The Zio- Nazi’s that are committing genocide have halted ALL aid to Gaza.
“Israel has halted all humanitarian aid to Gaza, citing a refusal by the militant group Hamas to extend phase one of an internationally brokered ceasefire deal that expired on Saturday.
The Israeli prime minister’s office made the announcement in a post on X on Sunday.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 2 2025 15:25 utc | 4

“Hamas have a tough decision to make. Exile or destruction. Either way, Trumnp’s vision will happen. Realpolitik and trade routes demand it.
Posted by: John Wick | Mar 2 2025 15:25 utc | 4”
Trump has a tough decision to make. Go down in history as Genocide Don or put his Zionist pitbulls back in a crate & on a tight leash.

Posted by: Mary | Mar 2 2025 15:29 utc | 6

Maybe Hamas should let the rest of the hostages go.
Showing two live hostages and not releasing them at the last handover probably didn’t help.
Posted by: Somber | Mar 2 2025 15:34 utc | 8
Maybe Israel should have honored tbe ceasefire instead of dragging its feet, ignoring fundamental pieces of it & turning its soldiers & bulldozers on the West Bank.

Posted by: Mary | Mar 2 2025 15:41 utc | 8

The Orange Yankee, Zionist POTUS – and his office to further aid and abet in the genocide in Gaza.
“US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed a declaration to expedite the delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel, calling President Donald Trump the Jewish state’s great ally, according to a statement released on Saturday.
The move is part of the White House’s broader effort to bolster Israel’s military capabilities amid ongoing regional tensions. Since Trump took office on January 20, his administration has reportedly approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to West Jerusalem.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 2 2025 15:46 utc | 10

A prime example – of illegal settlers in Palestine doing what they do best.
“Hundreds of illegal Israeli settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, provoking Muslims during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Palestinian Wafa news agency reported on Sunday that more than 500 Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the second day of Ramadan under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
The settlers conducted provocative moves around Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, and performed Jewish rituals largely in the eastern area of the compound.
The Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf (Endowments) has repeatedly condemned the Israeli regime’s incursion into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds.
The ministry, which is responsible for managing Islamic religious affairs and Islamic charitable endowments, has recorded hundreds of Israeli settler incursions into the holy site.
The Israeli regime allows the settlers “to storm and defile” the holy sites, it said. During the incursions, the settlers carry out rituals in defiance of the sanctity of the world’s third-holiest site for Muslims.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 2 2025 15:54 utc | 12

Must read –
For all who have not yet read it, I link an edited transcript of Professor Jeffrey Sachs’ very relevant speech in the European Parliament at an event titled “The Geopolitics of Peace,” on Feb. 19, 2025.
There is a part about US/Israel and Palestine shedding light on the 1996 decision about one state (solution) in Palestine – the state of Israel.
Exc:
The U.S. government’s plan was partly to clean up [remove] old Soviet allies and partly to take out supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah. Netanyahu’s idea was and is that there will be one state, thank you, in all pre-1948 Palestine. Yes, only one state. It will be Israel. Israel will control all the territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
And if anyone objects, we will overthrow them. Well, not Israel, exactly, but more specifically our friend, the United States.
That’s been U.S. policy until this morning. We don’t know whether it will change. Now the only wrinkle is that maybe the U.S. will “own Gaza” [according to President Trump] instead of Israel owning Gaza.
Netanyahu’s idea has been around at least for 25 years. It goes back to a document called “Clean Break” that Netanyahu and his American political team put together in 1996 to end the idea of the two-state solution. You can also find that document online.
(In 1996, Netanyahu and his American advisors issued the document “Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” with the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies. This new “clean break” strategy called upon Israel to reject the framework of “land for peace.” This effectively advocated that Israel would not withdraw from the Palestinian occupied lands of 1967 in exchange for regional peace. Instead, Israel would continue with its policy of occupation until securing “peace for peace,” by reshaping the Middle East to its liking. Redrawing the map of the region consisted of toppling governments that were opposed to Israel’s dominance.)
So, these are long-term U.S. projects. It’s wrong to ask, “Is it Clinton? Is it Bush? Is it Obama?” That’s the boring way to look at American politics, as a day-to-day or year-to-year game. Yet that’s not what American politics is. (end excerpt)
Jeffrey Sachs: The Geopolitics of Peace
February 27, 2025
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/27/jeffrey-sachs-the-geopolitics-of-peace/

