As two years of Al-Aqsa Flood are being marked there is one important, epic voice missing – Abu Obeida.
Hamas has yet to tell us the truth about why.

Posted by: JB | Oct 7 2025 15:15 utc | 203

Dialogue Works
Mohammad Marandi: IDF WIPED OUT if Israel Attacks Iran
On the anniversary of Oct 7

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 7 2025 15:16 utc | 205

Trying again.
 
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/08/31/hamas-armed-wing-spokesperson-abu-obeida-killed-in-israeli-strike-source

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 7 2025 16:12 utc | 207

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 7 2025 0:10 utc | 160
Sorry AI is done and will start a bear mraket within 6 months -plerase read:

An AI Addendum

• October 5, 2025

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Last month, I chose to strip away all the hubris around AI and ask one simple question, one that oddly no one had really bothered to ask; how much revenue is needed to justify the current level of capex spend and give AI investors a return on their capital??
I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat. Since then, I’ve spoken with people who own datacenters, lend to datacenters, and design datacenters. I’ve spoken with people who are working to improve the cooling technology, or the customer interface. I’ve spoken with hedge fund, PE and VC investors who are fixated on the future of AI, and I’ve spoken with employees who are desperate for a liquidity event before it all collapses. In total, I’ve spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations; no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living.
This is one of those rather surreal situations where everyone senior in this ecosystem knows that the math doesn’t work, but they don’t know that everyone else also knows this. They thought that they were the foolish ones, who simply didn’t get it.
As a result, my blog post seems to have elicited a liberating realization that they weren’t alone in questioning the math—they’ve just been too shy to share their findings with their peers in the industry. I’ve elicited a gnosis, if you will. As this unveiling cascaded, and they forwarded my writings to their friends, an industry simultaneously nodded along. Personal self-doubts disappeared, and high-placed individuals reached out to share their epiphanies. “None of this makes sense!!” “We’ll never earn a return on capital!!” “We’ve been wondering the same thing as you!!”

Yet, no one outside of this insular industry seems to have had their own awakening. Investors in particular seem oddly asleep at the wheel; fixated on the rate of improvement for LLMs, and oblivious to how the economics of all this will work. 
Part of what makes writing this blog so rewarding, is the feedback I receive from those who know an industry, like datacenters, better than I ever will. I really do appreciate all critiques, and it would be intellectually dishonest if I didn’t share those critiques as they cluster into two core misinterpretations on my part.
To start with, I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which AI datacenter technology is advancing. Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical datacenters last for three to ten years, at most. Changes to cooling systems, chip and racking designs, power systems, and even overall layouts, mean that the buildings themselves are likely depreciating quite rapidly as well. Then when you consider that new GPU iterations, which seem to come out every year or two, effectively obsolete prior models, you realize that I should have been using a much faster depreciation curve across the whole capitalized structure.
However, if you speed up the depreciation curve to something in the three to five-year range, it would imply that my prior breakeven revenue number of $160 billion to justify 2025’s capex spend, is woefully inadequate. In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year. As I wasn’t educated on the intricacies of a datacenter, I wasn’t bearish enough on the economics of an AI datacenter. No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden—heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth.

Remember, the industry is spending over $30 billion a month (approximately $400 billion for 2025) and only receiving a bit more than a billion a month back in revenue. The mismatch is astonishing, and this ignores that in 2026, hundreds of billions of additional datacenters will get built, all needing additional revenue to justify their existence. Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you’d need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend. Remember again, that revenue is currently running at around $15 to $20 billion today.
The other core critique of my blog post, was assuming that anyone in this industry wanted a return on their capital. The hyperscalers have a long history of subsidizing money losing businesses, as they bring customers into their ecosystems to purchase other products—maybe AI is just another of these money losing ancillary businesses?? While it’s easy to discredit the notion of losing hundreds of billions on a side-hustle, the tech industry does have a long history of ignoring current economics and simply plowing ahead. Besides, the government may ultimately stand behind this spending for national security reasons.
Think back to the building of the transcontinental railroad. For strategic reasons, the government wanted to connect the coasts, and realized that subsidies would be needed. The government tried all sorts of tricks to accomplish their goal. There were land grants and cheap loans. Laws were ignored, and founders were allowed to siphon funds. The unity of purpose superseded all else, and the nation was better off for having accomplished the goal of completing the transcontinental railroads. It’s obvious that the government wants the US to win in AI, and maybe the government really does sit there, fully prepared to ensure that American AI dominates globally. Then again, the 1800s had multiple financial panics caused by the railroads going bankrupt. Much like AI, the economics simply didn’t justify building multiple transcontinental railroads, especially when the railroads then competed transport rates below operating costs.

Despite having 100s of historic images for inferencing, AI still chose to set the Panic of 1873 during a boomtown’s first meeting with Wyatt Earp, it also can’t count to 7. Will a few hundred billion of additional capex fix this??

