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Gaza Deal Requires A Permanent End To Israel’s War on Gaza.

So what is the ultimate significance of this agreement? In my view, if Israel complies with this agreement, it means a hell of a lot for the Palestinians because that would result in a permanent end to the war on Gaza, a permanent withdrawal from much, if not all of Gaza, and the provision of sufficient humanitarian aid uh to the people of Gaza along with the release of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. These are vitally important developments to be welcomed uh by all people of conscience for uh the people of Gaza.

Clearly uh the uh most lunatic members of Netanyahu’s cabinet are not being silent about this. They’re not agreeing to it.

I do remain suspicious on that basis just on the basis of Israel’s long and sorted history of violating ceasefire agreements about whether or not Netanyahu will comply with this agreement. even uh uh substantially let let alone uh completely.

Dimitri Lascaris, Oct 11, 2025

Hours before Israel’s genocide forces began withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, a reporter from Israel’s Kan News published a copy of the agreement between Hamas and Israel providing for a cessation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip.

In this episode of Reason2Resist, I analyze the terms of the agreement and conclude that it unambiguously requires Israel to end its war on Gaza and to withdraw permanently from most of the Gaza Strip.

I also examine the reactions of Netanyahu’s most extreme Ministers to the Gaza agreement, the reasons for which Donald Trump might finally force Israel to comply with the agreement, and the likely consequences if Israel violates it.

ED. Below I post extracts from this video

“As of now, no agreement has been reached regarding the list of prisoners and the circulating circulating lists concerning the prisoners intended for release …………….

whether the Israelis will release uh resistance leader Maran Barguti, who has been languishing in an Israeli dungeon for over 20 years on uh charges, trumped up charges uh of involvement in terrorist acts against Israelis. ……….

I’d like to note uh that Hamas officials have said repeatedly that the agreement provides for a permanent end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza………there’s much more than that. Uh, paragraph two states, quote, “The war will immediately end upon the approval of the Israeli government.” Close quote. So, here we’re not talking about a suspension of the war. We’re not talking about a pause of the war. We’re not talking even about u a temporary ceasefire. It says the war will immediately end. ……….

upon approval of the agreement, all military operations will be suspended. So there they use the term suspended but and they do not use the word terminated. Uh so the use of the word suspended suggests that under certain circumstances military operations can be resumed……..

key statement. It says that the Israeli military quote will not return close to areas it has withdrawn from as per the attached map quote as long as Hamas fully implements the agreement………

So this agreement clearly envisions a permanent withdrawal from certain parts of the Gaza Strip although we don’t know uh exactly which parts as of yet. Uh and uh moreover, and this too is critically important, the agreement says nothing about the IDF’s withdrawal from parts of the Gaza Strip that it will continue to occupy after the initial withdrawal

the question of course is whether those assurances are worth anything and uh that of course remains to be seen.

So, in any case, and for the reasons I just cited, the agreement clearly envisions a permanent end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and a permanent withdrawal from the vast majority of the Gaza Strip. So, if anyone claims that uh this agreement does not envision a permanent end to Israel’s war in Gaza or a permanent withdrawal, then either they’re lying or they simply haven’t reviewed this agreement carefully or at all. …..

I’m showing you on the screen here, the United Nations Relief Works Agency and other international agencies that are independent of Israel must be permitted to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

This, of course, is important because the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as it’s called, this beast that was established by Israel and the Americans several months ago, purportedly to deliver aid uh to the starving population of Gaza turned out to be nothing but a tool for the mass murder of Palestinians seeking desperately needed humanitarian assistance. GHF assassins murdered more than 2600 Palestinians at aid distribution points since GHF was established several months ago. The assassins also wounded more than 19,000 Palestinian civilians at these aid distribution points during those several months. So it is extremely important, needless to say, that independent humanitarian agencies assume responsibility for distributing aid to the people of Gaza

That agreement provided as follows. Israel would have to allow the entry of sufficient quantities of humanitarian aid, 600 trucks per day, of which 300 are for the north. Included in this were 50 fuel trucks, including the fuel necessary for operating the power plant, trade, and equipment needed for rubble removal, rehabilitation, and operation of hospitals, health centers, and bakeries in all areas of the Gaza Strip. …….

But let’s recall what happened under the January ceasefire agreement. From the time it was agreed, Israel’s genocide forces killed Palestinians on a near daily basis and substantially hindered the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. And in fact, this led to the suspension by Hamas of the release of hostages and uh uh ultimately the uh the release of the hostages was resumed. Uh but there was nearly a blowup of the agreement at that point in time the point came for Israel to withdraw at as it had undertaken to do under the January 19th agreement from Ratha.

Israel refused to withdraw, tore up the agreement and started starving the civilian populationof Gaza. um the flimsy excuse that Israel offered for its killing of Palestinians while the January 19 agreement was in effect, daily killing of Palestinians and uh its hindrance of humanitarian aid was that uh Hamas it alleged was violating the deal with delays in providing the names of hostages. ….

Now, there’s one other aspect of this prisoner exchange agreement that is, in my view, particularly odious. namely paragraph 5G prohibits any public ceremonies or media coverage of the release of prisoners and hostages.

Now, I can understand if Israel were demanding uh that there be no ceremonies involving uh the release uh at least

16:31ceremonies in the Gaza Strip uh involving the release of its PS.

16:37But uh there’s no conceivable justification for Israel demanding that there be no ceremonies or media coverage of the uh 2,000 or so Palestinians that are being released from its dungeons. Many of them, if not all of them, have been subjected to various levels and forms of torture and severe privation. Uh there’s uh no doubt that that will be apparent apparent from their appearance uh and upon their release uh from prison. They will be asked about this. Uh I’m sure that many of them will be anxious to tell the public and their fellow Palestinians what they endured under the brutalities of Israeli incarceration. Uh and essentially

this prohibition on ceremonies and media coverage of the release of Palestinian prisoners can only be designed to do two things. And that is first impede uh the delivery of the truth to the public about what was done to those prisoners in jail. Uh and secondly uh to prevent the Palestinians from uniting in what is an important victory uh for the resistance and you know sharing in a moment a desperately needed moment of uh national unity and relief and joy at the release of their brothers and sisters from Israeli dungeons.

Israeli genocidal regime does everything within its power to prevent the truth of what it is doing to the Palestinian people from reaching uh those of us living here in the West.

Uh finally, this agreement is important for what it does not say. It does not say uh unlike Trump’s 20point proposal that the resistance must disarm. And in fact, it says nothing about disarmament at all. Now, Western media continue to this very day to report without citing any credible identifiable sources that Hamas may be willing to agree to a complete or partial disarmament uh by, for example, a partial disarmament might involve uh Hamas giving up its missiles but retaining its uh small arms. Uh, however, Hamas has consistently and emphatically denied these reports.

Israel, remains armed to the teeth. If anybody should be required to disarm first, it should be the perpetrator of genocide and not its victims.

