Connexion
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: The Anglo-Saxons resisted their creation. They wanted summary mass executions, not justice nor exploration of root causes.
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The fundamental root cause of conflict between the Anglo-American led West and the Rest of Humanity, especially the civilizational-states, is the hypocritical bifurcation in International Law, due to recent precedence of “rules-based order” imposed by the West. This was never agreed to by the others.
It was within artificially created spaces in international law (“one law for thee, one law for me”) that a singular supremacist civilization worked to rule all the others.
“Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi” the Latin for “What is permissible for Jupiter is not permissible for a cow” is the fundamentally unjust hierarchy of the law of the jungle, intolerable to the civilized. It largely worked until recently as they used to hold the incontestible combination of a monopoly on war of scale and economies and wealth accumulation and set the standards and management criteria on which supranational organizations function. But we are at a moment when these fundamental accumulated imbalances are being corrected. A key mechanism involves the return to the letter and spirit of universally agreed tenets of International Law by all.
Of note, Russia led similar efforts at the fair universal application of one law on all. Just prior to WW1, Russian Tsar Nicholas II was instrumental in the creation of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, establishing the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in the body of secular international law. And it is not a coincidence, as just before 1914, that under the pressure of being coerced into comity and equal relations with Others, that yet again the western realm currently flees forward into more War in order to maintain their predatory way of life.
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Video description & excerpts:
Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said the Soviet Union was the driving force behind establishing the Nuremberg Tribunal, arguing that Western powers initially resisted the idea. He claimed the United States and Britain feared a full investigation would expose their pre-war dealings with Nazi Germany. Lavrov also said some Allied leaders preferred mass executions over legal trials, while Moscow pushed for a formal judicial process. He added that core Nuremberg principles remain under pressure in today’s geopolitical climate.
“Question: What do you consider the historical significance of the Nuremberg trials in the post-war years and how did they influence changes in the global order?
Answer: The Nuremberg Tribunal’s founding principles were first formulated during those trials and have become the foundation of modern international law.
They also largely take into account the achievements of Nuremberg in their work. The particular significance of the Nuremberg judgment lies in its establishment of no statute of limitations for crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes.
And to our great regret, this decree states that there is no statute of limitations for these crimes and that Nazi ideology, the Nazi party and Nazi structures such as the SS, SD, and others are forever banned. Regrettably, these parts of the decree are currently being seriously tested and are often simply violated.”
Permanent X link to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur – the Occupied Territories.
A previous thread contains Netanyahu’s ‘spiritual needs’.
Previous thread: https://sovereignista.com/2025/09/27/the-war-genocide-thread-9/
Oct 26
Genocide Light
We are entering the 3rd week of the PEACE, Ceasefire, or whatever the Trump Plan is called. Demented Donald shouts peace: “We have a very strong PEACE in the Middle East”, while Netanyahu is testing his limits. It is my opinion that zionist-israel is now been taken somewhat formally as US proxy, as a colony. The Israeli hardliners hope Trump ‘flips again’ as this is now openly discussed in the zionist circles and media. “A senior IDF officer on assertions that the IDF is subordinate to the American headquarters in Kiryat Gat regarding operations in Gaza:
“This is not true. Obviously, the situation is sensitive and they want to move forward. But we are not subordinate to them in any way. There is coordination and cooperation, but they do not have a veto, and we have no obligation to report or request approval.”
Yet, in Trump’s salami slicing methods, American troops are now patrolling within Gaza, despite the assurances that they will not be deployed inside Gaza.
This is not a ceasefire: Zionist warplanes launched twin strikes on eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza at dawn.
— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) October 27, 2025
The mundane steps for pretending that this is a ceasefire, continues.
Hamas & PA agree on Amjad Shawa to lead new technocratic board for Gaza
The decision was made during a meeting in Cairo with Egyptian intelligence, according to The Jerusalem Post, which cited KAN News.
Shawa’s official appointment still depends on approval from the US. https://t.co/9IWj2HFnaG pic.twitter.com/bWaEHyob8k
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) October 27, 2025
Only now, after having been prohibited from entering, an Egyptian team enters Gaza to recover dead hostages. (Enemy media)
In a critical mission approved personally by PM Netanyahu, an Egyptian technical team has entered Gaza, Channel 12 reported. Their sole objective: locate and recover the bodies of the remaining 13 slain hostages. Both Israel and Hamas have provided intelligence on the bodies’ locations. Footage from social media show 4 heavy engineering vehicles entering Gaza through the Kerem Abu Salem crossing.
Some 12 or so corpses have not been found for handover to the zionists.
Some 9,000 Palestinians are still in prisons and jails in zionist-israel. One cannot help but think that there must be committed torturers in the zionist population to torture such a large number of people continuously.
West Bank
It is here that we see the zionist settlers are designated as a civilian quasi-military force. They beat Palestinians, raid villages and towns, hold people for arrest by the formal forces, steal the olive harvest, send their animals in to graze on Palestinian lands, and after stealing the olive harvest, chop down the trees. Closer to Gaza, they stop aid trucks from entering by blocking, with their babies and children, in front of the trucks.
Zionist-israel is bombing Lebanon at will.
333 days have passed since the so-called ceasefire agreement was signed between Israel and Lebanon.
During this period (2024–2025), 344 Hezbollah members were martyred (if including uninvolved individuals, over 400 were killed).
In the year between October 2023 and September 2024 (before the start of the Hezbollah–Israel war), about 500 Hezbollah members were martyred.
The difference between the two periods is that in ’23/’24 Hezbollah responded to every killing; so far, not a single response has been recorded, neither to the massacre, nor to the raids, nor to the repeated bombings of its bases and facilities.
An average of 1.03 members per day were martyred over the past 333 days.
The question now is: how long will Hezbollah stay as members of the government first, and as a resistance second?
The pressure to start a new war with Iran is a little less, yet Iran is on a readiness and war footing. Note Pepe Escobar’s comment with information that was released after his visit to Iran was cancelled because Iran is on a war footing:
Pepe Escobar
@RealPepeEscobar
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Oct 24
Meet Esmaeil Khatib. A very serious character. He is Iran’s Minister of Intelligence.
Khatib released a bombshell when he publicly stated that 50 – I repeat, FIFTY – foreign intel agencies helped that death cult in West Asia during the 12-day war on Iran.
Khatib detailed how they unleashed a full-scale Hybrid War to try to balkanize Iran and provoke regime change.
FIFTY. That includes the whole of NATO and a lot of Arabs.
And two crucial players: Turjiye and Azerbaijan.
That explains why Iran had to stop: after all they were hammering the death cult big time, even in downtown Tel Aviv.
Tehran realized it could not fight in so many fronts at the same time.
We don’t have time to follow the African wars on the war thread. The major instigator is the UAE (the Emirates). and zionist-israel. Sudan looks as bad as Gaza. The African Global South is failing its own. African countries are more interested in walking the modelling runway for photo ops during the Russian SMO than in dealing with their own problems. It is fashionable to ‘solve Russian problems’ and sounds oh so Statesmanlike. It calls the press to solve zionist problems, so let’s start an ICC case that cannot really go anywhere, and let’s get Iran to pay for it. It is, of course, the easy way to blame colonialism for all, but not to set out and solve the rabid neo-colonialism, but in the majority of cases, enthusiastically take part. In my opinion, only the Sahel States, collectively, are solving the problems. The rest? What else are they doing besides making comments to the press?
The LAC is politically, ideologically and strategically much more prepared and much further down the road to sovereinty. With the imminent threat to Venezuela, we see the LAC drawing together and taking ownership, considering it a region-wide threat.
Femi Akomolafe talks about Kenya:
It galls the soul to see that what the British Empire failed to conquer with its Maxim machine guns, the Kenyan elite willingly surrendered with handshakes and smiles.
It seems independence meant merely swapping the governor’s mansion for the State House—different flag, same servitude.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/sudan-another-forgotten-war
Total Respects!
Permanent X link to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur – the Occupied Territories.
A previous thread contains Netanyahu’s ‘spiritual needs’.
Previous thread: https://sovereignista.com/2025/09/27/the-war-genocide-thread-9/
Oct 20
Netanyahu announced with pride that they bombed Gaza with 153 tons of explosives. But he says nothing about how many non-combatants women, children they bombed, and he said nothing that Hamas is still in charge. How do we know? They are negotiating with Hamas!
We witnessed yesterday that Trump acted, for once. Zionist-israel attacked Gaza again and stopped aid flowing in. The US intervened and Netanyahu had to step back, cease the attacks and withdraw his order to stop all aid. Today we will see if aid is properly restored.
This is generally called a cynical attempt of Trump to keep on with the peace myth that he is peddling. It may be so, but also may not be so. We don’t have a trend after his big Peace Plan.
Witkoff and Kushner visited Gaza but refused to acknowledge the genocide, saying that it is a war. They know full well that this is genocide but the attempt to save Bibi’s neck and zionist reputation continues. Kushner: ‘Ingenuity, innovation, compassion’ will reestablish Israel’s reputation. ‘They don’t have to explain themselves — the war has taken a toll’.
Of course these two have to act for the cease fire, for consistency of their message and the long term plan to wrest profit from the atrocity. This is a message that will not fly as the reaction against Israel and Israelis continue worldwide and will do so for years into the future. People innately and intuitively understand that this is the moral issue of our time.
This is from Thailand and there are many more
There are many restaurants in the world now with signs – No Israel! Countries are routinely beginning to stop Israelis visiting for rest and relaxation. The Hind Rajab foundation is growing from strength to strength and they seek out IDF and former IDF soldiers similarly to how Nazis were hunted out earlier in our history. The zionist population is fleeing and flailing knowing full well that they are equated to Nazis now. The real status of the country is very questionable as trade is drying up with dockworkers in Europe refusing to pass cargo and AnsarAllah in Yemen still holding their ban on shipping. Netanyahu is a hated man internal to the zionist state. People like Marjory Tailor-Green in the US are staying on message – no more money, no more unregistered AIPAC. To refuse AIPAC bribes is now becoming a point of pride and an election campaign issue for people standing for congress and is now seen as a good thing. The ultra-Orthodox is still protesting and refusing to serve, so the IDF is critically short of fighters as call-ups of reservists also fail. This horse, this reputational horse, has left the stable and will not be put into its stable again, despite the work of Trump, Kushner and Witkoff and despite the new efforts to craft TikTok into a tool of covering up empire’s bloodlust.
