Hidden History -- In The Making

AN UNDEFENSIBLE CLAIM IS THAT “IT’S NOT A GENOCIDE”

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN Human Rights Experts, Israeli Human Rights Groups Like B’tselem, And The Overwhelming Majority Of Genocide Scholars All Agree It’s A Genocide.

The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has determined that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This is the world’s largest association of genocide scholars, with around 500 experts on the subject including many Holocaust scholars. The consensus was reached by an overwhelming supermajority of the experts — 86 percent, to be exact.

Everyone needs to understand that “there is no genocide in Gaza” is not a claim that can be taken seriously in the year 2025. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human rights experts, Israeli human rights groups like B’Tselem, and the overwhelming majority of genocide scholars all agree it’s a genocide. The debate is over. The hasbarists lost.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry is of course claiming that the IAGS assessment is “entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies.” That’s right folks, the genocide scholars are Hamas.

They’re just so unbelievably evil. Nobody who’s not a cartoon or CGI supervillain has any business being this evil. If you’re going to be this insanely evil you should be animated and cackling while twisting your curly mustache all the time.

Possibly the single dumbest thing we are asked to believe about Palestine is that every major human rights institution on earth is part of a secret antisemitic blood libel conspiracy. This genocide is one nonstop insult to our intelligence.

Israel is reportedly planning to cut off the small amount of aid it has been allowing in to northern Gaza. This comes after both UN-backed and American regime funded hunger monitor groups determined that Israel is causing a famine in Gaza, which was preceded by weeks of Israel furiously denying that it was starving Gaza, which was preceded by Israeli officials openly announcing that they intended to starve Gaza.

The western press have been dutifully parroting the American regime and Israeli government line that Trump’s plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza will be “voluntary” in their headlines.

“Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population,” reads a headline from The Washington Post.

“U.S.-run ‘Gaza Riviera’: Post-war redevelopment plan sees ‘voluntary relocation’ of millions,” says CNBC.

“Trump’s Gaza plan involves ‘voluntary’ relocation of Palestinians — and giving them $5,000 each,” says The Independent.

“Gaza post-war plan proposes ‘voluntary’ relocation, ‘tokens’ in exchange for land,” says France 24.

We’re going to be hearing this “voluntary” relocation slogan a lot going forward, and everyone should understand that it’s a lie. There is nothing “voluntary” about leaving an area that is being deliberately made uninhabitable by someone with power over you. It’s exactly the same as forcing people out at gunpoint.

It is propaganda and journalistic malpractice for the western media to be pushing this slogan.

There was a tweet from liberal influencer Steven Bonnell AKA Destiny saying “Palestine is just fashion for leftists.”

Bidenists say this all the time, and it reveals so much about their worldview. They cannot fathom the concept of someone opposing a genocide because genocide is bad; it can only be some kind of trendy fashion statement because it happens to be what’s popular right now.

These are people who are not motivated by morality, facts and logic, but solely by selfish and cynical impulses which they then project onto everyone else. They can’t imagine anyone doing something because it’s the right thing to do, so they have to make up some reason why there must be something in it for them in order for their actions to make sense.

But it is good that even through their own narcissistic, egocentric lens they are beginning to understand that supporting an active genocide has widely become viewed as unacceptable, and that abandoning that insane position is the only way to gain acceptance in mainstream society. Those who can’t be brought into line through appeal to compassion and reason can be brought into line through peer pressure and social stigma.

When you see the way pro-genocide Jews attack vocally anti-genocide Jews, you understand why there aren’t more vocally anti-genocide Jews. This isn’t to excuse anyone from their moral obligation to oppose an active genocide, only to point out one of the control mechanisms.

Zionists constantly try to convince Israeli American academic Shaiel Ben-Ephraim to start drinking again after he switched from defending the genocide to opposing it (he’s open about being a recovering alcoholic). We catch flak from Israel supporters 24/7, but I’ve never had to deal with that level of vitriolic, high-octane hatred. Non-Jews who oppose the Gaza holocaust just don’t have to deal with that degree of venom. And that’s just what’s visible online.

Again, this doesn’t excuse the moral obligation that Jews and non-Jews alike have to oppose Israel’s genocidal atrocities. This is just pointing out one of the many abusive dynamics used to maintain the status quo.