Now, returning to the one-pager, it also says nothing about the future governance of the Gaza Strip or the presence of foreign troops in Gaza or the departure of Hamas officials into exile…

The United States is sending 200 troops to Israel to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire deal in Gaza. US officials said Thursday. The official said US Central Command will establish a civil military coordination center in Israel to provide security and humanitarian support. The US troops will join soldiers from nations including Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates to provide oversight. The US troops are not intended to go into Gazo, one of the US officials said. So, uh, assuming we’re being told the truth….

The bottom line, my friends, is that the one-page agreement says nothing about the long-term issues confronting the Palestinian people, not even the uh reconstruction of Gaza and uh does not even contain an explicit commitment to negotiate the longer term and underlying issues. Uh and in particular, the agreement says nothing about a Palestinian state.

it also says nothing, not one word about the West Bank where Israel is also committing genocide, albeit at a lower level of intensity than in Gaza.

But at the same time, even if Israel complies fully with the deal, the core underlying injustices of the occupation will persist and no one would or should have the slightest faith in Israel to voluntarily address those injustices in a manner that is fair uh to the Palestinian people. Uh so even if Israel complies fully wit the deal, the core underlying problems will remain.

even worse, of course, Israel might simply flush the agreement down the toilet once it has its PS back.

When it comes to the question of whether Israel will comply, uh I think we can glean a lot from examining the reactions of the most lunatic ministers uh in Israel’s cabinet. Those who are typically referred to by the press as far although again any rational human being would regard every single member of Netanyahu’s uh cabinet as being far right. and in particular uh the arch war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu himself.

Now uh why do I say we can uh divine Israel’s true intentions from their reaction? Because if they the most lunatic members of his cabinet approve of the deal even grudgingly or if they are quiet about it uh then the most logical inference is that Netanyahu has given them private assurances that he’ll break the deal, resume the mass murder of Palestinians and reoccupy the Gaza trip.

So, this of course raises the question of how the lunatics uh have responded thus far. And here you’ll see an article that was published this morning at 3:32 a.m. by the Times of Israel. Uh Gaza ceasefire takes effect as the government approves deal to free the hostages. The subheading there, uh most far-right ministers vote against agreement to halt fighting with Hamas. Kushner and Witoff tell cabinet that IDF’s bravery, yes, the latte sipping baby killers are being lauded for their bravery by uh Kushner and Whitov. Uh but uh they commend Netanyahu’s difficult decisions and say that those decisions enabled the agreement.

Now the Times of Israel goes on and reports as follows. Netanyahu’s office announced the approval of the deal but did not immediately provide a vote tally though the agreement was opposed by national security minister Bengavir Negev Galilee and national resilience minister Yitsak was of and heritage minister am elyahu of the farright Otma Yahudate party. If I’m not mistaken, Eli Yahu was the uh the psychopathic lunatic who at some point during the genocide called for Israel to nuke Gaza.

Uh in any event, the Times of Israel article article goes on and says, “Far right leaders have been critical of the deal with Smootrich announcing on Thursday that religious Zionism would not vote in favor. Speaking with the Times of Israel, a party source said that it remained up in the air whether or not the far-right faction would bolt the government. Bengavir had also announced ahead of the cabinet meeting that Utma Yehudit would vote against the first phase of the deal in which Palestinian prisoners will be released in exchange for all four Israeli 48 Israeli hostages held in Gaza. So 48 I think refers obviously not only to the 20 living PS but also the remains of 28 uh other captives uh who died in captivity.

now uh what is my take uh on these revelations? I I do draw some encouragement from them. Clearly uh the uh most lunatic members of Netanyahu’s cabinet are not being silent about this. They’re not agreeing to it.

So uh let’s move on and uh let’s talk about the allimportant question of what the Trump is going to do to ensure Israel’s compliance. Now some are saying that Trump is serious this time about bringing an end to the war in Gaza because he desperately wants the Nobel Peace Prize. I understand that the winner of that peace prize is going to be announced today.

And let me say in passing that in a sane and decent world, the winner of 1that peace prize would be Francesca Albani, the extraordinarily brave, intelligent, and eloquent UN special rapaturur for the human rights situation in occupied Palestine. I’ve read reports that she’s been nominated. uh but frankly I don’t have much confidence in the Nobel committee to award the prize…

the main motivation that Trump has for doing this deal is because he wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I do recognize that he is extraordinarily narcissistic and a megalomaniac and I don’t doubt for one second that he wants this peace prize uh and that he’d love to have this peace prize.

But if he was so enamored of the Nobel Peace Prize, why did he allow Israel to tear up the agreement back in March and then begin to starve the civilian population of Gaza? …..

For example, um Donald Trump, I if I were him, I would be deeply concerned about the midterm elections. Uh right now, Donald Trump’s uh approval rating uh is very low. …

Uh he came into the White House and immediately began to involve America in new wars. uh and all of his rhetoric and all of the energies that he uh claimed to have invested in bringing an end to the Ukraine war have come to nowt. Donald Trump is now fully on board with the enterprise of uh Ukraine. He said as much with Ukraine trying to recapture all of its territory, which is a practical impossibility. There’s no indication whatsoever that Donald Trump is going to come anywhere close to doing what’s necessary to bringing that war to an end

so basically he has betrayed his base the president of peace. And uh if this genocide were to continue right up until the midterms, have no doubt about the fact that uh Netanyahu is capable of carrying this on for years to come. As long as there is a, you know, there are bullets in the guns of the Israeli military and bombs in the, you know, aircraft bays of the war planes supplied by the United States to the Israeli Air Force. uh they will continue to kill uh Palestinians in Gaza, in the West Bank, and then probably also in East Jerusalem, and within the 1948 boundaries of Israel itself.

Uh he’s basically uh you know using the United States Constitution as toilet paper running roughshot over the basic civil liberties of Americans uh you know engaging in outrageous overreach of the executive powers of the president. Uh so uh I think he must be quite concerned about this and to me that is probably the biggest point of pressure on Donald Trump to bring this slaughter to an end. his concern about the midterm elections. ….

And of course, the Zionist lobby must be very concerned……

also at the same time the United States, Germany and other Western military suppliers of Israel have been supplying Ukraine. And that is a conflict that has consumed even more munitions uh than Israel has consumed, I would imagine. So you’re looking at highly depleted weapon stocks, uh a demoralized and exhausted army, uh various forms of crisis within the Israeli military. Uh I would not at all be surprised if you know uh people within the Israeli military itself have secretly or perhaps not so secretly appealed to the Trump regime uh to bring this to an end. And there may be people, powerful and influential people in the Zionist lobby in the United States who are in contact with the uh Israeli military and understand the gravity of 1the situation who have been politely and quietly requesting that Donald Trump bring this to an end when it’s so obvious that Netanyahu himself uh was unwilling to do so. So again, I think this is likely to be much more important to Donald Trump than uh the Nobel Peace Prize.

