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oxfordspeakermw
Susan Abulhawa's blistering speech at the Oxford Union was the most ferocious indictment of Israel in the last decade. Author Abulhawa---who is a long-term human rights activist---summarized the iniquitous history of the Jewish state in a few succinct paragraphs while shedding light on the obscene toxic ideology that has permeated the nation's doctrine from the... Read More
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The Antisemitism Awareness Act is a wrecking ball designed to pulverize the First Amendment. While the alleged intention of the bill is to make Jewish students feel safer on campus, the real purpose is to put an end to the anti-genocide demonstrations that have broken out across the country and to prevent the criticism of... Read More
israelsoccerriotmw
For the second time in 8 days, hundreds of Israeli soccer hooligans attacked unidentified fans at a football match in Paris, France. A number of videos circulating on social media show swarms of young men---mostly dressed in black with masks and stocking caps or draped in Israeli flags---pummeling an unknown Frenchman who was beaten to... Read More
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"Hamas is hiding in Amsterdam"
Was the Maccabi soccer fan rampage in Amsterdam a Mossad operation? That's not an easy question to answer, but there are clues suggesting that there's more here than meets the eye. Let's start with Max Blumenthal's observation that the Maccabi fans did not seem to be randomly blowing off steam like young men in crowds... Read More
"There are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left"
Zionist hooligans stormed through the streets of Amsterdam on Thursday tearing down Palestinian flags and intimidating passers by. The scene resembled the incidents that occur regularly in the West Bank where fanatical settlers bully and brutalize the sheep herders and olive growers who live on the land. According to an early report from the Middle... Read More
israelattackmw
Israel’s failed aerial assault on Iran on October 26 augurs a major shift in the regional balance of power. Iran's technologically advanced air defense system coupled with its state-of-the-art, long-range hypersonic ballistic missile stockpile make it the most powerful state in the Middle East portending a peaceful era of cooperation and economic integration ahead. In... Read More
nasrallahmw
Sirens sounded across Israel on Tuesday as a massive barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles hit targets around Tel Aviv. The attack was launched in response to Israel's assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah's chairman Hasan Nasrallah. According to a statement released by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the attack was aimed at "three military bases"... Read More
On Monday, Israeli armored divisions and combat troops gathered on Israel's northern border while Israeli artillery units pounded targets across southern Lebanon. Early reports filed on Twitter indicate that Israeli reconnaissance units have already crossed the border into Lebanon clearing the way for an upcoming ground offensive. According to Reuters, the Lebanese Army has already... Read More
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A recent survey of Middle East scholars shows that a "large majority believe that the war in... Gaza is likely to lead to new large-scale... displacement of Palestinians from Gaz
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Israel is neither a friend nor ally of the United States. Israel looks out for Israel 100 percent of the time and really doesn't care what happens to anyone else. Americans have been brainwashed into believing that Israel is "our pit-bull in the Middle East" who keeps the natives in line. But this simply isn't... Read More
Hezbollah has had its worst week in its 4 decades-long history. Two days of cyber-attacks (pagers and walkie-talkies) killed at least 37 people while sending thousands more to the hospital. The explosions were followed by a massive bombing campaign of southern Lebanon which included a direct hit on a building in South Beirut where the... Read More
poliomw
The emergency authorization use of the novel oral polio vaccine (nOPV2) that has been given to over 500,000 children in Gaza very likely constitutes the type of mass medical experimentation banned under the Nuremberg Code. Keep in mind, the Israeli Defense Forces have destroyed clean water resources and critical water infrastructure across Gaza with the... Read More
An early morning missile attack triggered sirens across Israel sending more than 2 million Israelis rushing for the safety of nearby shelters. A spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces claimed responsibility for the missile strike that was launched from mainland Yemen and landed in an area in central Israel. There were no reports of casualties... Read More
