Mahmood OD: ‘The Drone War Has Begun’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
 
“US army shoots 2 Iranian drones| IRGC: ‘Intel received’| Impossible Israeli demands|”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 4 2026 18:33 utc | 3

BT News: Navid Zarrinnal
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLc-pnNAef8
 
“The United States is mobilizing for a new war on Iran – repositioning military forces, floating assassination threats, and insisting on negotiations at the same time. 
 
To cut through the noise, Rania Khalek is joined by Navid Zarrinnal, an Iranian-American academic and host of The Colony Archive, speaking from inside Tehran. Navid breaks down what’s actually happening on the ground…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 4 2026 19:41 utc | 5

This

https://www.newser.com/story/383150/iranian-media-says-us-talks-will-be-moved-to-oman.html

Then the following

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/523459/US-poised-to-return-to-the-negotiating-table-it-bombed-in-June

With no clear acknowledgement from US so far, and labelled as ‘indirect talks’…

Posted by: Ornot | Feb 4 2026 20:27 utc | 7

… ‘US officials’: The US will attend to listen to what Iran has to say.

Posted by: Ornot | Feb 4 2026 20:54 utc | 9

Israel: the institutionalization of the values of Epstein’s pals, aka the Western ruling class. 

Posted by: duck n cover | Feb 4 2026 21:03 utc | 11

Ornot @ 12: 
 
“Which unfortunately would imply the US is intent on conflict.”
 
Yes.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 4 2026 21:38 utc | 13

Well of course the Iranians have serious internal problems! Put an urbanised and sophisticated society, mainly in the big cities, in with what is still, more or less, a large population that isn’t urbanised and sophisticated and you get fault lines. There are other deep fault lines. Sunni versus Shia in the Balochi areas, for instance, means the minority Shia in those areas virtually need police protection if they are to live and worship safely. It’s a tinderbox. So too in other outlying regions.
 
On top of that there’s MEK, plus Iranian exiles from the Shah’s time still nursing old grievances and with more influence in Washington than is realistic, plus agitators and takfiris sent in to deliberately destabilise the place, and it’s a wonder Iran isn’t in more trouble than we see at the moment.
 
So why is the article not pointing out that the sanctions are making the position even more difficult? Those sanctions are deliberately designed to cause poverty and disaffection in the hope that the masses will rise up against the government. The Bazaaris, to take one example, aren’t protesting because they’re the manifestation of a a class war. They’re protesting because business is difficult as a result of Western sanctions and currency manipulation.
 
I think the Iranians will pull through because they’ve seen what we’ve done to Syria and none of them, rich or poor, urban or countryside, want that to happen to them. But for Western intellectuals, however well-intentioned, to try to cram the problems there into some simplistic model of class war is to ignore that fact that this is a country we in the West are trying to destroy and that we are prepared to use all means available to us to accomplish that aim.
 
The Canadians, a world away and sealed off in their own little enclave, are particularly prone to the head in the clouds thinking exemplified in the article. Take Ukraine. One of the facts there that sticks out a mile is that we have deliberately empowered the more extreme elements in the country. Do I ever see reference to that fact in this publication? Do I ever see reference to the fact that the Canadians are the most enthusiastic supporters by far of those extreme elements?
 
Come down out of the clouds and stop glossing over what the Canadians are supporting and why. Here’s a feet on the ground examination from an experienced English diplomat looking at the reasons for that support, reasons that it seems in Canada most resolutely ignore:-
 
“Covering up Ukrainian Nazis is nothing new
 
The Canadians have been doing it for almost 80 years”
 
https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/covering-up-ukrainian-nazis-is-nothing
So too with Iran. Look beyond the enclave. Let the Canadians cease helping with attempts to wreck the lives of ninety million and more people first. Then and only then, maybe, continue with these vain attempts to fit Western theory to Iranian reality.
 
……………………………
 
A protest submitted to a Canadian publication but with a wider application.  All have their theories about what lies behind current events.  I’m as given to that as anyone else.  But as we speculate and theorise and seek out the deep roots of the mayhem, we distance ourselves from the sheer barbarity of what we are seeing.  90 million people and the Western powers will consider wrecking their lives as if they were merely figures on a video screen.
 
I see it in particular in the English blogs and media, the German, what I see of it there, and much of the American scene.  This lordly indifference to the suffering we inflict on those outside the Garden, as if they were mere geopolitical counters, pawns on the Grand Chessboard we alone are entitled to play  on, and those pawns not really people of flesh and blood.  Not real people like us.  Just numbers.

Posted by: English Outsider | Feb 4 2026 22:28 utc | 15

@English Outsider | Feb 4 2026 22:28 utc | 15
 
Sounds like the Victorian imperialist writers reloaded.
 
‘The rest of humanity  are mere barbarians to be crushed, colonized and … er .. ‘civilized’.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Feb 5 2026 0:02 utc | 17

see the photo at the third/last link 
 
 
 
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2019119855136567768
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai   
 
Breaking News: The US-Iran meeting seems to have been cancelled. Israel calls for a security meeting and Iran called for an emergency meeting to all its military and security leadership. 
 
