Hidden History -- In The Making

AS ISRAELI FORCES RAZE HOMES THE GAZA RESIDENTS REPORT THE BLASTS

Journalists On The Ground Say Blasts Have Echoed Through Gaza Since The Early Hours, Even Though The Ceasefire Is Supposedly In Effect. This Should Tell You How The World Treats Israel.

Most of the strikes hit zones on the far side of the yellow demarcation line, territory Israel’s military occupies and has largely sealed off from the rest of the enclave.

Residents living near the line said that the noise has barely stopped. Families say they are hearing repeated blasts and drones overhead, long after the ceasefire came into force.

People in the area also report seeing Israeli tanks and bulldozers levelling homes inside these zones, wiping out what remains of residential streets and making any Palestinian return even harder.

This demonstrates how the West treats Israel with exception to all laws, agreements and even basic morality and since it is ruled by their master race.

MOST AMERICANS HAVE NO IDEA WHO THEIR GOVERNMENT IS BOMBING

What Percentage Of Americans Even Realize That Trump Has Bombed Somalia Nearly A Hundred Times This Year? It Is Doubtful That It’s Even One Percent.

An article by Dave DeCamp has highlighted the widely-ignored fact that according to AFRICOM the American regime waged a three-day bombing campaign in Somalia from October 26 — October 28, bringing the total number of American airstrikes in that nation this year to 89.

What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent. The mainstream press barely mention it. Americans have hardly any idea who their own country is bombing.

In theory the press are there to create an informed electorate who can then use their votes to move their government in a healthy direction. In practice the press are there to keep the public too ignorant, propagandized and distracted to meddle in the workings of the imperial machine.

Israel keeps violating the “ceasefire” and bombing Gaza whenever it wants to, then saying the ceasefire is back in effect. It’s like saying you’ve quit smoking whenever you’re not currently having a cigarette.

NPR reports that after a mid-“ceasefire” bombing campaign that killed 104 people including 46 children, Benjamin Netanyahu “ordered the strikes after accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire for handing over body parts this week that Israel said were partial remains of a hostage recovered earlier in the war.”

Saying you massacred children because you weren’t given the correct pieces of a corpse just might be the craziest justification for a war crime that anyone has ever offered.

Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon accused UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese of witchcraft for her report on Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza. That’s right. Witchcraft.

“Miss Albanese, you are a witch and this report is another page in your spell book,” Danon said in response to Albanese’s remarks to the UN’s Third Committee on Gaza.

Says a lot about the strength of their arguments, really.

Pro-Palestine arguments are like, “Here’s raw video footage of atrocities, IDF admissions of war crimes, IDF soldiers documenting their own sadism, eyewitness testimony from western doctors, and analysis from every major human rights group,” while pro-Israel arguments are like, “You’re a witch doing witchcraft!”

Israeli media report that their government is preparing to wage a “propaganda war” for when foreign journalists are able to gain access to Gaza in advance of the expected PR fallout as the world learns “the human stories from Gaza in the voices and faces of the residents themselves.”

It’s such a trip how as a state the Israelis understand the importance of perception management more acutely than any nation on earth, but as individuals they still can’t resist the urge to club an old woman on camera or post pictures of themselves wearing stolen panties in Gaza. Really drives home how the entire state is premised on the understanding that its existence depends on actively cultivating the support of powerful western military forces using aggressive lobbying and propaganda campaigns, but the state is also premised on extreme hatred and racism, and these two essential ingredients are clashing with more and more regularity when it comes to Gaza.

It’s not okay to still support a two-state solution in 2025. Israel has spent two years showing the world that it should not exist as a state. It needs to be disarmed, dismantled, and denazified.

It was still excusable to naively believe a two-state solution was workable prior to 2023, but after two years of Israeli officials openly saying with the overwhelming support of their citizenry that there will never be a Palestinian state while committing a genocide in full view of the entire world, this is no longer a tenable position to have. There is no longer any excuse for still believing the state of Israel will allow the Palestinians to have a fully sovereign state and leave them in peace, especially not after watching it wage war on all its neighbors with the blatantly obvious goal of domination and territorial expansion.

The Israel experiment has been run. The results of that experiment show that it is not workable. Everything you have seen these last two years is the result of Zionists getting everything they want. This is what that looks like. The world needs to terminate the experiment by any means necessary and end the Zionist state forever.

