years future, that as a nation Israel has every right to be respected as the rightful people of the Jewish Home. (Not even I as yours truly could live inside the walls of the Jewish Home (now castle) as a non Jew!)

Let us make no mistake: the reversal of war fortune has turned the table in favour of Hamas and Iran in the wider sense of the word. It is therefore in no mood for returning any living or dead hostages to their homeland Israel, and neither will it stop the war. In their reasoning it is simple enough, that, why stop when we're winning? (Casino style?) The wider war is imposed on Israel.

Hamas has unleashed the mother of all traps for Israel on 7 October, five months ago.

(Personal op III)

17 March 2024

The relative quietness so far during the Ramadan holiday in Jerusalem is probably due to the IDF preparations in weeks before the celebration had started. In Israel this makes enormous difference scale wise, with the war in Raffah that is still ongoing. This week also it seems that Israel is not winning the moral war in the international arena of public opinion and diplomacy with Washington, but at home where it is a matter of life and death Israel is winning the war, so at least it must seem to the people of Israel at the moment. Military rationality as difficult as this is does not work in the same way as the logic of people or citizens. In a democracy civil life differs asymmetrically to that of the military or Defense Ministry, and especially at times of war against an intrusive enemy like Hamas. So, who are these people massively protesting against the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu, yesterday in Tel Aviv? The most sober answer is that they are the citizens of Israel and are in their democratic right to air their resentment in the way that all democracies excercise this right. Israel is on the path of its own evolution as a nation and its politics. And that is giving some idea where the country wants to be in the near future with the birth of a whole new nation in the making, despite the vile trap Hamas had set for it to fail or be a failed State in the eyes of the family of nations. In the end of the day it will always be down to the country and its people to decide the fate of their State. In the rest of the world we must allow this young State to prosper and fair well, even when it seemed impossible at first or since the breakout of the war after 7 October. And what is more important is to get rid of the most primitive idea that the world is a better place on God's good earth without the Jews. For the simple reason that many nations align with what they consider good governance among the nations and their understanding of living as human kind on this planet. For the simple reason that they have already had their evolution behind them, fighting wars or losing their wars to come to the notion of what peace means and how that brings more incentive to its people and sovereignty. Now is the time to make that wish come true and to allow Israel to be part of the rest of mankind, and not just as their global and personal financier. The so called global moral obligation toward an equal as we see each other in the rest of the world.

The yearning of most religions is to see a forever Zion in Jerusalem and not to deny this right of Israel, call it good faith but it must be done sooner than much later and never again expect the Jewish people to diminish to a few hundreds left of what they have managed to grow into the millions, after the Holocaust. You don't need to be Jewish and see the promising picture in its oldest prophecies or Songs of Songs by Solomon. Israel today in his interview the Strategic Minister Ron Dermer has said that Israel has a future and it was very exciting. (Interview on X) The world must honor the obligation and remember where the center of the world layeth. Hamas is a mere fleck of dust in comparison to the greatness of God and no nation should fall for its traps, even when the mother of all traps was set out for Israel by Hamas on 7 October to make it an undesirable people living in the Middle East among the millions of Arab peoples. Beulah is the personal name for Israel and its land. However in geo politics the name for now will only remain in the present time as Israel, a new nation after the Holocaust being given the most ambivalent letter by the British government to be allowed and live in Palestine. And as for the partition of land without contiguity between Israel and the Palestinian people, it is most embarrassing that a sophisticated nation as that of the English government has made it more worse than it was ever in its entire history for Jews. This grievance has lasted the longest of times for both nations and when once again looking at its design, you have to admit that the trap was an unfortunate one and will not be resolved by even a Two- State solution. Even the genii in the bottle could not grant such a wish and make the territory between Gaza and the West Bank congruent to Israel, or for the Palestinians. Their interpretation therefore resorting always to genocide or occupation by Israel, and that Israel must give back their land! They could have taken the attitude of Carthago and still manage the lands between the two nations in 75 years, in the meantime. On the other hand with the young State that was erected after 1948, yes here much has gone wrong over the decades. These mistakes will not be here in another one hundred years from today, in good hope. In the end of the living day on this planet nations have the obligation and responsibility not to fail their State and people, and that will always be an instrumental truth throughout perpetual life as only human kind knows it. Whoever wants to adhere to rationalities as democracy and State building will in the end have to build a country and civility, or disappear from civilization altogether and hide under the rocks in desolation and profligacy for the rest of their time under the galaxy of the desert sky. History, Israel now has a War & Peace story (Leo Tolstoi) of its own making. Some reading the whole book, while others only are using pieces and bits, and say they know the whole story.

