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 21st, 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 7th 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.

“INTERNATIONAL GUARANTEES” ARE BEING SOUGHT BY HAMAS FOR A GAZA CEASEFIRE AMID TRUMP THREATS

Israel’s Defense Minister Said It Is The “Last Opportunity” For Palestinians To Flee Gaza City As The Army’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Intensifies.

Hamas is examining the ceasefire plan proposed by Donald Trump and wishes to amend several points in it, it was reported on October 1st, citing a Palestinian source close to the resistance movement.

Trump’s 20-point plan calls for a ceasefire, the release of Israelis held captive within 72 hours in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and detainees, Hamas’s disarmament, the deportation of the movement’s leaders, and a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

A Palestinian source close to the Hamas leadership stated that “no final decision” had been made and that “the movement will likely need two to three days,” AFP wrote.

“Hamas wants to amend some of the items, such as the disarmament clause and the expulsion of Hamas,” the source said.

Hamas is also asking for “international guarantees” for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the strip and guarantees that Israel would not violate a ceasefire.

Trump told reporters on Tuesday that Hamas had “about three or four days” to accept his 20-point Gaza plan, warning the resistance movement it would “pay in hell” if it refused.

Meanwhile, Defense Minister Israel Katz asserted Wednesday that the Israeli military is close to encircling Gaza City and that Palestinians have a “last opportunity” to flee their homes.

“This will tighten the encirclement around Gaza City and everyone leaving it to the south will be forced to pass through IDF checkpoints,” said Katz in a press release.

“This is the last opportunity for Gaza residents who wish to do so to move south and leave Hamas terrorists isolated in Gaza City, in the face of IDF activity that continues with full force.”

Civilians remaining in Gaza City will be considered “terrorists and supporters of terror,” by invading Israeli forces, Katz confirmed.

Israel continues to kill dozens of civilians across Gaza daily. The enclave’s civil defense agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 46 people on Wednesday, including 36 in Gaza City.

A strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinian families killed eight people.

Fadel al-Jadba, 26, said he would defy Katz’s threats and remain in his home in Gaza City.

“We want a ceasefire at any cost because we are frustrated, exhausted, and find no one in the world standing with us,” he reported.

THE AMERICAN REGIME HAS MOVED TO THE CARIBBEAN A ELUSIVE SHIP DESIGNED TO CARRY SPECIAL FORCES

The MV Ocean Trader, A Floating Barracks, Helicopter Base And Command Center For Special Ops Forces, Is In The Caribbean. Is It Going To Terrorize Venezuela?

A vessel that has been described as a special operations mothership is currently deployed to the Caribbean, it has been confirmed.

A Military Sealift Command spokesperson confirmed that the MV Ocean Trader is currently operating in the Caribbean. The official deferred questions about its mission to America’s Special Operations Command, which declined to comment.

Naval experts have said that the American regime has a history of using commercial ships like the MV Ocean Trader as part of special operations missions. American military officials have not said publicly exactly what the ship’s current mission in the Caribbean is.

Formerly named the MV Cragside, the transformation of the MV Ocean Trader from a commercial roll-on/roll-off cargo ship to a vessel fit for special operations missions has been tracked through rigorous reporting. Over the years, the ship’s movements have gone from port calls in Seychelles and a dry dock in Oman.

“The ship is intended to blend in with merchant traffic, whereas obviously a destroyer shows someplace or an [amphibious ship], something like this might not attract as much attention,” said retired Navy Capt. Bradley Martin, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and a retired surface warfare captain of 30 years with four command tours.

The ship is built to carry up to 159 special operations forces plus its crew of 50 for up to 45 days at sea before having to refuel and be resupplied at sea or return to port, said retired Navy Capt. Brent Sadler, of the Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington, D.C.

“If the ship is in the Caribbean and hosting special forces, it is clearly supporting the operation to interdict the Cartel drug boats,” Sadler told Task & Purpose on Thursday. “The limited endurance of the ship, however, would mean there are likely other vessels rotating to replace it in time.”

It could also be used to conduct terrorist operations on Venezuela in order to overthrow the government and put a puppet regime in place in order to steal their massive oil reserves.

The MV Ocean Trader has also been on contract with the military before it was converted from commercial use for its current role, Sadler said.

The MV Ocean Trader’s main role is to serve as both barracks and command center for special operations forces, said Michael Fabey, a naval analyst with Janes, an open-source defense intelligence provider.

THERE HAVE BEEN MORE ATTACKS ON THE GAZA AID FLOTILLA THAT YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT

The Global Sumud Flotilla Which Is Bringing Aid To Break The Israeli Siege On Gaza Has Once Again Come Under Attack. The Nature Of The Israeli Regime Should Be Clear.

