Trump calls for ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s population to Egypt, Jordan:
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/28624

Posted by: Vortex | Jan 26 2025 13:48 utc | 3

Trump’s outright bald-faced calling for ethnic cleansing of a million people in Gaza is one of those things that seem virtually designed to make you wonder whether Israel was entirely precognizant of Oct 7 and indeed whether Trump’s “reelection” is part and parcel of the predetermined game the US Empire is playing, without a care in the world regarding how transparent they’re being.

Posted by: Ludovic | Jan 26 2025 14:04 utc | 5

Trump’s genocidal plan. I hope the Trump fellators wake the fuck up from their delusions. Dude is an empty suit

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 26 2025 14:34 utc | 7

It’s intereresting that Trump used the number million and a half for the population of Gaza. He is either just making up numbers or he has been told that 500,000 – 700,000 Palestinians have been killed. There were over 2 million in Gaza before the genocide started.
And one must count the over 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank; Trump told Netanyahu he could get rid of those Palestinians years ago. He didn’t bother to mention them yesterday, or the onslaught and destruction occurring there now.
Israel has broken the cease-fire in Gaza and in Lebanon this morning:
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Hamas is accusing Israel of violating a ceasefire deal by blocking hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from returning to their homes in northern Gaza.
At least 15 Lebanese people, including a soldier, have been killed in southern Lebanon after the Israeli army opened fire on the day its forces were due to withdraw under a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers have continued a large-scale military operation in and near the city of Jenin, killing at least two people, including a two-year-old girl.
– AJ live4-blog

Posted by: teri | Jan 26 2025 14:58 utc | 9

Ziotrump plays his hand, Aces high. I would think those that wished the Axis of Resistance to show restraint, hold off firing everything they had at the Aparthied State…….yes, each and every one here who knew better….actually knew fuck all. How’s that restraint working out, oh yeah, the Houthis are now the last hope for Palestine, even the ICC is fucking rigged.
Cheers M
…..I suppose the ceasefire’s upside, Palestinians are only dying in the hundreds daily, as opposed to thousands…..

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 26 2025 15:15 utc | 11

Repeating the set of local Palestine links….
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/GazaNewsNow?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/NewsPs0?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 26 2025 15:18 utc | 13

@11 Sean
Casualties aside (and that is a big aside coming from us not likely to take a bullet or be bombed), the contention is maybe outright confrontation under previous admin vs. re-forming to negotiate/confront new admin.
I don’t like to exagerate sentiment etc. , and it is easy enough to think that Palestine/Lebanon have been trampled and that there is no support from the region. However in reality we are talking many tens of millions of people who support the resistance to occupation, governments that are still very uneasy handling the chaos, as well as several million people basically trecking around as refugees.
What is “Israel” US answer to that ?
Hang out in Jordan, maybe we could build some condos near the beach would be nice.
Not a joke, it must be purposefully to humiliate and antagonise, but how much time before they run out of spite towards the Palestinians, and how twisted the plot before it falls apart ?
The Palestinians and locals will still be there, and so they will eventually succeed.

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 26 2025 15:35 utc | 15

I’m disgusted, but not surprised at Donald Trump…
“…hey guys, can you please take a couple million surviving Palestinians so we can rebuild Gaza as a beach resort and take advantage of the natural gas deposits off shore? Thanks, we really appreciate it. Don’t forget we have nukes…love ya!”
Puke.

