VIDEO | Lebanese security forces arrest terror cell in Beirut’s southern suburb
Lebanese media reports that a terror cell planning to carry out bombings targeting sensitive locations in the Shia-majority southern suburb of Beirut was arrested by Lebanese General Security in the Burj al-Barajneh area.
According to preliminary information, the cell is linked to extremist organizations and was preparing to launch simultaneous attacks.

video
https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1939650308189102393

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 30 2025 13:59 utc | 104

UPDATE | According to Lebanese journalist Radwan Mortada: “Reports came out claiming that General Security had arrested an ISIS cell in Burj al-Barajneh preparing for simultaneous bombings. The report is inaccurate. Security forces arrested seven individuals on suspicion of human trafficking, and a woman filmed the arrest and posted the video. The investigation has not yet begun, and the circulating narratives are purely speculative.
The case is still under investigation, and according to security sources, the detainees have not even been interrogated yet.”

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1939673034543055057

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 30 2025 14:21 utc | 106

Trubind, Much of what you say is true, I could never understand both Russia and Iran’s silence and demonstrable inertia on acting against Azerbaijan’s hugging of Israel and Turkey.
However, we must also remember that Pashinyan himself betrayed Nagorno-Karabakh; doing absolutely nothing for it. I still remember those brutish “Azerbaijani” soldiers decapitating an elderly Armenian man -who stayed back and did not flee-and throwing his still-masticating head on the corpse of a pig.
Furthermore, Azerbaijan twice in my memory fired upon and/or murdered Russian troops with whom they are supposedly allies! Once , when they fired missiles/sent drones at a Russian military helicopter observing / helping Armenians in NK , and secondly when a Russian border commission was investigating areas on the border of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabkh. American troops were at that very time in Azerbaijan conducting exercises. If I remember correctly there were Russian dead at that incident. Of course, Azerbaijan got off with a quick sorry by the impossibly vampire -looking vampire Aliyev.
Don’t forget, Raisi of Iran was killed visiting the border of Iran and Azerbaijan as well. Anyone think any Israelis were there still recuperating from their wargames with the host nation?
One wonders why Russia and Putin especially put up with that upstart,Aliyev- at all until you take into account that Aliyev is simply a mobster/oligarch from USSR-days and somehow has immunity for all wrongs. Hmm?
P.S
I have the word Azerbaijani above in quotes as I doubt they were Azerbaijanis. I believe they were either sheep-dipped Turks and / Chinese Turkestanis/ Israelis simply wearing Azerbaijani uniform for cover. The beheader himself looked decidedly Mongoloid ,which adds credence to a part of them being Uighers flown in from the once Russian-protected head-chopping enclaves of Idlib in Syria.

Posted by: Total | Jun 30 2025 15:26 utc | 108

UWDude
Agreed, but how much more can you keep cuddling up to Turkey?
The Turks were behind Chechenia and Mili Gorus decapitation of Russian grunts in the early 1990s. Behind shooting down the Russian plane, behind the Chinese Turkestanis being brought to Syria, trained most of the headchoppers of Syria on behalf of the USA. Stole Syria’s oil before the US then did under Trump and the Kurds, behind the murder of tbe Russian military helicopter with TOW missile, behind the decapitation of the two bishops of Syria by Turk-allied headchoppers, behind the group who chopped off the Palestinian boy’s head in the back of a pickup truck in Aleppo, provided Bayraktar drones to the Ukraine and Crimean Tartar terrorists to Crimea, allowed arms and diesel to travel to Ukraine on the grain cargo ships ,never implemented joint custody of north Syria, and never took away their soldiers from protecting the headchoppers in Idlib and last but not least ..took over half of Syria.
How much can you keep taking? Use it or lose it…Russia should ensure the Turks have accidents every-so-often to knock them off their perch .

Posted by: Total | Jun 30 2025 16:18 utc | 110

Can anyone off the top of their head direct me to links/articles re: Israeli flight from Palestine because of recent conflict?

Posted by: drinky crow | Jun 30 2025 17:07 utc | 112

JFC! My home town (Glasgow) is crawling with Zionists as is Scotland.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/cousinhood-zionism-scotland/290025/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jun 30 2025 18:27 utc | 114

Zionism is an aberration. A splinter, in the region, in the human consciousness. It is (predictably) being excised.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 30 2025 14:11 utc | 104
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I would like to see it happen in my lifetime. I am an impatient human and my lifetime is so short relative to God’s.

