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THE WORLD HATES ISRAEL IT DOESN’T HATE JEWS

It’s Crazy That Two Years Into A Genocide And You Are Still Being Hammered By Propagandists Pretending To Believe That The World Has Just Spontaneously Started Hating Israel For No Reason.

“U.S. registers most outbreaks of global antisemitism in August,” reads a recent headline from Fox News.

“Report: Antisemitism Hits Post-Holocaust High,” blares a headline from Newsmax.

“Gen Z’s casual antisemitism is growing — seeded by influencers like Tucker Carlson,” says a headline from The New York Post.

During a recent “counter-terrorism” summit at Reichman University, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt complained that the entire world is becoming increasingly hateful toward Jews.

“This year, ADL’s Global 100 survey of antisemitic attitudes around the world found a 46 percent shift of the adult population — 2.2 billion people — harbor elevated levels of antisemitism,” Greenblatt said. “That’s nearly double the rate that we saw a decade ago. For the first time since we started tracking these attitudes in the 1960s, the younger generation is more likely to hold elevated anti-Jewish views than their parents or grandparents.”

They’re just talking about people who oppose Israel for perpetrating a live-streamed holocaust. People don’t hate Israel because it’s full of Jewish people, they hate Israel because of the things Israel does.

It is absolutely mind-boggling that to this day we’re seeing a hypermilitaristic apartheid ethnonationalist state starving and massacring civilians because of their ethnicity, bombing hospitals, assassinating journalists and medical professionals, murdering humanitarian workers, starting wars, invading neighboring countries, manipulating foreign governments, threatening activists, and actively working to crush free speech throughout the western world, all with the backing of the most powerful empire in history — and we’ve still got western institutions trying to convince us that people hate Israel because of religious prejudice.

This is the same genocidal apartheid state that has been terrorizing activists for trying to bring formula to starving babies.

The same genocidal apartheid state whose leader just appeared before the UN and announced that the victims of his genocide were being forced to listen to his speech because Israel had taken control of their phones.

The same genocidal apartheid state whose leader is publicly boasting about having seized control of TikTok in order to manipulate the things westerners are allowed to say to each other about Israeli atrocities.

The same genocidal apartheid state whose leader is reportedly going around bragging that he owns the president of the United States and can make the American regime do whatever he wants.

For two years we’ve been watching footage coming out of Gaza showing things being done to human anatomy that we hadn’t seen depicted in even the goriest horror movies ever produced by Hollywood. Stories about rape, torture, people being mauled to death by dogs. Suffering the likes of which we cannot even imagine over here in our sheltered little western homes.

And they’re still trying to tell us that our revulsion toward the state that is doing these things is the result of “antisemitism”.

If you were on the bus with a man who was constantly hurting the other passengers, abusing them, attacking them and degrading them, you would think that man is an asshole. It wouldn’t matter if he was wearing a Star of David, a cross, a turban or a keffiyeh; you should think he evil regardless.

If you looked out a window and saw people massacring children, you would probably think thoughts like “That’s horrible!” and “How can I stop this?”

The furthest thing from one’s mind would be thoughts like “What religion are they?” or “Their religion is very relevant to any discussions we might have about this massacre” or “We should definitely be very careful about discussing this massacre because we don’t want to offend people who have the same religion as the people doing the massacre.”

It would never occur to moste to consider such things, much less that such considerations should be central to all discourse about the massacre for years on end.

There’s a video going around showing anti-genocide protesters in South Korea throwing shoes at a large picture of Benjamin Netanyahu. These are people who’ve probably never met a Jew in their lives, for whom the Jewish faith has no cultural relevance whatsoever. They’ve probably spent close to zero time thinking about Jews and Judaism. They just hate Netanyahu because he’s perpetrating an active genocide.

The world doesn’t hate Jews, it hates Israel. The world hates Israel because Israel is a profoundly evil state whose profoundly evil actions are tormenting millions of people, and are having a direct effect on our own lives to a greater and greater extent as well.

Anyone who babbles about “antisemitism” in the year 2025 is just trying to shut you down and shut you up so you don’t oppose the most nakedly evil thing that is happening in your world today.

EVERYTHING BEFORE AND AFTER OCTOBER 7TH EXPLAINS WHY OCTOBER 7TH HAPPENED

Israel Supporters Don’t Want You Looking At What Happened Before October 7th , And They Don’t Want You Looking At Anything That’s Happened Since.

Look at what happened before October 7^th and you’ll see year after year of murder, oppression and abuse.

Look at everything that’s happened since October 7^th and you’ll understand the kind of sadistic, psychopathic regime the Palestinians have been living under this entire time.