Posted by: A rope leash | Jan 26 2025 16:25 utc | 17

In support of
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What do the resident Trump fans have to say about him overtly and unequivocally promoting ethnic cleansing?
And do those people believe the path to American Greatness can be found in destroying others?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2025 16:05 utc | 16
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Over 150 million of my fellow American voted in support of genocide candidates…….Please put my country down before we genocide and hurt more undeserving people.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 26 2025 16:28 utc | 19

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 26 2025 16:28 utc | 19
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You don’t wear a flag as your identity.
I like that.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2025 16:47 utc | 21

…Please put my country down before we genocide and hurt more undeserving people.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 26 2025 16:28 utc | 19
We can only hope & pray…

Posted by: Mary | Jan 26 2025 17:01 utc | 23

“Too late, Israel. Your reputation is made.”
Posted by: Mary
More than 2,000 years ago.
Posted by: Apollyon | Jan 26 2025 15:31 utc | 14
Well the sequel is epic in scale. Let’s hope the take-down is as well…& comes sooner rather than later.

Posted by: Mary | Jan 26 2025 17:06 utc | 25

Those supporting the AFD in Germany and Le Pen in France are falling for the exact same Bullshit.
They are eating the same grift for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Giorgia Meloni and Geert Wilders show once they have power who they are and what they stand for. Nigel Farage is the same.
The sheep fall for these shepherds every single time. Who all sing the same tunes to win power.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jan 26 2025 17:20 utc | 27

And if you think about Trump: he’s the perfect bad cop who can now unleash the chaos which is required to keep the Empire standing. He can annex Greenland or even declare economic war on the whole world and when there’s a new administration in 2028+ they will simply tell the world: “Look, it was him. He abused the US to do these nasty, imperial things. We are not like him. Remember, we’ve been the good guys all along. But oh well, we can’t change it now, let’s just get over it”…

Posted by: Zet | Jan 26 2025 17:36 utc | 29

Israel’s coalition government represents a fanatic base committed to a Greater Israel concept. Any and all ceasefire plans or withdrawal manoeuvres are anathema to this bloc, although temporary pauses may be accepted.
Trump is unusual for US leaders in that he has no inner censor, and will say out loud the things which are usually left behind closed doors. He also repeats out loud whatever topics and schemes his latest briefing consisted of. Obviously his most ardently zionist advisors have been influential since Friday, but it does not mean a mass ethnic cleansing program is about to be enshrined as policy. Somehow, Trump appears completely unaware that a plan to relocate the people of Gaza to Egypt and Jordan had already been floated, with accompanying diplomatic pressure, by the Biden administration a year ago and it got nowhere. He will likely be riffing on another tune after sitting through a briefing with different advisors and reps from the region.
Trump appears to not yet understand that Greater Israel and a stable region bound by business arrangements are not reconcilable constructs. He will in short order be forced to choose between one or the other, but the deliberation will not feature the absolute cynicism displayed by the Biden team, whereby the Greater Israel concept was fully supported while all public statements insisted otherwise.
The abrogation of the Lebanese ceasefire crystallizes where the cynical diplomatic charade leads: a tremendous amount of political capital was expended through “guarantees” of a good faith process along with the installation of political figures aligned with US interests who will literally overnight be confirmed as quisling compromisers. The story of the frog and the scorpion was used to good effect describing the nascent Cold War political environment, and it is also very applicable to the contemporary Levant.

Posted by: jayc | Jan 26 2025 17:50 utc | 31

“Somehow, Trump appears completely unaware that a plan to relocate the people of Gaza to Egypt and Jordan had already been floated, with accompanying diplomatic pressure, by the Biden administration a year ago and it got nowhere.”
Did Biden’s plan involve forcible relocation against the will of the Palestinians? The problem for Trump is that Jordan and Egypt do not want to accept any Palestinians. Trump will try to change their minds through blackmail and bribery. But I have no doubt that Trump will not hesitate to use force to drive Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank.

Posted by: Apollyon | Jan 26 2025 17:58 utc | 33

Did Biden’s plan involve forcible relocation against the will of the Palestinians?
Posted by: Apollyon | Jan 26 2025 17:58 utc | 33
Answer yes, it would have to be forcible. There is not the slightest chance of Trump’s desire succeeding, as he will discover in the coming days. Saudi will tell him the facts during his proposed visit, if nothing else. No Arab regime wants to be out of power, but that’s what’s at risk. Not even MbS can agree.