According to CNN: Why are they doing this? The IDF has produced no evidence of hostages, land mines, tunnels, weapons-caches or Hamas militants. It's all an excuse to destroy the plots of land where people bury their loved ones. But, why? These graveyards pose no security threat to the IDF or to the Israeli state.... Read More
ceasefireproposalmw
The main obstacle to a ceasefire in Gaza is not Israel or Hamas. It's the United States. Here's what you need to know: The Security Council approved the Biden-authored ceasefire deal on June 10, 2024. (Three months ago) US diplomats assured the other members of the Security Council that Israel supported the agreement. That claim... Read More
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Donald Trump's plan for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict contained two main elements: Allow Israel to annex more Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank (aka---The Trump Peace Plan) Assist Israel in forming alliances with Arab countries in the region to prevent them from supporting the Palestinian cause. (The Abraham Accords) The combination of these two... Read More
formerpresidentdonaldtrumpjr-speakstothepressafter
The person who is most responsible for the attacks on October 7 is Donald Trump. It was Trump who launched the so-called Middle East Peace Plan that allowed for the "unilateral annexation of the Jordan River valley and existing settlements" in the West Bank. Just as it was Trump who decided to move the US... Read More
gazaplanmw
Unit 601 of the IDF's Combat Engineering Corps is clearing a vast swath of land across central Gaza splitting the 25-mile-long territory into two parts. The so-called Netzarim corridor (Highway 749)---which crosses Gaza from east to west---will provide faster transport for IDF troops operating in the area and will also function as vital part of... Read More
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This is seriously creepy. Over a million doses of polio vaccine have been shipped to Israel in preparation for a mass vaccination campaign in Gaza. The vaccines are an emergency response to the first confirmed case of polio reported in Gaza last month. According to an article in the New York Times: So, the UN... Read More
Israeli Lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky
On Monday, Israeli extremists broke into an IDF military base in Beit Lid to protest the detention of nine Israeli reservists who allegedly tortured and sodomized a Palestinian prisoner in their custody. The chaotic disturbance within the building was captured on video and widely circulated on Twitter. (See here) The mob was enraged by the... Read More
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C), also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, poses for a group picture with members of the Palestinian factions during the signing of the Beijing Declaration in Beijing, China, July 23, 2024.  Credit: Chinese Foreign Ministry
China has brought together 14 disparate Palestinian groups and helped them form a unity government that will rule Gaza when the Israeli onslaught ends. On Tuesday, leaders of the main Palestinian factions---including Hamas and Fatah---signed the Beijing Declaration which establishes an “interim national reconciliation government” to rule post-war Gaza. The groundbreaking agreement represents the first... Read More
houthihypersonicmw
The screenshot captured from a video released by Yemen's Houthi group on June 26, 2024 shows that a hypersonic missile is launched from an undisclosed desert area in Yemen. Xinhua Is this Iran's revenge? Is this how Iran pays-back Israel for bombing its consulate in Damascus in late March; by providing the Houthis with hypersonic... Read More
https://twitter.com/saqii52/status/1744688743338917956
In June, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released a report highlighting the impact of Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The report is a devastating account of Washington's failure to protect critical transit corridors in one of the world's most important waterways. The Biden administration's makeshift naval coalition, dubbed Operation Prosperity Guardian,... Read More
https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1801202518673817755
Good news! Israel has agreed to accept Biden's ceasefire deal as long as it can keep fighting. This is from CNN: Can you see how absurd this is? It's like the fat man who agrees to go on a diet as long as he can still eat as much as he wants. It's nonsense. A... Read More
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The Biden administration's ceasefire resolution is a cynical fraud aimed at airbrushing Israel's tattered image while laying the groundwork for the final expulsion of the Palestinian people. In truth, there won't be a ceasefire because Netanyahu and his entire cabinet are adamantly opposed to ending the hostilities. There's not even any gray area here. After... Read More
