*Select symptoms as of summer, 2024:
Five years ago I wrote in the series linked below* that Israel had destroyed its environment to the point it was a dying patient on the gurney. With its Gaza Genocide , Israel is taking itself off life support.
1) Well over 100,000 Israelis running away from Hamas in the south, the Houthi in the Southeast, and Hezbollah in the North for the past year increase stress on water and sewage infrastructure in communities they’ve retreated to. In addition Israeli agriculture, which was nominal to start with, saw an 80% drop in produce. What agriculture Israelis had along both the Gaza and Lebanon borders is out the window not only from abandonment and lack of laborers, but from the fields being crushed by 60 ton tanks running all over on the Israeli side.
1) To Israel’s South: The world’s attention is on Gaza, now a bombed out wasteland with 2 million starving souls, against whom Israel has cut off food, water, power, sanitation, and medical care. But stupid Israel has its own troops walking, eating, sleeping in the toxic debris of modern war; chemical weapons, white phosphorus, gas compounds that are banned by international agreement on the battlefield, DIME rounds, depleted uranium… ticking time bombs in Jewish bodies that will cause lifelong harm to Israeli troops and impact the Israeli health care system for as long as the regime lasts. All that stuff is leaching into the ground and coastal aquifer which will eventually spread back into Israel along with diseases, including polio, that have broken out in Gaza. Israeli troops infected while they’re killing Palestinians may bring polio, etc. back into Israel and spread it from there to other parts of the world. Again, untreated Gaza sewage is flowing north with the current along the shores of Israel.
2) To Israel’s Southeast: the indomitable Houthi, in support of Gaza, attacking with bottle rockets from shore and from skiffs with outboard motors, drove an American aircraft carrier battle group sent to protect Israel, out of the Red Sea (!) The Houthi blockade has cut off food and fuel deliveries to the Jewish state from that direction so effectively that Eliat, Israel’s only port on the Red Sea, has shut down and declared bankruptcy. This blockade reveals Israel’s utter dependence on food and fuel imports. At the same time, the blockade has been an environmental disaster from burning oil tankers by the Houthi, a burning oil refinery by Israel, and toxic missile exchanges by both sides.
3) To Israel’s North: Hezbollah has driven over 90,000 Israelis away from the border. As with the Gaza border, agriculture there has tanked. The Israelis estimate 56 square miles on the Israel occupied north (and three miles along the Gaza border) have burned this year from fires started by drones and rockets. There’s also toxic waste from missiles and drones. As noted elsewhere conflict in Palestine is changing the albedo of the region for the worse. That is, the land is getting darker and dark absorbs more heat from sun instead of reflecting it back to space. And presumably Israel’s 1,500 foot deep water wells and Dick Cheney’s oil drilling operations in the occupied Golan Heights are impacted.
4) To Israel’s West: America’s Zionist controlled government has deployed half the US Navy to the Mediterranean Sea to defend Israel. Anyone who has served on a Naval ship knows they are an environmental disaster all by themselves at any time but at the moment they have joined Israel in threatening the resistance, including Iran, with attacks using nuclear weapons. Russia and China are backing Iran and they have nuclear weapons, too.
5) To Israel‘s East: In response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Iraqi resistance fighters have attacked US troops sent there to protect Israel more than 70 times as of September. As a result Middle East Eye reports US troop numbers being drawn down at Ain al Assad base in Anbar province and at the US base within Baghdad International Airport. In addition, Iraqi resistance fired drone that killed three soldiers at a base on the Jordanian border.
Losing the Narrative in America
February 10, 2024: Truthout reveals US states, municipalities and pension funds own at least $1.6 billion in Israeli bonds. Given all America’s financial woes and the scale of genocide in Gaza, people in the US are increasingly disgusted by huge amounts of their money going to Israel, including pension funds, going to Israel. Especially since the bonds could become junk bonds as Israel circles the drain.
25 February, 2024: Protesting the Gaza genocide, 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell self-immolates in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC. His last words: “Free Palestine!” Aaron was posthumously awarded the 2024 Sam Adams Award for Integrity of Intelligence officers. *Should be noted that two other Americans have burned themselves alive in front of Israeli colsulates: one in Boston, one in Atlanta. Those stories were quashed by US media. 