AN AMERICAN TEENAGER HAS BEEN STUCK IN AN ISRAELI JAIL FOR SIX MONTHS

The 16-Year-Old Was Detained By Israel Over Claims He Threw Rocks At A Car. He Has Since Lost Around A Quarter Of His Body Weight In Detention.

In the early hours of the morning on February 16^th , American citizen Zaher Ibrahim, his wife and two of his children were asleep in their home in the occupied West Bank.

They woke to loud banging and shouting outside. When Ibrahim opened the door, he found around 25 to 30 Israeli police officers outside.

They came in, handcuffed and blindfolded his 16-year-old son Mohammed, and took him to Moscovia detention centre in Jerusalem. After a few weeks, in mid-March, he was taken to Megiddo prison, and is now at the notorious Ofer prison, where he was moved to in mid-August.

Mohammad was in Palestine on holiday when he was detained. Ibrahim takes his children back regularly, sometimes twice a year, so that they can maintain a connection with their culture and ancestral lands.

Ibrahim has not physically seen or heard his son Mohammed’s voice since, except on a television screen in court.

Mohammed’s alleged crime is throwing rocks, something that the teenager has denied. Ibrahim says that in the court in Ofer he learned that some kids had thrown rocks at an Israeli car a few days before Mohammed was detained.

On the evening Mohammed was taken into detention, he had been with three friends who were aimlessly throwing rocks, and Mohammed’s lawyer believes this is why he was picked up.

Subsequently, the driver whose car was hit by a rock attended a hearing to identify the perpetrators but did not recognise Mohammed or his three friends, Ibrahim learned in court on Wednesday this week.

“WHERE’S YOUR AMERICA FIRST?”

Ibrahim said that the American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, came to visit him at his home in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli settlers killed Mohammed’s cousin Sayfollah Musallet in July.

“He [Mike] came and sat for an hour. And you know, we got a lot of words that he’s gonna do what he can do. Nothing was done,” Ibrahim said from Silwad, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Ibrahim has also been in touch with both his representatives – Republican Mike Haridopolos and Democrat Kathy Castor – back home in Melbourne, Florida where they maintain their family home. He said that Haridopolos had not been responsive in a while.

Ibrahim feels abandoned by the American government. He said America’s policy of “America First” may apply in other countries, but it did not seem to apply in Israel.

“I keep everything inside me. It’s very difficult. When you go to eat, you wonder if your son is even getting anything to eat” – Zaher Ibrahim, father of detained American teenager.

“You have a little kid in jail. Where’s your America First?”

The State Department, Castor and Haridopolos did not respond to a request for comment by this time.

Ibrahim and the rest of his family have been beside themselves with grief, grasping onto any news they can learn about their son’s well-being from their lawyer, American embassy staff and other detainees who have been released from the same detention center.

American embassy staff told Ibrahim that Mohammed had lost at least 25 pounds. He weighed around 100 pounds at the time he was detained.

He has heard reports that Mohammed gets one meal a day, sleeps on the floor and has a one-minute shower every few days. He also learned his son got scabies while in detention and has hurt his back sleeping on the floor.

“I keep everything inside me. It’s very difficult. When you go to eat, you wonder if your son is even getting anything to eat. When you go to sleep and you put your head on a pillow, you wonder if your son even has a pillow or a bed. You shower, and it’s the same thing.”

Ibrahim said two of his daughters, based in California, call every day to check for any news.

“Sometimes I didn’t tell them upsetting things. I told them he was eating well, so it didn’t affect their well-being”.

Ibrahim said that his other son, who lives in Florida, had come in July and had wanted to go to court, and had gone back home and told the rest of the family the full extent of what Mohammed was going through, which broke them.

“VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW”

Detention facilities for Palestinian detainees are notoriously bad, and human rights groups say conditions have deteriorated since October 7^th .

Miranda Cleland, advocacy officer for NGO Defence for Children International, said that Israeli forces had intensified their arrest operations throughout the occupied West Bank, placing more and more children in military detention, including many without charge or trial after October 7^th.

Cleland says that their lawyers are regularly blocked from visiting Palestinian child detainees, and if they are allowed into prisons, at times, they are only given a few minutes to speak to them.

“Children we have interviewed after their release have reported brutal torture, frequent beatings, rotten food, and complete isolation from the outside world. More and more, Israeli authorities are sealing off detainees,” Cleland said.

“Mohammad Ibrahim’s case has proven that not even an American passport can protect a Palestinian child in Israeli prisons.”