Israel supporters don’t want you looking at what happened before October 7^th, and they don’t want you looking at anything that’s happened since. They just want you to pretend history began and ended with a bunch of Hitlerite savages attacking innocent Jews for no reason.

And they don’t even want you looking at the day of October 7^th too closely, either. Looking too closely at the events of that day bring up inconvenient questions about the Hannibal Directive and what percentage of the death toll was actually caused by the IDF firing on their own people. Inconvenient questions about the suspicious stock trading in the lead-up to the attack and the mountains upon mountains upon mountains of evidence that high-level Israeli officials allowed the attack to proceed undefended in order to advance the genocidal land grab we’re seeing advanced now.

They only want you looking at the parts of October 7^th that make Israel look like an innocent little lamb who was attacked completely out of the blue and had no choice but to reluctantly respond with military force.

Forget the scorched earth incineration of the Gaza Strip.

Forget the bombed-out hospitals and methodically dismantled healthcare system.

Forget the hundreds upon hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza who’ve been deliberately starved to death.

Forget the fact that every relevant human rights institution on earth has determined that Israel is committing genocide, and that zero comparable humanitarian institutions have said it isn’t.

Forget the fact that human rights experts had been describing Gaza as a giant concentration camp or open-air prison for years prior to October 7^th.

Forget the fact that Israel had been routinely murdering Palestinian children and other civilians in the months prior to the Hamas attack.

Don’t look at any of that stuff. Just look at the stuff that makes Israel look like the victim.

That’s the story, anyway. Luckily, fewer and fewer people are buying into it.

The longer this genocide goes on for, the more the world has come to view October 7 as Israel reaping what it had long been sowing.

THE INSURRECTION ACT COULD SOON BE INVOKED BY TRUMP

He Made Comments A Day After A Federal Judge Blocked The President From Sending National Guard Troops To Portland, Oregon.

President Donald Trump on Monday said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to deploy the military if federal courts prevented him from deploying the National Guard to protect federal buildings and conduct law enforcement operations.

The comments came a day after a federal judge blocked the president from sending National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

“You look at what’s happening with Portland over the years, it’s a burning hell hole,” Trump added. “And then you have a judge that lost her way that tries to pretend that there’s no problem.”

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a federal law that allows the president to nationally deploy the American military or federalize state National Guard troops to quell what the president deems an insurrection against the United States.

Earlier Monday, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said the administration had been contending with a “legal insurrection” and that rulings stifling the White House’s agenda amounted to “an insurrection against the laws and Constitution of the United States.”

“We need to have district courts in this country that see themselves as being under the laws and Constitution and not being able to take for themselves powers that are reserved solely for the president,” Miller added.

Trump has flirted with invoking the Insurrection Act before. During the 2024 campaign, he said he would use the law to suppress unrest. And at the end of his first term in office, some of his supporters urged him to invoke the law to try to hold onto power after his loss to former President Joe Biden.

You should understand that any sense of freedom in America will end soon for all.

THE AMERICAN REGIME COULD STILL END THE WAR IN UKRAINE

But Doing So Would Involve Recognizing America Helped Create And Sustain This Tragedy, And Should Reexamine NATO (And The CIA). But the Deep State Would Fly Into A Rage At Anyone Who Tried This.

Hundreds of physicians from around the world have gathered in Nagasaki, Japan, this week, to discuss our shared belief that we can and should abolish all nuclear weapons.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) has won a past Nobel Peace Prize for this sort of work. In particular, the scientific arguments of the world’s doctors about the species-level threat of a nuclear war made a profound impression on Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, and convinced those Cold War leaders to jointly declare that “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”

Many eyes here are on the situation in Ukraine, where, after nearly four years of war, the American regime continues to flirt with the unthinkable: a blundering escalation into the use of nuclear weapons.

This week, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the American regime will help Ukraine strike deep inside Russia with long-range missiles. President Donald Trump also just told a gathering of top American generals and admirals that this summer he ordered two nuclear-armed submarines “over to the coast of Russia, just to be careful.” The Trump White House is even considering arming Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles (which in theory can carry nuclear weapons).

It all sounds like the opposite of progress. Not so long ago, President Trump claimed that he could end the war quickly, as long as Ukraine recognized the war was over and agreed to let go of its long-lost territory. He now has changed his mind, and says he believes Ukraine could win it all back.

“Why not?” he said in one of his legendarily grammar-torturing social media posts:

“Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win … [Ukraine] has Great Spirit, and only getting better … In any event, I wish both Countries well. We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them. Good luck to all!”