Finally, let me offer a perspective on what will happen if Israel does does what it always has done and treats this agreement like toilet paper. Well, uh in my uh submission to you, my friends, uh that would put Israel in an even worse place than it is now. And it’s already in a very very dark place…..

think it will be much harder much harder for Netanyahu to uh to uh argue that the violence should be continue particularly violence directing civilians uh if these uh hostages have been returned or these PS have been returned to Israel. uh in a sense at a bare minimum what’s going to happen here in addition to the release of Palestinian prisoners which is in and of itself is very important and even if this is just a temporary pause in the bombing of the people of Gaza and even if the increase in humanitarian aid is substantial but temporary uh those are certainly good things important things vitally important things for the civilian population of Gaza

But uh I think that in effect by handing over the PS the resistance has situated itself more firmly on the moral high ground. And if we see a resumption now of the horrors that the Palestinians have endured for the past two years, um I think that you are going to see an even more rapid and precipitous decline in the standing of Israel in the West in the broader world. And it is already arguably the most detested so-called country on God’s green earth.

Uh so one way or another, this thing is coming to an end. This genocide will not succeed.

it’s just a question of when, not if. Perhaps now is the time. Perhaps we’re going to have to wait a little longer. But that day is coming and judgment day is coming for all the criminals who perpetrated this crime.

This is Demetri Lceris coming to you from Kalamat Greece on October 10th, 2025. https://reason2resist.substack.com/p/revealed-gaza-deal-requires-a-permanent?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2811845&post_id=175824008&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

October 11, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, politics international | Leave a comment

5 Days in Israel’s Desert Prison: Jewish Flotilla Activist David Adler on Harrowing Detention Ordeal

10 Oct 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_pM-ZDaPAA

Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory.

Organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla say most of the participants were sent to Ktzi’ot Prison, notorious for harsh and abusive conditions. Some have reported physical abuse, humiliation and inhumane treatment by Israeli soldiers. Jewish American activist David Adler, co-general coordinator of the Progressive International, says he faced additional abuse because of his background. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.

October 11, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Israel illegally detained UK citizens, and Starmer did nothing

John McEvoy, 9 Oct 25

This week, Israeli forces kidnapped British citizens participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which aimed to break the siege of Gaza and deliver aid to starving Palestinians.

The flotilla, carrying some 470 activists from over 40 countries, had been sailing in international waters some 90 nautical miles from Gaza when it was approached by Israeli naval boats and boarded by armed soldiers.

The aid vessels were subsequently towed to the port of Ashdod in Israel, where the activists were unloaded and taken to Israeli prisons.

Most of them were transferred to the notorious Ketziot prison, a maximum-security facility in the Negev desert which has served as a detention and torture site for Palestinian captives.

The cells were infested with bed bugs, and the activists were deprived of food and water. “We had to drink out of a tap in the toilets that produced water infected with fecal matter”, said British-Palestinian journalist Kieran Andrieu.

Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who travelled to Ketziot and taunted the activists, said they “should get a good feel for the conditions in Ketziot prison and think twice before they approach Israel again”.

This was not the first time that the Global Sumud Flotilla had been attacked by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

October 11, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, politics international | Leave a comment

Israel Attacks Another Group of Civilian Ships Bound for Gaza

Israeli forces have once again targeted civilian vessels sailing to Gaza, aiming to break the blockade and deliver medical supplies.

October 08, 2025 by Ana Vračar, https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/08/israel-attacks-another-group-of-civilian-ships-bound-for-gaza/

In a new act of state terrorism, Israel has assaulted vessels from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and the Thousand Madleens to Gaza initiative in international waters, abducting more than 140 crew members. The attack comes barely a week after Israeli armed forces targeted the Global Sumud Flotilla, another civilian fleet sailing to break the illegal blockade of Gaza and deliver essential supplies.

“Unarmed crew aboard, including doctors, journalists, and elected officials, have been abducted, as well as the vital aid worth over USD 110,000 in medicines, respiratory equipment, and nutritional supplies that were destined for Gaza’s starving hospitals,” the Freedom Flotilla Coalition stated soon after the event.

The latest mission to open a humanitarian corridor to Gaza by sea was specific considering that most of its crew consisted of health and media workers, two groups continuously targeted by Israeli forces during the genocide in Gaza. Nurse Stefano Argerio, speaking shortly before his abduction, emphasized the peaceful and civilian character of the initiative. “It’s a humanitarian, medical mission,” he told Public Services International (PSI), stressing that obstructing it would only add to Israel’s long list of crimes.

Aboard the “Conscience”, the fleet’s largest vessel, was Belgian physician Hanne Bosselaers of Medics for the People (MPLP-GVHV), who is also active in the People’s Health Movement (PHM). Having participated in preparations for the Global Sumud Flotilla, she joined this mission to help keep global attention on Gaza. “The Israeli armed forces want to totally annihilate it [Gaza], and they’re accelerating the process,” Bosselaers told the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB–PVDA). “Even if our media no longer shows it, we absolutely must keep our eyes on it. Humanity must heed the call of the Palestinians to stop the genocide.”

Bosselaers, who previously volunteered in Gaza, established contact with staff from the Awda Association while en route. “[They] told us live about how they experience genocide in their hospitals and health centers,” she said. “They have great confidence in our arrival and it gives them hope and courage to see that caregivers around the world are mobilizing, that they are not forgotten.”

Members of the Freedom Flotilla and Thousand Madleens to Gaza initiatives anticipated the risk of Israeli attacks, especially after the assault on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Yet, instead of retreating, they called for even stronger mobilization from the medical community in support of Gaza’s health workers and the flotillas’ missions. “We know that what can happen to us is still only a fraction of what Palestinians have endured every day for 77 years,” Bosselaers said. “We hope that seeing our rights violated as white Europeans might amplify the message and draw attention to the Palestinians.”

Pharmacist Aziz Rhali among GSF crew still held by Israel

As of the morning of October 8, six members of the Global Sumud Flotilla remain imprisoned in Israel: Abdeladim Bendraoui and Aziz Rhali from Morocco; Christoforos Schuff O’Moore, Eline Norli, and Samuel Rostol from Norway; and Reyes Rigo Cervilla from Spain.

Before departure, Rhali, a pharmacist and long-time human rights defender, highlighted the importance of global solidarity among health professionals. “We must also emphasize the role of Gaza’s healthcare workers, who remain on the front line of resistance,” he said. “Despite everything, they stay, they work, they do their best to help the population … They need us, and we need them. Just as lawyers are pursuing justice through the courts – the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court – our role, as health workers, is to stand with our Palestinian colleagues. We can do that directly, by being on the ground with them.”

PHM Global Coordinator Román Vega told People’s Health Dispatch that Rhali had been struggling for months to reach Gaza and support his colleagues and patients. Instead of being allowed to provide essential care, “he was abducted by the genocidal Israeli regime,” Vega said. “We are deeply concerned for his safety, especially after hearing of the abuse suffered by members of the flotilla who have returned home. We are calling for his immediate release and for the protection of his life and rights.”

October 10, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Trump Says Israel and Hamas ‘Signed Off on the First Phase’ of Gaza Plan

The announcement came as the confirmed death toll from Israel’s two-year genocidal assault on Gaza rose to 67,183 Palestinians, widely believed to be an undercount.

Common Dreams Staff, October 9, 2025, https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-ceasefire

Just over a week after unveiling a proposal for the Gaza Strip at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump said on social media Wednesday night that “I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan.”

“This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed-upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace,” he claimed on Truth Social. “All Parties will be treated fairly!”

“This is a GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding Nations, and the United States of America, and we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked with us to make this Historic and Unprecedented Event happen,” Trump added. “BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!”