She said the Israel Prison Service had not yet released the monthly headcounts from the second quarter of 2025, and the latest data on the number of detainees they had was from March.

“Israeli forces want to torture and imprison Palestinian children in the dark, without witnesses, in complete violation of international law,” she added.

“Israel’s military detention system is illegitimate, does not hold up to international legal standards for due process, and every child detainee must be released urgently.”

Mohammed’s lawyer said extra pressure from the American embassy could help secure Mohammed’s release during his upcoming court date on Sunday. He could possibly be released on the condition that he not return to the occupied West Bank for at least a year.

BLACK HOODS CAN’T COVER THE ISRAELI ARMY’S WAR CRIMES IN GAZA

Israel Is Covering Its Face: Out Of Shame, Perhaps, Or Guilt, Or Fear, And Presumably Out Of All Three. The New Trend Is For Officers Being Interviewed To Cover Their Faces With Black Hoods.

Lt. Col. T., a battalion commander in the Reserve Corps, says the rate for reservists reporting for duty is “impressive”; Maj. S., a Reserve Corps deputy battalion commander, says: “I left a fearless wife alone at home with three children who have returned to their routines and a business that has been put on hold. Nevertheless, we understand that we are on an important mission.” Both interviewees wear black hoods. They look like two bank robbers preparing for a heist; only their eyes are visible. Military-issued hoods have replaced the burglars’ classic nylon stocking. Presumably there is someone, and something, that needs to be concealed.

The first, as always, were the air force pilots. In every interview they wore the impressive helmet as well as dark sunglasses, lest someone recognize them. At first, the fear was that if a pilot were to fall from a plane in the middle of the night, his captors would recognize him from the TV interview. Thanks to the helmet and dark glasses, he’ll be able to claim that he’s a desk sergeant, or that he’s opposed to payments in the military. But with the rise in crimes committed by the pilots in Gaza, the disguise took on an additional important purpose: to keep our boys with “the right stuff” from being identified in The Hague, where they know what the pilots are up to.

Members of the security details of the prime minister and of a few cabinet members have recently joined the charade of mystery, concealment and self-aggrandizement. They wear black surgical masks, adding another dimension to what was already a grotesque spectacle of dozens of bodyguards aggressively fawning over a single individual, with great seriousness. Now the bodyguards, and not only their protectees, are sensitive targets. Add the masked guards to the wailing sirens and the endless motorcades and they have a certified banana republic. The black medical masks are the cherry on top. If the bodyguards once seemed like their finest, in the black masks they, too, have become mafia enforcers. Maybe that’s the goal.

But the new military hoods and bodyguard costumes are not only a caricature of self-importance; they also reflect a broader reality. At least some reservist officers who are going into Gaza this week are doing so knowing that they are supposed to commit horrific war crimes. They report for duty nevertheless. The hood is supposed to make it easier for them. It says that they have something to hide and something to fear.

The armed robber who sets out on his biggest heist knows that what he is doing is illegal, immoral and dangerous; that’s why he wears a nylon stocking. It’s the same for the officers going into the Gaza Strip. Perhaps a few of them are ashamed of their actions. It’s highly doubtful – the robbers, likewise, are not ashamed; most are afraid of getting caught. The fear of The Hague has fallen upon the military, as it should.

Not that this terror is justified. The wheels of justice in The Hague turn unbearably slowly. By the time they determine if genocide is taking place in Gaza, no one will be left there. Nor will Benjamin Netanyahu be extradited, despite the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant. Still, the fact that the officers are wearing hoods suggests that there is an understanding within the military that something is not right and caution is needed. Not caution regarding actions, but rather caution so as not to be caught as a result of them.

An army that cloaks its officers in black hoods is an army that understands that they are committing crimes, even if it does not admit to any of them. Eventually, even the people watching the officers who disguise themselves may come to recognize this fact.

A POLL INDICATES A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT RECOGNITION OF PALESTINE

As The Genocide In Gaza Approaches Its Second Anniversary, Israel’s Image Among Its Closest Allies Continues To Degrade Very Rapidly For Good Reason.

The poll found that 58 percent of American citizens believe all UN member states should recognize Palestine as a nation, while 33 percent opposed the idea, and nine percent did not answer.

Reuters/Ipsos said the six-day survey, which closed on Monday, followed announcements by Canada, Britain, and France that they intend to formally recognize Palestine.

