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Israel’s military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said to have been “burned alive” were actually killed by friendly fire?   by Max Blumenthal   Part 1   Several new testimonies by Israeli witnesses to the October 7 Hamas surprise attack on southern Israel adds to growing evidence that the Israeli military killed its own citizens as they fought to neutralize Palestinian gunmen. Tuval Escapa, a member of the security team for Kibbutz Be’eri, set up a hotline to coordinate between kibbutz residents and the Israeli army. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that as desperation began to set in, “ the commanders in the field made difficult decisions – including shelling houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages. ” A separate report published in Haaretz noted that the Israeli military was “ compelled to request an aerial strike ” a

BreakThrough News   Israel’s genocide in Gaza has shocked the conscience of the entire world, with an endless flow of videos and images of Palestinian children cut into pieces by American bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes deliberately intended to destroy a civilian population.    Despite the explicitly genocidal rhetoric of Israeli officials, Western leaders continue to proclaim their support for Israel’s right to “defend itself.” But this war on Gaza is different from past wars, not only in the level of Israeli aggression, but in the reaction on the street. From the Middle East to the United States, Israel is losing the narrative war. Most people want to see a ceasefire and tens of thousands have protested across the US to demonstrate their opposition to Biden’s unconditional support for this genocide. 

failed evolution   On 11 April 2019, the Ecuadorian government of traitor Lenin Moreno, invited the Metropolitan Police into the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and they arrested Julian Assange . Since then, Assange is kept in Belmarsh high security prison in London, without actual charges.   The real reason world's number one political prisoner is still kept in this high security prison, is because he exposed horrendous war crimes carried out by the US imperialists and their allies.   The ruthless Western imperialist regime wants to punish the No1 real journalist in the world and make him an example for any Whistleblower or real journalist who will attempt to expose its big crimes in the future.   And the Anglo-American axis has now become officially a fascist coalition , framed by the rest of its Western pets. UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel, one of the most ruthless ever, decided to extradite Julian Assange to US. No surprise of course. The only question we had in mind is

BreakThrough News              The entire world is fed up with the US hegemony and world policing.      

The Grayzone   Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the ongoing war in Palestine, Israel's gruesome assault on Gaza's civilians and its desperate campaign for sympathy on the world stage. They will also cover US airstrikes on northeastern Syria and the looming threat of regional war.

After Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, IDF forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence so far has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people. Western media, however, show far more interest and have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as unofficial spokespersons for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).   by Alan Macleod  Part 4 - Context-Free Violence   Missing from most of the reporting was the basic factual background of the attack. Few articles mentioned that Israel was built upon an existing Palestinian state, and that most of the inhabitants of Gaza are descended from refugees ethnically cleansed from southern Israel in order to make way for a Jewish state. Also left unmentioned was that Israel controls almost every aspect of Gazan’s life. This includes deciding who can enter or leave the densely populated strip and limiting the import of food, medicine and other crucial goods. Aid grou

The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is thus over nine million hectares, exceeding 28 percent of the country’s arable land. The rest is used by over eight million Ukrainian farmers.   Part 5 - Why was there a moratorium on land sales and how was it lifted?   Before the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, all land was the property of the state, with farmers working on state and collective farms.    In the 1990s, guided and supported by the IMF and other international institutions, the government privatized much of Ukraine’s farmland which resulted in the growing concentration of land in the hands of a new oligarchic class. To stop this process, the government instituted a moratorium in 2001, which halted further privatization and prevented almost all transfers of private land. 96 percent of agricultural land in Ukraine, or about 40 million hectares, was subjected to the moratorium.    While the moratorium prevented further pur

For 16 years, Israel’s illegal blockade has made Gaza the world’s biggest open-air prison – the international community must act now to prevent it becoming a giant graveyard   Amnesty International   Part 1   As Israeli forces continue to intensify their cataclysmic assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International has documented unlawful Israeli attacks, including indiscriminate attacks, which caused mass civilian casualties and must be investigated as war crimes. The organization spoke to survivors and eyewitnesses, analysed satellite imagery, and verified photos and videos to investigate air bombardments carried out by Israeli forces between 7 and 12 October, which caused horrific destruction, and in some cases wiped out entire families. Here the organization presents an in-depth analysis of its findings in five of these unlawful attacks. In each of these cases, Israeli attacks violated international humanitarian law, including by failing to take feasible precautions to sp