Netanyahu—who faces an International Criminal Court warrant over his country’s genocidal assault of Gaza—also took to social media, writing in Hebrew that it was “a great day for Israel” and he would “convene the government to approve the agreement and bring all our dear hostages home.” The prime minister then thanked the Israel Defense Forces and Trump.

Trump’s announcement came shortly after Drop Site News‘ Jeremy Scahill spoke with a Hamas official who confirmed that “from our side, yes,” the Palestinians reached a deal, but they still needed to “finalize some points” with the mediators.

“It’s over, it’s over. It’s been decided,” a second source told the journalist. “Everybody’s agreed on it. There are a few things that will be discussed, but it’s over.”

Hamas led an attack on southern Israel that killed over 1,100 people on October 7, 2023. Since then, Israeli forces have bombed and blockaded Gaza, whose health officials put the death toll at 67,183, with another 169,841 injured. Global experts have warned that these are likely undercounts, given the thousands of people missing and presumed dead and buried beneath the strip’s destroyed infrastructure.

October 10, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, politics international, USA | Leave a comment

After 2 years, Israel genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza has failed

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL 9 Oct 25

Israel has a grisly method of negotiating peace and release of remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza. They’re continuing their genocidal ethnic cleansing of those pesky Palestinians who just won’t leave so Israel can annex Gaza to Greater Israel.

On Tuesday Israel bombed Gaza City, Khan Younis, even the Mawasi safe zone, killing at least 10. Hundreds of been slaughtered in the five days Israel has ignored President Trump’s demand to stop the genocide while peace talks continue in Egypt.

That should surprise no one interested in ending the genocide. Israel’s primary goal since the Hamas attack 2 years ago Tuesday was to exploit the attack to rid Gaza of all 2,300,000 Palestinians. While killing over 100,000, with the remaining 2,200,000 suffering starvation, degraded health, no habitable living conditions, Israel has failed to achieve its cherished goal: no Palestinians left in a Gaza annexed into Greater Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to maintain the genocide for political and personal reasons. The political is the aforementioned completion of Greater Israel including not only Gaza but the West Bank. The personal reason is to delay indefinitely his possible date with prison on corruption crimes.

Dead last on Netanyahu’s grotesque agenda? Getting back the remaining 48 Israeli hostages. Had he cared a whit about the original 251, many of whom his delay killed, he wouldn’t have embarked on genocide.

None of this could have occurred without the $20 billion in genocide weapons gifted to Israel by presidents Biden and Trump, paid for by John Q. Taxpayer. US near total support of the genocide continues even tho an increasing majority of Americans call it genocide and demand we end enabling it.

The current talks in Egypt are doing nothing to achieve the only path to peace: Palestinian statehood, recognized by 158 of 193 UN countries but not the US. Trump’s 20 point peace plan is simply US imagined neocolonialism to keep Gaza totally controlled by outside forces. Palestinians are excluded, keeping Gaza stateless in perpetuity.

The peace plan may release the remaining 48 hostages and achieve ceasefire. But it will neither achieve a Palestinian state nor Netanyahu’s dream of a Palestinian free Gaza annexed to Israel. Both likely outcomes may doom the peace negotiations to failure.

October 10, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Atrocities, Gaza, Israel | Leave a comment

Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened

Caitlin Johnstone, Oct 07, 2025, https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/everything-before-and-after-october?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=175515184&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Everything before October 7 explains why October 7 happened, and so does everything that’s happened since.

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

Look at everything that’s happened since October 7 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, 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 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 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.

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.

October 10, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, politics international | Leave a comment

Report: Netanyahu Ordered Drone Attack on Gaza Aid Flotilla Boats in Tunisia

US intelligence officials told CBS News that Israeli forces launched drones from a submarine and dropped incendiary devices on two aid boats

by Dave DeCamp | October 5, 2025 , https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/05/report-netanyahu-ordered-drone-attack-on-gaza-aid-flotilla-boats-in-tunisia/

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly ordered attacks on the Global Sumud Flotilla that were carried out in early September while the boats were moored in Tunisia, CBS News reported on Friday.

A total of two boats were hit in two attacks that were conducted on September 8 and September 9. Two US intelligence officials told CBS News that Israel forces fired drones from a submarine that dropped incendiary devices and caused fires.

The report noted that under international law, the use of incendiary devices against civilian populations or civilian targets is prohibited. The attacks targeted the Family, a Portuguese-flagged vessel, and the Alma, a British-flagged vessel. In both cases, the crews were able to extinguish the fire, and the attacks caused no casualties.

In a September 22 interview, US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack acknowledged that Israel was behind the operation by saying Israel had attacked Tunisia. “So Israel is attacking Syria. Israel is attacking Lebanon. Israel is attacking Tunisia,” Barrack told The National.

In a statement to CBS, the Global Sumud Flotilla said, “Confirmation of Israeli involvement would not surprise us; it would simply lay bare a pattern of arrogance and impunity so grotesque that it cannot escape eventual reckoning.”

The group added, “Whether the purpose of these attacks was to kill us, scare us away, or disable our boats, they recklessly endangered civilians and humanitarian volunteers. The world must take note: attempts to silence, intimidate, or obstruct our commitment to the Palestinian cause and people will not succeed. We call for urgent, independent investigations into these attacks and full accountability for those responsible.”

Despite the attack in Tunisia, the flotilla continued on its mission to attempt to bring food to starving Palestinians living under the Israeli blockade in Gaza. The boats came under attack from multiple drones while sailing in the Mediterranean Sea south of Greece, and they were all eventually captured by Israeli forces while in international waters and approaching Gaza.

Hundreds of activists, including at least 24 US citizens, were thrown into prison when the IDF brought them to Israel. Some have since been deported and are alleging they were severely mistreated by Israeli forces.

October 8, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Israel Says No Gaza Ceasefire in Place Despite Trump’s Call for a Stop to the Bombing

Israeli forces have killed more than 100 Palestinians in Gaza over the past two days

by Dave DeCamp | October 5, 2025, https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/05/israel-says-no-gaza-ceasefire-in-place-despite-trumps-call-for-an-immediate-halt-to-the-bombing/

The Israeli government said on Sunday that there is no ceasefire in place in Gaza despite President Trump’s calls for Israel to “immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” as the IDF continues to slaughter Palestinians across the Strip.

“While certain bombings have actually stopped inside of the Gaza Strip, there’s no ceasefire in place at this point in time,” said Israeli government spokeswoman Shosh Badrosian, according to The Associated Press.

Badrosian added that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in “regular contact” with Trump and that the upcoming negotiations in Egypt aimed at securing the release of Israelis held by Hamas and implementing a ceasefire will “be confined to a few days maximum, with no tolerance for maneuvers that will delay talks by Hamas.”

Trump first made the call for Israel to stop bombing Gaza on Friday after Hamas issued its response to the US-Israeli ceasefire proposal. On Saturday, Trump said that he appreciated that “Israel has temporarily stopped the bombing,’ but on the same day, the IDF killed at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.