Here is one reason why the message will not fly worldwide and Zionist-Israel will remain rejected by the good people of our world. I wonder if these Witkoff and Kushner types understand that the power of social media goes both ways and that it cannot be stopped at the borders? We know what happens when the zionists are forced to stop killing Palestinians in Gaza. They intensify the campaign to occupy the West Bank for one, and start killing Palestinians in the West Bank. Yesterday, Palestinians were lured into settler ambushes. This is being fully recorded by mainly US journalists and activists who go there to support. Prisoners that are released on Gaza side, are made up for in numbers with new arrests on the West Bank’s side. So the numbers of detained Palestinians in the hellholes of zionist jails remain high. Over the past two years, we’ve seen it over and over again.
Violent settlers mobs are tearing up the countryside, beating up Palestinians harvesting olives and caring for livestock, they are stealing and occupying land and take houses as they like, they use their children as human shields to stop aid trucks and they act as a terrorist force, with nothing to distinguish these mobs from ISIS type activities. News sources report that Zionist occupiers have seized 70,000 square meters of Palestinian lands in Nablus. The occupiers continue to violate and annex the West Bank.
So, when the Gaza ceasefire settled somewhat (for the moment ignoring the latest zionist atrocities of the past day), the West Bank came under major assault. There has been a ‘soft’ assault ongoing, but yesterday was major. The Israeli occupation forces continued their wide-scale campaign across the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, conducting violent raids, arrests, and assaults on civilians throughout the night and early morning hours.
Occupation forces stormed multiple towns and villages. The city of Nablus and its surrounding areas—Kafr Qalil, Rafidia, Beit Wazan, and An-Naqura—witnessed heavy military incursions, with reports of house raids, arrests, and widespread intimidation. Forces also entered Al-Mughayyir (northeast of Ramallah), arresting several residents, including Nadi Nasan and Alaa Raqi Nasar Abu Aliya. There are more. It was an overwhelming flooding attack.
The coordinated nature of these raids underscores the continued Israeli campaign to suppress resistance and terrorize the Palestinian population throughout the occupied West Bank. This is the softening of the West Bank to become our next Gaza.
Additionally, looking forward, there is this school of thought:
The plan is not for the IDF to re-occupy Gaza. There has been a massing of settler armies on the border. It is THEY who will go in and claim the land, looking in particular to carve out the seashore for themselves.
Netanyahu will say that he has not violated the agreement. It’s not an “official” attack. It’s just the settlers doing to Gaza what they’ve been doing on the West Bank.
The aggression never has been limited to Netanyahu; it’s the younger settler-state population as a whole.
If Netanyahu and his fellow insane murderers will ever see the inside of a world court of law is a question. Perhaps the justice will be meted out on the ground and the ultimate removal may be by fair means or foul. Historically, and in my opinion, foul means may be considered as the zionist way.
There is little hope for a better immediate future on the short timeline. But do remember, this is in fact a very small part of our world. The similarity of actions with the threatening assault on Venezuela tells us that the brains behind these atrocities, are the same brains as those behind shooting little boats to smithereens into the blue in the Caribbean. Might makes right will not prevail for too much longer. This is why we must stand as resistance. The infestations internal to the combined west may have their own faction fights, but the virus in this cesspit is the same. In the US currently the principle of starving poor people is continuing in a psychological horror show. I’m talking about Food Stamps being threatened for the poorer population. For the Palestinians the sheer level of physical and psychological trauma will continue for many years into the future. If this population can ever be saved in reality is a huge question. This is why the attack on the Palestinian humanity physically and psychologically will remain the moral issue of our time and into the future.
Lebanon gets attacked each time the zionists have a little extra time. The nature of Syria is somewhat different as we have terrorists trained by the Brits to appear human, in charge. The dark rumble of a threatening war on Iran continues. If we can believe what our eyes see, Iran is bristling with the required weaponry now, provided by their fellow civilizational states. The JPCOA is toast forever, having run out of time. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it is fully prepared to deepen strategic cooperation with the Yemeni armed forces in the battle against global arrogance and international Zionism. If this happens, and I think it will happen de facto at a minimum, it will be a huge boon for the resistance.
It’s horrifying how much brutality can be crammed into just 41 sec.
Avner Avraham, a former Mossad agent who also dabbles in art & journalism when he’s not daydreaming about wiping out Gaza, openly admits that Israel plants agents in Gaza to launch rockets at Israel just to… pic.twitter.com/RgHZdffMcp
— Abier (@abierkhatib) October 18, 2025
Oct 19
Widely reported:
According to Drop Site’s Ryan Grim: US officials quickly determined the Rafah explosion was caused by an Israeli bulldozer detonating unexploded ordnance, not a Hamas tunnel attack as claimed by Netanyahu.
Despite knowing this, Netanyahu blamed Hamas, halted aid, and resumed airstrikes, only reversing course after Washington confronted Israel with the facts.
Just in. It is mid-day local time. While I was writing this: Israel resumes strikes on Gaza — Times of Israel
The Israeli military launched an attack on Gaza, as Israel continued to trade blame with Palestinian militant group Hamas over violations of the ceasefire, aiming to end the war in the enclave, the Times of Israel reports.
So far, the IOF is now carrying out a new wave of airstrikes east of Khan Younis, in continued violation of the ceasefire agreement. Over 20 locations have been bombed in recent hours across the entire Gaza Strip. Happy Peace!
– I warned yesterday and below you will see the pretext cooked up by US State. Trump owns this.
Peace Plan. It is neither a plan nor implementable in its current form and Trump owns it. The trajectory is similar to Lebanon where the last number that I saw, was over 4,000 violations of a similar ‘peace plan’.
In Gaza, violations are piling up. The plan does not allow for the necessary action. So, Israel is again acting with impunity, and what is new? The death toll in Gaza is slowly increasing by the day. Netanyahu has just declared that the Rafah crossing will remain closed until Hamas delivers the corpses of the dead Israeli war criminals in their possession. But, zionist-israel also refuses to allow in specialists with the required machinery to look for the bones under the rubble. Unconscionable, as the supposed plan has no deadline, and it was discussed that this process will take time.
Food and provisioning trucks are still being held up.
Settler militias are raging, taking land, beating Palestians, stealing olive harvests and then cutting down any tree that remains and with their children in strollers as human shields physically blocking trucks from moving.
Israeli intelligence expert Avner Avraham declared, “We are going to erase Gaza.” He admits that Israel plans to fabricate an attack from Gaza to justify a full-scale assault with international backing. I repeat, Trump owns this as he owns the hunger of the Gazan’s with his food provision militia.
The Government Media Office in Gaza:
Since the ceasefire was declared, 38 Palestinians have been killed and 143 others injured due to ongoing violations by the Israeli occupation.
The Israeli occupation has committed 47 documented violations since the start of the ceasefire.
Violations were recorded in all governorates of the Gaza Strip without exception, confirming that the Israeli occupation is not committed to ending war and continues its policy of killing and terror.
The media whitewash of Netanyahu is continuing. Indi says: I Can’t Watch Anything Anymore (Zionists Everywhere)
The West Bank is literally under siege.
Lebanon is being bombed by zionist-israel at will.
“The Chinese have spoken softly against the genocide, and because of that I am deeply disappointed in the Chinese, and the Russians. They should have been screaming from the rooftops that this [US-backed] genocide should stop”
John Mearsheimer
Hamas is fighting back.
Reports of Hamas fighters attempting to capture an IDF soldier.
One soldier was killed and three others injured in an incident involving the Israeli army in the Rafah area.
Reports of a second security incident in the Gaza Strip this morning, a sniper fired at IDF soldiers – 2 killed 4 injured
A third security incident has occurred in Gaza. Remember a security incident is code for some IDF soldiers coming under fire. The reporting is streaming in now.
Hebrew media reports that the security situation in Gaza is difficult. This is code for IDF soldiers running away. Next, and I can bet on it, the security and non-publication ban will be slammed down.
A different narrative is starting to hit the mainstream pic.twitter.com/hVT3fN7kQb
— Ounka (@OunkaOnX) October 17, 2025
Gaza (QNN)- Hamas resistance movement announced on Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel on the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s plan, aimed at ending the genocide in Gaza and ensuring the full withdrawal of Israeli forces.
In an official statement, Hamas said the agreement was achieved “after responsible and serious negotiations held by the movement and Palestinian resistance factions around President Trump’s proposal in Sharm El-Sheikh.”
The statement added that the deal guarantees “an end to the genocidal war against our Palestinian people, the withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip, the entry of humanitarian aid, and a prisoner exchange.”
Hamas expressed appreciation for the mediation efforts of Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, and extended thanks to President Trump for his “efforts to end the war and achieve the complete withdrawal of the occupation from Gaza.”
The movement urged Trump, the guarantor countries, and all international parties to ensure that Israel fully abides by the agreement, warning against any attempts by Israel to evade or delay implementation.
Hamas also saluted the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the diaspora, praising their “unparalleled courage and sacrifice in confronting the occupation’s fascist schemes.”
“The sacrifices of our people will not go in vain. We remain committed to our national rights until freedom, independence, and self-determination are achieved,” Hamas affirmed.
Trump Confirms Deal on Truth Social
Shortly before Hamas’ statement, US President Trump confirmed the signing of the first phase of his Gaza Plan in a statement on Truth Social.
“I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan,” Trump wrote. “All of the hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed line as the first steps toward a strong, durable, and everlasting peace.”
Trump described the deal as “a great day for the Arab and Muslim world, Israel, all surrounding nations, and the United States of America,” thanking Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey for their mediation.
Details and Implementation
The signing took place in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh after mediators received positive responses from both delegations.
Majed Al-Ansari, spokesperson for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, confirmed that all provisions and implementation mechanisms were agreed upon, including the end of the war, the exchange of prisoners, and the entry of humanitarian aid.
Israeli officials said the release of Israeli soldier prisoners could begin as early as this weekend.
The announcement comes as Israel’s genocide in Gaza enters its 734th day, a genocide that has devastated the enclave, killed over 67,000 people, and displaced all of its population.
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At the moment, Gaza is erupting in joy.
From Sputnik
The Gaza genocide report gives the UN the right to intervene militarily to stop Israel – former UN official
A UN inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf
Ex-UN rapporteur Dr. Alfred de Zayas explains why that’s hugely important.
Key findings
Israel’s actions (killing, maiming, causing mental harm to Palestinians, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, taking measures to prevent births) check four of five of the 1948 Genocide Convention’s criteria for genocide.
Intent proven
Crucially, de Zayas says, the inquiry shows “how the statements of Israeli political & military leaders prove the ‘intent’ (required in Art. II of the Convention) to destroy in whole or part the Palestinian population.”
West’s complicity
“Governments that have provided military, economic, political, diplomatic & propagandistic support” are also accountable, de Zayas says. The US, UK, France & Germany “are all complicit in the genocide under Article III (e) of the Genocide Convention.”