Posted by: laguerre | Jan 26 2025 18:10 utc | 35

Posted by: Mary | Jan 26 2025 17:06 utc | 25
I’m pretty sure this may turn out to be a Trilogy if not a 12-part mini series.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Jan 26 2025 18:19 utc | 37

Re: Forced Explusion
The Genociders should be careful legitimizing the forced expulsion of millions of people. What goes around might just come around.
Just saying

Posted by: Exile | Jan 26 2025 18:28 utc | 39

By the way,
forcing the Palestinians out of Gaza to Egypt and Jordan, or anywhere else, is not at all a matter of whether these vasalle states, or any other, will want to take them in
it is solely a matter of the Palestinians, who will not leave their land. Under any circumstances, as they have demonstrated forever, and more recently today, yesterday and every day for the last for 15 months that they have been subjected to all forms of genocide by the arch-criminal Zionists of Israel and their lord-master the arch-terrorist United States of America.
Those are facts, not fiction or conjecture.

Posted by: JB | Jan 26 2025 18:35 utc | 41

The Palestinians, like the American Indians and countless hominid species before them, are this era’s victims of harsh reality. No one enjoys it, many are sickened, but unfortunately it’s the way nature plays out.
On the plus side, something many who are so wrapped up in rage and despair over current events seem to ignore, is that by reaching this type of mutual accord, the world actually has a chance of becoming a safer place as we step back from the prospect of nuclear conflict.
Posted by: markw | Jan 26 2025 14:25 utc | 6
I’m sorry, but what fucking “mutual accord” are you talking about? How mutual is it when the sacrificed ones didn’t agree to be thrown into the pit to serve the ideas of the ‘realpolitik’ of the wealthy and well-armed overlords?
If the only way for humans to avoid nuclear armegeddon is for millions of innocent people who have been shoved around for decades to be murdered, if there is no other way to find a more reasonable answer than that we have to suck it up, lie back and “think of England”, then there is no hope for humans at all.
There is no reason that a few elite people get to force us into a choice of either nuclear annihilation or death by other means and they get to pick who dies. What this means is that the wrong humans are in charge. It doesn’t mean the rest of us have to tolerate being massacred every so often.
And, by the way, it is NOT the way “nature plays out”. It’s the way some humans choose to act toward others.
.What’s the matter with you?

Posted by: teri | Jan 26 2025 18:37 utc | 43

Posted by: Jane | Jan 26 2025 18:04 utc | 34
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Wasn’t your response to the American genocide of the natives that the natives should have moved?
Sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing by displacement to me.
You can protest until you’re blue in the face, your refusal to accept that your country was built on the corpses of the innocent is pure dissonance.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2025 18:40 utc | 45

Donald “Adelson” Trump entered his office about a week ago and waltzes like an elephant in a porcelain shop. Maybe he will partially succeed in his genocidal plans by arm twisting Jordan which is basically a colony. But with Egypt those chances are next to zero. And why would they want to inherit the problems created by its genocidal neighbor who are basically eastern European settlers who have no genetic connection to that area? Egypt already had issues in the past in the Sinai.
Some dude once said: “the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.”
The former administration nominally headed by a walking corpse more or less succeeded in the first two but failed with the latter. Trump will fail in all three, again. Let’s see how far he will be allowed to get in Making America Go Away.

