🔴This is a long one. As Lebanese authorities are holding a new round of negotiations with the Israelis in Rome to discuss Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon, the Israeli army continues to terrorize the area with drone strikes and bombings.
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Reason2Resist - 13 oct 2025
Donald Trump insists that Israel's war on Gaza has ended, but can Trump and Netanyahu be trusted to stop their wanton murder and dispossession of Palestinians?
Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Dr. Setareh Sadeqi Mohammadi about the next chapter in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Dr. Mohammadi is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran. She holds a Ph.D. in North American Studies, and her research focuses on U.S.–Iran relations, sanctions, media narratives, and political communication.
Dimitri and Dr. Mohammadi also discuss the possibility of another Israeli attack on Iran, the U.N.'s snapback sanctions, and the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Trade with the genocidal entity:
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CFS - 27 jul 2025 10 DOWNING STREET
On Friday 25th July, thousands gathered outside Downing Street for what many described as the most powerful protest yet in solidarity with Gaza.
With pots and pans in hand, demonstrators made noise for those being starved under Israel’s blockade - a haunting call to action as mass starvation looms.
The video features short interviews with Kate Hudson of CND and Tadhg Hickey, the Irish writer and comedian known for his political satire. Both speak powerfully about the urgency of the moment and the need for global solidarity.
Captured on film is also a moment when a vehicle exits Downing Street and police forcibly arrest a peaceful protester - despite claims there was no space to comply with their orders.
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Caitlin's Newsletter - Jul 25, 2025
Know Them By Their Fruits
They’re doing it right in front of us. Right in front of us.
So many people have dedicated their entire lives working to expose the criminality of the empire, and then the empire comes right out and commits a live-streamed genocide right in front of us.
Whistleblowers. Investigative journalists. Authors. Documentarians. Conspiracy analysts. Peace activists. Their whole lives devoted to the task of uncovering the crimes of the undeclared empire we live under and drawing attention to them, saying “Look! See?? We really are ruled by monsters!” Only for the monsters to come right out and intentionally starve children to death on all our screens all around the world.
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1948495615962354101
People like me are almost redundant at this current point in history. I’ve been writing about the depravity of the empire for years, thousands of articles and millions of words, and I’ve never said anything that illuminates the reality of our situation nearly as well as the fact that western governments and media have openly colluded with Israel to exterminate a group of innocent people because they’re the wrong ethnicity.
I mean, what could I possibly say about that that they’re not already saying themselves? The message is already there, fully baked. Perfect. Complete. They’re telling us everything we could possibly need to know. There’s nothing I could add.
I don’t have much use for scripture, but if I had to pick a favorite line from the Bible it would be “You will know them by their fruits.” Those seven little words cut through all the lies and distortions of life under the western empire, because they tell us to stop paying attention to all the spin and PR and justification and excuses we hear from the imperial propaganda machine, and just look at the products of the empire on their own. Ignore their words, and watch the results of their actions.
Those tiny skeletal bodies you’re seeing on your social media feed are the fruits of the empire. The shredded, eviscerated, decapitated children you’ve been seeing in footage from Gaza since 2023 are the fruits of the empire. This is known now, and it can never be unknown.
As Maya Angelou said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That’s why it’s important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.”
https://x.com/malonebarry/status/1948017132207485250
This is who they are. This is who our leaders are. This is who our complicit news media are. This is what Israel is. This is what Zionism is. This is what the empire is. This is what western civilization is. We know that now. We know them by their fruits.
This is who they are, and it’s who they’ll always be. That’s why it’s important never to forget what they’ve shown us about themselves in Gaza, and to never, ever forgive them.
Our rulers have shown us that they must not be allowed to rule any longer. The empire has shown us that it should not be allowed to dominate our planet any longer. The apartheid state of Israel has shown us that it should not be allowed to exist any longer. Western supremacism, Zionism, racism and imperialism have shown us that these things must be eradicated from our world.
They have planted seeds of knowledge inside you about who they are and the status quo we’re being asked to consent to. Let those seeds sprout and grow. Tend to them with care. Help them to flourish.
Someday the tree that they planted in us will bear fruit of its own.
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The Electronic Intifada - 8 January 2025
With rare exceptions, the Brussels press corps has not bothered to examine how the European Union has mollycoddled Israel and its supporters amid the Gaza genocide.
One story that you surely did not see in the mainstream media during 2024 concerns how VIP treatment was given to a war criminal.
In April, the EU’s diplomatic service jointly hosted a "strategic dialogue" in Brussels with the European Leadership Network, a pro-Israel lobby group. The event was chaired by Amos Yadlin, who should have been taken into police detention upon his arrival in Belgium.
