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from Daily Sabah
Türkiye welcomes recent steps taken to recognize a Palestinian state by France, Britain and others, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday, vowing to work to put more pressure on Israel to prevent a humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
"We find the recent humanitarian reactions coming from Europe, particularly from France and Britain, very valuable. We welcome every step taken toward recognition of the State of Palestine," Erdoğan said.
"One of the most effective responses to Israel's genocide policy is to support the two-state solution based on the 1967 borders," he told a joint news conference with Gabon President Brice Oligui Nguema in Ankara.
His remarks came after multiple countries in recent days announced their intentions to recognize an independent Palestinian state, as part of a broader global shift against Israel's attrocities in Gaza.
The moves have come as international concern and criticism have grown as starvation and famine are taking place in Gaza and Palestinians are not getting food due to Israeli blockade.
The leading international authority on hunger crises this week said Israel's military offensive and blockade have led to the "worst-case scenario of famine" in the territory...
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from Daily Sabah
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is "beyond imagination," German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Thursday, ramping up the pressure on Israel to act quickly as criticism mounts over its atrocities in the Palestinian enclave.
"The humanitarian disaster in Gaza is beyond imagination," Wadephul said at a press conference after meeting top Israeli officials.
Israel must "quickly and safely send sufficient humanitarian and medical aid to avoid mass deaths" as a result of starvation, he said, calling it "absolutely intolerable" that "men, women and children were killed every day whilst desperately searching for food."
Israel is under mounting international pressure to agree a cease-fire and allow a surge in food aid into the Gaza Strip, where U.N.-backed experts have reported "famine is now unfolding."
Canada on Wednesday became the latest Western government to announce plans to recognize a Palestinian state, after similar moves from France and Britain.
Germany has held off promising to recognize Palestinian statehood and maintained its long-standing position that recognition could come only after negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians...
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from PressTV
US President Donald Trump has imposed steep tariffs on exports from 92 countries, including Canada, Switzerland, Brazil, and India, ahead of his self-imposed August 1 deadline that is expected to reignite global trade tensions.
“We have made a few deals today that are excellent deals for the country,” Trump told reporters on Thursday afternoon after signing executive orders to impose tariffs between 15 and 41 percent on goods from around the global market.
He ordered raising tariffs on Canadian imports to 35 percent for goods deemed non-compliant with the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), citing Canada’s failure to curb fentanyl smuggling across the border, saying Canada had "failed to cooperate" in curbing illicit narcotics flows into the US.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement that he was “disappointed” with Trump’s tariff hike, adding that “Canadians will be our own best customer.” He emphasized that Canada accounts for just 1 percent of US fentanyl imports, highlighting the minimal role Canada plays in the US fentanyl issue.
"While we will continue to negotiate with the United States on our trading relationship, the Canadian government is laser focused on what we can control: building Canada strong," he said in a post on X.
The decision pertaining to Canada contrasted sharply with Trump's decision to grant Mexico a 90-day reprieve from higher tariffs of 30% on many goods to allow time to negotiate a broader trade pact. However, Trump said the US would continue to levy a 50% tariff on Mexican steel, aluminum, and copper and a 25% tariff on Mexican autos and on non-USMCA-compliant goods subject to tariffs related to the US fentanyl crisis...
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from al Jazeera
Dozens of ministers have gathered at a United Nations conference to urge the world to work towards a two-state solution between Israelis and the Palestinians, but the United States and Israel have boycotted the event.
The 193-member UN General Assembly decided in September last year that such a conference would be held in 2025.
Hosted by France and Saudi Arabia, the conference was postponed in June after Israel attacked Iran.
Addressing the attendees on Monday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud urged all countries to support the conference goal of a roadmap laying out the parameters to a Palestinian state while ensuring Israel’s security.
In opening remarks, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “We must ensure that it does not become another exercise in well-meaning rhetoric.
“It can and must serve as a decisive turning point – one that catalyses irreversible progress towards ending the occupation and realising our shared aspiration for a viable two-state solution.”
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told the conference: “We must work on the ways and means to go from the end of the war in Gaza to the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at a time when this war is jeopardising the stability and security of the entire region.
“Only a political, two-state solution will help respond to the legitimate aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace and security. There is no alternative.”
France intends to recognise a Palestinian state in September at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, French President Emmanuel Macron said last week.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa called on all countries to “recognise the state of Palestine without delay”.
“All states have a responsibility to act now,” said Mustafa at the start of the meeting.
The meeting comes as Israel’s war on Gaza still rages after more than 21 months.
The war was triggered in October 2023 when Hamas led an attack on southern Israel, killing at least 1,139 and seizing more than 200 others as captives, according to Israeli statistics.
Since then, Israel’s military assault on Gaza has killed more than 59,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to health authorities in the besieged territory...
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(So of course, Bibi Netanyahu's bitch, Donald Trump, imposed a 35% trade tariff on Canada, to be paid by American importers and consumers, to 'teach Canada a lesson' as inflation goes thru the roof in America and businesses go out of business. Brilliant.)
from al Jazeera
Canada has joined several Western countries in announcing its intention to recognise a Palestinian state amid the continuing Israeli atrocities unfolding in Gaza.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made the announcement on Wednesday.
He explained that Ottawa had hoped that a two-state solution could be achieved through a negotiated peace process, but that approach was “no longer tenable”.
“Canada intends to recognise the State of Palestine at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025,” Carney told reporters.
The move follows a similar announcement by the United Kingdom and France earlier this month.
But it is not clear how such recognitions will impact Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza and the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank – the two territories that would form a Palestinian state.
Carney said the recognition is predicated on promises of reform from the Palestinian Authority and President Mahmoud Abbas, as well as a commitment to hold general elections in 2026.
He stressed that Hamas can play no role in the future of Palestine and would not be allowed to take part in future elections, a condition that some argue may taint any democratic process.
“Preserving a two-state solution means standing with all people who choose peace over violence or terrorism,” Carney said...