After five months war against Hamas the question is how far is Israel prepared to go from here.

(Personal op)

9 March 2024

The two levels of reality for Israel and Israelis are one for the military at war against Hamas in Gaza and one for Israelis living at war as a country. With no progress on release of the last 134 hostages in Egypt the latest news on X is that the country is not looking for a political solution at the present time, but only a military solution. That is a whole new and different situation for all of Israel. The military solution, one can imagine, can only bring a long thread to what may follow after the war is over scenario, e.g. that Israel will need to transform as a country and decide where the point of the new start will begin for that fictional tomorrow. Or as the Prime Minister calls it, the day after. The objective today is a clear military one: to eradicate Hamas from Gaza. We are not hearing the real reasons from the terrorist organisation why it pursuits the rejection of releasing the hostages, as this would be the first step to stop the war. Its answers are making no sense and there is never going to be any understanding ever in a civilized world for Hamas, once the world has come to its senses on what the real reason for the war was and that no Prime Minister could have ever been persuaded to seek a more benign solution to the brutality of 7 October 2023. This is the illustration: Kfir Bibas was nine months old when taken hostage with his mother and young brother, four years old. His father was taken separately. The point here to make on this serious understanding of the infant is that he was still in the age of breast feeding or milk feeding. How is it permissible in the eyes of the civilised world to take as young an infant in that milk age as a prisoner of war by a violent terrorist organisation? The chant of the Palestinian protesters is that what is one child, when Israel kills thousands of children. The bombing started not on 7 October. Between the time of the bombing/ air strikes and 7 October incidently there was global euphoria for Hamas in all Moslim countries. Happy perhaps that they had killed collectively (physically and abstract) so many Israelis in one day? And also that they had taken the infant Kfir Bibas, when seen on video streaming by the terrorists (with his mother and brother). We are perhaps also looking at a new pathological design to feel euphoria when terrorists kill Jews, kidnap an infant (while probably still at breast fed age), but then when retaliation by the military of the country responds with air strikes, the euphoria changes to pathological screams around the world of genocide. Science of any kind should seriously once more look into its own scientific learning. There seems to be a lack here for any judicial body to condemn this sort of war tactic by the terrorism of the kind that Hamas is. And therefore no harm is done by Hamas.

Israel will transform from the war mode to normalcy, the day after, as the Prime Minister of Israel is looking at the situation after five months. But this transforming will have to result from Israel and the people of Israel standing on their own two feet, and for one reason that the International community simply demands that there is no reason for them to see and help through with that transforming. Unless Israel will give up some of its fiction on territory and sovereignty, e.g. east Jerusalem. After 75 years this is the only answer for Israel and also it appears the only solution. The 1948 border with Gaza does not appear to have any severe effect in the International world, that this was a breach as that of e.g. Ukraine by Russia. One would think that once this is a breach of International order it is a clear invasion of another sovereignty by the invader. To Russia it was clear that they had invaded Ukraine and that the west would respond in a very effective way against the Russian aggression. And it did not complain when the west imposed the most extreme packages of sanctions against Russia immediately. Hamas is not Russia. The question is: why did Hamas invaded Israel and brutalised Israeli citizens in one day by the thousands, and felt legitimate to do so by then calling the ICJ after the first bombings that Israel was killing thousands? From the point of genocide now Israel is standing alone. And to the world this is justified and justified to the extend of what precisely? It could be that the justification is an indication of a collective demand or desist. You must be insane to decide a fate as fickle as that of a people with a history known to the whole world. It also feels a little uncomfortable (at least to yours truly). The rational and universal truth is that Israel does have the human right to exist and that the world cannot just turn it on or off. That, once again, would be preposterous. Especially because the international world order does know the rules of hearts and minds in times of conflict or armed conflict between two parties. If Israel is truly sovereign as in a binding letter (Balfour Decleration) this should be the only line to continue and let Israel come back from this war against Hamas in the time it choses to do so. With no friend of Israel or international law by its side, the world is facing a new deficit of its own. What kind of deficit is for them to make up their minds. Tomorrow President Isaac Herzog is expected to visit the Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam and the call for his arrest as a war criminal has been issued by a private person from an activist for Palestinians group. The judicial bodies have disintegrated into the public domain prerogatives and there is obviously no control here or higher order to deny these calls against an official (not terrorist organisation) of a State for his arrest. It said so in many tweets on X, that the activist was calling for the immediate arrest of the President. I hope that the European Union will understand the seriousness here and make it clear to all European Member States, that democracy is a law where all peoples are included and that no harm should come to them, e.g. who want to wear the yellow ribbon in support for the hostages. I believe that that is order. No one in their right mind can support genocide, but it is not something that came out of the sky and was dumped on a group of peoples just for genocide sake. (I like to wear the yellow ribbon in support of the hostages in a free democracy in the European Union, and do so without any fear of attack by those with aggressive urges and to do me harm in the name of Palestine) Back home for Israelis the anxiety is getting worse and also there is renew fear of the rest of mankind, that no one sees it any different than that Israel should deminish. And to know that it is to know your enemy. In the coming days and weeks the US has announced they will build a floating pier alongside the coast of Gaza, to deliver aid. The war is far from over by the look of everything taking place in Israel and Gaza. And worse will be when there are no more hostages alive.