THE AMERICAN REGIME SKIPS THE UN REVIEW OF ITS HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD

The American Regime Joins Israel As The Only Other Country To Not Show For The Mandatory Process Scrutinising The Human Rights Record Of UN Member States. Is That Surprising To You?

The American regime did not send a representative to attend a United Nations review of its human rights record, becoming the second country in history to snub the mandatory procedure.

The meeting, part of the Universal Periodic Review, which takes place every four to five years, was held on Friday without the United States in attendance.

“We were supposed to meet today in order to proceed with the review of the United States,” said Jurg Lauber, president of the UN Human Rights Council. “Nevertheless, I note that the delegation of the United States is not present in this room.”

The Trump regime said in August it would not attend the meeting, joining ally Israel as the only other country to skip the process in which all 193 UN member states undergo scrutiny of their human rights records. Topics such as LGBTQ, immigrant rights, and the death penalty had been on the agenda for discussion at the meeting.

China’s representative at the meeting said that Washington was showing a “lack of respect for the UPR mechanism”, while Cuba accused the American regime of being afraid of what greater oversight of its human rights record might bring.

“As a founding member of the United Nations and primary champion of individual liberties, we will not be lectured about our human rights record by the likes of HRC (Human Rights Council) members such as Venezuela, China or Sudan,” the American Department of State said in a statement.

While the United States has a long record of chafing at oversight by international institutions over its human rights practices, the nationalist administration of President Donald Trump has been notably hostile to international frameworks that could place restraints on the use of American power at home and abroad.

The Ameican regime has also sought to pressure international institutions critical of allies such as Israel, sanctioning UN officials and the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their scrutiny of severe abuses by Israeli forces in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territory.

The Trump administration has depicted forms of international cooperation on many issues as a waste of time, stating that such efforts bring requirements and constraints that place the American regime at a disadvantage with rivals while offering few benefits in return.

ISRAELI ATTACKS ON PALESTINIANS AT GAZA WEDDING VIOLATES THE CEASEFIRE AGAIN

In Gaza, Israel Has Continued To Routinely Kill And Injure Palestinians In Spite Of The October 10th Ceasefire, While Desperately Needed Humanitarian Aid Remains Blocked.

Crossings into Gaza remain closed, blocking aid including shelter materials, medicine, basic food items and supplies for infrastructure repair.

On November 5^th, Israel killed two Palestinians in separate incidents, claiming that they had crossed the so-called yellow line where the Israeli army maintains control. Al Jazeera reported that little information has been given about the location of this line, and it is still being physically marked on the ground, presenting another deadly hazard for Palestinians.

Reporter Ebrahim Saeed documented the invisible partition in northern Gaza, where Palestinians explain that they cannot reach their homes and belongings, and are constantly threatened by Israeli snipers and tanks.

On November 4^th, one Palestinian was killed and another was wounded when an Israeli quadcopter drone opened fire in eastern Gaza City, and another was killed in Jabaliya in northern Gaza, again with the Israeli army claiming that it fired on the individual for crossing the so-called yellow line.

Palestinians were shot and wounded by Israeli forces on Monday, November 3^rd, in southern Gaza.

Civil defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said that Israeli forces opened fire on a wedding that same day. The attack wounded several children including a 6-year-old girl, Sundus Hillis, in the Daraj quarter of Gaza City.

Basal said that the attack took place inside the so-called “safe yellow line” zone in that part of Gaza City, “an area designated under the American-brokered ceasefire as a first-phase boundary where Israeli occupation forces were meant to withdraw and halt all aggression.”

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor stated on October 31^st that since the beginning of the ceasefire, 219 Palestinians had been killed, including 85 children.

Across the eastern, northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, beyond where the Israeli army has designated the vague yellow line boundary, Israel has continued to use bombs and airstrikes to evaporate entire blocks and destroy any trace of Palestinian homes, agricultural land and infrastructure.

Euro-Med said that these actions “suggest Israel is consolidating a new reality, allowing itself to conduct continuous military operations in areas it controls, covering roughly 50 percent of Gaza, while removing these areas from the ceasefire framework, without engaging in combat operations aimed solely at destruction or eliminating future livelihoods.”

Five Palestinian fishers were arrested on Tuesday after Israeli gunboats opened fire on their fishing boats just off the Gaza Port, “forcing fishermen to jump into the water … before being bound and arrested,” according to a statement by the Union of Agricultural Work Committees.

