[Review] Wurkkos TS10 SG – mini thrower with SFT-25R


The full review is available here


English review at BudgetLightForum
German review on my website

With this little review I wish you a merry Christmas! Have fun, but don’t overdo it with the lights. The tree should not start to burn at any time! 😉

Summary


When the Wurkkos TS10 was released in mid-2022, only few might have imagined what a great success this flashlight would become. Compact, playful, great light and also affordable. Over time, different colors and materials such as titanium, brass and copper were added.

The Wurkkos TS10 SG is a successful update of the classic TS10. With the new optics and the Luminus SFT-25R, the throw has been significantly increased. Otherwise everything has remained the same. There’s a reason the TS10 has enjoyed great popularity for years.

in reply to SammysHP

If anyone cares, this light was on sale for $10 last week (not any more) and I got one along with an H25L. The TS10 SG is great, smaller than I expected and a terrific value at $10. I will EDC it for a while. For some reason I thought it came with a USB-rechargeable 14500 but it's the TS10 Max that comes with a USB cell. It's ok though. I will probably get a D3AA sooner or later but this will do me for now.

I also got an HD10 a while back and I like that a lot too. Unfortunately it's being discontinued, maybe in favor of the non-Anduril HD12. So we'll again be in a situation of having no available Anduril headlamps with USB charging. Meh.

The regime change maniacs are back - UnHerd


#geopolitics #imperialism #chaos #war

For be in no doubt, without boots on the ground, regime collapse — Israel’s now-stated; now-disavowed war aim — will generate a massive crisis destabilising the Middle East and regions far beyond it. The crisis will have dimensions that will be ferociously entangled in ways that we can only vaguely discern right now.


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These CEOs know what they're doing...it's all about the bottom line. Pay Americans a decent, living wage, and they will take the jobs. The End.

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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

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Better understanding the lunar lighting environment will help NASA prepare astronauts for the harsh environment Artemis III Moonwalkers will experience on their mission. NASA’s Artemis III mission will build on earlier test flights and add new capabilities with the human landing system and advanced spacesuits to send the first astronauts to explore the lunar South […]

New York City Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Arrested at Immigration Courthouse
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Elizabeth Yao, the valedictorian at Bell High School in Ottawa, was told not to attend school on Monday after making pro-Palestinian remarks during her graduation speech.

Yao's principal told her the school was considering further disciplinary action.
Yao's speech contained a line about colonial and genocidal atrocities in Gaza, which her principal deemed harmful and took focus away from the graduation ceremony.

Canada is run by fascists.

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#canada #cdnpoli

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Iranian Ex-President Ahmadinejad survives Near-Fatal assassination attempt


2025-06-17

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Source : Hal Turner Radio Show
Des avions-cargos militaires russes et chinois transportent du «matériel de soutien» vers l’ #Iran : des systèmes d’armement, des défenses aériennes, des missiles, etc.

Pour la première fois dans l’histoire, un avion-cargo militaire chinois a atterri en Iran, vraisemblablement pour décharger du «matériel de soutien» chinois. Un avion-cargo Airbus A330-243F (photo d’archive ci-dessus) a décollé de l’aéroport international de Guangzhou Baiyun et a été repéré volant vers le sud-ouest au-dessus de l’est du Turkménistan. Il a éteint son transpondeur avant d’atteindre l’espace aérien iranien.
Les Russes et les Chinois voient clairement qu’Israël est utilisé comme un proxy par les #États-Unis pour nuire à l’Iran. On pense que cela sert plusieurs objectifs : cela permet de s’occuper d’un puissant voisin du Moyen-Orient dont #Israël se méfie depuis 40 ans. Cela perturbe également le soutien militaire iranien à la Russie dans le conflit actuel en Ukraine, en détruisant les chaînes d’approvisionnement militaires iraniennes.
La #Chine a mis en garde vendredi contre les «graves conséquences» que pourraient avoir les attaques israéliennes contre l’Iran, s’opposant à toute violation de la souveraineté, de la sécurité et de l’intégrité territoriale du pays.