Activists say drones are dropping explosive objects which have reportedly burned the arm of one crew member and destroyed the main mast of one of the boats.

It was recently noted, America’s Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack has admitted that Israel was behind the attacks on flotilla boats in Tunisia which was discussed earlier this month, stating offhand during an interview that “Israel is attacking Tunisia.”

This happens as the Israeli government repeatedly issues statements branding the boats a “Hamas Flotilla” and claiming the activists are “pursuing a violent course of action,” something Israel tends to do when preparing to launch attacks on civilians in hospitals or press uniforms.

The Israelis will literally launch drone strikes on activist boats for trying to bring formula to starving babies and then turn around and say the world hates them because of their religion.

On Tuesday Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced the move by France, the UK, Canada and Australia to formally recognize the state of Palestine, telling CBS Mornings that “There is no Palestinian state no matter how many papers they put out, and the only time there’ll ever be one is if there is a negotiation with Israel.”

It’s so surreal how Israel can come right out and explicitly say there will never, ever be a Palestinian state, and western officials will just keep babbling on about the possibility of Israel and Palestine negotiating a two-state solution as though it never happened.

Sure is a crazy coincidence how all of Israel’s offensive actions in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen and the West Bank just so happen to look exactly the same as what it would look like if Israel was trying to massively expand its territory and take control of the middle east.

Kamala Harris’ new book reportedly contains an admission that polls found her refusal to oppose the genocide in Gaza likely cost her the election.

All the Democrats had to do was run an anti-genocide candidate. That’s all they needed to do to keep Trump out. It’s the most reasonable request voters could possibly have made of a candidate for the world’s most powerful elected office, and they adamantly refused to do it.

In a recent interview with Rachel Maddow, Harris referred to Trump as a “communist dictator”. Democrats and Republicans are always calling each other communists while in real life neither of them will even give Americans a normal healthcare system because that would make the corporations sad.

America’s Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee likened Israel to the “wife” of the United States during a speech at an event called “50 States, One Israel”.

“It may sound a little bit this afternoon as if I’m almost speaking on behalf of Israel rather than the U.S.,” said Huckabee, who went on to explain that “If you came to my house tonight for dinner and you came in and you said, ‘Oh, Mike, we like you. We really think the world of you. We just enjoy being with you. So excited to be here with you and have dinner with you. But your wife, we can’t stand her. We don’t like her a bit. I hope she’s not going to be at the table.’ We would say, ‘Well, she will be. You won’t be. Get out.’ Because if you were to insult my partner, you have insulted me.”

Christian Zionists are some of the craziest, weirdest, creepiest, most dangerous fanatics on our planet.

“Judeo-Christian” just means Zionist. Anyone who uses it these days is generally just referring broadly to white people who love Israel and hate Muslims. It’s a term used to distinguish the people we kill in our wars from the people who do the killing.

There’s nothing wrong with the word “Abrahamic”; it’s a perfectly good term for the major monotheistic religions which trace their roots back to Judaism. The only reason “Judeo-Christian” gets used instead is because Abrahamic religions include Islam.

Judaism and Christianity expanded westward, while Islam has remained most popular among the darker-skinned people of the global south. So they needed to popularize a special term to separate the religions of the white western imperialists from the religion of the brown people those imperialists like to kill.

A New York Times investigation has found that Elon Musk’s father Errol Musk has been repeatedly accused of molesting small children in his family, including his four year-old stepdaughter whom he later impregnated as an adult.

The world is ruled by traumatized, emotionally stunted men who compensate for their inner woundedness by obtaining as much power and control as possible, which they then inevitably use to inflict trauma upon all of society.

A WESTERN LIBERAL FAIRY TALE IS A TWO-STATE SOLUTION

The Israelis Are Telling Us This Is The Case Themselves, Right To Our Faces. It’s Time To Wake Up. Calling The Nightmare In Palestine As A Netanyahu Problem Is A Fairy Tale.

The only real benefit to this latest western “recognition” of Palestine is that it drew out high-profile Israeli politicians to explain to western liberals in plain English that the entire state of Israel stands opposed to their vision of a two-state solution.

Former Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz has a new op-ed in The New York Times where he explicitly states that opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state is “the heart” of a national consensus among Israelis across the mainstream political spectrum, and that this isn’t an obstacle that will go away once Netanyahu is out of power.

“Too often, Western leaders view our policies in this war not through the lens of national security, but through the prism of individuals — and, in particular, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,” Gantz writes. “The conversation is often framed as a question of what serves the prime minister, as if Israel’s national security begins and ends with one man. This view is mistaken and counterproductive to global stability, regional normalization and Israel’s own security.”

