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vrijdag 12 december 2025

María Machado: voor sancties tegen Venezuela, vroeg Netanyahu haar land te bombarderen en was mede-couppleger

 

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Afgelopen woensdag was het zoals te verwachten, vanwege de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede, bal op vooral de Duitse radiozenders WDR 5 en Deutschlandfunk, al loog men ook op de BBC en NPO Radio1 keihard over Machado en Venezuela, waarbij men op geen enkel moment aanhaalde dat zij de door de VS al 20 jaar lang ingestelde sancties steunde tegen Venezuela (haar land). Sancties die zoals een paar jaar geleden al bekend werd gemaakt aan minstens 100.000 mensen, inclusief een groot aantal kinderen, het leven hebben gekost (ofwel die mensen zijn vermoord!!), sancties die verder de economie van Venezuela ernstig hebben geschaad*. (volgens The Lancet is het aantal slachtoffer van sancties in de meeste gevallen groter dan die door oorlogsvoering....) Je zal begrijpen dat het aantal slachtoffers als gevolg van die sancties, in feite een vorm van oorlogsvoering, nu een heel stuk groter is....

                 

        Hare fascistische kwaadaardigheid Machado (foto: Wikipedia)

Niets ook over de VS aanvallen op bootjes die uit Venezuela komen, zogenaamd met drugs voor de VS, terwijl de FBI en de CIA hebben verklaard dat er vanuit Venezuela praktisch geen drugs worden uitgevoerd..... Het aantal doden van die illegale VS aanvallen en ronduit moorden wordt al meer dan een week op meer dan 80 gehouden, het zal me niet verbazen als dit de 100 intussen is gepasseerd.... De reguliere westerse media stelden aanvankelijk dat het volgens de VS om vermeende 'drugsbootjes' zou gaan, daarmee aangevend dat het maar de vraag is of dit waar is, waarbij nog werd gemeld dat er door de VS geen bewijs werd gegeven voor die bewering. Intussen spreekt men bij wijze van spreken zonder met de ogen te knipperen over 'drugsbootjes' dit op onder andere WDR 5, Deutschlandfunk en de BBC World Service radio.... (nogmaals: zonder enig bewijs voor die bewering!!) Het valt me alles mee dat de NOS op NPO Radio1 nog wel meldt dat er geen bewijs wordt geleverd voor de beweringen door de VS (hoe de andere zendgemachtigden op NPO Radio1 berichten over deze 'drugsbootjes' weet ik niet, daar de programmering van die zendgemachtigden zo allemachtig slecht is dat ik er allang geen tijd meer aan besteed)

Deutschlandfunk begon (voor mij) die woensdag rond 9.10 u. met de aftrap >> met veel omhaal werd verteld dat Maduro een dictator is en dat Venezuela een dictatuur is, wat absoluut niet waar is, Venezuela is een democratie en Maduro is democratisch gekozen. Dat de rechtse oppositie Maduro niet kan verslaan is geen wonder als je bedenkt dat Maduro en zijn voorganger Chavez het grootste deel van de Venezolaanse bevolking uit de armoede hebben getrokken, hen gratis volksgezondheid brachten, hen alfabetisering en verdere scholing brachten, hen goede en goedkope huisvesting brachten plus goedkope energie

Volgens Deutschlandfunk ging de dochter van Machado naar Oslo, daar Machado ondergedoken zou zitten in Venezuela. Ook WDR 5 kwam met een dergelijk bericht. Verder werd gesteld dat de Venezolaanse overheid zou hebben gedreigd haar te arresteren als ze zou proberen te vertrekken. Echter in het nieuws van 12.00 u. afgelopen woensdagmiddag meldde men op de laatste zender dat Machado toch naar Oslo onderweg was. 

In het nieuws van 12.30 u. diezelfde woensdagmiddag meldde Deutschlandfunk dat de reis van Machado 'onder bijzonder gevaarlijke omstandigheden had plaatsgevonden', zonder ook maar met een paar woorden aan te geven waarom dit zo zou zijn......  

