I doubt the Orange Yankee POTUS – and his war criminal buddy Netanyahu give a toss about what these nations think.
“A group of Arab nations has spoken out against the suggestion by US President Donald Trump that Palestinians from Gaza should be relocated to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.
Following a meeting of top diplomats in Cairo on Saturday, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority, and the Arab League issued a joint statement, saying they “firmly rejected… the displacement of Palestinians through direct expulsion or coerced migration.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 2 2025 16:07 utc | 4

German politicians, cement their unwavering support for the Zionists who are committing genocide – by trying to shut down free speech under the guise of anti-Semitism.
“A group of prominent German scholars have criticized lawmakers over a controversial resolution to combat antisemitism, warning that it threatens the academic liberties of the country.
“The German lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed the resolution “Opposing Antisemitism and Hostility Towards Israel in Schools and Universities and Securing Free Discourse”, despite vocal opposition from university scholars, legal experts, and civil rights advocates.
Prof. Michael Zurn from the Berlin Social Science Center WZB sounded the alarm once more at a press conference in Berlin on Thursday, warning that the controversial antisemitism resolution could restrict academic freedoms and criticism of the Israeli regime’s actions.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 2 2025 16:22 utc | 6

Ah yes, the ICC’s bread and butter – or to put it plainly its main purpose to issue warrants for African warlords – who will, unlike Netanyahu see the inside of a cell in the Hague – you’ll never see Bush or Blair, war criminals, in the Hague – nor Obama or many Western leaders past and present, as Chomsky said – If Nuremberg standards were, still in play today (which they should be) every POTUS, post WWII, would be in the dock at the Hague.
As would many allied leaders.
“The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for those accused of atrocities in Sudan’s West Darfur region.
Prosecutor Karim Khan made the announcement on Monday.
The region has seen reported ethnic cleansing by paramilitary forces that have been fighting government forces for about 19 months.
A power struggle between the top generals, namely government leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Rapid Special Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Dagalo, plunged the country into conflict in mid-April 2023.
Speaking at the UN Security Council, Khan said the arrest warrants will be issued for individuals linked to alleged war crimes in Darfur.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 2 2025 16:37 utc | 8

The idea that a suitable environment exists for the Palestinians to inhabit other than Gaza is a deception of the first degree. Certainly the war has created barriers to habitation but Gaza remains a near ideal habitat for human habitation from the perspective of natural resources. The fundamental wealth of Gaza remains The Sinai is pretty much the opposite it has no natural ability to support human life. While Gaza has often been called a prison camp it is a prison camp with a abundance of natural resources that support human habitation. The Sinai will be a true prison camp human habitation only supported by artificial means not natural abundance. The relocation plan is simply moving those to be killed to a worthless kiling field from one with considerable value.
Egypt of course understands that the Sinai is just a killing field one that has no value unlike Gaza as do the Palestinians. Only the most extreme of circumstances would force the Palestinians to leave. IMO what we are witnessing is a rebranding of the war. I dont think Egypt will agree to be the new killing field. If they do only one thing will force the Palestinians to leave the cessation of things needed to sustain life in Gaza. Israel gets Gaza and doesnt have to take all responsibility for the deaths Egypt will share and it will be dragged out over a period of time. The makeover is the idea that a nice place is being provided for the Palestinians to live and this represents peace. If the Palestinians dont go to their new concentration camp they dont want peace and there is no alternative to eliminating them in the current high value killing field. IMO that is the highest probability by far. Trump will put it off as long as he can. If he can get Egypt to agree and screw around with Trump wall Sinai for four years its the next guys problem. Egypt starves without US aid. Perhaps if Gaza gets put on hold for four years less draconian solutions will present themselves. Egypt could play for four years milk the $ and say sorry. Thats a way out for Trump. Thats what I would be proposing behind closed doors if I was Trump. Buy time.

Posted by: Zero | Feb 2 2025 17:16 utc | 10

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 2 2025 16:31 utc | 7-8
Wrong forum!