The same poll found that 65 percent of respondents believe the American regime should take action in Gaza to aid the people being subject to starvation by Israel, while 28 percent disagreed.

The survey also noted that 41 percent of those who opposed American intervention were Republicans aligned with President Donald Trump, who, together with many in his party, have pushed an “America First” approach favoring cuts to international food and medical aid.

Regarding Israel’s military actions, the poll reported that 59 percent of respondents describe Israel’s response in Gaza as excessive, compared with 33 percent who disagree, up from the previous year’s numbers, showing 53 percent calling it excessive and 42 percent disagreeing.

These results highlight a sharp decline in Israel’s standing among American citizens, a trend reflected across several other major polls.

A poll in April 2025 found that 53 percent now view Israel unfavorably, up from 42 percent in March 2022.

A Gallup poll in July reported that only 32 percent support Israel’s military action in Gaza, while 60 percent disapprove.

A Brookings survey showed that 45 percent of voters believe Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, compared with 31 percent who disagreed.

The findings across polls attribute a number of factors to this shift in perception, including the mounting civilian death toll in Gaza, the prolonged nature of Israel’s assault, and generational divides that predate social media but have been amplified by it.

Research shows pro-Palestinian content dominates social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and X, amplifying earlier survey trends and exposing younger generations to uncensored images of Gaza’s destruction and starvation, making them increasingly unwilling to accept Washington’s continued backing of Israel’s war.

DID YOU NOTICE THAT THE FAKE CHARGE OF “ANTI-SEMITISM” IS LOSING ITS STING?

Much In The Same Way That The Great Awokening Sowed The Seeds Of Its Own Destruction, Israel Supporters Have Overplayed Their Hand.

In a viral interview in May, Piers Morgan spoke with Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom. In a highly revealing exchange, Morgan asked Hotovely if she knew how many children Israel had killed over the course of its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip:

Morgan: “Do you know how many Hamas terrorists you’ve killed and how many children you’ve killed? Do you know those two numbers?”

Hotovely: “I know the numbers that came from the IDF. I know the numbers that came from a very, very established think tank…We killed 30,000 terrorists in phase one of the war. Since the war is back, I don’t have the numbers, but let me tell you one thing. We never target civilians, so this question is irrelevant.”

Morgan: “How many children have you killed?”

Hotevely: “Piers, Israel is not killing children. Israel is not killing children. Hamas is using them as human shields.”

Morgan: Israel is killing children every single day. Why pretend otherwise?”

Hotevely: “Piers, this is a blood libel you’re putting on Israel.”

Let’s go ahead and assume, for the sake of argument, that Hotovely is telling the truth. Even if every single child killed in Gaza had been used as a human shield, would that absolve Israel of responsibility for killing them? Of course not.

Back in March 2024, a former ranking IDF officer told Haaretz that the Israeli military was engaged in a form of combat that was “unusually wasteful.” He accused the IDF of “attacking innumerable targets, without asking whether it’s worth attacking them,” using artillery “in places where it’s not really obligatory,” and “demolishing everything before entering.” What’s more, the officer argued that, by causing less destruction, ground forces would have ended up spending less time in Gaza, thereby exposing themselves to fewer casualties.

Israel is a developed country with a high-tech weapons industry. In the year following the October 7^th attack, it received $17.9 billion in security assistance from the United States. Israel has the ability to minimize civilian casualties; it chooses not to. In the minds of Israeli officials, the civilian population of Gaza is expendable. As a result, it’s justifiable to kill tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, especially when their lives are deemed less valuable than those of IDF service members. According to people like Tzipi Hotovely, the blame for such casualties always rests with Hamas, even when it’s Israel that carries out the death blow. And anybody who disagrees is motivated by anti-semitism.

By insisting that Israel is driven exclusively by a sense of benevolence, she can whitewash her government’s annihilation of the Gaza Strip. But the numbers don’t lie. According to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, over 53,655 Palestinians have been killed since the war began. Of that number, 15,613 have been children. Is it anti-semitic to notice?

According to Hotovely, it is. By claiming that Morgan invoked the blood libel, she thinks she can obscure the awful truth and deny the destructive consequences of her preferred policies. Like all demagogues, she pins the blame on others while accusing her critics of rank bigotry and impure motives. Unfortunately for Hotovely, even Piers Morgan, who has tried to argue that intentionally killing civilians isn’t inherently evil, is wise to her act.