Gisteren (11 oktober 2025) in het NOS Radio1 nieuws van 8.00 u. als eerste een bericht over Machado, waarin werd gezegd dat ze een dag eerder net te laat was aangekomen in Oslo om de Nobelprijs in ontvangst te nemen, haar dochter had dit voor haar gedaan, dit aldus de nieuwslezer vanwege een uitreisverbod dat Machado was opgelegd. Eigenlijk 1 van de varianten, die de dag ervoor al voorbij waren gekomen. Geen woord over de terreur van de VS die een olietanker afkomstig uit Venezuela had geënterd en het beheer daarover had overgenomen, niets anders dan piraterij die de hele wereld op de kop had moeten zetten, maar als gezegd niet belangrijk genoeg was voor het nieuws van 8.00 u., dat begon met het uitgekauwde nieuws over Machado van een dag eerder en waar schunnig genoeg pas als vierde onderwerp het onderlopen van tentenkampen in de Gazastrook voorbijkwam, waarbij de fascistische terreurstaat Israël alles gebruikt om zoveel mogelijk Palestijnse mensen te vermoorden, direct of zoals in dit geval indirect door het weer, daar het Israëlische leger zo ongeveer alle huizen heeft platgebombardeerd, dit met hulp van het westen >> zowel met politieke steun, als middels wapen- en munitieleveringen.....

Wat betreft die olietanker is het ongelofelijk te horen hoe de reguliere westerse media die stap van de VS verdedigen en daarbij net doen alsof de sancties tegen dat land door een VN-resolutie worden gesteund, terwijl ze illegaal door de VS zijn opgelegd en worden gesteund door haar slaafse westerse vazallen. Men stelt in die media dat Venezuela de uitvoer van olie gebruikt om de economie draaiend te houden en dat daarmee de sancties worden ontdoken, terwijl deze sancties als gezegd illegaal zijn opgelegd..... (alsof het een misdaad is dat Venezuela die sancties ontduikt en dat de landen die deze olie importeren zich daar ook schuldig aan maken.....)

Hier de tekst van een petitie die CodePink bracht op 11 oktober 2025, kort nadat bekend werd gemaakt dat Machado de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede zou krijgen en waarin precies wordt uitgelegd waarvoor fascist Machado echt staat, het is dan ook ronduit schandalig dat zij de  Nobelprijs voor de Vrede kreeg en niet bijvoorbeeld de journalisten die in de Gazastrook zijn vermoord en hun collega's die nog leven (daarna meer schrijven van mijn hand):

 

Shame on the Nobel Committee!

When I saw the headline “María Corina Machado wins the Peace Prize,” I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about rewarding someone whose politics have brought so much suffering.

Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics. If this is what counts as “peace” in 2025, then the prize itself has lost every ounce of credibility. I’m Venezuelan-American, and I know exactly what Machado represents.

She’s the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention dressed up as democracy.

Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help “liberate” Venezuela with bombs under the banner of “freedom.” She has demanded sanctions, the silent form of warfare whose effects – as studies in The Lancet and other journals have shown – have killed more people than war, cutting off medicine, food, and energy to entire populations.

Machado has spent her entire political life promoting division, eroding Venezuela’s sovereignty, and denying its people the right to live with dignity.

This is who María Corina Machado really is:

👉 She helped lead the 2002 coup that briefly overthrew a democratically elected president and signed the Carmona Decree that erased the Constitution and dissolved every public institution overnight.

👉 She worked hand in hand with Washington to justify regime change, using her platform to demand foreign military intervention to “liberate” Venezuela through force.

👉 She cheered on Donald Trump’s threats of invasion and his naval deployments in the Caribbean, a show of force that risks igniting regional war under the pretext of “combating narcotrafficking.” While Trump sent warships and froze assets, Machado stood ready to serve as his local proxy, promising to deliver Venezuela’s sovereignty on a silver platter.

👉 She pushed for the U.S. sanctions that strangled the economy, knowing exactly who would pay the price: the poor, the sick, and the working class. 

👉 She helped construct the so-called “interim government,” a Washington-backed puppet show run by a self-appointed “president” who looted Venezuela’s resources abroad while children at home went hungry.