Posted by: Mary | Feb 2 2025 18:28 utc | 12

Posted by: librul | Feb 2 2025 14:40 utc | 1
I know that is an Israeli paper, but even if slightly exaggerated, the plan that Trump is working on with Netanyahu is at its heart ethnic cleansing or outright elimination of the Palestinians. The plan being discussed is a bit further down in the article you link to:
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Israel Hayom has learned that mass evacuation from Gaza, including both Hamas operatives and those categorized as “uninvolved population,” represents a cornerstone of American regional strategy – beyond mere public statements as many Israeli observers believe.
During his visit, presidential envoy Steve Witkoff’s messages indicated that through substantial Gazan emigration, the administration seeks to align Trump’s war conclusion objectives with his stance, shared by many in the new administration, that Hamas must cease controlling Gaza.
Significantly, during his Israel discussions, Witkoff stressed that considering October 7’s atrocities, he too considers future Hamas governance of Gaza untenable. The American perspective holds that with minimal or no population remaining, Hamas control becomes unsustainable.
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In other words, to get rid of Hamas, you “evacuate” all the Hamas people you can nab and also “evacuate” all “uninvolved population”, which would be everyone who is NOT Hamas. Then with all the people gone, Hamas is no longer in control because there is no population for them to govern or control. See how easy that is?
That is some open ethnic cleansing right there.
other stuff:
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Israeli media reports that Netanyahu has decided not to send a negotiation team to Qatar for talks on the second phase of the ceasefire deal until after his meeting with Trump. – aljazeera live-blog
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Israel has confirmed it destroyed 23 buildings in Jenin on Sunday, according to a military spokesman. 
A video released by the Israeli military showed huge mushroom clouds exploding in the city simultaneously. 
Israel has been attacking Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank for weeks.  – middleeasteye live-blog
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Jordan’s King Abdullah II will meet with US President Donald Trump on 11 February at the White House, the Jordanian state news agency reported on Sunday.- MEE live-blog
(Wonder if he is getting ready to weasel out of his stance of supporting the Palestinians staying in Gaza.)
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Hamas says Israel is stalling the entry of medical, relief, fuel and construction materials in Gaza, as outlined in the ceasefire agreement.
“We urge the mediators and guarantors of the ceasefire agreement to compel the occupation [Israel] to allow the entry of relief materials according to the agreement, most urgently needed are tents, fuel, food materials, and heavy machinery,” said spokesperson Hazem Qassem.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-says-israel-stalling-entry-medical-relief-fuel-gaza?nid=417320&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=542067
(Abubaker Abed in central Gaza Strip reports the same thing. Sudden drop in aid trucks and not much of anything going into the northern areas.)
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Posted by: teri | Feb 2 2025 18:51 utc | 14

Re: #13 & ‘Op Iron Wall’
“In 1923, Jabotinsky wrote The Iron Wall. He set out bluntly the essential premises of Zionism:
“…All colonization, even the most restricted, must continue in defiance of the will of the native population. Therefore, it can continue only under the shield of force which comprises an Iron Wall through which the local population can never break through…”
Benjamin Netanyahu’s father, Benzion was an activist in Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionist Movement, editor and private secretary to Jabotinsky himself.
At the 2023 Memorial Netanyahu stated: ‘100 years after ‘The Iron Wall’ was stamped in Jabotinsky’s writings, we are continuing to implement these principles’.
Netanyahu said he keeps Jabotinsky’s sword in his office.
The Man in Whose Shadow Netanyahu Walks
https://www.counterfire.org/article/the-man-in-whose-shadow-netanyahu-walks/
See also: Chapter 2 – Zionist Objectives: The Hidden History of Zionism
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/mideast/hidden/index.htm

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 2 2025 19:33 utc | 16

Very good regional analysis by Alex Krainer: https://youtu.be/dlhm0i-xl-k?si=_a_6FV9l3iJc84q4
I have been following Erdogan/ Turkey’s role and am beginning to think that Turkey is not aligned with US/Israel and is being viewed as a genuine threat. While they were aligned with US / Israel in the Assad overthrow, they are now showing their own ambitions. Gabbard recently stated that Turkey was the U.S.’s biggest threat in the region and Krainer states that Turkey is planning to install a military base in Southeast Syria to contain Israel. I have heard these rumors before and didn’t take them very seriously but Gabbard recently stated statement is startling and Krainer is someone I take seriously. Mahmood Od has been saying this from the onset, but I am not sure of his alliances.