 
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2019122508717519332
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai   
 
BreakingNews: Iranian decision maker:   
 
The problem is not about the location of the meeting in Turkey or Oman. The Americans insists on including the missile program and the relationship with the allies. These are impossible demands to meet. 
 
———–——-
 
https://x.com/dn_osama_rabee/status/2019109935938957713
Osama Abu Rabee أسامة أبوربيع @dn_osama_rabee   
 
1,520 violations committed by the occupation since the ceasefire agreement, resulting in 556 martyrs and more than 1,500 wounded.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 5 2026 0:50 utc | 19

Israeli Drone Kills Female Doctor in Gaza
 

Gaza Herald – The wife of Dr. Ahmad Al-Rubaie, head of the Pulmonary Department at Al-Shifa Hospital, was killed on Tuesday after an Israeli quadcopter drone opened fire near Al-Shawa Square in Al-Tuffah neighborhood of northeastern Gaza City, according to local medical sources.

The victim was shot in the head and killed at the scene. Sources clarified that she was not a physician but was actively engaged in humanitarian medical assistance amid the ongoing crisis in Gaza.

The incident underscores persistent Israeli drone operations across the Strip, as Palestinian health officials warn that civilians and families of medical professionals continue to be directly targeted despite declared ceasefire frameworks.

 
https://gazaherald.com/2026/02/03/wife/
 

Posted by: Menz | Feb 5 2026 1:23 utc | 21

Just a few hours ago. The plot thickens. Iran, don’t let your guard down for even a minute, you are dealing with the USA/israel, two of the world’s most venomous snakes
 
see the second link. View any info from this guy at Axios, Barak Ravid, with extreme skepticism and disbelief; he’s a major dis-information expert for israel, and a Mossad agent, as far as I am concerned
 
 
 
https://x.com/araghchi/status/2019135910881947914
Seyed Abbas Araghchi  @araghchi 
 
Nuclear talks with the United States are scheduled to be held in Muscat on about 10 am Friday. 
 
I’m grateful to our Omani brothers for making all necessary arrangements.
 
————–
 
https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/2019136600039432314
Barak Ravid  @BarakRavid 
 
🚨🚨Plans for U.S.-Iran nuclear talks in Oman on Friday are back on, after several Arab and Muslim leaders urgently lobbied the Trump administration on Wednesday afternoon not to follow through on threats to walk away, two U.S. officials told me 
 
🚨🚨”They asked us to keep the meeting and listen to what the Iranians have to say. We have told the Arabs that we will do the meeting if they insist. But we are very skeptical”, one U.S. official said 
 
🚨🚨The officials said at least nine countries from the region passed on messages to the most senior levels of the Trump on a very high-level strongly asking that the U.S. doesn’t cancel the meeting with the Iranians in Oman
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 5 2026 1:27 utc | 23

see the photo at the first/second link. We don’t hate and oppose zionism and israel enough; along with their ardent supporters and suppliers the USA, the UK, Italy, Germany and the other EU/Nato neo-colonial powers
 
 
 
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/2017920268115534264
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt  @FranceskAlbs 
 
Who believed that “if they only released the hostages”? Who believed in the ceasefire?   
 
After killing 500+ people in about 3 months, Israel- armed and supported by the US – continues its genocide in Gaza undisturbed. 
 
Don’t let it become the new normal. Stand up against genocide!
 
 
https://x.com/gazanotice/status/2017541713363963922
Gaza Notifications  @gazanotice
 
🚨BREAKING: The Gaza Strip is currently witnessing heavy and intermittent Israeli airstrikes across multiple areas.
 
—————–
 
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hrw-staff-resign-over-report-on-palestinian-right-of-return
HRW staff resign over report on Palestinian right of return 
Two HRW researchers resigned after a report calling “Israel’s” denial of the Palestinian right of return a crime against humanity was blocked by leadership.   
 
Two Human Rights Watch (HRW) employees who led the organization’s work on “Israel” and Palestine have resigned after HRW leadership blocked a report that characterized “Israel’s” denial of the Palestinian right of return as a crime against humanity. 
 
Omar Shakir, who directed the team for nearly a decade, and Milena Ansari, an assistant researcher, submitted separate resignation letters, obtained by Jewish Currents and The Guardian, criticizing the decision to halt the report’s publication. The report, they said, had undergone extensive review and clearance by eight departments, but was ultimately pulled outside HRW’s typical approval process due to fears of political backlash…… 
 
……“The one topic,” he said, “even at Human Rights Watch, for which there remains an unwillingness to apply the law and the facts in a principled way, is the plight of refugees and their right to return to the homes that they were forced to flee.”……
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 5 2026 2:01 utc | 25

 I’ve been watching Steptoe and Son , live from the HoC , without a TV Licence. (Not)
Diversion comedy from WW3. 
If Starmer didn’t check out Mandelson, I don’t think the UK ICE will be checking me.

