Linda Mamoun
@mamoun_linda
A 15 year old Palestinian boy said he was raped in Israeli custody. When a nonprofit tried to expose it, Israel raided their offices, labeled them a terrorist organization, and shut them down. Brett Murphy’s ProPublica report reveals this and more.
https://x.com/mamoun_linda/status/1879815508285165742

Posted by: Menz | Jan 17 2025 20:14 utc | 104

Diana Buttu
@dianabuttu
Israel just released the list of 95 Palestinian prisoners who may be released in the coming days:
– 6 are kids; none convicted – 4 held without charge or trial
– 79 who have not been convicted of a crime including 27 being held without charge or trial.
Mass incarceration is an Israeli tool of control.
https://x.com/dianabuttu/status/1880284109278445686

Posted by: Menz | Jan 17 2025 20:15 utc | 106

asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
@asadabukhalil
So the High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission (HRVP) told a Saudi regime paper that EU is ready to help draft the new Syrian constitution. When Iran had influence in Syria, it did not draft a constitution.
https://x.com/asadabukhalil/status/1880070708027600918

Posted by: Menz | Jan 17 2025 20:18 utc | 108

Brett Murphy
@BrettMmurphy
·
Jan 16
There is a ceasefire deal, so I want to share this story from my past year reporting inside the State Dept. trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza? 1/
2/ Since Oct. 7, 2023, Biden and Secretary of State Blinken repeatedly drew lines on humanitarian grounds that the Israelis ostensibly couldn’t cross.
The IDF crossed them anyway.
And each time, there were no real consequences.
https://x.com/BrettMmurphy/status/1879639766242902074

Posted by: Menz | Jan 17 2025 20:20 utc | 110

Decensored News
@decensorednews
NEW: We reconstructed @samhusseini
‘s viral confrontation with Antony Blinken by combining footage from multiple sources, including @amrhsayed
& @ryangrim
. A must-see.
This was the culmination of months of State Dept stonewalling.
“Why aren’t you in The Hague??”
https://x.com/decensorednews/status/1880230957070029141

Posted by: Menz | Jan 17 2025 20:22 utc | 112

a pertinent and invaluable history lesson from Chris Hedges
“Study the past, if you would divine the future.” – Confucius
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-ceasefire-charade
and
https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1879927099714310518
Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges
The Ceasefire Charade
Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this case the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza — but Israel habitually fails to implement subsequent phases that would lead to a just and equitable peace. It eventually provokes the Palestinians with indiscriminate armed assaults to retaliate, defines a Palestinian response as a provocation and abrogates the ceasefire deal to reignite the slaughter.
If this latest three-phase ceasefire deal is ratified — and there is no certainty that it will be by Israel — it will, I expect, be little more than a presidential inauguration bombing pause. Israel has no intention of halting its merry-go-round of death.
The Israeli cabinet has delayed a vote on the ceasefire proposal while it continues to pound Gaza. At least 81 Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours……
….The deal includes three phases. The first phase, lasting 42 days, will see a cessation of hostilities. Hamas will release some Israeli hostages – 33 Israelis who were captured on Oct. 7, 2023, including all of the remaining five women, those aged above 50, and those with illnesses – in exchange for up to 1,000 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
The Israeli army will pull back from the populated areas of the Gaza Strip on the first day of the ceasefire. On the 7th day, displaced Palestinians will be permitted to return to northern Gaza. Israel will allow 600 aid trucks with food and medical supplies to enter Gaza daily…..
….The deep fissures between Israel and Hamas, even if the Israelis finally accept the agreement, threaten to implode it. Hamas is seeking a permanent ceasefire. But Israeli policy is unequivocal about its “right” to re-engage militarily. There is no consensus about who will govern Gaza. Israel has made it clear the continuance of Hamas in power is unacceptable. There is no mention of the status of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the U.N. agency that Israel has outlawed
and that provides the bulk of the humanitarian aid given to the Palestinians, 95 percent of whom have been displaced. There is no agreement on the reconstruction of Gaza, which lies in rubble. And, of course, there is no route in the agreement to an independent and sovereign Palestinian state.
Israeli mendacity and manipulation is pitifully predictable……
….The right of Palestinian refugees to return to the historic lands seized from them in 1948 when Israel was created — a right enshrined in international law — was given up by the PLO leader Yasser Arafat, instantly alienating many Palestinians, especially those in Gaza where 75 percent are refugees or the descendants of refugees. Edward Said called the Oslo agreement “an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles” and lambasted Arafat as “the Pétain of the Palestinians.”……
….The journalist Robert Fisk called Oslo “a sham, a lie, a trick to entangle Arafat and the PLO into abandonment of all that they had sought and struggled for over a quarter of a century, a method of creating false hope in order to emasculate the aspiration of statehood.”…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 17 2025 22:15 utc | 114