The claim that anti-semitism is ubiquitous has itself become a canard. Much in the same way that the Great Awokening sowed the seeds of its own destruction, Israel supporters have overplayed their hand. The anti-semitism card has lost its sting, and fewer and fewer members of the media class are willing to accept its premises.

Massie is no stranger to spurious accusations of anti-semitism. Back in 2023, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demanded that Massie take down a meme he characterized as anti-semitic. Earlier this year, the Israel lobby declared preemptive war on his since-abandoned Senate ambitions. And Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Massie are no doubt motivated in part by the former’s subservience to AIPAC and pro-Israel donors like Miriam Adelson.

Massie’s willingness to continue opposing the American regime’s backing for Israel’s actions signify an undeniable sea change. At no other time have baseless allegations of anti-semitism been less effective. The more such accusations annoy and alienate people, the harder it will become for Israel to deny the fact that it is responsible for the mass murder of thousands of children.

NO JUSTIFICATION IS REQUIRED TO OPPOSE AN ONGOING GENOCIDE

Make No Mistake About Where The Moral Authority Stands Here. This Isn’t Something We Need To Be On The Defense About. It’s Something We Need To Be On The Attack About.

Opposing an ongoing genocide requires no explanation or justification.

You don’t have to justify why you care about stopping an ongoing genocide.

You don’t have to reassure anyone that your opposition to the ongoing genocide isn’t driven by hatred of Jews.

You don’t have to defend your prioritizing stopping an active genocide above all other issues.

You don’t have to explain why you’re paying more attention to this genocide than the other bad things that are happening in the world.

You don’t have to explain why a group of people shouldn’t be genocided just because some of them did a violent thing.

You don’t have to address all the arguments about why this time genocide is fine that are being made by the people who are committing the genocide.

You don’t have to take seriously those who deny the conclusions of all major human rights institutions and the overwhelming majority of genocide scholars who say that this is a genocide.

This isn’t something you ever need to be in a defensive posture about. This is the easiest, most straightforward moral issue of the 21st century. If you oppose this genocide, you are right, and anyone who disagrees with you is wrong. It really is that simple.

If someone tries to put you on the back foot about your passion regarding the Gaza holocaust, it is entirely legitimate to say “Opposing an active genocide requires no justification,” or “I refuse to defend my opposition to an ongoing live-streamed holocaust that’s backed by my own government.”

They’re the ones who are wrong. Make THEM defend their position. Put THEM on the back foot. Interrogate THEIR agendas. Cast suspicion on THEIR motives. Call THEM crazy and evil. Accuse THEM of racism and religious bigotry. Shout THEM down. Shut THEM up. They’re the ones doing something freakish and nefarious, not you.

The only reason anyone is expected to defend their opposition to the Gaza holocaust is because our own western governments support said holocaust. If this was being perpetrated by a government like Russia, China or Iran, the default expectation would be that we would oppose it, and anyone supporting it would be aggressively interrogated. It’s only because of blind, bootlicking subservience to our ruling power structure that our compatriots look at us askance when we say Israel is committing genocide with the support of its western allies.

Make no mistake about where the moral authority stands here. This isn’t something we need to be on the defense about. It’s something we need to be on the attack about.

They’re the ones who have no moral, factual or logical standing. They’re the ones who have to lie all the time to justify their position. Put them against the ropes and keep them there.

Take not one step backward.

THREE ILLEGAL FEDEX WEAPONS FLIGHTS FLEW THOUGH IRISH AIRSPACE TO ISRAEL LAST MONTH

Irish State Authorities Last Month Assisted Three FedEx Flights Through Irish Territory As They Illegally Carried F-35 Combat Jet Parts To An Israel Airbase.

State air navigation service AirNav Ireland helped the three flights on their journeys through Irish sovereign airspace despite taoiseach Micheál Martin last month calling for an end to the “killing of children” in Gaza.

The Ditch, Palestinian doctor Ahmed El Mokhallalati and Uplift launched legal proceedings against the government in July this year over its failure to prevent airlines, including FedEx, from illegally using Irish territory to transport munitions of war to Israel.

On August 11, 13, and 14, three FedEx flights from Memphis to Cologne were given clearance to fly through Irish sovereign airspace over Donegal – even though each was carrying multiple F-35 components to Nevatim IDF base in Israel.

The carriage of munitions of war through Irish airspace without permission from transport minister Darragh O’Brien is a criminal offence punishable by up to three years’ imprisonment.