UN’s response options
recognition of Palestinian statehood (which alas, “will not save the lives of Palestinians”)
Israel’s expulsion from the UN pursuant to Article 6 of the UN Charter (improbable given the need for Security Council & hence US approval)
stripping Israeli diplomats of UN accreditation, as was done against South Africa in the 1970s during Apartheid. Crucially, this measure would not require Security Council backing
the UN has the legal framework to intervene using the 2005 ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine
the General Assembly could adopt a ‘Uniting for Peace’ resolution authorizing nations “to take military action” to stop the genocide, bypassing the Security Council veto
UN’s last chance to save its credibility
“If the United Nations fails” to take action, “it will lose the little authority & credibility it still has,” de Zayas warns.
La Commission d’enquête de l’ONU sur les territoires palestiniens occupés, y compris Jérusalem-Est, et Israël a reconnu les actions d’Israël
L’article La Commission d’enquête de l’ONU qualifie les actions d’Israël à Gaza de génocide est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
Keep talking about Gaza!
Featured image: This is where words collapse. This is Gaza; where fathers’ tears and mothers’ screams are documenting a history that the world may try to look away from, but will never be able to erase.
Permanent X link to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur – the Occupied Territories.
A previous thread contains Netanyahu’s ‘spiritual needs’.
Sep 16
Israel is striking Yemen’s Hodeidah port.
“Our air defenses are currently confronting the Israeli aircraft that are launching an aggression on our country,” Ameen Hayyan, the director of the Yemeni Armed Forces Spokesperson’s Office, wrote on X.
Israeli tanks on the ground in Gaza. From Sputnik:
ISRAEL LAUNCHES OFFENSIVE TO OCCUPY GAZA CITY: What is known so far
The Israeli military launched its ground offensive on Monday to occupy Gaza City (Axios, citing unnamed Israeli officials).
The offensive came after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and backed the operation (Axios).
The start of the operation has been confirmed (Israeli and Palestinian media).
The entry of Israeli tanks followed Gazan reports of heavy aerial assaults and artillery fire on the city and its outskirts on Monday evening (The Jerusalem Post).
The IDF has been gradually expanding airstrikes in and around the city in recent days, flattening high-rise buildings in Gaza City on Friday that it claims are used by Hamas for military purposes (The Jerusalem Post).
The Israeli army, which has been urging everyone in Gaza City to evacuate, says some 300,000 Palestinians have fled Gaza City in recent weeks, but around 700,000 remain.
“Gaza is burning… We will not relent, and we will not go back—until the completion of the mission,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X on Tuesday morning.
PM Netanyahu pushed the invasion despite opposition from top security chiefs, including IDF Chief Eyal Zamir, who stayed on hoping to soften the blow for hostages, troops, and civilians (The Jerusalem Post).
Reactions so far
Families of captives held in Gaza have launched protests outside Netanyahu’s official residence (Israeli media).
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum blasted the move to escalate fighting in Gaza, warning, “After 710 nights in captivity, this could be the hostages’ last. Netanyahu bears personal responsibility for their fate—and for recovering the dead with dignity.”
Trump alleged on his social media that Hamas is moving hostages above ground “to use them as human shields against Israel’s ground offensive.”
Sep 15
More than 6,000 citizens have become homeless after their homes were targeted today.
More than one million people in Gaza City are threatened with death as a result of current “israeli” policies. Thousands of children in Gaza City are threatened with death due to starvation, lack of basic necessities for living, and the deterioration of humanitarian conditions.
There are new numbers being talked about. I have no source but heard these numbers of George Galloway’s MOATS posted yesterday, both from George and from Chris Hedges and saw some press. But there is no surprise and I can accept these numbers.
31.5% of Gazans have been killed. This is 600,000 human beings. This does not include injuries and people not counted because they are still under rubble. I don’t have a source for those numbers. Israel itself talks about 200,000.
According to The Guardian?, former Israeli occupation army commander, Herzi Halevi, has admitted that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the war were military operations inhibited by legal advice.
He said that over 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents, more than 200,000 civilians, have been killed or injured since the war began on October 7, 2023, figures close to those reported by Gaza’s health ministry (64,718 killed and 163,859 injured), with thousands more feared trapped under rubble.
Leaked Israeli intelligence suggests over 80% of the dead are civilians.
He also admitted “legal” advisers mainly serve to justify actions internationally, not to constrain military decisions.
The sheer terror continues. Gaza City endured another night of horror, as heavy Israeli bombardment and airstrikes caused multiple casualties and forced hundreds of families to flee.
Marwa Osman is not mincing words:
Draft statement of the Arab and Islamic Summit: “The aggression against Qatar threatens future agreements with Israel.”
Oh, look at the mighty Arab and Islamic Summit finally discovering its voice, but only when Qatar gets a scratch. Suddenly, “future agreements with Israel” are in danger! As if the genocide in Gaza, the massacres in Lebanon, the starvation of Yemen, or the occupation of Palestine and Syria didn’t “threaten” anything. But one hit in Doha? Now the “agreements” are trembling. These rulers don’t represent nations, they represent contracts and their only red line is when their own palaces feel the heat and their only reply is empty laughable statements.
Keep talking about Gaza!
Permanent X link to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur – the Occupied Territories.
A previous thread contains Netanyahu’s ‘spiritual needs’.
Aug 30
Every single child dying of starvation in Gaza had a pre-existing condition, according to the Israeli press.
The Freedom Flotilla is once again setting sail: Dozens of boats from 44 countries are carrying aid, food, medicine, and doctors to Gaza, aiming to break through 18 years of Israeli siege.
Hamas rises spectacularly.
Hebrew sources concede that Hamas fighters are rising from beneath the rubble like ghosts, hitting occupation forces with precision kill-shots, and melting back into the underground before a counterstrike can land.
This is Gaza’s insurgent warfare at full force, pre-set kill zones, tunnel-fed strike teams, and fire patterns calibrated to shred any unit foolish enough to push forward.
Every street is a choke point, every ruin a sniper’s nest, every approach a death corridor. The occupier advances under the illusion of control, only to be cut down and left grasping at an enemy that refuses to be fixed, broken, or erased.
Thomas Keith on X
After roughly four hours of intense combat and successive resistance ambushes in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, zionist sources report an #IOF withdrawal from the #Gaza City area.
At least one invading soldier is confirmed to have been killed, and at least 11 others wounded. No new information has been published regarding the four zionist soldiers who reportedly went missing in the area. These missing soldiers may have been captured.
Throughout the battle, IOF helicopters took heavy gunfire, and the area witnessed heavy shelling by resistance forces along with close-quarters combat.
Yemen’s Prime Minister and members of his cabinet have attained martyrdom in the recent Israeli attack.
The Presidency of the Republic in Sana’a has announced the martyrdom of Mujahid Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Al-Rahwi, head of the Government of Change and Construction, along with several of his ministerial companions, following last Thursday’s aggression.
The US blocks Palestinian leaders from attending the upcoming United Nations General Assembly, citing American law that prohibits recognition of Palestine’s statehood. This is the meeting where the EU countries and others promised that they would declare Palestine as a State.
RAMALLAH, August 29, 2025 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Presidency expressed deep regret and astonishment at the decision of the U.S. Department of State not to grant visas to the Palestinian delegation scheduled to participate in the upcoming United Nations General Assembly meetings in September.
The Presidency stressed that this decision stands in clear contradiction to international law and the UN Headquarters Agreement, particularly since the State of Palestine is an observer member of the United Nations.
It called on the U.S. administration to reconsider and reverse its decision, reaffirming Palestine’s full commitment to international law, UN resolutions, and obligations toward peace, as conveyed in President Mahmoud Abbas’s letters to world leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump.
More at The Cradle.
Yesterday morning the Israeli regime has carried out air and artillery strikes targeting multiple locations across the Gaza Strip. These include:
– Omar Al-Mukhtar market in eastern Gaza City
– Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza
– Block 10 in Al-Bureij refugee camp
– Al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza
– Al-Shuhada Street in Gaza City
– Southern Gaza City
– Northern areas of Khan Yunis
– Coastal zones of Rafah
According to local sources, yesterday’s attacks by the Israeli military resulted in the deaths of at least 76 Palestinians and injured 298 others. This brings the total number of casualties in Gaza to over 62,895 dead and more than 158,927 wounded. 
The humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza is a direct result of relentless Israeli military aggression and war crimes, which has devastated civilian infrastructure and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the population. With over 62,000 Palestinians killed and nearly 160,000 wounded, the toll is staggering—especially among children, who account for a heartbreaking proportion of the casualties.
The deliberate targeting of homes, markets, refugee camps, and hospitals has not only shattered families but also crippled Gaza’s healthcare system, leaving survivors without access to basic medical care. The UN’s declaration of famine underscores the severity of the crisis, as hundreds of thousands now face starvation due to the blockade and destruction of food systems. Aid workers and humanitarian convoys have been attacked, and even attempts to deliver life-saving supplies are met with violence. These actions, widely condemned by human rights organizations, reflect a systematic disregard for international law and the sanctity of civilian life.
The world must not remain silent in the face of such atrocities—justice demands accountability, and the people of Gaza deserve protection, dignity, and peace.
Targeting of aid workers is still being captured on camera. There is a reduction of news from within Gaza since the killing of five journalists, cameramen and support.
The Israeli regime does not adhere to any international laws or humanitarian principles and continues its acts of terror and commits war crimes against civilians in the Gaza Strip. Is there truly no one in the world to chain this brutal regime?!!!
The zionist attacks do not cease. Over the past 24 hours, they’ve attacked Yemen, continual raids on the West Bank, Southern Syria and Lebanon. Tension is everywhere regarding another attack on Iran and everyone expects that.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced that Turkey is closing its airspace and ports to Israeli aircraft and ships, and severing all economic and trade ties with Israel over its genocidal war on Gaza. (We will of course believe this when we see it.)
Despite the announcement of Turkey cutting its trade relations with Israel, 3 Turkish commercial ships arrived yesterday at the port of Haifa and are still docked inside the harbor.
Let foreign journalists in.
Enough blockade, including on freedom of information! https://t.co/ytsjGqpT0t— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) August 27, 2025
Prof Marandi takes Mario Newfal to school, who was wise enough to be courteous.
Keep talking about Gaza!
Aug 3
The cry from the perfidious Europe that they will recognize a Palestinian state has been totally non-believable. Now they are trying to close the trap. France (I don’t know who and it does not matter) just announced that they will indeed recognize a Palestinian State, if Hamas gives up its weapons. That is the trap that they are trying to close now.
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor:
• israeli forces have destroyed 97% of livestock and working animals in the Gaza Strip through bombing, starvation, and looting.