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(So of course, George Galloway and Chris Williamson launch One State Palestine just in time to try to help derail the recognition of the state of Palestine. 'In 2014, Williamson voted to support the Cameron coalition's 2011 military intervention in Libya and the British action against ISIS in Iraq.' Williamson later said he didn't do enough research on either of those subjects before supporting them, which is something he always says AFTER HELPING THE WRONG SIDE. Hmmmm. Galloway has a LONG HISTORY of supporting the neoliberal establishment in his backhanded, tacit way.)
(In this case these assets are trying to bleed off support for recognition of the Palestinian state with this idiotic One State Palestine movement which literally WIPES ISRAEL OFF THE MAP and pretends there is a way to force these people to live together, side by side, in Palestine... in peace. While 85% of Israel's population still wants to steal all of Palestine and chase all Arabs out of Israel. Yeah, that'll work.)
from the United Nations
A high-level General Assembly conference on advancing the realization of two independent States — Israel and Palestine — concluded its general debate today, with the final outcome document circulated to delegations. The event will reconvene at a later date to take action on the text.
“States have until the beginning of September to endorse the document if they so wish,” said the representative of Saudi Arabia as he suspended the session.
Co-chaired by that country and France, the “High-Level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” was held pursuant to General Assembly resolution 79/81 from 28 to 30 July in New York. (For coverage of the 28 and 29 July meetings, see Press Releases PAL/2248 and PAL/2249, respectively.)
During the Conference’s general debate — featuring more than 120 speakers — some highlighted the historical significance of General Assembly resolution 181(II), adopted in November 1947, which outlined the foundational vision of a two-State solution.
from Daily SAbah
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan strongly criticized Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, as he said Tel Aviv's use of hunger as a weapon proves it has no regard for humanity, amid global outrage over the dire situation in the blockaded Palestinian enclave.
Speaking at a joint news conference with his Kazakh Counterpart, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Erdoğan said Israel’s use of hunger as a weapon against Palestinians is the clearest indication that they have no share in humanity.”
Erdoğan also said it is essential for all countries, especially Muslim nations, to raise their voices against Israel's barbarities in Gaza.
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number of American soldiers killed during Vietnam war 58,220
number of American soldiers killed during Korean war 36,574
of course they were soldiers on someone else's land.
just putting it into perspective.
The actual number of deaths in Gaza is estimated to be over 400,000 at this point and that is getting close to the scale of the Rwandan genocide.
from PressTV
Israel’s genocidal war has killed at least 60,034 Palestinians, mostly women and children, across the besieged Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Gaza Health Ministry said that the number of injured was 145,870, while thousands remain missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings and areas.
The ministry further said that most of those killed were civilians.
The grim milestone was reached on Tuesday, when at least 62 Palestinians, including 19 aid seekers, were killed since dawn in Israeli attacks across Gaza despite what the regime has described as “pauses” to deliver aid.
The attacks continue as United Nations experts warned that the “worst-case scenario of famine” is unfolding in the besieged territory, where forced starvation and malnutrition are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths among the Palestinians there.
Earlier this year, research published in the Lancet medical journal estimated that the death toll in Gaza was about 40% higher than numbers recorded by the Palestinian Health Ministry...
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Lots going on. From RFK Jr. to Trump to Gaza and Jeffrey Sachs. Lots to talk about so lets get to it.
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(HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (right) with Argentina's fascist President Javier Milei [Photo: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.])
from Mondoweiss
The U.S. envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said on Monday that the U.S. will consider “alternative options” to negotiating with Hamas following the breakdown of ceasefire talks between Israel and the resistance group. Witkoff’s statements came as part of his announcement of Washington’s withdrawal from the talks in Qatar, only a day after Hamas presented its response to the latest Witkoff proposal.
Witkoff’s statement that the U.S. would find another way of securing “stability” in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages in the Strip was later backed with a similar statement from President Trump, who said on Friday that Hamas “didn’t really want to make a deal.”
Trump added that Hamas leaders “know what happens after we get the final hostages, and so they didn’t want to make a deal.” Trump also said that Hamas “want to die” and that Israel has to “fight and finish the job.”...
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from al Jazeera by Moncef Khane
On July 9, 2024, no fewer than 11 experts mandated by the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a mayday call about famine in Gaza.
“We declare that Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza. We call upon the international community to prioritise the delivery of humanitarian aid by land by any means necessary, end Israel’s siege, and establish a ceasefire,” their statement read.
from the AP
The U.N. General Assembly is bringing high-level officials together this week to promote a two-state solution to the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict that would place their peoples side by side, living in peace in independent nations.
Israel and its close ally the United States are boycotting the two-day meeting, which starts Monday and will be co-chaired by the foreign ministers of France and Saudi Arabia. Israel’s right-wing government opposes a two-state solution, and the United States has called the meeting “counterproductive” to its efforts to end the war in Gaza. France and Saudi Arabia want the meeting to put a spotlight on the two-state solution, which they view as the only viable road map to peace, and to start addressing the steps to get there.
The meeting was postponed from late June and downgraded from a four-day meeting of world leaders amid surging tensions in the Middle East, including Israel’s 12-day war against Iran and the war in Gaza.
“It was absolutely necessary to restart a political process, the two-state solution process, that is today threatened, more threatened than it has ever been,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
Here’s what’s useful to know about the upcoming gathering...
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(Zainab Abu Halib, 5-months-old, died of malnutrition Saturday by Glorious Israel and her complicit accomplices here in the states)
from al Mayadeen English
Infant Mohammad Ibrahim Adas has died due to malnutrition and a lack of infant formula, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Monday, July 28, 2025, bringing the total number of deaths due to malnutrition and famine to 134, including 88 children.
More than 100,000 children in the Gaza Strip, including 40,000 infants under the age of one, are at risk of imminent death due to a total absence of baby formula and nutritional supplements, the Gaza Government Media Office warned, according to Anadolu Agency.
In a stark statement, the media office described the crisis as a “massacre in slow motion,” accusing "Israel" of intentionally starving Gaza’s youngest by maintaining a complete blockade and sealing all border crossings.
The statement revealed that desperate mothers have been forced to feed their infants only water for days, while hospitals and clinics report a rising tide of children suffering from acute, life-threatening malnutrition.