I thought it was odd how many AI industry insiders brought up the railroads as a good proxy for why the AI buildout must continue, without mentioning that the railroads all went bust, multiple times, along the way—with these busts often leading to multi-year global financial panics.
I did speak with one fund who pointed to a far rosier view of the potential for AI, where the revenue ultimately grew into the capital spending. However, to get there, the revenue came from displacing highly skilled workers. If you assume that the global economy spends trillions of dollars on highly skilled employees, then AI could potentially disintermediate these individuals and capture their salaries, justifying its existence. While I see this as partly inevitable, I also recognize that it’s also years into the future. Today’s tech just cannot do what will be required of it (AI shouldn’t be dispensing medication when it can’t even count to 7). While I recognize that one day we’ll have AI doctors, AI tax returns, and AI lawyers, I don’t think that they’ll be powered on the current generation of datacenters—that will be long after today’s tranche of GPUs grows obsolete.
So, I return to my initial question; when will the pending loss on today’s AI buildout have its realization moment?? This then leads to a larger question; if the railroads failing led to global financial panics, what does that tell us about a similar outcome if AI cannot be monetized at anywhere near its cost??

Think about the railroads in the second half of the 19th century. When they failed, it wasn’t just the collapsing bonds held by investors, often pledged as collateral for other loans, that pulled down the economy. It was also the inability of the railroads to raise additional capital to order new steel and railroad ties, along with the thousands who got laid off at railroad yards and locomotive manufacturing plants. Then, there were huge multiplier effects to all of this. Railroads became dominant, not just to the financial system, but to the real economy as well. They became so important, that they would become responsible for periodic and deep economic depressions every time they experienced funding stresses.
How big is AI to our economy?? Let’s use some abstract math that is likely to be rather imprecise, yet directionally credible. From a starting point, let’s work with my $400 billion capex estimate for 2025. Now add in some unallocated corporate expense, some R&D, some spending on new electricity generation capacity, plus some other expenses, and the AI buildout likely represents approximately 1.5% of expected 2025 US GDP of approximately $30 trillion. Now, nothing economic happens in a vacuum. Every dollar spent has a multiplier downstream in other industries to support this spend. Is it irrational to expect that with a bit of a multiplier, AI capex is clocking in closer to 2% of GDP?? Which is a good chunk of total expected US economic growth this year. Actually, without the AI buildout, the US economy would probably be teetering on the cusp of a recession (which certainly mirrors the view from many of the industries that I track).
Now, the math gets a bit trickier when contemplating the Wealth Effect engendered by all of this. While much has been written on this topic, I don’t think anyone really knows how to calculate or quantify it. What we do know, is that roughly half of all spending comes from the top 10%, frequently those who have appreciating assets. While we have no idea how much of this spending is driven by those appreciating assets, anecdotally, I believe that when assets appreciate, the propensity to spend also increases. Furthermore, much of the equity appreciation this year is coming from the handful of stocks tied to the AI sector, while the real economy stocks mostly suffer. 
Would it be crazy to say that the equity side of the AI bubble is driving a 2% increase in GDP through additional consumption?? Could it be 3%?? What if it is as much as 5%?? No one really knows, and this is all highly speculative as a thought exercise, but could the 2% of GDP tied to the AI buildout be padded with a few hundred basis points of Wealth Effect spending as well?? What if the AI capital misallocation bubble is responsible for more than 100% of the economic growth today?? What if it’s budgeted (using their own public guidance) to be an even larger percentage of GDP growth in 2026??

Raising capital for a money losing business is hard. Back then, you got a free train trip. Now you get the free use of an LLM…

Railroads and AI are actually quite similar, they’re absolutely massive capital projects, with huge financial implications for investors. Much like with railroads, if the funding for AI slows, the buildout slows. If the buildout stops, the shares of the AI beneficiaries get sold off, and the Wealth Effect goes in reverse. Consumption growth goes negative, and you get a financial panic that reverberates through the entire economy in a feedback loop. Except unlike railroad tracks and locomotives, which have long useful lives, AI datacenters go obsolete almost immediately—they’re complete write-offs. The capital destruction will be massive.
Now, I’m not here saying that the AI buildout ends tomorrow or even next year. My cohort of experts was almost universal in noting that power contracts drive spending, and long lead items have been ordered for delivery dates that are years into the future. In many ways, as long as there’s enough capital that wants to invest in AI, there’s line of sight for the next few years of AI datacenter buildout, even if the numbers make no sense. It’s simply too expensive to cancel a take-or-pay contract with an electric utility. As a result, my concerns aren’t today concerns, they’re tomorrow worries. However, finance has a certain way of allowing problems to fester, before they explode into the open, a Minsky Moment if you will.
What would this look like in real time?? If you think back to the fiber-optic bubble of 2000, the warning signs were obvious. When the capex spending started to outstrip the desire of investors to fund it, the vendors started to act in irrational ways in order to hit Wall Street targets. Lucent and Nortel started lending their customers money to buy networking equipment, they took equity stakes in their customers, so that they could purchase more equipment, and they even bought capacity on their customers’ fiber-optic networks so that their customers could show revenue growth, and hit Wall Street targets. All of this was done in the hope that their customers could raise more capital to keep buying networking equipment. As you can imagine, when you’re the vendor, the customer and the investor in a company, there’s a strong incentive to artificially inflate the numbers by signing preferable contracts that use very large numbers, and then round-trip the capital. With extreme pressure to hit targets, especially as the funding cut off, it should be no surprise that this led to endemic fraud at both Lucent and Nortel, ultimately leading to their collapse.  