Posted by: xor | Jan 26 2025 18:53 utc | 47

According Google, January 27 is (Never Again) Holocaust forgetfullness day, masquerading as Holocaust Remembrance Day.
It’s a day devoted to jews Remembering to whine about their Favourite Holocaust whilst Forgetting about their genocidal Palestinian Holocaust.
When Holocaust Remembrance day comes around each year, it usually reminds me that, when Paul Keating was PM of Oz, Mahatthir Mohamed of Malaysia asserted that “Jews rule the World by proxy.”
He was severely and publicly reprimanded by Keating, thus more or less reinforcing the point Mahatthir was making.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 26 2025 19:26 utc | 49

We’re already seeing Trump and the Republicans portrayed in a more approving way in the Western media.
Posted by: A rope leash | Jan 26 2025 19:09 utc | 48
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The media always follows power. They would rewrite the history of the Nazis if the American Nazi party had ever come to power.
Their interest isn’t in human development or justice.
It is invited to all the right parties and has access to inside gossip for “scoops.”
If you want to prosper at one of the many institutional organs like the WaPo (CIA) or NYT (State Dept and DoJ) then you have to master the art of “2 minutes of hate”.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2025 19:50 utc | 51

There’s a concerted effort by pro-Zionist entities to use false propaganda to gain sympathy for Jews around the globe -these actors are being paid to daub anti-Jewish symbols and comments.
https://nitter.poast.org/wyattreed13/status/1883474621707776004#m
https://nitter.poast.org/MaxBlumenthal/status/1883270247287066943#m
“Australian police are investigating whether “overseas actors or individuals” are paying local criminals to carry out antisemitic crimes in the country
PM Albanese says antisemitic attacks are “being perpetrated by people who don’t have a particular issue, aren’t motivated by an ideology, but are paid actors”
He added “it’s unclear who or where the payments are coming from”
Australia’s Shadow Home Office minister wonders if a “foreign government is engaging in state-sponsored terror”
Would it be antisemitic to investigate a certain settler colonial country whose existence is justified by the global proliferation of antisemitism?”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 26 2025 19:57 utc | 53

Mark W @ 6:
Your expressed attitude and level of knowledge about Palestine and the neighbouring countries, and of past Western colonialism towards colonised peoples generally, are appalling, to say the least.
Egypt and Jordan are in no position to accept 2 million Palestinians, politically and economically. Such acceptance will be unpopular with the general public in those nations, which have enough problems of their own. These nations’ environmental resources, especially their water resources, are also strained.
If anything, accepting huge numbers of refugees at a time when they are dealing with water supply issues is likely to cause more political instability and increase the chances of major war including nuclear war – because political weakness and instability in its neighbourhood (Iraq, Lebanon, Syria) to date have worked in Israel’s favour.
Which would be why Israel favours pushing all the Palestinians to its other neighbours: to destabilise them as well, perhaps in hopes of grabbing parts of their territory to advance its Eretz Israel project.
These are all conscious and deliberate decisions made by people who care only about holding onto power and looking good in front of their audiences. The only “natural” thing about these decisions is the stupidity and ignorance of the decision-makers and their failure to realise that repeating the mistakes and failures of the past results in more and bigger mistakes and failures.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 26 2025 20:31 utc | 55

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2025 19:50 utc | 51
The media always follows power.
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I’ve noticed the change in media focus after a change of power before, but this time it’s quite stark. It seems that some on the left could well be targets of Trump retribution, so they are smiling quietly and trying to pretend that the last four years didn’t happen.

Posted by: A rope leash | Jan 26 2025 20:38 utc | 57

that by reaching this type of mutual accord, the world actually has a chance of becoming a safer place as we step back from the prospect of nuclear conflict.
Posted by: markw | Jan 26 2025 14:25 utc | 6
———-.
Are you really that stupid?
Look the other way while the bullies murder & steal, & the world will be safer?
Um, no. Avarice is never satisfied. Sooner or later, they’ll want what you have