Between 1976-1978 I have lived in the Negev in kibbutz Nirim.

This is an issue: why won't Hamas give up the Israeli hostages after nearly five months war after 7 October?

20 February 2024

Five months after 7 October Hamas is still keeping the Israeli hostages captive, as some suggesting, in Gaza Rafah. As the Foreign Minister of Hungary has said two weeks ago, the first moment is very important to go back to when Hamas stormed into Israel proper near the Gaza border with the kibbutzim in Ha Negev, or never find the answers that Israel is looking for. And going back to 7 October after five months, what is striking is the refusal of releasing the hostages. What difference do they want to make, except that Israel would pause the war and have all the hostages safely returned to their homes in Israel. Hamas has nothing to lose, not this time. It has everything to lose and when looking closer it is also building momentum by refusing to release the hostages. Hamas has in fact demanded a topping of the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody. It could be the most critical question now to ask why Hamas believes it is in a position to make such high demands from Israel. On the exterior they have nothing to worry about as the world spirals into a spin of ceasefire demand by several government actors at the United Nations General Assembly, and with also another built up at the ICJ in The Hague to call for an end to occupation from the Israeli government in the ancestral land of the Palestinians. It is not in the human laws courts what this exterior means, if also examined on the issue of the atrocities committed on 7/10/23 by Hamas to defend the Palestinian people peaceful resistance, and adding to it the historical rights of the Palestinian people against apartheid Israel. It is right therefore to the mind of Hamas to keep the hostages in Gaza captive, as long as Israel refuses to withdraw from the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and now in Gaza. Incidently we should not have any illusions about the war on narratives, that ancestral land is a serious demand, at the UN and ICJ, when chewing the fat of victory against the apartheid regime Israel on 7 October. In return the question is: if Israel is Palestinian ancestral land, than where is the Jewish ancestral land to be in Israel? That is the question to be asked more critically when referring to the Prime Minister of Israel as genocidal and who wants to get rid of the Palestinian people. Also, it is understandable why the Prime Minister of Israel will not even be able to determine a political landscape from either a deliberate confusion or unintended confusion dating far back in time, since the Balfour Declaration in 1948. The war in Gaza since October 2023 and not stopping since then for over nearly five months today, is about Hamas and in the manner it chose to attack Israel through the high fenced border with Israel in the south. They have fought wars before and should have known the choice of war Israel would choose on this occasion to retaliate these atrocities and upstreaming it across their side of the world everywhere as if the euphoria should be felt across the whole Middle Eastern region. We are not exaggerating the atrocities seen on all these video streamings across the entire world.