Posted by: teri | Jun 30 2025 18:42 utc | 116

Posted by: teri | Jun 30 2025 18:42 utc | 115
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Allah moves at his pace, not ours. I believe that our test is of our patience and strength to endure, not unlike the tests of the Palestinians.
Nothing worth having is easy.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 30 2025 18:46 utc | 118

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 30 2025 18:43 utc | 116, 117
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Now there’s some synchronicity. I was reading some Malcolm X over the weekend. I thought everyone else had forgotten about the resistance fighters of the [fairly recent] past.
Patience. Not my strong suit. Guess I need to work on it some more.
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News: Israel just bombed a lot of people at a Gaza beach coffee shop. A massacre. Killed at least 33 and wounded 50 or more. People gather there to get internet connection.
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An Israeli air strike targeting a cafe on Gaza City Beach has killed at least 33 Palestinians, including a journalist, and injured around 50 others, according to eyewitnesses and reporting from Wafa news agency and Quds Network.
Images and videos circulated online by Quds Network revealed emergency teams carrying bodies out of the building’s wreckage and combing through the rubble.
Gaza’s government media office said in a statement that Palestinian photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab was among those killed in the attack. It added that Hatab had worked for a number of media platforms and organised several photo exhibitions about Gaza outside Palestine.
The media office said that Hatab’s death brought the toll of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 2023 to 227.
Visual artist Frans al-Salmi was also reportedly killed in the attack.
Journalist Bayan Abusultan was wounded in the strike, although her condition is currently unknown, according to Wafa.[…]
According to Al Jazeera, at least 80 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Monday.[…]
The Israeli military said on Monday that it is “operating intensively” and “will expand” its operations in different areas in Gaza City and Jabalia, ordering Palestinians to move to al-Mawasi in the south of the Strip.[…]
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-attack-gaza-city-beachfront-cafe-kills-least-22-including-journalist
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The Palestinian Journalist @bayanpalestine has been wounded after the Israeli occupation targeted Al-Baqa cafe on the Gaza City beach. She posted a picture of herself after the attack:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLhtBmQSgQo/
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Visual artist Frans Al-Salmi is among the victims of the horrific Israeli massacre carried out this afternoon in the Al-Baqa Cafeteria on the Gaza City beach.
Her photo:
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1939700487420268771
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Posted by: teri | Jun 30 2025 19:22 utc | 120

“In the massacre of Al-Baqa Cafeteria on the Gaza beach, our dear colleague Ismail Abu Hatab was killed, and our colleague Bayan Abu Sultan was injured, along with Ibrahim, Naseem, Fayez, Sama, Yasmine, Raghad, Nadia, Bilal, Safaa, Atef, Omar, Widad, Mustafa, Aya, Karim, Ismail, Saher, Hisham, Hussam, Kifaya, Ahmed, Nidaa, Hassan, Mohammed and Frans, 27 martyrs, both men and women, who were washing their eyes from the scenes of blood, sterilizing their bodies from the stupidity of the bombing and smoke, they were searching for any space for life outside the circle of fire, they were all killed and many times their number were injured, because they were crossing a red line in the eyes of the entity of shame, there is no place but for death and destruction, even attempts at life are pursued by shells
Journalist Youssef Fares – Occupied Palestine”
Journalist Youssef Fares
“Gaza is experiencing a catastrophe and swimming in a sea of ​​blood”
Note the amount of shelling and bombing has increased significantly over the last day or two.

Posted by: Ornot | Jun 30 2025 19:44 utc | 122

LoveDonbass 104
‘ Zionism is an aberration’.
No, my brother, Zionism is the norm in the upper half of Western society, and in Eastern society its place is taken by Islamism.
The Kurdish Islamists are keen for me to understand that they have a camera and a microphone on my bedroom.
Zionism is one of the many works if Shaytan, and spying is the job of shaitan. He sees you , but you cannot see him. The Islamists micromanage every detail of the private lives of the people of Libya and Syria
Soon , the pisstakers of Islamism and the shitshow of Zionism are going to be united under Trump’s ‘beautiful plan’ the Abraham Accords. If they survive the hypersonic onslaught from China and Iran.

Posted by: Giyane | Jun 30 2025 20:15 utc | 124

An explosion in southern Tehran and a blast at an Iraqi airport in Kirkuk in the last 20 minutes.
Related?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 30 2025 21:00 utc | 126

If Bob Vylan has clever management, they can use this censorship and transform it into career rocket fuel.
The Streisand Effect and all that…
Nothing says punk rock like white gatekeepers trying to silence you.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 30 2025 21:05 utc | 128

Abu Mohammad al-Julani Sold The Golan To Israel…
https://x.com/KevorkAlmassian/status/1939436396759916851
“But under his regime, the history will teach our children that it was Hafez Assad who gave it away. This isn’t just historical revisionism. It is a deliberate attempt to whitewash Julani’s treason.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 30 2025 21:25 utc | 130

“After the gas was cut off and banned about three months ago, and after the besieged Muslims in #Gaza used everything they could, even collecting papers, nylon, shoes and old clothes from the streets, and after firewood became very scarce and its prices rose, people began burning their personal belongings, and whoever had leftover furniture began burning it.
Imagine how nearly two million citizens would light a fire to prepare their simple daily food, since there are no forests or trees in the Gaza Strip, three-quarters of which are now under the control of the Jews who have wiped out everything” Via pal74press