Les frappes de missiles iraniennes contre Israël montrent que les forces de Téhéran sont capables de se regrouper même après que Israël a tué plusieurs commandants militaires lors de sa première attaque.
«Ils (les Israéliens) ont sous-estimé la capacité de l’Iran à se regrouper après avoir très efficacement ciblé les hauts dirigeants de l’armée iranienne et réussi à en tuer plusieurs», a déclaré Trita Parsi, vice-président du Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
Parsi a ajouté qu’Israël pensait avoir «perturbé le commandement et le contrôle iraniens», mais que cette idée s’était avérée fausse, car l’Iran «s’était rapidement restructuré».
Ce que nous constatons actuellement, c’est que «les missiles iraniens parviennent à pénétrer toutes les couches du système de défense aérienne israélien», a déclaré Parsi.
Parsi s’exprimait sur CNN alors que de nouvelles vagues de missiles iraniens s’abattaient sur Israël aux premières heures de lundi matin et frappaient plusieurs endroits.
L’Iran a tiré entre 100 et 150 missiles par jour. Le premier jour, 40 missiles ont été interceptés, le deuxième jour, 50, et le troisième jour, 75.
Le taux de destruction des forces de défense israéliennes DIMINUE RAPIDEMENT. Si les Iraniens maintiennent ce rythme, il n’y aura PLUS AUCUN AÉROPORT UTILISABLE en Israël la semaine prochaine. C’est dans sept jours !
Bibi est à la télévision aux États-Unis 24 heures sur 24, 7 jours sur 7, car deux bases aériennes des forces de défense israéliennes ont été durement touchées. La télévision est contrôlée, tout comme Internet. Le point de vue israélien bénéficie donc TOUJOURS d’un traitement préférentiel. Mais leur point de vue n’est pas exact en ce qui concerne les missiles iraniens qui passent.
Un événement imprévu s’est déjà produit : le Pakistan a effectué un ravitaillement terrestre en Iran pour fournir des équipements anti-aériens ! Le Pakistan a envoyé 720 missiles à l’Iran.
Les Chinois et les Russes ont tous deux livré de nouveaux systèmes anti-aériens (avancés) destinés à défendre Téhéran, qui devraient être opérationnels d’ici le matin du 17 !
La Chine et la Russie veulent tester leurs systèmes au combat contre le F-35. Les forces de défense israéliennes ont déjà perdu des avions et des pilotes !
Remarques de Hal Turner
Depuis lundi 16 juin, il semble que les forces de défense israéliennes soient dans une situation très délicate, et Netanyahou en est la cause. Ses propos absurdes de ce matin, selon lesquels le Pakistan serait la prochaine cible, ont immédiatement mis les Pakistanais dans une position hostile.
Israël a clairement averti le Pakistan de cesser de fournir des armes à l’Iran, «sinon». Les Pakistanais ont immédiatement triplé leur aide à l’Iran.
La situation dégénère très rapidement d’une manière que peu de gens auraient cru possible. La troisième guerre mondiale est bel et bien là. Tout cela parce qu’Israël a lancé une attaque surprise contre l’Iran.
La situation est bien plus grave que ce que l’on veut bien le dire, et des personnes bien informées parlent discrètement de la façon dont la situation est devenue beaucoup plus sombre et dangereuse.
Il existe des vidéos de la nuit dernière où des batteries Iron Dome et Arrow se sont entre-tuées, frappant d’autres sites Iron Dome et Arrow.
Et puis les putains de ravitailleurs ont décollé des États-Unis et ont continué à décoller, et ce ne sont que ceux qui émettaient des signaux pour que le système de suivi ADS-B puisse les voir.
De plus, quiconque vous dit qu’Israël ne censure pas les vidéos montrant les dégâts et les frappes, et des choses encore plus graves, est soit stupide, soit menteur.
Est-ce que je dis qu’Iran est en train de gagner ? Certainement pas.
Franchement, je pense que personne ne sait qui est en train de gagner ou ce qui se passe actuellement, la situation a pris une tournure incontrôlable.