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Feb 2 2025 19:55 utc | 18

Is Trump trying to destroy the Canadian economy – so that Canadians will eventually vote to join the USA – its beginning to look that way.
“US President Donald Trump has reiterated his proposal for Canada to become the 51st American state, promising that such a move would lead to “no tariffs” and “much lower taxes” for Canadians. Ottawa previously firmly rejected the idea, emphasizing the country’s commitment to national sovereignty.
In a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday, Trump stated: “We pay hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize Canada. Why? There is no reason.” He further suggested that without US support, its northern neighbor would struggle to remain viable and proposed statehood as a solution, promising “much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada – and no tariffs!””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 2 2025 20:28 utc | 20

Panama is a independent sovereign country, unlike Puerto Rico – prior to December 31, 1999, the Canal Zone was a US enclave in Panama – for the construction and management of the Panama Canal – but that no longer applies – so its up to the Panamanians as to which company, and from where – that they employ to manage the canal.
“US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has headed to Panama after the newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump threatened to “take back” the strategic Panama Canal by force.
The top US diplomat met Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday in an effort towards Trump’s demand for the Panama Canal to be returned to the United States.
However, Panamanians have rejected Trump’s demand with Mulino affirming that there will be no negotiation with the Americans over the issue of the canal’s ownership.
Panamanians have staged anti-US protests, condemning Trump’s plan to take back the Panama Canal.
Protesters in Panama City carried Panamanian flags, chanting “Marco Rubio out of Panama,” “Long live national sovereignty” and “One territory, one flag.”
During the protests, placards with images of Trump and Rubio were set on fire.
The Panama Canal is being run by the Chinese Hutchison Ports Company. Panama gave the Hong Kong-based company a 25-year no-bid extension to run the canal’s operations.
The company operates ports at either end of the Panama Canal.
Rubia said in an opinion piece run by WSJ on Friday that Washington fears growing Chinese influence over the strategic waterway.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 2 2025 20:50 utc | 22

Ghias El Yafi
@YafiGhias
Not #Gaza. This is #Jenine and the #Zionists can’t help committing more genocide.
https://x.com/YafiGhias/status/1886107290802979032

Posted by: Menz | Feb 2 2025 21:10 utc | 24

Salaam -so the might is right principle of the west is in play.The role of international law is of no value.Any means of removing the Palestinians from Gaza,in whole or in part is GENOCIDE,under international law.Jungle rule by those of the garden!Those inhabitants of Greenland better start seeking new lodgings,you Inuit people are next!

Posted by: 4q8 | Feb 2 2025 21:12 utc | 26

Compare this to the way Hamas treated their hostages:
Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي
@MariamBarghouti
Many of the released Palestinian detainees, including children, are suffering from different illnesses, including skin diseases.
In today’s release, some detainees are being hospitalized due to Israeli torture and abuse while in Israeli torture camps.
At the same time the Israeli army was deployed to raid the homes of families of released detainees and threatened them from celebrating at gunpoint.
Some detainees were tied up for months, leading to amputations. The testimonies are horrifying. Israeli Prison guards really showed no mercy.
Reminding that many were being held without trial or charge, while hundreds from Gaza were literally put in dungeons.
https://x.com/MariamBarghouti/status/1885709580224663727

Posted by: Menz | Feb 2 2025 21:14 utc | 28

Israel Hayom’s description of “American regional strategy” appears derived from “indications” subjectively determined by an unidentified source – not directly from the US envoy Witkoff.
Outside of Israelis, no consultations beyond brief phone calls with Egypt, Jordan, etc have occurred. When those do happen – Jordan’s King Abdullah will meet Trump in the White House Feb 11 – the expected massive destabilization across the region following a forced expulsion will be detailed and the Americans will confront complexity.

Posted by: jayc | Feb 2 2025 21:24 utc | 30

Posted by: Menz | Feb 2 2025 21:13 utc | 27
###############
It does challenge the lie that Muslims are savages.
Muslims are commanded to treat their captives well.
The same people ready to be martyrs take commands from God as seriously as a heart attack.
Meanwhile, so-called Western Christians endorse the genocide state and the Empire’s colonialism which are not kosher (pun intended) with Jesus’ (AS) ethic because MUH ISRAEL!

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 2 2025 21:52 utc | 32

Our genocide — the one in Palestine produced by USA — just keeps rolling along. Our clear intention of clearing out Gaza, and all of Palestine, hasn’t faltered for even a fleeting moment. As a taxpaying US American, I continue to unwillingly sponsor the extermination of my Palestinian brothers and sisters.