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Towering brushfires raged across northern Israel on Tuesday following drone and rocket attacks by Hezbollah on Israeli settlements and military bases. The fires represent the latest escalation in the ongoing cross-border war that has persisted for the last 8 months. According to the Times of Israel, roughly "60,000 residents of towns and villages along Israel’s... Read More
rafahterrormw
On Sunday, Israel launched multiple missile strikes on a "safe zone" in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah. The explosions --which could be heard miles away-- ignited a massive fire that swept rapidly through the encampment trapping many people in their tents where they were burned alive. The ghoulish scenes from the site appeared almost... Read More
https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1790331632571879813
No one in the anti-genocide movement is calling for a general strike, a worker's revolt or disruptive acts of civil disobedience. What they're asking for is a ceasefire and divestment in any company that is profiting from Israel's war in Gaza. These are reasonable requests and entirely appropriate. The problem is that the students making... Read More
genocidejoemw
In a clear rejection of US policies and leadership in the Middle East, the UN general assembly voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership. The western media have mostly ignored Friday's balloting since the widely-anticipated results represent another black eye for Washington. But the outcome of the vote is a blow... Read More
https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1786727476116472298
On Monday, Israel intensified its airstrikes on Rafah, bombing more than 50 sites in the heart of the city. Video footage on Twitter showed plumes of smoke rising from the makeshift encampments and residential buildings where more than 1.4 million refugees are presently huddled in the most densely populated place on earth. Israel's air campaign... Read More
trumpmikejohnsonmw
The man who is most responsible for the $95 billion giveaway to Ukraine and Israel, is the same guy who pretends to oppose America's "wasteful" foreign wars. Donald Trump. It was Trump who consulted with Speaker Mike Johnson about the contents of the Ukraine aid package, just as it was Trump who concocted the idea... Read More
iranisraelmw
Iran's unprecedented attack on Israeli military sites on April 13-14 signals a tectonic shift in the regional balance of power. While the media remains preoccupied with the number of outdated Iranian drones that were shot down during the onslaught, military analysts are far more focused on the way that Iran's ballistic missiles cut through Israel's... Read More
palestiniansgazamw
Recent developments suggest that Israel's full-scale ground offensive in Rafah could take place at any time. What we have been told by Israeli officials, is that the operation will require the evacuation of the city, presumably so the IDF can inflict the same level of destruction on Rafah as was inflicted on Khan Yunis and... Read More
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After six months of blocking ceasefire resolutions at the United Nations, the US delegation submitted its own draft resolution on Friday ostensibly aimed at stopping the hostilities so humanitarian aid can reach the starving people of Gaza. Unfortunately, the American team linked the proposed ceasefire to the release of hostages and to the repudiation of... Read More
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Why did Chuck Schumer call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an "obstacle to peace" and demand new elections in Israel just weeks before an IDF ground offensive in Rafah? Hasn't Schumer opposed a ceasefire in Gaza from the beginning? Hasn't Schumer criticized pro-Palestinian activists and their public protests? Hasn't Schumer been a champion of the... Read More
The Body of a Palestinian Prisoner, Crushed Flat While Alive by an Israeli Tank
Mike Whitney Interview with Ron Unz
What is driving Israel's war on Gaza? (Land, Hamas, ideology or something else?) Ron Unz---I think that a complex mixture of all those different factors is responsible, each being uppermost for different individuals. But obviously the triggering event was the extremely successful Hamas raid on October 7th and the total shock and horror it inflicted... Read More
https://twitter.com/Anela_shah/status/1763876238458810648
One part of Israel's military operation in Gaza that's been largely ignored by the mainstream media is the extremely sophisticated psychological war that's being waged on the Palestinian people. If we look carefully at some of the more unusual elements in Israel's strategy, we see the outline of plan that is clearly aimed at inflicting... Read More
https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1763205863190208783
