Mary Kostakidis
@MaryKostakidis
Mearsheimer and Walt’s book The Israel Lobby was published in 2007. Here is their 2006 article in LRB
https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/
Mary Kostakidis
@MaryKostakidis
On how the Lobby silences voices of dissent in the US – academics’ books and papers don’t get reviewed, so the public are unaware of their critical work.
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Keeping It Quiet
By Charley Reese
https://www.wrmea.org/2006-may-june/the-israel-lobby-and-u.s.-foreign-policy.html

Posted by: Menz | May 31 2025 10:52 utc | 103

see the 1:30 video at the first link
see the 1:13 video at the third link
https://x.com/MosabAbuToha/status/1928279365562794120
Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha
An Israeli soldier who served in the Israeli forces admits that they killed unarmed Palestinians in Gaza “because their lives did not matter that much and we prefer not put ourselves in danger.”
The amount of oblivion towards the death of Palestinians and the destruction in Gaza is horrible, definitely a war crime, definitely unethical, and against modern humanitarian law, the soldier who served in Gaza said.
This is part of a report on Channel 4 News that aired two days ago.
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1928518607861936399
Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal
My take on these Glenn Greenwald videos is that I support military intervention to stop the genocide in Gaza, consistent with international law. And I encourage all of my fellow humans to do the same.
https://x.com/yipengGe/status/1928283483513770252
Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe
I don’t know what to say anymore. As doctors, we can’t stop a genocide and we can’t end a famine.
We provided a diagnosis – genocide.
We provided a prescription to end the genocide – for Canada to end its complicity and direct involvement in Israel’s crimes now.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 31 2025 11:04 utc | 105

Posted by: Exile | May 29 2025 18:17 utc | 11
Well we’ll Microsoft just happens to use Ireland as a tax haven. Subsidiary. So that may become inconvenient quickly

Posted by: Hankster | May 31 2025 12:36 utc | 107

Al-Aqsa Palestine
“The massacre of the buildings:
An unprecedented escalation in the pace of Israeli bombing over the past three days, targeting the remaining residential buildings in Gaza City, leaving behind widespread destruction and massacres of civilians.”
Journalist Youssef Fares
“Since yesterday evening, enemy aircraft have been systematically destroying what remains of the alleys and buildings of the Old City of Gaza. Not a single stone remains of Gaza’s history and present”
https://t.me/P_S_PI/426073 (censored, rubble etc.)
Destruction around European Hospital over 5 days
https://t.me/madinat_khanyuns/11518
Destruction of appartments Gaza
https://t.me/youseffares19/78029
Destruction around Al-Zahra Gaza City
https://t.me/pal74press/110687 (‘media too large needs app’)
The distress of a woman collecting flour from a street:
https://t.me/NewsPs0/185094
The young who are denied their youth
https://t.me/NewsPs0/185085
Journalist Ayman Hanideq
“Oh God, a third world war will burn the whole world !”
(Stated without missing, or further, context)

Posted by: Ornot | May 31 2025 14:07 utc | 109

It is my lifelong policy to lie to liars.
Posted by: Giyane | May 31 2025 2:40 utc | 94
It was clear that you are a shameless liar here. The ‘to liars’ is just your delusional assumption, backed by nothing, as you are clearly a shameless and craven too.;
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/05/palestine-open-thread-2025-115.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3d4a3a7200c#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3d4a3a7200c
Lying to the liars? So clearly lying to yourself then. Not that you will grasp the concept.
——-
But your lies are mostly your country’s lies about itself.
Posted by: Giyane | May 31 2025 2:40 utc | 94
—————-
Which country is that in your delusional little mind? You have no way of knowing, but dumbasses such as yourself won’t grasp that either.
What you are is clear. A liar. That you are shamelessly OK and even proud of it? Congratulations, you are just like the Israelis.

Posted by: saner | May 31 2025 14:40 utc | 111

saner 111
I know , I know, nappy rash is horrible.
I’ll try and remember to get some pseudo cream for your sore backside.