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 5 2026 4:18 utc | 27

see the 48-second video at the first link
 
see the photos at the second/third link
 
 
 
https://x.com/AsaWinstanley/status/2019124256278552973
Asa Winstanley  @AsaWinstanley 
 
Breaking: Five out of the six Palestine Action activists who were acquitted earlier today have tonight been released on bail. Sam Corner still on remand for now: CPS asked for more time to decide on a retrial on the extra charge.
 
————–
 
https://x.com/MosabAbuToha/status/2019059721207005652
Mosab Abu Toha  @MosabAbuToha 
 
The Israeli terrorists killed the paramedic today. 
 
Look at his face. Look at the gloves still on.
 
 
https://x.com/MosabAbuToha/status/2019022016532127846
Mosab Abu Toha  @MosabAbuToha 
 
Israel bombed a tent in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, killing two sisters. When first responders rushed to help, the area was struck again, killing one of them at the scene. 
 
The children were Rahaf Rami Abu Jamee and Rimas Rami Abu Jamee. 
 
The first responders killed was Hussein al-Smairy.
 
——————
 
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2019199923829211447
☀️👀  @zei_squirrel
 
…..there is one thing Trump and the US do not want and are afraid of, and that is an all-out regional war, as Khamenei has said will happen if they do even a symbolic strike. This is the only reason they have not yet started the war. They’re trying to do another Venezuela, a quick hit and then a resolution with the remaining co-opted corrupt “reformist” leadership, who they are definitely already in contact with and have been for a long time. So they have to make sure they take out Khamenei and anyone else who will ensure Iran’s sovereignty as a state and nation before they proceed. 
 
Of course Iran is fully justified to preemptively strike the US and Israel given that it is openly threatened with war and destruction not only rhetorically, but materially with the military buildup in preparation for it. Just hit a few oil facilities in Saudi and UAE and Qatar and say “oops that was a stray rocket from a small militant group, we don’t really know what happened there, anyway more of this will happen if you continue to threaten to destroy our nation.”
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 5 2026 4:42 utc | 29

28
 
HRW, sorry, not HRC. 
 
I also apologise for joking highly inappropriately on this  amazing,  serious , unique thread , about the farce of British politics,  where the Telegraph commented that Starmer’s hand was shaking  while condemning Mandelson for consorting with Epstein . 
‘Bwah, he lied to me. ‘
Sir, for two and a half years you personally have been complicitly and complacently genociding and torturing innocents in West Asia., 
 
Now,  when your own collar gets felt,
Now you feel some pangs of self pity? Sickening.
 
 

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 5 2026 5:03 utc | 31

see the 17-second video at the first/second link. An unbelievable and wicked act of state-terrorism that only israel/USA/UK can get away with
 
see the 39-second videos at the third link
 
 
 
https://x.com/shaunking/status/2018530953300234600
Shaun King @shaunking
 
If someone dared to destroy a water source of Jews or Israelis ANYWHERE in the world they would be condemned publicly by every news station in the world. 
 
Then put on terrorism lists.
And sanctioned. 
 
Israelis do it to Palestinians and it doesn’t even make the news.
 
 
https://x.com/ytirawi/status/2018400223677030612
Younis Tirawi | يونس  @ytirawi
 
Rafah |   Israeli troops blew up the Morag Water Station today, which according to Gaza’s water utility supplied water to roughly one-third of Rafah’s residents prior to the war. 
 
Soldiers captioned it : 
“We specialize in paint jobs, and small renovations. Details on DM”
 
—————-
 
https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/2019188200137212052
Ihab Hassan  @IhabHassane 
 
CCTV footage captures the moment Israeli settlers attacked the Christian village of Taybeh, invading private properties, setting vehicles on fire, and spraying hateful graffiti on homes and walls.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 5 2026 7:32 utc | 33

Am I the only one who remembers that covid was  commissioned by the Defence Dept in a lab in Wuhan,  and shortly afterwards transmitted by a visiting party of US to Wuhan to there’s of the population in November 2019?
 
The US and Chinese militaries were working  or training together at that time.  The Chinese military is deeply connected to Chinese industry, and the US Democrats were also deeply involved in Chinese product  development  and manufacturing.
 
 
President Putin is a Zionist and President Xi is a liberal win-win. So the reality of the Iranian alliances with Russia and China is at best cosmetic, and at worst able to compromise Iran’s defences and nuclear industry.
 
This, I believe, is why Trump thinks he has leverage over Iran, because of the deep ties between Russian and Chinese tech and trade with Iran.  Trump know things that can hurt Iran through military connections.
 
So, yes, Trump will attack Iran, during negotiations like last time. Iran will attack US assets and those of its traitorous Gulfie chihuahuas and Israeli targets.
The US will also do regime change.
President Paedo Cunt will try it .
The only thing that might stop him is the possibility of Iran striking Israel’s nuclear weapons. Which Russia and China will work with the US to prevent from happening.
 
Israel’s “undeniable right to defend itself” is manifestly something which both China and Russia’s militaries  are highly invested in.

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 5 2026 11:11 utc | 35

… ‘US officials’: The US will attend to listen to what Iran has to say.
 
Posted by: Ornot | Feb 4 2026 20:54 utc | 9

 
Ha! That would be a first. History teaches that if they attend at all (as opposed to waiting for the Iranians to arrive, then blasting them to. bits), it will be to deliver the usual ultimatums. 