• The targeting of livestock is part of a deliberate policy aimed at starving the population, depleting food resources, and inflicting severe human and psychological suffering.
• israel’s policies reflect a systematic and continuous pattern of genocide, imposing living conditions under which survival becomes impossible.
• Over 93% of poultry farms in Gaza have been completely destroyed due to israeli aggression, with the remaining few having entirely ceased operation.
• Field teams documented the death of tens of thousands of birds, either from direct bombing or from the lack of feed and water.
• More than 97% of cattle and sheep present in Gaza before the war have perished—either directly from bombing or through starvation.
• Of the estimated 20,000 donkeys and thousands of horses and mules in Gaza before the aggression, 43% had died by August 2024, and as of today, less than 6% remain.
• The death of most donkeys and mules presents a critical crisis, as they were the primary means of transportation amid the near-total fuel shortage and infrastructure collapse.
During Witkoff’s visit to Gaza, GHF announced the distribution of 100 million meals
To 2.2 million people. This means 46 meals per person. And I didn’t receive a single meal. Nor any of my relatives
GHF is a lie, and the numbers are scams. pic.twitter.com/ty8AoOkyIr
— Ahmed Shameya (@ahmedshameya995) August 1, 2025
‘Aid convoys are systematically delayed by Israel, truck routes take 18+ hours’ — UN Humanitarian agency spox to RT. ‘We are given unpassable, dangerous and congested routes,’ Olga Cherevko says. ‘Reality on the ground as grim as it gets’
20 Seconds of Your daily ZioNazis
“Kill them, exterminate them… just like using a lice comb.”
While the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites continue to be mass execution sites, here’s the Nazi rhetoric being broadcast to Israelis on a daily basis.
In Syria, the decimation continues. In Lebanon, the decimation continues.
It is now clearer than ever that the americans and israelis are fully orchestrating the game from above, while their puppets on the ground are unable to grasp or navigate the illusion. Both sides are operated by american interests and have direct links to these malignant powers. israeli forces could potentially enter to strike HTS, especially from the Tartous axis, where HTS has been gathering in large numbers. This entire scenario resembles a vile video game one where people devour each other in the name of power, lust, and fanatical beliefs, all under the guidance and blessing of america and its proxy, israel.
Here, we will not forget GAZA!
Jul 26
Today we bang on our pots: The people of Gaza hear your voices in the streets – and they are calling for more… until the genocide and starvation end. Take to the streets. Bang on your pots. Raise your voices for Gaza. Today, we will see you in cities around the world – for Gaza and its people, for Palestine, and to shatter the global silence surrounding a crime still unfolding.
There are many protests around the world, and the police brutality is incredible to see.
Jul 25
We may hold out a little hope for an internal Israeli breakup. The contradictions are getting too large to hide, and to serious to ignore. We also know now who the lying bastard is: Trump’s envoy and Trump wants his Gaza Riviera.
Thousands of protesters in Tel Aviv clashed with Israeli forces while demanding an end to the war in Gaza and the release of the Israeli captives.
Also see this: Qatar, Egypt Issue Statement Contradicting Witkoff’s Claim That Hamas Rejected Gaza Ceasefire Deal: https://globalsouth.co/2025/07/25/qatar-egypt-issue-statement-contradicting-witkoffs-claim-that-hamas-rejected-gaza-ceasefire-deal/
Jul 23
American soldiers aim their weapons and hurl grenades at starving Palestinian civilians searching for food near US-Israeli-engineered death traps.
The 2 most satanic regimes in human history.#GazaHolocaust #GazaStarving pic.twitter.com/Sy3PszPkmV
— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) July 23, 2025
Stop the flow of oil, cut off ties, and halt trade. The children are starving.#GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/lSWQCNT9Z7
— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) July 23, 2025
Jul 21
Marwa Osman: “I haven’t slept properly for 3 days straight.
The messages, photos and videos of starvation in Gaza are making me sick to my stomach and unable to shut my eyes.
I have been repeating 1 Dua without even thinking about it…
“O Lord, let the Day of Judgment come tomorrow, and may this weary world vanish into oblivion.”
Humanity has failed.
Today I apologise and will take a break from this thread.
People ask what they can do? People want to put themselves into this bodily. For myself, I sometimes just struggle to eat and cannot look at my food, as I want to stretch right across the ocean and give it to Gaza. But we have to remain healthy as we have to continue testifying.
I looked at the statistics for this thread, i.e., how many read it, and find that we get around 10,000 views per month. These are not the regulars but what they call unique visitors. So on the average the rate is that +- 10,000 new sets of eyes look at this thread. It is a big number for us. Looking at the locales, i.e., where the viewers come from, it is quite a surprise. We even have viewers from Burkina Faso – a whole 11 of them, so far this month. You are so welcome!
What we can do, is to continue testifying. I know there are not many comments here, because it breaks one. Some days in my routine work, I put this last because it is so heartbreaking that I cannot continue. But if you can continue commenting, this will encourage all of those +- 10,000 new incoming eyes to not forget about Gaza.
Jul 21
The WHO Offices were just shot up in Gaza.
Dear heavens – one of the very last journalist groups in Gaza.
Jul 19
UNRWA has enough food for the entire population of #Gaza for over three months stockpiled in warehouses–including this one in Al Arish, Egypt–awaiting entry.
The supplies are available. The systems are in place.
Open the gates, lift the siege, allow UNRWA to do its work and… pic.twitter.com/3e1bVbFnGv
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) July 19, 2025
Jul 18
The balkanization of Syria and the big regional picture.
Please listen. You don’t have to be a genius to understand Israel’s strategy in the region. Israeli officials are not geniuses but the people are too distracted. https://t.co/gxSVQpEYNz
— Kevork Almassian (@KevorkAlmassian) July 18, 2025
They are telling you their intentions in advance but people don’t see beyond their noses. pic.twitter.com/OnzUIVCRkO
— Kevork Almassian (@KevorkAlmassian) July 18, 2025
Special security sources report that prominent Syrian officials, including Julani, left the capital Damascus in recent hours, heading toward Idlib province or Latakia, accompanied by their families and some relatives. The operation was reportedly carried out at the direct request and coordination of the Turkish side. Al Mayadeen confirms that Syrian ‘President’ Ahmed al-Sharaa has left Damascus with his family—just hours after an alleged Israeli assassination operation targeted three top officials in the Transitional Administration, including Defense Minister Marhaf Abu Qasra.
Vanessa Beeley: “Turkey will maintain control in the north through the Syrian National Army but will not be allowed to expand into central Syria. Russia and France will come to a deal on the management of the coast area in cooperation with Israel. The situation is fluid and I will update as more information comes in and I can add any developments to the analysis .
One thing is for sure, the more Israel over-extends, the greater the opportunity for the Resistance.”
Sources expect the pace of the attacks to gradually decline starting tomorrow. The latest is that the head of Turkish Intelligence has made a deal with Israel to de-escalate.
The situation is very fluid. Bear in mind the Druze consists of different tribes with different allegiances. It is not one cohesive group that can be protected by Israel .. Israel with US support says it is protecting the Druze. If you believe that, then there is a bridge in Brooklyn that you may buy for cheap! It really is an insult to all the rest of the world that have been watching these long +- 20 months and all the previous Gaza ‘haircuts’.
Basically the whole world condemned Israel yesterday in the UN and the UNSC for their attacks but this is simply part of building the Greater Israel. Israel acts with complete impunity.
Predictably Syria is disintegrating and US intelligence agencies are very pleased to see the fruits of their “work” come to fruition.
Every morning in Gaza, people begin their day with faint hope and empty stomachs, going out in search of a loaf of bread to ease their hunger… but no one finds anything.
All roads lead to the siege, and all doors are closed in the face of the hungry.
Gaza wakes up each day to the pain of hunger, and bread remains a distant dream in a homeland wilting under the fire of occupation and starvation.
Yesterday, 12 countries announced their commitment to a full arms embargo on the Israeli government. The resolution comes out of an emergency summit in Bogota where members of the Hague Group gathered to coordinate legal and diplomatic action to counter the “climate of impunity” for Israeli war crimes that is enabled by the US and other countries.
I watched this video yesterday and today it has disappeared:
Israeli draftees in Tel Aviv march against the IDF, burn their draft cards and explain why no one should serve in Israel’s genocidal army!
Watch!#TikTok https://t.co/4F59itCdYq
— Jeffrey Kaye (@jeff_kaye) July 18, 2025
Leader of Ansar Allah, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, on the developments of the Israeli aggression on Gaza and the latest regional and international updates – 22 Muharram 1447 AH, July 17, 2025:
The Israeli enemy continues the genocide against the Palestinian people and seeks to accumulate its criminal record.
The Israeli enemy is using American bombs intensively, perhaps even more than firing bullets, and the Americans supply them in continuous shipments.
The aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza is almost an American aggression before it is Israeli, with the Israeli role being that of execution.
The Americans endorse everything the Israeli enemy does and support and share it because they both operate based on the belief in the Zionist agenda.
The view towards the Americans should be based on insight and awareness grounded in the Holy Quran and clear, established facts.
The prevailing attitude among Arab and Islamic regimes, as well as in most media outlets, is to present the Americans in a different light, as if there is still hope for them to change their position.
The Israelis and Americans have no regard for human life, which, in their view, is permissible for the sake of desire or interest.
The Israeli enemy targets Gaza’s inhabitants by depriving them of water and turns the issue of obtaining drinking water into an adventure.
The policy of pushing towards loyalty to the American side and relying on it leads to significant distortions in orientations, morals, and values at the expense of the principles of Islam.
Many of the people of our Islamic Ummah, more than other nations, behave as if they are deaf, dumb, and blind to what is happening in the Gaza Strip.
The UN rapporteur says the US, by enabling Israel’s campaign through weapons, technology, and political cover, shares responsibility for the atrocities unfolding in Gaza
[Note: I would like to make a change here. The Cradle reports on the US, but there are many organizations and many countries clearly profiting from genocide, involved and Franscesca ultimately says their States bear the reponsibility. It is a complex document and I have not fully integrated the information, but so far, I did not find reporting on Russia, or on Iran]
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, on 3 July, urged states to sever all financial and trade ties with Israel and impose a full arms embargo.
She described the situation in Gaza as “apocalyptic,” accusing Tel Aviv of carrying out “one of the cruellest genocides in modern history.”
Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Albanese said, “What I expose is not a list, it is a system, and that is to be addressed.” She went on to present her latest report, which names over 60 companies accused of facilitating Israeli settlements and military activity in Gaza.
The recommendations were met with applause inside the chamber. Israel’s delegate was not present, in line with Tel Aviv’s stated policy of disengagement from the council, which it accuses of antisemitism.