Posted by: Mary | Jan 26 2025 20:50 utc | 59

Republic of Scotland @ 52, 53:
One curious aspect of the Sydney graffiti incidents is that so far they are concentrated in the Jewish community in the eastern suburbs. The Jewish community in northern Sydney has so far not reported any similar incidents.
The eastern suburbs region is more accessible to other, poorer areas of Sydney by public transport (convenient train and bus links) and is well known, not just locally but internationally with tourists, backpackers and immigrants (esp from Brazil) because it is close to Bondi Beach. So the Jewish community in this part of Sydney is more exposed, as it were, to instigators (both pro and anti-Zionist alike) seeking to make trouble and stir up divisions.
Individuals have already been arrested in connection with the graffiti incidents. They appear to be people already known to police as troublemakers. Most of them have Anglo names.
The speculation about foreign agents and governments paying for these graffiti incidents has come from the neoliberal, pro-Zionist camps in Canberra. Plus one wouldn’t trust anything that comes from Anthony Albanese – a fellow clearly out of his depth as a politician, let alone Prime Minister.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 26 2025 21:02 utc | 61

Um, no. Avarice is never satisfied. Sooner or later, they’ll want what you have
Posted by: Mary | Jan 26 2025 20:50 utc | 59
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Too true. Trump already thought he could buy the Sauds (who are very weak and susceptible to graft), and if this happened, next it would be emptying Lebanon out into neighboring countries.
America has never shown restraint in anything. Ever.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2025 21:11 utc | 63

@59 Mary
To be fair, many in the west are deeply rooted in the western cold war paradigm, nuclear deterrence and M.A.D.
The ‘war to end all wars’ was not a light event and could have continued, or repeated since. Previous centuries were also full of wars. So people who view the world this way are thankful for or respectful of the three quarter of a century of ‘relative peace’ since.
This however ignores the reality of non proliferation nations, the endless ‘smaller’ conflicts that have taken place to the periphery of the ‘great powers’ and often at their behest.
What is occuring to my view is expansion of that western/great power order, and it is also globalist in nature. We are supposed to be thankful to these authorities for the peace, for deterring war. It is obviously a contradiction in terms, going on Stockholm Syndrome.
But all the same, those in the west are generally thankful for a time of peace, and so in some unusual way it also adds up.
What exactly was ‘practiced’ on Iran and Lebanon is another mystery, and it does have the appearance of a very great threat being made known to them.
Much of this is also social management, and so it spills into facets of governance and so on. Younger generations and those nations outside of the paradigm are not as obedient to the sense of fear used, and so it possible that that is being re-installed by current events (from pandemic to genocide to brinkmanship in eastern europe).
But yes, it isn’t exactly mutual and is more like a form of tolerance that is pragmatic but not due.

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 26 2025 21:40 utc | 65

These reports should be double checked, just appearing:
Hamas will hand over the wanted prisoner before Friday.
Return to north Gaza to start Monday morning (presumably tomorrow).
Lebanon ceasefire (hence occupation) extended to 18th Feb (presumably via Lebanese gov., no word from Hezballah)

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 26 2025 22:06 utc | 67

..Please put my country down before we genocide and hurt more undeserving people.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 26 2025 16:28 utc | 19
Colour revolution? South Korea is currently trialing this “Made In USA” recipe.

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 26 2025 22:22 utc | 69

@70 Suresh
They achieved what they say they wanted – ending attacks on north, dismantling/supervision of Hezballah, plus disconnect of Hezballah in Lebanon from Syria during overthrow.
Plus for now they still occupy parts of Lebanon and Syria, have UN/US oversight of the ‘border’.
Plus time to adjust/adjust to new US admin policy etc.
I don’t disagree with your view either, there are many ways to look at events.

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 26 2025 22:54 utc | 71

America and Israel are winning!
And it’s driving MoA losers insaaaane!!!

Posted by: America Is Winning | Jan 26 2025 23:02 utc | 73

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 26 2025 16:28 utc | 19
I’ve always maintained the two major political Political Parties in the USA are the same mob in different clothes.
Many believed that they could not support the Dems because of Biden’s disasterous ME policies but voting for Trump was as much a disaster.