Knowing my financial history, and the fact that these things tend to rhyme, I’ve been somewhat mesmerized by the recent spate of announcements amongst a handful of companies that seem to be simultaneously buying, selling and investing in each other. It feels like something that I’ve seen before, especially as the numbers are absolutely massive—so massive that they cannot be meant as actual financial commitments, but rather to generate investor attention. Now, I want to be clear when I say that I have zero evidence that anything illegal is happening here. Then again, something about this does seem to rhyme. It feels like the money is starting to run out, and they’re starting to become more desperate to gin up new AI investors—hence, the reason that I’ve started to fixate on this AI topic. The numbers involved are massive, but that is irrelevant to the timing of when this implodes. Like all bubbles, it implodes when people get tired of funding it.
In summary, AI is something to keep an eye on. We have a template of prior buildouts as a roadmap, from railroads to the fiber-optic buildout in 2000, from the canal bubble of the 1830s, to the power plant bubble of the 1920s. If the economics don’t work, doing it at massive scale doesn’t make the economics work any better—it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis. Like many things in finance, the outcome remains obvious, it’s the timing that is the hard part…
DISCLOSURE: Funds that I control have a small short position on AI stocks

Posted by: canuk | Oct 7 2025 16:21 utc | 209

JB @ 210
Okay. I too will honour and hope.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 7 2025 16:27 utc | 211

@211
 
How much revenue to justify AI capex?
 
Consider how soon China takes over and makes US GPUs obsolete…..
 
That is if anyone cares to pay for parlor games that are foolable.

Posted by: paddy | Oct 7 2025 16:42 utc | 213

This is the last reaction about two years of Al Aqsa Flood that I will post because I think it is very telling.
Vanessa Beeley re-posted it from @political_aya__ (tweet bank).
Main points:
October 7 will be recorded in history as one of the most significant dates that changed not only the face of the region, but of the world—and not because the world narrative shifted, but because the true genocidal nature of global West was revealed.
 
 
Al-Aqsa Flood is not only a heroic operation because the Resistance in Gaza broke the siege imposed by the enemy, but because it stands as proof of the deep insight and understanding of the enemy that the Resistance possesses, and which the entire world chooses to overlook and submit before. October 7 was not the pretext for the genocide, which was already ongoing. It was the attestation that the Palestinian Cause is still present and cannot be forgotten; that it is not to be reduced to statements and conferences; that it is a cause of Resistance and Liberation, not one of submission, compromise, and empty slogans.
 
 
Al-Aqsa Flood was and remains a reminder that every last inch of Palestine belongs to the children of this land and its rightful owners, the Palestinian people; not to the colonizers. And no amount of time or force will change this reality; the course of time will never validate the occupation.
 
 
We are a people who believe in God, He is the One who grants victory to those who uphold His Cause, and there is no force that can change that. Al-Aqsa Flood will sweep away the occupation and every nation that collaborated with it, and the Resistance is the only means to salvation
 

Posted by: JB | Oct 7 2025 17:00 utc | 215

Two Years of The Gaza Genocide: A Crime of Zionism & Imperialism
 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/07/mmcb-o07.html
 
“Today marks two years since the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, one of the greatest crimes of the modern era. Before the eyes of the world, the Israeli government armed, financed and defended by every imperialist power – has carried out a campaign of mass murder, ethnic cleansing and deliberate starvation.
 
While carried out by Israel, the genocide has been a joint operation of world imperialism…”
 
Mahmood OD: ‘Elite Unit’ exposed.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUmyBBH9dCA
 
” Flotilla members reveal what happened| Greta & Mandela statements.”
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 7 2025 17:38 utc | 217

The Zio-Monster will pounce on this mini – Sumud very soon.
 
“Freedom Flotilla ships Thousand Madleen and Conscience are now 170 nautical miles from Gaza, expected to enter the Red Zone tomorrow amid the threat of Israeli interception”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 7 2025 18:10 utc | 219

This lot make the WWII Nazi’s look positively mediocre.
 
Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡- Israel’s Channel 14 reporter Eliya Aviv explains that Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich established a special enforcement unit to bypass courts and expedite demolitions of Palestinian land and crops in the occupied West Bank. The unit operates “without delays, without petitions — they arrive and uproot everything.”” | nitter.poast.org
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 7 2025 18:14 utc | 221

Together with an additional $9.65 to $12.07 billion spent by the Pentagon on military operations in support of Israel in Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East, the overall US investment in the Gaza conflict amounts to between $31.35 and $33.77 billion, the report stated.
 
The figure, which was based on open source data, did not include tens of billions of dollars worth of arms to be paid for and delivered in the coming years in line with deals earlier agreed between Washington and West Jerusalem, it added.
The US weapons, including combat aircraft, helicopters, missiles and bombs, “have been central to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel Police operations in Gaza, the West Bank, and beyond,” the report said.
 
rt

Posted by: Jo | Oct 7 2025 19:16 utc | 223

Chief Rabbi says British Jews ARE part of Israel – does that make British Jews complicit in genocide as well?
 
Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg): “So British Jews are part of Israel according to the Chief Rabbi?” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 7 2025 19:29 utc | 225

Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas
Hamas says it wants to make a deal and sees Trump as the key, but will not “raise the white flag.”

Jeremy Scahill

Oct 07, 2025

“There has never been in history an open war, a genocide broadcast on television like this war, a war in which starvation is used as a weapon, the killing of children is used as a weapon, and the blocking of medicine is used as a weapon. Is it possible that Trump is devoid of humanity to this extent? Is that possible?”
Amidst high-stakes talks underway in Egypt that will determine the future of the Gaza war, Mousa Abu Marzouk, an original member of Hamas who remains a senior official within the movement, is calling on President Donald Trump to block Israeli attempts to sabotage an agreement and to use his influence to bring an end to the two year genocide.
In an exclusive interview with Drop Site on Monday, Abu Marzouk said, “Stopping the war means a complete [Israeli] withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. I want Trump to fulfill his pledge and promise.” Addressing Trump, Abu Marzouk said, “Thank you for your efforts, and for your promise to stop the war and release the prisoners. We are committed to it. Just stop the war.”