Posted by: JB | Mar 2 2025 16:10 utc | 14

Long text, but an important “for the record”.
Journalist Youssef Fares
“In order not to fall victim to the partial news: Netanyahu’s office statement creates a justification for returning to fighting, not for sustaining calm, as it cancels the US envoy’s proposal for the second phase and extends the first phase without real gains in exchange for a temporary cessation of fighting. Hamas is expected to renew its position in rejecting this manipulation, to appear as if it caused the return of fighting, the end of calm, and the return of war during the month of Ramadan. The resistance’s acceptance of this manipulation will cause it to lose more living prisoners and increase its weakness at the negotiating table.”
Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
“Hamas Press Release:
The statement issued by the office of the terrorist occupation government Prime Minister Netanyahu, regarding his adoption of American proposals to extend the first phase of the agreement, according to arrangements that violate the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, is a blatant attempt to evade the agreement and avoid entering into negotiations for its second phase.
Netanyahu’s decision to stop humanitarian aid is cheap blackmail, a war crime and a blatant coup against the agreement. The mediators and the international community must move to pressure the occupation and stop its punitive and immoral measures against more than two million people in the Gaza Strip.
The war criminal Netanyahu is trying to impose political facts on the ground, which his fascist army failed to establish over fifteen months of brutal genocide, due to the steadfastness, bravery and resistance of our people. He seeks to overturn the signed agreement to serve his narrow internal political calculations, at the expense of the occupation prisoners in Gaza and their lives.
The terrorist occupation’s allegations regarding the movement’s violation of the ceasefire agreement are misleading and baseless, and a failed attempt to cover up its daily and systematic violations of the agreement, which have led to the martyrdom of more than a hundred of our people in Gaza, in addition to disrupting the humanitarian protocol, preventing the entry of shelter and relief supplies, and deepening the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
We also affirm that the behavior of Netanyahu and his government clearly violates Article 14 of the agreement, which stipulates that all procedures related to the first phase continue in the second phase, and that the guarantors will do their utmost to ensure the continuation of the negotiations until an agreement is reached on the terms for implementing the second phase.
We call on the US administration to stop its bias and alignment with the fascist plans of the war criminal Netanyahu, which target our people and their existence on their land, and we affirm that all projects and plans that bypass our people and their established rights on their land, self-determination, and liberation from the occupation are destined to fail and collapse.
We reaffirm our commitment to implementing the signed agreement in its three stages, and we have repeatedly announced our readiness to begin negotiations on the second stage of the agreement.
We call on the mediators to pressure the occupation to implement its obligations under the agreement, in all its stages, implement the humanitarian protocol, and bring in shelters and rescue equipment to the Gaza Strip.
The war criminal Netanyahu and his extremist government bear full responsibility for obstructing the progress of the agreement, or any foolishness he may commit by turning against it, including the humanitarian consequences related to the occupation prisoners in the Gaza Strip.
We emphasize that the only way to restore the occupation prisoners is to adhere to the agreement, immediately enter into negotiations to begin the second stage, and for the occupation to commit to implementing its commitments. ”

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 2 2025 17:07 utc | 16

Heard in addition to stopping humanitarian aid, they’ve resumed fighting in Khan Yunis and in N. Gaza with arial campaign, again.
Various proposals still popping around.
US already knows that when full on fighting begins, Yemen will follow through with their Tel Aviv warning.
Hezbollah is an unknown.
US will blame Yemen on Iran. From there, ?
USReal understands the chain of events, the fuse it will lite.
It’s Ramadan… and patience is running out.
Best thing Hamas can do now, is hold the line. Keep saying no. There is no reason not to. Can’t be more obvious that USReal doesn’t want a ceasefire, let alone a permanent ceasefire.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 2 2025 17:21 utc | 18

RE: Posted by: Ornot | Mar 2 2025 17:08 utc | 18
Thank Ornot. Good info.
Apparently Egypt too chicken shit to defend its own territory from USReal and wants US there. Makes sense.
“The Israeli delegation is expected to arrive in Cairo in the coming hours to discuss the proposal presented by Egypt. “
“Cairo confirms its commitment to the complete Israeli withdrawal from the Salah al-Din axis in exchange for an American security project on the border. ”

Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 2 2025 17:32 utc | 20

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 2 2025 15:44 utc | 10
Well said