Posted by: Menz | Jan 26 2025 23:10 utc | 75

White House press release says agreement reached to extend Israel’s presence inside Lebanon to Feb 18, but there is no confirmation of such agreement from Lebanese officials.
Macron apparently phoned Netanyahu earlier to implore respect for the original deadline. “The president of the republic stressed to the prime minister the importance of ensuring that nothing compromises the efforts of the new Lebanese authorities to restore the authority of the state throughout the territory of their country,” the Elysee Palace said. (AFP)
The installation of the new Lebanese government so to enforce the measures of UNSC1701 was an important strategic accomplishment for both France and US. Bad form to allow Israel to compromise the deal, particularly when it had been “guaranteed”. It enhances Hezbollah’s reputation and diminishes the new governing coalition.

Posted by: jayc | Jan 26 2025 23:13 utc | 77

The Orange Yankee POTUS – wants to remove every Palestinian from Gaza – sending the ones that the Zio-Nazi’s haven’t killed “yet” to Egypt and Jordan. The Yankee government – is of course part of the problem and the Yankee people are too gutless to reel in their murdering POTUS, and Senate who support the genocide – the spineless Brits are the same along with the Germans.
“Palestinian resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have condemned a plan floated by US President Donald Trump to “clean out” the Gaza Strip.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Trump suggested cleaning out the Palestinian land and relocating the war-stricken people there to neighboring Arab countries, namely Egypt and Jordan.
“You’re talking about probably a million and half people … I’d like Egypt to take people. And I’d like Jordan to take people,” he said. “[W]e just clean out that whole thing,” he said.
Trump added that he expected to talk to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi on Sunday.
In the meantime, the Palestinian leaders and people in Gaza condemned any attempt to relocate them, saying such a move is reminiscent of a dark page in Palestine’s modern history known as the “Nakba” or catastrophe – when millions of Palestinians were forcibly displaced to create room for Israel’s illegal creation. ”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 26 2025 23:14 utc | 79

The Orange Yankee SOB POTUS might actually turn out to be a bigger monster than Biden – with regards to the ongoing genocide.
“The US president has lifted a ban on transfer of a single shipment of 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bombs to the occupied Palestinian territories, which had been frozen by his predecessor in a token criticism of the Israeli regime’s ferocious bombardment of densely-populated areas in the Gaza Strip with American ammunition.
Donald Trump eliminated the prohibition that had been imposed by Joe Biden on Saturday, American news and analysis website Axios reported, citing Israeli officials.
Now, the Pentagon would be shipping 1,800 of the MK-84 bombs “in the coming days,”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 26 2025 23:18 utc | 81