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The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch

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I doubt he knows
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#Machtwechsel in #Syrien:


Unter dem Islamisten Ahmed al-Scharaa werden Christen verfolgt und nun auch eine „sittsamere Badekleidung“ vorgeschrieben. Die Bundesregierung, Geldgeber des Regimes, spricht von einer „Phase der politischen Neugestaltung“
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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt

CNBC: NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander handcuffed by ICE

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The incident comes days after police handcuffed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., after he was forcibly removed from a press conference that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was holding.
in reply to Coded Artist

19-year-old looks up the law, sees he can open carry, does so, engages in protected first amendment speech in an area where everyone is doing that and also in pretty edgy ways, gets attacked by boomers who
a. are in fear of the lives of the protesters against this obviously harmless clown
b. cynically decided that a Nazi salute meant that killing him was functionally legal and would not lead to prosecution
and someone dies, so now there are murder charges.

Q: What was his mistake?
A: not believing his own narrative. The left are violently insane unhinged retards. Provoking such people would obviously lead to violence. Doing something that would obviously lead to violence while armed is a crime in itself.

“UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Trump Reveals the US Now Has Control Over Iran’s Skies, Says He Knows Where Supreme Leader is Hiding

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The $96 Billion Lie: How Liberal Economists Manipulate Immigration Statistics to Hide the Truth About America’s Job Crisis

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Firefox is dead to me • The Register

No notes. All good points. I'm still not going to a Chrome based browser. Not yet.
I hear Opera is nice if that day ever comes.

Main points:

  • Shitty removal of promise to never sell your data from the FAQ.
  • Hard pivot to AI that nobody wants.
  • Killing programs people actually like and use.
  • Losing on performance (again).
  • Mass layoffs.

As is pointed out in the article, most of the crap comes directly from Mozilla and management, not the people doing development.
It could be righted with a massive leadership change that isn't going to happen.

I've switched to IronFox on my phone and LibreWolf on my laptops. I'll keep doing that as long as it's feasible.

I have to use Edge and Firefox at work because they are "approved" (along with Chrome) and centrally managed.

Edit: fixed a typo.

#Mozilla #Firefox #FirefoxIsDead #LibreWolf #IronFox

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in reply to J. R. DePriest :EA DATA. SF:

I am so pissed. Went to login to my credit union today after a few months (normally I use the mobile app) and found I couldn't login.

When I contacted member services they told me that Firefox was no longer supported that it was "being sunsetted" and discontinued.

I'm like WHAT THE FUCK!

Told me my only option was Chrome.

Or the mobile app.

Yeah.

This isn't going to end well.

🚨 ‘For the first time ever, Israel is asking America to fight alongside it – or for it’ By Aluf Benn Article 🧵

For the first time ever, Israe...

The cops in LA are more out of control than normal in the footage of these protests.

They are shooting into crowds who are standing in a park with signs during the day well before curfew. Throwing tear gas. And also not saying anything? There are no instructions to leave or anything being given as they try to make the protest end.

It's not about keeping the streets clear for cars. They are acting like having a protest is illegal.

This is LAPD too. What is they mayor doing?

in reply to myrmepropagandist

Is it legal to gather in the park and shout slogans and hold some signs to petition the government for redress of grievances or nah?

I think it can be easy to get jaded and assume that when people get injured by police in protests they must have "done something" eg not gone on the sidewalk when asked by the police* or whatever but this isn't true. We don't really live in a country where protest is defacto legal anymore and this has been the case more and more over time.

Do you like that?

Iran Hits Intel Centers Near Tel Aviv, Israel Kills Top Military Leader In Tehran (Videos) southfront.press/iran-hits-int…

Iran Has Nukes


Let me get this straight. #Atomic/#Nuclear #weaponry has supposedly been around since 1945. It’s very old, very basic technology that has been acquired by countries as underdeveloped as #India, #Pakistan, #SouthAfrica, and #Israel.