Posted by: Giyane | May 31 2025 14:48 utc | 113

“I want it very strong – where we can go in with inspectors, we can take whatever we want, we can blow up whatever we want, but [with] nobody getting killed,” he told reporters. “We can blow up a lab, but nobody is gonna be in the lab, as opposed to everybody being in the lab and blowing it up.” […]
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/30/trump-says-new-iran-deal-must-allow-us-to-blow-up-whatever-we-want/
And you TDS’s cry that Trump has no empathy?

Posted by: canuck | May 31 2025 15:29 utc | 115

113
It never crossed my mind that even the IDF keyboard warriors need diapers.
Being intellectually challenged is a bit outside their comfort zone, right?

Posted by: Giyane | May 31 2025 15:39 utc | 117

116 Thank you , koo koo darling.

Posted by: Giyane | May 31 2025 15:48 utc | 119

Posted by: Giyane | May 31 2025 15:53 utc | 120
——-
“characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior”
Well, I didn’t ask for an on point example, but thanks for providing such a fine one.

Posted by: saner | May 31 2025 15:58 utc | 121

Noooo, not Gaza, South Africa.
But Gaza? That is just Israel defending itself……..
Unreal.
Posted by: saner | May 30 2025 15:25 utc | 63
Believe it or not there are imbeciles like Tobias Cole on these very forums who believe this.
White Colonialism is a weird exercise in cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 31 2025 17:50 utc | 123

Hell of a white Jewish liberal manifesto here.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/30/but-hamas/#post-366083-footnote-3
At least people are waking up. Too late but still.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 31 2025 18:00 utc | 125

UN Warns Gaza ‘Hungriest Place on Earth,’ Israel Orders New Expulsions
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/31/tlnr-m31.html
“Mass hunger continues to stalk Gaza as the United Nations warned on Friday that the besieged enclave is ‘the hungriest place on earth.’ Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the UN’s humanitarian office, told reporters in a briefing that ‘One hundred percent of the population is at risk of famine…”
Hard to believe such outrageous and evil crimes are perpetrated in full view of the world with the active complicity of western politicians in support of Zionist USrael’s genocide and lobbies. Forceful actions must be taken to shut this down by any and all means necessary. Silence is complicity. Resist don’t collaborate!

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 31 2025 18:16 utc | 127

….Hell of a white Jewish liberal manifesto here……
Must reading for Barflies – thank you Tom

Posted by: Exile | May 31 2025 18:30 utc | 129

Freeman and Wilkerson yesterday on Dialogue works is a must see

Posted by: Minaa | May 31 2025 19:19 utc | 131

The First Amendment Lasted 249 Years Until Israel Decided It Had To Go
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1928351202653180168
“Marco Rubio officially announced that anyone who dares to criticize Israel and Jews will not be granted a visa to enter the United States…”
People must speak up/rise up to protect themselves from the Zio-Vichyite collaborator-class. First they came for free-speech and the anti-genocide pro-Palestinians…

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 31 2025 19:37 utc | 133

posted by: Arch Bungle | May 31 2025 10:36 utc | 100
I do, thank you.
Tonight i attacked on a few girls, disgusting with tattoos, meaty israeli bitches.. I spat on them, they fled.
The problem is that all around me are cowards, they do not want to react to genocide.
They rent to them , clean the toilets after the genocide bastards, and comply.
Thank you, at the moment I am stalking some males in my neighborhood, I will hurt them, severely.
Severely.
The neighborhood- the complying fucking bitches, renting their beds to war criminals

Posted by: stranger | May 31 2025 20:22 utc | 135

see the 2:40 video at the third link
https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1928418058730713367
Tiberius @ecomarxi
“…because Hamas wants a lasting peace and Israel wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza”
That’s a pretty fucking pivotal part of the story here you genocidal fucks
https://x.com/BBCWorld/status/1928264523368083717
BBC News (World) @BBCWorld
Hamas official says it rejects new US Gaza ceasefire plan backed by Israel
———
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1928273012794458283
Drop Site @DropSiteNews
“We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth”
At MIT’s 2025 commencement on May 29, Class President Megha Vemuri condemned the university’s ties to Israel’s military and defense industry, calling it “a shame that MIT is a part of it.”
As the ceremony ended, graduates raised a Palestinian flag and chanted, “Free, Free Palestine!”
Student organizers have escalated pressure on MIT to sever ties with Israel’s arms industry. Earlier this year, they scored a major victory as MIT ended its partnership with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. Elbit drones and surveillance systems have been widely used in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
MIT President Sally Kornbluth, who spoke immediately after Vemuri, did not address her remarks. Kornbluth had last year been called before Congress to testify about “antisemitism” on campus.
Video: @anadoluajansi

