Phase one of Trump's Gaza deal takes effect 12 pm; details revealed

from al Mayadeen English

US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that “Israel” and Hamas agreed to implement the first phase of his proposed peace plan for the Gaza Strip, following indirect negotiations held in Egypt earlier this week.

Posting on his Truth Social platform, Trump said, "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. 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."..

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My Thoughts on the New Peace Deal

Hopeful but not optimistic. The Knesset still has to vote to agree to it before it is formalized and Israeli troops have to start withdrawing to the prescribed line in Gaza. If history is an indicator, Israel will violate the agreement as soon as they get their hostages back and before they allow any meaningful amount of aid into the strip. Only time will tell.

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Dear Candace: Stop Publishing Stuff from Charlie - You're Making Him Look Worse

Charlie Kirk found a way to provide for himself and his family and was trying to secure generational wealth for his kids. For that, you cannot condemn him. It was HOW he did it that makes him look bad and each time Candace Owens publishes something else he wrote in an effort to prove her own rightness, it just makes him look more and more vapid and soulless. Leave his memory alone Candace. Focus on his killers, not his greed.

MSN article  https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/candace-owens-claims-netanyahu-is-lying-about-charlie-kirk-and-israel/ar-AA1MFKXa

Kirk text messages  https://x.com/willsommer/status/1975349234108088542

Kirk's letter to Bibi  https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/10/full-text-of-charlie-kirks-sycophantic.html

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Greta Thunberg Fucks it Up

by Scott Creighton

As soon as the plane touched down, Greta Thunberg thrust herself center-stage to take up the mantle of the face of the Palestine Solidarity movement. 

One-staters (oppose two-state solution like Bibi Netanyahu does) like BadEmpanada (BE) are all onboard with making her the face of the movement in spite of the fact that he had to admit she was picked, cultivated and used by billionaires to be the face of the Global Warming movement... which had petered out since Florida is still not underwater like they claimed it would be a decade ago.

BE claims Greta is only doing this because 'the media' still relentlessly follows her around so she figured she would jump on board the Palestinian train (way way way late BTW) to help 'bring more attention' to their cause.

That's stupid.

GW was dying out as a global cause de jour. No one was paying attention anymore. They had to run gorilla terror campaigns via Extinction Rebellion to even get the topic in the news cycles.

Greta was a washed up front-girl for globalist Global Warming agenda... and frankly... she didn't like being a nobody again like she was before the globalists picked her up as their marketing gimmick. 

But apparently BE can't see that just like he can't see a One State solution is called 'Israel' and it's been Netanyahu's plan since he had an Israeli Prime Minister murdered back in '96.

So now that Greta has landed on dry land and made her way to a microphone to do her WWE-voice calling out everyone who isn't on her side of the Global Warming... I mean the Palestine debate,  she and her team put together a little graphic to get the people to wake up to her fearless leadership.

 

Problem is... guy in the bottom right isn't Palestinian... he's IDF. He's a hostage being kept by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, not a Palestinian being abused by Israel.

‘They’re all liars’: Gazans react to Trump’s ‘peace’ proposal and potential ceasefire

from Mondowiess

The announcement of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war on Gaza immediately affected Palestinians living under intense Israeli bombardment. When the announcement came on September 29, some families in Gaza City delayed their evacuation after receiving multiple army warnings to move south. They clung to hope that Trump’s plan would end the war and spare them another round of displacement.

After Hamas responded positively on October 3 and said it was ready to “discuss the details,” some families even returned from the south. On the first day, families returned peacefully. On the second, as the Israeli military noticed more people heading north, it began targeting them on al-Rashid Street, the only route connecting Gaza’s northern and southern halves.

Many in Gaza have rejected Trump’s plan, calling it a ploy to deceive Hamas and the Palestinian resistance — first by securing the release of Israeli captives, then allowing Israel to abandon the deal and resume its bombing and demolition campaign. But despite the deep skepticism, most people in Gaza see the plan as the last chance to stop the genocide. Their desperation for the daily killing to stop has pushed many to support any agreement that might end it...

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Stephen Miller Says ‘Quiet Part Out Loud,’ Claims Trump Has Unlimited ‘Plenary Authority’ Before Going Silent in Interview

“plenary authority” refers to “power that is wide-ranging, broadly construed, and often limitless for all practical purposes.” 

a dictator in other words 

from Common Dreams

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller appeared to slip up in an interview Monday, admitting that he believes President Donald Trump possesses the authority of a dictator.

Miller, who has made himself the face of the Trump administration’s efforts to crush political dissent, made the comments while appearing on CNN to defend the president’s deployment of troops to Portland and Chicago, which have run into roadblocks from federal courts. 

The anchor, Boris Sanchez, asked Miller about a ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut on Saturday that the president had no legal or factual basis to commandeer the Oregon National Guard and deploy the forces in Portland against protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Over the weekend, Miller had referred to the ruling as a “legal insurrection,” adding that “the president is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge.”