“It is not fair and just that your departure should be silent and cold, you in particular, Ahmed Al-Shawa, it is right that the news of your martyrdom should be loud and resounding as much as the spirit and life in which you faced death and annihilation, singing, dancing, jumping, treading, flying in the sky like a flame defeating the wind: “We want to rejoice, we want to live.. We want the whole world to see” .. Does the maker of joy die with such silence and sadness! Is the bearer of joy buried on his heavy shoulders from Gaza to Shuja’iyya, and from Jabalia to Beit Hanoun, with all this silence!
Peace be upon you, you who are tall and handsome, peace be upon your beautiful soul, writing about you and your departed peers, is a rebellion against absence and an adherence to your mark and beautiful presence in our lives… and also a shy apology,
Journalist Yousef Fares – North Gaza Strip”
https://t.me/youseffares19/64990
(Video, not graphic)

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 17 2025 23:13 utc | 116

“The Israeli Security Cabinet would need to vote to accept the terms of the ceasefire, and then a second vote would go before Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. If passed by both groups, there would also be time for appeals against the deal to be brought to the nation’s Supreme Court.” The Hill
“A Knesset vote is not necessary for the ceasefire to reflect Israeli acceptance; a cabinet resolution is sufficient. ” The Indian Express
“After (War) Cabinet Approval, Israeli (Full) Cabinet Ratifies Gaza Agreement
One step remains for implementation Sunday: The Supreme Court opens the door to appeals from Israelis against the release of Palestinian prisoners” Gaza News Now
All from last 24hrs or so.
?

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 18 2025 0:29 utc | 118

Lebanese Singer Julia Boutros
https://x.com/timand2037/status/1880371672370520486
“Pays tribute to the Palestinian resistance.”
From the river to the sea Palestine will be free. Long live Palestine!

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 18 2025 6:15 utc | 120

Israel is Refusing to Release Key Political Prisoners in Ceasefire
Hamas says it will continue pushing to free Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Sadaat in ongoing negotiations
Jeremy Scahill
and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jan 18, 2025
The Palestinian delegation negotiating the Gaza “ceasefire” agreement in Doha made an eleventh-hour effort earlier this week to push for the release of two of the most high-profile political prisoners held by Israel: Marwan Barghouti, a popular political leader many believe would win a democratic election in Palestine, and Ahmad Sadaat, Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
After the agreement was announced in Doha on Wednesday, Israel and the U.S. falsely portrayed Hamas as upending the deal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accused Hamas of trying to “extort last minute concessions,” saying in a statement that “Hamas reneged on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators.” Sources close to the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, however, told Drop Site that the Palestinian side renewed their push for Barghouti and Saadat as a result of Israel’s last minute attempt to expedite the release of a group of male Israeli soldiers held in Gaza. Some Palestinian sources suggested the move may have been motivated by Netanyahu’s efforts to convince National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to support the deal. Hamas and Israel had previously agreed to the release of five female Israeli soldiers in Phase 1 of the deal. It is not known precisely how many living Israeli soldiers remain in captivity in Gaza.
Israel also delayed a final agreement by refusing to provide maps specifying technical yet critical details about the withdrawal routes and repositioning of Israeli forces in three key areas: the buffer zone within the Gaza Strip, the Philadelphi corridor that runs along the border with Egypt, and the Rafah crossing. A Palestinian source involved with the negotiations told Drop Site that based on past experience with Israel, the maps were vital to limit Israel’s ability to exploit any vagueness. A senior Hamas official later told Drop Site that Israel subsequently provided the maps to mediators, clearing the way for the final deal to go into effect on Sunday.
From the start of the war, Hamas has said Marwan Barghouti’s release was a top priority in any exchange deal. “They know the Israelis would never allow [his release] in the first Phase,” a Palestinian source close to the negotiations told Drop Site. Barghouti—a senior member of Fatah, the ruling party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas—was arrested in 2002 and sentenced by an Israeli court to five life sentences on charges of murder attributed to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades during the second Palestinian Intifada. Some media reports have suggested that Abbas and the U.S. government have opposed the release of Barghouti, who is often seen as a likely successor to Abbas if freed.
“He is very much a Nelson Mandela-like figure, but there’s a big difference between the two. And the big difference is that the ANC at every opportunity was making sure to put forward Nelson Mandela’s name,” said Palestinian human rights lawyer Dianna Buttu, who previously served as an advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization’s negotiating team. “In our case, we have a Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who has spent the past 19 years in office never really uttering his name, or pushing for Marwan’s freedom. And the reason that he doesn’t do that is because he sees him as a rival. He does have that ability to be a leader, to unite people.”
MORE…
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-refusing-to-release-marwan-barghouti-ahmad-saadat

Posted by: Menz | Jan 18 2025 8:51 utc | 122

Colonel Cassad reports on the “comprehensive” security treaty between Russia and Iran.
Posted by: guest from franconia | Jan 17 2025 22:41 utc | 116
It’s called “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty”, no “security” ( tass.com/world/1901023 ).
And not many people read the news from a few months ago, unanimous votes “preserve the Council’s unity” ( press.un.org/en/2024/sc15896.doc.htm ) So any treaty with Iran can contain only trade. Now if Iran joins Nato, hosts US bases and becomes friendly to Israel like Turkey and India do, they may be allowed to buy one S400, maybe.