#Hypersonic #missiles are so technologically advanced and difficult to manufacture that only four countries in the world have deployed them: #China, #Russia, #NorthKorea, and #Iran. The #USA hasn’t successfully developed one yet, neither have #Japan, #France, or the #UK.

And yet, we’re supposed to believe that Iran doesn’t already possess nuclear warheads to install on those hypersonic delivery systems?

I don’t buy it. If nuclear weaponry actually exists – and there is very good reason to #doubt that it does – then Iran has it. If Iran doesn’t have it, then no one does because it doesn’t actually exist. The fact that nuclear weapons have been held over humanity’s collective heads for generations and used to justify globalist organizations for decades is sufficient reason for them to have been among the foremost #myths perpetrated by #ClownWorld.

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THIS IS HOW THIS SHIT ENDS - WHEN WOMEN STAND UP AND SAY NO TO IT!

"Furious woman confronts ‘transgender’ man wearing a bikini after he tried to go in a girls bathroom.

“You’re not a woman. Get out. If you want to practice your transition you don’t do it at a young kids softball field.”

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Zionism: Inherently Racist, Violent, and Expansionist

Concluding the introduction to his 1967 work On Zionist Literature, the Palestinian writer and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani remarked that he had completed his study on the basis of one central principle: “to know your enemy.” Less than five years later, that very enemy murdered both him and his 16-year-old niece, Lamiss, in a car bomb outside his family home in Beirut. The following week, Zionist agents sent letter bombs to a number of other prominent Palestinians then living in Lebanon, including Anis Sayegh, the man who, in his capacity as director of the PLO’s Beirut-based Palestine Research Center, had published On Zionist Literature. Sayegh, who also wrote the preface to Kanafani’s book, was seriously wounded in the attack, but miraculously survived.

The PRC had been established in 1965 by Anis’ brother, Fayez Sayegh, just a year after the formation of the PLO itself. Anticipating Kanafani’s sentiment, Sayegh’s proposal outlining his rationale for the establishment of the center had noted similarly that “knowing the enemy is a parallel process to knowing the self.” Thus, from its inception, the PRC placed significant emphasis on studying the history, ideology and practices of Zionism in both its research activities and its publications. The first monograph it published, released in the same year that the center was founded, was a study by Fayez Sayegh himself entitled Zionist Colonialism in Palestine. In this succinct and insightful book, Sayegh argues that the three defining characteristics of what he terms the Zionist settler-state are: (1) its racial complexion and conduct (2) its addiction to violence and (3) its expansionist stance.

Racism: Inherent in Zionist Ideology


Sixty years later, amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza and rampant Zionist violence and expansionism in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and beyond, it would be an understatement to call Sayegh’s work and its conclusions prescient. With remarkable clarity, his book demolishes a number of damaging myths about the Zionist movement and the settler colony it established, myths that unfortunately remain prevalent several decades later — even among some who consider themselves to be supporters of the Palestinian cause.

Dispelling the spurious notion that at some point after its establishment ‘Israel’ became a racist entity, Sayegh explains how racism “is not an acquired trait of the Zionist settler-state. Nor… an accidental, passing feature of the Israeli scene,” but in fact “congenital, essential and permanent… inherent in the very ideology of Zionism.” He then identifies three corollaries that this explicitly racial identification gave rise to: “racial self-segregation, racial exclusiveness, and racial supremacy.” It is of course these characteristics which made the forced removal of the indigenous population of Palestine, as attempted in the Nakba, essential to the Zionist project’s actualization.

Sayegh also examines the treatment that those Palestinians who Zionist forces were unable to remove in the Nakba received at their hands from the moment ‘Israel’ was established. He argues that through its systematic oppression of this internal population, the Zionist settler-state had “learned all the lessons which the various discriminatory regimes of white settler-states in Asia and Africa can teach it.” Outlining the manifold official and unofficial oppressive measures that these Palestinians had faced — measures that have only grown ever more cruel and deeply ingrained over the six decades that have since passed — Sayegh comments that whereas “the Afrikaner apostles of apartheid … brazenly proclaim their sin, the Zionist practitioners of apartheid in Palestine beguilingly protest their innocence.” Sayegh’s explicit use of ‘apartheid’ here came six decades before a number of Western NGOs decided to apply this label that if anything falls short of fully capturing the level of violence, racism and hatred that characterizes the Zionist state’s treatment of Palestinians under its occupation.