Yesterday, hospitals in the Gaza Strip recorded six new deaths in 24 hours due to famine and malnutrition...
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(Maybe the 1k rabbis should send another letter telling them to stop trying to steal someone else's land and wipe Palestine off the map for the Greater Israel project. That would be nice.)
from RT
More than 1,000 rabbis from around the world have accused Israel of weaponizing hunger in Gaza and urged West Jerusalem to allow aid into the enclave.
According to UN Palestinian refugee agency chief Philippe Lazzarini, around 90,000 women and children are suffering from malnutrition in what relief groups describe as a man-made famine caused by the Israeli blockade.
Rabbis and Jewish scholars from the US, UK, EU, and Israel signed an open letter declaring that the Jewish people “face a grave moral crisis.”
“The severe limitation placed on humanitarian relief in Gaza, and the policy of withholding food, water, and medical supplies from a needy civilian population, contradict essential values of Judaism as we understand it,” the letter reads.
The rabbis called on Israel to allow “extensive humanitarian aid” while preventing diversion to Hamas and demanded that Israel “work urgently by all routes possible to bring home all the hostages and end the fighting.”...
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from al Jazeera
As Israel’s killing of Palestinians continues fast and slow, through air strikes and starvation, the foreign ministers of 28 countries have signed a statement calling for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.
As these countries deploy words months after the United Nations and other groups warned of an oncoming famine, there has been little action on other fronts.
Some of these countries have recognised the Palestinian state while France last week angered Israeli officials by announcing it would do the same in September.
Still, many critics have pointed out that as countries make these statements, many of them continue to benefit from trade with Israel and have not imposed sanctions or taken any other action that could push Israel to end its genocidal war on Gaza.
The war has killed at least 59,821 people in Gaza and wounded 144,477.
Here’s all you need to know about the countries profiting from Israel while condemning its military action:
from Daily Sabah
The Israeli military on Sunday began a daily 10-hour "tactical pause" in fighting across three densely populated areas of Gaza, aiming to ease access for humanitarian aid amid growing international criticism and escalating concerns over widespread hunger during the 21-month war.
The military said it would begin the pause in Gaza City, Deir al-Balah and Muwasi, three areas of the territory with large populations, to "increase the scale of humanitarian aid" entering the territory. The pause begins every day at 10 a.m. and lasts until 8 p.m. local time, effective Sunday.
The military also said that it would establish secure routes for aid delivery and that it carried out aid airdrops into Gaza, which included packages of aid with flour, sugar and canned food.
Food experts have warned for months of the risk of famine in Gaza, where Israel has restricted aid, alleging Hamas siphons off goods to help bolster its rule, without providing evidence for that claim...
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from Daily Sabah
The Israeli military seized a Gaza-bound aid ship attempting to breach its blockade, detaining 21 international activists and journalists and confiscating supplies including baby formula, food and medicine, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said Sunday.
The coalition that operates the vessel Handala said the Israeli military "violently intercepted” the ship in international waters about 40 nautical miles from Gaza, cutting the cameras and communication, just before midnight Saturday.
"All cargo was non-military, civilian and intended for direct distribution to a population facing deliberate starvation and medical collapse under Israel’s illegal blockade," the group said in a statement.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment. Israel's Foreign Ministry posted on X early Sunday that the Navy stopped the vessel and was bringing it to shore.
It was the second ship operated by the coalition that Israel has prevented in recent months from delivering aid to Gaza, where food experts have for months warned of the risk of famine. Activist Greta Thunberg was among 12 activists on board the ship Madleen when it was seized by the Israeli military in June.
The ship's interception comes as Israel faces mounting international criticism over the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza, with concern growing over rising hunger in the territory amid Israeli restrictions on aid...
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from PressTV
Last week, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett rejected assertions linking the notorious financier and convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, with Israel’s spy agency.
It followed journalist Tucker Carlson’s scrutiny of Epstein’s close ties with the Israeli regime and its spy agency Mossad, which has been widely documented over the years.
During a July 11 speech to the conservative youth group Turning Point USA, Carlson questioned the Mossad-Epstein connection, asserting that “every single person in Washington, DC, thinks that.”
He probed the puzzling trajectory of Epstein’s career, inquiring, “How does a guy go from being a math teacher at the Dalton School in the late 70s with no college degree to having multiple airplanes, a private island, and the largest residential house in Manhattan?”
Carlson noted that it was evident Epstein had direct ties to a foreign entity, pointing to Israel.
“Now, no one’s allowed to say that that foreign government is Israel because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that that’s naughty. There is nothing wrong with saying that. There is nothing hateful about saying that. There’s nothing anti-Semitic about saying. There’s nothing even anti-Israel about saying that,” he told the enthusiastic crowd.
He also hinted that Epstein blackmailed people involved in his scheme on behalf of Mossad.
“The real question is not ‘Was Jeffrey Epstein a weirdo who was abusing girls?’ The real question is why was he doing this, on whose behalf, and where did the money come from,” Carlson said...
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from PressTV
A senior Hamas official has condemned US President Donald Trump's remarks about the absence of famine in Gaza.
Izzat al-Rishq stated on Sunday evening that Trump's denial of famine in Gaza is a blatant repetition of Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's narrative and lies.
"We are surprised by the statements issued by President Trump, which contradict the mediators' assessment of the movement's position and are inconsistent with the negotiations process," Izzat al-Rishq said in a press statement.
Al-Rishq condemned Trump's assertions, emphasizing that they "deny the famine despite the testimony of the United Nations and international organizations, and the deaths of dozens of children from starvation due to the siege and the prevention of food and medicine entry."
He further claimed that Trump's statements inadvertently give the Israeli regime additional justification to pursue its alleged campaign of extermination and starvation against the Palestinian population.
"We call on the US administration to stop exonerating the occupation and providing it with cover to continue its war of extermination and starvation against more than two million people in the Gaza Strip," he added.
Additionally, al-Rishq rejected US claims that Hamas is misappropriating humanitarian aid, labeling them as unfounded and lacking credible evidence.