Posted by: rk | Jan 18 2025 11:53 utc | 124

Full vote of Knenneset has taken place and the “ceasefire” deal will be implemented on Sunday morning at 8:30 Gaza time:
——————-
The Israeli government approves the Gaza deal, with a majority of 24 ministers in favor, compared to 8 opponents.
Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesperson: Ceasefire agreement begins Sunday morning at 8:30 local time in Gaza
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?after=64984&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
—————

Posted by: teri | Jan 18 2025 13:37 utc | 126

When is Bibi’s birthday?
Happy bithday to you.
You belong in a zoo.
You look like a psycho.
And you lie like one too.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 18 2025 14:45 utc | 128

Soldiers aren’t hostages they are POWs
Posted by: Exile | Jan 18 2025 15:24 utc | 130

@Exile
I’m sorry, but you’re wong.

Although the prohibition of hostage-taking is specified in the Fourth Geneva Convention and is typically associated with the holding of civilians as hostages, there is no indication that the offence is limited to taking civilians hostage. Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, the Statute of the International Criminal Court and the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages do not limit the offence to the taking of civilians, but apply it to the taking of any person. Indeed, in the Elements of Crimes for the International Criminal Court, the definition applies to the taking of any person protected by the Geneva Conventions

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule96
@all
I’m not giving my point of view, but simply indicating what the position of international law is on this point. There’s no need to raise an army of indignant people against me, I’m not the originator of international law.

Posted by: Leuk | Jan 18 2025 16:15 utc | 130

To be clear: enemy soldiers can be held captive during a conflict, but they must not be held in an attempt to satisfy the objectives described in the New York Convention:

The act of hostage-taking for the purposes of the Convention refers to any person who seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure or to continue to detain a hostage in order to compel a State, an international intergovernmental organization, a natural or juridical person, or a group of persons, to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the hostage.

https://www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/Special/1979%20International%20Convention%20against%20the%20Taking%20of%20Hostages.pdf

Posted by: Leuk | Jan 18 2025 16:35 utc | 132

Been monitoring the main “Israeli” mockingbirds.
Here is an interesting article from today.
“He’s a f- liar,”, Biden referring to the guy that we just witnessed being trusted to sign onto a ceasefire deal.

More than once, passionate arguments erupted between the sides that escalated to shouting and even cursing. “He’s a f- liar,” President Joe Biden said about Netanyahu after Israel entered Rafah by ground, according to an American report.
Despite these disagreements, some of which also delayed war moves, from Netanyahu’s perspective, the continued American support for Israel was a priceless gift. Conversations with a long line of sources reveal that the entire Israeli political and security leadership, from the prime minister down, was and remains in agreement that without backing from Washington, Israel would have been forced to stop the war before achieving all its goals.
Beyond the American armaments that crossed the Atlantic Ocean and enabled the continuation of IDF attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, the most important thing from Israel’s perspective was America’s position in the UN Security Council and its ability to veto any resolution that would effectively end the war. “Contrary to popular opinion in Israel, without the Americans we would have closed this war long ago,” as a senior Israeli official puts it. “That’s why we had to tread carefully with them and walk on eggshells.”

https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/01/17/the-dramatic-operations-israel-coordinated-with-the-us-and-those-it-didnt/
“Israelis” marrying Biden to their war crimes.

Posted by: librul | Jan 18 2025 16:51 utc | 134

Remarkable that the genociders interpret Jus In Bello in the most imaginative ways possible. ( aka outlright lies )
Fascinating also that genociders never mention the 10,000 Arab civilians being held in torture dungeons……

Posted by: Exile | Jan 18 2025 18:38 utc | 136

My theory is that likely that the full Knesset didn’t have to vote because there is a state of war, and there is some clause somewhere that during a state of war, the war cabinet can approve a cease-fire.
It is important to remember that this isn’t a peace deal or end to the war. Israel is still free to do whatever they want, including bombing Gaza. The only thing they committed to (on paper) is to exchange prisoners for the hostages and maybe withdraw temporarily from a few positions.
We had a similar ceasefire back in November ’23 and it did not hold for more than a week or so.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jan 18 2025 19:32 utc | 138