Zionism: Addicted to Violence and Expansion


Events since the publication of Sayegh’s book offer grim and emphatic confirmation of his assertion that the Zionist settler state is addicted to violence. Since 1965, it has perpetuated a literally unbroken line of violent acts against the Palestinians too long to list here. This violence manifests in every imaginable — and often unimaginable — form, ranging from the most genocidal and apocalyptic in scale as we see in Gaza today, to more routine but insidious daily acts of aggression, humiliation, indignity, and psychological torture across all of occupied Palestine. Furthermore, the targets of this violence have not been limited to the Palestinians; throughout its short history the Zionist settler state has also committed multiple aggressions against other states in the region, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, and Iran.

Sayegh’s declaration that Israel is perpetually expansionist in nature has similarly been confirmed beyond doubt, for not only has it consistently increased the territory under its occupation since he wrote Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, but it has also resolutely refused, up to the present moment, to ever officially declare its borders. In fact, the entirety of Israel’s history consists of nothing more than perpetual expansionism cynically disguised as a virtuous quest for ‘secure borders’. Writing just two years before Israel’s seizure of the West Bank (including Jerusalem), Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula and Gaza during the June War of 1967, Sayegh argued with devastating foresight that expansion “is the ‘unfinished business’ of Zionism. It cannot fail to be the main preoccupation of the Zionist movement, and of the Zionist state, in the future. For the Zionist settler state to be is to prepare for and strive for territorial expansion.” These almost prophetic words flashed into my mind when Israel launched an immediate military onslaught against Syria and seized even more of its territory following the overthrow of the country’s government in December 2024. These events effectively marked the culmination of a multi-faceted war waged against the Syrian state for over a decade, of which Israel was a key participant.

The fate that befell the PRC itself offers further and especially direct evidence of Sayegh’s tragically accurate foresight. After the center was looted wholesale by Israeli military forces during their invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and then bombed by a terrorist group acting as a proxy for Israel the following year, it was forced to close, and, like so many Palestinian institutions and individuals of that era, left Beirut never to return. A word here is needed on Israel’s assault on Beirut in 1982, a crime that in many ways foreshadowed its genocidal offensive on Gaza that began in October 2023.

In the summer of 1982, West Beirut was encircled by Israeli forces — with all water, fuel and food blocked from entering — then pounded mercilessly by artillery, aerial and naval bombardment for weeks on end. Hospitals, charities, residential buildings, refugee camps, embassies, clinics and hotels were all targeted and thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians were slaughtered. The destruction was so comprehensive that the Canadian Ambassador to Lebanon at the time, Theodore Arcand, said it made “Berlin 1945 look like a tea party.” The siege was part of Israel’s broader assault against Lebanon that was so violent and destructive that most of the members of an international commission formed to study Israel’s violations concluded that not only had the invasion entailed multiple breaches of international law, but also in fact constituted “a form of genocide.”

Zionism: “Not the Concern of Palestinians Alone”


Though Sayegh’s book stresses that Palestine’s liberation must be spearheaded by the Palestinians themselves, he states clearly that the “problem of Palestine … is not the concern of Palestinians alone,” since Israel’s commitment to expansion also threatens the security and territorial integrity of the Arab states as a whole. This understanding of the Zionist project and the threat it poses to the entire region has been advanced and built on by an array of figures since Sayegh. For instance, the martyr Husayn Muruwwah, then the foremost ideologue of the Lebanese Communist Party, wrote in 1985 that the:

… cause of liberating Palestine is the absolute basis of all Arab struggles … [w]hen we refer to the Palestinian cause, we might very well be referring to that of Lebanon, or any other Arab country — and vice versa. When we mention the Lebanese resistance, we might very well be referring to the Palestinian resistance – and vice versa …

More recently, the martyr Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah regularly stressed in his speeches and analysis that Israel constituted an existential threat not only to Palestine and the Palestinian people, but in fact to Lebanon itself and to the peoples of the Islamic and Arab worlds in their entireties.