Jenan Moussa
@jenanmoussa
1/ Worrying reports coming out of Syria of mass executions on Thursday in Alawite village of Fahel, near Homs. Acc to villagers, gunmen attacked Fahel and killed 58 men. In nearby village of Maryamin 2 men killed. I’m talking to people on the ground, this is what I learned:
2/ This is the region where it took place. Fahel, Maryamin and Shin. Northwest of Homs and southwest of Hama.
3/ Syrian authorities led by HTS declared days ago already that there was a security operation ongoing in rural areas west of Homs. The aim of these operations was, according to the new rulers, to flush out pro-Assad-regime elements.
4/ As most killings happened in Fahel, let me start with that village. According to people I spoke to, on Thursday 23/01/2025 armed men in vans &pick-ups raided Fahel, an Alawite village. They randomly started shooting, vandalized houses and arrested dozens of men.
5/ According to witnesses, the armed men beat villagers, men, women, elderly people. Religious symbols were vandalized, homes looted. As this was going on, the Damascus-Fahel bus arrived in the village. Two men were taken off the bus and killed on the spot.
6/ I could not confirm who the gunmen in Fahel were. Some sources say it was HTS, others claim it was too chaotic to be sure. A source says that the attackers came from nearby villages.
7/ After the gunmen left, villagers claim to have counted 58 people killed. All killed are men. Some bodies were found along roads near Fahel, others dumped by the gunmen in a nearby hospital.
8/ Also the village of Maryamin, near Fahel, was raided by gunmen on that same Thursday. I spoke to a witness who is in Maryamin. (btw, Maryamin is half Alawite and half Murshidiyyah, an offshoot of the Alawite sect). This is what I was told:
9/ Around noon on Thursday gunmen entered Maryamin. They came from the southern side. They had various “doshkas” with them (doshka in Syria is heavy machinegun mounted on back of pick-up). Men were carrying machine guns. They were shooting randomly as they entered the village.
10/ Source continues: They entered houses. They stole all valuables, hit men hard. They brought down picture of Suleiman al-Murshid (founder of Murshidiyya sect). They told people to step on his picture. This is a red line, ppl refused. Villagers were hit harder.
11/ Source continues: Gunmen wanted to humiliate people, forced men to bark as dogs. They took a lot of guys with them, especially previous soldiers and former policemen. They hit them hard and took them away. One person was executed on the spot because of his background.
12/ Source continues: One group who is with HTS came to the houses first, checked things and left in a respectful way – did not steal. Then around 100 militants came in white vehicles, no signs/ logos on it. They referred to themselves as group of Abu Khaled and Abu Sufyan.
13/ I didn’t manage to find out what happened in third village of Shin. Apparently, this village was also raided on Thursday. But I could not reach a witness there. Electricity and internet a big problem. Villagers in Fahel & Maryamin ask international media to visit & report.
14/ Villagers stress that nobody opposed the gunmen. Nobody had guns. However, people admit that some of the men had served in the Syrian army. But most of these ex-soldiers already handed over their guns to HTS, they claim.
15/ On Friday, the HTS governor of Homs arrived in Maryamin. He told villagers that HTS will find the culprits and punish them. Also stolen goods will be returned, he said. Since the bloodshed on Thursday, demonstrations have been ongoing in the area.
16/ A group of credible activists from Homs named “Civil Peace Group” have issued this statement regarding the situation in Homs western countryside.
17/ I heard that the Civil Peace Group is preparing a new, updated statement soon, also covering the situation in Fahel. Also, the White Helmets were asked for help in locating the bodies and returning them to their families.
18/ Western Homs countryside is a very volatile region. A patchwork of villages with different religions and loyalties. Same area where Houla massacre took place in 2012, when in town of Taldou 108 people were killed by pro-government forces. Taldou is located 12 km from Fahel.
19/ UPDATE: I have spoken to more witnesses and people on the ground in western Homs countryside. The following is clear to me: The bodies of 16 men who were killed by gunmen have already been buried. Up to 35 men are still missing. The villagers urgently ask international organizations in Syria to help find the missing.
Of the 16 men killed, 13 were former soldiers or officers in the Syrian Arab Army (Assad’s army). All these ex-soldiers had already started and finished the settlement process with HTS. This means that former soldiers hand over their guns to HTS. In return they receive a paper which mentions that their case has been settled. With this paper you can, ideally, pass checkpoints and sit safely at home.
Earlier, after the fall of the Assad regime, HTS had already been for five days present in the village of Fahel to issue these settlement papers. Most of the men from the village settled with HTS and were given the “aman”. (“Aman” is an Arabic word that means “assurance for safety”).
https://x.com/jenanmoussa/status/1883553834854764560

Posted by: Menz | Jan 26 2025 23:25 utc | 83

Posted by: Menz | Jan 26 2025 23:12 utc | 76
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FYI, many Muslims consider Mehdi a Western tool. A modern-day “House Nigger”.
Anything he says about Palestine should elicit skepticism.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2025 23:43 utc | 85