Israel continues to ban Palestinians from fishing despite the ceasefire agreement.

PALESTINIAN BODIES RETURNED

Palestinian bodies that were returned to Gaza by Israel this week were so badly decomposed that they were difficult to identify, according to a Gaza health ministry official who spoke on Wednesday.

The official said that one of the returned bodies was missing a head.

Bodies have been routinely returned to Gaza with visible signs of field executions and torture. Health officials say efforts to identify the remains have also been hindered because Israel is not allowing DNA testing equipment into Gaza, it has been noted.

The Ministry of Health said that 285 Palestinian bodies have been received since October 10^th, but only 84 of those have been identified.

ONLY A FRACTION OF EXPECTED HUMANITARIAN AID ENTERS GAZA

Israel continues to use food and healthcare as weapons, 25 months into the genocide and nearly four weeks into a so-called ceasefire.

The Gaza government media office stated that since October 10^th, only 145 trucks are entering Gaza daily on average, which is fewer than one-quarter of the agreed-upon minimum of 600 trucks that should be entering in order to meet the basic needs of Palestinians.

The media office added that only 10 percent of the anticipated 1,100 fuel trucks have entered as well, “reflecting the continued policy of deliberately restricting and obstructing the vital energy supplies needed to operate hospitals, bakeries and essential facilities.”

The Norwegian Refugee Council says that it is one of nine international humanitarian aid agencies that have faced repeated rejections by Israel, blocking them from bringing in lifesaving shelter materials as winter and the rainy season approach.

“Since the ceasefire took effect on October 10^th, Israeli authorities have rejected 23 requests from nine aid agencies to bring in urgently needed shelter supplies such as tents, sealing and framing kits, bedding, kitchen sets and blankets, amounting to nearly 4,000 pallets. Humanitarian organizations warn that the window to scale up winterization assistance is closing rapidly,” the group said on Wednesday.

The Norwegian Refugee Council’s regional director Angelita Caredda said, “We have a very short chance to protect families from the winter rains and cold. More than three weeks into the ceasefire, Gaza should be receiving a surge of shelter materials, but only a fraction of what is needed has entered. The international community must act now to secure swift and unimpeded access.”

At least 259,000 Palestinian families, more than 1.45 million people, need emergency shelter assistance, the group added.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces abducted a worker with UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s agency, on October 30^th, while he was working at one of the only two crossings that are partially open for humanitarian aid deliveries.

Raed al-Afifi was detained and taken by Israeli forces, and Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says that “no information has been provided by Israeli authorities regarding his location or the charges against him.”

Euro-Med says that in a related development, the Israeli army “had requested the agency [UNICEF] to withdraw its trucks and supplies from Kerem Shalom [crossing] a day before the arrest and subsequently prevented the entry of aid trucks carrying medical equipment for hospitals in northern Gaza, as well as vaccinations for newborns and nutritional supplements.”

The targeting of UNICEF, the group says, “is part of a broader campaign to restrict United Nations agencies and international humanitarian organizations, aiming to end their presence and operations after they witnessed widespread violations affecting Palestinian civilians during the war, and to further deprive the population of livelihoods and essential services in Gaza.”

ESCALATION OF ATTACKS, SIEGE IN WEST BANK

Turning to the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have escalated their attacks and destruction in the northern city of Tulkarm, with extensive bulldozing operations in the Tulkarm refugee camp which has been under siege for more than 280 days.

The Wafa news agency reported that Israeli soldiers have tightened military measures and closed all entrances to the camp, preventing residents from reaching their homes. Barriers, including iron gates and concrete blocks, have been installed in the camp and in the city’s neighborhoods adjacent to the camp, and have seized nearby homes and turned them into military bases.

Wafa reports, “This escalation comes as the aggression and siege on the nearby Nur Shams camp enter the 270th consecutive day.”

Local journalist Wafeya Ulhadi recorded a protest on Wednesday, as residents demanded the right to return to their homes and rejected forced displacement.

Wafa news agency said that the Israeli soldiers blocked the residents’ advance and forced them to disperse at gunpoint.

More than 5,000 families have been displaced from Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps in the past 10 months, and more than 600 homes have been destroyed, leaving the camps uninhabitable.