Posted by: malenkov | Feb 5 2026 13:38 utc | 37

USUKIS  has a stranglehold on the Shi’a Axis of Resistance through Saud Prince Bandar’s  [Mountbatten Windsor] Takfiri Islam.
 
When Kurdish Saladdin defeated Jerusalem he followed the sunnah of our prophet saw and spared the lives of most of the inhabitants by ransom,  killing only the recidivist,  Crusading clans.
 
Bandar [Mountbatten Windor] (shared the same Epstein  teenage whores as him) plans to use the US and its Takfiri mercenaries to slaughter every Shi’a Muslim and rape their women.
 
As I keep saying, the Palestine Genocide is a result of a confederacy of enenies of Islam,  USUKIS + Saud Salafism + Muslim Brotherhood political Islam + Russian Zionism.  
 
It is in fact just as much a Salafist/ Iqwani genocide as a Zionist one.

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 5 2026 19:44 utc | 39

see the two videos at the first link
 
 
 
https://x.com/susanabulhawa/status/2019406530878034339
susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى  @susanabulhawa
 
two important videos that should be watched in sequence. the first is a compilation from @HarrisonHSmith showing nefarious zionist plans and deeds.
the second is an ad set to run during the Super Bowl to ensure all of us goyim continue to worship at the altar of Jewish victimhood, even as the so called “Jewish state” continues to perpetrate unfathomable atrocities, their society and zionists everywhere exhibiting a kind of sadism and cruelty humanity has never before witnessed collectively with such clarity.
 
—————
 
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2019489013619376369
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺  @ejmalrai 
 
Israel’s best scenario is war on Iran and no negotiations  By Elijah J. Magnier – 
 
For Israel’s current leadership, a sustained United States – Iran negotiation track is not merely inconvenient. It threatens to undermine the central organising premise of its regional strategy: that Iran must be treated as a permanent emergency that cannot be managed through normal diplomacy. Once Washington and Tehran enter sustained talks, even narrow and fragile ones, Israel risks losing its most valuable strategic asset — the ability to maintain the Iran file in a state of continuous escalation while positioning itself as the indispensable guide of American policy. 
 
The diplomatic track now opening in Muscat this Friday is therefore viewed in Tel Aviv less as an opportunity than as a strategic threat. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long framed the confrontation with Iran in existential terms, arguing that the only durable solution is to “cut the head of the snake” and break Iran’s capacity once and for all, thereby removing the last serious obstacle to Israel’s uncontested regional military dominance.
 
The fall of Bashar al-Assad and the heavy blows inflicted on Hezbollah after the October 2024 war were interpreted in Israel as clearing the path toward the ultimate objective: striking Iran itself as the central financial, technological and strategic pillar of the anti-Israeli axis. Negotiations between Washington and Tehran — regardless of their outcome — risk freezing what Israel perceives as a moment of Iranian vulnerability. 
 
Netanyahu has therefore pressed the United States to adopt conditions that Tehran cannot accept, notably the dismantling of Iran’s missile programme and the abandonment of its regional support networks, demands that amount in practice to strategic capitulation. The June 2025 twelve-day Israeli–US war against Iran, intended in part to weaken the system or trigger internal collapse, failed to produce decisive results and instead reinforced internal cohesion despite Iran’s economic and political strains. Subsequent unrest in late 2025, although violent and costly, did not translate into regime breakdown. For Israeli decision-makers, these developments suggest that the current alignment of US military presence and Israeli operational readiness may represent a narrowing window of opportunity. 
 
War, by contrast, offers the possibility — however costly — of reshaping the regional balance irreversibly. The Muscat talks therefore pose a structural dilemma for Israel. If confined to the nuclear file, they could stabilise Iran without addressing the missile and regional dimensions Israel considers existential. If broadened to include those issues, Tehran is likely to refuse, allowing negotiations to collapse and reinforcing the argument for force. Either outcome risks constraining Israel’s strategic freedom of action. From this perspective, Israel’s preferred equilibrium is not a successful negotiation but a controlled diplomatic failure that preserves the path toward confrontation. 
 
Netanyahu’s strategic vocabulary often returns to a single premise: the Iranian state must be broken, not balanced. The objective is not merely to slow enrichment or constrain centrifuges, but to dismantle the broader architecture of Iranian power — its missile deterrent, regional networks, and capacity to finance and transfer technology to allied actors. In Israeli strategic thinking, these are not separate files but components of a single system that cannot be neutralised through partial agreements. 
 
This logic has grown sharper because the regional environment has shifted. Israel has argued for years that Iran’s forward deterrence rests on a chain of allied forces and political footholds across Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. When that chain has been broken and is weakened, Israel reads it not as a reason to stabilise, but as a window to finish the campaign at the source. After the shocks that hit Hezbollah and the change of regime in Syria, Israeli leadership could plausibly conclude that the opportunity to strike Iran is better now than later, before those networks regenerate, adapt and build a powerful capability………..
 