The majority of Palestinians in Rafah live in an area that is roughly the size of Heathrow Airport. The city is cramped and unsanitary. It is surrounded on three sides by Israeli ground forces and on the fourth side by the 20 ft high Egyptian border wall. For all practical purposes, Rafah is a prison,... Read More
https://twitter.com/Lailafatimeh/status/1761823342019956927
On Saturday, western news agencies reported that closed-door negotiations took place in Paris that were aimed at reaching an agreement on a ceasefire in Gaza. According to Reuters the talks represented "the most serious push for weeks to halt the fighting in the battered Palestinian enclave and see Israeli and foreign hostages released." Regrettably, the... Read More
 https://twitter.com/TvTecpro/status/1754107896118305157
Is this statement true or false: Israel is justified in flattening Gaza because the Palestinians elected Hamas in 2006 which proves they support terrorism. True False The answer is "2". The 2006 elections do not prove that the Palestinians support terrorism. Quite the contrary. What the polling data shows is that the majority of people... Read More
The IDF's recent airstrikes on civilian areas in Rafah mark the beginning of the final phase of Israel's massive ethnic cleansing project. On Monday, Israel bombed a number of locations where Palestinian refugees were huddled in tents after fleeing Israel's onslaught in the North. Videos of the destruction appeared on a number of Twitter-sites which... Read More
On Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to prepare a plan for the forced expulsion of Palestinians located in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza where over 1.3 million displaced civilians have taken refuge in tent cities. The announcement was met with howls of protest from political leaders and human rights groups... Read More
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Mike Whitney Interview with Ron Unz
In your opinion, is the ICJ's 'genocide' ruling convincing or overstated? Ron Unz---From the beginning I've been extremely reluctant to characterize the Israeli attack on Gaza as being a "genocide" because use of that term has become so wildly inflated and distorted in recent years, converted by dishonest Western governments and their mainstream media lackeys... Read More
https://twitter.com/qadduracartoon/status/1752686553384484929
Here's your Zionist quiz for the day: Why did Israel launch a full-blown media blitz on a United Nations relief agency (UNRWA) on the same day that the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICJ) released its historic genocide ruling? ---To divert attention from the fact that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza ---To inform the... Read More
Israeli leaders have settled on a plan that will increase the number of Palestinian deaths while diverting attention from the ICJ's claims of genocide. On Friday, western news agencies reported that the UN's humanitarian agency, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA, may have employed militants who were involved in the October 7... Read More
https://twitter.com/IranObserver0/status/1751218224367116518
Here's the question that every American should be asking himself: Is Israel's war in Gaza strengthening or weakening America's position in the world? If there is some material benefit for the United States, then there might be a reasonable argument for continuing to support the policy. But if there is no benefit whatsoever, then the... Read More
https://twitter.com/saqii52/status/1744688743338917956
Events in the Middle East are spinning out of control. In the last week, the United States has attacked Houthi positions on the Yemeni mainland 7 times while the Houthis have launched 5 attacks on commercial vessels and US warships in the Red Sea. At the same time, Iran has launched multiple attacks on sites... Read More
https://twitter.com/AzzatAlsaalem/status/1746223544436936881
The Biden administration is in the process of reimposing the 7 year-long embargo on Yemen that cut off food, water and essential medical supplies to the civilian population. This is how Washington weaponizes the "terrorist" designation in order to use famine as an instrument of foreign policy. The clear intention is to starve the population... Read More
https://twitter.com/ZainAbbadi11/status/1743957976967242127
On Tuesday, the Houthis launched their largest attack on ships in the Red Sea to date. 21 missiles and drones --that were launched from positions on mainland Yemen-- were shot-down by US and British warships patrolling the area. No casualties were reported. According to a Houthi spokesman, the attack was retaliation for the killing of... Read More
Joint Arab List MK Ofer Cassif
There are 120 members in the Israeli Knesset, but one man towers above them all. His name is Ofer Cassif, and he is, perhaps, the most despised man in Israel. His crime---if you can call it that---is that he put his moral convictions into practice by signing a petition in support of "the upcoming hearing... Read More