So much of this is bizarre, not least Trump’s suggestion that NATO is something separate and autonomous from the American empire’s security state.

But the president is clearly frustrated. Probably he thought the Russians launched the war because they wanted land, and were only complaining about NATO as a cover story. Actually it’s the other way around: the Russians wanted NATO out, and occupied land as a means to that end.

Trump could move forward with a peace process, but to succeed, he’d have to face down a rage-filled American national security establishment. Remember how all of Washington pilloried President Joe Biden over the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan? Trump knows he would face at least as much bipartisan fury if he were to announce that Ukraine will never join NATO.

Yet such an announcement is exactly what peace will require. As the Russian government has made plain for years, and has reiterated in its officially published memoranda, all sides must agree that Ukraine will forever be a militarily neutral state. This is clearly non-negotiable for the Kremlin.

Russia will thus continue to fight the war until this goal is accomplished, or until so much of Ukraine gets annexed that it matters little what any Trump regime controlled state does.

Rather than accept peace on these terms — renouncing NATO expansion to Ukraine — our collective leaders have decided we’ll have more war. Is NATO expansion worth so much death and destruction? Is it worth continuing to risk a blunder into all-out nuclear war?

THE WAR WITH AFGHANISTAN SHOULD NOT BE STARTED OVER BY TRUMP

President Donald Trump Wants Back The Bagram Air Base. That Is Not Going To Happen Without Starting The War Over Again. There Is No Good Reason For Wanting To Take Over That Air Base.

No one ever accused President Donald Trump of being a systematic thinker. Were not the potential consequences so great, the obvious response to his demand on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to “return” Bagram air base would be uproarious laughter.

It’s been more than four years since the Biden administration withdrew American forces from the central Asian state. The departure, just a few weeks shy of the 20-year anniversary of the arrival of American forces, made Washington’s 1975 exit from Saigon look orderly. However, the American military’s retreat was long overdue and completed the accord negotiated by Trump during his first term. Some of the insurgents had been fighting since the Taliban first emerged in 1994, and even before, against Soviet occupiers. Demanding that the victors accept a permanent American military presence would have killed any agreement, turning Afghanistan into a truly forever war.

Since then, the people of Afghanistan have suffered under the Taliban’s oppressive, theocratic rule. However, for many the end of the war was still a relief. While Americans like to view themselves as liberators, many Afghans saw them as anything but that. Explained interpreter Baktash Ahadi:

“Virtually the only contact most Afghans had with the West came via heavily armed and armored combat troops. Americans thus mistook the Afghan countryside for a mere theater of war, rather than as a place where people actually lived. U.S. forces turned villages into battlegrounds, pulverizing mud homes and destroying livelihoods.”

Unsurprisingly, Ahadi continued, “any sympathy for the West evaporated in bursts of gunfire.” Compared to the distant, corrupt, and incompetent Kabul government and its American ally, the Taliban became the lesser of two evils.

Even critics of the latter welcomed peace. After visiting the country shortly after the insurgents’ victory, journalist Anand Gopal observed that “the biggest thing I noticed on the ground is just how tired people were of fighting.” Most Americans had no idea. Added Gopal:

“The first thing people say when I call them these days is, “Thank God everything’s peaceful.” They’re not even thinking about the kinds of things we think of, like, “Who’s going to be in the government? Are the Taliban going to be sharing power? What’s the role of women?” Right now, the people I’m talking to, men and women, the thing they say is, “Well, thank God it’s just peaceful”.”

Although the American regime quickly defeated the Taliban militarily, the Bush administration arrogantly demanded total victory, refusing to negotiate the group’s formal capitulation, and opposition gradually returned. Then, as America’s position deteriorated, military and political officials alike hid the facts from the public, policymakers, and perhaps even themselves. The Washington Post’s Craig Whitlock wrote a devastating critique of the war, detailing how “senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan …, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.” Although Trump failed to override military opposition to a withdrawal, he appeared to understand the impossibility of victory and eventually negotiated to end the war, though he left the pull-out to his successor.

But now he wants an American military restoration.

Peaceful engagement with Afghanistan makes sense. Toward that end the new administration apparently has met with the Taliban, which announced that the governments discussed “bilateral relations between the two countries, issues related to citizens, and investment opportunities in Afghanistan.” Continuing to treat Kabul as an enemy achieves nothing. The Taliban has triumphed and is now looking for partners, including China and Russia. Engagement is more likely than isolation to encourage the Taliban to moderate its rule.