Roundup:
Ceasefire starts 8:30 am local time Sunday
(No 48 hr cessation of hostility, Gaza is still being bombed)
Yuhu says:
Still waiting for full list of detainees to be released by Hamas.
US promises to release any delayed arms shipments.
Will expand military presence on , retain control of, Philadelphi and Nezarim indefinitely.
Is free to reinitiate conflict and says this is only part way of the path to dismanteling Hamas.
Trump says:
Good governance by his admin. will see ceasefire continue.
… as previously, pls. correct any mistakes, it is difficult to keep up with this event and stay accurate…

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 18 2025 20:19 utc | 140

Four days ago I had posted:

More Victimhood from the Genociders.
Surprise, surprise, surprise…NOT
“It is Us! that are the victims, not the Palestinians!”
Hollywood has just released *another* victimhood movie (“September 5”).
How many has it been? Dozens or hundreds?
How many Holocaust victimhood books are there, thousands or
tens of thousands?
There are more than 100 Holocaust museums and memorials worldwide.
There are day(S!) set aside for Holocaust remembrance.
How many thousands — tens of thousands — of articles?
And what have they learned!? That genocide is wrong, wasn’t that the purpose
of the remembrance?
It is small wonder that Victimhood narcissism has fed the beastliness
of the Psychopathic Entity. And set loose murderous monsters upon Gaza.
But a new Holocaust movie at this time of Zionist genociding would be problematic,
so what were they to do?
They went with yet **another** “terrorism at the Munich Olympics” movie.
No surprises there.
Will be interested to learn if they failed to mention, even
fleetingly, the randomly chosen 250 Palestinian women, children
and old people “Israel” murdered in immediate retaliation.

You can add one more to the hundreds or thousands of Victimhood movies.
Yesterday I saw an ad for “A Real Pain”, a movie by Jesse Eisenberg.
[most of the filming took place before Oct 7, 2023, as I understand it]
In it Jesse travels to Poland to honor his grandmother who experienced the Holocaust.
The lesson of the Holocaust has now been made manifest. Most (but NOT all !!!) Jewish people
either
support the Genocide in Gaza
perpetrate the Genocide
or deny the Genocide.
These Holocaust movies, memorials, days of remembrance, books and articles
promote hateful, monstrous genocide. People should realize that.
I wonder how Jesse Eisenberg would feel if he understood what he promoted.
They are stuck in a victim-culture,
never healing the past.
Here is an article that addresses woundology:
https://poosh.com/what-is-woundology/

Blame
You feel a desire to blame others for how your life has turned out, keeping you negatively attached to the people and pain of your past.
Victimhood
A need to be seen as the victim of the situation (for example in a divorce or separation) and gaining power and attention through identifying with this role.
Betrayal
Not wanting to heal from your hurt (for example, when a loved one has passed away), because it feels like you will forget or betray them by moving forward with your life.
Identity
You have become defined by what happened to you and feel the need to continue to tell people about your story. Not for therapeutic purposes but because you don’t know who you are without it.
Awareness
You have the therapeutic language about your past, but none of this has landed below the neck, and awareness is not healing. As the saying goes, “We have to feel it to heal it,” and true healing involves the body, not just the mind.

Posted by: librul | Jan 18 2025 20:52 utc | 142

Brett Murphy
@BrettMmurphy
Jan 15 • 17 tweets • 6 min read •
Read on X
There is a ceasefire deal, so I want to share this story from my past year reporting inside the State Dept. trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza? 1/
2/ Since Oct. 7, 2023, Biden and Secretary of State Blinken repeatedly drew lines on humanitarian grounds that the Israelis ostensibly couldn’t cross.
The IDF crossed them anyway.
And each time, there were no real consequences.
Threadreader MORE…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1879639764376461374.html
Or the Article:
https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitter-thread

Posted by: Menz | Jan 18 2025 21:33 utc | 144

Kushner’s Saudi-backed fund doubles stake in firm financing illegal West Bank settlements
The Cradle.
News Desk
JAN 17, 2025
Affinity Partners, the Saudi-funded hedge firm of President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, received approval from Israeli regulators to double its stake in Phoenix Financial Ltd., which funds the construction of illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
Bloomberg reported on 17 January that Affinity could buy an additional 4.95 percent stake in the financial services firm at 37.5 shekels ($10.3) a share.
Phoenix’s share price has surged over 50 percent to around 58.5 shekels apiece since mid-July, when Kushner’s Miami-based firm announced the $128.5 million deal to buy its initial 4.95 percent stake, Bloomberg noted.
Kushner has held up the deal as a sign of his company’s confidence in the war-racked country’s economy.
MORE…
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/28507

Posted by: Menz | Jan 18 2025 21:37 utc | 146

sarah
@sahouraxo
BREAKING:
Israel is blowing up entire civilian apartment buildings in South Lebanon, in the middle of the night—despite a “ceasefire”.
No reason. No justification. Just pure terror and destruction. A war crime.
And, of course, not a peep from the international community.
https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1880002784030040257

Posted by: Menz | Jan 18 2025 21:39 utc | 148

Nota bene: the “47 Shalit prisoners” are the prisoners of the 2011 Gilad Shalit exchange that were re-detained.