👉 She vows to reopen Venezuela’s embassy in Jerusalem, aligning herself openly with the same apartheid state that bombs hospitals and calls it self-defense.

👉 Now she wants to hand over the country’s oil, water, and infrastructure to private corporations. This is the same recipe that made Latin America the laboratory of neoliberal misery in the 1990s.

Machado was also one of the political architects of La Salida, the 2014 opposition campaign that called for escalated protests, including guarimba tactics. Those weren’t “peaceful protests,” as the foreign press claimed; they were organized barricades meant to paralyze the country and force the government’s fall. Streets were blocked with burning trash and barbed wire, buses carrying workers were torched, and people suspected of being Chavistas were beaten or killed. Even ambulances and doctors were attacked. Some Cuban medical brigades were nearly burned alive. Public buildings, food trucks, and schools were destroyed. Entire neighborhoods were held hostage by fear while opposition leaders like Machado cheered from the sidelines and called it “resistance.”

She praises Trump’s “decisive action” against what she calls a “criminal enterprise,” aligning herself with the same man who cages migrant children and tears families apart under ICE’s watch while Venezuelan mothers search for their children disappeared by U.S. migration policies.

Join CODEPINK in saying: all recognition for peace and freedom should go to the people of Gaza, not to politicians who cheer for bombs and sanctions.

Machado isn’t a symbol of peace or progress. She is part of a global alliance between fascism, Zionism, and neoliberalism – an axis that justifies domination in the language of democracy and peace. In Venezuela, that alliance has meant coups, sanctions, and privatization. In Gaza, it means genocide and the erasure of a people. The ideology is the same: a belief that some lives are disposable, that sovereignty is negotiable, and that violence can be sold as order.

If Henry Kissinger could win a Nobel Peace Prize, why not María Corina Machado? Maybe next year they’ll give one to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for “compassion under occupation.”

Every time this award is handed to an architect of violence disguised as diplomacy, it spits in the face of those who actually fight for peace, like the Palestinian journalists in Gaza who, with no safety or rest, document the bombings, name the victims, and keep the truth alive when the world looks away.

Tell the Nobel Committee that they uplift war criminals, not peacemakers! 

In solidarity, 
Michelle, Medea, Teri, and the CODEPINK Latin America Team

 

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Zoals je al kon lezen heeft Machado meegewerkt aan een mislukte coup tegen Chavez, daar de rechtse oppositie als gezegd nooit een meerderheid zal krijgen in Venezuela, anders dan middels een staatsgreep**. Eerder schoof de VS met steun van de rest van het westen (en haar eenzijdige reguliere media) de ronduit fascistische schreeuwer Guaidó naar voren als 'oppositieleider' terwijl hij amper 2% van de stemmen wist te behalen, ik heb gezocht hoeveel procent van de stemmen 'Vente Venezuela' de partij van Machado vorig jaar won bij de presidentsverkiezingen, echter dat cijfer kon ik niet vinden (ik geef toe dat ik maar 5 minuten heb gezocht, maar dat zou normaal gesproken ruim voldoende moeten zijn...) 

Afgelopen woensdag nog gaf Google nog aan dat Edmundo González de oppositieleider was in Venezuela, een dag later dus 11 december werd dat plotseling veranderd in Machado en toen ik daarna de vorige oppositieleider zocht kreeg ik van Google als uitkomst de fascistische schreeuwer Guaidó (dus i.p.v. González).... Zo snel kan de desinformatie veranderen en uiteraard doen de reguliere westerse media mee aan deze enorme oplichting.....

Gisternacht (die van 10 op 11 december) en daarna overdag veel halleluja jutteperen over Machado en dat ze de avond daarvoor vanaf haar balkon het Venezolaanse volkslied zong, met hulp van medestanders beneden.... Natuurlijk geen melding over het feit dat deze kwaadaardige, inhumane figuur achter illegale westerse sancties stond en staat, sancties die zoals gezegd een paar jaar geleden al aan meer dan 100.000 Venezolanen het leven hebben gekost, ofwel mensen waaronder veel kinderen die indirect werden vermoord als gevolg van die sancties onder andere gesteund door Nederland.....