….For Israel, the same war (June 2025) can be interpreted very differently. Even if Israel did not achieve decisive outcomes, the mere fact of direct confrontation helps sustain the narrative that diplomacy is futile and that military action is the only language Iran understands. A negotiation that produces de-escalation undermines that argument. It also risks something Netanyahu cannot easily accept: normalisation of Iran as a state that can be contained, verified, and bargained with. Once that normalisation begins, Israeli leverage inside Washington declines…..
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 5 2026 21:52 utc | 41

see the 28-second video at the first link.  That despicable settler-colony of israel is the scourge of the Middle East, and must be totally sanctioned and then abolished by the International Community
 
see the photo at the second/third link
 
 
 
https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/2019392528252854709
Hala Jaber  @HalaJaber 
 
⚠️ Israel’s war on Lebanon now includes chemical warfare.
They’re not just bombing homes, they’re poisoning the land.
 
Banned herbicides sprayed at 50x normal levels over farmland. Trees are dying. Soil is scorched. Livelihoods obliterated. 
 
This is environmental genocide, deliberate, illegal, & unpunished.
Even the land isn’t spared.
#Ecocide #WarCrimes #Lebanon
 
—————–
 
https://x.com/DanielLMcAdams/status/2019211743420137865
Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams
 
Why are two “real estate developers” – who are not in the Administration – completely in control of United States’ diplomacy? 
 
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/2018714939548926436
Disclose.tv  @disclosetv 
NEW – Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to lead Iran nuclear talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in Istanbul, Friday — Fox
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 5 2026 22:36 utc | 43

I still remember you and love you, Palestine. 🙂 Steadfastness.

Posted by: titmouse | Feb 6 2026 0:14 utc | 45

RE:
“NEW – Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to lead Iran nuclear talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in Istanbul, Friday — Fox” 
Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 5 2026 22:36 utc | 43
 
Hard to trust post from “Disclose TV” when they can’t even get the country correct…
 
Thx tho,  the thought of Witkoff & Jared “leading” anything beyond a drink to their lips or poker chips in a card game is beyond my ability.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Feb 6 2026 1:31 utc | 47

 
https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/2018977424302575692
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده  @RamAbdu 
 
🚨Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing Escalate
Atrocities Against Palestinians with Impunity Challenge Rules-Based International Order @hrw
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/04/israels-extermination-ethnic-cleansing-escalate
Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing Escalate
Atrocities Against Palestinians with Impunity Challenge Rules-Based International Order 
 
(Jerusalem) – Israeli forces escalated their atrocities in 2025, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, acts of genocide, and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2026. Israeli forces killed, maimed, starved, and forcibly displaced Palestinians and destroyed their homes and civilian infrastructure at a scale unprecedented in the recent history of Israel and Palestine. 
 
Israel’s campaign in Gaza resulted in the killing of more than 69,000 Palestinians, including more than 19,000 children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An October US-brokered ceasefire led to the release of the remaining living Israeli hostages in Gaza and hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli detention, most without trial or charge. But grave abuses, including the Israeli authorities’ crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians, persist. 
 
“The rules-based international order that grew out of the ashes of World War II is under assault amid the carnage and destruction in Gaza,” said Adam Coogle, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “The ceasefire has not stopped Israel’s crimes, nor should it stop other countries from taking urgent action to address ongoing abuses and ensure justice.”…..
 
…..Israeli authorities used starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, imposing a total blockade for more than 11 weeks, heavily restricting delivery of humanitarian aid at other times, and depriving people of electricity and adequate water. In August, the world’s foremost experts on food insecurity declared a famine in Gaza City and surrounding areas. 
 
In May, Israeli forces renewed an assault that demolished much of Gaza’s remaining civilian infrastructure. They gunned down hundreds of Palestinians seeking food aid, most at or near distribution sites for a US-backed militarized aid distribution system run by private contractors under the auspices of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation…..
 
…..The Palestinian Authority escalated its repression of dissent in the West Bank. …..
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 6 2026 6:10 utc | 49

AJ+
 
Céline Tshika braves her university trauma to ask UN expert Francesca Albanese two important questions: How does she keep the faith that her work makes a difference? And how does she pronounce “rapporteur”?
 
Video (1:55)
https://x.com/ajplus/status/2018309175197979048
 

Posted by: Menz | Feb 6 2026 10:37 utc | 51

Yes the smug liberal woke brain dead favourite narratives are holed below the water line. 
 
It will never recover from the end of the limitless love of the Zionist elites gaslighting. 
 
When their heirs are revealed to be scurvy wormtongued paedophile perpetrators and protectors!
 

 

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Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 6 2026 13:35 utc | 53

AMP: Norman Finkelstein
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZitFErqIfX0
 
“Gaza is the world.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 6 2026 18:09 utc | 55

Teri @ 40:
 
The contradictions between the high levels of basic literacy and the low levels of functional literacy in Israel you quote may be saying something about the nature of education in that country. Are children and young people being taught in ways that help develop their critical thinking skills and other intellectual skills, or are they expected to learn and memorise by rote?
 