The IDF killed at least 129 Palestinians in Gaza over the past two days, according to daily updates released by Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Health Ministry said in its latest release on Sunday that it recorded the deaths of 63 Palestinians and the injury of 153 over the previous 24-hour period.

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that Israeli attacks on Sunday killed at least 24 Palestinians, including at least 12 who were killed in Gaza City. According to Israeli media, the IDF was ordered to halt its operation to conquer Gaza City, but it has continued to bomb the area.

One Israeli strike in Gaza City on Saturday killed 18 people, including seven children between the ages of two months and eight years, according to a statement from Gaza’s Civil Defense.

The IDF also continues to kill desperate Palestinians attempting to get food. According to the AP, at least four Palestinians were killed near an aid site in southern Gaza on Sunday.

On top of the violent deaths, Palestinians continue to starve to death amid the famine caused by the Israeli siege. According to releases from the Health Ministry, at least three Palestinians, including two children, died of starvation over the past two days.

The ministry said on Sunday that its violent death toll since October 7, 2023, has reached 67,139, and the number of wounded has climbed to 169,583. Studies have found that the ministry’s numbers are likely a significant undercount.

October 8, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Patrick Lawrence: Power and Justice

Trump. – If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas.

By Patrick Lawrence , ScheerPost, October 5, 2025

Those were an eventful few days as the General Assembly convened at the United Nations Secretariat in New York Sept. 22. France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco and Andorra formally recognized the state of Palestine on the first day of the General Debate, Sept. 23. Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal had done so two days earlier. With Spain, New Zealand, Finland, Ireland, Norway and other nations also recognizing, virtually the whole of the Western bloc except the United States now accepts Palestine as a sovereign state.

The imperium fades further into its corner. Always good.

And eventful days have followed all the new endorsements of the sovereignty of the Palestinian people. President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, presented a grandly titled Gaza Peace Plan at the White House on Monday, Sept. 29. After several days of suspense and speculation, Hamas responded to this document on Friday. This was not the wholesale acceptance of the 20–point plan Trump seemed to think it was (or wish it was): No, this was skilled statecraft on Hamas’s part — “a responsible position in dealing with the plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump,” as the Hamas statement describes itself. “Responsible,” as I read the text, means responsible to the long-suffering Palestinians in Gaza and responsible to the principles of the Palestinian cause.

What do we have here? How shall we understand these apparently disparate events? In my view, we witness a running confrontation between power and justice. This seems to me the defining struggle of our time, and it sharpens as we speak.

You hear a lot of different things about those recognitions at the U.N. in support of a Palestinian state. “What a mockery,” Ali Abunimah, the principled director of The Electronic Intifada, wrote on “X” as heads of state stood at the podium and made these announcements. “Now they just need an actual state.” The Nation called the West’s declarations of support for an independent Palestine “a despicable sham.”

OK, there is a case here. These countries, one and all, call for a two-state solution, and a deader letter I cannot think of. Britain and France pile so many conditions atop their declarations — political candidates in the not-yet-realized Palestine will be vetted, Hamas (never mind its popularity) will be barred from any role in government, textbooks will be censored etc. — that you have to wonder what they mean by “sovereignty” and “self-determination.” Britain and France continue to arm Israel as it terrorizes the people we know as Palestinians.

But those many blurting these out-of-hand dismissals have it wrong, in my view. I am not in the habit of approving of anything Keir Starmer or Emmanuel Macron does, but in this case the British prime minister and the French president, odious “centrists” that they are, deserve what we used to call — alas, for the days when there was a serious left — critical support. The West ex-the United States has finally joined the global majority: Four-fifths of the U.N.’s 193 members now support a Palestinian nation.

No, I am with what many West Bank Palestinians have said since the General Debate convened. A woman named Raya, as quoted in the above-linked document: “Recognition is considered a good and unexpected step, but it will have no real value unless it is followed by serious and practical measures.…” From Alia: “It’s not about if they recognize us or not. It’s about if there is even something left to recognize.” And from Samia: “Recognition of Palestinian statehood is great but will be futile if the genocide on Gaza and occupation do not come to an end.”

See what I mean by critical support?

Flawed as all the statements of recognition are, they seem to have uncorked the bottle wherein the justice genie reposed. This is not to be missed. The walkout when Bibi Netanyahu spoke was even more fun to watch than last year’s. So was the straight-no-chaser language with which heads of state denounced the Israelis’ genocidal barbarities. Gustavo Petro, the Colombian president, described Zionist Israelis as Nazis and called for the U.N. to organize an international force to break the Israeli blockade and stop the savagery.

Petro is right: The Israeli–American peace plan notwithstanding, it is ultimately going to take armed intervention to stop the Zionists’ terror spree. A head of state has finally put this thought on the table.

While the General Assembly proceeded with its business, the Spanish and Italians dispatched naval vessels to sail with the aid flotilla of 50–odd ships then making its way to the waters off Gaza. The Israelis intercepted these vessels late last week — illegally, in international waters — and their crews were deported. But a new flotilla of 11 vessels instantly set sail across the Mediterranean. Also last week, Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish premier, announced that U.S. ships and planes transporting arms and matériel to Israel will be barred from transiting through Spanish ports and air bases. These moves cannot be seen as unrelated to developments on the diplomatic side.

You didn’t have to be at the U.N. last month (and I wasn’t) to understand the gravity of these events — to feel the explosive energy in the air inside and outside the Secretariat. You could see it in the real-time videos posted on social media. The world, the non–West naturally in the lead, was at last declaring, “Enough!” Taking the occasion to its essence, this was a full-frontal confrontation with power in the cause of global justice. One dramatic scene stays with me even now: When Gustavo Petro resumed his seat after speaking, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was videoed standing above him and holding his head in a fraternal embrace.

“This historic moment,” the Brazilian president exclaimed when it was his turn at the podium. So it was.

And then what?

Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly had a difficult time settling on a flight plan when he flew from Tel Aviv to New York, given he is wanted under international law for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. Norway, Belgium, Spain, Canada, Ireland and the Netherlands are among the nations that indicated they would honor the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant were he to enter their territory. How was it he was allowed into the Secretariat at all, it was logical to wonder.

We can surmise that part of the Israeli prime minister’s purpose in attending this year’s General Assembly — where he called those who walked out when he spoke “an antisemitic mob” — was openly to flout international law and, per usual, everything the U.N. stands for. The subtext from the moment Bibi arrived in Manhattan was clear: There is no question of the global majority bringing the Israeli terror machine to justice, he wanted to demonstrate, and power, not law, will remain what makes the world go around.

And this is how I read Netanyahu’s summit with President Trump on Monday — their fourth since Trump reassumed office in January. The 20–point plan they released has all kinds of things going on in it, but, taking a step back, it is fairly understood as a reply to the global majority’s just-stated desire for a humane and moral order. Read for its larger meaning, this is a declaration that we — we, all of us — live in a lawless world now and that legitimacy, international institutions, and (certainly not) common notions of justice count for nothing. Force alone counts in the world Trump and Bibi propose to stand astride like the co-emperors who ruled the ancient world after Constantine established an eastern capital in 330 AD.