 
Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas

Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 7 2025 20:54 utc | 227

Don Firineach @ 229  – good interview, very helpful thanks for posting. This one not so much…
 
 
Zohran Kwame Mamdani: My Statement (Oct 7)
 
https://x.com/NerdeenKiswani/status/1975560866557841882
 
“Zohran’s latest statement is disgraceful. It hides behind the language of morality while reinforcing the same frameworks that dehumanize Palestinians. 
 
He begins by calling October 7 a ‘horrific war-crime’, centering Israeli suffering for the starting point of history…He follows with mourning for Gaza, but only after reaffirming that Palestinian resistance must first be condemned.
 
This is what passes for ‘balance’ in liberal politics: treating a colonized people’s fight for survival as a moral failure while describing their annihilation as a humanitarian tragedy.
 
At a time when Gaza is being erased, statements like this do not show courage. They show complicity.”
 
Democrat Socialist…
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 7 2025 21:58 utc | 229

RE: Posted by: Otto Penn | Oct 7 2025 21:58 utc | 232
 
As I stated previously on a post…
The “third most holiest site” means nothing to these fake Muslims in ME.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 7 2025 22:40 utc | 231

@222 RoS

https://t.me/Sohaibpress/116579

(Not graphic)

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 7 2025 22:56 utc | 233

A longer analysis of the current negotiation at present….

“Hostages in Exchange for Withdrawal… Sharm El-Sheikh Negotiations Between a Breakthrough Opportunity and the Complexities of a Crucial Moment”

by Rami Abu Zubaydah

It appears that the negotiations in Sharm El-Sheikh are approaching a decisive moment, but it is complex and fraught with political and security pitfalls. The intersecting threads paint the following picture:

1. The core of the dispute: Hamas links the release of the Israeli hostages to a full Israeli withdrawal and international guarantees for a ceasefire, insisting that the last prisoner be exchanged for the last withdrawn soldier. This linkage raises the bar for negotiations and presents Israel with two bitter choices: either accept an equation that effectively ends the war, or return to a state of stalemate and escalation.

2. The Israeli dilemma: Tel Aviv fears being drawn into a discussion of the future of the war during what is supposed to be a humanitarian/reciprocal phase under Trump’s two-stage plan. Therefore, Netanyahu instructed his delegation not to deviate from the plan’s text and not to engage in broader political issues. Concerns center on two issues: the withdrawal maps and the lists of high-profile prisoners, such as Barghouti and Saadat, which Israel considers red lines.

3. The American-Turkish-Qatari-Egyptian presence: The entry of Witkoff and Kushner into the talks, along with Turkey’s direct involvement with intelligence weight, indicates a desire to push the negotiations toward a rapid breakthrough. The United States wants a political achievement for Trump as soon as possible, which puts pressure on all parties but also gives Hamas an opportunity to use the time factor as leverage.

4. Current dynamics:

The general atmosphere is described as cautiously optimistic; progress has been made on technical issues (the first stage, the least controversial lists).

The major obstacle awaits the arrival of high-level delegations to begin discussing the “withdrawal maps” and guarantees for a ceasefire, which are the core of the negotiating battle.

Israel is betting that American pressure may soften Hamas’s conditions, while Hamas is betting on everyone’s need for an urgent political breakthrough to toughen its own conditions.

– The current situation demonstrates that the “hostages for withdrawal” equation is at the heart of the negotiating battle, and that the arrival of the American and Turkish delegations is an indication of intense pressure to reach an agreement. However, disagreement over the core issues makes a breakthrough conditional on the mediators’ ability to formulate written guarantees and a gradual timetable that satisfies both sides. The next few days are crucial to determining whether Trump’s plan will launch a path to ending the war or falter at the first real test.

The scale and quality of participation in the Sharm el-Sheikh talks clearly reflect that what is taking place is no longer just a traditional round of negotiations, but rather an arena for crafting a major political and security settlement:

– The United States is entering with unprecedented political weight through Trump’s envoys (Wittcoff and Kushner), with direct oversight from the president himself and a private meeting with the national security team before their departure. This reveals that Washington views this moment as a historic opportunity to conclude a Gaza deal.

– Turkey is raising the level of its engagement with the dispatch of intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, an indication of Ankara’s seriousness in playing an influential role in security and humanitarian issues, particularly the ceasefire and prisoner exchange.

Egypt and Qatar have traditionally served as mediators, but they now face a new test in coordinating their roles with the Americans and the Turks.

– The international presence, with such significant security and political weight, indicates that the talks have gone beyond managing an immediate crisis to formulating post-war arrangements. This is due to the intersection of major interests related to the future of Gaza and regional security guarantees, making Sharm el-Sheikh more like an international operations room for ending the war than just a regular negotiating platform.”

Via

https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Military_Security?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 7 2025 23:05 utc | 235

A shorter analysis of current negotiation, this via hebrew reflecting more the “Israeli” view, where occupation is said to insist on complete unadjusted adherence to the US plan, with own deadline set for negotiation to end.