Alas, Trump is making military demands that treat Afghanistan like a captive satrapy. But the Taliban, which defeated the American regime, has no reason to grant Washington any favors. The latter does not recognize the Afghan government, sanctions the nation’s leadership, and continues to freeze central bank assets, which affects private Afghans as well as their rulers. America’s forces had barely made it home before Washington’s War Party, led by the ever-belligerent Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and then-Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), more recently Trump’s discredited national security adviser turned United Nations ambassador, were campaigning to restart the war. Regime opponents have lobbied Congress to support a new armed opposition, though so far without much success. Why would Kabul invite Americans still acting like an enemy, to return with guns potentially blazing?

LEARN WHY THE TRUMP-NETANYAHU “PEACE PLAN” IS A TRAP

The Trump-Netanyahu Proposal Lacks A Clear Timeline Or Method To Enforce Israeli Compliance. But If Hamas Accepts, It Could Plunge The Palestinian Cause Into Deep Uncertainty.

If Hamas rejects the plan, the American regime says Israel can “finish the job” in Gaza.

The formula Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu presented for the plan to end the war in Gaza is riddled with red flags. With the Israeli Prime Minister to his side, the American President explained that his plan would include the release of all Israeli captives in Gaza, dead or alive, within the first 72 hours of the deal, while Israel would release 250 Palestinians from Israeli jails, and humanitarian aid would flow into the Strip.

That’s about the only part of the proposal that’s clear. Nothing else in the “20-point plan” has a clear timeframe or mechanism of implementation.

The plan includes a “gradual” withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, leaving up to 70% of its surface under Israeli control. International and Arab forces would take over running Gaza, which would be “demilitarized,” and the “military capabilities” of Palestinian resistance factions would be destroyed. At least nominally, Palestinians would not be forcibly removed from Gaza en masse. An independent, apolitical commission would run Palestinians’ everyday lives and also run Gaza’s reconstruction.

The commission itself would be under the supervision of a “board of peace” headed by Trump himself. It would also include Palestinian and international members. Leaks that preceded the official announcement of the plan said that one of the names on the board would be former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who reportedly participated in the drafting of the plan.

Hamas and the other Palestinian resistance factions would disarm, and those of its members who are willing to leave would be given safe passage to other countries. The factions would also be excluded from any participation in running Gaza, directly or indirectly. Most importantly, the Palestinian Authority would take no part in the administration of the Strip until it undergoes a series of “reforms.” Trump also said that Netanyahu does not accept a Palestinian state, and that Trump “understands that.”

Netanyahu, a staunch rejectionist of any end to the war that doesn’t result in unconditional surrender and total Israeli control over Gaza, announced his acceptance of the plan with visible satisfaction, adding that Trump was “the best friend” Israel has ever had.

And why wouldn’t he? The announced terms echo Netanyahu’s main conditions for ending the war — Hamas has to release the captives and disarm, a civil authority will run the strip, and Israel maintains ultimate control. The plan even appeases the right-wing Israeli demand to exclude any Palestinian political force from running the Strip, closing the door to Palestinian statehood. Yet Trump claims that the plan is meant to forever “end the conflict” in the Middle East.

On top of that, the plan’s lack of clear implementation mechanisms or time frames for anything except the release of Israeli captives brings to mind previous attempts to end the war in Gaza that Netanyahu systematically sabotaged, as recently admitted by former State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller. In January, Israel reached a ceasefire in Gaza that secured the release of most of the captives held by Hamas, including all civilian captives. Netanyahu continued to delay sending a negotiating team to Qatar or Egypt to initiate the second phase of negotiations aimed at definitively ending the war. Then, on March 18^th, Israel broke the ceasefire and resumed the bombing of Gaza.

HAMAS’S DILEMMA

The critical element in the plan is the endorsement from the Arab and Muslim countries, which Trump claimed to have secured. Leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Turkey had met with Trump days before the plan was announced, and one of the conditions they had was for a diplomatic path to remain open for negotiating the establishment of a Palestinian state. Leaks from the meeting also said that Arab and Muslim countries would not only send forces to Gaza, but would also fund its reconstruction.

Between then and Trump’s announcement, there were several other meetings involving Netanyahu, Trump, America’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Israeli strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer. Israeli settler movements also sent a delegation to Washington to deliver their reservations regarding the plan to Netanyahu before his meeting with Trump.

On Tuesday, Qatar announced that it had handed Hamas the plan, and that the Arab countries were “in a state of consultation.” Late on Monday, the foreign ministers of Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Egypt released a joint statement that praised Trump’s “sincere efforts” to end the war in Gaza, adding that their countries were ready to “put the final touches” on the plan. The Palestinian Authority joined in the praise of Trump’s “sincere efforts,” without commenting on the specifics.