Knowing the Enemy Today


Sayegh concludes his excellent book by stating that as an entity “animated by doctrines of racial self-segregation, racial exclusiveness, and racial supremacy” that translates those doctrines into “ruthless practices of racial discrimination and oppression,” the political systems erected by Zionism in Palestine must be recognized as a menace to all who are “dedicated to the safeguarding and enhancement of the dignity of man. For whenever and wherever the dignity of but one single human being is violated, in pursuance of the creed of racism, a heinous sin is committed against the dignity of all men, everywhere.” It is sobering to read these words in the middle of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Sayegh’s sentiment and analysis are being proven painfully correct in front of our eyes every day.

As Sayegh saw and understood his enemy with such clarity sixty years ago, we must do so today. Zionism is not a redeemable movement gone awry; it did not become an occupying power only in 1967 but is so inherently and inescapably. Its appetite for extreme violence and expansion is insatiable and facilitated without limits or red lines by what Sayegh calls its “vital and continuing association” with imperialism. Since Sayegh wrote, the Zionist settler-state has consolidated its role as the attack dog and vanguard of US imperialism in West Asia. US support for Israel, Joe Biden stated unashamedly in 1986, “is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.” Israel’s violence, although portrayed by some as taking place against the wishes of the US, invariably aligns with American interests and strategic goals, while at the same time providing it with plausible deniability as to its own involvement. The recent (and at the time of writing, ongoing) Israeli attacks against Iran are no exception to this broader phenomenon.

Those who argue that peace with the Zionist entity is desirable, or even possible, deny the stark historical track record and present genocidal reality staring them in the face. There is no better or more palatable version of Israel that can or will ever exist. Netanyahu is not an outlier or unrepresentative of the whole, but in fact the perfect embodiment of the racism, violence and expansionism that Sayegh understood was inherent to Zionism over half a century ago, traits that are supported by the overwhelming majority of the settler population. Then as now, the only just and lasting solution remains the complete rejection, isolation and eventual military defeat and dismantlement of the Zionist settler-state. Re-visiting the work of vindicated and principled scholars like Sayegh can help us hold on to that certainty and be cognisant of the historical continuity that doing so represents.

Louis Allday
Source: Al-Akhbar

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#imperialism #palestine #resistance #zionism

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Zionism: Inherently Racist, Violent, and Expansionist

Concluding the introduction to his 1967 work On Zionist Literature, the Palestinian writer and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani remarked that he had completed his study on the basis of one central principle: “to know your enemy.” Less than five years later, that very enemy murdered both him and his 16-year-old niece, Lamiss, in a car bomb outside his family home in Beirut. The following week, Zionist agents sent letter bombs to a number of other prominent Palestinians then living in Lebanon, including Anis Sayegh, the man who, in his capacity as director of the PLO’s Beirut-based Palestine Research Center, had published On Zionist Literature. Sayegh, who also wrote the preface to Kanafani’s book, was seriously wounded in the attack, but miraculously survived.

The PRC had been established in 1965 by Anis’ brother, Fayez Sayegh, just a year after the formation of the PLO itself. Anticipating Kanafani’s sentiment, Sayegh’s proposal outlining his rationale for the establishment of the center had noted similarly that “knowing the enemy is a parallel process to knowing the self.” Thus, from its inception, the PRC placed significant emphasis on studying the history, ideology and practices of Zionism in both its research activities and its publications. The first monograph it published, released in the same year that the center was founded, was a study by Fayez Sayegh himself entitled Zionist Colonialism in Palestine. In this succinct and insightful book, Sayegh argues that the three defining characteristics of what he terms the Zionist settler-state are: (1) its racial complexion and conduct (2) its addiction to violence and (3) its expansionist stance.