By presenting Israel's terror campaign against Palestinians as if it were defensible, the US media are doing their part to help it continue   by Gregory Shupak   Part 2 - Rationalising 'genocidal' language In its most recent editorial, the Post professes concern for the Palestinians but still endorses Israel's military campaign: " After the slaughter of its civilians, Israel - like any other state - has every right to respond militarily. " For the Post , the violence of the occupier is just and that of the occupied isn't: Israel can " respond militarily " to Palestinian forces killing Israelis but Palestinians don't have the same right, even after 75 years of ethnic cleansing, even under apartheid. A 14 October New York Times editorial strongly supports Israel's attacks, saying that Israel " is determined to break the power of Hamas, and in that effort it deserves the support of the United States and the rest of the world. " Th

Owen Jones   With growing public fury at the horrors unleashed by Israel against Gaza, the cheerleaders of this crime have a strategy. Those who oppose it are to be harassed, intimidated, fired. Here we document what's happening, who has been targeted - and why we must fight it.

Geopolitical Economy Report   Much of the Global South is rebelling as Israel destroys Gaza, with US/EU support. Colombia's first-ever left-wing President Gustavo Petro warned that the West's exploitative economic model is bringing back fascism, and neocolonial elites treat the peoples of the Global South as "disposable, like the children of Gaza".

Diem25   In responding to the recent crisis in Israel and Palestine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has violated the European Union's legal framework and disregarded basic moral decency. While condemning attacks on civilians in Israel, she has supported the sealing off of civilians in Gaza from water, food and electricity and the bombing of the people of Gaza under the guise of "defence". This unilateral action disregards international law and the democratic mandate of EU member states. The President of the European Commission thus disregards     international law,     the democratic mandate of EU member states,     appropriate ethical behaviour,     the necessary diplomatic prudence. We, the undersigned, demand her immediate resignation.   Sign here:   https://i.diem25.org/en/petitions/91?display=form   

The Real News Network   On Oct 18, hundreds of Jewish activists were arrested after staging a sit-in at the US Capitol to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. Dave Zirin, who joined the sit-in, explains why he did so in this special edition of ‘Choice Words.’  

Democracy Now!   We have witnessed decades of failure, especially by successive US administrations that promised that they would mediate and negotiate and lead Palestinians and Israelis towards just and lasting peace, but none of this promises have been fulfilled. We've witnessed nothing but cynicism and we have witnessed nothing but continuous enabling of successive Israeli governments to continue with their policies of uprooting Palestinians, ethnically cleansing them, destroying their lives, and destroying any possibility for Palestinian statehood and independence.    

Owen Jones   Defenders of Israel's onslaught against Gaza know that public opinion is turning, and that they have no moral high ground. So a smear campaign is underway - and here it it exposed. 

After Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, IDF forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence so far has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people. Western media, however, show far more interest and have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as unofficial spokespersons for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).   by Alan Macleod  Part 3 - Lionizing Israel, Dehumanizing Palestinians   Few readers, however, see these retractions. Instead, they are left with visceral feelings of anger and disgust towards Hamas, priming them to support Western military action against Palestine or the wider region. In case their audiences did not get the message, op-eds and editorials in major newspapers hammered home this idea. The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed entitled “The Moral Duty to Destroy Hamas”, which insisted to readers that “ Israel is entitled to do whatever it takes to uproot this evil, depraved culture

The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is thus over nine million hectares, exceeding 28 percent of the country’s arable land. The rest is used by over eight million Ukrainian farmers.   Part 4 - How are international financial institutions involved in the takeover of land in Ukraine?   Since the installation of a pro-EU government following the Maidan Revolution in 2014, a key condition of financing from international financial institutions like the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank has been for Ukraine to lift the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land in order to create a land market.    This push has largely succeeded, with the IMF leveraging the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic to coerce Ukraine into passing the March 2020 land law despite overwhelming opposition in the country.    Another way in which the international financial