Meanwhile, Israeli far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich rejected the plan, insisting that Netanyahu has no legitimacy to end the war without “absolute victory.” Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid offered Netanyahu a safety net in case his far-right allies withdraw from the cabinet, and captives’ families said in a statement that Trump’s plan was “the last chance” to return them home.

However, Trump’s plan doesn’t appear to be open to negotiations. On Tuesday, Trump told reporters at the White House that Hamas has three to four days to accept his plan. During his announcement on Monday, the Trump told Netanyahu directly that if Hamas refused the plan, he would back Israel “to finish the job.”

But the counterweight to Palestinian concerns and reservations over the plan is the reality of the ongoing devastation in Gaza, where the Israeli-induced famine has claimed the lives of over 420 Palestinians, mostly children, added to the more than 56,000 people killed by Israeli bombs.

If Hamas refuses the plan or presents reservations or amendments, both Israel and the American regime would use it to absolve Israel of any responsibility for the coming phase of Gaza’s genocide. If it accepts, it would be walking the entire Palestinian cause into a future of uncertainty.

LEARN HOW THE WORLD IS RESPONDING TO ISRAEL’S INTERCEPTION OF THE GAZA AID FLOTILLA

Italian Unions Call For General Strike As Global Protests Grow And Multiple Governments Criticise Israel. 44+ Countries Were Represented In The 500-Person Flotilla.

Israel has intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) while en route to Gaza, leading to swift criticism from global leaders as protesters gather in cities around the world, including Istanbul, Athens, Buenos Aires, Rome, Berlin, and Madrid, to condemn the raid.

At least 44 countries were represented in the 500-person flotilla, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, Malaysia, Turkiye and Colombia.

Reactions from world leaders have ranged from outright condemnation to calls for Israel to provide their detained citizens with access to consular services.

Here are some of the responses so far:

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said it “condemns Israel’s attack and aggression against the Global Sumud Flotilla” in a post on X. “The Global Sumud Flotilla has the right of free passage in international waters, and Israel must not interfere with its freedom of navigation, long recognised under international law”, it added.

TURKEY

Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Israel’s intervention “an act of terrorism” that violated international law and endangered the lives of innocent civilians.

The ministry said Israel’s actions also demonstrated that “the fascist and militarist policies pursued by the genocidal Netanyahu government — which has condemned Gaza to famine — are not limited to Palestinians”.

Later, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Israel was engaged in “banditry” for targeting the flotilla, adding: “Türkey supports all passengers of hope aboard the flotilla. We are taking measures to protect activists, our citizens aboard the flotilla.”

MALAYSIA

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim called for the immediate release of Malaysian citizens. In a statement on X, he said it would take “all lawful and legally grounded measures to hold Israel accountable”.

Israel was not only disregarding “the basic rights of the Palestinian people but has also trampled on the conscience of the global community”, he said.

SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the immediate release of the participants of the flotilla and confirmed that those detained include Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela.

The statement added: “South Africa calls on Israel to ensure that the life-saving cargo transported by this flotilla reaches the people of Gaza, as the flotilla represents solidarity with Gaza, not confrontation with Israel.”

COLOMBIA

President Gustavo Petro announced on X that his government was expelling Israeli diplomats and cancelling Colombia’s free trade agreement in light of Israel’s actions.

He said Colombia “must pursue all the appropriate demands, including through Israeli courts” to ensure the return of its citizens.

ITALY

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told local media Israel had assured him there would be “no violent actions” against the flotilla.

Italian unions separately called for a general strike on Friday to show their solidarity with the GSF and Gaza, following a strike in September by Unione Sindacale di Base and other protests at Italian ports.

The country’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said her government would “do everything we can to ensure these people can return to Italy as soon as possible” but criticised the flotilla and subsequent protests organized by Italy’s largest trade union in solidarity with the activists as bringing no benefit to the Palestinian people.

UNITED KINGDOM

The UK government has said that it is “very concerned” about Israel’s interception of the flotilla and added that it is in “touch with the families of a number of British nationals involved.”

“The aid carried by the flotilla should be turned over to humanitarian organizations on the ground to be delivered safely into Gaza.”

GERMANY

The foreign ministry spokesperson has called on Israel to “comply with their obligations under international law and to act with proportionality”. Berlin added: “We also called for the protection of all those on board to be guaranteed, to our knowledge, this has been done.”