Posted by: Ornot | Jun 30 2025 21:57 utc | 132

Currently…
“Israeli media:
Explosions were heard across southern Palestine, reaching the center.
The source of the explosions was the Israeli army’s bombing of Gaza” Via Al-Aqsa Palestine

Posted by: Ornot | Jun 30 2025 22:12 utc | 134

LoveDonbass 125
Whoever posted the other day about “””Barzini””” , the Mossad-affiliated President of Kurdistan , the son of Mas’oud Barzani’s who promised the Yazidis safety, then sent the Pershmerga Military to disarm them, then sent the Daesh (now called HTS) to genocide them, has been allowing Israeli planes to bomb Iran from Kurdish Airports and airspace.
This Kurdish government murders journalists like flies and gives all Kurdish Oil and Gas to USUKIS foc. As Trump said to Masrour Barzani last month,
” We secured the oil”.
USUKIS has no business in Iraq except stealing oil and gas.
If you recall, it was Tory Bigwig Nadhim Zahawi , head of Genel , London , who fenced the stolen Kurdish oil and was kicked out of the Tory Party for Tax Fraud.
A rich seam of Islamist terror , under Obama, entirely for the purpose o stealing Iraqi oil.
The same people as spy on my bedroom , lol.
Anyway , to answer your question, yes, Trump knows he cannot attack Iran again, because Occupied Palestine will be deleted, so he will attack soft, Shi’a targets in defenceless Iraq instead.
Evacuations under way right now.
Jewlani might send Daesh mercenaries as well, and Syrian Kurds are still holding 50,000 Daesh in prison as well. Orangatan has tasted his own tail and wants WW3 badly. If he can’t have Gaza easily , he wants every last drop of Muslim blood in West Asia to pay for his dreams being thwarted.

Posted by: Giyane | Jun 30 2025 22:28 utc | 136

Sanchez Effect: Max Blumenthal
https://www.rt.com/shows/sanchez-effect/620760-blumenthal-iran-bombing-trump-machiavellianism/
“Trump’s unleashed a Pandora’s box that threatens to destroy his legacy…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 30 2025 22:52 utc | 138

[Fill in bad words here…..fill in more bad words here………fill in more bad words here, this time in Spanish………..and now in Arabic……..let’s hear some Farsi…..French, Dutch, Swahili…..and special bad words for that very special boy, Donald J Trump – the J stands for “Jenius”- who wants to get a peace prize for either peace in the Middle East, or failing that, at least silencing the Middle East by killing everyone there. Either will suit him just fine.]
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US approves $510m worth of arms sale to Israel
The US has approved a $510m arms sale to Israel, with the deal including thousands of bomb guidance kits, the Pentagon announced.
In a statement, the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said the sale includes 3,845 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance kits and additional guidance kits for the MK 82 bomb.
“The United States is committed to the security of Israel,” the DSCA said, adding the sale “is vital to U.S. national interests”.
The principal contractor will be Boeing, based in St Charles, Missouri.
The deal comes amid heightened international scrutiny of US military support for Israel, as civilian casualties in Gaza continue.
https://aje.io/hwexvf?update=3810134
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And more bad words here for Netanyahu, who will once again be visiting the States on Monday:
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AFP news agency is reporting that Trump and Netanyahu will meet at the White House next Monday as the US government seemingly presses for a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier that Netanyahu had “expressed interest” in what would be his third meeting with Trump since the Republican returned to power in January.
https://aje.io/hwexvf?update=3810070
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Posted by: teri | Jun 30 2025 23:20 utc | 140

Syriana Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4hW23PdEk
“Syria confirms secret talks with Israel – Is Palestine being abandoned?”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 1 2025 0:26 utc | 142

City of Ottawa Fires Lawyer Accused of Vandalizing Holocaust Monument
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/city-of-ottawa-fires-lawyer-accused-of-vandalizing-holocaust-monument-1.5065397
“…The National Holocaust Monument was found defaced with red paint on the morning of June 9. The words ‘FEED ME’ were painted in capital letters alongside large paint splashes.
The slogan appeared to be a reference to Gaza, which the United Nations had described as the ‘hungriest place on Earth’ the preceding Friday.
None of the charges against Aspenlieder have been proven in court.”
Bravo to all who remind Canada of its complicity in the Jewish State’s genocide.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 1 2025 1:23 utc | 144

see the photo at the first link
see the 34-second video at the third/fourth link
https://x.com/JimmyJ4thewin/status/1939143085004386636
𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 🫒🗝️🇵🇸 @JimmyJ4thewin
They’re outraged by the “Death to the IDF” chant, but not by the 335 bullets fired at 5-year-old Hind Rajab.
https://x.com/AlexCrawfordSky/status/1939716748586135990
Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky
Huge amount of Israeli bombing in Gaza overnight and today with 70+ killed since dawn includ Dr Shehada Mahmoud Asqoul, the former Head of Pulmonology at Nasser Hosp killed in his tent – plus a cafe full of journos and others kills another 20+
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https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1939714484286754959
Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg
Doesn’t matter. They are going to get masses of work now. The zionist control of the art world is broken.
https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1939669217973879160
Sky News @SkyNews
BREAKING: Bob Vylan has been dropped by United Talent Agency after their Glastonbury set, Sky News understands
http://trib.al/kdXA2Dr