Albanese urged UN member states to halt all arms transfers, suspend trade agreements with Israel, and prosecute companies complicit in war crimes. “We must reverse the tide.” She warned that the continued complicity of states and corporations sustains the conditions for genocide in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Israel’s diplomatic mission in Geneva dismissed the report as “legally groundless, defamatory and a flagrant abuse of her office” earlier this week, before the session.
During the session itself, no Israeli response was issued. The mission also did not reply to Reuters’s request for comment on the rapporteur’s remarks.
Israel continues to reject all accusations of genocide in Gaza, citing its response to the 7 October 2023 attack.
Albanese is one of dozens of independent UN-mandated experts who monitor and report on rights abuses around the world.
Soldiers’ testimonies and a comprehensive report by AP confirm long-standing accusations that the GHF has militarized food aid under US-Israeli oversight.
Eyewitness accounts and video evidence show contractors using live ammunition, tear gas, and stun grenades against crowds of civilians collecting aid.
Internal documents detail dozens of injuries during each distribution, while Palestinian families say they are shot at from towers and dirt mounds as they flee.
Despite denials, AP’s findings show GHF guards operating with impunity in what one contractor described as “a war zone, not a relief mission.”
This work covers the economic aspects of a genocide and calls it by name. These are legal responsibilities, clearly delineated in law. They are called ‘obligations’.
Everything that I said about those countries supporting Israel over a long period will now be exposed. We will see some red faces. Yes, China is there. So is South Korea and a raft of others, even Mexico. We have 39 pages of organisations, state owned enterprises and others that are in the eyes of the law guilty to perpetrating this genocide and ignoring their own obligations under the law. It is worse than that. They are profiting from it.
Although she talks about Corporate Entities, the definition is: Corporate entities” in the present report refers to business enterprises, multinational corporations, for-profit and not-for-profit entities, whether private, public or State-owned. Corporate responsibility applies regardless of the size, sector, operational context, ownership and structure of the entity.
This is not business as usual.
My new UN report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, is out today.
It shows how corporations have fueled and legitimised the destruction of Palestine.
Genocide, it would seem, is profitable. This cannot continue, accountability must… pic.twitter.com/Ei3atw0TQ1— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) July 1, 2025
On 3 July, she will have a press conference after releasing her new work. I’m putting the prepaged page right here for all who want to take a listen at the time.
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a/k1a90qctnz
UN expert identifies over 60 companies directly aiding Israel
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Francesca Albanese, an Italian human rights lawyer and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has identified more than 60 companies, including major arms producers and tech firms, in a… pic.twitter.com/3AA2Z5vfVU— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) July 1, 2025
This post will be updated after Francesca’s press conference.
‘It’s a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
This is an article written by Haaretz and quickly saved in the Internet Archive. Haaretz keeps their work under a paywall and is probably the most effective Israeli opposition. However, there may be a copyright problem if we post the full work. https://help.archive.org/help/rights/
This is a subset but please go to the Internet archive at the link given, for the full article.
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes ■ Netanyahu, Katz reject claims, call them ‘blood libels’.
Blood libels from the Israeli side is a word to indicate that they are innocent of all and everything. They consider this a false accusation against Jews. They consider this anti-semitic and and say that from the time of antiquity it is an accusation that falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christians in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals. From this article, this has nothing to do with blood libels.
Haarets states: “Conversations with officers and soldiers reveal that commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds to drive them away or disperse them, even though it was clear they posed no threat. ”
One soldier described the situation as a total breakdown of the Israel Defense Forces’ ethical codes in Gaza.
According to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza, 549 people have been killed near aid centers and in areas where residents were waiting for UN food trucks since May 27. Over 4,000 have been wounded, but the exact number of those killed or injured by IDF fire remains unclear.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid centers began operating in the Strip at the end of May. The circumstances of the foundation’s establishment and its funding are murky: it is known to have been set up by Israel in coordination with U.S. evangelicals and private security contractors. Its current CEO is an evangelical leader close to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Haaretz has counted 19 shooting incidents near them. While the shooters’ identities are not always clear, the IDF does not permit armed individuals in these humanitarian zones without its knowledge.
The distribution centers typically open for just one hour each morning. According to officers and soldiers who served in their areas, the IDF fires at people who arrive before opening hours to prevent them from approaching, or again after the centers close, to disperse them. Since some of the shooting incidents occurred at night – ahead of the opening – it’s possible that some civilians couldn’t see the boundaries of the designated area.
“It’s a killing field,” one soldier said. “Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They’re treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire.”
The soldier added, “We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range. But there’s no danger to the forces.” According to him, “I’m not aware of a single instance of return fire. There’s no enemy, no weapons.” He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as Operation Salted Fish – the name of the Israeli version of the children’s game “Red light, green light”.
IDF officers told Haaretz that the army does not allow the public in Israel or abroad to see footage of what takes place around the food distribution sites. According to them, the army is satisfied that the GHF’s operations have prevented a total collapse of international legitimacy for continuing the war. They believe the IDF has managed to turn Gaza into a “backyard,” especially since the war with Iran began.
The security on the sites is organized into several tiers. Inside the distribution centers and the “corridor” leading to them are American workers, and the IDF is not permitted to operate in that space. A more external layer is made up of Palestinian supervisors, some of them armed and affiliated with the Abu Shabab militia.
In one incident, the soldier was instructed to fire a shell toward a crowd gathered near the coastline. “Technically, it’s supposed to be warning fire – either to push people back or stop them from advancing,” he said. “But lately, firing shells has just become standard practice. Every time we fire, there are casualties and deaths, and when someone asks why a shell is necessary, there’s never a good answer. Sometimes, merely asking the question annoys the commanders.”
In that case, some people began to flee after the shell was fired, and according to the soldier, other forces subsequently opened fire on them. “If it’s meant to be a warning shot, and we see them running back to Gaza, why shoot at them?” he asked. “Sometimes we’re told they’re still hiding, and we need to fire in their direction because they haven’t left. But it’s obvious they can’t leave if the moment they get up and run, we open fire.”
“They talk about using artillery on a junction full of civilians as if it’s normal. An entire conversation about whether it’s right or wrong to use artillery, without even asking why that weapon was needed in the first place. What concerns everyone is whether it’ll hurt our legitimacy to keep operating in Gaza. The moral aspect is practically nonexistent. No one stops to ask why dozens of civilians looking for food are being killed every day.”
This is consistent with what we see in Gaza every day. So any excuse of blood libel or it was just a mistake or oops, we should not have shot this time is purely a bunch of lies.
Do read the full article at the Internet Archive: https://archive.is/MyLFb
There is a further issue being reported widely now. The flour and sugar delivered as part of the US and Israeli aid program, is salted with drugs. The footage shows various tablets in the flour and people arrive at barely functioning hospitals out of their minds, having had some sugar.
Trump is still bellowing that he is responsible for bringing aid into Gaza. That is a lie. The aid system handled by the UN via various organizations skilled in distributing aid (without shooting aid seekers and without drugging aid seekers) was functioning properly. It is Israel that closed the entry points and Egypt obeyed and hundred of aid trucks had to throw out the aid waiting to enter Gaza. There is also footage of aid that arrives completely rotten.
Never forget that this is a genocide uglier even than the one Pol Pot ran in Cambodia. https://www.britannica.com/event/Cambodian-Genocide. It is more brutal than the genocide in Rwanda. https://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/rwanda/historical-background.shtml
Call it a genocide. It is not a war. It is a mass killing of Palestinian human beings. All the excuses that the US took over aid delivery to stop Hamas is so much bunkum. We hear now that Trump talks about a ceasefire in a week or two. This is part of the plan set out as the Abahams Shield reported here. “30 Pieces of Silver” – New Gaza and Middle East Plan
This is what the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ are doing every day: it’s a hunting party, a firing squad — Vamp’s lair | via @s_m_marandi pic.twitter.com/xm08VR05RX
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) June 29, 2025
The British government is more upset with a chant instead of actual genocide. Let that sink in folks. https://t.co/BrKg6xas8J
— Sabby Sabs (@SabbySabs2) June 28, 2025
May I remind you of another chant in Israel: “May your village burn!”
US & Israel just blocked a UN move to shut down Gaza’s Deadliest “Aid” Scam
The United States and Israel are actively resisting UN plan to shut down the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) — US and Israeli-backed aid mechanism launched in February 2025 to deliver food and essentials in Gaza, a project that’s been killing more than it feeds.
The UN, Red Cross, and major aid groups have all refused to work with GHF, calling it unsafe, inhumane, and a violation of humanitarian principles.
Despite this, the US just pumped $30 million into the project — prioritizing political control over saving lives.
Rights groups say GHF’s close ties with the Israeli military may make it complicit in war crimes.
The message is clear: This isn’t aid — it’s humiliation, control, and death, dressed up in fake charity. They starve the Palestinians, then shoot them when they reach for bread. Shut it down. Stop playing God with Palestinian lives!!!
Chris Hedges wrote as well and if you can stand more, here he is, comparing with Hunger Games in genocides that he covered as a reporter: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/gazas-hunger-games?publication_id=778851&post_id=167107645&isFreemail=true&r=1rgaoj&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
June 1
Direct shooting into the crowd assembling for aid distribution. The attack occurred as massive crowds were waiting for aid outside a U.S. aid distribution center after being told to go there to receive aid. At least 31 Palestinians killed and 200 injured by Israeli fire near US-backed aid distribution site.
The attack came shortly after US rejected Hamas’s ‘totally unacceptable’ response to a ceasefire proposal.
Doctors report that every victim brought to the hospital had a single bullet wound to the head or chest, clear evidence of deliberate, targeted killing.
The lying Israeli Media frames it like this: “Gazans line up this morning at an aid distribution point near Rafah in southern Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution points have in their first week of operation provided millions of meals to tens of thousands of Gaza families.”
May 31
The “Israeli” enemy has waged a war of genocide in Gaza for 20 months (more than 600 days); the Palestinian tragedy itself spans 77 years. The most recent is that in the past 12 hours, the Zionist occupation bombed more than 60 buildings in Gaza.
At times, it is impossible to update this thread, and one has to step away. Yesterday was such a day. Today, there is a wide range of themes to choose from. Everything is now at a maximum crisis level. What do we choose?
-The 100% famine and people being starved to death? People having to run through a hail of bullets to get to aid distribution, which the investigative journalists tell us that Israel entirely financially owns the aid? The daily reports of aid stations refusing to hand out aid, and then, after claiming a station is open, people arrive and find it closed?