The text of this document can be read here, courtesy of the BBC. In broad outline — and a broad outline is all there is to it at this point — it calls for an immediate ceasefire, after which — within 72 hours — Hamas is to release all remaining captives still alive and the bodies of the dead. In exchange, Israel will release 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and 1,700 Palestinians taken prisoner since the events of Oct. 7, 2023. Then Hamas is to disarm, and the Israelis are to begin a phased withdrawal of their troops, but these will continue to occupy “for the foreseeable future” an expanding buffer inside the Gaza Strip’s eastern border.

Then come the longer-term provisions. “Gaza will be a deradicalized terror-free zone” in which Hamas will have no presence or role. “Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza.” And then the question of government and administration.

Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee… made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight and supervision by a new international transitional body headed and chaired by Donald J. Trump, with other members and heads of State to be announced, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

You just know Trump’s name is written into this document, and at his insistence, in the cause of his vulgar pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize he will never get. But never mind this. The Gaza Peace Plan released Monday reads as if Netanyahu dictated it, and I will offer odds he did. This thing is written loosely such that it gives Bibi all the room he needs to betray it now that he endorses it. This would, of course, be in keeping with every other agreement with Hamas and/or the United States that Netanyahu has accepted to date.

Hamas, as widely reported, did not formally receive the peace plan until after it was made public and, of course, had no role in its composition. This was intended as a take-it-or-leave-it offer such that, as Bibi and Trump made clear as they stood at opposing podiums Monday afternoon, Hamas’s leaders may as well have guns pointed to their temples.

Bibi:

If Hamas rejects your plan, Mr. President, or if they supposedly accepted and then basically do everything to counter it, then Israel will finish the job by itself.

Trump, following this remark:

Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.

And for good measure, Trump again Friday on Truth Social, his digital bullhorn, warned Hamas that it had until Sunday to accept the plan:

If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas.

Tell me, is this statecraft, or is this power using the threat of genocide as blackmail? Corollary question: Is the overarching proposal here that a regime guilty of the most savage acts of barbarity at least since the Reich shall now proceed on with impunity — no responsibility for its crimes, no answerability to the institutions of global justice?

As to the question of statehood, Hamas’s longstanding demand and the vital preoccupation of the 100–plus nations attending the General Assembly just days earlier, there is no provision at all in this plan unless we count this (and I cannot):

While Gaza re-development advances and when the PA [the Palestinian Authority] reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.

It is simply unbelievable to me that these two grotesquely irresponsible people would expect anyone to take this kind of language at all seriously. Try to count the escape hatches in this provision, which is No. 19 of the 20 comprising the plan. I identify at least three, maybe four……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

I cannot honestly read this moment with any certainty. On Thursday, bang in the middle of these proceedings, Israel Katz, the Zionist state’s defense minister and another of the fanatics in the Netanyahu government, announced that if the half-million residents remaining in Gaza City do not evacuate they will be considered terrorists; the implications of this status will be evident. What is our question: Will the Netanyahu regime hold to the “peace plan,” or how long will it take for Bibi to abrogate it? In the day since Hamas announced its openness to negotiation based on the plan, let me remind you, Israel has not stopped the bombing. …………………………………………………………………….

There is absolutely zero interest in the wishes of Palestinians in this plan. No mention at all of the West Bank or the escalating cruelties of diabolic settlers as they steal ever more Palestinian land. And not to be missed, indifference to what the majority of humanity just made clear at the General Assembly.

This is power announcing its utter contempt for anything other than raw force — forms of force that see no need any longer to disguise themselves.

There is no discounting the significance of events last week at the U.N. and outside its gates. The world has broken its silence. At the highest levels of government in the non–Western majority, it is learning — I can no longer bear this co-opted phrase, but here goes—to speak truth to power. Power and justice are, so to say, now on the record as in open conflict. This is not nothing. There is more to come. I have no trouble anticipating which will finally, however far in the future, win out over the other. https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/05/patrick-lawrence-power-and-justice/

October 8, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Gaza, Israel, politics international, USA | Leave a comment

Trump Swears At Netanyahu As Israel’s Standing in the U.S. Continues to Decline

Dimitri Lascaris. Oct 07, 2025, https://reason2resist.substack.com/p/trump-swears-at-netanyahu-as-israels?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2811845&post_id=175468550&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

After Trump and Netanyahu presented an ultimatum to the Palestinian resistance on September 30, Hamas issued a statement in which it accepted key parts of the ultimatum but diplomatically rejected other parts.

Hamas also signalled its strong willingness to negotiate the points of contention.

Hamas’s response prompted Trump to demand an end to Israel’s bombing of Gaza, but Netanyahu refused to comply. Israeli forces continue to this day to murder Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu reportedly told Trump that Hamas has rejected the Trump ‘peace plan’. Relying on an anonymous source, Axios claims that this prompted a fiery response from Trump.

Despite the theatrics, Hamas and Israeli negotiators have convened in Egypt. New negotiations are said to have begun.

Against this backdrop, the Washington Post just issued a poll showing that Israel’s standing among American Jews continues to plummet.

In the latest episode of Reason2Resist, I argue that, whatever happens in the negotiations in Cairo, Israel has lost the propaganda war, and it is only a matter of time before the U.S. government is forced to rein in its rabid Israeli attack dog.

I also discuss a new, $10 million lawsuit that he and four other Canadian lawyers have filed against Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). The lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 10 current and former students of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. They allege that TMU’s administration falsely accused them of antisemitism.

October 8, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, politics international, USA | Leave a comment

Israel Droned Flotilla Activists And Then Abused Greta Thunberg

Caitlin Johnstone, Oct 05, 2025, https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-droned-flotilla-activists?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=175313119&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Who would have imagined five years ago when we were seeing Greta Thunberg amplified by every mainstream western liberal institution that we would one day hear reports that she has been captured and tormented by the Israeli military for trying to bring formula to starving babies?

The Guardian reports the following:

“In an email sent by the Swedish foreign ministry to people close to Thunberg, and seen by the Guardian, an official who has visited the activist in prison said she claimed she was detained in a cell infested with bedbugs, with too little food and water.

“ ‘The embassy has been able to meet with Greta,’ reads the email. ‘She informed of dehydration. She has received insufficient amounts of both water and food. She also stated that she had developed rashes which she suspects were caused by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh treatment and said she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces.’

“ ‘Another detainee reportedly told another embassy that they had seen her [Thunberg] being forced to hold flags while pictures were taken. She wondered whether images of her had been distributed,’ the Swedish ministry’s official added.

“The allegation was corroborated by at least two other members of the flotilla who had been detained by Israeli forces and released on Saturday.

“ ‘They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,’ the Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.

“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was ‘wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy’ — a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.”

These reports, as shocking as they are, also happen to more or less reflect exactly what the Israeli regime said it intended to do to Global Sumud Flotilla activists when they were captured.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said last month that Sumud activists must be treated as terrorists in order to “create a clear deterrent” from future flotilla activism, declaring that “Anyone who chooses to collaborate with Hamas and support terrorism will meet a firm and unyielding response from Israel.”

“We will not allow individuals who support terrorism to live in comfort. They will face the full consequences of their actions,” Ben-Gvir said at the time.