“I myself have been a vocal critic of Mr. Netanyahu,” says Gantz. “But the nation’s core security interests are not partisan property. Today more than ever, they are anchored by a national consensus that is rooted in the hard realities of our region. Opposition to the recognition of Palestinian statehood stands at the heart of that consensus.”

He’s spelling it out in black and white. The Bernie Sanders-style framing of the nightmare in Palestine as a Netanyahu problem which can be remedied in short order by a two-state solution is a fairy tale that western liberals tell each other so they don’t have to face the cold hard reality that the problem is the state of Israel itself.

This comes after Netanyahu publicly stated that “There will be no Palestinian state to the west of the Jordan River,” and after former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant proclaimed that “There will never be a Palestinian state.”

Israel is the problem. Not Netanyahu. Not Hamas. Not that both sides have tragically failed to sit down and find common ground in good-faith negotiations. The problem is that the west established a state in the middle east which holds as its foundational ideology that the people who were living there before that state was created are less than human, and must never have access to the full spectrum of human rights.

The problem is Israel. A state which has always been a racist endeavor from its very inception. A state whose Jewish citizenry are indoctrinated from birth into accepting the hateful, supremacist worldview that is necessary for apartheid and abuse to be accepted as the status quo.

No solutions are going to emerge until the west gets real about this. As long as western liberals are still buying into the fuzzbrained escapist fantasy that Israel is just an election away from a two-state solution if the American regime simply keeps funding the Iron Dome and making nice with Tel Aviv, we’re going to continue seeing Israel inflicting the nonstop violence and abuse that is necessary for it to exist in its present iteration as a state.

Any actual, reality-based solutions are not going to make liberal Zionists happy like their daydream about a two-state solution does. Israel simply cannot continue to exist as a Zionist entity. It needs to be disarmed, dramatically restructured, and comprehensively denazified as a society. This isn’t going to happen without force, and that necessary force isn’t going to be forthcoming from the western world as long as we are deluding ourselves with infantile fantasies.

The Israelis are telling us this is the case themselves, right to our faces. It’s time to wake up.

THE GULF HAS BEEN RATTLED BY ISRAEL’S ATTACK ON QATAR

Like Its Gulf Neighbors, Qatar Invested In A Security System Premised On The American Regime’s Reliability And Israeli Restraint. Both Pillars Have Now Collapsed.

The Israeli attack on Qatar on Sept. 9th has undermined the very foundations of the security arrangement between the United States and the Gulf monarchies.

Since the 1980’s Iran-Iraq war, Washington conditioned its military commitment to the region on Gulf rulers granting the American regime greater access to their territories — even if that meant compromising sovereignty.

In return, the Gulf countries expected American protection against external threats. Rulers poured billions into constructing American military bases, often at their own expense, and tolerated the political risks of inviting foreign troops into their lands.

Initially, Gulf regimes were reluctant to display such ties openly, fearing popular opposition, especially during the heyday of Arab nationalism. But with Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser gone and Arab nationalist fervor subdued, rulers felt freer to offend domestic sensibilities in exchange for protection from the American regime.

In 1995, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani’s coup against his father marked a turning point for Qatar. The Saudis, alarmed at the precedent of a son ousting his father, plotted repeatedly to undermine him — sometimes through relatives, including a cousin and former chief of police.

Hamad said in a meetings with him that the Saudi regime never ceased its intrigues and that he needed the American regime for his protection. His solution was to secure his throne through foreign policy:

  • Entrench American military protection by financing military massive bases and welcoming American troops.

  • Appease Washington by cultivating Congress, courting AIPAC, and opening limited ties with Israel.

    This strategy came at enormous cost. Qatar spent lavishly on airbases when it did not yet possess fighter jets.

At the same time, Hamad, relatively speaking, liberalized media space by launching Al Jazeera. In its early years, the station electrified the Arab world, attracting tens of millions of nightly viewers when satellite competition was still scarce.

Of course, the station was never allowed to cover matters of oil revenues or of domestic dissent in Qatar. Later, when Qatar normalized relations with the Saudi regime, the station ended its coverage of Arab opposition, except in countries that are not favored by the American regime or Saudi Arabia (Al Jazeera actually agitated against Egypt’s Mubarak regime, Libya’s Qaddafi regime, and Syria’s Assad regime. However, it supported repression in Bahrain).

Al Jazeera projected Arab nationalist rhetoric while breaking a major taboo: hosting Israeli officials on Arab screens. Many Arabs distrusted the channel for precisely that reason — it gave Israeli propagandists access to Arab living rooms and bedrooms.