Posted by: Leuk | Jan 18 2025 22:21 utc | 150

An off the cuff on related in the region:
Palestine – “Israel’ reinforcing presence in west bank.
Lebanon – approaching “Israel” withdrawal date and much uncertainty due to possible attempt at extension. “Israel” continues to enforce broad no-go zones and destroy residential buildings, as well as accusing LAF of not being thorough, as well as occupying territory related to expansion in…
Syria – maybe I don’t follow related channels but it seems very hushed, “Israel” consolidating its presence in the country, questions of alegiances between potentially rival forces in the country.
Yemen – says will respect ceasefire as long as it lasts, talk of returning a US ship, but conflict with US and co. continues at the moment, with strikes on Yemen and targeting of US fleet.
Iran – MEK related two (or three) judges assassinated.
There is a lot more going on besides, that is just a snapshot of some main realities…

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 18 2025 23:59 utc | 152

there is plenty of complicity to go around for this genocide and ethnic cleansing by the sociopathic barbarians that run the israeli government, isn’t there?
https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1879881641155293429
and
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/01/a-ceasefire-is-not-an-end/
The Genocide of the Palestinian people began 76 years ago. What may be drawing to a close is merely a particularly intense phase in the Genocide.
Gaza is destroyed. 92% of its housing has gone. Its water treatment and sanitation, electricity generation, food processing, farming, and fishing are all now incapable of sustaining much life. Its hospitals, health centres, universities, colleges, and schools are all now destroyed, as are its municipal buildings, waste disposal, road surfaces, drainage channels, theatres, cultural centres, cinemas, cafés.
What is left is 1.8 million cold and starving people, malnourished, soaked, ill-clothed, living in tents and defecating in trenches. Tens of thousands will die in these conditions however fast aid comes – and you can be 100% certain Israeli obstructionism will prevent it from coming fast.
But even if they can be physically saved, the culture and fabric of society are damaged beyond repair. The psychological damage is immense. The institutions of normality that might permit recovery are non-existent.
Nobody really knows the true number killed so far in the genocide.,,,,
….In both the USA and the UK, governments ignored their own senior officials and legal advisers to break the human rights constraints which those nations had imposed upon their foreign policy, particularly with regard to the supply of weapons.
In Poland, France and several other NATO countries, the governments have openly repudiated their duty to enforce warrants of the International Criminal Court.
In the UK, Germany, USA, France and throughout the Western world, there has been a massive rolling back of long-cherished and hard-won rights of freedom of expression and assembly, explicitly to prevent criticism of Israel and support for Palestine……
….So, what happens now? Well, I was in Beirut when it was carpet bombed in the hours immediately before the ceasefire here took effect, and I expect Israel to massively bomb Gaza’s tent cities in the next three days.
I have also seen Israel break the ceasefire in Lebanon every single day, and I expect them to do that in Gaza too……
…..The Israelis will continually delay and renege on the provisions on aid access and on withdrawal of troops. Palestinians in Gaza will die in large numbers of disease, hunger and poor sanitation.
Just as the ceasefire in Lebanon led to Israel immediately invading Southern Syria, Israel will now increase its activity in the West Bank,….
….The myth of Western support for international law and human rights died in Gaza, along with the myth of Western support for the “two-state solution”. There never was a viable two-state solution and it was those states who were loudest in pretending to support it, who vehemently refused to recognise the Palestinian state.
The “two-state solution” was only ever a cover for Zionism….
….Israel has lost any moral authority for its continued existence…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 19 2025 0:54 utc | 154