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 31 2025 20:57 utc | 137

see the 2:05 video at the third link
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1928848908660199722
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs
Israel has been starving the Palestinians as a weapon of war for a while: I wonder if time has finally come for Arab states AS WELL to cut ties with Israel. Will they?
https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/1928567091592048808
Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish
Arab states are accusing Israel of weaponising hunger in Gaza, rejecting its new aid system as illegal. “Starvation is being used as a weapon of war,” said UAE envoy Mohamed Abushahab, speaking on behalf of 22 Arab League members at the UN.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 31 2025 21:38 utc | 139

Although agreement was not expected, it is still worthy to note for the record the different positions and accounts of the negotiation.
Journalist Youssef Fares
“Reuters, citing US envoy Witkoff:
Hamas’s response to the US proposal is completely unacceptable and sets us back.
Hamas must accept the framework proposal we presented as a basis for proximity talks, which we can begin immediately next week.
This is the only way to conclude a 60-day ceasefire agreement under which half the living prisoners and half the dead will be returned.”
“Bassem Naim :
We did not reject Mr. Witkov’s proposal. We agreed with Mr. Witkov last week on a proposal that he considered acceptable for negotiation. We received the other party’s response, which did not agree with any of the items we agreed upon and did not meet the minimum demands of our people. Nevertheless, we dealt with it positively and responsibly, taking into account the horrors our people are experiencing. We responded to him in a way that achieved our minimum demands, foremost among which are: 1- Ensuring the enemy’s respect for the temporary 60-day truce and the entry of sufficient humanitarian aid through international institutions. 2- Guarantees that these negotiations will lead to an end to the war and the withdrawal of enemy forces.
Why is the Israeli response considered the only response to be negotiated every time? This violates the integrity and justice of mediation and constitutes complete bias towards the other side.”
Journalist Ayman Hanideq
”
Who doesn’t want to stop this massacre ?
Who doesn’t want to stop this genocide?
Who doesn’t want to stop these atrocities?
Who doesn’t want to stop the displacement and homelessness?
Who doesn’t want to open the crossings for the wounded and sick to travel?
Who doesn’t want life to return?
Who doesn’t want good for the people of Gaza? Who doesn’t want to stop the starvation ?
Who doesn’t want a prisoner deal?
Who doesn’t want a long or partial truce ?
Who doesn’t want stability in the region?
Who doesn’t want any of the above, instead…an occupation and America behind it…in clear coordination.
”
“When it’s said that Israel bombed a house, this isn’t ordinary news. This is how Israel bombs houses. Look at the size of the missile and the force of the explosion.
https://t.me/NewsPs0/185215
Now think about the small bodies in the house.”

Posted by: Ornot | May 31 2025 22:01 utc | 141

@138 was ambiguous
@Posted by: Otto Penn | May 31 2025 21:21 utc | 138
amended

I keep seeing the same mistake from commenters and sourced articles
over and over again.
Do this instead:
Reporter: “What do you think about ‘Israel’s War Against Hamas’?”
You: “That is misleading. It is instead “Israel’s War to Ethnically Cleanse Palestine.”
“‘Attacking Hamas’ is a smokescreen for what Netanyahu is really after.”
Do not let them frame this as a war between Israel and Hamas,
instead be clear that what it really is about is Israel trying to ethnically cleanse Palestine.