Given Miller’s comments, Sanchez asked, “Does the administration still plan to abide by that court ruling?”

Miller responded: “Well, the administration filed an appeal this morning with the 9th Circuit. I would note the administration won an identical case, in the 9th Circuit, just a few months ago, with respect to the federalizing of the California National Guard. Under title 10 of the US Code, the president has plenary authority, has…”

Miller then suddenly stopped speaking...

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Van Jones and the moral vacancy of American commentary on Gaza

(Getting laughs on Bill Maher's show while joking about dead Palestinian babies? You think that would have gotten a laugh back when the '40 beheaded Jewish babies' lie still had legs? People would have stormed the stage and attacked him. But ACTUAL dead Palestinian infants? That gets a laugh over on HBO. Tell me why.) 

from al Jazeera

 

Last Friday, during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, CNN commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones claimed that Iran and Qatar are running a disinformation campaign to manipulate young Americans into caring about Gaza. To make his point, he crudely imitated what he said appears on their social media feeds: “Dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, Diddy, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby.” The audience laughed.

The remark, a crass attempt at humour that juxtaposed mass death with celebrity scandal, laid bare the moral drift that has infected American commentary on Palestine. What should have prompted grief instead provoked laughter. A reality steeped in blood became a punchline. It was not merely a gaffe but a revelation of how far the conversation has strayed from moral awareness. 

Jones’s apology came swiftly. He admitted the remark was “insensitive and hurtful”, insisting that his intent had been to highlight how foreign adversaries manipulate social media. Yet intent does not erase consequence. To repeat “dead Gaza baby” for rhetorical effect and to attribute the flood of such images to foreign manipulation campaigns is to trivialise authentic suffering. It transforms the murdered children of Gaza into props in a morality play about disinformation... 

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Palestinians will not surrender to Israel and US: Islamic Jihad leader

from PressTV

The Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has warned that US President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan aims to deliver for Israel what it failed to achieve on the battlefield, stressing that the Palestinian people will never surrender.

In a statement marking the second anniversary of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Ziad al-Nakhala said, “Two years have passed since the eternal al-Aqsa Storm battle, and our people are still steadfast, and their resistance is still active on the ground.”

He stated that Trump's plan “carries within it the Palestinian people's declaration of their complete surrender to the enemy”, warning that the enemy is trying to “achieve through negotiations what they couldn’t accomplish through the war.”

“The enemy and their allies must know that we can’t surrender to their conditions and dictates after all this price”, Nakhala stated, in an apparent reference to tens of thousands of martyrs who lost their lives in the war. He added that the resistance fighters continue to inflict heavy casualties on the Israeli forces.

Nakhala said the resistance movement expressed its willingness to engage in negotiations on Trump’s plan for Gaza, as there are points that can be “positively dealt with”, especially the exchange of captives.

The prisoner exchange “can be achieved in the coming days, thus defusing the situation and the enemy's justifications for aggression," the Islamic Jihad chief said...

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White House memo says furloughed workers might not get back pay

from Politico

Furloughed federal workers may not be eligible for back pay after the government shutdown, according to a memo circulated by the White House, another escalation in its pressure campaign against Senate Democrats.

When asked about it at the Oval Office Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that while the administration has a keen interest in taking “care of our people,” “there are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

Axios first reported on the memo, which was later confirmed to POLITICO by administration officials in the White House and Office of Management and Budget. They were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the issue. 

“I would say it depends on who we’re talking about,” Trump said. “I can tell you this. The Democrats have put a lot of people in great risk and jeopardy, but it really depends on who you’re talking about.”

The memo appears to contravene the 2019 “Government Employee Fair Treatment Act,” signed by Trump during his first term after a partial shutdown that stretched over 35 days. And it paints a cloudy economic picture for the 750,000 federal workers currently under furlough.

Speaker Mike Johnson, who voted for the 2019 law guaranteeing back pay, told reporters Tuesday that “there will be a lot of discussion about” the White House memo before saying “I hope that the furloughed workers receive back pay.”...

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Johnson: Not swearing in Democrat has ‘nothing to do’ with Epstein files

from The Hill

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said his delay in swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (Ariz.) is not related to her looming signature on a petition to force a House vote compelling release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, saying she will be sworn in when the House is back in session.

“It has nothing to do with that at all. We will swear her in when everybody gets back,” Johnson said in a Tuesday press conference.

Asked when her swearing-in will happen, Johnson said: “We’ll schedule it, I guess, whenever she wants. It has nothing to do with it.”

Grijalva won a special election on Sept. 23 for the Arizona seat that was long held by her father, former Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.). But despite decisively winning the seat, she has not yet been sworn in.

The move delays a months-long effort to circumvent House leadership on a bill compelling the Department of Justice to release the so-called Epstein files — with Grijalva being the 218th and final signature needed on the procedural gambit called a discharge petition to force action on the measure. GOP leaders argue the bill is not needed since the House Oversight and Government Reform committee is investigating the Epstein matter... 

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