There may also be a strong socioeconomic hierarchy at work, with lower class Israelis limited to schooling in poorly funded and staffed schools, or even to religious schools and little else, and upper class Israelis having access to the best education on offer, with subsidies attached. 
 
Traditionally also, the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jewish men are expected to devote their lives to religious study. They are not expected, and may even be dissuaded by their rabbis, to pursue any other kind of learning, including vocational study. This partly accounts for the poverty among Haredi Jewish families in Israel, because in these families the women are the main breadwinners, undertaking low-paid work while having to feed and care for large broods of children. Child poverty is a major problem in Israel as well, and again Haredi Jewish families are most affected. This issue of poverty among the Haredim and their resistance to any non-religious education is part of the context of the contradictions in Israeli literacy levels.
 
There is also the issue of foreign workers (from East Asia and SE Asia) and their children, often Israeli-born and speaking only Hebrew, and what sort of education they are allowed to have in Israel as non-citizens. 

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Feb 6 2026 20:13 utc | 57

‘Free Palestine TV: ‘Please Help!’

An email-platform hack and demonetization.

I was writing a comment earlier about this but wanted to wait to see if it would come back up.

‘There are no Jewish John Browns’

‘There were over a hundred thousand German citizens who physically fought the Nazis inside Germany. Where are the Jews physically fighting their own supremacists running things inside ‘Israel?

There are none apparently.

‘Where are the Jewish families hiding the Palestinian ‘Anne Franks’ – using a history Jews are familiar with and will understand.

Again, none.

Laith has been raising very obvious but very uncomfortable questions.

Laith also made the point that even most of those Jews ‘fighting the good fight’ are doing it by making a living writing books and doing podcasts that are all based in Palestinian suffering.

It was Teddy Herzl – often credited as the ‘founder’ of Zionism – it was Herzl who said ‘with a few exceptions that do not figure at all, the entire press of the world is in our hands.’

Herzl utterred these eerily smug words at the First Zionist Congrerss held in Basel, Switzerland all the way back in 1897.

There was Jewish opposition to this at the time just as there is now.

Goals of this incredibly well-organized and powerful machine:

1. The promotion by appropriate means of the settlement in Eretz-Israel of Jewish farmers, artisans, and manufacturers.

2. The organization and uniting of the whole of Jewry by means of appropriate institutions, both local and international, in accordance with the laws of each country.

3. The strengthening and fostering of Jewish national sentiment and national consciousness.

4. Preparatory steps toward obtaining the consent of governments, where necessary, in order to reach the goals of Zionism.

https://teachpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Shoman_5.1_1897_Zionist_Congress-1.pdf

https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/First_Cong_&_Basel_Program.html

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Laith’s videos can still be found at Rumble.

https://rumble.com/user/FreePalestineTV/playlists

https://www.laithmarouf.com/

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Feb 6 2026 20:58 utc | 59

see the 1:34 video at the second/third link
 
 
 
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2019724169437675543
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺  @ejmalrai 
 
Iran is paying a highly and significant price for its support to the Palestinian resistance. Without this support, Iran would have not suffered maximum pressure and menaces.
 
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https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2019801533408301340
Glenn Greenwald  @ggreenwald 
 
Israeli propaganda used to be much better than this. 
 
Perhaps this is the result of panic from watching Americans’ support for Israel quickly collapse. Perhaps their view of Americans is even more patronizing than before? Perhaps Bari is a devoted but inept propagandist?🤷‍♂️
 
 
https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2019429551026368803
Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews 
 
CBS News, under their self-described “Zionist fanatic” editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, has run multiple pieces suggesting that Jeffrey Epstein was a Russian asset. 
 
No mention of Epstein’s ties to Israel, of course!
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 6 2026 22:24 utc | 61

see the illustration at the first/second link
 
see the 12-second video at the third link
 
 
 
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2019822297314652414
Glenn Greenwald  @ggreenwald 
 
Epstein’s donations to the IDF and West Bank settlers is literally right out of the Russian playbook. Both CBS News and British papers tonight will expose it all. 
 
Also, let’s finally have a real discussion of how Russia attacked the USS Liberty and killed American troops.
 
 
https://x.com/Lowkey0nline/status/2019748170012438975
Lowkey @Lowkey0nline 
 
The Epstein Files contain financial documents proving that Jeffrey Epstein funded the Israeli military through the “Friends of the IDF” charity. 
 
He also funded the largest settlement-building body in Palestine, the JNF.
 
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https://x.com/QudsNen/status/2019667988971131041
Quds News Network  @QudsNen 
 
Israeli settler militias are chasing Palestinian shepherds and their sheep away from grazing pastures near the Bedouin hamlet of Khirbet Samra, northeast of the occupied West Bank.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 7 2026 3:27 utc | 63

In the Angloviking world , since the defeat of Paganism 1000 yearscago we have two choices, Catholic Feudalism and Protestant Calvinist  Irish genocide. Calvin was a Jew.
 
The Puritans became immensely rich and , like Trump and the  US Congress,  the next generation became decadent playboys.
You paint your church white, and aesthetically it looks like an original Syrian church. But in the inner hearts of these self-righteous Calvinists was new wheeze to replace Feudalism, Colonialism and the exploitation of RoW.
 