It is therefore, once again, a critical question what could be next in their playbook of wars against apartheid Israel and to impose maximum damage on the regime and its people, after their first taste of regional and global victory. Do they harbour more 'victories and victorious' plans? After all, what do they have to lose but their reputation as the victors of defeating the Zionist regime in the face of all of the nations? It is to Israel strenuous effort to get their citizens back, with especially attention to the infant, toddler, of the Bibas family, and trying to find them in horizontal operations on the ground, also fearing they might be put in harms way for sport of Hamas. And this is all that we are now seeing, hearing and reading about in the media, and not analysis on the infrastructure of tunnels deep underground in Gaza. No one has any clue to what these tunnels were actually built for in coexisting peacefully next to Israel. After the last election in the Palestinian territory they had thirteen years of sovereignty in Gaza... The tunnel infrastructures does not even qualify for urban warfare against Israeli bombardments, and yet it is here and being something of a facility of something unsaid and uspoken of. Israel is not the occupier from within, if Hamas has been using these facilities for purposes to control its citizens, and the question is also whether they did had satellite accessibilities and experiment on all sorts of other spywares. The citizens would believe anything told to them, that this was to keep the Zionist regime in vision when they strike or are planning something covert in Gaza, the West Bank, or against any Palestinian living under occupation. Of course, the IDF can make better judgements on the tunnel infrastructures found in Gaza, but one thing is clear they are not meant for political reasons, as a prerequesite for a Two- State solution.

After 7 October the Palestinian Authority will suffer not only heavy defeat, but political deficit.

14 February 2024

Israel still is in a very difficult moment with getting the war rationality right in Rafah, and release of the hostages from the terrorist organisation c.q. governing body in Gaza. The world is not holding its breath and plans are looked at from possible and impossible angles, how to save the citizens in Rafah from more destruction in the war against Hamas by the Israeli Defense Forces. There is no telling how far the government in Israel is prepared to go from this point and to get their objectives or coming close to them over the coming hours and days. One thing we do know about war is that it cannot proceed this way to both peoples. The Palestinian Authority this morning has called to Hamas to release the hostages and softly softly has also called for a different direction. Perhaps we are already seeing here a sneak preview what might happen or come after the war is over in the south in Rafah. The two nations couldn't be more divided, and that will post war be something the Israeli Prime Minister will need to make something of a move towards the future of the State of Israel, but now also as fact will have to come back to file for a workable plan with the Palestinian Authority to rebuild this division. And rebuild it with hearts and minds policies, one can only presume. But having learned thus far how Israel responds to the Palestinians after every war, let's hope that this time Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu will be able to design the impossible future between the two peoples. The Palestinians, what we can expect, should understand that the people on their side need something of a new political direction, and not a State. Their political direction out of the debris of the war after 7 October should be more a political sovereignty, firstly excercised by their own people and secondly to accept there is no written text on the divisions within their own society, and that it is for certain that this has not ever been done with their closest neighbour Israel. Instead what people outside the Middle East are saying, thinking and seeing, are the two sides fighting for political survival for reasons you could interpretate either randomly or speculate. After the war corruption and chaos will go hand in hand for a long while, some of it intentionally and other not in a direct way by intention. Living together in practically the same geography does make it in so many ways like that, and human nature has been destroyed for reasons that cannot be traced to make it progressive in the present time. What is history is history and will remain so forever. And so much more has gone wrong where politics were never born to create and sustain the ambition of a viable State building. The problem that also became clear after the Hamas fiasco since 7 October is that Israel is not a foreign place or country, that isn't the problem. The Palestinian problem is that Israel is sovereign and should be treated or approached with mindfulness. The PA President, Mr Mahmoud Abbas, cannot deny Israel's history nor future (that could last more than seven generations/ 750 years) in the 21st century. In reality both nations share almost the same realities on an every day basis, the same stores, markets, poverty numbers and lack of employment on both sides. And this is more than just economics, it is in fact more knitted when not written in any law to both peoples.