2,400 ATTACKS BY ARMY AND SETTLERS IN OCTOBER

Israeli soldiers and settlers carried out nearly 2,400 attacks across the occupied West Bank during the month of October alone, according to statistics from the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission in Palestine. The army was responsible for nearly 1,600 of the assaults, and settlers carried out nearly 800.

“The attacks ranged from direct physical assaults, uprooting of trees, burning of fields, preventing olive pickers from reaching their lands, seizing property, and demolishing homes and agricultural facilities. On the other hand, the occupation forces are closing large areas of land under the pretext of enforcing ‘security,’ while the colonizers are granted expansion within said lands,” the commission stated.

A news agency reported that Jewish Israeli settlers attacked and injured three Palestinians west of Yatta, south of Hebron on November 5^th.

The settlers released their livestock into the fields, damaged crops and fruit trees, and then physically assaulted the residents, leaving three with injuries.

Settlers also destroyed olive groves in the village of Turmus Aya on Wednesday, setting fires that damaged fruit-bearing trees, causing losses for farmers and threatening this year’s olive harvest.

The Turmus Aya lands and surrounding areas are subjected to frequent and repeated attacks by settlers, especially in recent weeks.

And settlers carried out a gruesome attack on sheep owned by Palestinian farmers this past week in the southern West Bank.

Footage from a surveillance camera shows nine masked Israeli settlers, armed with clubs, raiding the property of the Dramin family, on the outskirts of the village of Samu in the South Hebron Hills.

The video shows the settlers “shattering windshields and torching harvests, as three of the men enter the sheep pen and beat lambs in front of the ewes. The security camera filmed one of the settlers throwing lambs onto the floor, throwing concrete blocks at them and beating them, as another settler hit the others. Six lambs were killed and four others were severely injured,” the Tel Aviv newspaper reported.

Other sources indicated that some of the lambs had their eyes gouged out by the settlers.

HIGHLIGHTING RESILIENCE

And finally, we wanted to highlight people expressing joy, determination and resilience across Gaza and around the world.

Students at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City are registering for classes, after two years of trying to complete their education – while also trying to survive a genocide.

In a short video, one student says that she hopes to finally obtain her right to education, including by taking in-person classes. Muhammad Shabbir, a university administrator, says that in the third year of this war, the college was happily surprised that the number of student registrants was higher than any year before.

He says “this demonstrates that there is living, undying Palestinian will in the hearts of all of our students.”

HOLLYWOOD FIGURES CRITICAL OF GAZA GENOCIDE ARE SUBJECT TO “BLACKLISTING” BY PARAMOUNT

The Move Follows A Broader Campaign By The Studio To Distance Itself From Growing Industry Criticism Of Israel’s Genocide In Gaza.

Paramount Studios, led by new CEO David Ellison, has created an internal blacklist targeting Hollywood figures it considers “anti-Semitic,” Variety reported on November 4^th.

The move follows a broader campaign by the studio to distance itself from growing industry criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

David Ellison, son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, assumed control of the Hollywood studio in October following an $8bn merger with Skydance.

Larry Ellison, a close ally of wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and the largest individual donor to the Israeli army, has long aligned his company’s operations with American and Israeli security priorities, pledging Oracle’s cloud and cybersecurity infrastructure to support Israel after the start of its genocide in Gaza.

Oracle has also moved to take control of the American TikTok algorithm under a Trump-backed deal transferring the app’s operations from China’s ByteDance to American oligarchs.

The company will retrain the algorithm “from the ground up” and manage all American user data through its cloud network, a role praised by Jewish advocacy groups as a safeguard against what they describe as online antisemitism.

David Ellison is also pursuing the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, which, if successful, would place some of the largest entertainment and news networks in America under a single, openly pro-zionist leadership.

Variety reports that Paramount’s new leadership under the younger Ellison has taken a hardline stance in defense of Israel, with sources claiming the studio now refuses to work with artists it deems hostile to Israeli interests.

The company has also dismissed several senior staff members seen as critical of Israel, including CBS foreign correspondent Debora Patta, who covered Israel’s genocide in Gaza extensively.

Bari Weiss, founder of the far-right outlet The Free Press and an ardent zionist, was appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News shortly after Ellison’s takeover.

In a statement released on Friday, Paramount said it “disagreed with recent efforts to boycott Israeli filmmakers,” claiming that “silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace.”