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 1 2025 2:18 utc | 146

“Death to the Waffen-SS” Is that permissible? The genocide supporters latest narrative control is the IDF are conscripts and just following orders. From Wikipedia: The “just following orders” defense, also known as the Nuremberg defense, was notably addressed during the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, where it was determined that such a defense is not valid for escaping responsibility for war crimes. This principle has been reinforced in various legal contexts, including the Hague, emphasizing that individuals must refuse unlawful orders even if they come from superiors. https://bahaiteachings.org/i-was-just-following-orders/

Posted by: Willow | Jul 1 2025 3:14 utc | 148

Death! Death! to the IDF!
Say it loud, say it proud
It is the dearest widespread wish of the world that it should be so
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Until the genocidal monsters and their evil regime are gone
From the Sea to the River
Palestine will live forever.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 1 2025 3:53 utc | 150

https://nitter.poast.org/nxt888/status/1939738253994950954
‘Sony Thang
@nxt888
11h
Every image from Gaza is a message.
Not just from the Palestinians, but from the empire that wants you to forget them.
Bombed homes.
Mass graves.
Starving children.
All of it is meant to be normalized.
Until death becomes background noise.
Until you forget the cause.
Until silence becomes second nature.
And that’s when empire knows it’s winning.
Not when it kills, but when it convinces you not to care.
Jun 30, 2025 · 5:30 PM UTC ‘

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 1 2025 5:23 utc | 152

Posted by: Sir Reginald | Jul 1 2025 6:03 utc | 153
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It was to be expected. People with a sense of entitlement, with no habit of accountability, and who gleefully murder children weren’t going to be a cohesive society at the end of the day.
Israel was never going to have a happy ending.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 1 2025 6:17 utc | 154

see the 33-second video at the first link. If you can stand it
https://x.com/BellaWallerstei/status/1939016931329352090
Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei
As a proud Zionist, I would not feel safe at Glastonbury. A dark time for Britain.
some RESPONSES:
https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1939266890070716485
As a proud Nazi, I would not feel safe at a music festival filled with people who oppose Nazism. A dark time for fascists
https://x.com/AsaWinstanley/status/1939403451185934375
Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley
I’m not listening to all that. Free Palestine.
https://x.com/RecTheRegime/status/1939217462391664884
Dr. Michael Rectenwald @RecTheRegime
You should not feel safe anywhere.
https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1939178075918606568
B.M. @ireallyhateyou
As a proud anti-Zionist, fuck you and fuck Zionism and fuck Israel and #DeathToTheIDF
https://x.com/AraquelBloss/status/1939297602240966671
Araquel Bloss @AraquelBloss
Genocide makes this a DARK TIME, you piece of shit Zionist.
Are you getting shot at while attempting to get food? Are their opioids in your bag of flour? Are you missing both legs, one arm, an eye and both parents? No? Then shut the fuck up about not feeling safe.
https://x.com/Tom_Vee/status/1939257866629845425
Tom Vee @Tom_Vee
WTF are you? Holocaust Barbie? You think you can starve children and kill innocent people for 20 months and get away with it? You’re as bad as the Nazis!
https://x.com/LucianRasheed/status/1939030050210230781
Lucian  @LucianRasheed
There’s nothing to be proud of when your identity is tied to terrorism. Zionists are terrorists.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 1 2025 7:06 utc | 156

OK now without the URL.
Understanding Yemen 1/2: The Revolution
Tim Anderson Tim Anderson
Source: Al Mayadeen English
30 Jun 2025 13:27

