JULY 2014 POST REDUX - Israeli Women on Facebook Promising Sex to IDF

Today, February 6, 2024, I am linking to a post I wrote in July of 2014 about a Facebook page by Israeli women dedicated to members of the IDF. Some of the photos have been scrubbed. But in short, these women posted sexy selfies promising "rewards" to IDF soldiers based on the number of Palestinians killed. 

Again, this was ten years ago. I have no idea if similar pages are being posted today, but I wouldn't be surpised. I'm not on FB, I've never been a member of FB, but some FB pages are public. That one, as of today, is still publicly available, HERE.   

Link to my original 2014 post here. 

I was reminded of that post by this article in today's NYT:

What Israeli Soldiers’ Videos Reveal: Cheering Destruction and Mocking Gazans

Ukraine Russia Putin War

 

Only three of the many comments I've been making at leftwing sites that are defending Putin and blaming NATO. Not that it matters. They're all nuts. I am so infuriated I could spit:  

Lisa Simeone

MARCH 2, 2022 AT 2:02 PM

To think that I trashed my career to be involved with these people -- former friends and former activists-in-arms with whom I participated in Occupy in 2011 -- and now they're as batshit-insane as any of the MAGA maniacs on the right. 

My god. 

Putin is a thug. Putin is a dictator. Putin is murdering Ukrainians. But that's ok, apparently, for these supposed leftists and supposed peaceniks, because anything and everything that goes against the US is okay. Now they're kissing Putin's ass.

George W. Bush committed war crimes by invading Iraq and bombing Afghanistan; those are facts. Therefore, apparently, it's okay that Putin also commit war crimes. Tit for tat makes everything ok.

Jesusfkngchrist, I am so ashamed I ever got involved with these people. They have lost their ever-loving minds.

Lisa Simeone

MARCH 6, 2022 AT 9:02 AM

Thank you, Ehrlichman. The excuses and apologies being made by the left — ostensible left — for Russia’s criminal invasion are appalling. These people would’ve been cheering Stalin if they’d been around then.

I used to be an activist-in-arms with some of these people, including Chris Hedges, back during Occupy. Since then, I’ve watched as they’ve turned batshit-insane on so many fronts. They are incapable of seeing nuance, complexity, difficulty, contradiction. They are as bad in their binary thinking as any of the MAGAloons on the right.

Their entire philosophy consists of one thing and one thing only: “US wrong. Anyone who opposes the US right. Always.” 

Lisa Simeone

MARCH 6, 2022 AT 9:12 AM

Disgusting, sociopathic, bordering-on-criminal defense of Putin. What is wrong with you people??

Was Putin also “forced” to flatten Grozny?? Was that all NATO’s fault, too??

You people make me want to vomit. I hang my head in shame as a leftist to be associated with such vile apologists.

Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Slams U.S. Empire

If this video doesn't knock you on your ass, I don't know what will. 

Let me rephrase that -- many of the people watching this video already get it. But to see and hear a retired U.S. Army colonel, former National Security Advisor in the Reagan administration, former advisor to Colin Powell, dyed-in-the-wool Republican, saying this stuff, pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes, that, as he puts it, "this ship is sinking" -- well, I'd like to say it should make an impression on all the naysayers. But in fact I know it won't. 

They'll find a way to discredit him just as much as they discredit people such as Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky. I know it won't make a dent. I'm posting it anyway. I hope people will share it.

Independent Investigation Kunduz

Just Another Day in Police State USA!

For those of you who still don't get it (not that you ever will), here are 3 more examples of how this country has morphed into a police state. (Oops -- guess I'd better watch out -- I might be subpoenad and gag-ordered like the poeple in the first story were, especially since I write under my own name all over the blabbosphere and have written publicly, many times, that I wish I believed in Hell so I could hope certain people, such as John Pistole and Dick Cheney, would rot there.) Land of the Free my ass. For your delectation:

How the Feds Asked Me to Rat Out Commenters

Reason.com, the website I edit, was recently commanded by the feds to provide information on a few commenters and not discuss it. Here’s why we’re speaking out.

by Nick Gillespie

Is there anything more likely to make you shit your pants out of a mix of fear and anger than getting a federal subpoena out of the blue?

Well, yes, there is: getting a gag order that prohibits you from speaking publicly about that subpoena and even the gag order itself. Talk about feeling isolated and cast adrift in the home of the free. You can’t even respond honestly when someone asks, “Are you under a court order not to speak?" . . . .

AND:

Pentagon rewrites ‘Law of War’ declaring ‘belligerent’ journalists as legitimate targets

AND:

Protest Is the New Terror: How U.S. Law Enforcement Is Working to Criminalize Dissent

Needed: Kindness

Ted Rall on Drones and the National Security State

The great Ted Rall strikes again (as always, click to enlarge):

Obomber

Brought to you by the Nobel Peace Prize Prez:

Kerry Makes It Clear: Obama Wants Authority to Deploy Ground Troops in Iraq and Syria   

by Sarah Lazare

"The 2001 AUMF has been stretched well beyond what Congress intended, and there is no reason to believe the 2015 AUMF will not as well." —Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson School of Law. 

But, as usual, for know-nothing Democrats -- as bad as the know-nothing Republicans they love to decry -- Obama can do no wrong.

I used to say, back when Bush was president, that, for the Republican faithful, he would have to personally go up in a plane, bomb American cities, deny it, and still his supporters wouldn't shake their faith in him. They would find a way to make excuses. Well, the same is true for party Democrats now. 

The overwhelming sentiment of voters in this country is: "It's all okay, as long as my guy is doing it." 

And then we have the spectacle of former anti-war activist John Kerry leading the charge! The hypocrisy of this country is off the charts.

Ted Rall: Democrats Make A Difference

Once again, the great Ted Rall. As always, click to enlarge.

Psychopaths on Parade

Asshole of the Day

And you call yourselves . . . ?

Obamabots on Parade: Episode 1,083

Fucking idiots. They will never learn. No wonder this country won't move forward. Copied & pasted from Facebook. Full name of "H" removed to protect his pathetic identity: 

U.S. Liberals

U.S./Middle East Politics Explained (Kinda Sorta)

Wish I could give attribution for this; it was sent to me on email, and it's being posted and reposted all over the blabbosphere. It's pretty great, so I'm joining the fray: 

Obushma

The Great Gore Vidal

American Zombies

As always, click to enlarge.

Obama Met Privately With Top Journalists Before ISIS War Speech 

Eternal War, or Reason #167 Why Obama is the Second Coming of George W. Bush

Well, as predicted, Obama is once again striving to prove he's just as clueless, blinkered, and warmongering as his predecessor. It's hard to tell anymore who in the stupidity sweepstakes is winning. 

Published, Later Removed by Times of Israel: "When Genocide Is Permissible"

This is an op-ed that was published by the Times of Israel on August 1, 2014. It was written by Yochanan Gordon. It was published with this title: "When Genocide Is Permissible."

Their title, not mine.

If that's not horrifying enough for you, you're so far gone there's no hope. For the rest of you out there not living in denial, read it and weep. The Times eventually took it down, but not before publishing it and not before lots of people got screen shots and archived it. Where the hell were the editors??

UPDATE: The editors have now published this apology.