SPAIN

Madrid released a statement on Wednesday demanding the “physical integrity and rights of Spanish citizens be respected” and said its consular teams were monitoring the situation from Nicosia and Jerusalem. Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, told reporters on the sidelines of the EU Summit that his government was extending diplomatic protection to all Spanish citizens aboard the flotilla.

GREECE

Greece issued a joint statement with Italy earlier this week, calling for Israel “to ensure the safety and security of the participants and to allow for all consular protection measures”.

IRELAND

Irish President Michael D Higgins said Israel was preventing essential aid from reaching Gaza. “The safety and protection of those involved in this humanitarian exercise is a concern for all of us and all of the nations from which the people come,” he said in a statement.

PAKISTAN

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has condemned what he called a “dastardly attack” by Israeli forces on the flotilla, saying that he was praying for the safe release of those detained. Sharif said: “This barbarity must end. Peace must be given a chance and humanitarian aid must reach those in need.”

BELGIUM

Belgium’s Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot urged the Israeli government to respect international law in a statement on X. He said his top priority was to ensure “the rights of our compatriots are respected, that their safety is guaranteed, and that they can return home as quickly as possible”.

FRANCE

The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs called on Israel to grant the French citizens participating in the flotilla access to consular services and “allow them to return to France without undue delay”.

The France Unbowed party, which had close to half a dozen of its parliamentarians participating, accused Israel of carrying out an act of “piracy against the Global Sumud Flotilla”. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the party’s leader, called France’s foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, an “incompetent fool”, accusing him of siding with Netanyahu. “He brings shame to our country,” he said on X.

UNITED STATES

Earlier this week, 20 Democratic legislators urged the White House to take action to protect the flotilla.

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), America’s largest Muslim advocacy group said Israel’s move on the flotilla show it would “kidnap humanitarian activists and engage in piracy in international waters”.

The organizations Deputy Executive Director, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, said: “Every nation that pays lip service to international law should condemn this illegal attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla and take their own steps to forcibly break the siege of Gaza.”

UNITED NATIONS

While the UN itself has not responded yet to the arrests of the activists, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, said the Israeli intervention against the flotilla highlighted the West’s inaction towards Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

“As I watch Israel’s illegal abduction of the only humans who have risked their lives to break Israel’s unlawful blockade, my thoughts are with the people of Gaza, trapped in Israel’s killing fields,” Albanese wrote on X.

“Shame on Western governments first and foremost, and their complicit inaction.”

NETANYAHU WILL PROBABLY SABOTAGE TRUMP’S GAZA PLAN

Peace For Palestine? Most Believe This Will Not Happen While Netanyahu’s In Charge. Indeed, Netanyahu Had Gotten To Work Undermining The Deal Before It Was Even Announced.

President Donald Trump sounded jubilant on Monday when he announced a plan to end the war in Gaza. “This is a big, big day, a beautiful day, potentially one of the great days ever in civilization,” Trump said before describing the proposal.

The 20-point peace plan calls for the release of hostages and prisoners, the disarmament of Hamas, the uninhibited delivery of aid into the Strip, the withdrawal of Israeli forces out of it, and the establishment of a technocratic and apolitical committee for governing Gaza, among other measures. Trump said the deal would resolve millennia-old problems and bring “eternal peace.”

“And I’m not just talking about Gaza,” the president added. “It’s called peace in the Middle East.”

But there’s a big problem, and he was standing next to Trump as the president spoke. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was in the White House for the fourth time since Trump’s inauguration in January—no other world leader has come more than twice—and it didn’t take long for him to start throwing up roadblocks to peace. Indeed, Netanyahu had gotten to work undermining the deal before it was even announced.

During the joint press conference with Netanyahu, Trump said that Arab and Muslim countries helped craft the deal, and he emphasized that only one relevant actor hasn’t yet accepted it: Hamas. But as Barak Ravid of Axios reported Tuesday, “The deal now before Hamas is significantly different than the one the U.S. and a group of Arab and Muslim countries had previously agreed on, due to Netanyahu’s intervention.” According to Ravid’s sources, the “significant changes requested” by Netanyahu had infuriated Arab officials involved in the peace process.

The edits pertain to two sensitive matters—the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the disarmament of Hamas—and were negotiated during a six-hour meeting attended by American Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, and Netanyahu himself.

The updated proposal “ties Israel’s withdrawal to the progress of disarming Hamas, and gives Israel a veto over the process,” Ravid writes. Moreover, even if the phased withdrawal envisioned by the proposal is completed, “Israeli forces will still remain within a security perimeter inside Gaza ‘until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat.’ That could mean indefinitely.”