After the flotilla activists were abducted by the IDF, Ben-Gvir filmed himself taunting them and calling them “terrorists”.

Israel, needless to say, has an extensively documented record of torturing and abusing individuals who’ve been given the “terrorist” label by the regime.

So it would appear that they singled out the most high-profile activist on the flotilla for abuse in order to send a message and deter future efforts to break the siege on Gaza.

October 7, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, weapons and war | Leave a comment

After “Greater Israel,” Netanyahu calls for a “Super-Sparta” and “finishing the job in Gaza”

Voltaire Network | Paris (France) | 3 October 2025, by Thierry Meyssan, translation, Roger Lagassé, https://www.voltairenet.org/article222905.html

Benyamin Netanyahu’s drift from avowed conservatism to Nazism is increasingly evident. After claiming the “historical and spiritual” mission of achieving a “Greater Israel,” that is, conquering the territories of its seven neighbors, he has just called for transforming Israel into a “super-Sparta,” that is, militarizing the state and ceasing all trade with its allies. If words have any meaning, he constantly makes us understand that his references are the fascists Vladimir Jabotinsky and Leo Strauss. From one drift to another, he engaged in a shameless act of lying before the United Nations General Assembly, attributing dark thoughts to his adversaries and claiming the right to continue massacring.

Last week, I warned our readers, particularly Israeli ones, against Benjamin Netanyahu’s rapid drift toward fascistism—and perhaps Naziism, in Ben-Gurion’s words about Vladimir Jabotinsky. [1] I had indeed noted the Prime Minister’s public conversion to the doctrine of “Greater Israel.” Let us recall that this expression is not intended to justify the annexation of the entire Palestinian territories to the State of Israel, but also eastern Egypt, parts of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, all of Lebanon, most of Syria, and part of Iraq, to the point of reforming the ancient Assyrian empire “from the Nile to the Euphrates.”

This announcement, made exclusively in Hebrew, that is, for the sole use of his fellow Israelis, drew strong criticism from all Arab leaders, even reaching the United Nations Security Council on September 23. Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf declared that “the Israeli occupation compromises any prospect of creating an independent and sovereign Palestinian state, not only on the ground but also in people’s minds.” Fueled by the myth of “Greater Israel,” the Israeli government seeks to redefine the region’s borders and extend its hegemony in defiance of international law and the norms governing peaceful coexistence between states; a statement echoed by the Russian Permanent Representative.

Indeed, how can one not question this reference, which the Prime Minister had always avoided citing throughout his political career and which he now uses in the midst of the “genocide” in Gaza? The term genocide is not a legal whim, but the carefully chosen word of the “Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories,” which submitted its report (reference A/79/363) to the United Nations General Assembly on September 20 [2].

This is also the opinion of Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the Advocate General of the Israel Defense Forces. The latter had warned the IDF General Staff that 1.2 million Gazans could not be displaced without ensuring their fate. But on September 8, General Eyal ’Amir, Chief of Staff, overruled these objections. This is the first time since the creation of the State of Israel that a Chief of Staff has ignored the warnings of an Advocate General.

No matter. Benjamin Netanyahu is now reclaiming his complex legacy of fascism and Nazism: on September 15, during a conference organized by Israel’s Accountant General, the Prime Minister declared that the entire world was now against the State of Israel (which is false: he is against its own policies). Particularly Europeans, who are giving in to pressure from their Arab and Muslim immigrants. The enemy is no longer Hamas and Iran, but Belgium and Spain. Also, he continued, Israel must transform itself into a self-sufficient country… a “Super-Sparta.” It must abandon its conventional economic activities and develop its defense industries. [3]

Benjamin Netanyahu spoke cautiously about this myth, saying: “We are Athens and Sparta. But we are going to become Athens and super-Sparta.” It must be remembered that no politician has referred to Sparta since the fall of the Third Reich. It was a leitmotif of the Nazis and their allies, right up to the Japanese imperialists. Everyone claimed to be a Spartan against Athens, just as today, everyone claims to be an Athens against Sparta… except Benjamin Netanyahu and the Straussians. This is why I immediately refer you to what I wrote two years ago [4]: the man behind Netanyahu’s legal coup, the Israeli-American Elliott Abrams, claims not only to be Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism, but also to Leo Strauss.

But Leo Strauss was not only a disciple of Jabotinsky, whom he came to welcome in New York with Benzion Netanyahu (Benyamin’s father). He was a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago. He secretly trained his favorite students. He called them his “hoplites” (that is, his soldiers, in reference to ancient Greece). He tested them by sending them to disrupt the classes of his rivals. Then he taught them that to protect themselves from a possible holocaust, they should not rely on democracies, weak regimes, but build their own dictatorships. It was his students, like Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, who rigged US intelligence and initiated both the attacks of September 11 and the destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq.

The reference to Sparta is a means of recognition that all fascists understand. Yair Lapid, the opposition leader, commented the next day on Radio 103FM, declaring: “Sparta was destroyed. He is the son of a historian. He surprised me. Sparta is a sword, why did he mention it? Because it transformed us into a country at war. We don’t want to be a state at war, we want to be a prosperous, prosperous, and popular country in the world.” Above all, he should have said and repeated that Benzion Netanyahu was a fascist and that Sparta is an unworthy reference in a democracy, that the Holocaust survivors who, fleeing aboard the Exodus, participated in the creation of the State of Israel would turn in their graves to hear the Prime Minister evoke a Nazi myth and perpetrate genocide.

As if that weren’t enough, Benjamin Netanyahu continued to lie before the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly [5]. In a room deserted by three-quarters of the diplomatic delegations, he claimed that Hamas had massacred “1,200 innocent people” on October 7, while, according to the Israeli press, he had ordered the IDF to kill soldiers and civilians themselves so that they would not be “taken prisoner by the enemy” [6]. He is therefore responsible for half of the deaths he denounces. Then, he claimed that Hamas called in its charter for “the murder of all Jews on the planet,” which was never included in it. He boasted of taking all necessary measures to protect Gazan civilians, while all non-Israeli—and often Israeli—experts note the opposite. He accused all those who try to save Gazans of being anti-Semitic and of spreading anti-Semitism, without realizing that it is his policy, carried out in the name of a self-proclaimed “Jewish state,” that fuels this anti-Semitism. He accused 90% of the Palestinian people of supporting the horrors of October 7, while they supported a military operation by the entire Resistance (except Fatah) and largely disassociated themselves from the crimes committed that day. He accused the Palestinians of not wanting an independent state alongside Israel, but instead of Israel, while Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accords alongside Yitzhak Rabin, accepting the “two-state solution.” And so on.

When will we admit that Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer a democrat and that it is our duty to fight him before he kills all the Gazans and begins to purge the Israelis? More than anyone else, Israelis, whose parents were betrayed by their homelands and delivered to Nazi barbarism, should rise up against what the State of Israel is becoming, not only against the Arabs, but also against them.

October 6, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, politics | Leave a comment

They Really Think They’ll Be Able To Propagandize The World Into Liking Israel Again.

Caitlin Johnstone, Oct 06, 2025, https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-really-think-theyll-be-able?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=175387550&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

It’s cute how the Zionists think they’ll be able to manipulate and propagandize the world into liking Israel again.