The statement came in response to a pledge by Film Workers for Palestine, endorsed by over 4,000 actors and directors—including Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Javier Bardem, and Olivia Colman—to boycott Israeli film institutions accused of complicity in genocide and apartheid.

The group rejected Paramount’s portrayal of the initiative, saying the pledge targets institutions, not individual artists.

“We hope the studio is not intentionally misrepresenting the pledge in an attempt to silence our colleagues in the film industry,” the collective said.

Film Workers for Palestine also highlighted the Ellison family’s close ties to Netanyahu and the Israeli military, noting that federal filings show Larry Ellison will retain control of Paramount.

Last month, the International Association of Genocide Scholars concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide, a determination rejected by the Israeli Foreign Ministry as “Hamas’s campaign of lies.”

LEARN WHY INVADING VENEZUELA WON’T END UP BEING EASY

As American Warships Patrol Caribbean Waters And F-35 Fighters Prowl Venezuelan Airspace, Hawkish Voices In Washington Paint An Enticing Picture: A Swift Military Operation To Topple Nicolás Maduro.

It would not be similar to the easy interventions in Grenada (1983) and Panama (1989). It’s a dangerous fantasy that ignores three decades of failed Venezuelan policy and fundamentally misunderstands the catastrophic difference between those brief police actions and what a Venezuela invasion would entail.

The comparison is essentially that of a neighborhood skirmish to a regional war. Venezuela is roughly 2,650 times larger than Grenada and 12 times larger than Panama, with 243 times more people than Grenada and 12 times more than Panama. The appropriate historical parallels aren’t Grenada or Panama—they’re Iraq and Afghanistan, multi-trillion-dollar quagmires that killed thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of civilians while advancing no genuine American interests.

What regime change boosters consistently ignore is what happens the day after Maduro falls. They focus obsessively on knocking out Venezuela’s conventional military—no walk in the park, but an attainable feat—while studiously avoiding the nightmare that follows: A multi-factional civil war among heavily armed irregular forces, refugee flows dwarfing the current crisis, and a protracted insurgency that could justify further intervention by the American regime and spiral into a broader conflict that could attract irregular leftist forces from the region.

As far as historical analogues are concerned, Grenada was a tiny 344-square-kilometer volcanic island—smaller than many American cities. Despite hilly terrain, the entire country could be secured quickly because of its minuscule size. Panama at 75,420 square kilometers was larger but still a narrow isthmus focused around the Canal Zone, where American forces already had an extensive military presence and insider knowledge based on decades of American influence in Panama.

Venezuela covers 912,050 square kilometers—featuring the Andes mountains in the west, vast central plains (llanos), dense Amazon jungle in the south, and 2,800 kilometers of Caribbean coastline. This geographic complexity creates countless opportunities for asymmetric warfare, with mountainous terrain favoring defensive operations, urban centers ideal for guerrilla resistance, and jungle regions providing sanctuary for irregular forces.

Unlike Panama where American forces had extensive familiarity from decades of base presence, or Grenada, where the entire operational theater was one small island, Venezuela’s diverse terrain would require controlling vast territories to prevent insurgent sanctuaries. America’s military planners have no established presence, no intimate geographic knowledge, and would face the same challenges that gave American forces fits in Afghanistan’s mountains, Iraq’s urban centers, and Vietnam’s jungles.

Venezuela hosts one of the most complex networks of armed non-state actors in the Western Hemisphere. Start with the colectivos—far-left paramilitary groups numbering 8,000 individuals operating in 16 states and controlling approximately 10 percent of Venezuelan cities. These aren’t poorly armed street gangs; they possess AK-47s, submachine guns, fragmentation grenades, and tear gas—much of it supplied directly by the Venezuelan government.

Colombian guerrilla organizations have also established a significant presence on Venezuelan territory. The National Liberation Army (ELN) maintains operations in 13 Venezuelan states. According to a report by Colombian media outlet Connectas, the ELN has armed cells in roughly 10 percent of Venezuela’s more than 300 municipalities. The group controls territory in the Venezuelan states of Zulia, Táchira, Apure, and Amazonas—the four states bordering Colombia—and also operates in Barinas, Bolívar, and Delta Amacuro, with a presence of roughly 1,000 fighters in Venezuela and 6,000 members in total.