For me the most important part of the peace deal is that as well as promising to stop murdering Palestinians directly the zionist entity has undertaken to allow hundreds trucks full of food plus other much needed essentials into Gaza, including the North.
This is going to be the first check we as outsiders can have on the readiness of the zionists to live up to the deal. Until now the zionists have perverted the delivery of aid in some really twisted & arcane ways.
this article which you will need to translate explains what the zionists have been doing until Hamas began a crackdown on the Gazain sociopaths who acted on behalf of the zionists.
Basically the zionists unexpectedly allowed an aid convoy of 100 trucks into Gaza one day, except the trucks were told to stick to a weird route than made the dispersal spot not far from an iof outpost. A bunch of crooked Palestinians stuck up the trucks & took off with the goods & sold them at inflated prices to their fellow citizens.
Hamas investigators tracked down the ringleader of the operation by searching through shin beth communications going into Gaza. It transpired that part of the deal included huge kickbacks to the zionists.
This does not surprise me as those who wonder why there are no Western journos in Gaza need to cvast their thoughts back to the noughties when many western journos elected to stay on in Gaza after the blockade began. Many were kidnapped and held to ransom ostensibly for things which would never be delivered eg insisting every Muslim prisoner held in amerikan prisons and jails be released. In actual fact they were demanding ransoms in the 100’s of 000’s USD$.
Read this from BBC before bbc became quite so awful.
No western government would own that they had paid a ransom, the abductees would be released ‘outta the blue’
One of those abducted was a good friend of my close family member, he was under no illusion both from the way that the abduction occured & what he overheard whilst being held, that the zionists had masterminded the exercise using the same family/clan which zionists had been using to operate tunnels from the entity into Gaza to run in supplies that got sold as long as zionists got the lion’s share of the arrangement.
Naturally Palestinian co-conspirators are also required to reveal information about ‘who is up who and who is paying the rent’ in Gaza as well, so that the zionist agents could justify their actions should there be any inquiry about them.
We can expect all types of similar crooked dealings if the ceasefire holds for more than a coupla days.
Hamas police have arrested some of the Gazain crooks by wearing mufti (anything else being suicidal as drones etc from the entity hone in on them) and quickly shooting out the crims before their zionist protection can come in & assist the crims getaway.
Obviously the zionists will develop counters such as insisting all the administrative infrastructure remaining in Gaza is handed over to Palestinians operating as agents of zionism.
The entity is currently demanding that an organisation even more corrupt than the Palestinian Authority take over administration, tho that may be an ambit claim and the entity without borders or limits, will eventually, seemingly reluctantly agree to the P.A. doing to Gaza what it has done to the West Bank.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 19 2025 1:58 utc | 156

Just a ps about translating the first link from arabic. I don’t know whether google is any good at this because I use a Yandex browser that has been excellent in seamlessly translating from Arabic & Cyrillic scripts.
You can find Yandex at https://browser.yandex.com/

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 19 2025 2:02 utc | 158

Canada is Working to Further Subordinate Lebanon to US & Israeli Dictates
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1880681985003151632
“And it’s been doing so for some time…After Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and dozens of others by dropping dozens of 2000-pound bombs in a suburb of Beirut, Justin Trudeau celebrated it…
Canada’s assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is a way to help Israel and the US.
In announcing a $100 million new assistance package Tuesday, the US State Department explained, ‘US support to the LAF reinforces the LAF as an important institutional counterweight to Hezbollah…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 19 2025 2:58 utc | 160

YogiTheYankeeBear 101
” The Hamas who attacked Israel oct 7 should also face justice. ”
This statement confirms that US justice consists of a carefully manufactured Web of lies which Americans swallow hook, line and sinker, like their fast food Burgers.
Hamas on Oct 7 was fully entitled by International Law to resist the Occupying Power. They certainly don’t need to face any kind of a USUKIS manufactured Justice.
Cynicism about the outcome of Trump’s arrival as Potus would have been appropriate before the election. There were other candidates to vote for, but cynicism after voting for more genocide is like trying to make a Burger more healthy by adding a leaf of lettuce.
International Law exists. It is upheld by Russia, and it applies to all nations equally. Might didn’t make right. USUKIS having the capability to individually strike every opponent of Zionist apartheid doesn’t make it right.
Declarations by Israel of Palestinian citizens being combatants does not make them combatants.
Declarations by USUKIS of ceasefires which they themselves refuse to comply with, WILL ONE DAY be be presented as evidence of USUKIS criminality in an International Court of Law.
Playboy Trump had better play cards his cards right. He might be able to buy off prostitutes, but he won’t be able to buy off Allah.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 19 2025 3:53 utc | 162

Michaelj72 158
“” Palestine is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied. “”
The German Nazis were meticulous record-keepers because they were spiritually and morally convinced of the rightness of their genocidal cause and they wanted to record how they had achieved their success, until they didn’t.
The metadata Age will record everything. I was reading recently that there is now a law in Britain compelling every owner of an Electric Vehicle Charger to instantaneously provide data by Internet of their electrical energy consumption.
The purpose of this piece of Fascism, like the purpose of Facial Recognition Facism , is totally innocuous, safety for the consumer. Otherwise their main fuse might get blown, or they might get blown up by terrorists in a shopping centre.
But what has been blown out of the water by these Nazis who run USUKIS is the idea that their obsessive storage of metadata is innocuous. All of the genocide was conducted by algorithms using USUKIS Metadata, on the GPS location of innocent Palestinians.
Two can play at that game in a court of Law.
Do not go gentle into that dark night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 19 2025 4:22 utc | 164

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HTS, political Islam, has as always declared that they support the victim card Zionist Jews over the Muslims.
That’s all you need to know about HTS.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 19 2025 4:36 utc | 166