Israel is convinced, probably correctly, that eventually life in the coastal strip will become so onerous and difficult, especially as Israel finds excuses to violate the ceasefire and resume armed assaults on the Palestinian population, a mass exodus will be inevitable. It has refused, even with the ceasefire in place, to permit foreign press into Gaza, a ban designed to blunt coverage of the horrendous suffering and death.

https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/02/chris-hedges-the-western-way-of-genocide/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 2 2025 23:46 utc | 34

Republic of Scotland 4
I hope that when Nutjob visits Versailles, I mean Washington, he wears the right kind of tights, because King Louis , Donald Trump, will be wanting some compromise from one of his most annoying vassals.
Trump knows that Biden has dumped an impossible task on him, because US and UK Liberal Jews are absolutely opposed to Nutjob’s genocidal , Jabotinsky Nazism.
So who exactly are Trump’s support base, the billionaire Zionistas who paid for him to get elected, or the people who voted for him? Blair , Blinken and Biden , your standard fully-bought politicians, totally ignored the electorate , but Trump wants to be loved, and his electorate want to love him.
If he has any self-respect, and I expect he does, he will put Nutjob and his billionaires in their place, because a populist without a people, like BoJo, will quickly fail.
In other words, Trump will tell Nutjob to get lost, or face the Hague, and Nutjob will organise a coup against Trump . Hence Versailles. Trump taught them how to do it. Will Trump do it again? Imho Yes. Vassals have to know their place

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 3 2025 4:13 utc | 36

Jeremy Corbyn
@jeremycorbyn
The government is still refusing to answer our questions about its definition of genocide, the legal advice it has received, and the use of RAF Akrotiri.
What does the government have to hide?
https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1885034182876811622

Posted by: Menz | Feb 3 2025 4:22 utc | 38

B.M.
@ireallyhateyou
Israeli released captive Gadi Mozes is now facing (like many other released captives) an online hate campaign against him, following a report saying his last words to his guards in Gaza were a promise that when peace will come, he’ll come back to Gaza to teach them agriculture.
https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1886106513934090291

Posted by: Menz | Feb 3 2025 4:25 utc | 40

https://x.com/SprinterObserve/status/1886176392657731725
Sprinter Observer @SprinterObserve
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Abbas sent a request to the UN Security Council to stop the “systematic destruction of infrastructure” that Israel is carrying out in the cities of Jenin, Tulkarem, Tamun and Tubas in the West Bank, in addition to implementing the policy of killing that the Israelis are implementing during their operation.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 3 2025 8:55 utc | 42

see the 2:21 video at the third link
the israeli gov’t and the american gov’t are the most depraved people on the face of planet Earth
https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1886335313481453710
Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW
I have reached Gaza City on foot after 3 hours and 12 km.
My hair has turned grey since all the streets and buildings are reduced to rubble.
Will keep you updated with loads of videos of the carnage. My heart stopped from what I had to see.
https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1885999100967195001
Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW
The situation in northern people is beyond comprehension. People are desperate for food and water as well as life means.
People are still trying to bounce back although nothing is there to have their back.
https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1885803813619089606
Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW
Khan Younis has seen utter devastation, which requires years to be rebuilt. I barely saw any intact buildings

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 3 2025 9:13 utc | 44

Arch,
can you repost your last tally ?

Posted by: exile | Feb 3 2025 11:05 utc | 46

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 3 2025 11:44 utc | 47
Thank you Arch.

Posted by: canuck | Feb 3 2025 12:26 utc | 48

THE FINAL SOLUTION
Mark the date, Feb 3, 2025, when Netanyahu came to town and met with Trump to set out the plan for the Final Solution of the Palestinians.
It was on January 20th (don’t I recognize that date!?) 1942 that the Nazis met at Wannsee to plan their Final Solution.

Posted by: librul | Feb 3 2025 12:43 utc | 50

Christian J Chuba 49
Hezbullah is still honouring the ceasefire so that the US will continue not to bomb civilians in Beirut. If you like to measure by performance, the US scored GGOOOOOOAAALLL every time they massacred another couple of thousand innocent civilians. Respect, on the other hand, is only with Allah.

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 3 2025 13:11 utc | 52

Arch,
Thank you. “….I gave up counting in January because I was receiving so many strike reports that I was overwhelmed with the task of verifying them….”
any rough guess for those weeks ?