 

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* Zie wat betreft sancties, ofwel een vorm van oorlogsvoering tegen bevolkingen van meerdere landen: 'Honderdduizenden mensen zijn dodelijk slachtoffer van illegale sancties opgelegd door de VS (en overgenomen door EU, Canada en GB)' (15 augustus 2024) En zie wat dat betreft ook: 'Westerse sancties onder leiding van de VS: niets anders dan een grove vorm van terreur' (16 februari 2024) Voorts zie wat betreft de illegale westerse sancties ook:   'VS heeft beslag gelegd op 5 miljard dollar van Venezuela voor medicijnaankopen' (30 maart 2019)

'EU sancties tegen Venezuela aangescherpt, waar Nederland de voormalige Antilliaanse slaveneilanden, slachtoffers van die sancties, tijdens de anti-racistische demonstraties durft te chanteren' (!!!!)

'Coronavirus: VS sancties tegen andere landen zijn zeker nu met de Coronacrisis sadistisch en barbaars 

'Sancties van de VS zijn illegaal en zijn oorlogsmisdaden die moeten worden gestopt  

'Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht....'

 

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Zie wat betreft de verkiezingen in Venezuela'Venezuela: oppositie partij, VS en andere westerse landen claimen ten onrechte dat Gonzáles de winnaar is van de verkiezingen' (11 september 2024) De VS probeert op allerlei manieren de verkiezingen in Venezuela te manipuleren, tot nu toe gelukkig zonder enig succes. Zie wat dat betreft ook het bericht onder de volgende link'Republikeinse en Democratische senatoren proberen de verkiezingen in Venezuela te saboteren' (2 oktober 2020) 

'Het Venezolaanse volk heeft gesproken: de verkiezingen geanalyseerd door Vijay Prashad plus commentaar van Roger Harris'  (2 augustus 2024)

'Links wint belangrijke presidentsverkiezingen in Venezuela' (29 juli 2024) Een artikel van dewereldmorgen.be  

'VS laat ware gezicht zien: Bolton geeft toe elders meerdere staatsgrepen te hebben gepland' (16 juli 2022)

'NAVO-lid Colombia en de VS proberen uit alle macht eerlijke verkiezingen te voorkomen......' (27mei 2022) En zie de berichten onder de links in dat schrijven!!

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Voorts zie'World’s Most Tyrannical Government Wants To Free Venezuela From Tyranny' (3 december 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> If the US empire wants to make the world less tyrannical, its first and only move should be to dismantle itself.    

'US Attack On Venezuela Would Cause 'Chaos' In The Region w/ Ajamu Baraka' (3 december 2025) Een video van Dimitri Lascaris met AjumaBaraka. Hier de inleidende tekst >> As Trump ratchets up the pressure on Venezuela, I spoke this week with former U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate and peace activist, Ajamu Baraka.    Ajamu, the co-founder of Black Alliance for Peace, explains that a U.S. military assault on Venezuelan territory will likely generate chaos in the region, with unpredictable consequences for the world. The Venezuelan people, argues Ajamu, will offer fierce resistance to the return of the gringo.     Ajamu and I also discussed the absurdity of Trump’s pretext for bombing civilian vessels in the Caribbean and the rise of fascism in the West. 

Hier de video, duur iets meer dan 54 minuten:


 

'Second US Strike on Boat Attack Survivors Was Illegal—But Experts Stress That the Rest Were, Too' (2 december 2025) Een artikel van Jessica Corbett, gepubliceerd op Common Dreams >> “It is blatantly illegal to order criminal suspects to be murdered rather than detained,” said one human rights leader. 

 Bombed boatUS President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that they bombed another boat in the Caribbean on October 3, 2025. (Photo: screenshot/Donald Trump/Truth Social) 

'Ah, Good Old War Propaganda' (2 december 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> The most common misconception about the free press of the western world is that it exists. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> “Venezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa, where jihadists are helping traffic it to Europe in record quantities,” the article begins, going out of its way to note that “the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro — who it asserts is heavily involved in drug smuggling — has brought global attention to the country’s role in the drug trade.”   The propaganda piece is plainly aimed at Europeans as well as Americans, emphasizing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s quip last month that the Europeans “should be thanking us” for blowing up alleged drug boats coming from Venezuela because he says some of those drugs are winding up in Europe.