Many critics of Israel interpreted comments that Netanyahu published on Monday as evidence that he has no intention of fully withdrawing forces. In a video statement recorded from Washington, the prime minister said, “Now the whole world, including the Arab and Muslim world, is pressuring Hamas to accept the terms that we created together with Trump, to bring back all the hostages—the living and the dead—while the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] stays in the Strip.”

Moreover, Netanyahu poured cold water on the idea of a Palestinian state, though the proposal calls for a “credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.” He assured the person behind the camera that Palestinian statehood is “not written in the agreement” and that the Israeli team had made clear that “we would strongly oppose a Palestinian state.”

Netanyahu has used his leverage to sabotage the American regime-led peace process many times before, often to the frustration of the White House. As Jonathan Lis of Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, reports:

“Since the war began, Netanyahu has repeatedly taken steps to disrupt talks and stall progress: Israel introduced “poison pills” – demands that could not be bridged and that blocked negotiations; and negotiation teams were given insufficient authority to compromise, slowing understandings with Hamas.

In addition, under Netanyahu’s direction, Israel violated clauses in an agreement already approved by both sides that had enabled a cease-fire earlier this year, leading to its collapse. Netanyahu could take similar steps again now.”

Lis’s report does provide one reason to think that Netanyahu could finally be ready for peace. Previously, Netanyahu had seen the continuation of the war as key to his political survival, but the calculus this time is less straightforward. “Israel is entering an election year,” Lis writes. “Running a campaign while hostages remain in captivity is expected to weigh heavily on Netanyahu, as a deal for their release enjoys broad support, including among Likud voters.”

Netanyahu would appear stuck between the majority of Israeli voters and an extremist faction of Jewish supremacists upon which his governing coalition depends. These ultra-nationalist ministers have opposed any peace deal and have proven adept at sabotaging diplomacy, as the Minister of National Security Itamer Ben-Gvir candidly bragged this January.

“Over the past year, through our political power, we have succeeded in preventing this deal from being implemented, time and again,” Ben-Gvir wrote on X. He called on other extremist ministers to oppose the deal then being considered: “The Prime Minister will refrain from signing the deal only if the force opposing it is strong enough to prevent him from doing so.”

With another deal proposed this week, Ben-Gvir, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Settlements Orit Stock, and other Jewish supremacist ministers are again lobbying against peace. And they may have the leverage to get what they want yet again. “If the Israeli government approves the plan, it could lead to the withdrawal of Smotrich’s Religious Zionism Party as well as Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Power Party from the coalition,” Israeli Arab politician Mtanes Shehadeh said. “This may also trigger early elections, potentially as soon as the beginning of 2026.”

So, will Netanyahu side with the Israeli voters or with the extremist ministers? Trump’s push for peace, Lis writes, may give Netanyahu political cover to end the war and get the hostages released—or it may not. “It now remains to be seen whether the pressure from the White House on Israel’s prime minister will outweigh the pressure already being applied by far-right Ministers Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and Orit Strock.”

There’s the rub. Trump reportedly played hardball to get the Israeli premier to endorse the new deal, threatening to end the American regime’s support for Israel if Netanyahu rejected it. But Netanyahu too has been known to play hardball, and he will find ways to sabotage the peace process unless Trump keeps up the pressure. Trump seems unlikely to do so. Indeed, on Monday Trump gave Netanyahu the greenlight to escalate the Gaza war if a deal falls through—and thus also an incentive to ensure it does:

“Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas. But I hope we’re going to have a deal for peace. If Hamas rejects the deal, which is always possible—they’re the only one left. Everyone else has accepted it. But I have a feeling that we’re going to have a positive answer. But if not, as you know, Bibi, you’d have our full backing to do what you would have to do.”

Many critics of Trump and Netanyahu are allowing themselves some optimism that Hamas will accept the new 20-point peace plan and that the brutal war in Gaza, now about to enter its third year, will soon finally end. A columnist predicts that Netanyahu, ever shrewd, won’t let that happen. For the sake of the beleaguered Gazans, we hope he is wrong. And Trump, for the sake of his own credibility, his Mideast policy, and his legacy, should hope so too.

ISRAEL KIDNAPPED A GAZA NURSE AFTER ABDUCTING HER FATHER WHO IS A DOCTOR

Tasneem Al-Hams Was Working In The So-Called ‘Safe Zone’ Of Al-Mawasi At A Medical Facility In Khan Younis, In Southern Gaza,When Israeli Forces Captured.

Israeli forces captured her while the driver of their ambulance was wounded in front of a Red Cross field hospital.

The Palestinian nurse faces the same fate as her father, who is the director of Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital and spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza.