Posted by: Exile | Feb 3 2025 13:20 utc | 54

@Republicofscotland @Feb 2 2025 20:39 utc #21
I took note of this “might makes right” revision of soveriegnty during the Clinton Admin when Kosovo was stolen from the Serbs.
At the time I raised an alarm saying this sort of lawless action would fuel a new nuclear arms race as countries realized that only through nuclear weapons and delivery systems therefor (even if just hidden in a shipping container) could they enjoy sovereignty. One of my real Cassandra moments.
I think the Saudi funded “Islamic Bomb” developed in Pakistan is a straight line from what was done in former Yugoslavia.
I remember the joy and relief when the Berlin wall came down and with the official cold war over we could live without the cloud of nuclear annihilation dangling like the Sword of Damocles. Yet here we are, fueling a world where the use of nuclear weapons in war gets closer all the time.
I hope this finds you well

Posted by: ockham | Feb 3 2025 14:16 utc | 56

I took note of this “might makes right” revision of soveriegnty during the Clinton Admin when Kosovo was stolen from the Serbs.
Posted by: ockham | Feb 3 2025 14:16 utc | 56
“Might makes right’ was a philosophy long before Kosovo:
“The phrase “might makes right” is often associated with the Sophist philosopher Thrasymachus, who lived in ancient Greece during the late 5th century BCE. According to Plato’s portrayal in “The Republic,” Thrasymachus argued that justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger. This perspective suggests that those in power define what is considered just or right, aligning with the idea that might, or power, determines what is deemed right. Thrasymachus’s view is a form of moral skepticism, implying that there is no objective basis for distinguishing right from wrong, and it is often summarized by the slogan “might makes right” .”

Posted by: canuck | Feb 3 2025 15:12 utc | 58

@canuck @Feb 3 2025 15:12 utc #58
Thank you for the educational input.
@exile @Feb 3 2025 15:24 utc #59
I’m not a lawyer and not overly familiar with international law, but I don’t understand how UN Security Council Resolution 1244 can override the UN Charter, to wit:
Article 2, paragraph 1:
The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.
I hope this finds you well

Posted by: ockham | Feb 3 2025 16:08 utc | 60

-The Zionists are destroying the West Bank 24/7 and killing Palestinians in Gaza.
-The assistance needed for the people of Gaza is not coming in neither in type nor quantity.
– The Zionists intend to continue the war after the Israeli prisoners are released.
– They are attacking and re-arresting the Palestinian prisoners they released and will probably mount a campaign to kill them after the Israeli hostages are in Israel.
Recommended:
US Schools Hammering Palestine Cause
Excerpt:
Less than two weeks in office, Trump has already issued an executive order — pulled directly from Project Esther — to deport pro-Palestine students who are not citizens and take “forceful and unprecedented steps to marshal all federal resources” against what he described as campuses “infested with radicalism” and “pro-jihadist protests.”
The crackdown on students and educators — being swiftly and terrifyingly exploited and extended by Trump — is a major assault on free speech and academic freedom… It is an alarming slippery slope, that began in large part as a bipartisan attack on a movement that is challenging U.S.-led racist empire.
Activism for Palestinian freedom and equality necessarily confronts American and Western capitalist and imperial interests. It upends supremacist, dehumanizing ideologies — in the case of Palestine, Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia — that rationalize and sustain a remarkably violent and hierarchical global order.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/31/us-campuses-hammering-pro-palestinian-cause/

Posted by: JB | Feb 3 2025 16:49 utc | 62

@63 LD
Not possible to tell if it is arranged posturing to grant a ‘win’ to Sisi (tough stance, nationalism), similar has been suggested for MBS rejecting displacements.
One video was 60 heavy armour a few km from Gaza border. There are treaties on troop levels permitted in Sinai.
Also goes back to earlier discussion on factions in Egyptian military etc. …

Posted by: Ornot | Feb 3 2025 17:55 utc | 64

The Zionist currently carrying out a genocide in Gaza, won’t want this to happen.
Indonesia plans to build 100 mosques in Gaza.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 3 2025 18:25 utc | 66

Trumps statement where he talks about Gazas value is directly in opposition to Netanyahu. If Trump was on board he would be only referring to Gaza in terms of security concerns. The relocation talk is smoke and mirrors. Design living space for 2 million people in death valley go ahead. What is happening is the same donors who got Trump elected are withdrawing support from Netanyahu. Its not Trump making these calls. The whole shebang the staff selections is just to hide the switch up. Thats Trumps job smoke and mirrors. Gaza returns to the status quo but ultimatly it will be part of Israel with equal rights.. The donors in the USA want Israel to continue. What Israel is doing is screwing up their gig. Israels future is a single state with equal rights for all and it will wield considerable power in the region. All the players have got the memo.