“Channel 14 on the Sharm el-Sheikh negotiations:

According to Channel 14’s political correspondent, Tamir Morag, no progress has yet been made in the Sharm el-Sheikh negotiations that would justify the attendance of Ron Dermer, Wootkoff, and the Qatari prime minister.

So far, Hamas has rejected the disarmament clause and is demanding a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Hamas insists on agreeing to all the terms of the proposal, after which it would be ready to release all Israeli prisoners.

The Hamas delegation is also demanding guarantees of a complete cessation of military operations, and the movement believes the continued Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is making it difficult to reach an agreement” Via Sohaib Masalmeh

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 7 2025 23:12 utc | 237

The significance of a red heifer is not its colour,  but that isn’t White like the Hindu totem Cow worship. One day soon the Jews will realise that they just wiped out their own family,  their Monotheistic cousins,  heirs to Ishmaeel and Ibraheem.
 
They did it to show off to their Christian Crusader persecutors that they too can manufacture great, world-changing events, and not sit around submitting their wills to the Will of God like nuns.
 Nazism was the closest thing  they couuld get to  European brutal colonialism.
They want  Trump to mark tbeir homework and give  them a prize for effort.

Posted by: Giyane | Oct 7 2025 23:20 utc | 239

see the video at the second link 
 
see the photo at the third link
 
 
https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1975400689552458002   
Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW
 
On this day, Palestine restored its right to self-defence after 80 years of oppression and genocide by smashing the US-UK empire’s myth and obliterating Israel’s full military capacity in Southern Occupied Palestine. 
 
Then, the world has funded the Holocaust of our time.
 
————-
 
https://x.com/Issaamro/status/1975584547166150944
Issa Amro عيسى عمرو 🇵🇸  @Issaamro   
 
Happening now: After the army raided my house, it’s now the settlers’ turn. Israeli settlers are throwing stones at my home and have tried to break in. There is no protection at all. I called the Israeli police , they can’t come was the answer.Mohammad who was arrested from my house few hours ago, the army ambulance took him to unknown place, it seems he was shot or severely beaten.
 
—————-
 
https://x.com/doctor_rahmeh/status/1975484031841308841   
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan  @doctor_rahmeh 
 
Glory to the breaking of the 17 year long illegal siege.
Glory to the Palestinian resistance.
Glory to our martyrs. 
 
Al-Aqsa flood. Palestine. 
Gaza💚🇵🇸
 
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 7 2025 23:22 utc | 241

Journalist Youssef Fares

“Gaza City talk dissolves in a sea of ​​news of negotiations, deals, optimism and pessimism . The occupation army is re-enacting famine , after closing all roads to the entry of aid and commercial goods . The remaining flour and canned goods in the city are almost depleted. In the face of the scarcity of goods, the price of a sack of flour has risen to 250 shekels , while people’s pockets are empty. The most dangerous thing is the water outage and scarcity of drinking water . Our people in the city are living a battle for survival that requires attention and solidarity . More than 300,000 are besieged in a narrow pocket , bombarded by aircraft and artillery morning and evening , and the crime of starvation and deliberate thirst is being practiced against them.

Journalist Yousef Fares
Occupied Palestine – Gaza Strip”

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 8 2025 1:17 utc | 243

see the 1:47 video at the first/second link.
 
 
https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1975517807782609033
George Galloway  @georgegalloway 
 
For no reason at all…
 
https://x.com/HatsOffff/status/1975511681317904863
HatsOff @HatsOffff 
 
Netanyahu insists everyone hates Israel “for no reason.”
 
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 8 2025 1:29 utc | 245

‘Zohran’s latest statement is disgraceful. It hides behind the language of morality while reinforcing the same frameworks that dehumanize Palestinians.’
 
Kshama Sawant was calling him out for not having gotten anything done in his earlier political career despite having majorities to work with and she was basically very very skeptical of him overall…but, one thing she did say, in fact she began with it in a couple different interviews: she said that this at least shows that the Zionist line can be run against even in NYC.
 
And here we are.
 
Mamdani is a fraud , he always has been a fraud, and I won’t be wasting any of my precious time checking in on his likeness and image campaign.
 
Just one more example of the dead-end politics in the US.
 
—
 
Will Zohran Mamdani Empower or Betray the Working Class? (w/ Kshama Sawant)
 
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/will-zohran-mamdani-empower-or-betray
 
And from a week earlier, with Briana desperately trying to play devil’s advocate:
 
Is Zohran Mamdani “Good for the Left”?
Socialist Congressional Candidate Kshama Sawant on #DemExit
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2n03IhZkiE
 
Zohran Mamdani woos Wall Street
 
In a matter of weeks, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidate for New York City mayor, has undergone a rapid transformation. After declaring that billionaires should not exist, he is now leading a charm offensive, initiating meetings this week with the gang of financial speculators, real estate swindlers, and corporate chiefs who dictate economic conditions in the center of American capitalism.
 
Mamdani’s efforts to court New York City’s business elite were paired with overtures to the Democratic Party establishment, including what he described as a “constructive meeting” Friday with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. These are the very forces responsible for deepening social inequality and the cost-of-living crisis—conditions Mamdani campaigned against as a vocal critic. His primary victory last month reflected widespread anger toward the Democratic Party apparatus and the oligarchy it serves. But Mamdani’s inevitable evolution since securing the nomination, including his concessions this week, is an unmistakable indication that he ultimately serves the same class interests.
 
On Tuesday, Mamdani met with over 100 representatives of big business in the offices of Tishman Speyer, the Manhattan-based real estate conglomerate.
 