The IDF uses F-35 fighter jets to drop 900-kilogramme bombs on Gaza.

The Irish government has been repeatedly warned since October 2024 that FedEx uses the Memphis-to-Cologne route to transport munitions of war to Israel.

The Department of Transport has been contacted for comment but no response was received.

THE “FOREVER” WAR DEPARTMENT

President Trump Made It Known Early Last Week That He Plans To Change The Pentagon’s Name From The Department Of Defense To The Department Of War.

This would not be the first time the Pentagon has held the more aggressive moniker. After World War II, the Truman administration reorganized the Department of War and renamed it the Department of Defense. This was meant to help centralize power over the different branches of the military.

Trump and his Fox News host-turned-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claim the change aims to reclaim and restore a “warrior ethos.” The true intention behind the change, however, is more dubious.

“The comments from the Administration and its supporters imply that the change from ‘Department of War’ to ‘Department of Defense’ in 1949 signaled a loss of resolve to use violence to achieve national objectives,” said senior fellow Matthew Hoh. “Of course, the body counts from American wars, all lost since that name change, tell otherwise.”

“Renaming a bully doesn’t change the bully’s nature,” said associate director Christian Sorensen. “Beholden to corporate interests, DOD will continue to bully independent nations and peoples until the American public unites and changes the profit-over-people economic system, whose will DOD implements.”

While Trump claims the name change is imminent, it will likely need Congressional approval. Since we have some time, other people have some new name suggestions.

They should be even more honest and call it: The Department of Threat Inflation and Forever War.

Or, like the Star Trek “Mirror, Mirror” episode, we should admit America has entered a parallel universe where our military is nakedly imperialistic and bent on total domination,” said senior fellow Bill Astore. “Here’s another possible name: The Department of Imperial War and Genocidal Domination. Motto: Respect Our Authority!”

“It clearly became the ‘Department of Imperial War and Genocidal Domination’ some time ago,” said senior fellow Coleen Rowley. “But before Trump came along, our insidious war propagandists must have still been a little worried about the old ‘Nuremberg Principle’ making wars of aggression the supreme crime. Trump’s just the little boy blurting out the truth of the Empire’s naked aggression.”

Senior fellow Karen Kwiatkowski pulled no punches in summarizing the harm that the Department of Defense inflicts around the world when she suggested it be renamed the “Department of Foreign Intervention, Genocide, Hubris, Threats, Nefarious ‘War Heroes’ and Over-Rated Equipment Sales.”

A grim status quo, indeed.

Finally, put most succinctly by senior fellow Ray McGovern: “I suggest: DOMA. The Department of Macho Assholes.”

Whatever the name is, the administration can’t erase the truth: the American regime’s policy of infinite, forever war is killing us all. It does so in a few main ways: direct and indirect deaths, including but not limited to civilians, American troops, and American contractors; underfunding public programs at home, such as infrastructure, transportation, healthcare, and education, in order to overfund the massive military budget; and polluting the soil, air, and water upon which all people rely.

“THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOM” HAS BEEN REPLACED BY “THE ARABS HATE US BECAUSE OF OUR RELIGION”

In Both Cases The Answer Is No, They Hate You Because Of The Horrific Things Done To Them.

Israelis who say “the Arabs hate us because of our religion” are as self-evidently moronic as the Americans who said “they hate us for our freedom”. In both cases the answer is no, loony, they hate you because of the horrific things you do to them.

Western leaders who say they’ll recognize a Palestinian state while feebly calling on Both Sides to reach a ceasefire deal are just cuter, more photogenic versions of Netanyahu. They’re making empty noises to appear as though they’re doing something while refusing to actually lift a finger to stop the genocide.

They know Israel’s not going to make a permanent ceasefire deal because Netanyahu has explicitly stated that the slaughter won’t end until the ethnic cleansing of Gaza is complete. That’s why Tel Aviv is just ignoring the fact that Hamas agreed to a ceasefire a week and a half ago; there is absolutely nothing Hamas could agree to which would stop Israel from doing everything it needs to do to steal a Palestinian territory from the Palestinians who live there. The assault on Gaza has never been about removing Hamas; it has always been about removing the Palestinians.

Western leaders are pretending not to know this and promoting the false notion that Israel is basically acting in good faith in these negotiations, and that the only obstacle is Israel and Hamas being unable to successfully agree to terms. Participating in this mass deception while refusing to take any concrete actions to end the genocide is participating in the genocide. They’re not dropping the bombs or firing the bullets, but they’re helping to make sure they keep raining death and destruction on Palestinians.