-Or do we choose as a theme children and families being burnt in their tents, having been shot at with incendiary ammunition to create fire to burn and char them to death
-Or is the better theme for the day the legal issues via Francesca Albanese and the UN Security Council? Francesca is in extreme danger. The Israeli smearing mob has tried. They cannot delegitimize her with sexual scandal. Financial scandal, they’ve tried and failed, and all that is left is a threat to her life.
-Or do we talk about the internal decay in Israel and all they have left, which is binary? Stop or continue the carnage. Continuing is all they have left. European countries now, only now, express that this human carnage must end? Of course, they see the writing on the wall and want to be seen as being on the right side. We will take what we get, but this effort by no means indicates an actual change of heart. Posturing is all they know how to do.
-Or could the theme be the constant bombing of anything still standing?
-Or the medical disaster, where doctors and medical staff are burning out and crying that they cannot stand the children in pain while having no medical supplies to use?
-Then, there is always Prof. Marandi, who, daily, at least three times, speaks out.
-There is always the Trump administration to talk about, which is now considering sanctions on Chile only because Chile withdrew its diplomatic staff from Israel?
-We can choose a theme for today, the ceasefire or peace negotiations, which are a sham, and there only to provide a theater in order to continue the butchery. The latest press is that Hamas accepts Witkoff’s proposal on Gaza, but with reservations — Al Arabiya reports
Insists on releasing hostages in small groups over 60 days, instead of 2
Demands ‘real guarantees’ from US that Israel will comply with agreement
-The world is out in the streets, and the new commitment is that the people will not leave the streets. They will stay and continue protesting until the genocide is stopped. Activists in the streets are also brutally attacked.
-We can also discuss our diverse group of video and show makers, who have stopped discussing genocide. Better to ignore those!
-There is also Netanyahu, who has blocked a visit by Middle East ministers to the West Bank, saying, ‘Israel will NOT cooperate’. Saudi, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey FMs planned talks on ‘establishment of Palestinian state’. There is another reason for this block, and it is that Netanyahu wants to hide the horror of his handiwork. (Remember, they shot at a previous visiting delegation). Don’t you touch our genocide!
-There is also the Al-Qassam fighters, who are within their ability, again fighting the Israeli Defense Force soldiers, and making them cry.
-Yemen has indicated that it will now target Israel’s warplanes.
-The US is reportedly sifting through the social media of possible visitors and students to make sure they don’t say a bad word about good Israel. The announcement also states that they will pursue international organizations.
Gaza! When grown men cry.
May 18
Hamas announces: A senior Hamas official told CNN:
We agreed to release nine hostages in exchange for a 60-day truce and the release of 300 Palestinian prisoners.
The Yemenis has just put out a warning – at 12pm their time:
Warning and Alert
Everyone present at Ben Gurion Airport must leave immediately, and all companies must evacuate the airport now. The coming hours will be harsh.
Gaza is a fireball of death, tents melting with the flesh of children as they are sleeping, screaming silently as the flames engulf them. Parents, family, friends watching in horror and helplessness as their loved ones are incinerated in front of them again and again. The powers of the world who do nothing but pay lip service to some decaying UN Charter or mumble into the ether about the diseased concept of a two state solution as Palestinians are swept from our world in a tsunami of hatred and craven barbarism supported by every single, immoral world regime that has the power to prevent this Holocaust but fails in their duty to universal Humanity. Only the poor, the oppressed, the besieged, the courageous and righteous nations and peoples stand between Palestine, the region and it’s annihilation.
The Yemeni Sana’a airport is now repaired and flights are taking off and landing.
Guest: Shireen Al-Adeimi is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and assistant professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University’s College of Education.
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An eloquent short historical profile of the Ansarullah movement by a fair critic from south Yemen. She is from Aden, the traditional rival of north Yemen of the last centuries, and the third most important global sea port in the 19th century.
She dispels Anglo-Zionist agitprop that Yemenis serve Iran, or that Ansarullah are a minority; they control 80-85% of the total population that lives bunched in the smaller but more secure highland north. Zaidi Islam is followed by 40% of all Yemenis and coexists peacefully with Sunni and Shia, being not of either, but a bridge respected by all except fringe salafi extremists imported from the GCC. She reminds us that ALL Yemenis have been devotees of Palestine and their liberation cause for over a century now, starting with the British occupation.
Ansarullah represent and merely discharge the will of at least 30-32 Million of the 40 M Yemenis.
American political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein, though the son of Polish Holocaust survivors, has never been afraid to speak his mind about Israel. At a February 2025 event sponsored by CAIR Florida (the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations), Finkelstein delivered fiery comments about Israel’s in-your-face brand of genocide:
“It’s absolutely mind-numbing. One genocidal statement after another genocidal statement after another genocidal statement after another, another, another, another! So here’s the thing: Israel, if you look at what they write in their newspapers, what they post on Facebook, what they tweet, what they say on public affairs radio and TV programs, they aren’t in the least hiding the fact that they’re committing genocide. They are proud of it. They are boasting about it. They relish it…. [A]cross the board, from one end of the political spectrum to the other, and from the top to the bottom, it’s a national project to for once and for all liquidate Gaza.”
Finkelstein has paid a professional price for his methodical deconstruction of the Israeli juggernaut, which began with his late 1980s Princeton doctoral dissertation on Zionism and subsequently continued in books like The Holocaust Industry (2000), Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (2003), Method and Madness (2015), and Gaza (2021). Describing his academic career as having gone “up in flames,” Finkelstein wryly observed in a 2020 interview with Jed Macosko at AcademicInfluence.com that college administrators didn’t want to deal with the “Finkelstein albatross,” and he himself found it impossible to “play the academic game.”
At the Yale Political Union (YPU) in January of this year, at the close of an affirmative speech on the resolution “The state of Israel is responsible for genocide,” Finkelstein concluded, “Israel’s response is not disproportionate, I would argue it is proportionate to its goal of destroying the civilian population of Gaza.”
We salute Finkelstein’s steadfast commitment to speaking uncomfortable truths. As Catherine and John Titus have often discussed on Money & Markets, “Gaza is a method” that is coming for all of us unless we push back.
Ed Note: I am glad to see The Solari Report featuring Gaza and Norman Finkelstein as their ‘pushback’ for the week.
“How weary am I of devils and brutes, a true human is what I long for.”
By Nora Hoppe at Al Mayadeen.
The fact that our planet in this day and age is home to a genocide – visible to all human beings on personal devices throughout the world – an ongoing abomination unhindered by any international body, by any intergovernmental organisation or even by those noble states that proclaim to be constructing a new and more just world… says a lot about our evolution as a species and potentially about the future of our civilisation.
We now stand before a bifurcation: one clear and broad path leads to destruction and ruin; the other is to lead to a new and harmonious world… but it is winding, stony, vague and enveloped in fog.
Like a frantic victim in quicksand, flailing his arms about in vain, the frenzy of a declining Empire is only accelerating its own demise. It has chosen the path leading to ruin and its own suicide… and it has many followers – especially in its diseased appendix – the Zionist entity – and the rest of the Western World. The symptoms of this necrotic drive are seen in the Forever Wars; a self-devouring economic system based on insatiable greed and wilful ignorance; the destruction of society, of the family, of rituals and traditions; and, essentially, a total contempt for all that is natural and alive… These signs arise from a state of permanent discontent and fear, which ultimately leads to self-destruction.
And now… though today’s Hegemon, the United States – built on genocide and slavery – has been waging countless wars since its inception, and Europe has been massacring and plundering the planet for over 500 years due to its endless rapacity… it is no longer just a question of geography. The core of the problem of our human civilisation today is the western mindset and the system of financialised capitalism, both of which have infected the entire world to various degrees… with only a few exceptions.
Most of the World Majority remains incapable of throwing off the yoke of the colonialist West because of corruption, dependence, societal pressures and a lack of support from states to enlighten citizens on their own past and history.
The mythification and emulation of the Western World have become so deeply ingrained in the marrow of so many over so many centuries… that a decolonisation process will take time. And little has been undertaken officially to this end. The promising BRICS+ states are focussing mainly on trade, economic growth and hi-tech innovation.
To avoid that western path to societal devastation and ruin and to clear the other path of fog, we of the Global Majority need to seek clarity in many areas… We may have to make seismic changes to our ways of thinking. We can begin by questioning our definitions of very basic terms… Such as: what is “development”, what is “growth”, “what is “prosperity”, what is “progress”? Not all growth is advantageous – as in malignant metastases. “Positive growth” today pertains chiefly to monetary matters – GDP, GNI, PPP. What is “progress”? Progress today mostly pertains to technological innovations. And certainly it is imperative that peoples are lifted out of poverty, such as China has succeeded in doing… but what is the kind of “prosperity” that Humanity would like to achieve??
Today, in this post-modern world, there is little discussion of development, growth, prosperity and progress with regard to immaterial matters…
It is not only education, the arts and cultures of the world that have fallen into stagnation, but obviously also the ethics and value systems of entire states and societies… not to mention the conscience of most of Humanity.
How else could a genocide become commonplace? How else could atrocities become a daily tolerable spectacle throughout the world? How else can two genocidal leaders meet and speak so eagerly about their “real estate plans” for their concentration camp as though they were having a normal conversation? How else could we have all become a global audience for an orchestrated famine? How else can so many European states and the EU Border Control Authority Frontex become the clients of “combat-tested” weapons (“tested” in Gaza) from Elbit Systems (“Israel”‘s largest arms company) that manufacture surveillance drones and remote-control turrets for armoured vehicles to enable European soldiers to avoid accountability and a bad conscience when targeted refugees are murdered by anonymous technicians located in remote offices? How else can European countries allow their historical incidents of genocide against the Jews to be “revised” and whitewashed by the Zionist entity for Israeli business advantages? How else could International Law be trampled upon without resistance? How else could serial mendacity and the constant breaching of constitutions and agreements become acceptable? How else could the citizens of those states, which vaunt their “freedom of expression” and “western values”, allow their states to reach the point at which they are now criminalising protesters for standing up for human rights?
Other than the people involved directly in battles for their survival (in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere), courageous soldiers fighting against Nazism, committed journalists risking their lives on the fronts and activists, risking their professions for protesting against the Genocide… where is the rest of the world?
Some states voice their condemnation of the ongoing genocide but take no action, because… because it’s… complicated.
And yet… we have an exception… the Ansarallah of Yemen. There is nothing complicated about their resolute move: it is simply a matter of priority.
Why would the majority of a people of one of the poorest countries (perhaps the poorest) on Earth devote most of their energy, their scarce resources and their steadfast beliefs in risking their lives in defence of another people, who are not directly related to them and are located in a distant country (an estimated 2,270 kilometres away)? What unites these people in this goal? And what might be THEIR definitions of “development”, “growth”, “prosperity” and “progress”?