I know in the convoluted mind of Brainwashed Americans and their Atlantacist poodles in Europe, Russia always supports Israeli interests.
Garbage in , methane out.
Putin declared that he has to defeat the Zionist Nazis in Tel Aviv before he can defeat the Zionist Nazis in Kiev.
That’s why Israel has destroyed Russian weaponry in Tartus.
The maniac Zionist Potus Donald Trump complicates that mission because unlike Biden’s reliance on trusted Zionist, Ukrainian NeoCons, Trump sometimes believes his own bullshit and thinks he is Che Guevara fighting the US deep state.
Trump would do well to remember that Oreshnik technology could now be delivered to Israel or Kiev by special delivery , should Trump decide to stir up mischief in West Asia or Ukraine.
A Clint bullet, not an amateur one.
Pan pipe music. The End.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 19 2025 5:10 utc | 168

I would like to share this comment by Lucas Leiroz from his article at SCF.
“It is important to emphasize that war is a political phenomenon, not a military one. Military operations are merely some of the means through which a war occurs, but they are not the central point of a conflict. In fact, war is an extreme political mechanism, where two or more political entities confront each other using violence as a legitimate weapon.
Being a political event, the winner in a war is the side that achieves its political objectives, regardless of the military situation. In this sense, it is possible to lose all military battles but still win politically in the end. Something similar happened, for example, in Vietnam and Afghanistan. In both cases, the U.S. devastated the enemy countries, massacring the local populations through inhumane acts of violence. However, both in Vietnam, in 1973, and in Afghanistan, in 2021, Washington was defeated at the end of the war, leaving the battlefield without achieving its political objectives.”

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 19 2025 5:22 utc | 170

David Hearst of Middle East Eye, makes some good points here and the most critical one is the number of young American Jews who are on the side of the Palestinians and their Resistance forces, including Hamas.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-ceasefire-after-15-months-brutality-israel-has-failed-every-front
The world has changed and the Israelis, locked in their psycho bubble of delusion and brainwashing, were incapable of reading the room.
Israel was founded as a cult and has functioned as a cult and they generally destroy themselves because for a cult to survive initially, everyone must drink the KoolAid, even as metaphor, until the cult is no more.
The entire concept of an Israel for followers of Judaism was always deranged, unjust, unsustainable, backward and stupid. They got away with it for a long time because they have been aided and abetted by others, sustained by their control of mainstream media and their treasonous influence in too many corridors of power.
But, technology and new generations have put paid to the past and their machinations and Zionist Israel is bleeding out in the ways that matter. They may not be literally bleeding as the Palestinians are but the blood of Palestine sustains and enriches and the blood leaching from Israel just drains what is one of the most evil and sadistic military colonial occupations in history.
Good riddance to bad rubbish and full marks to the courage, integrity,resilience and nobility of spirit of the Palestinian people.

Posted by: rosross | Jan 19 2025 6:18 utc | 172

– David Hearst (Middle East Eye) in a video:
“Gaza ceasefire: After 15 months of brutality, Israel has failed on every front” (????????????????????????????????????)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHGTvdQbRWI (length: 10 minutes)
(Personally, I know Hearst is an intelligent person, but I have a hard time believing the view that Israel lost on every front)

Posted by: WMG | Jan 19 2025 7:13 utc | 174

SeanS
Are you a follower of Voltairenet?
Trouble with Voltairenet is that it mistakes the end of religion for a new
dawn . It’s dusk for humanity, not dawn.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 19 2025 7:41 utc | 176

– David Hearst (Middle East Eye):
Israel wants to build a wall on the border with Jordan because more and more people are crossing the Israeli-Jordanian border.
Jordan itself is domestically also getting under more and more pressure. tensions are rising
Hearst explains why a conflict with Jordan and in Jorden and the “interaction” with all the players Israel and the US is very dangerous for Jordan.
Hearst details what the REAL problems are for Jordan, in spite of the fact that the jordanians deny everything. The video is already some 4 months old but still very good description of the current situation.
VERY sightfull video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzYAVWIDwGI
Length: 9 minutes

Posted by: WMG | Jan 19 2025 8:28 utc | 178

Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasan
Who is Marwan Barghouti? Why is he considered the most popular and credible Palestinian leader of all? Was Israel right to imprison him?
My deep-dive for Zeteo into the man who has been called the ‘Palestinian Mandela’ – and who poses a threat to both Netanyahu *and* Abbas.
https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1880364300679713002

Posted by: Menz | Jan 19 2025 9:16 utc | 180

Peter Cronau
@PeterCronau
In one sentence… 👇
Greg Barns SC
@BarnsGreg
·
Jan 18
#Antisemitism is appalling but it is being exaggerated in Australia by the #Zionist lobby to ensure support for #Israel by politicians and the media
https://x.com/PeterCronau/status/1880839969591447960