Posted by: Zero | Feb 3 2025 18:44 utc | 68

any rough guess for those weeks ?
Posted by: Exile | Feb 3 2025 13:20 utc | 54
I at least did gather the sources for a later project.
Give me a day to go through them.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 3 2025 19:51 utc | 70

Netanyahu is in DC. He has (again) broken the cease-fire agreement in Gaza – by not sending his team to Doha today to start talks on phase two of the cease-fire.
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An Israeli negotiator has slammed Benjamin Netanyahu for “flagrantly violating” the terms of a fragile truce after the prime minister delayed critical peace talks set to begin on Monday.
According to CNN, the negotiator claimed Netanyahu’s refusal to send a delegation to Doha on the agreed date has thrown the ceasefire into jeopardy.  
Under the terms of the Hamas-Israel agreement, negotiations for the second phase of the deal were scheduled to start on the 16th day of the ceasefire – which fell on Monday. However, Netanyahu reportedly postponed dispatching his team until after his return from Washington, sparking outrage among mediators and negotiators.  
“Israel demands that Hamas adhere to all the terms of the agreement, while simultaneously violating it in a significant way. Once again, Netanyahu is abandoning the hostages and endangering them,” the Israeli negotiator told CNN.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-accused-breaching-ceasefire-deal-delaying-talks?nid=417957&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=542070
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I read that tonight Netanyahu is going to show Trump a film about the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 Oct ’23.
And Trump is asking Congress to approve another $1 billion in arms to Israel;
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US President Donald Trump’s administration has asked congressional leaders to approve new transfers of roughly $1bn worth of bombs and other military hardware to Israel, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The planned weapons sales include 4,700 1,000-pound bombs, worth more than $700m, and armored bulldozers built by Caterpillar CAT.N, worth more than $300m, the report added, citing sources.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-floats-new-1-billion-arms-sale-israel-wsj-reports?nid=417957&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=542070
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Doesn’t sound very much like Trump is interested in stopping the bombing.

Posted by: teri | Feb 3 2025 21:27 utc | 72

ockham (56).
Yes it would appear that all the good work – to try and reduce nuclear proliferation has failed – with some countries leader now realising that the only way to prevent an all-out invasion is to possess nukes – there is still hope though, with the likes of Pakistan and India possessing nukes, yet, for all their sabre rattling and bravado neither side has used them – maybe there’s something in MAD afterall.
The problem I see for the future is the refining of nukes – by the MIC, to make them more useable, if that’s possible – small tactical nukes that can be deployed, and used without the widespread fallout – then there’s the kinetic weapons, which move very fast and cause terrible destruction on impact.
Humanity has so much goodness to give – but our darker side – can take so much away as well – will we survive as a species? or will our human nature – which like a snowball rolling down hill as it grows and picks up speed (technological advancements in weaponry and control) crashes through new barriers be our undoing – only time will tell.
Take care.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 3 2025 23:16 utc | 74

ZH has a posting up telling us what Trump is really doing for Occupied Palestine
US Readies New $1BN Arms Sale To Israel As Netanyahu Arrives In Washington
quote

While the name of the game for Trump has been cut, cut, cut and put a halt to all wasteful and corrupt US foreign aid siphoned abroad, funds sent to Israel have remained untouched.
And now the Trump administration is readying a new $1 billion arms sale to Israel, including 4,700 1,000-pound bombs and armored bulldozers. Trump is requesting fresh Congressional approval for the potential sale.

Any questions?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 4 2025 2:45 utc | 76

see the 52-second video at the second link
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/west-bank-resistance-uses-multiple-ieds-on-iof-in-jenin–nab
West Bank Resistance uses multiple IEDs on IOF in Jenin, Nablus
The Palestinian Resistance in the West Bank continues defending its cities and people against the Israeli aggression.
….Jenin’s Silat al-Harithiya Brigade, which operates under the al-Quds Brigades, announced fierce confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces across various combat axes in Silat al-Harithiya, wherein its fighters rained volleys of bullets on Israeli infantry forces and military vehicles, achieving direct hits.
The Resistance fighters were also able to detonate a Sijjil improvised explosive device (IED) in a military vehicle on its way to support another Israeli force besieging a house, achieving direct hits. They also planted several Sijjil and KJ37 mines on routes leading to the entry of the city, taken by Israeli vehicles…..
https://x.com/MariamBarghouti/status/1886057430410313780
Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti
This is not Gaza, this is Jenin moments ago as the Israeli army continues its offensive on the West Bank dubbing it “Operation Iron Wall.”
Dozens of civilians are killed, including children (as young as 2 years old and 9 years old).
This situation is terrifying. Even those killed in Jenin are not allowed to be buried, they’ve been in the refrigerators for more than a week as the army closes off the cemetery.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 4 2025 4:30 utc | 78