He said Israel is inciting chaos in Gaza by intentionally targeting police officers who are tasked with protecting aid convoys...
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As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/07/as-gaza-starves-netanyahu-jokes-about.html
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from al Mayadeen English
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced that contact was lost with the Handala flotilla, which was bound for Gaza to break the Israeli siege on humanitarian aid entering the enclave.
"All communications with the Handala's crew have been jammed," a statement published on the FCC's telegram channel read, adding that they lost all contact with the crew while multiple drones hovered over the vessel. The FCC noted that this could mean the Handala could have been intercepted or attacked.
"We need you to pressure for the safety of the crew," the FCC's statement added, calling on people to contact their representatives and local media to "pressure Israel to let 'Handala' go and guarantee a safe passage to Gaza."...
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from The Guardian
Gaza is starving. Nearly 100,000 women and children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, and a third of Gaza’s population is going days without eating, according to an expert from the UN World Food Programme. Tons of food sits rotting in warehouses just outside Gaza but the government of Israel will not allow it to be freely delivered. Instead, starving Palestinians must contend with a real-life version of The Hunger Games to try to eat. More than 1,000 desperate Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces since the end of May trying to reach food distribution points run by the US – and the Israel-backed Gaza “Humanitarian” Foundation.
But enough about that, eh! Who wants to hear about starving babies who will either die painful deaths or never fully recover from the long-term consequences of malnutrition in early childhood? I’m sure what you really want to know is what Benjamin Netanyahu’s favourite fast-food order is. And, luckily, I’ve got some answers for you.
On Monday Netanyahu, one of the main architects of Gaza’s human-made mass starvation campaign, gave an hour-long interview to Nelk Boy members Kyle Forgeard and Aaron Steinberg on their Full Send Podcast.
If you are not in their target demographic (a young man with right-leaning tendencies), you might not know much about the collection of media personalities known as the Nelk Boys, but they wield a lot of influence. They have more than 8.5 million subscribers on YouTube and have interviewed Donald Trump multiple times. While they initially built a name for themselves as pranksters, they’ve now aligned themselves with the likes of the self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and went all-in on Trump’s 2024 campaign. Some political scientists believe that they are partly responsible for Trump’s second term. Indeed, the Nelk Boys, along with other “manosphere”-adjacent podcasters such as Adin Ross, Theo Von and Joe Rogan, even got a shout-out from the UFC CEO ,Dana White, at Trump’s election night victory party...
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by Scott Creighton
Yesterday the House Oversight Committee has, in a surprise vote of 8 to 2, voted to subpoena the Department of Justice and force them to hand over what remains of the Epstein files.
' GOP Reps. Nancy Mace, Scott Perry and Brian Jack joined with the subpanel’s four Democrats and the full committee’s ranking member Robert Garcia to approve the subpoena. House Oversight Chair James Comer will be required to sign the subpoena before it can officially be issued, according to committee rules.'
Comer will refuse to sign of course, making this merely a symbolic act of revolt on the part of the 4 Republicans.
Or virtue signalling.
In time there will be nothing left of the Epstein files to hand over. Nothing they don't want you to see and perhaps even stuff added in like President Trump suggested James Comey and Hillary Clinton were doing with them.
The prize after all this time will be nothing more than a poisoned pill but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed to see it and judge for ourselves.
I am curious as to Whitney Webb's intention when she Tweeted this statement day before yesterday:
Ending up like 'her father, Epstein or Jean Luc Brunel'?
Ghislaine Maxwell was a business partner and very close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein. She may have even been the brains behind the whole thing. Her father was a spy after all and the two of them made Epstein the influential fixer that he was.
When Webb publicly supports the pleasant fiction that Jeffrey Epstein is dead, it disappoints me.
by Scott Creighton
Where does the 'Jewish State' go from here after killing so many to benefit so few? After openly calling to steal the West Bank and then Gaza by torturing and killing their rightful inhabitants?
Where does the 'Jewish State' go after turning a blind eye to the starvation of children for their profit, for Greater Israel?
A once proud and mighty people lost to the sands of time. It's a story played out without end.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart.[d] Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.— Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias", 1819 edition
Where will the mighty 'Jewish State' go after letting greed usurp humanity?
The libraries are full of examples, there for the taking. But the Kings of Kings heed no warnings, can learn no lessons. They are his 'chosen' people.
“They bow down to vanity and emptiness and pray to a god who does not save them …” Aleinufrom al Mayadeen English
Hezbollah has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s vote on Wednesday in favor of a bill to impose “Israeli sovereignty” over the occupied West Bank and Jordan Valley, describing it as a dangerous reaffirmation of "Israel's" expansionist and colonial agenda.
In a statement issued Thursday, Hezbollah warned that allowing the Israeli occupation to continue its actions unchallenged would only embolden further aggression. “The Israeli occupation will not stop at the borders of the West Bank, al-Quds, or Palestine,” the Lebanese Resistance declared, adding that “its plans will eventually encompass the entire region.”
Hezbollah stressed that no country or group in the region is safe from what it described as a broader Israeli scheme for regional control. It linked the continued military aggression on Lebanon and Syria, including attacks, incursions, and land seizures, as well as the war on Yemen, to a unified strategy aimed at advancing the Israeli entity’s expansionist ambitions.
It said the Knesset’s move comes amid the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
“With each passing day of the war on the Palestinian people, and the ongoing genocide, siege, and starvation campaign in Gaza, the expansionist Israeli policies and the Talmudic dreams of establishing what is called the historical homeland of the Jewish people are surfacing more blatantly,” Hezbollah's statement read...
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from PressTV
Lana no longer plays with her brother. The rosy-complexioned child who once ran barefoot across the courtyard now sits slumped against a cement wall, her yellowed skin barely concealing the skeleton underneath.
“She can’t walk. She can’t stand for long,” wrote Alaa Arafat, the aunt of little Lana. “All she wants is to sleep and sit. I can’t believe what has become of her.”
Lana is one of Gaza’s million children, over half the besieged territory's population, enduring the slow and systematic agony of the Israeli regime’s starvation campaign.