Posted by: Menz | Jan 19 2025 9:19 utc | 182

Far-Right Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Quits over Ceasefire Deal
January 19, 2025 News
Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir resigns, expressing strong opposition to the ceasefire agreement.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and ministers from his far-right Jewish Power party resigned from the government on Sunday, expressing strong opposition to the ceasefire agreement with Hamas in Gaza.
The truce, brokered by international mediators, was supposed to take effect at 8:30 Palestine time, marking the start of a phased agreement spanning three stages, each lasting 42 days.
Israel, however, has already violated the agreement, conducting airstrikes across the Strip and killing at least 10 Palestinians.
Ben-Gvir had previously voted against the agreement during a cabinet meeting on Friday, where he warned of his potential resignation.
In a video statement, he described feeling “terrified” after learning the details of the deal, which includes the release of Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences to Jerusalem and the West Bank.
He called on ministers from the Likud and Religious Zionism parties to reject the agreement and reportedly tried to persuade Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to resign alongside him.
While Smotrich opposed the deal in government votes, he ultimately chose to remain in his position.
The agreement between Hamas and Israel aims to bring an end to Israel’s genocide on Gaza and initiate prisoner exchanges.
However, it has sparked significant dissent within Israel’s far-right political factions, reflecting the deep divisions over the ceasefire and its broader implications.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/far-right-israeli-minister-ben-gvir-quits-over-ceasefire-deal/

Posted by: Menz | Jan 19 2025 9:35 utc | 184

Stand by for the flood of disgusting tweets and press releases from the collaborationist political class supporting USrael’s genocide, defamed and suppressed its protests, and now claim to be for ‘peace’.
Do not permit them to win in ‘peace’ what they failed to achieve by war. End their Occupation.
Remember the names and detes of all accomplices. There will and must be accountability for their awful complicity in mass murder, war crimes and genocide.
Long live Palestine, its resistance and its victory! From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free!

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 19 2025 9:55 utc | 186

Zionazi Smotrich on the Ceasefire
https://x.com/timand2037/status/1880840772064844051
“We will erase the smiles from the Palestinians and the screaming will continue.”
What now to do about our ‘representatives’ that support USrael?

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 19 2025 10:08 utc | 188

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 19 2025 5:10 utc | 168

…Putin declared that he has to defeat the Zionist Nazis in Tel Aviv before he can defeat the Zionist Nazis in Kiev.
That’s why Israel has destroyed Russian weaponry in Tartus…

Do you have a reference for that declaration?

Posted by: robin | Jan 19 2025 11:50 utc | 190

Netanyahu 2024: This is the year of absolute victory, and it will be a happy year for the Jewish people.
(from my notes)
Netanyahu and the Minister of War months ago:
“Hamas will not exist in Gaza.”
🇵🇸 — Hamas: With the ceasefire in effect, we reaffirm our commitment to implementing the terms of the agreement, which is the fruit of the resilience and patience of our great people, and the legendary steadfastness of our valiant resistance against the Zionist machine of terrorism and murder.
Our heroic prisoners are set to meet freedom starting today, which is our steadfast promise to them always, until they break the chains of the prison guard and breathe in freedom in the skies of Palestine.
We continue the process of delivering aid and providing relief to our people with everything necessary, and we reaffirm our efforts to provide all the required support and assistance to restore normalcy to life in the Gaza Strip.
From:https://tgstat.com/channel/@TheSimurgh313

Posted by: JB | Jan 19 2025 13:02 utc | 192

It is important to be precise with language. This is not a peace deal. It is a temporary cease fire. And it sounds like it’s already falling apart.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jan 19 2025 13:44 utc | 194

(Personally, I know Hearst is an intelligent person, but I have a hard time believing the view that Israel lost on every front)
Name one front where Israel won?

Posted by: rosross | Jan 19 2025 21:59 utc | 196

(Personally, I know Hearst is an intelligent person, but I have a hard time believing the view that Israel lost on every front)
So, how did Israel win?
They did not destroy Hamas.
They do not control Gaza.
They do not hold Lebanon up to the Litani River.
They did not destroy Hezbollah.
They are an international pariah hated around the globe.
A third of young American Jews support the Palestinians including Hamas.
More than half young Americans want Palestine free.
Billions want Israel dismantled.
The Israeli economy is in tatters.
Millions of Israeli colonists have gone back to where they came from.
International investors are rejecting the State of Hate and its blood-drenched image.
Boycotts and sanctions are increasing.

Posted by: rosross | Jan 19 2025 22:12 utc | 198

rosross | Jan 19 2025 22:10 utc | 197
*** SO JUST WHERE DID ISRAEL WIN? ***
Their agencies own — or at least control — “Western” mass-media.
Which will spin the longer-term narrative.
Guess who will draft it…
With which most ‘academics’ will comply.
And they own the governments and establishment politicians too … have for instance Starmer, Baerbock and Macron not already made it very clear that they really couldn’t care less what the public in their own countries thinks or wants?
And that’s before taking laws and legal systems into account.

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 20 2025 0:30 utc | 200