They are Netanyahu with a nice guy smile. They are good cop Netanyahu.

After the Australian government announced its ASIO-sourced conclusion that Iran had directed multiple antisemitic attacks in Australia in order to “undermine social cohesion and sow discord,” a list of questions was published regarding the matter which included the following:

“7. What foreign intelligence agencies were involved in helping ASIO gather the information it used to make its assessment about the Iranian involvement in these incidents?”

Shortly thereafter, Sky News Australia ran a report titled “Sources reveal Israeli intelligence assisted ASIO investigation into Iran in major tip-off”.

So I guess we can consider that question answered.

One of the reasons socialists don’t focus on conspiracy analysis and the deep state as much as the right is because it’s not their only argument. It’s not that conspiracies and parapolitical power structures don’t exist, they absolutely do, but because you are not ideologically compelled to make excuses for the unavoidable abuses of capitalism we don’t need to act like any specific cabal of machiavellian elites is the source and summit of all our problems.

The rightist suffers from the delusion that capitalism would be working perfectly fine if a few nefarious individuals weren’t scheming behind the scenes ruining the capitalism for everyone. The leftist recognizes that corruption, corporatism, inequality and domination are the inevitable products of a profit-driven system under which the capitalist class are able to exploit the working class who have nothing to sell but their labor. We therefore often find it less important to focus on the specifics of the way those abuses are playing out, because we understand that even if you eliminated all the current oligarchs and their secret plans and the strings they pull to manipulate the official government, if you didn’t also replace our entire system with something radically different they’d be replaced by new oligarchic manipulators in short order.

The genocide in Gaza. Our dying biosphere. The fact that people struggle to keep a roof over their heads and put food on the table while others fly private jets to private islands paid for by the exploitation of thousands of impoverished workers. The fact that the most powerful country on earth doesn’t have a real healthcare system. The fact that an empire-like alliance of western governments and their proxies keeps expanding its warmongering, militarism and nuclear brinkmanship around the world with the goal of complete planetary domination.

It is an indisputable fact that rich and powerful individuals conspire with each other to the detriment of ordinary people, and at times it can be useful to highlight who those individuals are and the things that they are doing. But the leftist sees people opening their eyes to these abuses as a means to an end, not as an end in itself. When the rightist spotlights those abuses it’s to say “Look what these individuals are doing! If we just removed these individuals from power everything would be working fine!” When the leftist does so, it’s to say “See these are the kinds of people who rise to the top under a system where human behavior is driven by the pursuit of profit, and profit is most readily obtained through exploitation, injustice and ecocide. These kinds of people will always rule over us until we have replaced that system with a different one.”

VENEZUELA HAS THE MOST OIL IN THE WORLD: THAT’S WHY THE AMERICAN REGIME WANTS TO TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY

Venezuela Holds The World’s Largest Proven Oil Reserves, More Than Five Times More Than The United States.

The Trump administration has announced plans for continued military operations against Latin American drug cartels, following an American strike on a Venezuelan vessel that killed 11 people on September 2^nd.

The United States has had a complex relationship with Venezuela, a country of roughly 30 million people, shaped by disputes over oil, politics and security concerns.

Nowhere is that tension more evident than in Venezuela’s oil economy: the country holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, yet today earns only a fraction of the revenue it once did from exporting crude.

HOW MUCH OIL DOES VENEZUELA HAVE?

Estimated at 303 billion barrels as of 2023, Venezuela is home to the largest known reserves of oil.

Saudi Arabia ranks second with 267.2 billion barrels, followed by Iran at 208.6 billion barrels and Canada at 163.6 billion barrels. Together, these four countries account for more than half of global oil reserves.

The United States, by comparison, holds about 55 billion barrels, placing it ninth globally. This means that Venezuela’s reserves are more than five times larger than those in America.

Globally, proven oil reserves, which measure the quantities of crude oil that are economically recoverable with current technology, total approximately 1.73 trillion barrels.

WHERE ARE VENEZUELA’S OILFIELDS?

Venezuela’s oil reserves are concentrated primarily in the Orinoco Belt, a vast region in the eastern part of the country stretching across roughly 55,000 square kilometres (21,235sq miles).