For months now, the war-ravaged coastal strip has been at the epicenter of what experts describe as a textbook case of genocidal assault—one that uses hunger itself as a calculated instrument of war.
The Health Ministry in Gaza reported that 101 Palestinians, including 80 children, have already died from starvation and dehydration since the genocidal war began.
In the last week alone, dozens more hunger-related deaths were reported across the territory with haunting images shared on social media platforms...
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(Imagine that. The 'Jewish State' voting to steal some shit from other people. What are the odds?)
(But we are told over and over and over again it's all about Hamas. It's all about Oct. 7th. It's all about Jews feeling safe. Turns out all of that is bullshit. They knew before Oct. 7th and let it happen anyway so they could use it as cover to launch Greater Israel plan in earnest. And this is the West Bank. Hamas doesn't run the West Bank. They just want to steal the land and the West Bank, thanks to Vichy Fatah and PA is the easiest mark to start with. Plus, they figure, America is distracted by Trump and Epstein so... never let a crisis go to waste.)
from Daily Sabah
Türkiye has strongly condemned the Israeli parliament's recent resolution urging the government to annex the occupied West Bank, denouncing the move as a flagrant violation of international law and a dangerous provocation.
In a written statement issued Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry declared the resolution “null and void under international law and without any validity,” stressing that the West Bank is Palestinian territory that has remained under Israeli occupation since 1967.
The ministry criticized the move as part of broader efforts by Israel to undermine peace and destabilize the region.
“Any Israeli attempt at annexation is illegitimate and provocative,” the statement read, warning that Israel's “violent policies and unlawful actions” are not only worsening the humanitarian crisis but also threatening international order and regional security.
Türkiye calls on the international community to take immediate and concrete steps to halt Israel’s actions, the statement said.
“Binding and deterrent measures must be taken without delay against genocidal Israel’s aggression; the legal and moral obligations of the international system must be effectively fulfilled,” the statement urged.
Earlier this week, the Israeli parliament voted in favor of a resolution calling on the government to annex the West Bank – territory internationally recognized as occupied Palestinian land. Of the 120 Knesset members, 71 supported the resolution, 13 opposed it, and the rest abstained.
The resolution claims the West Bank as “the historical, cultural and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people and an inseparable part of the Land of Israel.”...
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'Office of ex-US president breaks precedent and warns that allegations of attempted ‘coup’ are ‘attempt at distraction’ Guardian
And I have the receipts from my archives. It seems that Trump is threatening to start revealing all sorts of nefarious stuff from the past if they don't shut up about the Epstein files. And it will probably work since there is all sorts of nefarious stuff he could release.
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(archived from Jan 4 2017) by Scott Creighton
Pussy Riot™ mission statement: When the world is being neoliberalized as fast as possible and the masters of the universe demand tribute from those seeking a place at the table, no effort to assist in that endeavor , no matter how sophomoric or insipid, no matter how ridiculous, no matter how contrived, shall go unrewarded. And Pussy Riot™ will be there to cash in
Not that long ago President Obama said that Russia and President Putin had tried to influence the outcome of our election process and that it was “unacceptable” behavior for a nation to attempt to influence the democratic process of other nations. Forget for a second that his evidence was so laughable that the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that cobbled it together, posted a disclaimer on the first page of the report that said it didn’t stand by a single shred of “proof” in it’s own report:
“this report is provided “as is” for informational purposes only. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within.”
Let’s also forget for a moment the troubling rise of the New McCarthyism in America and the lynch-mob mentality that goes along with it.
(archived from Jan11 2017) by Scott Creighton
And speaking of “fake news”… CNN has some breaking this morning.
Fake news outlet CNN is reporting on this story as if it is the gospel truth and they apparently refuse to link their readers/viewers to the actual 35-page document so folks can judge it for themselves. There’s good reason for that. It’s ridiculous. Here is a link to the entire 35-page “report” (PDF)
Here’s the story in a nutshell: an organization of Trump rivals in the primary contest last year hired some former British MI-6 liar to dig up some dirt on Donald Trump during the run-up to the election. The guy cobbled together some bullshit fabrications about Russia cultivating Trump for the past 5 years while simultaneously collecting sex videos of him and some hookers peeing on a bed the Obamas once slept in for blackmail purposes. The “report” was so stupid and devoid of actual facts, the group shelved the “report”. In their desperation toward the end, the Hillary team bought the rights to it, but again, because it was so stupid and sophomoric sounding, even they refused to use it.
(archived from June 2017 ) by Scott Creighton
“When it appeared to (the Deep State) that Secretary Clinton was likely to (lose) the presidency the (5-Eyes) influence campaign focused more on undercutting (President Trump’s) legitimacy and crippling (his) presidency from its start, including by impugning the fairness of the election”
No truer words have ever been written by the Deep State’s 5-Eyes political influence and destabilization campaigns.
In early March of this year, Judge Napolitano of Fox News broke a story about how the former president Barack Obama was aided by British intelligence agency GCHQ to spy on the campaign of then Republican candidate Donald J. Trump in 2016 through the use of the 5-Eyes program which allows various nations to use their spying services to aid each other, spying on their own citizens without actually having to break national laws about spying on their own citizens. This “intelligence sharing” deal allows members to ask other nations to spy on their citizens so they can’t be accused of violating their rules and the constitutions of the various member states.
When this story came out, the complicit media viciously attacked Judge Nap. and anyone else who reported on the story.
GCHQ, who typically never comments on anything they are accused of, spoke up IMMEDIATELY, denying the charge.
“The British GCHQ has responded with the following statement: “Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct ‘wire tapping’ against the then President Elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”
For a brief moment in time, the general public started hearing about 5-Eyes, many for the first time and for the next month Mockingbird personalities like Scarborough and Maddow breathlessly ranted about how dangerous it was to insult our glorious intel partners across the pond as they forecast dire possibilities about what might happen were we to lose their trust.
Then this happened on April 13th…
(archived from Jan 22 2018) by Scott Creighton
It must be good to be king.
Years ago the CIA deliberately destroyed videos of their interrogations (read as “torture”) of various terror suspects that congress had demanded to see for their investigation into 9/11.