'US Regime Change Interventionism Is Reliably Disastrous, And Other Notes' (1 december 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> Only idiots and sociopaths are clapping along with the war drums. 

'Democracy vs. Intervention' (1 december 2025) Een artikel van Zoe Alexandra >> Honduras Votes Amid Us Pressure Campaign     

Het volgende Facebookbericht is van 30 november 2025:

Hasan Ayhan 

Venezolaanse burgers sluiten zich aan bij lokale milities om hun thuisland te beschermen tegen Amerikaanse aanvallen 🇻🇪 (Al acht MILJOEN mensen staan geregistreerd bij lokale milities. )  @AlanRMacLeod    (de afbeeldingen zijn gecensureerd door Meta, tekenend voor de techreuzen uit de VS.... Op de foto's waren gewone Venezolanen te zien, die zich lieten trainen met wapens)

Kan een afbeelding zijn van een of meer mensen

Kan een afbeelding zijn van een of meer mensen 

'Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power' (29 november 2025) Een artrikel van José Luis Granados Ceja >> Trump endorsed the nominee of the right-wing party, while pledging to pardon its most recent president, who sits in U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.  

'The Caribbean Faces Two Choices' (27 november 2025) Een artikel van Vijay Prashad, gepublicerd op Savage Minds >> Join the US Attempt to Intimidate Venezuela or Build Its Own Sovereignty

'70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes ‘Deadly New Phase’' (24 november 2025) Een artikel van Jake Johnson, gepubliceerd op Common Dreams >> “It should come as no surprise by now that the president who campaigned on keeping the US out of wars and then promptly bombed Iran has now found another conflict in which to embroil the country.”  

'European Left Urges Solidarity With Venezuela' (20 november 2025) Een artikel van Ana Vračar >> EU Leaders Are Subservient to Trump Administration Amid Growing US Aggressions. 

'The Empire Only De-Escalates In One Area So It Can Escalate In Another, And Other Notes' (15 november 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> The violence of the empire remains constant. Peace is never the goal.  

'The War on "Narcoterrorism": Patriotism or Propaganda?' (14 november 2025) Pleasure to Burn: een video met Carey Wedler (2:42 m.). Whether Trump chooses to attack Venezuela or not, the same old tired narratives are still sucking people in.

'Heavy rains flood tents in Gaza; Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear to target “narco-terrorists”' (14 november 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site Daily.

 '“Regime Change” In Venezuela' (12 november 2025) Een artikel van Media Benjamin (CodePink), gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> "Regime Change" is Simply a Euphemism For US-inflicted Carnage and Chaos. Hier de eerste 2 passages uit dit artikel >> For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that US bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair. Now that the same playbook is being dusted off for Venezuela, the parallels with Iraq and other US interventions are an ominous warning of what could follow.   As a US armada gathers off Venezuela, a US special operations aviation unit aboard one of the warships has been flying helicopter patrols along the coast. This is the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR)—the “Nightstalkers”—the same unit that, in US-occupied Iraq, worked with the Wolf Brigade, the most feared Interior Ministry death squad.

'Israel bombs Gaza; the UK and Colombia stop sharing intelligence with the U.S.; House set to vote to reopen U.S. government' (12 november 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site Daily. Onder andere >> The UK halted intelligence sharing with the United States on suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean, in what CNN reported as a major break between the two allies. British officials fear their intelligence could be used to select targets for the U.S. military’s drone and missile strikes, which have killed at least 76 people since September. The UK believes the attacks are illegal under international law and reportedly shares the UN human rights chief Volker Türk’s view that they amount to extrajudicial killings. Canada has also reportedly distanced itself in the past month, maintaining cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard, while warning Washington that its intelligence must not be used for lethal targeting.              Colombian President Gustavo Petro has ordered security forces to halt intelligence sharing with U.S. agencies until Washington ceases its attacks on boats in the Caribbean, Reuters reported.