The location was not publicly disclosed ahead of time for fear of triggering protests.
 
Attendees included executives from Uber, Pfizer, Hearst Corp., Related Cos. and Loews, among many others.
 
Mamdani chose this meeting to offer an olive branch to his genocide-supporting critics, backtracking on his previous refusal to disavow the slogan “globalize the Intifada.” Mamdani will now discourage the use of that term, he said at the meeting on Tuesday.’
 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/idfm-j19.html
 
 

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Oct 8 2025 5:14 utc | 247

“This is the last reaction about two years of Al Aqsa Flood that I will post because I think it is very telling.Vanessa Beeley…”Posted by: JB | Oct 7 2025 17:00 utc | 217
 
Please post all you like.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Oct 8 2025 7:13 utc | 249

@249 Dan Kelly
I am not surprised that Mamdani has caved.  Threats to his family members no doubt.
I am glad that he turned so quickly and so publicly.  Of course, the right can still punch away at him if they want to.  Not sure why they would WANT to, but hey whatever.
He is now just another nothing.
 
 
 

Posted by: Woke American | Oct 8 2025 9:34 utc | 251

Ornot 239
 
Muslim Brotherhood , Turkey and Qatar , is a 100 year old , British-made, old-fashioned , Leftie  confederacy which has now been replaced with a USIS sizzling hot , IslamoFascist HTS.
These HTS IslamoFascists have shared the London Nest of  Spies with the zJewish ZioFascists since the collaboration of Kurdish Islamists with USUKIS in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The first step in the building of Greater Israel.
 
HTS IslamoFascists regard Palestinians and the wider Shi’a  Axis of  Resistance as outside the body of Islam, as defined by the Takfiri doctrines of Osama bin Laden.
This is as if Britain and the US in WW2 had openly accepted Hitler’s German Supremacism as the way forward, which is what they thought in private. In reality ,  the only thing Britain and America disgreed with Hitler about was his Germanness.
 
So here are,  ZioFascist USUKIS has now found its perfect partner in IslamoFascist HTS . Open season for genocide almost everything, not just humans, but human structures, social structures, even human Faith. 
The only Faith that will be allowed to exist under ZioIslamoFa [ scism ] is Faith in Satan, Kabbalistic Judaism.  
I have always been sincerely advised by my Muslm brothers not to mess with the ZioIslamoFa [scists].  Why ? Because their ZioIslamoFa [scist] Faith is horsepiss.

Posted by: Giyane | Oct 8 2025 10:32 utc | 253

I’m glad that Hamas is standing fast regarding keeping weapons and all Izzies out of Gaza.   If Witkoff and Kushner are involved in “negotiations” they are not at all to be trusted which is not news to barflies.   Check this if you haven’t seen it. https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-dirty-work-blackrock/5901866
 
Note that there is to be a Trump Hotel.  Also note that perfidious India is a founding member of this Plan For Plunder.  Sickening.   
 
To the good: HUGE global demonstrations for Palestine freedom.   To the bad.  I still don’t understand why anyone would dignify the pillage with the word “settlers.”  They are NOT settlers.  They are murderous thugs squatting on stolen land.    More truthiness please.   

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Oct 8 2025 12:37 utc | 255

It’s clear now:
 
The next attack on Iran will be nuclear.
 
No other weapons of the Anglo Zionist Empire will work:
 
Their navies are useless in the Gulf.
 
Their armies cannot invade and hold Iran.
 
Their spies cannot infiltrate and sabotage from within.
 
Their missile forces are not superior to Iran’s, neither are their drone forces.
 
Sanctions and embargoes aren’t working.
 
They know that allowing Iran a retaliatory strike will mean the end of the israelis.
 
All that remains is the nuclear option.
 
So they will engineer a pretext for nuclear war.
 
That’s what Gaza is about: they sought to numb the world to mass murder committed without morality live on television.
 
They calculated that If they normalize genocide, they could soon normalize a nuclear Holocaust.
 
Only the White Man is capable of this kind of thinking.
 
No other species of human would tolerate it.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 8 2025 13:24 utc | 257

Mahmood OD: ‘Iran Israel War 2’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
 
“Signs prove it’s more likely than not. Full broadcast.”
 
 
The Grayzone Live: ‘Food Rising’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XXqCXlwX8
 
Two years of USraeli war in context. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate analyze and discuss.
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 8 2025 13:58 utc | 259

All neutral parties now report that 80% of all housing structures in Gaza have been destroyed by the IDF war criminals via their airstrikes and tank fire.
The Gaza protectoriate now resembles Berlin in April ’45, a picture of complete devastation, thus no families can exist reasonably in the ruins of most urban areas.  Families are attempting to make a living in partially destroyed apartment houses or homes or are now vagabonds on the main coastal highway eaking out a living along the beach in tent cities.
Remember that the IDF has closed the Gaza seaport for over 25 years, and the same with the Gaza airport, necessitating all goods pass through IDF road block check points.  The IDF by orders from Gvir and Smotrich and Katz deliberately interrupts food shipments, leading to mass starvation.  Gaza needs a minimum floor of 500 food trucks per day, and that number has never been allowed by the IDF.
International food workers and food aid stations have been continuously bombed by the IDF.  Hospitals and aid stations continue to come under attack.  Last week a fresh water distribution point was struck by drones killing innocent civilians by the dozen.  More concrete evidence of war crimes from the chosen ones……..
The IDF has thus committed unspeakable war crimes……….

Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 8 2025 14:55 utc | 261

R2R: Fierce Resistance in Gaza as Negotiations in Egypt Continue
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNLBIxi_7Vw
 
“In this episode, Dimitri Lascaris reveals key developments in Gaza over the past 48 hours.” Also critiques Canadian government positions and latest illegal  Zionist ‘interception’ of Sumud Flotilla humanitarians in international waters.
 
 
RF: Two Years of Genocide
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsSc3yRY_OQ
 
“With Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 8 2025 15:18 utc | 263

TRT: Emergency Medicine Specialist Dr Mads Gilbert
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P79fEnl_rGw
 
“Gaza faces genocide and ethnic cleansing.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 8 2025 15:57 utc | 265

Some nice news:
 

Berkeley, USA (QNN)- Palestinian refugee in Jordan, chemist Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). He shares the award with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University. […]
 
https://qudsnen.co/palestinian-scientist-omar-yaghi-wins-2025-nobel-in-chemistry/
 

Posted by: teri | Oct 8 2025 16:10 utc | 267

see the 1:23 video at the first link
see the 46-second video at the second link
 
 
https://x.com/GeneralMCNews/status/1975735258898440469
The General @GeneralMCNews 
 
BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters are attempting to storm BlackRock headquarters in New York City.
 
—————
 
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1975878263886287008
ADAM  @AdameMedia 
 
🚨 Ben-Gvir leads group of Israelis to TAKE OVER Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, the third holiest place of worship for Muslims worldwide.
 
lsraeI is a mad dog. The world is not safe while it exists in its current form.
 
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 8 2025 17:25 utc | 269

Ornot, thank you for those links. I’ll post them again here in the interest of further exposure:

Adeyinka Makinde’s 2017 article entitled ‘Israel and Islamist Militias: A Strange and Recurring Alliance’

http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2017/04/israel-and-islamist-militias-strange.html

And Menachim Begin’speech at the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism in July 1979 about which Adeyinka Makinde wrote:

‘The connection between Israel and Islamist militias is one which has continued through to the era of the so-called ‘war on terror’.

The ‘war on terror’ is itself an Israeli construct with origins in the ideas promoted by the Jonathan Institute, a body founded in 1976 and run by members of the Netanyahu family.

The Jerusalem Conference of 1979 which was held under the auspices of the institute and with the full support of the then incumbent Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, sought to fundamentally change perceptions of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Netanyahu also wrote a series of books alongside the papers published by the institute which put forward the idea that acts of terror directed at Israel were based not on the precept of a legitimate struggle by a people dispossessed of their land and denied the right to self determination, but instead was predicated on a clash of values:

the values of the Western world as supposedly represented by ‘democratic’ Israel and values antithetical to the West as represented by Arab ‘authoritarianism’ and ‘fanaticism’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=HEMnfj-8VDk

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Oct 8 2025 18:08 utc | 271

Woke American 253,

I’m thinking something is in play whereby the billionaires and their corps will up wages a tiny bit so long as everything else remains status quo. Everything else will go by the wayside including other ‘left’ policies he has talked about like health care.

Mamdini isn’t going to fight for anything particularly substantive nor for true structural changes. He never has even when he and ‘left’ allies were in power together. This is the point Kshama Sawant was articulating really well.

Could he be ‘pushed’ into reforms once in office? We’d like to think so but again his track record is awful and now his complete capitulation to the Zionist agenda – which is what he is doing by using Zionist language to describe Hamas and frankly just being pitiful and awful now when it comes to Palestine.

I mean, my god, what is Zohran Mamdini doing here?

Is he himself even aware of the reality on the ground in Palestine and further even if he doesn’t really care himself – pure politician that he is – does he not realize that a massive voting demographic is in fact aware and wants nothing to do with Zionist barbarity?

Is Mamdini simply playing their game simply to get into office but once in power he will really speak out against ‘Israel’ and recognize legitimate resistance, etc?

I do not believe so at all.

In the whole grand scheme of things is Mamdini better than Cuomo?

Here we are again.

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Oct 8 2025 18:32 utc | 273

But, as I am on the junction, I meet so many…
While waiting to harm the zio idiots.
This year, this summer the no. of the american POS have decreased significantly in my naighborhood, they did not come.
Japanese, mostly ugly and impolite. women unattractive, rude. Traveling in hordes, honestly ugly people. They did come. ugly.
Chinese, sweet and delicate, women pretty, well behaved..

Posted by: stranger | Oct 8 2025 19:14 utc | 275

Actually, thank you all, from you and Arch, Ornot. Michael, and of course b.
I respect you. Thank you for calling me brother, ehhhh.
Now, I will rest a little, make a sandwich and go out again from 11 pm here, to hunt the bastards. I know where they are, and it seems they are drinking every night heavily, great for my little revenge.
For Palestine. for the kids.
REVENGE!!!!

Posted by: stranger | Oct 8 2025 20:01 utc | 277

see the first link: one of the greatest war crimes and crimes against humanity in living memory
 
 
https://x.com/DMichaelTripi/status/1976001739951075770
Dominic Michael Tripi  @DMichaelTripi 
 
NEW: Nearly 85% of buildings in Gaza have been destroyed by Israel according to Times of Israel.
 
 
———–
 
MenchOsint  @MenchOsint 
 
$33 billion and Hamas & other Palestinian factions, Hezbollah & Ansarallah is still here, Iran still has enriched uranium, Syria is still a nest of ISIS terrorists, & America has become even more unpopular. 
 