March 2024: Palm Beach Florida County Clerk and Comptroller holds press conference to announce PBC is the world’s largest investor in “Israel Bonds” with $700 million. Given all America’s financial woes and the scale of genocide in Gaza, people in the US are increasingly disgusted by huge amounts of their money going to Israel, including pension funds, going to Israel.
March 7, 2024: ‘Gaza Food Relief Pier’ announced: With starvation documented in Gaza because Israel is refusing to allow food in, ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden is taking heat in America for enabling the genocide. Does he say he will cut off all funding and weapons to the Jewish state if they don’t allow the hundreds of food trucks Israelis have blocked at the border to simply drive into Gaza? No! Joe Biden announces at his annual State of the Union Address that America will build a pier [paid for by American tax payers, who are also paying for the genocide] on the Gaza shore where food trucks can be brought by ship, unloaded, and food distributed. The pier is a fiasco that cost over $230 million, only lasts two months, and delivered just one day’s worth of food to Gaza. US military claims are the pier wasn’t strong enough to hold up up to moderate seas. In fact, the pier was built beside an Israeli base and used by the Israelis, who destroyed Palestinian homes around the shore for ‘security’.
June 8, 2024: Israel uses the failed ‘humanitarian pier’ as a Trojan Horse to launch a rescue attempt where they killed at least 274 Palestinian civilians to rescue 4 Israelis held by the resistance.
October 2024: Neocon think-tank Heritage Foundation launches “Project Esther” to crush free speech in America on Palestinian Rights. Esther was the biblical concubine of Persian King Ahasuerus. Scholars agree the account of Jews committing mass murder of 75,000 innocent Persians, including women and children, is fiction but it’s the source of what Jews celebrate with gusto yearly as the holiday of Purim.. The story goes, the Kings advisor Haman gets mad at Esther’s uncle Mordechai and is going to hang him. Esther convinces the King to hang Haman instead, and to hang Haman’s 10 sons, and to let Jews kill 500 men from Sousa, then the Jews got permission to kill everyone they wanted and they slaughtered 75,000. Jews consider this a great fun holiday with dining, drinking, and dressing up in costumes, including Israelis dressing up as starving Palestinians. In 1994 Israeli/American terrorist Baruch Goldstein chose Purim to attack Palestinians at Prayer in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, massacred 29, wounded 125. Here’s a photo essay of Israelis celebrating Purim in Hebron https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/israeli-settlers-celebrate-hebron/
Losing the Narrative Internationally:
Most Israeli story of the year: 29 July, 2024: leaked video footage of Israeli guards torturing/sodomizing/gang raping a male Palestinian prisoner at Israel’s larges prison, Sde Teiman. story goes global: Nine guards initially brought in for questioning. Four quickly released. Hundreds of Israeli fanatics stormed the military base where the other five were being held, demanding their release. Fearing the mob, the Israeli military let the rapists leave(!) Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said, “Those who leaked the footage should be prosecute, and not the soldiers.” He also said they should be called “hero’s not villans” Israeli National Security Minister Itmar Ben-Gvir, said, “Any action is permissible if it is done for the sake of National Security.” Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin, said he was, “shocked to see harsh pictures of soldiers being arrested.” Israeli Journalist Yehuda Schlesinger said on camera, “I don’t give a rat’s ass what they do to that Hamas man. I always remember, first of all, the only problem for me here is that it’s not that it’s not a regulated policy of the state to abuse the detainees. Because, first, they deserve it, and it’s great revenge that we should give them and second, maybe it will serve as a deterrent.” [no evidence the tortured man was with Hamas, and the Israelis released him to Gaza as soon as he was released from the hospital.] See November, 2025 for persecution of Israel’s top military lawyer who released the video.
On July 28, 2024 President Erdogan of Turkey threatened to invade Israel over atrocities in Palestine. President Erdogan is written off by the Jewish state as a blow-hard at Israel’s peril. Oil tankers that supply Israel depart from Turkey. If Turkey joins BRICS in October 2024, and it may, the country just might turn off the spigot to Ashkelon.
Turkey update: November 13, 2024. President Erdogan severs diplomatic relations to Israel. Still hasn’t cut the oil supply. Stay tuned.