On July 21^st, Marwan al-Hams, who also oversees field hospitals in the Gaza Strip, was on his way to visit the Red Cross facility in northern Rafah when undercover Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before abducting him.

The person killed was a local journalist who had been conducting an interview with the well-known doctor at the time of the attack.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza condemned Tasneem’s abduction.

“We consider this attack a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the protection of health workers,” it said.

“We hold the occupation fully responsible for her safety and demand that it reveal her fate. We also call on the international community to intervene urgently to stop these violations and protect health sector workers and their families.”

Several rights groups and medical organizations condemned the targeting and detention of Marwan al-Hams.

Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights in Gaza revealed that he is being held in Ashkelon prison. According to Alaa al-Skafi, the director of the organisation, the doctor was imprisoned after he was shot in the foot during his arrest.

Marwan al-Hams, like many Palestinian medical personnel captured by Israel, is denied legal representation, which Skafi says is a clear violation of legal and human rights.

The Israeli military has been accused of systematically dismantling Gaza’s healthcare system through repeated strikes on hospitals, medical personnel and ambulances during its 20-month-long assault on the strip.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, over 1,500 health workers have been killed and more than 360 detained since the war began.

In Israeli detention, Palestinians have reported widespread and severe mistreatment since October 7^th 2023, abuses that leading rights groups describe as systematic crimes.

Reports detail starvation, medical neglect, physical violence, humiliation, sexual assault, theft and unprecedented levels of mass solitary confinement

Healthcare professionals have been especially targeted in these prison systems, with one report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel describing their treatment as “human rights violations”.

THE FREAKS WHO RUN THE AMERICAN EMPIRE ARE THE REAL VIOLENT EXTREMISTS

The Hysteria Around Charlie Kirk’s Death Is Used To Whip Up A Panic About Violent Radical Leftists In Order To Justify Increased Authoritarian Measures To Stomp Out Political Dissent.

The real violent extremists are the oligarchs and imperialists who run the American empire from both mainstream parties.

Not Antifa. Not trans people. Not anti-genocide activists. Not protesters against ICE.

The extremists who are inflicting the real violence and abuse in our world are the ones committing genocide, starting wars, backing blockades, imposing starvation sanctions, arming proxy conflicts, circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, and flirting with nuclear armageddon.

Donald Trump is a violent extremist. Joe Biden is a violent extremist. Keir Starmer is a violent extremist. Benjamin Netanyahu is a violent extremist.

Oligarchs who knit themselves into the murderous imperial power structure like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Miriam Adelson and Larry Ellison are violent extremists.

The Democratic Party is a violent extremist organization. The Republican Party is a violent extremist organization.

War profiteers like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are violent extremist organizations.

Empire management firms which facilitate imperial violence and control like Palantir, Oracle and Starlink are violent extremist organizations.

There is no designated terrorist group foreign or domestic which can hold a candle to the death toll and human suffering that has been inflicted by the western empire.

It’s worth remembering this as the empire harnesses the emotional hysteria around Charlie Kirk’s death to whip up a moral panic about violent radical leftists in the United States in order to justify increased authoritarian measures to stomp out political dissent. The real violence is coming from the powerful manipulators who want you consenting to these measures. The call is coming from inside the house.

The American regime and its allies have killed millions of people in their wars of aggression since 9/11, and displaced tens of millions. Their cruel sanctions have killed tens of millions since 1970. Their policies of imperialist extraction force populations throughout the global south to live lives of endless poverty and toil. They are currently perpetrating a genocide in full view of the entire world.

These are the violent extremists. The only reason they are able to claim that some kid wearing a keffiyeh or a balaclava is a violent extremist while they themselves are not is because they control the narrative. The plutocrats who benefit from the imperial status quo own and control the media platforms and information systems which people use to learn about the world, and they use this narrative control to frame the imperial status quo as normal and any opposition to it as freakish extremism.

That’s the only reason a westerner who supports genocide, warmongering, militarism and imperialism gets to call themselves a “centrist” or a “moderate”. They live in an empire whose propagandists actively normalize imperial abuses while spinning any deviation from this violent madness as abnormalities on the radical political fringe.

But it’s a lie. Genocide is violent extremism. Mass murder is violent extremism. Siege warfare is violent extremism. Global tyranny is violent extremism.

Peace is moderate and normal. Justice is moderate and normal. Health is moderate and normal. Equality is moderate and normal. Equitable wealth and resource distribution is moderate and normal.

The genocidal, ecocidal, omnicidal nightmare we see before us in our world today is what it looks like when the violent extremists are in charge.