Posted by: Otto Penn | May 31 2025 22:17 utc | 143

@140 stj
“As for the moral necessity for fighting back against oppression? The October 7 counter-attack accomplished all of that goal that could be accomplished.”
Maybe the following will make you question that assumption:
Behind the Lines
“In the face of defeat: Is resistance a rational choice?
In times of adversity, those who have been broken by the horror of war and are unable to bear its costs emerge, presenting their defeat as “political realism,” cloaked in rational rhetoric sympathetic to the pain and suffering. However, in doing so, they do not evade accountability; rather, they open themselves to condemnation, since the pain of true defeat and its existential consequences are harsher than any other pain. Attempts at justification do not conceal defeat; rather, they expose and confirm it, transforming it into an unforgivable stigma.
Those who present defeat as a solution to a historical, existential conflict between right and wrong are committing intellectual, moral, and political betrayal. This betrayal parallels the enemy’s project, not confronts it. It aligns with its goals, especially in moments of intense conflict when we are supposed to uphold our rights, not flee from them.
The broken discourse seeps through slogans that appear to be protective but are actually lax, such as: “Rationality requires surrender” or “We must preserve what remains of us.” Is it rational to surrender to an enemy that has been practicing killing and displacement for more than seventy-five years? Are we required to facilitate its mission to wipe us out, and grant it legal cover to end our existence through a collective surrender document imposed by advocates of defeat? These are calls for moral and national suicide, promoted by those who have lost their will, and whose hearts are filled with doubt and weakness.
None of us Palestinians desire the continuation of the bloodshed or underestimate the price of war. Suffering has reached every home, and hunger has entered every tent. But the demand to stop the war must be based on one fundamental condition: that it not be a platform for settling the cause, nor a gateway to a political defeat that would entail mass displacement and a major massacre. Any ceasefire that does not lead to the breaking of the killing machine and the guarantee of dignity and freedom is merely a prelude to a more bloody phase, in which the survivors pay the price of political defeat retroactively, and in which the Palestinian people lose any ability to survive or re-establish themselves on their land.
So what is the political, moral, or national value of retreat at this stage?! What’s the point of raising the white flag after tens of thousands of lives have been sacrificed in the battle for existence?! Anyone who thinks the world will sympathize with a people who have abandoned their cause and conceded their rights is deluding themselves. The world neither respects those who surrender nor recognizes those who surrender.
Anyone who imagines that surrendering their power will allow life on the ground is ignoring a stark historical fact: This people has been defenseless time and again, granted no rights by the international community or the enemy. Rather, they were expelled from their land, killed in their villages, and turned into refugees in exile. In return, the victorious enemy was granted a “state,” and its colonial system was forcibly adopted. The defeated people became both the accused and the victim.
The generation that carries the banner of resistance today is not paving a path outside the norm, but rather walking a path imposed upon them by the reality of occupation, massacre, and betrayal. They are an extension of a generation that has experienced and learned from the chapters of the Nakba and the Naksa. They no longer accept free solutions or absurd concessions, especially after paying such a heavy price in this war. It is a generation that is on the path of steadfastness and recovery, just as the prophets and reformers before it did, who resisted tyranny, endured harm, and did not compromise.
The fundamental question here is: Why is this people being asked to surrender, when they have not been defeated? The resistance has not been broken; rather, it has achieved accomplishments unmatched by the armies of the official Arab regime in previous wars. It continues to fight, bleeding the enemy, thwarting its projects, and forcing it to pay an unprecedented political, human, and economic cost that touches the very essence of its existence and legitimacy.
It is true that the Palestinian pain is acute and profound, but it does not hide the pain the enemy is experiencing, nor the accumulated losses that have affected its military, economic, and political system. For the first time, the occupation is facing a complex existential challenge, exposed to strategic exhaustion, internal erosion, and questioning of the state’s legitimacy and the credibility of the army.
Hence, resistance is not an emotional act, nor a reactive decision, but a conscious strategic choice that piles pressure on the enemy, prevents it from achieving its colonial goals, and establishes new equations in the conflict, written by the blood of the martyrs and the sacrifices of the people.”

Posted by: Ornot | May 31 2025 23:15 utc | 145

Suppressed News.
@SuppressedNws
⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN: Another confirmation of the implementation of Hannibal Directive, this time by released POW Ori Megidish:
“We’re supposed to give the instructions when there’s a kidnapping event, the order is to kill the terrorist and the soldier together”
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1928777561330373021