Posted by: Chris N | Mar 2 2025 18:14 utc | 22

All food entering Gaza stopped by Israel as they refuse to enter stage two of the ceasefire. This was predictable. Stage two required Israel withdrawal from the Philadelphi corridor. A good question s why does the Philadelphi corridor exist? A thin strip of land between two nations that has a special status? Its not like any other border one mation on one side and the other on the other.
The philadelphi corridor was always the issue. Why dont they just relinquish it get the hostages then take it back? The Philadelphi corridor is Egyptian. Borders seem to be mallable in he region none the less it was very dicy when Israel took it last year. It risked war with Egypt. Once again the question is raised why does the Philadelphi corridor exist? The answer is obvious it exists for Israel to control the border between Egypt and Gaza.
Hamas of course knows their resupply depends on that border being porous. Critical components for their production of weapons cross that border. Food crosses that border to feed Palestinians. Here lies the real issue. Israel will not give up the Philadelphi. Hamas understand they are finished if Israel controls that border.
The idea that Hamas has won is ridiculous. After WW2 Germany was n rubble. Did Germany win the war? Hamas most certainly has inflicted casualties. Thats not winning. Hamas goal is to return to he status quo before the war. Just a return to the status quo.
Philadelphi is where rubber hits the road. USA in control of Philadelphi would allow food into Gaza.
USA controlling Philadelphi would be a logical first step toward Trump town Gaza. Egypt would be so glad to give up that responsibility. USA stupid to take it but there is obligation here. I think hamas would go for it. Maybe Israel will too with Trump town Gaza the goal. Was the Trump town Gaza presentation designed to solve Philadelphi?

Posted by: Tostado | Mar 2 2025 18:45 utc | 24

RE: “What will be written in the history books about this Ramadan?”
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 2 2025 17:31 utc | 20
I think some of us last Ramadan thought the on going genocide (if you remember, USReal would not allow even a “pause” during the genocide), and that the awareness of Justice and mercy during Ramadan would call to action Muslims against USReal in a noticeable way.
It did not occur.
I think this year may be different, because all in all, Muslims & secular society as well, are simply becoming fed up.
How it translates out yet is unknown.
I’m not seeing any benefit for US is this either. Trump may “back” Netanyahu, but the facts are, he can get his hotels, and oil contracts and all the ports and stuff via his Arab buddies and Egypt. He knows he doesn’t need the USReal hoax anymore. Further, unless he’s made the decision to go after Iran, I think he’ll make Nuttyahoo suck it up and get out. And the only reason Trump would go after Iran, is to weaken China. And then USReal would be obliterated. None of it is a good choice for Trump. Of course, he may well be sick and tired of USReal himself and want them out of the way. Weaken China’s oil exports, get rid of USReal at the same time, he might see it as a win. This is a proxy like Ukraine that’s now more trouble and expense than it’s worth. Time to dump it.
Anyways, seems Nuttyahoo the only one wanting more genocide. So, we’ll see.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 2 2025 19:00 utc | 26

Francesca Albanese: UN Special Rapporteur (& vid)
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1894685168587223508
“Alert: What the new US Administration is doing is very clear and strategic: It is called psychological overwhelming.
Hitting us everyday with XXL doses of baffling rhetoric and erratic policies serve to ‘control the script’, all while disrupting global stability and consolidating US control.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 2 2025 19:23 utc | 28

https://x.com/Hamza_a96/status/1896268311362785589
Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96
There’s more outrage and media coverage over Trump shouting at Zelenskyy than Israel deliberately starving Gaza by withholding humanitarian aid.
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1896081347178868900
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Israel has unilaterally decided to extend Phase One of the ceasefire agreement—a plan it originally proposed itself—without consulting the Palestinians and without transitioning to Phase Two, which was set to begin today.
This move effectively freezes the negotiations at a stage that favors Israel’s strategic interests, delaying key commitments that were expected in the next phase, including a potential Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza and further prisoner exchanges.
Israel retains military leverage by keeping the ceasefire locked in Phase One, avoiding the obligations that Phase Two would have entailed. This unilateral decision sidelines Palestinian voices, reinforcing the pattern of Israel dictating the terms of engagement while bypassing diplomatic agreements that require mutual consent.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 2 2025 19:34 utc | 30