Yeah, saturate all online platforms with weird-faced influencers telling us Israel is awesome. That’ll make us forget those years of genocidal atrocities.

Sure, buy up the social media platforms that young people are using so you can censor criticism of Israel. That’ll convince them that Zionism is cool.

Go on, take control of CBS and make Bari Weiss the boss. That’ll make us forget all those videos of mutilated Palestinian children.

Right, use Zionist oligarchs and influence operations to manipulate governments and institutions into crushing free speech which opposes a genocidal apartheid state. That’ll get everyone supporting the genocidal apartheid state.

Propaganda is an effective tool of mass-scale psychological manipulation, but it isn’t magic. It isn’t going to miraculously erase what people know in their bones to be true.

In order to successfully propagandize people you need to first get them to trust you, and then you need to feed them narratives which appeal to the cognitive biases they already hold. Nobody trusts Israel apologia anymore, and people’s biases are now stacked squarely against the Zionist entity. They’ve got nothing to work with and nowhere to start from.

If a coworker you hate came up to you and started stealing stuff off your desk while telling you he’s your friend and that he would never steal from you, you’re not going to believe him no matter how many words he says to you. No matter how skillful a manipulator he is, no matter how eloquent his words are, nothing he says will trump your first hand observations of your material reality.

That’s what it’s like at this point. They’re trying to throw a bunch of language at us in order to convince us that we haven’t seen what we’ve seen, haven’t experienced what we’ve experienced, and don’t know what we know. And they assume it will work because the language they’re throwing at us is being circulated in high volumes and costs a lot of money.

It won’t work, though. Even if propaganda could convince us that we haven’t seen what we’ve seen and don’t know what we know, propaganda only works if you don’t know it’s happening to you. These past two years have made even relatively apolitical members of the public acutely aware that there is an aggressive campaign to manipulate their perception of the state of Israel, and that anyone pushing them to support that state is untrustworthy. Nobody’s going to buy into the propaganda if they don’t trust the source.

Now that everyone’s aware that Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post to churn out propaganda on its behalf, whenever you see a video online of some young social media-savvy personality promoting pro-Israel narratives you see their replies flooded with memes and jokes about their $7k jackpot. From now on whenever some sunglasses-wearing zillennial shows up going “Israel is surrounded on all sides by Islamofascists and you think JEWS are the problem? Uhh, no babe. Walk with me,” everyone’s going to go “Found one of those $7k posts.”

It just doesn’t work. Psychological manipulation only goes so far. There’s only so much that clever language can do to decouple someone’s mind from their direct experience of material reality.

This is where Israel went wrong in alienating the liberal Zionists. They needed people at the table who understood how normal human beings think, who could help the Israel project walk the delicate line between apartheid abuses papered over with propaganda and full-scale atrocities which would alienate the world. Instead they decided to go all in with the Smotriches and Ben-Gvirs, trusting that the propaganda machine which had served them so well all those decades would continue to carry them through any international upset they might cause.

It hasn’t turned out that way. The world’s eyes are open to what Israel is, and they are never going to close again. You can’t take off the Mickey Mouse mask, show the kids the snarling Freddy Krueger face underneath it, and then put the mask on and hope they start calling you Mickey again. Nobody’s going to forget what you showed them.

October 6, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, spinbuster | Leave a comment

Panic in Israel as Hamas agrees to release all of the hostages

Laura and Normal Island News, Oct 04, 2025, https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/panic-in-israel-as-hamas-agrees-to?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1407757&post_id=175259462&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ln98x&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

In a worrying turn of events, Hamas has agreed to release all remaining prisoners in accordance with Donald Trump’s peace proposal. The plan will involve the de-radicalisation and disarmament of Gaza, but not the de-radicalisation and disarmament of Israel. Nevertheless, Netanyahu feels Israel is being unfairly picked on.

Trump has instructed Netanyahu to immediately halt all bombing of Gaza, but Netanyahu has sensibly ignored him and continued bombing throughout the night. Be honest, who would miss the opportunity for some last minute mass murder? Not a Zionist, that’s for sure.

Understandably, Hamas’ announcement has been met with horror in the Israeli war room which has successfully held off a peace deal for two years so it can kill as many Palestinians as possible.

Israel only had to sacrifice half of the hostages to achieve this goal and would be quite happy to sacrifice the other half for two more years of slaughter. It is therefore drawing up emergency plans to derail the peace process and blame Hamas. I’m told a false flag is not off the table.

Netanyahu has launched an investigation to establish why the IDF failed to murder all of the Hamas negotiators before they could agree to peace. This was an enormous and unforgivable oversight.

While Netanyahu and his accomplices are worried a peace deal could mean they face jail, Israelis are torn on the idea of a ceasefire. On the one hand, they don’t give a fuck about those prisoners, but on the other hand, they have bombed everything there is to bomb several times over, and taking selfies among the rubble gets old. Mass slaughter is even making some of them feel sad.

One Zionist was told the pang he felt when he squished children with a bulldozer might have been a conscience, although it was probably self-pity. Either way, he was promptly arrested, and we don’t talk about him anymore. His family has destroyed all pictures of him.

Given the serious risk of self-pity spreading among IDF ranks, perhaps it really is time to end this thing, and I can go back to doing anything other than satirising a fucking genocide. Palestinians have no idea how hard my life is.

Let’s just end this thing now and pat ourselves on the back for a job well done…

It’s fair to say Israel has achieved many things throughout this genocide. For example, it has destroyed 80% of the buildings, 86% of the farmland, 90% of the cattle, 89% of water and sanitation infrastructure, 100% of desalination plants, and it has made Gaza more or less unliveable. Israel has killed so many civilians that the world lost count.

Israel didn’t stop at Gaza either. It killed a load of people in the West Bank and Syria and Yemen and Iran and Qatar and Lebanon. Who remembers the time when Israel’s pagers took the eyeballs of doctors and nurses and all of the nicest people laughed? Good times.

The relentless bombing campaign was not Israel’s only achievement though. Israel successfully colonised TikTok, the social media app that was promised to God’s chosen people 3,000 years ago. Israel is carrying out a Nakba on TikTok by culling everyone who has ever used the word “AIPAC”. Needless to say, AIPAC does not exist and it’s racist to say otherwise.

Mahmoud Abbas says he is willing to make regular child sacrifices to Israel in exchange for the Gaza presidency, but he has been told his services will not be needed. If a peace deal can be agreed, we have the exciting prospect of Tony Blair ruling Gaza from afar without the consent of Palestinians.

We need someone with the ability to eliminate all evidence of genocide. It’s gonna take the most ghoulish person imaginable to erase hundreds of thousands of corpses and act like they never existed. Needless to say, Blair is just as keen to harness the souls of the dead as he was to steal oil in Iraq.

Once the peace deal is in place, Palestinians will kindly be allowed to live in tents with minimal rations and occasional bombings until they get fed up and leave. At this point, Blair will be given a Nobel Peace Prize and all mentions of Palestine will be erased from the history books. Sadly though, Netanyahu will probably be in jail on corruption charges. Life can be so unfair x

October 5, 2025 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Israel, politics | Leave a comment

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