a novel solution: Trump plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza and the West Bank by forcing Jordan and Egypt to the displaced Palestinians. Historically, the Westbank was part of Jordan and Gaza was part of Egypt. Per international law Israel illegally occupies the West Bank and Gazza. If Israel were to relinquish their occupation and Return those lands back to Jordan and Egypt. Trump will have effectively achieved his goals without The trail of tears 2.0 being his legacy broadcast on the 6 o’clock news . Egypt and Jordan would have responsibility for rebuilding and maintaining security of Gaza and the West Bank im exchange The return of their land. If Trump could pull this off, he would go down in history as the greatest peacemaker in our time

Posted by: Willow | Feb 4 2025 8:13 utc | 80

Max Blumenthal (+ Katie Halper):
“‘Hound Them Everywhere They Go!’ – Journalist Max Blumenthal”
Anthony Blinken had his own set of reasons to oppose a cease-fire with Hamas:
Quote from the description of the video (in bold italics):
Katie talks to journalist Max Blumenthal about how Anthony Blinken and the U.S. State Department enabled Israel’s war and blocked ceasefire talks, and the need to demolish the legacy of the pro-genocide Biden administration. “God willing, Tony Blinken will not be able to cross the street again.”
Max Blumenthal is the editor and founder of The Gray Zone and the author of several books including “The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump” and “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel.”
0:05 Max explains “cynical, sick, imperialist reasons” Blinken never wanted a ceasefire deal
01:58 How the U.S. Gov and Netanyahu SABOTAGED a ceasefire deal to provoke Iran
03:06 Israel ESCALATED in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen with U.S. blessings
07:24 Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s MURDER destroyed diplomatic negotiations
10:28 War Criminals Blinken and Biden should be HOUNDED and SHAMED everywhere they go
11:23 Insider activists set up “Kibbutz Blinken” encampment outside of his mansion in DC
13:03 Max was raised among Jewish Democratic insiders—the Biden Admin’s Zionism is on another level
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf5KgtA2Gy8 (length: 17 minutes)

Posted by: WMG | Feb 4 2025 9:21 utc | 82

But the recent military defense treaty between Iran and Russia is THE “game changer” for the Middle East in the next years.
The video (post #82) gives some VERY “disturbing” details.
See also my previous posts (#82 #83).

Posted by: WMG | Feb 4 2025 9:29 utc | 84

I see King Trumpkunt just authorized a 1B U$ donation to the Kill the Kids Fund…..guess we know where Musk found the money…….
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 4 2025 15:19 utc | 86

Looks like the plan is to do a rug-pull on HTS in Syria and let Israel takeover most of it, including Damascus. Israel just killed a bunch of HTS near the Southern region, and now Israel is building military bases on Syrian soil:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/headlines/israel_builds_military_bases_in_syria_after_ouster_of_bashar_al_assad

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Feb 4 2025 17:13 utc | 88

Just some updates on the Trump/Netanhayu crap:
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Israel has been working for months on preparing a plan to encourage the voluntary migration of Gazans. The country to which Israel intends to transfer Palestinians from Gaza is not Egypt or Jordan.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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US National Security Advisor: We will not place any restrictions on arms transfers to Israel
Steve Witkoff: The big problem of where the people of Gaza will go must be solved.
Steve Witkoff: Hamas Rule and Control of Gaza Must End in Order to Move Forward on Agreement
Mike Waltz: We will be able to reach some solutions regarding the transfer of Palestinians
from Gaza
Mike Waltz: We are very close to normalization with Saudi Arabia
Netanyahu and his son Yair with Elon Musk[photo]
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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—breaking: President Trump will sign an executive order instructing his Secretary of Treasury to impose ‘maximum economic pressure’ on Iran
—BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to convince President Trump to give U.S. approval for an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, possibly after conclusion of the first stage of the ceasefire in Gaza – Sources
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator/
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Posted by: teri | Feb 4 2025 20:15 utc | 90

@pyschohistorian – Israel and Turkey are going to be in open conflict sooner, rather than later, I think.
Here is another breaking story – the IDF is still busy destroying the weapons formerly controlled by the SAA. Now that it’s been OVER A MONTH since the new crew took over (HTS), those weapons belonged to the so-called “free” Syrian government (well, not so free – no elections for at least the next five years, and women can’t vote.) Those are no longer Assad’s weapons – they’re Turkeys.
To quote our old friend Feral Finster – what’s Erdogan gonna do about it?