Posted by: Menz | May 31 2025 23:50 utc | 147

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Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
🚨Senior Hamas official Basem Naim spoke to Drop Site about Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff’s response to the group’s ceasefire proposal.
Witkoff had called Hamas’ response “totally unacceptable,” adding that “it only takes us backward.”
Naim disputed Witkoff’s characterization: “We did not reject Mr. Witkoff’s proposal. We agreed with him on a proposal, which he deemed acceptable for negotiation. We then received the other party’s response (the Israelis) through Mr. Witkoff, which rejected all that we had agreed upon with him.”
“Nevertheless, we responded positively and responsibly, responding to him in a manner that fulfilled the aspirations and demands of our people. Why is the Israeli response considered the only response for negotiation? This violates the integrity and fairness of mediation and constitutes a complete bias towards the other side.”
Read the full report by @jeremyscahill
and Jawa Ahmad at the link below.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1928932989091622963

Posted by: Menz | May 31 2025 23:53 utc | 149

see the 38-second video at the first link
https://x.com/Powerfulmindx/status/1921266844335288666
Dyor @Powerfulmindx
The U.S. and Israel are committing genocide.
“There is no international law being enforced right now because the U.S. is the biggest violator.”
– Professor Jeffrey Sachs
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1928833346668306642
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs
Now that the wind is changing and everyone starts to oppose the Gaza meat-grinding:
Netanyahu did not commit the genocide by himself. The problem will not be resolved by scapegoating him, ignoring the rest.
1. End genocide.
2. End occupation/annexation.
3. End apartheid.
https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1928727507689230664
Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg
“Palestine has been a prolonged genocide for sixty years, the worst example of ethnic cleansing since the eradication of Native Americans.”
I wrote that in 2007 .
Nothing started on October 7 2023.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2007/06/for_a_secular_d/
For a Secular, Democratic, Single State of Palestine

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 1 2025 0:24 utc | 151

“6 martyrs and a number of injuries in Rafah’s Mawasi area after a number of young men advanced towards the US aid site west of Rafah”
https://t.me/NewsPs0/185241

Posted by: Ornot | Jun 1 2025 2:49 utc | 153

Posted by: Otto Penn | May 31 2025 20:49 utc | 136
If you actually read the whole thing between when I posted it and when you replied, you are a certified speed reading genius. Good God that was a lengthy diatribe that took me probably an hour to read.
Leaving what out? Clearly the author is a wannabe influencer with a “they/them” worldview and personality. But what was your problem with the piece overall? How much of it did you really, actually read and not skim or feed to “AI”?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 1 2025 5:52 utc | 155

Otto/Arch:
Zio talking points,
what gives?”
And he left out so much, so very much, even though he went on and on and on.
Which ones did they slip in vs. just invoke and then take down? He/she/it (they) called Sinwar a fucking hero. I mean you can’t expect an American liberal (trans?) anti-Zionist Jew to come out and openly say “there WERE NO RAPES” but they really did say that about the “baby beheadings” – You and I are totally on the same page with this and I’m fully confident of saying that. But I don’t think you read the whole thing and you didn’t bother pointing out any specific piecemeal or macro level problems with the article. I think you should if we want to take on this conversation (not like we’d be doing anything other than preaching to each other’s choir).

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 1 2025 6:00 utc | 157

R2R: If We Let Them Get Away With It We’re Next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPcfCsMm2w
“Dimitri Lascaris, Karim Bettache and Peter Beattie discuss the broader implications for all of humanity of the Western-based genocide in Palestine.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 31 2025 18:27 utc | 128
“This video isn’t available anymore”
Memory holed already…

Posted by: Vortex | Jun 1 2025 9:03 utc | 159

System Update
@SystemUpdate_
Political analyst @MouinRabbani
tells @aaronjmate
that the real goal of the U.S.-backed “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” is to weaponize food and water in order to force Palestinians to concentrate in the south of Gaza so Israel can permanently displace them:
https://x.com/SystemUpdate_/status/1928821423591592157

Posted by: Menz | Jun 1 2025 9:22 utc | 161

Suppressed News.
@SuppressedNws
The Israeli occupation forces have been targeting the Old City of Gaza for 3 consecutive days, an area that contains historic buildings dating back 100s of years. Among the sites hit was Ashour family building, located in the heart of the Old City.
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1928779088518394044

Posted by: Menz | Jun 1 2025 9:24 utc | 163

A new Freedom Flotilla is heading to break the siege on Gaza. They sailed from Italy. Turkey which pretends to care for Palestinians refused the flotillas to sail from there.
https://nitter.poast.org/GazaFFlotilla/status/1929008938051121598#m

Freedom Flotilla Coalition@GazaFFlotilla
Don’t Lose the ‘Madleen’: Track Her Journey to Gaza
In partnership with @ForensicArchi , we’ve equipped the Madleen with a live tracker to ensure safety, accountability, and global solidarity.