A decade earlier, an Istanbul court issued warrants for the arrests of several Israelis, including Yadlin. He was the army’s head of intelligence when it attacked a flotilla attempting to break the Gaza siege in May 2010.
At that time, Yadlin was nearing the end of his formal military career. He had spent part of the preceding decade pondering how Israel could wage war in an "ethical" fashion.
Yadlin did not pass muster as a moral philosopher. Doing so would require him to denounce the acts of aggression in which he had participated.
He was, for example, a warplane pilot during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. In his book Pity the Nation, Robert Fisk observed how such pilots were responsible for "killing thousands of civilians, smashing families between the walls, floors and furniture of their homes with such total violence that their corpses often emerged from the rubble flattened into huge shadows."
"Powerful and painful"
In 2006, Yadlin – by then head of military intelligence – was part of the generals who oversaw another major offensive against Lebanon. He had a similar role in Operation Cast Lead, the first in a series of large-scale attacks on Gaza, during late 2008 and early 2009.
The massive destruction he and others inflicted then was inadequate from his perspective. In a 2018 interview with the Tel Aviv newspaper Maariv, he urged "powerful and painful actions" theoretically aimed at causing the collapse of Hamas.
A 2007 cable published by WikiLeaks indicates that he has said different things about Hamas in private than in public.
Yadlin, according to that cable, told a US envoy that Israel would be "happy" if Hamas took charge of Gaza’s administration. That would allow Israel to deal with Gaza as a "hostile state."
Later in 2007, Israel did indeed designate Gaza as a "hostile territory." The designation ushered in collective punishment against the strip’s inhabitants, culminating in the current genocide.
After retiring from the army, Yadlin has not been short of work as a "national security" analyst and consultant.
He has continued advocating measures that bring immense pain and suffering to Palestinians. In March last year, he sought to justify the bombardment of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure by claiming "we already know, by now, that Hamas always places command posts under hospitals, UN posts, schools, camps and so on and so forth."
It is not surprising that the European Union’s diplomatic service did not promote how it helped arrange last year’s "strategic dialogue" involving Yadlin.
The other hosts of the event, the European Leadership Network (Elnet), had taken umbrage at comments made by Josep Borrell, then the EU’s foreign policy chief, just a few weeks earlier. Elnet had described Borrell’s accusation that Israel had caused starvation as "false, unfounded and libelous."
The EU diplomats who arranged the event with Elnet were actually working under Borrell’s direction. Rather than defending their boss from the insults against him, the diplomats were teaming up with the organization hurling those insults.
One clue can be found in how Elnet’s summary of the event contains recommendations for future EU-Israel relations. One recommendation reads, "There is scope for Israel to build on the supply of Arrow 3 [missiles] to Germany by helping Europe develop a multi-layered air defense system."
Since that recommendation was made, Ursula von der Leyen has identified the development of such a system – tacitly modeled on Israel’s Iron Dome – as a priority for her second term as European Commission president.
All of this implies that lobbyists and diplomats have been chatting amicably about how Israel can benefit from the concerted push to make Europe spend more on weapons.
Such chats would be disturbing regardless of the circumstances. That they are taking place while Israel is waging a war of extermination makes them truly sinister.
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AJ+ - 22 ago 2024
Gaza’s displaced families are enduring relentless heat while living inside makeshift tents. Now, people are experiencing symptoms, such as rashes and ulcers, due to the ongoing heat wave and increasing environmental pollution. The Israeli invasion has decimated Gaza’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals and severely limiting medical supplies. Nearly 1.9 million people have been displaced, forced to survive in overcrowded shelters or tents with little to no access to basic necessities.
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Some of us didn't need an ICJ ruling to see the obvious
COUNCIL ESTATE – 20/07/2024
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel is an apartheid state, because, well, that’s exactly what it is. Hands up everyone who has been accused of “outrageous anti-Semitism” for correctly using the word “apartheid” to describe Israel. That’s quite a lot of you…
Israel is so afraid of the term apartheid, it has banned groups that call Israel an “apartheid state” from speaking at schools, which is interesting, considering the fit Zionists had about “cancel culture” when British students protested a university appearance by Tzipi Hotoveli. In the Middle East’s only democracy, school pupils are not allowed to hear correct legal opinions. No wonder they grow up to be so brainwashed.
A former Mossad agent broke down how Israeli apartheid functions, but if you try to have this conversation in the west, you will probably lose your job. Katie Halper was sacked from The Hill for describing Israel as an apartheid state and giving compelling reasons why. Britain’s second richest man is cancelling TV shows at the request of Netanyahu, but if you highlight concerns over Zionist influence on our media, you’re the problem?