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Feb 4 2025 21:06 utc | 92

Trump/Rubio/Musk vision of enabling Netanyahu/Miriam Adelson’s dream of evicting Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank can only entail extensive US boots on the ground, employment of mercenaries. US miliatary, backed by 2,000 lb bombs will directly confront Ansarallah, Hezebollah and Hamas et al. This will not only be an expensive endeavor but even at the outset, will reverberate with intense US unpopularity. Trump/Musk/Vance won on a platform of ending wars – their talent appears to be in starting them – the tariffs have moved next door neighbor Mexico into Russian trade affiliation, Canadians are boycotting any and all US products; the issue of Panama is a joke – Huchison Whampoa is an old, longstanding, effective compradore. Attempts to restore the Abraham Accords are folly – Netanyahu’s massacres in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria have made Israel the untouchable pariah of West Asia, of the World and. if reports of extraterrestials are correct, of the galazy. No West Asian head of state can afford to be agreement capable with Israel or US who as regards so called “cease fire” agreements have proved how agreement incapable both countries are.

Posted by: abierno | Feb 4 2025 22:03 utc | 94

Ghost of Zanon 93
Turkiye’s military strength and Saudi cash supporting HTS is not remotely comparable to Israel’s military strength and US cash.
Trump and Israel have no qualms about trashing International Law using their combination of might and cash, but the entire world and God are against the lawbreakers.
In addition the Muslim and Christian world are totally united against these upstart Nazis in USUKIS flagrantly demolishing International Law.
So, when we get a united world fighting a tiny group of Nazi Hegemaniacs, who wins?
There’s no need to answer the question because we already know the answer, if Hitler wants war, he will get war and he will lose the war. Trump inherits the legacy of Hitler , through the Ukrainian Jewish Nazi Jabotinsky, and his sidekick Netanyahu’s father and Netanyahu.
Satan is your enemy, so take him as your enemy. Nobody yet on MoA has dared to utter the well known reality that Trump , the pussy-grabber , is a Satanist. Nobody else in the history of the world has uttered a statement so shocking to humanity that women are desperate to have their pussies grabbed by strangers.
Trump is Hitler, a pervert, who wouldn’t last five minutes in a normal office, let alone be elected as Potus. He is mad, and his ideas are mad and his friends are mad.
If Trump and Netanyahu want to take on the united Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Confucian, Buddhist RoW and their united values of respect for women and respect for other peoples, then bring it on.
The united world will crush these madmen, till their eyes bulge out like a mouse caught in a mousetrap.
Satan is your enemy , so take him as your enemy. The world has lost its will to fight Fascist madmen. Oh , he had a difficult childhood. Karlof1 has still not conceded that Netanyahu and his Zionists are Nazis after one year and four months of continuous genocide in Palestine and three years of Ukrainian genocide.

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 4 2025 22:36 utc | 96

RP 97
“Giyane you are unfortunately completely wrong about ‘christians’. They are 100% pro-‘israel’, and nearly all would be in line with Zionism and its aims.”
That is a shocking statement about what passes for Christianity in the US.
A Christianity that has not only Darwinised the project of Enslaving Africans, but also Hitlerised the project of exterminating Palestinians.
We are superior to them. I can assure you that no other nation on earth has a Christianity that agrees with genociding Africans or Palestinians. What would you weirdos do if somebody decided on genociding you morons? Don’t you have ‘ do unto others as you would have others do to you’ in your version?

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 5 2025 0:03 utc | 98

Posted by: JB | Feb 5 2025 0:06 utc | 99
I just saw a few talking heads on tv saying that Trump announced that the US will own the Gaza Strip. Presumably he is inplying that the West Bank will go to Israel.
I knew the asshole would not be better than Biden, but I did not think he’d go this far.
Damn. What kind of country do I live in?

Posted by: teri | Feb 5 2025 0:48 utc | 100