No outsider can understand why it is most complex, to the Prime Minister in Israel, but also to a people without a State, to come to some form of high level diplomacy between the two sides. It is not that the suffering of the Palestinian people do not hurt us, but strictly taken by text and law/ order, as happens with a professional army / military like that of the IDF, logic will always serve sovereignty, while also trying to save the people trapped in the siege unwillingly. No one can say that Israel wilfully is hurting the people living in the West Bank and in Gaza, while at war against a divisive and elusive government that is spreading danger across the territories where civilian lives are and should be productive to build their societies in peace or calm. Jerusalem should be the jewel of all religions and not surrounded with chicken wire everywhere to make a 'lasting' impression to more cosmopolitan or metropolitan tourists from around the world. (Personally I would like very much to see the Damascus Gate transforming to an open area with adjacent areas where all can come to do their shoppings and sell their wares, be it dates, camels, donkeys, fish, or sheep. To both peoples and to the rest of the world visitors. The sun should shine freely through the whole of this eastern part in Jerusalem as if it was taken out of bondage by the enclosed quarters in the present time old walls and miniature towers of bricks. And starting the future control by Israel with a small Palestinian bureaucratic municipal to keep watch over this area) Peace is still far from the chalice to drink without the bitterness in the wine of many hurts and pains since the misconception of the Balfour Declaration, having been interpreted in haste and not in terms of hundreds of years coexistence, in short many more misinterpretations were born wanted and unwanted by both peoples. Just to suit the moment as time moves faster than we can think, sometimes, but especially where nothing is or looks solvable. Hamas has ousted itself from decent politics between nations and in difficult relations. A delusional rule of 'outsting' the land of Israel with its people, how is this world politics? And how could it have ever been perceived as a way to win world domination? Even without political sovereignty first? In the myth the story goes as follows, that natural birth happens in a natural way, but when Zeus natural birth might spring from the head, it is the most awkward story in ancient Greece told of their pantheon. And what is happening between Israel and the Palestinian stuggle for freedom is no less awkward, as it will spring from the head or Heads of State, e.g. Israel, the Arab nations, the US, European Union and others. At least trying could be the first step in the future of many hundreds of years, or you just won't do it.

Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is right to order his ministers not to say anything in public on the ICJ court ruling in The Hague yesterday.

(Personal view)

27 January 2024

Military operations in the global sphere have no specific area in mind where the law is overly excessive, either for or against. It is also known to be respected in all restrictive aspects of the law and military laws. Can a citizen of the world change the law and military laws by being a representative of citizens in a clear conflict between fighting forces in a non or specific area of combat? In the 21st century the power by empowerment of citizens in general have changed dramatically in favour of the course as in many types of courses in and around the world. And yet at the end of the day it is still the government that decides on how best to organise citizenship when standing on the platform of protest or other to call on for support for their case. What can we expect the military will do and stand in the theater of active war? On social media this morning there are many citizens speaking about the ICJ court ruling of yesterday in The Hague, and saying that it has ordered Israel to stop the war, and others saying it as literally when heard, that Israel should restrain from genocide. Where the ICJ court has been resolute on is the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, unconditionally and immediately. It is in its subtlety clear that the ICJ does not say Israel, but is referring to the Israel Defense Forces and the military campaign in Gaza after the Hamas atrocities on 7 October last year, 112 days today, in its court ruling. There is therefore no need for any high profile official to speak out against the settler nation that was born out of the Holocaust and living in the land of Palestine or Palestinian lands. (It is the Jewish nation and not settler nation!)

The military logistics machinery: it is restrictive to highly qualified personnel and only in terms of engineering the heavy machines, e.g. tanks in the field, flying Fighter Jets, precision bombing, and others. It is not as random as jumping on motorbikes and holding some type of weapon in the hand on a rampage to massacre a whole part of a region in its sovereign land. Here is where the meaning of genocide begins by intent, and not as in the ICJ court ruling Convention meaning, if correctly read and heard yesterday. It is not beginning after when in retaliation the military responds as the military machinery (equal to conventional military forces). It is what the terrorist organisation wants us to believe being a choice of a few measly men on motorbikes, and this is how Israel responded? Genocide to Israel can go deeper when questioned by their government and military: that what we see from our view is the reality of Hamas, not only being a terrorist organisation, but in fact being the government in Gaza and has a population rule when they were officially elected by the people. A whole constituency is sharing the ideology by Hamas, 2 mln people living in Gaza and not in the West Bank, that Israel is the settler nation and does not belong here in the Middle East. And Intent of genocide plunges into a dense and thick high cloud above the Gaza strip, and it is reaching beyond into the global sphere, on practically every doorstep in the rest of the world. Now for 112 days. It is the cause of bodily harm, mentally and physically, primo to the innocent citizens of Ha- Negev on the morning of sleeping hours on 7 October 2024. secundo: it was perhaps a mini- genocide and did not reach the thousands of being killed by the Israel Defense Forces the way it has done to the citizens of Gaza in retaliation?

But Israel is studying the ICJ court ruling in the meantime, when the Prime Minister has told his ministers not to say anything just yet about the court ruling in The Hague, reading from a tweet this morning. And that is not defiance of the ICJ Court ruling. What is defiance? Hamas has not heeded the immediate release of the hostages by the ICJ court ruling yesterday in The Hague, but is in fact euphoric that the ICJ has ruled in their favour against the genocidal intentions and actions of Israel against the people in Gaza. De jure: it was a military campaign and it remains inherent to International Military Laws. Israel did not jump on motorbikes on a rampage to massacre the people of Gaza. Or, worse, the government of Gaza has no laws to govern a government and therefore can take any moment by impulse to attack the enemy or settler colonial Israel. It is this randomness that Israel wants to stop and have been doing so in every war against Hamas, and doing so perhaps not any different from the Byzantine, Roman or other empire.