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 1 2025 11:41 utc | 165

The new US/Israeli aid group is exactly what we knew it was. These guys sussed out some really interesting and nefarious details. Worth reading in full – I left out some of the article in the excerpts below:
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Israeli Mossad named as funder of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
MAX BLUMENTHAL AND WYATT REED· 29 May ’25
[text deleted – b]
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/29/israeli-mossad-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-aid/
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Posted by: teri | Jun 1 2025 12:30 utc | 167

see the 25-second video at the first link
another day, another bombing in Gaza by israel/USA
https://x.com/runews/status/1929190806096589219
Vladcoin @runews
Another angle of Israeli airstrike on building in Sheikh Radwan in Gaza City https://t.me/rtnews/97601
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yaf-target-ben-gurion-airport–seek-to-impose-full-ban-on-ai
YAF target Ben Gurion Airport, seek to impose full ban on air traffic
The Yemeni Armed Forces announce a series of military operations against Israeli targets in occupied Palestinian territories with ballistic missiles and drones.,,,,,,
https://x.com/Yemenimilitary/status/1929197852774817988
Yemen Military 🇾🇪 @Yemenimilitary
🔥🚀The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out four military operations, one of which targeted the Lod Airport in occupied Jaffa with a hypersonic ballistic missile.
The other three operations targeted three vital Zionist enemy sites in the areas of Jaffa, Ashdod, and Umm al-Rashrash in occupied Palestine using three drones.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 1 2025 23:32 utc | 169

Israel-Backed Militias Linked to ISIS Loot Gaza Aid Under IDF Watch
June 3, 2025
By Robert Inlakesh / MintPress News
Israeli officials often claim that Hamas has been looting aid heading to Gaza, yet the evidence suggests the opposite. New reports and eyewitness accounts indicate that Israel is backing ISIS-linked militants who are working to replace Hamas security forces and are looting humanitarian aid under the watchful eye of IDF drones.
New evidence recently emerged of ISIS-linked militants in Gaza, operating inside the Israeli-controlled buffer zone and controlling roads on which aid was destined to be transported. These armed men were photographed brandishing automatic weapons, wearing Israeli military tactical vests and bearing Palestinian flag patches on their helmets.
To the naked eye, they could be mistaken for Palestinian security force officers. In fact, they are members of an infamous criminal network responsible for looting humanitarian aid. On May 21, 15 World Food Program trucks carrying flour were looted, and UN sources suggest the perpetrators were these armed factions. Yet, they claim to be a legitimate opposition group poised to replace Hamas.
For some 80 days, Israel had imposed a total blockade on all food, medical supplies, water and fuel entering the territory. As soon as a small number of trucks were allowed to enter, the militants were spotted, sporting new military gear and poised to intercept the humanitarian supplies.

MOHAMMED From Gaza 🍉
@Its_Moh9
The IOF allows some flour trucks in and assigns Yasser Abu Shabab to secure them up to the crossing area.
Yasser Abu Shabab, who stole thousands of trucks before the truce and is now directly cooperating with the IOF.
Yasser and the IOF are two sides of the same coin.