November 08, 2024 Israeli soccer fans, chaperoned by Mossad agents, after losing 5-0 went around Amsterdam singing “there was no school in Gaza because there were no more children”, screaming racial slurs about Arabs, tearing Palestinian flags off homes, all on film. They began attacking people and Amsterdamers beat some of them up. Amsterdam police arrested locals instead of the Israelis who started it. Presented in western media as a pogrom against poor Jewish victims.
August 19, 2024 President Petro of Columbia banned coal exports to Israel over the Gaza Genocide. Until this week, Columbia was Israel’s largest supplier of coal. Columbia is also committed to joining BRICS.
February 2024: South Africa Accuses Israel of Apartheid at the Hague.
May 2024. Brazilian President Luiz da Silva recalled Brazil’s Ambassador to Israel while condemning the Gaza Genocide. Brazil, the ‘B’ in BRICS, is a major food supplier to Israel.
Russia, the ‘R’ in BRICS, also supplies food to Israel. That may change as Russia is backing resistance to Israel including supplying weapons to Iran.
Summer 2024 Iraqi resistance group are targeting US bases in Iraq that are protecting oil supplies that go through Turkey to Israel. Israeli media reported in 2015 that Israel was getting 3/4 of its oil from Iraq.
27 September, 2024: Israel levels 6 building residential apartment block to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut, Lebanon. Nasrallah convened the meeting to discuss peace plan France/US were promoting a peace deal with Hezbollay/Israel which Israel didn’t want. Netanyahu was at the United Nations at the time. Unknown number of dead buried in the rubble.
August,29, 2024: Nambia refuses to let cargo ship believed to be carrying weapons to Israel dock at Walvis Bay. Nambians affirm support for Palestine and International Law.
May 2024: Israeli contestant to Eurovision booed as audience members held up Palestinian flags. A lot more people asking why Israel is allowed to compete in Eurovison when Israel is not in Europe. More calls than ever to ban Israel from the contest. Especially since Russia was banned since 2022 for invading Ukraine.
September, 2024: Moody’s downgrades Israel’s credit rating. Citing economic uncertainty and ongoing Israeli conflicts especially with Hezbollah.
December 2024: Israel ranks last in the annual Anholdt-Ipsos Nations Brand Index. The Index measures global opinion on six perceptions: tourism, people, culture, immigration, exports, and government.
November 16, 2024: Haifa Bay vulnerability scenario: We’re coming up on the 83rd anniversary of one of the coolest military raids in history. December 19, 1941, six Italian frogmen on scuba rode three torpedoes into Alexandria Harbor where they mined and sank two British battleships, and crippled a destroyer and an oil carrier. Six guys did that! I thought of those guys when Hamas came over the wall on October 7, 2023. Both raids were so low-tech, so outrageous, and the enemy was so full of itself, that the underdogs pulled it off. I bring this up because Israel imports the overwhelming majority of its food by sea and the Houthi have already shut down Israel’s Red Sea port at Eliat. With Eliat gone that leaves Israel’s Mediterranean main port at Haifa, and Ashdod, and Ashkelon, plus a tenuous road through Arab countries that are could close the road in a moment.
Hamas and Hezbollah have been hammering Haifa with drones,- we see the airborne ones but they’ve got underwater drones as well. Haifa Harbor is only about 14 meters deep at the grain dock; if Hamas or Hezbollah hit, say a bulk grain carrier loaded with 30,000 tons of wheat as it entered between Haifa’s Main Breakwater and the Lee Breakwater, the ship wouldn’t have room to turn away. A loaded grain ship has a draft of about 8.2 meters. Leaving just about 17 feet between the keel and the harbor mud.
Now, (stay with me on this) grain carriers are required to have double the reserve stability of other vessels because the cargo settles as the ship rocks around at sea. As the cargo settles it creates a void at the top of the holds. The need for higher stability is because grains have a greater tendency to slide when they’re tipped than other cargoes. This is called the angle of repose. If the ship heels too far the whole cargo starts to slide down towards the lower side. In short; the Palestinian resistance doesn’t have to sink the ship, only do sufficient damage to make it tilt enough to roll over on its own. Haifa would shut down. https://www.dickcallahan.net/category/israel-and-palestine/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land/