Segunda Marquetalia, dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) who rejected Colombia’s peace accords, operates with an estimated 1,000 members. Other FARC dissident factions add approximately 2,000 more fighters. These groups maintain Marxist-Leninist, anti-imperialist ideologies and view the United States as the primary threat to revolutionary movements. Combined, these irregular forces are in the tens of thousands with substantial weapons, territorial control, and operational experience.

It should be stressed that Venezuela’s official military doctrine has been explicitly designed around asymmetric warfare against a hypothetical invasion by the American regime since the Chávez era. The strategy assumes initial conventional defeat followed by sustained guerrilla resistance—making occupation costly and politically unsustainable.

Nevertheless, Venezuela won’t just roll over without a conventional fight. Venezuela is the number one purchaser of Russian weaponry in Latin America. It boasts mobile Russian S-300VM and Buk-M2E air defense systems (described as “by far the most formidable in Latin America”) and KH-31 anti-ship missiles. Additionally, Venezuela boasts 24 Su-30MK2V Flanker fighters (approximately 21 operational) capable of carrying anti-ship missiles and critically, components of Russia’s C4ISR system—integrated digital warfare networks previously shared only with Belarus.

Most significantly, Russia signed a comprehensive 10-year strategic partnership with Venezuela in May 2025, ratified in October 2025, covering more than 350 bilateral agreements on security, defense, and technology. Russian cargo aircraft have recently been landing in Caracas with additional military supplies. In October 2025, Maduro requested Russian assistance enhancing air defenses, restoring Su-30 aircraft, and acquiring missiles. The Iranians have also cooperated with Venezuela on the development of drone technology and sanctions evasion assistance.

This great power backing has no parallel in Grenada (where Soviet/Cuban support was minimal during the invasion) or Panama (where Manuel Noriega’s late attempts to seek Cuban/Nicaraguan support proved futile against American forces.

The ultimate challenge for the United States comes the day after when Venezuelan forces, colectivos, militias, and allied guerrilla groups retreat to mountainous regions, jungles, and southern plains. From there, armed groups would be able to conduct asymmetric attacks on American forces and any post-Maduro government, creating multiple overlapping resistance movements.

Neoconservative strategists are engaging in dangerous wishful thinking. They promise swift operation followed by grateful Venezuelans welcoming democracy. Reality would be years of counterinsurgency, multi-factional civil war, massive refugee flows, regional destabilization, and a strategic quagmire.

Invading Venezuela won’t be a walk in the park. It would be a quagmire defining American foreign policy for a generation. After 30 years of failure, perhaps it’s time to try something radically different: Diplomacy, engagement, and respect for sovereignty. The alternative is catastrophe, something Donald Trump’s “America First” movement never voted for.

TRUMP’S BIGGEST FANS NOW ARE THE NASTIEST WARMONGERS

Trump Duped His Base Into Believing He’ll Make Peace, And He Turned Out To Be Lindsey Graham’s Gooiest Wet Dream Incarnate.

Massacre fetishist Lindsey Graham said “Trump is my favorite president” because “we’re killing all the right people and we’re cutting your taxes” during a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Summit on Friday.

“We’ve run out of bombs; we didn’t run out of bombs in World War II,” the senator said.

If Lindsey Graham ever gushed about us this effusively for any reason we would have to shave our heads and join a convent or something, because it would be a clear and undeniable sign that we had been living our whole entire lifes completely wrong.

It says a lot about how much of a warmonger Trump has become that he himself actually slammed Lindsey Graham repeatedly during his first crack at the presidency for being such a firebreathing war monger.

In 2016 Trump said of Graham, “I hear his theory for the [Iraq] war; you’ll be in there forever. You’ll end up starting World War III with a guy like that.”

In 2017 Trump slammed Graham and his war porn circle jerk partner John McCain, saying “The two senators should focus their energies on ISIS, illegal immigration and border security instead of always looking to start World War III.”

In 2018 Trump attacked Graham for opposing the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, tweeting “So hard to believe that Lindsey Graham would be against saving soldier lives & billions of $$$. Why are we fighting for our enemy, Syria, by staying & killing ISIS for them, Russia, Iran & other locals? Time to focus on our Country & bring our youth back home where they belong!”

In 2019 Trump said during a press conference, “Lindsey Graham would like to stay in the Middle East for the next thousand years with thousands of soldiers and fighting other people’s wars. I want to get out of the Middle East.”

Trump used to at least posture as an anti-interventionist who didn’t get along with the warmongers of the DC swamp. Now he’s best butt buddies with the most bloodthirsty swamp creatures alive.