Doha also opened a trade office in Israel while allowing Israel to operate one in Qatar. Though that office closed in 2009 after Arab backlash, Israeli officials and Mossad chiefs continued visiting Doha regularly.

Thus, Qatar cultivated a contradictory image: a verbal champion of the Palestinians while privately prioritizing ties with Washington and the Israeli lobby.

The Emir even admitted that he entered negotiations with Israeli-American donor Haim Saban when pressures against Qatar mounted during the George W. Bush administration to censor its coverage of the American regime’s invasion of Iraq. Relations with Saudi Arabia soured, culminating in the 2017 Saudi-Emirati blockade of Qatar.

Only the heavy American military presence deterred a Saudi invasion. The Saudi regime had invaded Bahrain back in 2011 to protect the unpopular regime from a popular uprising during the so-called “Arab spring.”

For decades, Gulf regimes believed their American regime’s security guarantees would shield them from all threats. They never imagined Israel might strike them directly. American protection, supplemented by rapprochement with the Israeli lobby in Washington, seemed sufficient deterrence.

But Israel’s strike on Qatar shattered that assumption — at least for now.

At the very moment Qatar was mediating between Hamas and Israel at Washington’s request, Israel publicly threatened to assassinate Hamas leaders in Doha. This mediation role was unpopular in the Arab world, where many saw it as false “equidistance” between the oppressed Palestinians and their occupiers.

How could Qatar claim to care about Gaza while receiving Israel killers in Doha?

THE IDF’S TOP LAWYER WAS IGNORED WHEN THE IDF CHIEF ORDERED THE FULL GAZA CITY EVACUATION

The Lawyer Warned The Population Transfer Was Legally Indefensible Without A Full Analysis Of The Humanitarian Conditions For One Million People In Southern Gaza.

However, the army chief ignored her and issued the order. Army sources said military leaders “created a scenario that doesn’t exist, while everyone knew the evacuation could not proceed.”

Last week, Tomer-Yerushalmi warned Zamir that it could not be determined that the planned evacuation operations to southern Gaza would be legal and demanded that evacuation notices be postponed until the necessary conditions for receiving the population were in place, but he ignored her position.

A few days later, he convened a meeting with IDF Southern Command Chief Yaniv Asor and Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Ghassan Alian, excluding the Military Advocate General, and the three decided to order all residents of Gaza City to move south without informing Tomer-Yerushalmi of the decision.

The Military Advocate General is the IDF authority responsible for interpreting international law, and senior military officials said they could not recall a case in which a Chief of Staff ignored the top lawyer’s position on such a significant issue.

Zamir frequently emphasizes that he is committed to acting in accordance with international law, both publicly and in conversations with reservists concerned about violations of the laws of war. “The IDF always acts in accordance with domestic and international law,” the army chief said in May. “Any claim questioning the integrity of our actions or the morality of our soldiers is baseless.”

Last week, Zamir held several meetings with senior legal officials and top military leaders regarding the evacuation of Gaza City residents and their transfer to southern Gaza. During these discussions, the army chief, the Southern Command chief, and the COGAT commander were asked to provide the Military Advocate General with a comprehensive report detailing the humanitarian situation in southern Gaza and the status of infrastructure required under international law in the areas designated to receive the city’s population.

Estimates indicate that around 1.2 million people in Gaza City would need to move south, comprising 700,000 pre-war residents and roughly 500,000 internally displaced people who had sought shelter there.

Israeli military sources familiar with last week’s discussions, which included the IDF chief, senior military officials, and the Military Advocate General, said that military leaders presented an unrealistic picture of the humanitarian conditions in southern Gaza. “They created a scenario that doesn’t exist, without any serious groundwork, while everyone knew this was not the reality and that the evacuation could not proceed,” said one security official with knowledge of the matter.

According to military sources, the partial and superficial information presented during the discussions was shown on unclear maps in which areas already fully occupied were marked as available for new residents. Calculations by Southern Command and COGAT showed that in the areas designated as safe and intended to house residents, just seven square meters per person were allocated, far below international law standards.

The IDF announced plans to bring 100,000 tents into the territory to accommodate residents during the winter, but army sources stated that, in practice, only simple tarpaulins, not enclosed tents, were being provided.

The Israeli military sources also noted that, contrary to the army’s claims, hospitals in southern Gaza are on the verge of collapse and cannot accommodate additional casualties due to severe overcrowding. Moving a million people to areas without adequate medical services could trigger a humanitarian disaster, draw international criticism, and potentially lead to sanctions from countries that support Israel.

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