The Palestine Genocide , and the Jewlani genocide in Palestine is no different to the British Genocide in Ireland, or the African Slave Trade in the Caribbean.  Nobody can say we have not all been here before.
 
Religion and greed go hand in hand, but the actual teachings of Jesus as and the original example of Muhammad saw were not about greed and exploitation. 
They were simply about ending Paganism and creating justice.  Jewlani selling Syria to USUKIS is the opposite of Islam , and massacring the Palestinians is the opposite of Judaism. 
 
Jewlani and Baghdadi and Nutter and Trump are Jews, like Calvin. 
We have all been here so many times before.
Why is it so difficult to make Christians and Muslims understand that these Jews want to pervert the teachings of our prophets peace be upon all of them, with unacceptable genocide, othering and Enclosing of land?
 
What is wrong with their brains? Just worldly greed.
 
 

Posted by: Giyane | Feb 7 2026 7:51 utc | 65

 
(1989) Rachel interviewed by Oprah on Satanic
 
 
……From Oprah Winfrey’s show: <b>“As a child, my next guest was used also in worshipping the devil, participated in human sacrifice rituals and cannibalism. She says her family has been involved in rituals for generations. </b> Meet “Rachel,” who is also in disguise to protect her identity…”
 
 
 
<b>Now, this disturbing DOJ Epstein file dovetails with the horrific 1989 Oprah interview of Rachel linked above; </b>
 
diary (32 pages) from a 18 year old girl imprisioned by Epstein who was forced to birth a baby later used in Satanic death rituals …..
 
(excerpt)….
Close your eyes close your eyes close your eyes. Dont speak she doesnt talk.
I cant stop shaking and its been a week.
A decision was made but I cant tell Jeffrey.
These things happen. Why didnt I close my eyes fast enough.
The doctor was different again.
I think from Israel. He had kind eyes but didnt speak directly to me.
This was different.
A shot and those rod like things had a hook and so much pain.
Ghislaine said to push all the pain away. I don’t understan N ie0.
Blood and water all over the bed and she was right. \ (it s
Like a feeling when your tummy hurts and yo r (04
1 1
puslc
She said to close my eyes and put her ha tiny cries.
y eeit ask
I didnt close them because of these
I am so lost.
I saw between her fingers and had a tiny foot.
‘s tiny heady in the doctors hands. It reached its tiny arm up
I closed my eyes and no more.. (ne age)…….
 
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2012/EFTA02731361.pd

Posted by: Exile | Feb 7 2026 8:53 utc | 67

Misc:
 
I remember an article I read last year in which it was reported that Palestinians frequently slept in their cars by the roadsides overnight because it took too long to get through all the checkpoints.  They would do this during the workweek, only coming back home to their families on the weekends or once every couple of weeks.  And this is despite the fact that if they could have driven to their jobs without the checkpoints, it was only a matter of an hour’s drive or less.
 

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission: The number of checkpoints and gates in the West Bank has reached 916, including 243 that were erected after October 7, 2023
 
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

 
Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran after only one day of negotiations:
 

🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Less than 2 hours after negotiations between Iran and the U.S. concluded [for the day], the U.S. State Department announced a new batch of sanctions on Iran’s oil sector
 
White House: Trump signs order concerning sanctions on Iran
 
The United States officially imposes a 25% tariff on all countries that purchase goods or services from Iran…
 
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
 

And yet again, the Rafah crossing is NOT open:
 

Health in Gaza:
 
🔹 Only 36 patients have been evacuated and 196 people have left the Gaza Strip since the opening of the Rafah crossing.  [This includes the people attending to the ill and family members.]
 
🔹 The Rafah crossing has been closed since yesterday, and the suffering of the residents, especially the sick, is worsening.
 
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Gazaplatform?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
 

Posted by: teri | Feb 7 2026 14:04 utc | 69

From Epstein to Gaza: The depravity of the western elite is now fully exposed | Soumaya Ghannoushi |

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 7 2026 15:08 utc | 71

Franziska   @Franziska_hl
 
“Israel won the war [World War I], we made it, we enjoyed it, we profited from it. It was our ultimate revenge on Christianity.” – ( The Jewish ambassador of Austria to London, Count Mensdorf, 1918
 
“If Germany resumes trade in the next 50 years, we will have fought this war (World War I) in vain.” – ( Winston Churchill in The Times, 1919.)
 
“The full responsibility for the First World War lies directly on the shoulders of international Jewish bankers. They are responsible for millions of dead and dying.” – ( US. Congressional Record 67th Congress, 4th Sitting, Senate Document no. 346.)
 
“We Jews will bring war to Germany.” – ( David Brown, President of American Hebrew, 1934, quoted in Edmonson’s I Testify, page 188.)
 
“Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be persecuted with deadly hatred. The goal of contemporary Jewry is a merciless campaign against all German peoples and the complete annihilation of the nation. We demand a total trade blockade, a halt to raw material imports, and retribution against every German, every woman, and every child.” – ( Jewish Professor A. Kulischer, October 1937.)
 