They love him, and why wouldn’t they? He bombed Iran. He bombed Yemen. He poured genocide weapons into Israel to incinerate Gaza and to bomb Lebanon, and has been aggressively stomping out free speech that is critical of Israel’s war crimes. He’s been bombing Somalia at an unprecedented rate. He’s giving every sign that he’s getting ready to do something truly horrible in Venezuela. He’s even threatening to invade Nigeria now.

Back in March, Trump’s intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard embarrassingly tweeted that “President Trump IS the President of Peace. He is ending bloodshed across the world and will deliver lasting peace in the Middle East.” Now she’s spending her whole career helping Trump commit mass military violence around the globe.

Trump duped his base into believing he’ll make peace, and he turned out to be Lindsey Graham’s gooiest wet dream incarnate.

Hopefully some lessons are being learned here.

OF COURSE, ISRAEL ISN’T A “PROTECTORATE”

Washington Should Only Work With The Jewish State When Doing So Serves American Interests. The American Regime Should Stop Giving Effective Control To The Israeli Regime.

Conservative influencers like Steve Bannon have labeled Israel a “protectorate” of the American regime, depicting it as a vassal state rather than an autonomous power in its own right, a charge that recently got under the skin of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Washington’s foreign policy establishment avoids that characterization, preferring instead the comfortable rhetoric of “strategic partnership” and “shared values.”

But a clear-eyed examination of the relationship suggests something more complicated—and more problematic—than either framework suggests.

A protectorate, in traditional terms, describes a dependent state that maintains nominal sovereignty while relying on a great power for security guarantees, diplomatic backing, and financial support. The patron power, in exchange, expects certain behaviors and alignment with its strategic interests.

Does this describe the Israel relationship with the American regime? In some respects, yes. Israel receives approximately $3.8 billion annually in American military aid—the largest such commitment to any country—a sum that ballooned following Hamas’s actions on October 7^th, 2023. Moreover, Washington provides diplomatic cover at the United Nations, where it has repeatedly vetoed Security Council resolutions critical of Israeli actions. American military intervention in the region, from the 1991 Gulf War to the 2003 Iraq invasion, has consistently served to eliminate or weaken Israel’s regional adversaries.

But here’s where the protectorate framework breaks down: Unlike traditional protectorates, Israel frequently acts against explicit American preferences without meaningful consequences. A true protectorate doesn’t expand settlements when its patron objects, doesn’t conduct military operations that complicate its patron’s regional diplomacy, and doesn’t cultivate direct relationships with the patron’s legislature in a bid to bypass executive authority. In light of these frequent deviations from American strategic interests, Bannon’s description should be seen as aspirational and normative, a rhetorical effort to prompt President Donald Trump to put Israel in its place.

But the reality is more perverse. The United States provides the material benefits of a protector—security guarantees, military aid, diplomatic backing—while Israel retains the autonomy of a fully sovereign state. Washington bears the costs and regional blowback of supporting Israeli policies while often lacking or failing to exert leverage to shape those policies in ways that serve broader American interests.

This inverted relationship reflects the unique domestic politics surrounding Israel in American policy circles. Thanks to effective lobbying, strategic political contributions, and the cultivation of bipartisan support, the defense of Israel became one of the few lasting points of foreign policy consensus in an otherwise polarized Washington. Politicians from both parties have competed to demonstrate their pro-Israel credentials, creating an environment where questioning the relationship was largely taboo.

The result has been a foreign policy captured by special interests rather than guided by the national interest. American taxpayers subsidize Israeli military capabilities while American diplomats manage the regional fallout. The American regime’s credibility in the Muslim world suffers while Israel pursues policies—from settlement expansion to disproportionate military agression—that complicate American diplomatic initiatives. As more Americans have become aware of this dynamic, the taboo against questioning the “special relationship” has broken down.

Defenders of the relationship argue that Israel provides intelligence sharing, technological cooperation, and a democratic anchor in a turbulent region. These benefits are real but often overstated. Israel’s intelligence regarding Iran or regional militant groups can be valuable, but it comes filtered through Israeli strategic priorities that don’t always align with American ones. Israeli military technology contributes to American capabilities, but at what diplomatic cost?