Posted by: Lantern Dude | Jul 1 2025 9:12 utc | 158

Thomas Keith
@iwasnevrhere_
While Americans argue over rent hikes, groceries, and student loans, Israel has extracted $124 M per day from the U.S. Treasury for an entire year, much of it hidden behind opaque appropriations and congressional loopholes.
According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, Washington has shouldered 70% of Israel’s military costs since Oct 7, 2023. That includes $17.9 B in direct aid, $4.86 B in Pentagon regional ops, $20.3 B in deferred arms deals, and billions more in shipping losses, stockpile transfers, and corporate handouts.
Thomas Keith
@iwasnevrhere_
Since 1948 the United States has pumped $317 B into Israel, including $251.2 B in military aid since 1959; that torrent began with the first Pentagon loan in 1959, switched to grants in 1974, became 100% grants in 1985, and now flows automatically as a $3.8 B lump-sum every Oct 1 plus a $500 M missile-defense kicker under the 2019-2028 MOU, money on which Israel pockets the interest because Washington lets it sit in a Fed account. Even so, FY-2024 set a new single-year record: $17.9 B, dwarfing the 1973 and 1978 surges and landing entirely on U.S. taxpayers.
That FY-2024 fire-hose breaks down as $6.8 B Foreign Military Financing, $4.5 B for Iron Dome and David’s Sling reloads, $1.2 B for the Iron Beam laser, $1 B to crank out more 155 mm shells in U.S. factories, and $4.4 B to refill Pentagon stockpiles stripped for Israeli use, again, $17.9 B in 11 months. The administration also slid at least 100 separate weapons deals under congressional reporting thresholds to keep the true cost opaque.
Hardware deliveries since Oct 7 2023 read like a warehouse manifest: 57 000 155 mm shells; 36 000 30 mm cannon rounds; 22 800 aerial bombs (14 100 Mk-84 2 000-lb and 8 700 Mk-82 500-lb); 13 981 anti-tank missiles; 3 000 JDAM kits; 2 600 250-lb small-diameter bombs; 3 500 night-vision devices; 2 000 Switchblade-600 loitering drones; more than 100 Skydio X drones; 75 JLTV armored trucks; and 4 127 000 kg of JP-8 jet fuel. In parallel, 600 open Foreign Military Sales cases worth $23 B march through the pipeline.
On 8-13-2024 Washington promised another $20.3 B: 50 F-15EX fighters priced at $18.8 B for delivery in 2029, 32 000 120 mm tank rounds at $774 M, $583 M in tactical vehicles, 30 AMRAAMs at $102 M, and 50 000 mortar bombs at $61 M, all deferred to future U.S. budgets via Israel’s “cash-flow” privilege.
The Pentagon’s own meter is spinning in the Red Sea. CENTCOM has logged 217 Houthi-related incidents, forcing two carrier strike groups and an amphibious ready group into the theater. 1 CSG burns $8.7 M every day, $2.7 B per year, so the navy blew through the $2.4 B Israel supplemental passed in April and had fired $1 B in missiles by June; regional operations already cost $4.86 B, and planners admit the bill will hit $7–9 B if today’s tempo holds. Add $55–70 M in combat-zone pay and the 8-figure tax break that goes with it. Personnel jumped from 34 000 to a steady 40 000, peaking at 50 000 in Aug 2024, while CENTCOM contractors climbed to 20 591.
Collateral damage spills into world trade: since Nov 2023 roughly 60 % of Suez traffic detours around the Cape of Good Hope, adding 10 days and $300 000 in fuel per voyage while war-risk insurance tops $1 M. Weekly transits collapsed from 200–300 to 40–75, hammering shippers for at least $2.1 B so far and gutting Egypt’s canal revenue.
Meanwhile the money flows back to the usual corporate feeders. 60 % of the $14 B April supplemental, $8.4 B, went straight to U.S. arms firms. Boeing’s defense arm booked $8 B in Q4-2023 orders, 36 % of its annual revenue. The Financial Times projects $52 B in free cash flow for the top-15 defense contractors in 2026, $26 B pocketed by the U.S. “big five,” cash they historically plow into buybacks and dividends. Israel still may divert 25 % of each yearly grant, $950 M this cycle, to its own industry before that carve-out expires in 2028.
Add it up and the past 12 months have drained $17.9 B in direct aid, $20.3 B in new contractual obligations, $4.86 B (and climbing) in Pentagon regional costs, and $2.1 B in trade losses, a $45.16 B extraction. That works out to $124 M every day, $1.5 M every hour, funneled from American households to a foreign military and a handful of weapons conglomerates that treat the U.S. Treasury like an open vein
https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1938787423514714413

Posted by: Menz | Jul 1 2025 9:46 utc | 160

That’s why would only call the unlucky citizens who got imprisoned for refusing to kill the Palestinian people – enlist with the IDF “left”.
How many of these were/are there in the year 2024 und 2025?

Posted by: sweetling | Jul 1 2025 10:31 utc | 162

Christian/Catholic village in the West Bank attacked by Israeli settlers, three villagers killed, crops destroyed, villagers blocked from their harvest…..all backed by the IDF…a typical day in occupied Palestine……

Posted by: tobias cole | Jul 1 2025 12:08 utc | 164

Journalist Youssef Fares
“UNRWA:
More than 82% of Gaza’s areas are under displacement orders, and people have nowhere to go”