Hillary Clinton deliberately used a private email server (illegal by the way) so that the record of her time in office as Secretary of State wouldn’t include communications she would rather it didn’t include. One of her staffers smashed two of her blackberry devices with a hammer when the FBI announced their investigation into the matter while thousands of emails were illegally deleted because Hillary says they were “personal”
And recently, during an ongoing lawsuit, the NSA had to report they “regretted” destroying a bunch of data they collected with their illegal and unconstitutional spying program where they have been spying on every U.S. citizen for decades without cause and without warrants. They had been under order from the courts to maintain that data and they promised to do so. They also “accidentally” erased all the back-ups of that data. Oops...
Last Friday the FBI had to admit they “lost” 5 months worth of texts between Peter Stzok and his girl-toy co-worker Lisa Page. Those texts they “lost” were during a particularly important time during the “Russian collusion” investigation.
A VERY IMPORTANT TIME.
For those of you who don’t know, I covered Peter Strzok back in Aug. of 2017, long before he became a household name.
Peter was involved in the Hillary Clinton email server investigation (he was one of three who were in the room when she was questioned) and then he moved onto the Trump/Russia thing right afterwards. Mueller eventually put him on his staff in May of 2017 when that thing kicked off.
(archive)
by Bill Van Aukin, WSWS 2018
The naming of Stefan Halper as the individual sent by the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election campaign has further inflamed the political warfare raging within the US state apparatus and political establishment. Halper is a long-time CIA asset with deep ties to US and British intelligence.
Published reports that the FBI had used a confidential informant to gather information on the Trump campaign led US President Donald Trump to announce via Twitter on Sunday, “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes, and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”
Repeating his denunciation of the year-old probe by Robert Mueller, the special counsel who is investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign, as a “witch hunt,” Trump declared last week that the report of FBI spying on his campaign was a political scandal “bigger than Watergate.”
(archived from Saturday, January 7, 2017)
by Scott Creighton
Yesterday (Friday Jan. 6th 2017) around 1pm, the Department of National Intelligence released their declassified report (PDF) on the Russian hacking story or the Russian “influence” story that has been taking shape here in the States surrounding Hillary Clinton’s crash and burn presidential campaign of 2016. The Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA)
At about the same time, a man got off a plane in Florida and took a gun from his checked bag and opened fire on people in the baggage claim area of an airport, emptying 3 clips before lying down on the ground and waiting to be arrested. That man claimed earlier that the CIA had been trying to force him to watch “ISIS” videos.
Each and every page of the declassified report contains in the top header an official disclaimer of sorts which reads:
“This report is a declassified version of a highly classified assessment; its conclusions are identical to those in the highly classified assessment but this version does not include the full supporting information on key elements of the influence campaign.”
Key here is the fact that the report contains no facts. None. Zip. Zilch. No evidence reported in the 'report' whatsoever.
from PressTV
More than 100 humanitarian organizations and human rights groups have warned that “mass starvation is spreading” across the Gaza Strip, as the Tel Aviv regime is implementing a strategy of genocide by hunger in the besieged coastal territory.
A declaration endorsed by 111 signatories, among them Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Save the Children, and Oxfam, cautioned on Wednesday that “our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away.”
The organizations have urged for an immediate negotiated ceasefire, the opening of all land crossings, and the unrestricted flow of aid through mechanisms led by the United Nations.
In their statement, the humanitarian organizations indicated that warehouses filled with tons of supplies remained untouched just outside the territory, and even within it, as they were obstructed from delivering the goods.
“Palestinians are trapped in a cycle of hope and heartbreak, waiting for assistance and ceasefires, only to wake up to worsening conditions,” the signatories said.
“It is not just physical torment, but psychological. Survival is dangled like a mirage,” they added.
“The humanitarian system cannot run on false promises. Humanitarians cannot operate on shifting timelines or wait for political commitments that fail to deliver access.”...
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(People here illegally should be detained and given their day in court and then, if deemed appropriate, sent back to their country of origin. This is obscene. What's worse is it's been done many times in the past by other U.S. presidents and currently is being done in the EU and elsewhere. Trump is not unique in trying to commodity human beings. Many of the nations Trump is sending people to have awful human rights records and in some cases these people are being used as slave labor. It's like the slave trade is making a comeback in 2025.)
from the New York Times
In May, the United States flew a group of eight migrants to Djibouti, a small state in the Horn of Africa. For weeks, the men — who are from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan — were detained in a converted shipping container on a U.S. military base. More than a month later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the men, who had all been convicted of serious crimes, could be transferred to their final destination: South Sudan, a country on the brink of famine and civil war. Tom Homan, the border czar, acknowledged that he didn’t know what happened to them once they were released from U.S. custody. “As far as we’re concerned,” he said, “they’re free.”
Deporting foreign nationals to countries other than their homeland has quickly become a centerpiece of the Trump administration’s immigration policy. Thousands of people have been sent to countries in the Western Hemisphere, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and Panama. At a recent summit of West African leaders, President Trump pressed them to admit deportees from the United States, reportedly emphasizing that assisting in migration was essential to improving commercial ties with the United States. All told, administration officials have reached out to dozens of states to try to strike deals to accept deportees. The administration is making progress: Last week, it sent five men to the tiny, landlocked country of Eswatini in southern Africa after their home countries allegedly “refused to take them back,” according to an assistant homeland security secretary, Tricia McLaughlin. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
In some ways, this is nothing new. It has become increasingly common for the world’s most prosperous countries to relocate immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees to places with which they have little or no prior connection. Previous U.S. administrations from both parties have sought third-country detentions as easy fixes. In the 1990s, Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton both sent thousands of Haitian refugees to detention camps in Guantánamo Bay before forcibly repatriating most of them to Haiti.