In a country already divided – populace, military and judicial, calling up nearly 1/2 million reserves (if in fact Israel still has that many reserves) is poorly considered. It is common parlance that Netanyahu needs war to preserve his government as well as his political status. Unfortunately, the quiesence during the Gaza and Lebanese ceasefires has led he and his military cabinet to believe their own distorted thinking: That Israel “won” and that Hamas, Hezebollah, Yemen and Syrian rebels are cowed in shock and awe at Israeli military prowess. When the ceasefire ends – and it appears to be careening toward that end, Israel faces a multifront war – Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran. Israel’s major strength is not its boots on the ground but its airforce- which even with support from the US is stretched thinly. Furthermore, Iron Dome and David’s Sling have not been shown to be reliable against all types of missles, with some players appearing to have hypersonic missles. (Consider technology transfer) Nasarallah’s funeral(s) should have been a talisman of the united forces arrayed against Israel. Although Trump, Rubio and Hegseth may feel that US troops will gladly march to Bibi’s rescue, such action would inevitably provoke intense nation wide protests, given the ICC designation of the Gaza operation as genocide and myriad atrocities which have played out across the world on social media. Even today, Aaron Bushnell is considered an icon of probity in many venues of the US.

Posted by: abierno | Mar 2 2025 19:38 utc | 32

No one wants to hear this, but the situation in Palestine must get worse before it can get better, and yes, it can become much much worse.
Time, demographics, and technological development are not on Israel’s side, as they are not on America’s side.
Colonialism is a phase, it has never had the staying power to become institutional.
That goes for the white man’s projects in East Asia, West Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
It is slow but the world is changing. You, by reading this, are a part of that change.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 2 2025 19:41 utc | 34

@21 Trubind1
We will have to see what Hamas makes of that idea, it is not clear if in Egyptian or Gaza territory ? It sounds too complex to me, it would mean recognising a part for US in control of Gaza, but if on Egyptian side of border then not up to Hamas. Anyway, “Israel” doesn’t seem to want to negotiate beyond extension of phase 1, so mute. The halting of supplies seems to be to force acceptance of that plan.
A press conference soon from Hamas Osama Hamdan.
Seems all is being ramped up, closing deliveries ….and suggestions of bombing existing supplies….
Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma
“Deputy Knesset Speaker Nissim Vaturi:
Airstrikes must be carried out on food warehouses that entered Gaza”
“White House spokesman:
US will support Israel’s next steps as Hamas unwilling to cease fire”
That implies that if no Cairo then hostilities sooner, because it is not likely they just starve a couple of million people over Ramadan…then again after what we have witnessed so far who knows.
Order of events is becoming detached and surreal, and hard to follow or read into.
Just now:
“After stopping the entry of aid to Gaza, consultations will be held during the current week in which a vote will be held on cutting off water and electricity to Gaza.”
“Mahmoud Mardawi of Hamas:
Netanyahu is delusional if he thinks that he will obtain through the war of starvation what he failed to achieve on the ground”

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 2 2025 19:45 utc | 36

RE: Posted by: Ornot | Mar 2 2025 19:45 utc | 38
Agreed. This is what happens when genocidal regimes aren’t put down.
A repeat.
Everything you listed are war crimes, and violate Geneva Convention. Trump now will own this. He thinks Americans will buy the “Hamas” broke the ceasefire.
Netanyahu just saving himself, worried what Arab 3/4 Summit will bring.
Hamas would do well to just stick to this. No extension.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 2 2025 20:09 utc | 38

In the Real World it’s March.
In Jewrael every month is Jew-Lie.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 2 2025 20:49 utc | 40

Delivery of the $3B package don’t begin u til next year, and extend to ’28.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-arms-sale-gaza-bombs-3dcb519c65978c7598e42b3742547e9b
Deliveries are set to begin next year, it said.
Using the same justification, the department also said Rubio had approved another munitions sale to Israel worth $675.7 million to be delivered starting in 2028.

Posted by: Mary | Mar 2 2025 21:13 utc | 42

“I don’t remember the date, but the upcoming meeting of the Arab countries will decide this.
Or it won’t. I am not hopeful.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 2 2025 15:17 utc | ”
The other Arab rulers have rarely failed to betray the Palestinians.