After an Israeli reserve soldier named David Ben Zion told a reporter Palestinian militants “cut [off] heads of babies,” Biden, Netanyahu, and the international media amplified the dubious claim.The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be “wiped out.”    by Max Blumenthal and Alexander Rubinstein  Part 3 - Lead member of Israel’s apocalyptic Temple movement Ben David appears to have been at the forefront of settler extremism for years. He was photographed in 2015 holding a microphone for the fanatical settler ideologue Noam Livnat, a self-described “ radical right-wing messianist. ”  According to the book, “Murder in the Name of God: The Plot to Kill Yitzhak Rabin,” Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir, “ especially admires ” Livnat. In 2005, Livnat led a mutiny of 10,000 IDF soldiers and reservists who vowed to refuse then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s order to remove illegal settlements from Gaza. Ben David appears t

failed evolution   On 11 April 2019, the Ecuadorian government of traitor Lenin Moreno, invited the Metropolitan Police into the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and they arrested Julian Assange . Since then, Assange is kept in Belmarsh high security prison in London, without actual charges.   The real reason world's number one political prisoner is still kept in this high security prison, is because he exposed horrendous war crimes carried out by the US imperialists and their allies.   The ruthless Western imperialist regime wants to punish the No1 real journalist in the world and make him an example for any Whistleblower or real journalist who will attempt to expose its big crimes in the future.   And the Anglo-American axis has now become officially a fascist coalition , framed by the rest of its Western pets. UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel, one of the most ruthless ever, decided to extradite Julian Assange to US. No surprise of course. The only question we had in mind is

By presenting Israel's terror campaign against Palestinians as if it were defensible, the US media are doing their part to help it continue   by Gregory Shupak   Part 1 Recent editorials in leading liberal US newspapers have consistently presented the unrelenting mass terror that Israel inflicts on Palestinians as legitimate. Media outlets have endorsed Israel's assault on Gaza, and America's funding of the attack, while criticizing those who offer even mildly dissenting views. American publications have repeatedly conferred on Israel's violence a virtuousness, even as it mows people down - a generosity not afforded to its Palestinian counterpart. On 12 October, The Washington Post ran an editorial praising US President Joe Biden for his " unreserved condemnation of Hamas's terrorism ", saying: " In that respect, Mr Biden's firm words also stand in welcome contrast to the equivocations by a small number of the left-wing members of Congress in his

TheGrayzone The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed discuss the killing of at least 100 people sheltering at the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City and dubious Israeli claims that the massacre resulted from a misfired Palestinian rocket.     Read also:   How Israel's propaganda machine works after the hospital massacre

The Real News Network   As the war between Israel and occupied Palestine escalates to terrifying heights, thousands of demonstrators swarmed central London earlier this week to show solidarity with Palestinians, to call for an end to the Israeli Occupation, and to demand that the Israeli military cease its relentless bombing of civilians in Gaza. “ We only know what we see on television, ” Sarah Callaway told TRNN during the demonstration, “ but it looks like the second World War, it looks catastrophic, and it really looks like the Israeli government is trying to do a genocide on Palestinian people. ” Nadia Péridot reports on the ground from London. 

Redacted   Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter lays out how a U.S. backed war against Iran would bring devastation to both the United States and Israel. Ritter says Israel would be destroyed if it tries to face off against Hezbollah and Hamas simultaneously. 

The Real News Network   Israel has unleashed a horrific war of collective punishment against the people of Gaza, the latest in a long history of anti-Palestinian oppression. As corporate media shamelessly provides cover for what is undoubtedly a genocide unfolding in real time, the need to ground our understanding of the conflict in its proper history is more important than ever. Norman Finkelstein joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss Israel's 17 year blockade of Gaza and its crucial significance to understanding the events of the past two weeks. 