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 1 2025 13:36 utc | 166

IDF is intensifying attacks. In the past 24 hours, they attacked 124 targets across the Gaza Strip. They are now burning food parcels as well. [Per https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en%5D
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Gaza’s Ministry of Health says at least 116 bodies and 463 wounded people arrived at hospitals across Gaza over the past 24 hours.
https://aje.io/bf7ows?update=3811408
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They attacked the al Maswasi area again, less than 24 hours after telling people in northern Gaza to go there.
https://aje.io/bf7ows?update=3811289
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The Witkoff plan is about what you’d expect from an American:
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According to sources cited by Israel Hayom on 29 June, a security cabinet session on Sunday ended without any agreement on the war in Gaza, and deliberations will continue on Monday. 
The newspaper, citing sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says the only deal on the table is based on the Steve Witkoff plan – one that would allow Israel to return to the battlefield after an exchange.
The sources emphasized that Netanyahu has not abandoned the war’s objectives and that fully ending the war is not under consideration.[…]
Hamas has rejected Israeli terms for a full disarmament of the Palestinian resistance and the exile of the movement’s leadership outside of Gaza, while continuing to insist on a permanent ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-tanks-plough-through-north-gaza-as-dozens-killed-in-high-intensity-attacks
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And now Trump and Rubio are kissing al-Sharaa’s ass hard to reward him for his help in breaking up Syria:
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US President Donald Trump has dismantled much of the decades-old American sanctions program imposed on Syria and has ordered a review of the terrorist designation of Ahmed al-Sharaa, who led the coalition of Islamist forces that toppled the previous government of Bashar Assad. [Sharaa has an $8 million bounty on his head, until now. – Teri]
Trump signed an executive order on Monday, easing broad financial restrictions while maintaining targeted sanctions against Assad and his former government, which was deposed late last year by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other militant groups.
US sanctions against what it designates as Foreign Terrorist Organizations will also remain in place. However, Trump’s order directs Secretary of State Marco Rubio to review HTS’s designation, as well as al-Sharaa’s label as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist.”
Washington will also revisit its designation of Syria as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, first imposed in 1979.
The decision follows Trump’s May meeting with al-Sharaa in Riyadh, where discussions focused on Syria’s reconstruction and potential normalization of relations with Israel. At the time, Trump pledged to give the new leadership in Damascus “a chance at greatness.” […]
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Barrack acknowledged the “controversy here, of somebody who had been al-Nusrah and had been considered a bad guy who all of a sudden becomes the leader” – drawing a [ridiculous – Teri] historical parallel between Syria’s political shift and the early years of American independence.
“If you remember, we had a revolutionary war that lasted 14 months. [sic] And we had brutality… And from 1776, when we declared independence, it was 12 years until we got a president. And who was the president? The president was a general… It was George Washington,” Barrack told reporters during a State Department briefing call.
Rubio previously warned that Syria had become “a playground for jihadist groups, including ISIS and others,” acknowledging that the new Syrian leadership “didn’t pass their background check with the FBI,” but insisted the US must support them in order to prevent wider regional instability. […]
https://www.rt.com/news/620813-trump-syria-sanctions-terrorist/
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And the terms of the Israeli/Syrian security agreement are outlined as this:
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Channel 12 publishes the terms of the Israeli-Syrian security agreement:
An update to the 1974 disengagement agreement; Syrian-Israeli security and intelligence coordination against Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah, allegedly attempting to establish cells in southern Syria;
Israeli recognition of the Shebaa Farms as Syrian territory; and a possible tripartite agreement, including Jordan, regarding the waters of the Yarmouk Basin.
White House:
We will monitor Syria’s progress in addressing the issue of foreign terrorists and banning Palestinian terrorist groups.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Posted by: teri | Jul 1 2025 14:19 utc | 168

Condemn Carney’s Call For ‘Zionist Palestinian State’
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1939688995270902052
“Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to make recognizing Palestinians’ inherent right to self determination based on their accepting the supremacist ideology that has dispossessed them. Please take a minute to email the Prime Minister to condemn his racist comment.”
mark.carney@parl.gc.ca

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 1 2025 14:47 utc | 170

see the 34-second video at the first link. bet the BBC didn’t expect that one!
https://x.com/upholdreality/status/1938989655183016435
COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality
Meanwhile in Glastonbury 2025:
“Death, death to the IDF!” broadcast on BBC
https://x.com/_rathbone/status/1939582768888840250
Rathbone @_rathbone
Zionism is suffering a cultural death, next up: economic collapse.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 1 2025 15:41 utc | 172

teri 168
There is no doubt that the US is a Terrorist State, which is also agreement incapable. Why doesn’t Syria make alliances with its immediate neighbours if it isn’t a terrorist state.
Fact is Jewlani wants to continue massacring Shi’a, and hopes Uncle Sam will fund him to do it, maybe a proxy ground invasion of Iran in combination with more Cruise missiles from the US.
I see two paths ahead, either the total destruction of the USUKIS proxy genociding entity and the US nukes Iran, or,any country that joins the Abraham Accords with Israel, becomes Greater Israel and the US leapfrogs Iran and attacks China.
Where and when will the US acquire Hypersonic technology if not from Iran?
The US is still in the Stone Age.

