Paul Haeder, Author

…bread, staff of life, and the Jews of Bethlehem and Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are looking for more targets to kill . . . Merry Xmas!

…bread, staff of life, and the Jews of Bethlehem and Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are looking for more targets to kill . . .

Gen. Curtis LeMay, commander of the US bombers in the Pacific. LeMay later launched airstrikes on North Korea and Vietnam and supported the idea of a preemptive nuclear attack against Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. LeMay would later acknowledge the sheer brutality of it.

“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal,” he is widely quoted as saying.

Israel loves its history buffs. Japan and fires anyone?

Video: Israel missile strike lights up Gaza skyline as bombing intensifies into the night.

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There are scores of Palestinian writers and photographers, many of whom have been killed, who are determined to make us see the horror of this genocide. They will vanquish the lies of the killers. {Christ Hedges and Mr. Fish, Bearing Witness)

I see that presidential candidate has his version of pain: Sloughing from Guernica to Gaza to be born, by Emanuel Pastreich

Perfected carpet bombing, including early use of incendiary bombs, those Italians and Germans:

Old Emanuel forgets to call Jesus a Palestinian. Calls him a Jew, but ain’t getting around that this mythical figure was a Palestinian.

The Jews of Jewish Occupied Jewish Palestine, well, they have their cards up their sleeves, now don’t they?

Tens of thousands more people were killed, and fire bombs followed on the major cities of Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe. The US bombers then targeted “medium-sized towns,” hitting 58 of them, according to the official history.

At one point, the B-29s’ base at North Field, on the tiny island of Tinian, was the busiest airport in the world.

The official US Army Air Force post-war history puts the scope of the fire bomb campaign matter of factly, saying by June Japan’s industrial centers “were finished off as profitable targets.”

But the raids seemed to do little to bring Japan’s capitulation. Some of the damage only enraged its leaders.

“We, the subjects, are enraged at the American acts. I hereby firmly determine with the rest of the 100,000,000 people of this nation to smash the arrogant enemy, whose acts are unpardonable in the eyes of Heaven and men, and thereby to set the Imperial Mind at ease,” then-Prime Minister Suzuki Kantaro said, according to an account by Richard Sams in The Asia Pacific Journal.

Still, the harm inflicted on Japan was massive. By the end of the campaign, hundreds of thousands of refugees were created across Japan.

LeMay would later acknowledge the sheer brutality of it.

“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal,” he is widely quoted as saying.

[Wartime production of the B-29 was spread among Boeing plants in Wichita, Kansas and Renton, Washington and built under license by Martin and Bell.]

The bombers were the culmination of 20 years of aviation advances leading up to World War II and were the first to have pressurized, heated fuselages, enabling them to operate above 18,000 feet without crews having to don special gear or use oxygen masks.

That put them out of range of most anti-aircraft guns and gave them plenty of time before fighters could rise up to engage them, Kinney said.

“The B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced technology of its time,” he said.

Now, the U$ of Israel First has armed them, the Jews of Zion, with Stealth Bombers. [The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying wing with a crew of two, the plane was designed by Northrop and produced from 1987 to 2000.]

Starving them quickly:

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Goddamn, queer as brokeback mountain: Another Pinochet or Franco or Hitler in the making: “Happy Holidays and be careful not to become a communist”: Argentine President wishes citizens a Merry Christmas.

Higher Happy Fucking Higher (lower) Education: Another fascist capitalist who needs that bat, Milei: Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has the Wolverines in the College Football Playoff for the third consecutive season, and the school reportedly wants to secure his services for the long haul. The school (sic) is offering Harbaugh a 10-year, $125 million contract extension, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. [The offer contains a clause stipulating that Harbaugh not seek or entertain NFL coaching offers for the 2024 season].

Jews in Israel gotta die, as well as all the check writers for that Fascist Nazi State (sic)? Bombing other countries? Yep.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:

PM Netanyahu says Israel will not succeed in freeing remaining hostages without applying military pressure

Three sources say Israeli airstrike outside Damascus kills senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Goddamn, Iran, just fucking nuke the fucking place!

[Another Mafia thug? The grandson of Italian immigrants, Pascrell was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Roffie J. (née Loffredo) and William James Pascrell (originally Pascrelli)]

Five Eyes on the fucking monster pushing for more war:

On Sunday, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez asserted that Venezuela is maintaining heightened alerts after the United Kingdom announced the dispatch of a warship to Guyana amid the territorial dispute between the two South American countries.

“A warship in waters to be delimited? What? What about the commitment to good neighborliness and peaceful coexistence? And what about the agreement not to threaten or use force mutually under any circumstances?” he asked.

Merry Fucking Jewish Satanic Xmas: Seyyed Razi Mousavi was one of the top companions of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani.

On Monday, Israel bombed the Sayyeda Zeinab neighborhood in Damascus, killing Seyyed Razi Mousavi, a veteran member of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), who was serving as a military advisor in Syria.

Among the organizations that initially disseminated information about Mousavi’s death was the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based NGO which stated that the Israeli attacks had targeted a high-ranking figure.

Happy Fucking Satanic Xmas:

Corporations that specialize in manufacturing weapons are excited about Israel’s war on Gaza, letting their top investors know that huge profits are on the way.

Already overflowing with cash thanks to seemingly endless U.S. weapons shipments to Ukraine, the accounts of companies like RTX (owner of Raytheon), General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin are growing even fatter as the Biden administration steps up direct military support to the ultra-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Across the entire Raytheon portfolio, you’re going to see a benefit of this restocking,” he told shareholders.

Kristine Liwag, a Wall Street analyst for Morgan Stanley who was on the call, said the war against Palestine appeared to be an “opportunity” that “fits quite nicely” with the company’s product offerings.

“I think if you look at the incremental demand potential coming out” of the Israeli campaign, “the biggest one to highlight and that really sticks out is probably on the artillery side.”

A General Dynamics’ weapons plant in Massachusetts was the target of an anti-war protest last week. Demonstrators unfurled a banner reading: “Genocide: Brought to you by General Dynamics.” Aiken was undeterred, however. Looking ahead, he predicted “the Israel situation is only going to put upward pressure on that demand.”

Monsters below:

Mothers: Monsters!

Morgan Stanley depends on more blown apart babies, dying injured in hospitals and bombs galore . . . an “opportunity” that “fits quite nicely” with the company’s product offerings.