The Orinoco Belt holds extra-heavy crude oil, which is highly viscous and dense, making it much harder and more expensive to extract than conventional crude. Producing oil from this region requires advanced techniques, such as steam injection and blending with lighter crudes to make it marketable.

Because of its density and sulphur content, extra-heavy crude usually sells at a discount compared with lighter, sweeter crudes.

The country’s oil production is dominated by PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela, SA), the state-owned oil company, which controls most of the Orinoco Belt operations. PDVSA has historically faced challenges, including ageing infrastructure, underinvestment, mismanagement and the effects of international sanctions, all of which have limited Venezuela’s ability to fully exploit its vast reserves.

Venezuela has some of the cheapest gasoline (petrol) prices in the world, thanks to extensive government subsidies. As of September 2025, the price of 95 octane gasoline is 0.84 Venezuelan bolivars per litre, which is approximately $0.04 per litre or $0.13 per gallon. This is just slightly more expensive than in Libya and Iran, two other major oil-producing nations, where gasoline costs about $0.03 per litre or $0.11 per gallon. For comparison, the average price of gasoline around the world is $1.29 per litre or $4.88 per gallon.

HOW MUCH OIL DOES VENEZUELA EXPORT?

According to data from the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), Venezuela exported just $4.05bn worth of crude oil in 2023. This is far below other major exporters, including Saudi Arabia ($181bn), the US ($125bn), and Russia ($122bn).

In addition to crude, Venezuela exports smaller volumes of refined petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel, but these remain limited compared with its potential due to ageing refinery infrastructure, technical challenges and sanctions.

WHY HAVE OIL EXPORTS DWINDLED OVER TIME?

Venezuela was a founding member of OPEC, joining at its creation on September 14, 1960. OPEC is a group of major oil-exporting countries that work together to manage supply and influence global oil prices.

The country was once a major oil exporter, especially after PDVSA was created in 1976 and foreign oil companies were nationalised. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Venezuela supplied roughly 1.5 to 2 million barrels per day to the United States, making it one of America’s largest foreign oil sources.

However, exports began to decline sharply after Hugo Chavez was elected president in 1998, as he reshaped the country’s oil sector, nationalising assets, restructuring PDVSA, and prioritising domestic and political objectives over traditional export markets. Political instability, mismanagement at PDVSA and underinvestment in infrastructure also led to falling production.

The situation worsened under President Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez’s successor, when the Trump administration imposed American sanctions, first in 2017 and then tightened those in 2019. These measures restricted Venezuela’s ability to sell crude to America and limited access to international financial markets, further reducing the country’s oil exports.

As a result, exports to America virtually ceased, and Venezuela shifted much of its oil trade to China, which became its largest buyer, along with other countries such as India and Cuba.

VENEZUELA’S OIL EXPORTS RISE TO NINE-MONTH HIGH

Following more than three years without oil shipments, in November 2022, the American Department of the Treasury granted Chevron, one of the largest American multinational energy corporations, a short-term licence to resume limited oil production and exports from Venezuela. Chevron resumed some oil production and exports, but only at a limited scale, as the licence came with strict restrictions on the revenue generated from these activities.

In 2023, the Biden administration continued to renew Chevron’s licence, allowing it to carry out limited operations in Venezuela. The resumption of operations was part of a broader strategy aimed at increasing global oil supplies and pressuring Venezuela’s government to make political concessions.

While the licence allowed Chevron to resume its partnership with Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, the scope of operations remained limited by American sanctions, ensuring that the Venezuelan government did not directly benefit from the oil revenues.

With the return of the Trump administration in January 2025, after a successful bid for re-election, President Trump issued an executive order in March 2025, imposing a 25 percent tariff on all goods imported into the United States from any country that imports Venezuelan oil, either directly or indirectly. This measure was designed to put additional pressure on nations, such as China, Russia and India, that had been increasing trade with Venezuela despite American sanctions. The tariff aimed to curb the flow of Venezuelan oil into global markets while attempting to isolate the Maduro regime economically.

The tariff achieved limited success: India’s Reliance Industries stopped buying Venezuelan oil, but China continued its imports despite the threat of tariffs.

By September 3^rd, 2025, Venezuela’s oil exports surpassed 900,000 bpd, the highest level since November 2024, marking a nine-month high. However, exports remain significantly lower than their pre-sanction levels.

It should be clear to you that America’s international conflicts are primarily caused by attempts to take the assets of other countries that belong to their people not the American oligarchs.