I’ve read that – that Orange Yankee SOB POTUS – has picked out a sweet piece of land in Gaza for a beach resort and golf course.
“But make no mistake: this is the advancement of an agenda to end the existence of the Palestinian people in their historic homeland, and would fulfill the darkest desires of the most depraved political factions in Israel.
Mere days after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 2023, Israel’s Intelligence Ministry produced a document proposing the removal of Gaza’s population to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
At around the same time, an Israeli think tank called the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy published a paper arguing that “There is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government.”
Since that time both the Israeli government and the Israeli media have gotten much less shy about saying that ethnic cleansing is the plan for Gaza.
A few weeks ago multiple far-right Knesset members wrote a letter to Israeli defense minister Israel Katz demanding the “complete cleansing” of northern Gaza using siege warfare and attacks on civilians to drive the population out of the area.
In November of last year, former Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon stated unequivocally that Israel was indeed in the process of ethnically cleansing Gaza. In October, the Israeli outlet Haaretz published an editorial titled “If It Looks Like Ethnic Cleansing, It Probably Is”.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/26/trumps-plan-for-gaza/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 26 2025 23:49 utc | 87

More on the actions of that Orange Yankee SOB.
“On his first day in office, Donald Trump lifted all sanctions previously placed on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, a political move that coincided with a series of violent attacks by Israeli settlers targeting Palestinians that same night.
On Monday night, with the backing of the Israeli military, settler groups launched a series of violent assaults on residents in the West Bank. The most severe attacks occurred in two villages near Qalqilya, where masked settlers set fires and fired indiscriminately.
Amid the chaos, Israeli soldiers deployed tear gas against villagers attempting to flee, leaving 21 people injured.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/24/trump-lifts-settler-sanctions-west-bank-violence-explodes/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 26 2025 23:59 utc | 89

Israel is done and so is the return of ZioDon. Sealed today with our Presidents words and actions. Same ole same ole. Secession now.

Posted by: SO | Jan 27 2025 0:08 utc | 91

“You’re talking about probably a million and half people”
@ Republicofscotland | Jan 26 2025 23:14 utc | 79
2.2m – 1.5m = 700,000 Gazans killed, so far, according to Trump.
That’s about 15 times the (Hamas Health Ministry) official count. For a real-estate developer, the number of people to relocate isn’t something you’d habitually round down, or underestimate. My bet is The Man has an inside track on the current death-toll in Gaza.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 27 2025 0:20 utc | 93

https://x.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1883611546909393230
Hussein @EyesOnSouth1
Israeli occupation army abducted two Lebanese young brothers after killing their father, Rabe’i Zaraket, in front of his family returning home in the south.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/white-house-announces-extension-of-lebanon–israel–ceasefir
White House announces extension of Lebanon-‘Israel’ ceasefire deal
The White House has announced that Lebanon and “Israel” will begin mediated talks for the release of Lebanese citizens detained by “Israel”.
….However, Israeli occupation forces partially withdrew from some areas in southern Lebanon, while continuously violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement, by raiding, bombing, and demolishing areas in southern Lebanon and elsewhere in the country.
Meanwhile, Lebanese residents were quick to mobilize and gather near the villages, in an attempt to force the withdrawal of occupation forces from their hometowns, following the expiration of the time limit for retreat.
As a result, occupation forces withdrew from multiple villages after both Lebanese citizens and the Lebanese Army entered the towns. Yet, Israeli forces continue to occupy several towns, under the false pretext of a slow takeover of the villages by the Lebanese Army.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 27 2025 0:56 utc | 95

Petition: Release Palestinian Journalist Ali Abunimah!
https://x.com/AsaWinstanley/status/1883540065911177381
“Please sign the petition.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 27 2025 1:04 utc | 97

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 27 2025 1:04 utc | 97
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Do you know of one petition that achieved the desired effect in the last 50 years?
There was a time when “leaders” took petitions seriously.
Now they are a cope and an anachronism.
They didn’t work for Assange, and they haven’t saved any lives in Palestine or Lebanon. Rather than volunteering for a watch list (which is what joining an online petition is), find more ways to communicate government crimes instead of begging to be heard like some sort of servant or supplicant.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 27 2025 1:16 utc | 99