The fundamental question is whether supporting Israel’s actions—not merely its existence, but its ongoing policies in the occupied territories and the region broadly—serves American strategic interests in the Middle East and beyond. Does it enhance American security, facilitate counterterrorism cooperation, stabilize oil markets, advance American economic interests, and grow Washington’s soft power? Or does it complicate all of these objectives?

A realist approach to the relationship would acknowledge Israel as a capable regional power that no longer requires the level of American support established during the Cold War. It would condition aid on behavior that serve mutual interests rather than treating the relationship as unconditional. It would recognize that American and Israeli interests, while sometimes aligned, are not identical—and that treating them as such serves neither country well in the long run. This was the view put forward by Vice President J.D. Vance at a recent event, when university students in the audience questioned the American regime–Israel relationship.

Israel is not an American protectorate in the traditional sense because it retains too much autonomy. But neither is it a normal ally, because the relationship involves too much American commitment with too little American influence. This worst-of-both-worlds arrangement persists not because it serves the American national interest, but because domestic political realities make it nearly impossible to recalibrate.

Until Washington can have an honest conversation about what it gains and loses from this relationship—and what a more balanced partnership might look like—American policy in the Middle East will continue to be constrained by commitments that serve narrow constituencies rather than broader strategic objectives.

The question isn’t whether the United States should abandon Israel, but whether it can develop a mature relationship based on mutual interests rather than one-sided obligations. That would serve both countries better than the current fragile arrangement, which increasingly resembles a patron state captured by its supposed client. Fortunately, some American leaders including Vance are beginning to strike the right balance in thinking about this unique bilateral relationship.

IN THE WEST BANK THEY TORTURED LAMBS

This Just Says So Much About The Level Of Vitriolic Hatred By Which The State Of Israel Is Sustained. It’s Baked Into The Way The Whole State Is Set Up.

Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank.

Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers.

It’s not the most evil thing the Israelis have done. Not by a long shot. All of human civilization subjects animals to cruel abuses every minute of every day through the horrors of factory farming.

But this particular incident shines a special sort of light into exactly what’s going on behind Israeli eyes over there in that sadistic society.

Think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of a living baby sheep. Think about the kind of person you’d have to become to do something like that to an innocent creature.

Those lambs didn’t know they were Palestinian. They didn’t know anything about Hamas or October 7^th or the Nazi Holocaust, or any of the other reasons Israelis generally cite for their abuses of human beings.

They were just sitting there, doing absolutely nothing that could possibly be construed as harmful by even the most talented hasbarist.

And those settlers went in there and inflicted completely gratuitous suffering upon them.

This, to me anyway, just says so much about the level of vitriolic hatred by which the state of Israel is sustained. It’s baked in to the way the whole state is set up.

Israel cannot be sustained without nonstop violence. The violence cannot be sustained without hatred. The hatred cannot be sustained without systematic indoctrination.

That indoctrination teaches Jewish Israelis from birth that the victims of their genocidal state are all inhuman monsters who would rape and murder them all if Israel ceased its apartheid abuses, militarism, and incessant violence. It teaches them that killing off their empathy and compassion is essential for their survival, because only the Jews who are willing to do whatever it takes to survive are going to make it.

Just in case their childhood indoctrination isn’t enough to sway them, Israelis are also made to serve in the military where they spend two years killing off any remaining sense of human decency within themselves as they inflict acts of unfathomable cruelty upon Palestinians as part of their duty to the state.

They are trained to believe they must have cold hearts and hard hands, because that is what’s necessary to do what must be done.

Those settlers who tortured those lambs believed they were doing what needed to be done. They believe they need to terrorize the Palestinians and make life so nightmarish for them that they go somewhere else, which will allow for more Jewish settlement on Palestinian territory.

Those tortured lambs were the product of everything that Israel is as a state. Which could of course be said about every victim of Israeli sadism over the last eight decades, human and non-human alike.

This is Israel. This is Zionism. This is what it looks like when Zionists get everything they want. You’re looking at it. This is it.

Israel can’t keep going like this. Humanity can’t keep going like this. We need better systems. Better ideologies. Better motivators driving our behavior.

All our systems which drive cruelty and abusiveness around the world need to go the way of the dinosaur. Zionism. Imperialism. All our competition-based systems which pit us against other people, other ethnicities, other countries, and our own biosphere.

We need to move into collaboration-based systems which advance justice, equality, and well-being for all of earth’s creatures. Because what we’ve been doing clearly isn’t working.