Owen Jones   Israel's authorities have a long history of blatant misinformation and deceit. Here, Owen Jones looks at examples of how they've done just that - and how that's become the basis of their propaganda offensive during the current horror in Gaza.     Read also:   How Israel's propaganda machine works after the hospital massacre

After Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, IDF forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence so far has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people. Western media, however, show far more interest and have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as unofficial spokespersons for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).   by Alan Macleod  Part 2 - The Murdered Girl Who Came Back to Life   Another piece of blatantly fake news is the case of Shani Louk. Louk attended the Supernova Festival, ambushed by Hamas. It was widely reported that Hamas murdered her (e.g., Daily Mail, Marca, Yahoo! News, TMZ, Business Insider ), stripped her, and paraded her naked body trophy-like through the streets on the back of a truck. Louk’s case incited global anger and calls for an overwhelming Israeli military response.   There was only one problem: Louk was later confirmed to be alive and in hospital, a fact that suggests the vi

The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is thus over nine million hectares, exceeding 28 percent of the country’s arable land. The rest is used by over eight million Ukrainian farmers.   Part 3 - Why is the takeover of Ukrainian land a cause for concern?   Concentration of land in the hands of agribusinesses, oligarchs, and powerful financial interests raises questions of equity and economic justice in a country where resources have been accumulated by a few, often through corrupt practices.    Fair and equitable access to land and financing would ensure the economic sustainability and well-being of the country’s eight million farmers.  Furthermore, the takeover of land by large agribusinesses generates the expansion of industrial agriculture based on the intensive use of synthetic inputs, fossil fuels, and large-scale monocropping – long shown to be environmentally and socially destructive. They are primarily geared towards expo

After an Israeli reserve soldier named David Ben Zion told a reporter Palestinian militants “cut [off] heads of babies,” Biden, Netanyahu, and the international media amplified the dubious claim.The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be “wiped out.”    by Max Blumenthal and Alexander Rubinstein  Part 2 - Calls for Palestinians to be “wiped out,” “no room for mercy” David Ben Zion, is a leader of the Shomron Regional Council of 35 illegal West Bank settlements who called this year for the Palestinian village of Huwara to be “ wiped out. ” “ Enough talk about building and strengthening the settlements, ” Ben David said in a Twitter post on February 26, 2023. The deterrence that was lost must return now, there’s no room for mercy.” Ben David was quoted in Israeli media proclaiming soon after, “ The village of Huwara should be wiped out, this place is a nest of terror and the punishment should be for everyone, ”

globinfo freexchange   A massive operation is underway by Israel's media apparatus to distort the facts around the bombing of hospitals in the besieged Gaza City.   Even before the attack, information was circulating in the international media that there are Hamas tunnels under the hospitals. The information was circulated by media outlets such as the BBC a day before the attack.  During the first hours after the attack, fake photos (in fact photos of different times and locations) were circulated on the Internet, supposedly showing a Hamas rocket that went off course and hit the hospital. From very early on, social media users spotted and pointed out the scam. As the international outcry over the hundreds of victims grew, the initial leaks became the official line of the Israeli government, trying to attribute the attack to Hamas. It should be noted that one of the first media to broadcast this information was i24news , which had broadcast the fake news about the alleged beheadin

Owen Jones   Latest analysis from the experts as Gaza is plunged into humanitarian catastrophe.  

The Grayzone   Max Blumenthal, Wyatt Reed and special guests discuss the latest from Israel-Palestine and the ramifications of the massacre of hundreds of civilians sheltering in the Ahly hospital in Gaza City.   

An Israeli airstrike struck al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City, international media reported, citing the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave. The details have yet to be verified and Israeli authorities have not released any statement on the alleged strike. Patients and displaced civilians were reportedly seeking shelter at the hospital, following Israel’s order to evacuate to the south in advance of what is expected to be a ground assault. “ WHO strongly condemns the attack, ” agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote in a post on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. “ We call for the immediate protection of civilians and healthcare, and for the evacuation orders to be reversed, ” he added.   Al-Ahli Arab Hospital was operational, with patients, health and care givers, and internally displaced people sheltering there, WHO said in a statement. It was one of 20 hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military.