Pretty much every organisation in the world that monitors human rights agrees Israel is an apartheid state, including Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations, and now the world’s highest court. I’ve been involved in conversations where Zionists have scathingly told me the above groups have been taken over by anti-Semites.
“All the human rights groups have decided to hate all Jews”, say the anti-Palestinian conspiracy theorists.
While Zionists can accuse every credible human rights body of being taken over by anti-Semites, you had better not dare accuse your government of being bought by a Zionist lobby. That would mean you fall foul of IHRA guidelines or something. Strangely, we have no such guidelines about anti-Palestinian racism.
One weapon the establishment uses when it has no moral argument left is stigma. If someone refuses to tackle arguments and instead resorts to smears, they know the moment they stop resorting to smears, they will lose the argument. This is important to understand because once you can identify what is taking place, you can easily see the correct moral positions.
Climate protesters are now “terrorists”, human rights campaigners are now “anti-Semites”, anyone who calls out government corruption is an “extremist” who is “endangering the lives of politicians”. Remember, it’s only 16 years since the US kindly removed Nelson Mandela from a terrorist watch list…
If you join in with the stigmatisation from your government, there is a good chance you are on the wrong side of history. We should all focus on the strength of our arguments. As much as we can call those supporting apartheid terrible people, a better framing is they believe in a terrible idea and have been conditioned to do so.
Remind your audience bad ideas are the problem and then argue why you think a particular idea is bad, then let the other side do the same. Dare Zionists to abandon smears and then have a conversation about the Nakba when 750,000 natives were ethnically cleansed so that 56% of Palestinian land could be given to Europeans colonisers.
Zionists were not given 56% of Palestine because they had a strong historical claim, they were given that land due to the balance of power. The British controlled that land and giving it away was the best way to stop Zionist terrorists from assassinating our prime ministers.
While Palestinians get called “terrorists” because they’re not allowed to live freely on their own land, Zionists resorted to terrorism prior to 1947 because they weren’t being given someone else’s land.
While it would be unrealistic to force Zionists off all land they’ve stolen, we can certainly push for a restoration of the 1967 borders. When backed into a corner, even Israel’s apologists will agree that land annexed since then does not belong to Israel.
We are seeing even Israel’s supporters give ground because when we debate on reasonable terms, we win. The UK has restored funding to Unrwa, and I’m pretty sure Israel is still pretending Unrwa is Hamas. All Israel has is a baseless smear. When we shift the conversation to evidence, they have nothing left. This leaves Israel’s apologists in a tough spot because the more they dig their heels in, the faster they lose credibility. They’re forced to choose their battles and the British government has decided the Unrwa smear is not the hill to die on.
The language from western leaders is changing because they are finding it increasingly hard to support Israel’s lies. For example, the EU’s special representative is saying a two-state solution is possible, despite Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition to it.
Sven Koopmans said of Netanyahu:
“I think that recently he was very explicit about rejecting the two-state solution. Now, that means that he has a different point of view from much of the rest of the world.”
While you might argue the EU is stringing us along, note how they are placing the blame on the Israeli prime minister. While I wouldn’t suggest Netanyahu is the sole obstacle to peace, in the past, western officials would say a two-state solution would be possible if not for the Palestinians. The conversation is shifting in our favour and the actions at the International Court of Justice are one of the key reasons.
The UK government had called South Africa’s genocide case “unhelpful”, not because they have an argument in support of Israel, because because it exposes their lack of an argument. Same goes for why we’re now opposing ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his accomplices. Once those arrest warrants appear, it will expose how obscene our leaders’ defences of Israel have been.
The official death toll in Gaza is 38,919 and while that is drastically undercounted, even if we accept the figure and jail Netanyahu for 25 years for each death, he would be facing jail for just under a million years. The final death toll could make that more like 5 million years. That is the scale of the bastard’s crimes.
The ICJ has ruled that Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories is illegal and that states must cease all actions in support of it, which would include selling weapons. In other words, we have further confirmation that western governments are breaching international law. This makes a mockery of Sir Keir Starmer’s argument he is supporting Israel only when it complies with international law. The prime minister is strangely reluctant to publish the legal advice the UK government received from the FCDO.
While the ICJ says Israel must withdraw from Palestine, Israel has been demanding control of Gaza’s Egyptian border as a condition of ceasefire. In other words, the occupiers want to strengthen their illegal occupation! A ceasefire in which the blockade continues is obviously no ceasefire at all. Same goes for any ceasefire that allows Israel to keep fighting until Hamas is destroyed.
Here is the response you should give to those who pretend this is all self-defence on Israel’s part:
The court said it had taken account of Israel’s security concerns, but they could not “override the principle of the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force” and imposing restrictions on all Palestinians was “disproportionate”.