A crossroads of various civilisations for at least 7000 years, Yemen’s own great civilisation has, over centuries, experienced countless invasions, fierce battles, usurping dynasties and colonial occupations by those who continually sought to plunder, conquer and control this valuable, highly developed, resource-rich and “geographically optimal” territory.
In the 1990s, after a long period of economic hardship due in part to persistent Saudi oppression and notably Yemen’s refusal to join the US-Saudi military coalition against Iraq, a Zaidi grassroots movement emerged in northern Yemen, known as Muntada al-Shabab al-Mu’min (“Believing Youth”) – which offered social programmes to the impoverished population of the region. The successful movement grew and soon transformed into the Ansarallah (“Supporters of God”) who went on to fight six wars against the Saudi– and Western-backed Saleh regime between 2004 and 2010…
Now, despite decades of deprivations, the Ansarallah remain undeterred in their goals for justice, in their fight to liberate Palestine and to improve their own country. To achieve these goals, they do not require “monetary prosperity” and a financialised state. In all their operations they show solidarity and unity amongst themselves. They cannot be intimidated. They are ready to die for their beliefs and principles.
In their filmed speeches and discussions, the demeanour of the Ansarallah is visibly marked by confidence, serenity, grace, poise, modesty… During the Third International Conference “Palestine, the Central Cause of the Nation”, they displayed kindness, generosity and hospitality in welcoming foreign guests, even toward those hailing from “hostile states”.
Single-handedly, they have disrupted global shipping power dynamics. Relying on the expertise of their own specialists, they manufacture weapons themselves… The US Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer Bill LaPlante expressed alarm over the sophistication of these weapons: “What I’ve seen of what Ansar Allah has done in the last six months is shocking.”
In his article Factors behind Yemen’s Valiant Resistance, journalist and political analyst Ayman Ahmed describes how the Ansarallah “managed to modify conventional military tactics in very unconventional ways” by adopting a guerrilla-oriented approach: moving on foot over hostile terrains in small mobile groups, with their group leaders often improvising tactics on the spot, and using little to no electronic devices… “Their use of drones in almost guerrilla-style operations highlights how the Yemenis managed to jam billion-dollar Saudi air defenses…” […] “The Saudi regime has not been able to score any major military victory despite possessing large stockpiles of weapons supplied by the world’s leading arms merchants.”
But their strongest asset of all is their motivation and determination in their pursuit of “a dignified life and standard of living for Yemeni citizens, the protection of the independence of the nation and seeking world peace and appropriate equal cooperation with the other countries of the world” – as inscribed in their “National Vision for the Modern Yemeni State“. With this, they have won the support of the masses across all segments of society.
As Rune Agerhus, political analyst and member of the International Commission for Solidarity with Yemen, wrote here: “What Ansarallah has managed to establish, while facing war, starvation, and a crippling blockade, is a system that could best be described as akin to Yugoslavian worker self-management” […] “Farmland and output are controlled by the cooperatives, which are wholly owned and administered by Yemen’s peasantry.” The defence of Yemen as a whole is being fought on two fronts – “the battlefront and the development front”.
The system adopted by the Ansarallah is the antithesis of contemporary capitalism.
(Not to forget: Yemen has already had experience with socialism when its southern territory – a separate state in 1967-1990 – eventually formed a Marxist-Leninist government following decades of rapacious British colonial rule over the region.)
In our globalised, postmodern, technology-obsessed world dominated by Western norms, technocrats and the Market and guided by an ignorance of history and a limitation in independent reasoning, the Ansarallah seem to many backward and savage at worst, quaint and exotic at best…
Different people may have different views of the Ansarallah and will judge them accordingly… but the ACTIONS taken by these people in defence of another people undergoing a genocide, especially in view of their own circumstances, speak for themselves… louder than any fine words.
On 10th April 2025, under the incessant bombings of the barbaric Hegemon, Ansarallah’s leader Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi made another urgent appeal to the world… to come to the aid of the Palestinian people and to become conscious of our ethical responsibility as part of a collective humanity. Who is listening? Where is the “world community”?
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After so many millennia of human civilisation, what is the “progress” we are making as a species in our modern-day age?
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Dar al-Hajar, former royal palace outside of Sanaa (1920) on the ruins of an ancient Sabaean palace known as the Fortress of Dhi Saydan, constructed by the Himyarites in 3000 BCE
Inscriptions in Musnad, the Temple of Awwam, Throne of Queen Bilqis (Sheba) 1500–1200 BCE © Zain Alaabdain Ben Ali / Arabia Felix Magazine
“Unrestricted submarine warfare, unrestricted air bombing . . . this is total war. Time and the ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.”
By Professor Dr. Syed Mujahid Kamran at Daily Pakistan.
The Korean War fought between Communist forces of North Korea, the U.S. puppet regime of the South and eventually involving the U.S. through the U.N. and the People’s Republic of China, was a brutal genocidal war, which has been consigned to well-thought-out oblivion by the Anglo-American Establishment. The Korean war broke out on the night of June 24 and 25, 1950 when the forces of Kim Il Sung attempted to unify Korea within one month. They almost succeeded. U.S. intervention, backed by the UN, eventually stopped and reversed the tide. The Chinese then entered the war against the advice of Stalin. The war ended on 27 July 1953 with an armistice. The South Koreans (ROK – Republic of Korea) never signed a treaty with the North Koreans (DPRK Democratic People’s Republic of Korea).
Were it not for the U.S. intelligence officer Col. L. Fletcher Prouty, nobody would have known that the Korean and Vietnam wars were planned during the dying days of WWII. It was Prouty who first wrote about Churchill’s extremely important statement regarding the High Cabal. Prouty narrates that at the height of WWII, Churchill, upon hearing of the bombing of Rotterdam, remarked: “Unrestricted submarine warfare, unrestricted air bombing . . . this is total war. Time and the ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.” The High Cabal is a set of the wealthiest families on the planet that operate in complete and sinister secrecy and anonymity, and who have amassed their huge wealth through instigated wars and usurious lending to warring nations. Churchill knew of the High Cabal because he was their asset. It was the High Cabal that had planned the Korean and Vietnam wars in the dying days of WWII. The great bloodshed of WWII had not yet ended when they had begun planning the next one.
Despite enormous damage done to Japan by aerial bombardment, invasion of Japan was considered essential to secure “unconditional” surrender. Thus when the island of Okinawa became available as a launching pad for such an invasion, supplies and equipment for half a million men was piled up in Okinawa. The use of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki secured unconditional Japanese surrender rendering the piles of equipment on Okinawa Island redundant. Prouty happened to be on Okinawa Island on the date of the Japanese surrender. He narrates “Almost immediately, U.S. Navy transport vessels began to show up in Naha Harbor, Okinawa. This vast load of war material was reloaded onto those ships.”
During some business at the harbor, Prouty casually asked the harbormaster if the material was being loaded for return to the United States. He writes that he was surprised by the direct response of the harbormaster: “Hell, no! They ain’t never goin’ to see it again. One-half of this stuff, enough to equip and support at least a hundred and fifty thousand men, is going to Korea, and the other half is going to Indochina.” Prouty notes: “In 1945, none of us had any idea that the first battles of the Cold War were going to be fought by U.S. military units in these regions beginning in 1950 and 1965 – yet that is precisely what had been planned, and it is precisely what happened.” The natural question that arises is who decided that the equipment be sent to these regions? Prouty asks: “Who made that decision back in 1943-45? Who selected Syngman Rhee and Ho Chi Minh to be our new allies as early as mid-1945?” Referring to the High Cabal as the power elite Prouty writes: “This is another one of those windows that permits us to see that some decision had to have been made in some detail by the power elite, yet there is absolutely no record of who made the decisions and for what purpose.” The information provided by Col. Prouty must never be lost sight of when discussing the Korean and Vietnam wars and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The High Cabal considers the entire globe with all its resources as “real estate”, meant to be captured by force or otherwise, and to be put to use for their profits. The High Cabal also believes in a Malthusian philosophy. In the words of Col. Prouty: “The Malthusian theory thus provides a rationalization for the necessity of somehow getting rid of large numbers of people, any people, in any way – even genocide.” The High Cabal has an argument that runs as follows: “Earth will never be able to support the progeny of so many anyhow. From this point of view, genocide – then as now – is accepted as all but inevitable. Who cares and why be concerned?” Finally the High Cabal has a Darwinian mindset. Those who survive and dominate are the “fittest” and have the right to kill off all other races.
The Korean and Vietnam wars reflect the genocidal, Malthusian and Darwinian mindset of the High Cabal. The same is true of the post 9/11 wars in the Middle East.
On the day after the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Rockefeller agent John J. McCloy in the War Department held a meeting with Truman’s foreign policy advisor Dean Acheson and Charles Bonesteel of Pentagon to discuss the division of Korea which had been under Japanese occupation. They chose the 38th Parallel as the dividing line because it included the city of Seoul. The Soviet troops entered North Korea on August 8 and seem to have accepted the 38th Parallel as the dividing line. As a result Korean occupation by Japan was replaced by occupation by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The U.S. forces entered South Korea on September 8, 1945 and soon occupied it south of the 38th Parallel.
The United States established a military government in South Korea. Its intelligence agents picked up several hundred Koreans, who had been Japanese collaborators, to aid the U.S. in running South Korea. The occupation of Korea by the Soviet Union and the United States was occupation of a country that was not a belligerent. Korea was not at war with the Allies or any other party. Thus the end of WWII resulted in the replacement of Japanese occupation of Korea by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. It also resulted in a division of Korea along the 38th Parallel.
Bruce Cummings writes in his book The Korean War that within three weeks of the start of the war a Chinese military intelligence group arrived in Pyongyang. Further, as early as August 4, Chairman Mao decided that if the Americans were to invade the North, China must come to the aid of the North in the name of a volunteer army. When, in mid-September 1950, General MacArthur masterminded the Inchon amphibious landing employing 270 ships, a high level North Korean officer requested Chinese help. On October 1, 1950, Kim Il Sung met the Chinese ambassador to request that the 13th Army Corps of the PLA come to their aid by crossing the Yalu River. Stalin opposed a major Chinese involvement fearing wider war, but Mao went ahead, much to Stalin’s surprise, and sent twelve infantry divisions to help the North Koreans. Stalin, however, backed off from a promise of air cover and that paved the way for aerial genocide of Koreans by the USAF. Apparently the October 1, 1950 crossing of the 38th parallel by the Chinese caused Mao a sleepless night, but he went ahead and informed Stalin the next day. Mao’s decision to back Kim ll Sung was based upon Mao’s straightforward determination that if the Korean struggle faltered, China was bound to support the Korean Communists in view of their great sacrifices during the Chinese revolution and their resistance against the Japanese.