ISIS-linked “Anti-Terror Services”
The leader of the Israeli-aligned militia is a man named Yasser Abu Shabab, a member of the Tarabin tribe that extends between the Naqab (Negev), Gaza and Sinai. However, he and others affiliated with the Tarabin have long been denounced as not representing the tribe due to their extensive criminal pasts.
Abu Shabab was well known in Gaza for his fierce opposition to Hamas and had been arrested for smuggling narcotics. He also maintained a direct connection to ISIS in the Egyptian Sinai. When Israeli bombing destroyed the jails run by Hamas security forces during the early days of the Gaza war, the infamous criminal managed to escape.
From there, Abu Shabab quickly began building a militant force numbering at least 100 men, many of whom were also previously imprisoned and had known ties to ISIS and al-Qaeda-linked groups.
An internal UN memo, reported by the Financial Times in November 2024, stated that Abu Shabab’s men were operating inside Israel’s buffer zone, looting aid shipments with “the passive, if not active benevolence” of Israeli forces. This is notable, as Israeli forces have routinely shot and killed civilians attempting to enter that same zone, even when coordinated in advance.
While these criminal factions began looting early into the Gaza war, they became more prominent following Israel’s invasion of Rafah on May 6, 2024. Up until that point, Hamas-led Palestinian police had helped coordinate aid deliveries through the Rafah Crossing.
This security was provided despite Israel threatening to bomb the police officers if they approached aid trucks, often forcing Gaza’s law enforcement into a hands-off role. But once Rafah was invaded and police disappeared, Israeli forces worked in proximity with criminal networks to intercept and sell stolen aid through intermediaries.
The result was a massive price hike for basic goods, with these gangs reportedly drip-feeding supplies to local sellers, maintaining artificial scarcity during a famine. Israel’s leading human rights organization, B’Tselem, has labeled the policy “manufacturing famine.”
Two sources working with aid agencies in Gaza confirmed to MintPress News that all aid entering the Strip is either subject to a bribe paid to these gangs or is partially or completely confiscated. Both spoke on condition of anonymity, stating that the gangs are widely believed to be coordinating with Israeli forces.
Prior to January 19, when a temporary ceasefire began, these gangs wore face coverings and operated as a ragtag militia. In recent weeks, however, they have rebranded themselves as the “Anti-Terror Service,” claiming to be a grassroots opposition to Hamas.
On Abu Shabab’s Facebook page, he now describes himself as a “grassroots leader who stood up against corruption and looting,” posting photos of himself patrolling roads and claiming to work with international aid organizations, to ensure the delivery of flour trucks.”
Back in November 2024, he told The Washington Post that “Hamas has left us with nothing,” even denying that his men carried weapons. He claimed that the looting was done by unarmed individuals and that they avoided stealing food intended for children. Yet aid workers and truck drivers insist his men are committing armed robbery.

Muhammad Shehada
@muhammadshehad2
🚨Israel is aiding ISIS-linked terrorists & criminals to sow chaos & famine in Gaza:
Shadi al-Sofi, a wanted murderer & son of an informant/collaborator with Israel, & Yasser abu Shabab, a drug dealer, are the main warlords responsible for looting most aid under IDF protection.
They formed gangs of over 200 armed criminals & “established a military like compound” (per the UN) in an emptied “death zone” fully under IDF control, where they looted only this Saturday night about 100 aid trucks at once.
This way Israel can absolve itself of responsibility for its deliberate starvation policy in Gaza and say “look, we’re letting aid in, it’s Hamas’ fault that food doesn’t reach people” (as claimed by Senator Jon Fetterman yesterday).
IDF soldiers never fire at those gang members as they loot aid right in front of Israeli tanks & troops in a closed military zone that no Gazan is allowed into. The IDF only fires at local policemen whenever they try to prevent the looting.
Yasser Abu Shabab was arrested by Gaza’s local police multiple times in the past for drug smuggling & trading, which is often facilitated by ISIS groups in Sinai.
Hamas militants attempted to eliminate him yesterday in an attack that killed 11 of his gang, including his brother & partner Fathi & the gang’s accountant. 30 others were wounded.
Shadi Al-Sofi murdered in 2020 Jabr al-Qeeq, a PLFP member whom Israel had sentenced to life & imprisoned for 15 years for killing al-Sofi’s father during the 1st Intifada for spying on Palestinians for Israel.
Al-Sofi was convicted in a Gazan court & the local police captured him in a special operation in late 2020, before he broke out of prison with the help of ISIS-linked militants & was smuggled out of Gaza to Sinai, then reportedly to Israel’s Negev. He returned to Gaza with the IDF ground invasion where he now co-leads the criminal gangs that loot aid & sabotage humanitarian work under IDF protection.

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https://scheerpost.com/2025/06/03/israel-backed-militias-linked-to-isis-loot-gaza-aid-under-idf-watch/

Posted by: Menz | Jun 4 2025 11:07 utc | 171