Posted by: Giyane | Jul 1 2025 17:39 utc | 174

The proscribed head chopping terrorist regime in Syria (HTS), that’s still butchering it way around the country – is to help the Zio-Monsters who are committing genocide, to fight against Iran and Hezbollah.
I’ve also read that Syria, under this terrorist regime – is to tell the UN that it droppings its case for the return of the Golan Heights – to allow the Zio-Monsters to keep them.
https://nitter.poast.org/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1940002513723257291#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 1 2025 17:44 utc | 176

I don’t recall the British media getting its knickers in a twist about these Zionist singing about killing Palestinians.
https://nitter.poast.org/JoeBrolly1993/status/1939986695157428321#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 1 2025 17:56 utc | 178

Food aid distributed by the American/Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was laced with the drug Oxycodone.
Drugs DISCOVERED In Gaza Aid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1F0on_LFUyw
More on the Gaza Humanitarian (Front) Foundation, the Switzerland-registered group run by Israeli and American corporate types and military/spooks.
Weaponized Aid: Wall Street, Zionists, and Ex-CIA Operatives Take Over Gaza Relief
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/weaponized-aid-wall-street-zionists-and-ex-cia-operatives-take-over-gaza-relief/

Posted by: ak74 | Jul 1 2025 18:14 utc | 180

As far as Trump and the fundamentalist minions around him are concerned, the genocide is a win-win: more space for evangelist bigots who will try to convert the jews when they wake up and realize the madness of what they have done.
However, if he really wants the nobel, he should arrest N tomorrow on the spot!

Posted by: Tom | Jul 1 2025 20:48 utc | 182

jeremy scahill@jeremyscahill
Israel and the Trump administration are once again pushing false narratives about Gaza ceasefire negotiations. There has been no real progress at all, according to Palestinian negotiators. Israel remains entrenched in its demand that it will continue the genocide & occupation
Hamas has repeatedly offered concessions in an effort to make a deal. It has also agreed to relinquish governance of Gaza. But Hamas has been clear from the start that it will not make an agreement that allows the continuation of the genocide or open-ended occupation by Israel.
What is happening now is that Trump and Netanyahu are playing their same game in public, making it seem like there is progress when in reality they are just engaged in their own plots and not directly negotiating with Hamas.
t’s clear from speaking to Palestinian sources involved in negotiations that with some minor language changes and written guarantees from the Trump administration (that the ceasefire will continue beyond 60 days), a deal could be signed swiftly. Israel is the only impediment.
f Trump wants to achieve the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza, he knows he can impose a deal on Netanyahu. The US is well aware of the minimum terms that will achieve that. TruthSocial posts won’t make a deal happen.
The US, via mediators, has tried to get Hamas to agree to verbal, not written, assurances from the Trump admin., that the US will restrain Israel beyond a 60 day agreement. But Trump has engaged in mass deception against both Hamas and Iran and Hamas wants all terms in writing.
This is one of the most recent descriptions from a Hamas official, Mahmoud Mardawi, on the state of play with the Gaza ceasefire. He made these comments in an interview last night:
NEW | Senior Hamas Official: Netanyahu Refuses to End the War, We Will Not Disarm Under Occupation
In a detailed interview with AJ Mubasher, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of blocking negotiations, violating previous agreements, and leading a genocidal war under U.S. protection. Mardawi laid out Hamas’s conditions for any future deal—and warned that even debating disarmament is a red line. Below are some of the main points discussed:
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▪️ Are the U.S. and Israel Resuming Negotiations?
“We’ve been hearing talk, like everyone else—statements and rumors here and there. But in reality, nothing has changed.”
Mardawi dismissed media chatter about revived diplomacy as disconnected from reality.
“The Israeli position—Netanyahu’s position specifically—hasn’t shifted. He still insists on continuing the war and has no intention of stopping it. That’s the central obstacle to any deal, now or in the past.”
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▪️ Has Hamas Received Any Concrete Proposals?
“What we’re seeing in the media appears to be talks happening between the U.S. administration and the Zionist side. But none of it has reached us in any real, practical form.“
Mardawi made clear that Hamas has not received any official offers—neither from the U.S. nor any intermediaries.
He said the group is focused on three things for any agreement—“a ceasefire, guarantees for implementation, and firm commitments.” He said those were “the basics.” And, “if those basics are met, then we can move to discuss details. But even that initial stage hasn’t started yet.”
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▪️ What Guarantees Does Hamas Demand?
Mardawi laid out the group’s core requirements for any agreement:
➤1. “The agreement must include a clear, explicit clause requiring the Zionist enemy to stop the war and withdraw. That clause must be absolutely unambiguous and not open to interpretation.”
➤2. “The agreement must be publicly backed by regional actors and by the United States, with clear terms for enforcement.”
➤3. “Implementation must happen in parallel. We won’t accept a structure where Israel gets everything it wants upfront, and our people’s demands are delayed or ignored.”
He added: “Netanyahu is being led by people like Smotrich and Ben Gvir, who openly promote the killing of Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians… They believe that if killing our people brings comfort to Israelis, it’s permissible.”
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▪️ Will Hamas Accept Disarmament or Exile as Part of a Deal?
“That’s complete fantasy. This is our land—our homeland. We will not accept a single condition, not even a single word, that compromises our sovereignty or our right to be here.”
On Israeli conditions to disarm or relocate fighters abroad, Mardawi was unequivocal: “We picked up arms not out of desire, but necessity—because the Zionist enemy violated our rights and occupied our land.”
“Our weapons are not up for negotiation. They are tied to our right. If an independent Palestinian state is established on our land, then that state will decide what to do with the weapons. But anything short of that would mean giving up our rights and our sovereignty. And I don’t believe a single Palestinian would accept that.”
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▪️ Will Hamas Make Concession Now That Iran Is Under Attack?
“Strategically, we are actually stronger today than we were before. Everything Netanyahu and his allies are claiming will soon be exposed, and we’re talking about months, not years.”
Mardawi rejected the idea that setbacks for Iran or Hezbollah full receipt had weakened Hamas. “Yes, Netanyahu can still invade, can still kill, but he cannot sustain it this time. He’s under pressure on every front. His talk of total victory is a lie, and that lie will soon unravel.”
“We are confident—absolutely confident—that the path we are on will take us to the goals we’ve set. Whether Netanyahu accepts that or not, whether Trump accepts it or not—God willing, we will achieve them.”
jeremy scahill
@jeremyscahill
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Jun 30
Netanyahu’s lead on negotiations, Ron Dermer, is meeting with Trump admin officials to discuss a potential Gaza deal. If Trump draws a line in the sand & forces Israel to accept the terms everyone knows will lead to a deal, then we could see fast movement. Short of that, nothing.
https://x.com/antloewenstein