“World War II was a Jewish plot to pave the way for the establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine.” – ( Joseph Burg [a Jew ])
 
“World War II is being fought to defend the foundations of Judaism.” – ( The Chicago Jewish Sentinel, October 8, 1942.)
 
“Even if we Jews are not physically with you in the trenches, we are morally with you. THIS IS OUR WAR (WORLD WAR II), AND YOU ARE FIGHTING IT FOR US.” – ( Les Nouvelles Littéraires, February 10, 1940.)
 
“Germany is our number one enemy. Our goal is to declare war on it without mercy.” – ( Bernard Lecache, President of the World Jewish League.)
 
https://x.com/franziska_hl/status/2019804139492897176

Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Feb 7 2026 16:30 utc | 73

michaelj72 | Feb 8 2026 0:20 utc | 74
*** This is horrific but white people can finally see what their gross and disgusting colonial history of land theft and genocide to benefit a white settler population looked like.***
 
When it suited them — till not that long ago — Jewish activists were keen to claim that they were not White, but Jewish.
 
That’s when they were using their “wokist / politically correct” front. But for now, they seem to have switched to using their “Tommy Robinson / white” front. No doubt later on they’ll either revert back, or change to something else which happens to serve their puposes at the time.
 
Shape-shifters who advance themselves via a non-stop stream of lies and deceptions.

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 8 2026 0:40 utc | 75

Mahmood OD: ‘Trump Humilitated’
 
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
 
“Iran shatters their arrogance| Trump’s instant response”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 8 2026 1:48 utc | 77

 
https://x.com/codepink/status/2020309065495118246
CODEPINK  @codepink 
 
Israel has caused over $2.5bn of damage to Gaza’s transport infrastructure. 
81% of roads have been destroyed or damaged. 
This genocidal destruction aims to make Gaza un-liveable.
 
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https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2019876626557796445
Max Blumenthal  @MaxBlumenthal 
 
Israel’s current president was a guest on Epstein Island 
 
Israel’s current prime minister spent today denying any tie between Epstein and Israel
 
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https://x.com/Reuters/status/2019748932985802891
Reuters  @Reuters 
 
Francesca Albanese, a UN special rapporteur, was sanctioned after US firms sought White House help over her letters warning of possible complicity in Gaza abuses, @reuters found. https://reut.rs/3LXSIxX  @specialreports
 
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trumps-war-global-justice-court-staff-un-face-terroristgrade-sanctions-2026-02-06/
In Trump’s war on global justice, court staff and U.N. face terrorist‑grade sanctions 
 
Trump’s sanctions on U.N. expert Francesca Albanese and the International Criminal Court froze assets and disrupted war crimes investigations. The clash is part of the broader campaign by his administration to strongarm allies, enemies and world bodies into toeing the U.S. line.
 
MODENA, Italy – Marked “confidential,” the letters went out to some of America’s most powerful companies in the spring of 2025. 
 
Written by Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestine, the letters warned more than a dozen U.S. firms and two charities that she might soon name them in a U.N. report for “contributing to gross violations of human rights” by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank. Among her targets: Alphabet, Amazon, Caterpillar, Chevron, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft and Palantir.
 
Her letters so alarmed the U.S. companies that at least two sought help from the White House, according to a Reuters investigation into the U.S. campaign against Albanese and the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Despite U.N. insistence that she had diplomatic immunity, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on Albanese for “writing threatening letters” to the companies and urging the ICC to investigate. The Reuters’ findings are based on interviews with more than two dozen U.S. and U.N. officials, ICC staff and sanctioned individuals…… 
 
…..But Reuters found deep divisions within the U.S. government over the scope and timing of the sanctions against Albanese and the ICC. The plan to punish them was hatched in November 2024, when Trump was re-elected and the ICC indicted his ally, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. While some career U.S. diplomats urged restraint, senior Trump appointees pressed for tougher measures to cripple the ICC and punish Albanese. In addition to Albanese, the Trump administration sanctioned eight ICC judges and three prosecutors last year, in a blow to international judicial and human rights bodies…… 
 
…..Trump’s clash with Albanese and the ICC provides a vivid portrait of the institutional and personal fallout of his widening assault on international bodies. Washington has long used sanctions to punish rogue states and deter human rights abusers. Targeting a U.N.-mandated expert and so many ICC staff – including eight of its 18 judges – marks a major break, eight experts on U.S. sanctions said. Individuals and global institutions that once drew mere rebukes from the U.S. now face efforts to hobble or dismantle them when deemed threats to Trump or U.S. business interests…… 
 
….The White House declined to comment. But a senior U.S. official said Trump is concerned that the ICC could one day seek to prosecute him or senior members of his administration, Reuters reported in December. The official said the administration would impose additional sanctions if the court didn’t amend its founding statute to explicitly bar investigations targeting Trump or his top aides…..
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 8 2026 3:05 utc | 79

Re: War Crimes Accountability ?
 
Reminder: war crimes have no statute of limitation, asset siezures from Estates can occur long after the war criminal has died. 
 

Posted by: Exile | Feb 8 2026 10:45 utc | 81