But i guess billionaires became even richer ..
 
 
https://x.com/Villgecrazylady/status/1975996350253691303
 
Mel  @Villgecrazylady 
A new report from Brown University finds that America has spent $33 billion on Israel in the last 2 years. 
That’s $45 million dollars EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. 
That’s $4.85/day for every citizen of Israel.
The American taxpayers have sent EVERY citizen in Israel a $144 check, every month, for 24 months straight.
A family of 4 in Israel is receiving $577/month in subsidies, courtesy of the American taxpayer, for 2 years now.
Israelis still have free healthcare and free college and subsidized childcare. They haven’t reduced any of their social welfare programs.
Meanwhile Americans are literally paying for groceries with their credit cards. Same as they have been for almost 3 years.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 8 2025 21:20 utc | 279

MOATS, with George Galloway: ‘Two Years On’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgeGallowayOfficial
 
“Showdown in Sharm el-Sheikh| Gaza Summit talks| Flotilla reflections.”
 
With Tadiq Hickey & Chris Hedges.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 8 2025 22:17 utc | 281

You might find it relevant to your work in progress to watch this—the whole thing, but in particular starting at ca. 16:00:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKHbsvYs5bk
 
Posted by: Jane | Oct 7 2025 13:51 utc | 201
 
Thanks. Ongoing research.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 8 2025 22:46 utc | 283

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/new-yorker-sex-claims-karim-khan-derailed-ICC-israel-probe
more info on the sordid campaign to prevent accountability at the UN court.

Posted by: jayc | Oct 8 2025 23:03 utc | 285

 
https://x.com/RoyalIntel_/status/1976049426792841609
👑 Royal Intel  @RoyalIntel_
🚨BREAKING: 
 
Palestinian source: 
 
The sticking points in the Sharm El-Sheikh negotiations regarding Gaza have been resolved, and Trump will announce the agreement soon.   
 
Opening 5 crossings for the immediate entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
 
———
 
 
https://x.com/Bushra1Shaikh/status/1973876391872770224   
Bushra Shaikh  @Bushra1Shaikh 
 
Israel hasn’t even paused killing during Yom Kippur. 
How are you observing a holy ‘day of Atonement’ while slaughtering and starving human beings.
 
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 8 2025 23:21 utc | 287

Thanks michaelj72 – thinking of the fable of the scorpion and the frog…

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 8 2025 23:36 utc | 289

@290 michaelj

“The deal is guaranteed by the U.S., Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey, ensuring that attacks will not resume as long as both parties adhere to its terms.”

…and the terms are that the deal lasts until one party resumes its attacks … /

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 8 2025 23:45 utc | 291

Journalist Youssef Fares

“In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Press Release

• After responsible and serious negotiations between the movement and the Palestinian resistance factions regarding President Trump’s proposal in Sharm el-Sheikh, with the aim of reaching an end to the war of extermination against our Palestinian people and the occupation’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announces the reaching of an agreement stipulating the end of the war on Gaza, the occupation’s withdrawal from it, the entry of aid, and the exchange of prisoners.

• We highly appreciate the efforts of our mediating brothers in Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey. We also value the efforts of US President Donald Trump seeking to permanently stop the war and the occupation’s complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

• We call on President Trump, the guarantor states of the agreement, and various Arab, Islamic, and international parties to oblige the occupation government to fully implement the agreement’s requirements and not allow it to evade or procrastinate in implementing what was agreed upon.

• We salute our great people in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem and the West Bank, inside and outside the homeland, who have recorded positions of unparalleled pride, heroism, and honor, and confronted the fascist occupation’s projects that targeted them and their national rights. These great sacrifices and stances thwarted the Israeli occupation’s plans for subjugation and displacement.

We affirm that the sacrifices of our people will not be in vain, and that we will remain faithful to the covenant and will not abandon our people’s national rights until freedom, independence, and self-determination.

Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Thursday: 17 Rabi’ al-Thani 1447 AH
corresponding to: October 9, 2025 AD”

I hope they will publish the text of the agreement, or partial agreement if points are still to be resolved.

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 8 2025 23:57 utc | 293

Sohaib Masalmeh Channel

“Israel Hayom:

– Diplomatic sources: Both sides made concessions during the negotiations.

– Israel agreed to certain changes to the yellow withdrawal line.

– Living prisoners will be released on Sunday, along with a large number of bodies. The remaining remains will be handed over the following week.

– Hamas received assurances from mediators that the ceasefire will continue as long as both sides adhere to the terms of the Trump plan, prohibiting any hostile actions of any kind.

– Humanitarian aid will enter immediately through five crossings, including the Rafah crossing.

– Negotiations on arrangements to end the war and the second phase will begin with the end of the Jewish holidays.”

[Second phase and end of conflict still to be negotiated….]

Sohaib Masalmeh Channel

“Netanyahu:

I will convene a cabinet meeting today, Thursday, to ratify the agreement…”

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 9 2025 0:03 utc | 295

Celebrations in Gaza

https://t.me/youseffares19/90105

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 9 2025 0:07 utc | 297

AJ Liveblog: BREAKING
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/09/live-israel-hamas-agree-on-first-phase-of-gaza-ceasefire-deal
 
“Israel, Hamas agree on ‘first phase’ of Gaza ceasefire deal. Here’s what you need to know…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 9 2025 0:27 utc | 299