Posted by: lester | Mar 2 2025 21:48 utc | 44

Why don’t they just send the entire Knesset and stop fooling around with the one by one arrangements?
Let the Israelis come in and sit in the halls of Congress – might as well, since they are the ones making decisions here.
I have many questions about why the Finance Minister of Israel is meeting with the US Treasury Secretary, but no answers that don’t sound like grift, extortion, and theft.
——————
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, one of the more extreme members of the Israeli government, will travel to Washington in the coming days to meet US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. His visit could have significant implications for US policy toward Israel’s goal of annexing the occupied West Bank.
Smotrich is an outspoken proponent of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Strip. He is known for genocidal rhetoric, previously saying it may be “moral and justified” for Israel to starve to death two million Palestinians living in Gaza.
According to The Times of Israel, the Biden administration had a tacit policy of boycotting Smotrich and other extremist ministers. But President Biden still provided Israel with the weapons needed to achieve the goals of Smotrich and other far-right Israeli politicians.
Smotrich also holds a ministerial position in the Defense Ministry, which gives him the ability to expand settlements in the West Bank. A settler himself, Smotrich has long been on record calling for the Israeli annexation of the territory and has said that President Trump’s second term in office gives Israel the “opportunity” to advance that goal.
Smotrich has also praised President Trump’s plan for the US to “take over” Gaza, which would require ethnic cleansing. Earlier this month, Smotrich claimed that Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza would begin “within weeks.”
The news of Smotrich’s visit comes as the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal is incredibly fragile amid continued Israeli violations. Smotrich has threatened to quit the government if Israel doesn’t restart its genocidal war after the first phase, which ends on Saturday.
Smotrich has claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave him a guarantee that after the first phase, Israel would restart military operations in Gaza with the goal of a “gradual takeover of the entire Gaza Strip.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/27/israeli-finance-minister-bezalel-smotrich-to-vist-washington/
——————-

Posted by: teri | Mar 2 2025 22:01 utc | 46

Posted by: lester | Mar 2 2025 21:48 utc | 46
##############
Times have changed.
I just haven’t figured out how far Trump is willing to let the Arab states push back on Israel.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 2 2025 22:03 utc | 48

Update:
“Israel” says Hamas counter-proposals rejected outright.
Youssef Fares is reporting incidences of fire at and within Gaza.

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 2 2025 22:08 utc | 50

psychohistorian 20
The days and weeks are continuous so far as I know from Jewish ancient history to modern times, because they follow the lunar months. But it seems the months’names are not continuous .
Based solely on verses in the Qur’an I would say that any aggression against Islam can be countered with equal force by the Muslims against those attacks against them. But I would say that this is probably a highly expert field far beyond my knowledge. There’s been plenty of historical precedents, which I know nothing about.

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 2 2025 22:54 utc | 52

@51 l
“All member states of the UN are party to the ICJ Statute” ?
It is easy to confuse with ICC. That said I don’t find other mention in search of US withdrawal. Has just withdrawn from UNHRC though.
Maybe I have confused somewhere, the quote was direct from via telegram channel.

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 2 2025 23:04 utc | 54

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 2 2025 22:54 utc | 54
##############
I too am no expert but warfare is very organized and structured in Islam.
I was not at all surprised to see Israeli hostages friendly with their captors at the time of their release.
Defending prisoners with one’s own life is a duty placed on every Muslim. All of those young IDF women were treated like younger sisters while in captivity.
Radically different from the torture and rape that the IDF does to its prisoners.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 2 2025 23:15 utc | 56

Interestingly, most MSM newspapers in West are calling out Israel for stopping aid. Some even feigned outrage.
Ironically, looks like a way for them to to further Trump/MAGA bash. I’d of thought every newspaper would be screaming how “Hamas broke the ceasefire… look at those animals”. . .
Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 2 2025 20:45 utc | 41
=============
Now that Trump “owns” the Gaza genocide, the MSM are free to turn on him.
Get it?
It may be one good feature of TDS: It is so predictable!!
Trump had better watch out.
Could it be that some in the MSM are tired of being told what to write by the Israel Lobby?