(Just because the Trump team brings this up as a distraction from the Epstein betrayal doesn't mean it isn't real. I reported on the Jan 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment the day it was released to the public. I said it was obviously bullshit and that the folks who wrote it didn't even stand behind it as was evidenced by the disclaimers printed on each and every page. It was a crock of shit and back in 2020 hand written notes from John Brennan were published that showed he and Barack Obama and a number of his high ranking officials got together in July 2016 to hatch a plan to smear Trump with allegations, trumped up allegations, suggesting Russia and Putin were trying to hack the election to get him in office instead of Hillary. Obama then used the FISA court, illegally, to try to spy on the Trump campaign and disrupt it in order to help Hillary win the election. These are all facts. They happened. I covered much of it in real time as it was happening. Just because it is being used to distract the MAGAites from Epstein doesn't mean it didn't happen and the people involved shouldn't be prosecuted. Worse still... as it seems the republicans just don't care if our president is a lying pedophile, apparently the democrats don't care if ObamaGod and Killary were running the Executive branch like Pinochet or the Shah of Iran. It's sad.)
from Fox News
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Fox News Digital exclusively reported in October 2020 that Brennan briefed former President Obama and administration officials on intelligence that then-Democrat nominee former Secretary of State Clinton was stirring up a plan to tie Trump to Russia.
Ratcliffe, as director of national intelligence, declassified Brennan’s handwritten notes memorializing that meeting, which were exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital in October 2020.
On July 28, 2016, Brennan briefed Obama on a plan from one of Clinton's campaign foreign policy advisors "to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service."
Comey, then-Vice President Joe Biden, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were in the Brennan-Obama briefing.
from Mondoweiss
Within a 24-hour period, 19 people have died from malnutrition in Gaza, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Sunday. A total of 86 deaths from malnutrition have been recorded since the start of the genocide, 76 of them children. The Ministry describes these deaths as a “silent massacre.”
The Israeli-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation claims to have distributed over 80 million meals over the last two months, but the signs of famine in Gaza are too apparent to deny. Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians are killed every day at or near GHF distribution sites, a fact the organization continues to aggressively deny in the face of ubiquitous evidence and countless testimonies.
On Saturday, the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis recorded 32 people killed and over 70 injured in the Tineh area, west of Rafah city, where the GHF distributes aid. The injuries reported were of sniper bullets to the head and chest. On Sunday, the UN’s World Food Programme said that Israeli forces opened fire on starving civilians who rushed an aid convoy that had entered Gaza from the north.
“Shortly after passing the final checkpoint beyond the Zikim crossing point into Gaza, the convoy encountered large crowds of civilians anxiously waiting to access desperately needed food supplies,” the WFP stated. “As the convoy approached, the surrounding crowd came under fire from Israeli tanks, snipers and other gunfire.”...
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from Daily Sabah
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday blasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, saying the Israeli premier has “surpassed Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler" with attacks that have killed more than 59,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in nearly 20 months.
"Whoever remains silent about genocide in Gaza is complicit in the crimes against humanity committed by Israel," Erdoğan told the opening ceremony of the 17th International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF 2025) at the Istanbul Expo Center in Istanbul.
"The plight of children in Gaza, who are skin and bones from hunger because humanitarian aid is not allowed in, is also our plight," he said. “No one with even a shred of human dignity can accept this cruelty (in Gaza), where dozens of innocent people die every day due to lack of bread or water.”
Türkiye’s goal is to establish a cease-fire as soon as possible, he said, adding that allowing humanitarian aid to enter Gaza is another priority.
"In these dark days, when mass deaths from hunger have begun, I call on the entire international community to unite on the side of humanity," Erdoğan stressed...
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from RT
A joint call by 28 countries for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and the full resumption of humanitarian aid is “wrong and dangerous” and undermines ongoing negotiations, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
The statement – signed by more than a dozen EU nations, along with Britain, Japan, Canada, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, and others – warned that Gaza’s humanitarian crisis had reached intolerable levels. The foreign ministers condemned the “drip feeding of aid” and the “inhumane killing of civilians, including children” seeking food and water. Citing UN and Gaza Health Ministry figures showing over 800 Palestinians killed while seeking aid, the statement called the situation “horrifying” and urged Israel to meet its obligations under international humanitarian law.
Netanyahu’s adviser Dmitry Gendelman said the appeal sent Hamas a “wrong and dangerous message,” calling it a “delusion” that ignored the “obvious truth” that Hamas alone was blocking a ceasefire. He accused the militant group of launching the war, holding hostages, and rejecting “clear and fair” truce proposals accepted by Israel...
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from PressTV
A few days ago, US House Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) voted against a measure that would prevent the Zionist entity's aerial defense systems from receiving $500 million in additional military aid from American taxpayers.
The measure was proposed by Republican Congress member Marjorie Taylor Greene and supported by members of her own so-called "progressive" squad, including Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
AOC immediately came under fire for her rejection of the amendment, and rightly so...
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In an attempt to pathetically defend her actions, AOC posted a statement, completely exposing her brand of liberal Zionism. To truly understand the criminality of her actions, it is essential to break this statement down piece by piece.
AOC begins her statement with: "Marjorie Taylor Greene's amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course, I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to continue."...
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Political commentator Caitlin Johnstone put it best, giving an example only Americans can relate to:
"I didn't give the mass shooter guns and ammunition, I just bought him a bulletproof vest so nobody could stop the massacre."...
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(So what does Glorious Israel do in response to statements like this one? They bomb the people who make them. That's what.)
from PressTV
The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has strongly denounced the world's Arab and Muslim states for their failure to respond effectively to the Israeli regime’s deliberate starvation of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“What the Palestinian people in Gaza are enduring is a horrific tragedy. Children are dying daily from hunger — this is the worst stage of starvation,” Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said during a speech on Sunday.
The Yemeni official blasted the broader Muslim world for its passivity amid the situation, saying, “Many in Gaza are suffering extreme hunger while surrounded by hundreds of millions of Arabs and two billion Muslims watching helplessly -- as if they were a paralyzed nation.”
He slammed the Arab and Muslim world for its “absence of honor and conscience,” calling its inaction a “shameful disgrace.”...
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from PressTV
... Backing the Zionist entity politically, financially, and militarily, the US has blocked any reasonable path forward for a ceasefire...
... The result of the (Hague Group Emergency Summit) was unprecedented in regard to political action against the child-murdering illegitimate entity.