As early as October 1950, General George Stratemeyer of USAF sought permission to attack a provincial capital Sinuiju. The city of Sinuiju had a population of around 60,000 and Strtaemeyer wanted to bomb “over the widest area of the city, without warning, by burning and high explosive”.
Such was the inhuman and genocidal mindset of the American establishment.
Gen. MacArthur denied this request initially. However, on November 3, 1950, MacArthur agreed to a firebombing campaign, accepting Stratemeyer’s request to burn Kanggye: “Burn it if you so desire. Not only that, Strat, but burn and destroy as a lesson to any other of those towns that you consider of military value to the enemy.” The firebombing of Sinuiju was also approved on November 3, 1950. The instructions were noted in summary in Stratemeyer’s diary as follows: “Every installation, facility, and village in North Korea now becomes a military and tactical target.” Stratemeyer gave the following inhuman orders to his bombers: “[D]estroy every means of communications and every installation, factory, city, and village”. Two days later, on November 5, Stratemeyer ordered the destruction of “all other targets including all buildings capable of affording shelter.” On that day, 75% of the city of Kanggye was destroyed by USAF bombers! These massive war crimes against civilian populations of North Korea were committed by the U.S. with impunity. North Koreans have done well not to forget this inhumanity.
The Allied forces had discovered during WWII that it was easier to burn down a city than to blow it up. Thermite sticks bundled together in millions supplemented by mixtures of benzene, phosphorous and other things were employed to set cities on fire. The resulting firebombs could set cities ablze and incinerate them in minutes. On March 16, 1945, the city of Wurzburg was burnt in a mere seventeen minutes!
The development of firebombing represents perhaps the most painful, inhuman and sadistic development in aerial warfare.
When Dresden was firebombed one eye witness who survived described “young women carrying babies running up and down the streets, their dresses and hair on fire, screaming until they fell down, or collapsing buildings fell on top of them.” Firebombing was conceived and developed by the brutal and utterly inhuman Anglo-American alliance. It burns innocent civilians and is a war crime of the highest magnitude.
The American military leaders decided to repeat the firebombing of WWII in North Korea. Germans had an air force and effective anti-aircraft fire that caused significant losses to Allied forces. But North Korea did not have any air force and thus had no air cover. Under these circumstances the bombing and firebombing of North Korea was a one sided affair. Not only was it one sided, the Americans dropped more bombs on North Korea in less than three years than the bombs used in the Pacific theater during the entire WWII. In the Pacific theater the Allies dropped 503,000 tons of bombs during WWII. The U.S. dropped 635,000 tons of bombs on North Korea and an additional 32,557 tons of napalm! Please note that napalm burns at temperatures ranging from 800 to 1200 degree Centigrade. It burns longer than gasoline and adheres to its targets making death much more painful for the victims.
The USAF seemed to have a penchant for napalm bombs because they inflicted the greatest possible pain on their unfortunate victims. General Ridgeway wanted heavier and better napalm bombs. He desired thousand pound versions to be dropped on targets in 1951. The object was to “wipe out all life in tactical locality and save the life of our soldiers.” On one occasion when American soldiers fell victim to “friendly” fire of napalm, their suffering was described by a witness James Ransome. His men rolled in agony in the snow and begged him to shoot them because the burning of their skin by napalm was unbearable. Their skin burned and peeled back “like fried potato chips”. This was the wonder weapon of the USAF!
Gen. Curtis LeMay, who, in the humble opinion of this author was too trigger happy and brutal to be entrusted with serious responsibility, and who may have played a minor role in the Kennedy assassination, wanted to burn down the big cities of North Korea at the very beginning of the war. The Pentagon ruled that “it’s too horrible”. Yet, in an oral history record, LeMay stated that over a three year period “We burned down every town in North Korea, and South Korea too . . . Now over a three year period this is palatable, but to kill a few people to stop this from happening – a lot of people can’t stomach it.” Such was the nature of attacks on the cities and towns of Korea that no sane person can stomach it. On July 11, 1952 a total of 1,264 air sorties over Pyongyang were carried out by B 29 bombers during daytime, followed by 54 sorties at night. Imagine what the residents of this city went though. Imagine the inhumanity of the Anglo-American Establishment, the champions of human rights, democracy and all that crap. The attack on Pyongyang was to be followed by similar attacks on thirty other cities and industrial centers as part of operation “Pressure Pump”.
Col. Fletcher Prouty has noted: “There had been a Malthusian movement, concealed at all times from the public, to uproot and destroy the existing and traditional system of communal society in many parts of the world. The activists of this movement fear the strength of the peasant and the ways of peasant life. They much prefer a society of dependent consumers. Indochina and Korea were the prime targets during the post-World War II decades.” Bruce Cummings has noted: “Korea recapitulated the air force’s mantra from World War II, that firebombing would erode enemy morale and end the war sooner, but the interior intent was to destroy Korean society down to the individual constituents.”
In May 1952, the great Suiho Dam on Yalu river was attacked. It was second only to the Hoover dam in the entire world. However, for fear of provoking the Chinese and Russians it was not demolished. In order to deprive the North Korean population of the 250,000 tons of rice that was to be harvested the USAF targeted its dams. In May 1953, soon after rice had been planted, three dams were hit by the USAF bombers. These were the Tukson, Chasan and Kuwonga dams. These were major dams. On May 13, 1953 fifty-nine bombers were used to breach the high wall of Toksan dam. The first breach at Toksan “scooped clean twenty-seven miles of river valley, and sent water gushing into Pyongyang.” The breach in Toksan generated a flood of onrushing water that destroyed “six miles of railway, five bridges, two miles of high way and five square miles of rice paddies.” After the war it took “200,000 man-days of labor to reconstruct the reservoir.”
Gen. William F. Dean was the highest ranking military officer (Major Gen.) to be captured by the North Koreans. When he was released from captivity he narrated that “the town of Huichon amazed me. The city I’d seen before – two-storied buildings, a prominent main street – wasn’t there any more.” Gen. Dean described “unocuupied shells” of “town after town, and villages where rubble or ‘snowy open spaces’ were all that remained.” The destruction caused by US. Bombing was total and ubiquitous. The Hungarian writer Tibor Meray told a Thames TV team: “I saw destruction and horrible things committed by American forces.” As he said:”Everything that moved in North Korea was a military target, peasants in the fields were often machine gunned by pilots who, this was my impression, amused themselves to shoot the targets which moved.” Such was the scale and nature of inhumanity of the Americans.
In his book Bruce Cummings has cited Meray, who arrived in Korea in August 1951 to witness “a complete devastation between the Yalu River and the capital” {Pyongyang). Meray states that there were just “no more cities in North Korea.” Because of continual bombing their party was compelled to travel by night. Meray states: “We traveled in moonlight, so my impression was that I am traveling on the moon, because there was only devastation . . . every city was a collection of chimneys. I don’t know why houses collapsed and chimneys did not, but I went through a city of 200,000 inhabitants and I saw thousands of chimneys and that – that was all.”
The absolute and inhuman and criminal destruction of North Korean cities has been concealed from the world and the insouciant U.S. public.
Such was the scale of barbarity and brutality of the U.S. forces that eighteen out of twenty two major cities of North Korea were obliterated. A partial table has been provided by Cumings. The percentage of destruction of seven cities has been given as follows: Pyongyang 75%, Chongjin 65%, Hamhung 80%, Hungnam 85%, Sinanju 100%, Sariwon 95%, and Wonsan 80%. Cumings quotes an official American history source: “So, we killed civilians, friendly civilians, and bombed their homes, fired whole villages with the occupants – women and children, and ten times as many hidden Communist soldiers – under showers of napalm, and the pilots came back to their ships stinking of vomit twisted from their vitals by the shock of what they had to do.”
On March 10, 1951 Gen. Douglas MacArthur requested “’D’ Day atomic capability” to retain air superiority in the war. The request was made in view of intelligence information that the Soviet Union was ready to move its air divisions into Manchuria, in the vicinity of Korea, coupled with the massing of huge Chinese forces near the Korean border . These Soviet air divisions could strike, not just targets in Korea, but also U.S. bases in Okinawa. By the end of March 1951, atomic bomb loading capabilities an air base in Okinawa wee operational. Around this time Gen. MacArthur was removed and in the ensuing confusion, an April 6 order of President Truman, ordering use of atomic weapons against Korean and Chinese targets was never transmitted! Reviewing A.B. Abram’s 2024 book Surviving the Unipolar Era, Richard C. Cook writes: “During the war, U.S. commander Douglas MacArthur recommended nuclear strikes against 26 Korean and Chinese targets. These were deterred by the Soviet Union’s possession of a nuclear strike capability that could be used against American East Asian bases. The Korean War also led China to believe it needed a nuclear deterrent against the U.S.”
Operation Hudson Harbor sought to establish the capability of using nuclear weapons in the battlefield in Korea. As late as September and October 1951 B-29 bombers were sent over Korea simulating atomic bomb runs. These planes were loaded with dummy A bombs or heavy TNT bombs. Thus, in 1951, the possibility of use of nuclear weapons in Korea was serious. The project seemed to indicate that nuclear weapons might not be useful simpy because timely identification of large numbers of enemy troops was extremely rare.
Cummings notes: ”But one can imagine the steel nerves required of leaders in Pyongyang, observing a lone B-29 simulating the attack lines that had resulted in the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just six years earlier, each time unsure whether the bomb was real or dummy.”
In 1950 the total population of Korea was around 31.1 million. Of this 20 million resided in South Korea and the remaining 11.1 million in North Korea. A B Abrams pointsout that “Altogether, three to four million North Koreans died in the war, a number declared by many observers to be genocidal.” Additionally about six million became homeless. Thus about one third of the Korean population was either killed or became homeless. This massive human tragedy was caused by a power drunk, Malthusian and inhuman U.S. Establishment. The Anglo-American Establishment, working for the international banking families, is the greatest criminal and genocidal force in the entire annals of human history. Their crimes by far surpass any crimes against humanity committed by any other force in history.
The North Koreans have never bowed before the United States. They have survived the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, followed by disasters, likely US manipulated, that brought it to the brink of starvation. It has been a at war with the US and its lackeys for 75 years now because there never was a peace treaty and a state of war persists. Faced by persistent U.S. attempts to destroy it North Korea has developed massive underground fortifications and a deterrent capability of dropping H bombs on U.S. mainland. It has thus forced the U.S. to back down in its attempt to attack North Korea. Hats off to the leadership and people of North Korea.
Judge Napolitano interviews geopolitican and roving nomad Pepe Escobar from Sanaa, Yemen. Includes Pepe’s address to 1 million Yemenis – mind-boggling does not even begin to describe it.
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