Racism: Inherent in Zionist Ideology


Sixty years later, amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza and rampant Zionist violence and expansionism in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and beyond, it would be an understatement to call Sayegh’s work and its conclusions prescient. With remarkable clarity, his book demolishes a number of damaging myths about the Zionist movement and the settler colony it established, myths that unfortunately remain prevalent several decades later — even among some who consider themselves to be supporters of the Palestinian cause.

Dispelling the spurious notion that at some point after its establishment ‘Israel’ became a racist entity, Sayegh explains how racism “is not an acquired trait of the Zionist settler-state. Nor… an accidental, passing feature of the Israeli scene,” but in fact “congenital, essential and permanent… inherent in the very ideology of Zionism.” He then identifies three corollaries that this explicitly racial identification gave rise to: “racial self-segregation, racial exclusiveness, and racial supremacy.” It is of course these characteristics which made the forced removal of the indigenous population of Palestine, as attempted in the Nakba, essential to the Zionist project’s actualization.

Sayegh also examines the treatment that those Palestinians who Zionist forces were unable to remove in the Nakba received at their hands from the moment ‘Israel’ was established. He argues that through its systematic oppression of this internal population, the Zionist settler-state had “learned all the lessons which the various discriminatory regimes of white settler-states in Asia and Africa can teach it.” Outlining the manifold official and unofficial oppressive measures that these Palestinians had faced — measures that have only grown ever more cruel and deeply ingrained over the six decades that have since passed — Sayegh comments that whereas “the Afrikaner apostles of apartheid … brazenly proclaim their sin, the Zionist practitioners of apartheid in Palestine beguilingly protest their innocence.” Sayegh’s explicit use of ‘apartheid’ here came six decades before a number of Western NGOs decided to apply this label that if anything falls short of fully capturing the level of violence, racism and hatred that characterizes the Zionist state’s treatment of Palestinians under its occupation.

Zionism: Addicted to Violence and Expansion


Events since the publication of Sayegh’s book offer grim and emphatic confirmation of his assertion that the Zionist settler state is addicted to violence. Since 1965, it has perpetuated a literally unbroken line of violent acts against the Palestinians too long to list here. This violence manifests in every imaginable — and often unimaginable — form, ranging from the most genocidal and apocalyptic in scale as we see in Gaza today, to more routine but insidious daily acts of aggression, humiliation, indignity, and psychological torture across all of occupied Palestine. Furthermore, the targets of this violence have not been limited to the Palestinians; throughout its short history the Zionist settler state has also committed multiple aggressions against other states in the region, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, and Iran.

Sayegh’s declaration that Israel is perpetually expansionist in nature has similarly been confirmed beyond doubt, for not only has it consistently increased the territory under its occupation since he wrote Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, but it has also resolutely refused, up to the present moment, to ever officially declare its borders. In fact, the entirety of Israel’s history consists of nothing more than perpetual expansionism cynically disguised as a virtuous quest for ‘secure borders’. Writing just two years before Israel’s seizure of the West Bank (including Jerusalem), Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula and Gaza during the June War of 1967, Sayegh argued with devastating foresight that expansion “is the ‘unfinished business’ of Zionism. It cannot fail to be the main preoccupation of the Zionist movement, and of the Zionist state, in the future. For the Zionist settler state to be is to prepare for and strive for territorial expansion.” These almost prophetic words flashed into my mind when Israel launched an immediate military onslaught against Syria and seized even more of its territory following the overthrow of the country’s government in December 2024. These events effectively marked the culmination of a multi-faceted war waged against the Syrian state for over a decade, of which Israel was a key participant.

The fate that befell the PRC itself offers further and especially direct evidence of Sayegh’s tragically accurate foresight. After the center was looted wholesale by Israeli military forces during their invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and then bombed by a terrorist group acting as a proxy for Israel the following year, it was forced to close, and, like so many Palestinian institutions and individuals of that era, left Beirut never to return. A word here is needed on Israel’s assault on Beirut in 1982, a crime that in many ways foreshadowed its genocidal offensive on Gaza that began in October 2023.