Twelve countries—Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Africa—have committed to implementing the six measures immediately.
The six measures, per the Hague Group joint statement, are as follows:
Prevent the provision or transfer of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel.
Prevent the transit, docking, and servicing of vessels at any port… in all cases where there is a clear risk of the vessel being used to carry arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel.
Prevent the carriage of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel on vessels bearing our flag… and ensure full accountability, including de-flagging, for non-compliance with this prohibition.
Commence an urgent review of all public contracts to prevent public institutions and funds from supporting Israel's illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territory and entrenching its unlawful presence.
Comply with obligations to ensure accountability for the most serious crimes under international law, through robust, impartial, and independent investigations and prosecutions at national or international levels, to ensure justice for all victims and the prevention of future crimes.
Support universal jurisdiction mandates, as and where applicable in national legal frameworks and judiciaries, to ensure justice for victims of international crimes committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
The importance of these measures, committed to by a global coalition of countries across different continents, represents a firm defense of upholding international law in the face of the American insistence on imposing a "rules-based order."
Of course, these measures are material, meant to punish and isolate the Zionist occupation economically, politically, and militarily...
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'During the sectarian clashes in May, Israel carried out strikes near the presidential palace in Damascus, saying it was a warning against attacks on the Druze. However, some Druze figures in Syria and Lebanon have accused Israel of stoking sectarian divisions to advance its own expansionist aspirations in the region' BBC
(You don't expect to find the truth hiding in a nugget in the BBC but, there it is in black and white. Israel and the U.S. and our proxy president in Syria are happy to use terrorists (like ISIS before them) to drive the Druze out of the area in southern Syria so Israel can steal it outright like the Kurds did in eastern Syria.)
(Glorious Israel gave the leader of Syria an order to not deploy troops to Sweida and let the terrorists do their jobs clearing out the place making ready for the new Jewish residents. He sent them anyway... Glorious Israel attacked. And Daniela Weiss says Israel is not trying to steal land. Yeah right.)
from Middle East Eye
Saudi Arabia told the US that Syrian security forces should be allowed to deploy to the country's restive south despite Israeli objections, a US official told Middle East Eye.
The official, who requested anonymity due to sensitivities around the topic, said that Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday that the kingdom supported Syria’s military asserting control in the southern Syrian province of Sweida.
A readout of the call provided by the State Department said the two sides "discussed regional security matters, including efforts to end the violence in Syria".
It did not provide further details.
The US official briefed on the call, and a second source familiar with the diplomacy, told MEE on Friday that the kingdom was "angry" about Israel attacking Syrian soldiers and dictating military deployments to Damascus.
Sweida has been the site of sectarian violence between the majority Druze community and Sunni Bedouins. After bloody fighting broke out on Sunday, the Syrian government deployed troops to Sweida at the request of local authorities, prompting Israel to launch severe strikes against the Syrian army.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then ordered Syria's government not to deploy troops south. When President Ahmed al-Sharaa did, Israel launched strikes on Syrian military convoys.
On Wednesday, Israel bombed the Syrian defence ministry and areas near the presidential palace...
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(It takes about 2 to 3 months to die from malnutrition. These bastards have been starving the people of Gaza for quite a while. "put em on a diet" they say. Expect these numbers to increase regularly.)
from Middle East Eye
At least 18 people have died in the the past 24 hours in Gaza due to hunger, dehydration or malnutrition, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The ministry said that hospitals were receiving hundreds of cases daily of people with life-threatening hunger-related symptoms, including memory loss and acute energy deficiency, driven by Israel's blockade on food and medical supplies.
It added that the total number of hunger-related deaths due to Israel's blockade had reached 86, of whom 76 are children. At least 800 children are currently experiencing life-threatening conditions due to malnutrition...
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from Common Dreams
Next year, Americans who buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges are set to pay significantly more for coverage—and experts say policies advanced by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are at least partially to blame.
An analysis released Friday by the health policy research organization KFF and the Peterson Center on Healthcare found that across a sample of more than 105 ACA marketplace insurers in 19 states and the District of Columbia, companies are set to increase premiums by a median of 15%.
The analysis noted that insurers have cited a number of factors to justify pushing up premiums, including Trump's tariffs—which could drive up drug, equipment, and supply costs—and the expectation that the Republican-controlled Congress will not extend ACA tax credits that are set to expire at the end of the year.
"If Congress takes no action to renew these enhanced tax credits, enhanced subsidies will expire at the end of 2025, which will cause premium payments for subsidized enrollees to increase by over 75% starting in January 2026," the analysis states. "Insurers expect a large share of enrollees to leave the market, and that those enrollees will be healthier on average, thus leaving the risk pool sicker on average."...
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from Daily Sabah
Israeli attacks killed at least 26 people and wounded more than 100 near two aid centers in the southern Gaza Strip, the enclave’s civil defense agency said Saturday.
Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the Palestinians had gathered near an aid distribution center affiliated with an American-Israeli company in search of food, as humanitarian conditions in Gaza continue to deteriorate.
The Israeli army fired a volley of live ammunition at the crowd, resulting in a high number of casualties, the agency said...
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(Once again the money changers get a pass for their deliberate acts of terrorism. Meanwhile, the likes of Daniela Weiss call infants 'terrorists' in order to justify their murder at the hands of the IDF and her settler brood.)
from Daily Sabah
A shell from Israeli forces struck Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic Church on Thursday, killing three civilians and wounding 10 others – including parish priest Father Gabriel Romanelli – in one of the most devastating blows yet to the tiny Christian community sheltering in the war-ravaged enclave.
The Israeli military acknowledged the incident, calling it a "mistake."
In a statement, it said fragments from a shell fired during operations may have “unintentionally struck” the church, and promised an investigation.
The compound, housing over 600 displaced Palestinians – Christians and Muslims alike, including 54 people with disabilities – suffered major structural damage.
The Vatican and much of the international community swiftly condemned the strike.
Pope Leo XIV expressed “profound sorrow,” urging an immediate cease-fire and calling for “dialogue, reconciliation and lasting peace.”...
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