One argument made by Zionists is that Israel stopped occupying Gaza in 2005, but the ICJ ruled that Gaza has continued to be occupied to the present day. The ICJ stated that Israel must make full reparations for its illegal acts. ICJ president Nawaf Salam spoke of “Israel’s obligation to return the land and other immovable property, as well as all assets seized from any natural or legal person since its occupation started in 1967, and all cultural property and assets taken from Palestinians and Palestinian institutions, including archives and documents.
Salam said the ruling requires “the evacuation of all settlers from existing settlements and the dismantling of the parts of the wall constructed by Israel that are situated in the occupied Palestinian territory, as well as allowing all Palestinians displaced during the occupation to return to their original place of residence.”
The ICJ ruling stated that Palestinians should be compensated not just for the genocide, but the occupation too, and that Palestinian refugees abroad have a right to return home. It stated that all member states of the United Nations are under an obligation to recognise the occupation of Palestine is illegal.
The pathetic response of Israel’s foreign ministry is that “Israel cannot be an occupier in its own land”. In other words, these people see Palestine as their own land. Bezazel Smotrich argued the ICJ ruling was “contrary to the Bible, morality and international law”. The only part of that statement that’s noteworthy is the first part - Zionists think they have a Biblical right to take that land and kill whoever they want.
Let’s not forget Israel keeps greenlighting the expansion of illegal settlements and boasting it will build more settlements in revenge for October 7th. The ICJ ruled Israel illegally occupies east Jerusalem - the US and several other countries have built embassies in Jerusalem which are also illegal. They must be closed down and the occupation of East Jerusalem must end.
Personally, I would go much further than what others have suggested in terms of compensation: I would give Palestinians Israeli land to compensate them for the destruction of Gaza.
For every square mile of Gaza that has been destroyed, Israel should concede a square mile of its territory. For every home that has been destroyed, Israel must concede a home. The Israelis who’ve committed genocide can live in tents until enough new homes have been built to accommodate them.
While some might argue that’s outrageous, why is it more outrageous than Israel stealing Palestinian land? Why is it more outrageous than leaving Palestinians living in tents? Are Palestinians worth less than Israelis? Why should Palestinians be punished twice for Israeli crimes?
I’m realistic enough to know there is not a cat in hell’s chance of my suggestions being implemented, but the very minimum we should see is Israel paying for a rapid rebuild of Gaza.
Given the rate at which businesses are closing as the nation’s economy collapses, Israel is going to learn there is a heavy price to pay for genocide, even if the price is nowhere near enough. Germany still pays reparations to Israel for the holocaust - Israel should certainly do the same for Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians deserve compensation for the holocaust they have endured.
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PALESTINE CHRONICLE – 13/07/2024
Massacre in Gaza ‘Safe Zone’ – Israel Bombs Khan Yunis Camp, Kills, Wounds over 350
Scores of Palestinians were killed when Israeli occupation forces targeted tents of displaced people in Khan Yunis. (Photo: via QNN)
UPDATE: The death toll of the Israeli massacre targeting tents of displaced people in Khan Yunis has risen to 91, while the number of wounded has risen to over 300.
At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Saturday when Israeli occupation forces targeted tents of displaced people in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, an area previously designated as ‘safe’.
Al-Jazeera reported that the Israeli army conducted violent raids with five missiles on displacement camps west of Khan Yunis, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries.
Medical sources confirmed that the bombing caused more than 50 deaths and numerous injuries.
The government media office in Gaza announced that among the victims were members of the Civil Defense.
The office said in a statement that relief teams are still working to retrieve the bodies and help the wounded from the bombing site, and noted that the massacre occurred while hospitals are overwhelmed and unable to accommodate the number of casualties.
An official at the Nasser Hospital informed Al-Jazeera that it had received more than 20 bodies and numerous wounded, confirming the hospital’s inability to accept more patients.
The Israeli army had previously classified the targeted area as ‘safe’, directing displaced people to seek refuge there.
Al-Jazeera also reported that the death toll from last night’s Israeli bombing of the Al-Ra’i family home in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza has risen to five, including two children.
Additionally, two people were killed and others injured when the Israeli occupation bombed a house near the Islamic University, east of Khan Yunis.
A Palestinian man and his pregnant wife were also killed when their home in east Khan Yunis was bombed.
Meanwhile, more than 10 people were reportedly injured in an Israeli bombing targeting a house on Al-Ishrin Street in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza. Some of the injured were taken to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp, while others were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
Al-Aqsa TV reported that Israeli aircraft launched violent airstrikes on the north of the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, resulting in injuries when a missile targeted a house near Al-Riyadh School.
Ongoing Genocide
Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 38,345 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,295 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.
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