Personal journal.

14 January 2024

No miracle morning today, sunday 14 January 2024. 100 Days and Kfir the infant taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October 2023, and his little brother a toddler, mother and father, still are being kept in Gaza. It is slowly beginning to look like presumption and reality is fading to the background in the far distance. Before the law I hope that the leader of the South African legal team, John Dugard, can see not only jurisdiction but prudence as well and to put more emphasis on the abduction of Kfir, an infant not yet one year old. Would this not make jurisdiction of high order, if you want to defend innocence of children, women, and a people? The law equality laws are not quantity is better and that quality should be ignored as the same with sovereignty from his domicile. In short: where is Kfir, nine months old when abducted by the terrorist organisation, his equality in International Law, his equality before the law? He, Judge Dugard, said in his statement on thursday at The Hague, that the case of genocide should be conducted in a manner with great objectivity investigation to proceed... In his own words one wonders where that was going, and if the Judge in his own prudent way was dealing with a very complex legal case on the International territory to impartially argue the case of genocide, as set out by the government in South Africa, of which he is a distinguished legal member at the ICJ, against the State of Israel, its military and government. There is also the matter of deference over wild accusations, the matter of premature timing as the war has not yet been concluded, and to bear in mind the hegemony by which a sovereign State operates. Is it beyond truth how this case of genocide was rushed to the ICJ and make it hard evidence on and by the government in South Africa, as a third party, to intervene on behalf of the Palestinian people in Gaza against the State of Israel.

The question of the matter is simple, I would think and say, that in this case of genocide Hamas does not constitute anything of even the slightest constituency in the International law. Hamas is a disturbing frequency of brutality and unlawful aspirations, e.g. to eradicate the Jewish people from Israel as a nation and State. The question after the first two hearings however is whether Judge John Dugard can continue his case of genocide and do so unchallenged by the new world order and where the future of the next generations in Israel, in the Middle East and the rest of the world, should find shelter and prosperity, not meant here in terms of monetary, but in terms of continuity and prolongation of life. I have no idea by what philosophy Judge John Dugard imagines what the future of the world must look like and be. That will be a challenge on his prudent mind and the question whether the Honourable Judge can take full responsibility in this case of genocide against the State of Israel and its military. Kfir, the infant, nine months old when taken away from his domicile, and today living in captivity in Gaza under inhumane circumstances and under brutality by Hamas, is the decisive factor in the war against Hamas by Israel. Kfir was not expected to fight for Israel and kill Palestinian people, or distort the nature of the truth. And he has never held a gun in his hand and shouting out in the streets of the world that the Palestinian people should be killed, from the river to the sea. It was his country that took the military into battle against Hamas, who contrary to Kfir are not innocent little infants. In fact once that has been established properly the second level will be about the elasticity of the war itself, in logical order. As Dr Christopher Staker, Defense lawyer to Israel, said on friday 12 January 2024 at the ICJ, is this a novel way of conducting law, and referring to the case of genocide against Israel timing?

The geopolitical split from the military geopolitics on the war in Gaza.