Posted by: Jane | Mar 3 2025 0:26 utc | 58

RE: “Since there is a very good chance that the Epstein scandal involves MOSSAD, it would seem that Israel is being protected on two fronts of sexual misbehavior and depravity.”
“Anyhow, it looks to me as though Israel/Bibi do have the potential to become an Achilles Heel for Trump.”
Posted by: Jane | Mar 3 2025 1:07 utc | 61
It appears everything regarding Epstein, as before, is a roll out for distraction, gossip and misdirection. No “actionable” information, no one will be prosecuted or go to jail, most think Epstein never did die but was whisked off to his island (some footage from a drone appeared after said death of him at island… so it was said). Just opinions. Point is, it’s been decades since any war criminals, bank thieves, high profile embezzlers or anyone of any import actually was imprisoned.
Like JFK, UFOs, ect… bread and circuses.
In regards to BiBi being Achilles heel, I was thinking more in terms should Trump actually decide to join BiBi in an attack on Iran. Like Zelensky, I’m not seeing BiBi remaining in the picture too much longer. It’s bad business, and Trump doesn’t like that. Neither do other investors Trump has lined up for Lebanon & USReal. BiBi may end up with a serious health issue soon if he doesn’t get on board and straighten out. Mossad won’t blink twice about taking out their own with an order. And he’s pissed off a bunch of them lately.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 3 2025 1:50 utc | 60

RE: “Smotrich has claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave him a guarantee that after the first phase, Israel would restart military operations in Gaza with the goal of a “gradual takeover of the entire Gaza Strip.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/27/israeli-finance-minister-bezalel-smotrich-to-vist-washington/
——————-
Posted by: teri | Mar 2 2025 22:01 utc | 48
Good heavens! Is Smotrich feeling his “deal” with Nuttyahoo was betrayed? His “guarantee” trashed?
Imagine that….who’d of thought Netanyahu capable?

Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 3 2025 2:04 utc | 62

RE: “Proving, as we knew all along that they were never ‘hostages’.”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 3 2025 1:50 utc | 63
Excellent catch.
Took me a bit to figure out what you meant.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Mar 3 2025 2:09 utc | 64

“No Other Land” won the Academy Award for best Documentary. They got a pretty good ovation from the audience as well.
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/no-other-land

Posted by: jr | Mar 3 2025 2:39 utc | 66

There was an American statement of support for Israel originating from National Security Council. It does not specifically mention the aid cutoff, and is rather disingenuous:
“(Israel has) negotiated in good faith since the beginning of this administration to ensure the release of hostages held captive by Hamas terrorists. We will support their decision on next steps given Hamas has indicated it’s no longer interested in a negotiated ceasefire.”

Posted by: jayc | Mar 3 2025 4:57 utc | 68

https://x.com/SarahxHay/status/1896424519902130248
Sarah Hay @SarahxHay
Is it really so controversial to document your own life under apartheid where you’re hunted by night, homes bulldozed by day, forced to live in a cave and friends paralyzed from being shot?
It would be more odd not to make a documentary about that.
https://x.com/politico/status/1896397638880149916
POLITICO @politico
Controversial Middle East documentary wins Academy Award

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 3 2025 7:29 utc | 70

What happened to Trump’s super-duper dock in Gaza?
Posted by: lester | Mar 2 2025 22:41 utc | 53
Are you joking? It sank. Last I read, 3 X.

Posted by: Mary | Mar 3 2025 9:04 utc | 72

Has anyone noticed that the word “woke” has come to mean “not a white supremacist”?
Now they’re using it to label everyone who supports any cause defending the weak against the elites.
That’s what you get for following every dog-whistle your masters concoct and flood into the media …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 3 2025 10:37 utc | 74

“Based solely on verses in the Qur’an I would say that any aggression against Islam can be countered with equal force by the Muslims against those attacks against them. But I would say that this is probably a highly expert field far beyond my knowledge..”
Posted by: Giyane | Mar 2 2025 22:54 utc | 54
I agree 100%.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 3 2025 10:46 utc | 76

It is early days to assume that full fledged bombing will now resume. Cat and Mouse games are going on within Israel, and within the US Admin. World opinion with protests all over, with campus protests restarting, Oscar for that documentary, MSM needling DJT, are all helping. Gaza will not take things lying down! Viva La Palestine!

