from al Jazeera
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has told a delegation of US lawmakers that the current priority is to secure a ceasefire in Gaza.
In a statement from the presidency, el-Sisi stressed the importance of “responsible action” to avoid widening the conflict in the region.
IDF is pulling out troops from northern Gaza while the Israeli Supreme Court strikes down Bibi's dictatorship law that got so many Israelis riled up a couple months ago. Shit is hitting the fan in Glorious Israel while it looks like Hamas' Rope a Dope strategy may be working.
(from the 'Declare Victory and Get Out' school of Vietnam war-planners)
from the New York Times
The Israeli military said on Monday that it would begin withdrawing several thousand troops from the Gaza Strip at least temporarily, in what was the most significant publicly announced reduction since the war with Hamas began.
The military cited a growing toll on the Israeli economy after nearly three months of wartime mobilization with little end in sight to the fighting. Israel had been considering scaling back its operations, and the United States has been prodding it to do so more quickly as the death toll and privation in Gaza rose.
More than 20,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war, most of them civilians, according to the local health authorities, primarily in Israeli bombing. With aid delivery restricted and aid workers unable to move safely within the territory, half of Gaza’s roughly 2.2 million people are at risk of starvation, according to the United Nations...
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from Press TV
Thousands of Palestinians have reportedly been returning to the north of the Gaza Strip after the withdrawal of some Israeli forces from the area.
After returning to northern Gaza, a woman told Al Jazeera TV that people were sitting and sleeping among the debris “where the smell of blood and death is everywhere.”
“A lot of massacres have been committed here. The resilience of the people here will always be stronger than the occupation army,” she added.
Another woman said she would “never abandon north Gaza” despite a lack of food and clean water.
“I will never leave my land and house and family despite the suffering,” she emphasized.
The Israeli military said earlier that it was withdrawing thousands of forces from the Gaza Strip, in the first significant troop pullback since the devastating war began nearly three months ago.
In a statement on Monday, the regime’s army said, “The move is expected to significantly alleviate economic burdens and enable troops to gather strength for upcoming activities in the next year, as the fighting will persist and their services will be needed.”
The announcement came as fighting has tapered off in the northern areas of Gaza, though clashes continue to rage in the south...
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from RT
Russia has assumed the one-year rotating presidency of BRICS following its groundbreaking expansion in 2023. President Vladimir Putin has vowed that Moscow will do its best to promote cooperation within the economic bloc.
In a statement released by the Kremlin on Monday – the first in 2024 – Putin hailed the expansion of BRICS, calling it “a strong indication of the growing authority of the association and its role in international affairs.”
In August, the bloc, which at the time included Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, agreed to admit Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina, and the United Arab Emirates, while leaving the door open to accepting new members. Argentina, however, officially declined the invitation after its newly-elected president, Javier Milei, opposed the move, promising that the country would not “ally with communists” on his watch...
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from Daily Sabah
Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who previously made headlines with a series of provocations, urged illegal Israeli settlers to settle in Gaza as he said Palestinians, who have been already devastated by relentless Israeli attacks and an inhumane blockade but refused to leave despite the violence, should be evicted from their homes.
"We must promote a solution to encourage the emigration of Gaza's residents," Israel's firebrand National Security Minister Ben-Gvir said Monday.
Israel unilaterally withdrew the last of its troops and settlers in 2005, ending a presence inside Gaza that began in 1967 but maintaining near complete control over the territory's borders.
The government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not officially suggested it has any plans to evict Gazans or to send Jewish settlers to the territory since the current war broke out on Oct. 7.
But Ben-Gvir argued that the eviction of Palestinians and the re-establishment of illegal Israeli settlements "is a correct, just, moral and humane solution."
"This is an opportunity to develop a project to encourage Gaza's residents to emigrate to countries around the world," he told a meeting of his ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit, or "Jewish Power" party...
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by Philip Weiss from Mondoweiss
There are still no western reporters allowed in Gaza to witness a historic genocide. That censorship skews the western gaze. And the New York Times and all the networks and Biden too accept these fascistic rules and preach that this is truth and democracy.
Our reporter in Gaza, Tareq Hajjaj, walked out with his son on his first birthday to try to find a candle for a cake his mother was scraping together and Israeli missiles struck a nearby car and a man told Tareq to cover Qais’s eyes so he would not see the limbs strewn on the sidewalk.
Later Tareq wrote a letter to his son. “On your birthday, we walked over rivers of blood and disfigured human corpses.”
Israel has no vision. The leadership of that country has not the slightest idea where it is going with this madness. It has made Hamas popular around the world. It appears now to want world war as a fix to its problems. All its other fixes have not worked. The “Abraham Accords.” “Managed occupation.” “Economic peace.”
None of those fixes answers the core problem: Palestinians refuse to accept lesser status under Zionist rule...
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by Kit Knightly from The Truth Seeker
Global government is the endgame. We know that.
Total control of every aspect of life for every single person on the planet, that’s the goal.
That’s been apparent to anyone paying attention for years, if not decades, and any tiny portion of remaining doubt was removed when Covid was rolled-out and members of the establishment started outright saying it.
Covid marked an acceleration of the globalist agenda, a mad dash to the finish line that seems to have lost momentum short of victory, but the race is still going. The goal has not changed, even if the years since may have seen the agenda retreat slightly back into the shadows.
We know what they want conceptually, but what does that mean practically?
What does a potential “global government” actually look like?
First off, let’s talk about what we’re NOT going to see...
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from Max Blumenthal
'John Pilger's documentaries are historically significant exposés of the cruelty and connivances of US empire, in which he gave voice to resistance movements still struggling for their sovereignty. Films like his 1983 "Nicaragua, a nation's right to survive" inspired my own work, as did the messages of encouragement and insights he sent me and my colleagues. Unlike so many of his contemporaries who fell into a fog of liberalism late in life, Pilger's critiques of empire only sharpened with time. Sadly, he left us today. But his body of work will only grow more relevant in the cataclysmic years ahead.'