In the summer of 1982, West Beirut was encircled by Israeli forces — with all water, fuel and food blocked from entering — then pounded mercilessly by artillery, aerial and naval bombardment for weeks on end. Hospitals, charities, residential buildings, refugee camps, embassies, clinics and hotels were all targeted and thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians were slaughtered. The destruction was so comprehensive that the Canadian Ambassador to Lebanon at the time, Theodore Arcand, said it made “Berlin 1945 look like a tea party.” The siege was part of Israel’s broader assault against Lebanon that was so violent and destructive that most of the members of an international commission formed to study Israel’s violations concluded that not only had the invasion entailed multiple breaches of international law, but also in fact constituted “a form of genocide.”

Zionism: “Not the Concern of Palestinians Alone”


Though Sayegh’s book stresses that Palestine’s liberation must be spearheaded by the Palestinians themselves, he states clearly that the “problem of Palestine … is not the concern of Palestinians alone,” since Israel’s commitment to expansion also threatens the security and territorial integrity of the Arab states as a whole. This understanding of the Zionist project and the threat it poses to the entire region has been advanced and built on by an array of figures since Sayegh. For instance, the martyr Husayn Muruwwah, then the foremost ideologue of the Lebanese Communist Party, wrote in 1985 that the:

… cause of liberating Palestine is the absolute basis of all Arab struggles … [w]hen we refer to the Palestinian cause, we might very well be referring to that of Lebanon, or any other Arab country — and vice versa. When we mention the Lebanese resistance, we might very well be referring to the Palestinian resistance – and vice versa …

More recently, the martyr Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah regularly stressed in his speeches and analysis that Israel constituted an existential threat not only to Palestine and the Palestinian people, but in fact to Lebanon itself and to the peoples of the Islamic and Arab worlds in their entireties.

Knowing the Enemy Today


Sayegh concludes his excellent book by stating that as an entity “animated by doctrines of racial self-segregation, racial exclusiveness, and racial supremacy” that translates those doctrines into “ruthless practices of racial discrimination and oppression,” the political systems erected by Zionism in Palestine must be recognized as a menace to all who are “dedicated to the safeguarding and enhancement of the dignity of man. For whenever and wherever the dignity of but one single human being is violated, in pursuance of the creed of racism, a heinous sin is committed against the dignity of all men, everywhere.” It is sobering to read these words in the middle of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Sayegh’s sentiment and analysis are being proven painfully correct in front of our eyes every day.

As Sayegh saw and understood his enemy with such clarity sixty years ago, we must do so today. Zionism is not a redeemable movement gone awry; it did not become an occupying power only in 1967 but is so inherently and inescapably. Its appetite for extreme violence and expansion is insatiable and facilitated without limits or red lines by what Sayegh calls its “vital and continuing association” with imperialism. Since Sayegh wrote, the Zionist settler-state has consolidated its role as the attack dog and vanguard of US imperialism in West Asia. US support for Israel, Joe Biden stated unashamedly in 1986, “is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.” Israel’s violence, although portrayed by some as taking place against the wishes of the US, invariably aligns with American interests and strategic goals, while at the same time providing it with plausible deniability as to its own involvement. The recent (and at the time of writing, ongoing) Israeli attacks against Iran are no exception to this broader phenomenon.

Those who argue that peace with the Zionist entity is desirable, or even possible, deny the stark historical track record and present genocidal reality staring them in the face. There is no better or more palatable version of Israel that can or will ever exist. Netanyahu is not an outlier or unrepresentative of the whole, but in fact the perfect embodiment of the racism, violence and expansionism that Sayegh understood was inherent to Zionism over half a century ago, traits that are supported by the overwhelming majority of the settler population. Then as now, the only just and lasting solution remains the complete rejection, isolation and eventual military defeat and dismantlement of the Zionist settler-state. Re-visiting the work of vindicated and principled scholars like Sayegh can help us hold on to that certainty and be cognisant of the historical continuity that doing so represents.

Louis Allday
Source: Al-Akhbar

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