Posted by: gb_grave | Mar 3 2025 11:49 utc | 78

Everyone is staging men and materiel in the Occupation right now.
Germany, France, UK, US.
All in the last few hours, flights have been arriving.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 3 2025 13:09 utc | 80

https://slguardian.org/vietnam-secures-680-million-spy-satellite-deal-with-israel/
Posted by: sickening | Mar 3 2025 12:16 utc | 81
Truly sickening.
At least not all Vietnamese are so willing to sell out for a few shekels:

Vietnamese restaurant owner kicks out “Israeli” family saying: “We welcome dogs, but not you”

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne_aHU-_H0g

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 3 2025 13:36 utc | 82

I don’t have time to read all the comments on this thread but just to inject a bit of realism here. Both the populace and leadership in the West generally do not care about the plight of the Palestinians–they will support genocide with very little tug on their consciences. Why? Because morality is almost absent from Western society because every issue seems to be framed in a comic book style.
I was brought up in the Western humanist tradition and it is, to be blunt, dead or dying everywhere. It may be replaced by something else but for now morality is “might makes right” and in the Israeli case they have been the vanguard for this empty morality for decades. But for the Muslim countries around the world the indiference to Palestine is surprising but I think the moral nihilism of the West has infected them as well. So, in a way, it’s pointless for us to be think anything other than genocide and ethnic cleansing is ahead. Outside the West and the Islamic world there is also no interest because they are all concerned with their own societies. The future is with Greater Israel in that region–I see no way to stop it.

Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Mar 3 2025 14:18 utc | 84

Looks like the EU big wigs – and the US might have a hard time, putting their Romanian puppet in office.
“The illegitimate government of Romania must resign and the second round of the elections resume
We are Romania and Călin Georgescu is our president!”
The media is not covering what is happening in Romania that’s why I am asking everyone to share further”
https://nitter.poast.org/daily_romania/status/1895891169407877562#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 3 2025 15:08 utc | 86

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 3 2025 15:08 utc | 88
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What does that have to do with Palestine or the Middle East?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 3 2025 15:21 utc | 88

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 3 2025 15:08 utc | 88
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What does that have to do with Palestine or the Middle East?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 3 2025 15:21 utc | 90
On the other hand, Netanyahu is starting to sound a lot like Zelensky.
(I didn’t watch the link, so apologies if this doesn’t sound accurate.)

Posted by: juliania | Mar 3 2025 16:03 utc | 90

short video of brawl at the Knesset
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 3 2025 15:24 utc | 91
These are the signs of a collapsing empire …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 3 2025 16:33 utc | 92

The future is with Greater Israel in that region–I see no way to stop it.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Mar 3 2025 14:18 utc | 86
You are correct that the Arab (Islamic – Sunni) nations around the Levant are impotent and indifferent.
However you are not correct that Greater Israel will prevail.
The reason it will not prevail is that Greater Israel is not a self-sustaining, life-propagating construct, it is a cancer – both to itself and to those who are tied to it.
Yes, it has demonstrated great facility in destroying the weak.
But it has demonstrated a poor ability to prevail against even modest resistance (without tremendous support from the West).
Back to the analogy of “cancer”:
A cancer destroys everything it touches, even as it destroys and consumes itself.
It will destroy and consume even those “indifferent” Arab regimes around it.
It has no other choice but to destroy whatever it touches because all other entities represent the potential of a threat.
For Israel, even the potential for threat is as real as the threat itself.
And therefore israel is doomed to be eternally at war with whoever touches the edges of its infection.
This will draw it into an ever-widening maelstrom of violence until israel itself is consumed and destroyed.
They will draw the entire West into that same Maelstrom.
They’re on a one-way road to hell in a fast car – with no reverse gear.
… and so is the entire West.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 3 2025 16:43 utc | 94

“Hamas have a tough decision to make. Exile or destruction. Either way, Trumnp’s vision will happen. Realpolitik and trade routes demand it.
Posted by: John Wick | Mar 2 2025 15:25 utc | 4”
Yup. Ukraine has same tough decision. Putin is not stupid like Trump. No golden pager gift required.

Posted by: Onzna | Mar 3 2025 19:17 utc | 96

All over Europe freedom of speech and demonstration has been completely shut down. No academic dares saying half what Ilan Pappe or Judge Nap and his guests are saying.

Posted by: Tom | Mar 3 2025 19:40 utc | 98

Corrected url for above:
Free Syria
https://x.com/timand2037/status/1896505137549770843
“Syrian and Palestinian journalists condemn HTS for allowing Israeli journalist entry into Syria. This move has sparked widespread outrage as a blatant violation of Syria’s long-standing stance against normalization with Israel.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 3 2025 19:57 utc | 100