21 December 2023

All political Members of Knesset are trying to get their message through why they will continue the war and operations in the north and south of Gaza, in the coming time. The new year is just around the corner and still the 7 October massacre of Hamas on Israeli citizens behind the Gaza border with Ha Negev hasn't yet stopped, one. killing of Palestinian civilians during bombing or ground operations by the IDF, and two. any rationale will do at this point in the war on the side of Israel, which they don't seem to have or simply are not revealing just yet what their next plan will be or is. From afar the future doesn't look as bright as usual for Israel, as in a State there is so much more to lose when there is no plan where the new beginning or morning will proceed from there, for Israelis and country. New border disputes, land disputes and territory disputes have not yet been announced at this stage, as the country is at war, but we do expect to hear very soon if there will be a political answer in Israel either by the incumbent Prime Minister Mr Benyamin Netanyahu, or as there is talk of bringing back the former prime minister, Naftali Bennett, to lead the nation. But first they have to bring back the hostages that are still in captivity in Gaza and held by the terrorists Hamas. The world can afford to only concentrate on the Palestinians being the ones to pay the price in this war, but for Israel there is much more at stake. One thing what the Prime MInister can't promise the people of Israel is going back in time when Israel had been living in national and global security as Jews in Israel and to a certain extend in the rest of the world. For Israel it will be unwise to neglect the fact that Hamas is the victor in this war, and especially when it ends or has to end under International pressure. When honest, we haven't got a clue what may come in the next stage of ending the war with Hamas on the terrorism they committed on 7 October in Ha Negev, proper Israel. When the world is not saying anything about 7 October the message will be loud and clear in these parts of the world, that Hamas had taken revenge on Israel for the occupation of the land of Palestinians. This is heroic. Hamas has given the world something else to see when they do the fighting against Israel, in Real Time. Does that mean the world has failed for decades to do their prominent job, while now Hamas has given the world to see how to do the job? You could say it almost feels charismatic how Hamas has gained some sort of heroism fighting the most powerful and dangerous enemy by a handful of 'outlaws' and succeeded to let Israel do the dirty war.

Hamas runs the show. They have children to show how Israel must win the war, thousands of them under rubble or dead. The world does not see the invitation of war was made by acts of atrocities primo against Israel, as someone put it in a comment on the JP, committing mass murder and mass abduction. No one even understands this precalculation was made by Hamas very easily, having decades of experience how Israel is fighting its wars on Hamas, how to win the war this time round. This is where the world can't seem to understand that they are clever people who have done it what the super powers in the world couldn't, not any G-7 or G-20 country. Hamas therefore is acting like a prince of war, whom the god of war has favoured against the most powerful nation and military in the world. Plus public opinion stood by Hamas' side now for more than two months, and even when they are not releasing any hostages. It is the pressure of ceasefire to make that happen, on their terms, Hamas and the world. It aggrieves Israel bitterly at this stage to realize there are no friends left in the world to support the sovereign right to defend its people against 'stealth' acts of terrorism on their soil. The US is exhausting all its resources to help their ally Israel continue fighting to get back home the hostages. How to understand this in terms of military geopolitics only the future will know. Perhaps it is time for Israel to recall the God of Israel and read the covenants again, with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the first king of Israel David. And to remember that God Himself had bought the land from whom ever lived here before in the land of Israel or Judah. There is no relation to the war against Hamas to say this, but then again it isn't meant for anyone else to understand. The State of Israel, according to the Palestinians, is in fact Palestine. The Jew aristocratic or poor does not have a homeland in Israel, and not even the family of Rothschild. Or Michael Bloomberg. The land of Israel was a joke and Jews are joke people. The world takes Hamas seriously and for the real people of Palestine. And they have a point, just like the Byzantine and Roman empires had, before Hamas. After all this evil empire Israel had done unto others in the rest of the world things that no daylight could take, deprive honour and majesty from men and women, who cares what happened to their women and children on 7 October? They had it coming to them. Everyone remembers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Jews are perverse... This wounded pride in the higher echelons of world powers who knows that they might be right, yes in a free world. The Affairs of State however are nothing like the free world and cannot be traded, especially not when it concerns the Jewish Home. It is no surprise that the world keeps on branding these heroic people in the terrorist organisation Hamas as Palestinians and not as Arabs living indigenously in the greater lands of the Middle East, where land is free. (Since trading land is forbidden) When under these new realities for Israel as the 'victim' and the Hamas as the victor there is no mentioning yet of what the plan for the near future should be for Israel, is no wonder. What was there for 75 years for Israelis has been knocked down within one day by Hamas. And the whole world knows that.

How do you extend a helping hand to Israel, after 75 years? And after 7 October 2023? By staying objective as any good law and justice should do. That may be ointment for flies, but not for Israel and Israelis.

Additional: "The idea from Ezekiel 16:3 is repeated: your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite – and Israel acted just like those pagan nations. b. You are your mother's daughter…you are the sister of your sisters: God had called Israel to be different from the pagan nations, and instead she became just like them." Israel is home in the Jewish land called Israel.

On Social Media today:

23 November 2023

IDF launched Operation Swords of Iron in the Gaza Strip, ten days later since the Hamas massacre on 7 October 2023 in Ha- Negev. (Ten days euphoria by Hamas and nothing of genocide by Israel was then called)

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