Posted by: Menz | Jul 1 2025 21:17 utc | 184

It beggars belief that something as manifest as this requires a court ruling:
Australian ABC:
The court found passages in an interview and sermon by Mr Haddad contained critical and disparaging things about the actions of the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza and about Zionists.
However, the judge found the “ordinary, reasonable listener” would not understand those things to be about Jewish people in general.
“That person would understand that not all Jews are Zionists and that disparagement of Zionism constitutes disparagement of a philosophy or ideology and not a race or ethnic group,” Justice Stewart said.
“Also, political criticism of Israel, however inflammatory or adversarial, is not by its nature criticism of Jews in general or based on Jewish racial or ethnic identity.
“The conclusion that it is not antisemitic to criticise Israel is the corollary of the conclusion that to blame Jews for the actions of Israel is antisemitic; the one flows from the other.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-01/federal-court-sydney-wissam-haddad-lectures-social-media/105480506

Posted by: Menz | Jul 1 2025 21:24 utc | 186

Posted by: Menz | Jul 1 2025 21:17 utc | 184
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Thank you for the Scahill article, Menz!

Posted by: teri | Jul 1 2025 21:37 utc | 188

see the map/illustration at the first/second link
https://x.com/academic_la/status/1939468892960874757
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la
They are putting the survivors of the genocide into smaller and smaller spaces, with no food, clean water or medical care. But don’t compare it to concentration camps or you might hurt someone’s feelings.
https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/1939453296215007474
Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane
Two million people live in that green area—and now they’re being bombed nonstop, relentlessly, with nowhere safe to run.
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https://x.com/NormalIslandNws/status/1939800375852228974
Normal Island News @NormalIslandNws
Did you know that Bob Vylan has bombed 490 schools and 697 healthcare facilities since October 7? … Hold on, I’m hearing that was the IDF, forget I said anything x

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 1 2025 21:57 utc | 190

But Trump’s plan is also a declaration of war on the civilian population of the West.
Posted by: Giyane | Jul 1 2025 21:48 utc | 189
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Yes. The Democrats and the Republicans have no love for US Americans whatsoever. Trump just has a much more open and obvious cruelty towards others. I just read an article about how the illegal (and legal) immigrants, as well as those here legally under the temporary guest worker program, are not showing up to pick the crops because they are afraid. Farmers are reporting a loss of 70% of their farm workers. So, 70% of the crops not picked = 70% of the crop that rots in the field. Most of the crops have only a few days of precious time in which to be harvested. What this will do to prices is not hard to imagine.
Trump doesn’t care. He’s making money hand over fist while he is in office and the more peasants that die off, the more pleasant it is for him. Fewer complaints to listen to.
Now he’s talking about revoking the citizenships of naturalized citizens here. The next step is simply exile for whomever he finds too mouthy.
Everyone said that Gaza was all of us; a test run to see if we would allow it. Now we will see what that means and maybe now people will wake up.
Maybe. I don’t hold humans in very high esteem lately, and it won’t make me feel any better to be able to say, “I told you so”, when I will be going down right along with the savages, the unread, and the mouth-breathers.

Posted by: teri | Jul 1 2025 22:16 utc | 192

Posted by: Menz | Jul 1 2025 21:17 utc | 184
got a link?

Posted by: drinky crow | Jul 1 2025 22:54 utc | 194