'Venezuela’s Oil, US-led Regime Change, and America’s Gangster Politics' (8 november 2025) Een artikel van Sybil Fares and Jeffrey Sachs, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> The Pretext Is the Fight Against Narcotics, the Real Objective Is Overthrow of Sovereign Government. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists,” the objective remains the same, which is control of Venezuela’s oil. The methods followed by the US are familiar: sanctions that strangle the economy, threats of force, and a $50 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as if this were the Wild West.    The US is addicted to war. With the renaming of the Department of War, a proposed Pentagon budget of $1.01 trillion, and more than 750 military bases across some 80 countries, this is not a nation pursuing peace. For the past two decades, Venezuela has been a persistent target of US regime change. The motive, which is clearly laid out by President Donald Trump, is the roughly 300 billion barrels of oil reserves beneath the Orinoco belt, the largest petroleum reserves on the planet. >> Nog een opmerking over deze tekstde VS heeft Venezuela al een paar decennia geleden sancties opgelegd....

'5 Options for Attacking Venezuela' (9 november 2025) Een artikel van Vijay Prashad gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> Chávez Once Said, “Let the Dogs of the Empire Bark. That Is Their Role: To Bark" Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> In February 2025, the US State Department designated a criminal network called Tren de Aragua (Aragua Train) as a “foreign terrorist organisation.” Then, in July, the US Treasury Department added the so-called Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) to the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s sanctions list as a “transnational terrorist group.” No previous US government report, either from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) or the State Department, had identified these organisations as a threat, and no publicly verifiable evidence has been offered to substantiate the claimed scale or coordination of either group. There is no evidence that Tren de Aragua is a coherent international operation. As for the Cartel de los Soles, the first time the name appeared was in 1993 in Venezuelan reporting on investigations of two National Guard generals—a reference to the “sun” insignia on their uniforms—years before Hugo Chávez’s 1998 presidential victory. The Trump administration has alleged that these groups, working with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government, are the primary traffickers of drugs into the US—while providing zero evidence for the connection. Moreover, reports from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the DEA itself have consistently found Venezuelan groups to be marginal in global drug trafficking. Even so, the US State Department has offered a $50 million reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest—the largest in the programme’s history.

'Americans Go Hungry As Trump Plans Invasion' (2 november 2025) Een artikel van Manolo de los Santos, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> As Trump Spends Millions to Invade Venezuela, Funds for SNAP Are Drying Up.   Momenteel lijden zo'n 20 miljoen kinderen in de VS honger..... Hier de eerste 2 passages uit dit artikel >> The United States government is in the grips of one of its longest-running funding gaps in history. The ongoing government shutdown has already stretched beyond 30 days and now, the food security of millions of Americans is at risk as the funding to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is drying up and Trump officials have refused to tap into contingency funds. Approximately 42 million individuals per month rely on SNAP benefits and are set to lose them beginning on 1 November.    Yet, while domestic aid faces a severe funding crisis, the Trump administration’s drive towards military escalation against Venezuela, involving the amassing of immense naval resources in the Caribbean, is costing millions of dollars per day. On the morning of 31 October, two major US publications, the Miami Herald and the Wall Street Journal affirmed what many have feared: the United States seeks to carry out military strikes within Venezuelan territory, an unprecedented move in the history of both countries.

'The Nastiest Warmongers Are Trump’s Biggest Fans Now' (3 november 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> Trump duped his base into believing he’ll make peace, and he turned out to be Lindsey Graham’s gooiest wet dream incarnate. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> Massacre fetishist Lindsey Graham said “Trump is my favorite president” because “we’re killing all the right people and we’re cutting your taxes” during a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Summit on Friday.   “We’ve run out of bombs; we didn’t run out of bombs in World War II,” the senator said.

'Inside Marco Rubio's Push for Regime Change in Venezuela' (24 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Ryan Grim, Saagar Enjeti, and Jack Poulson, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News >> Little to no fentanyl is coming from Venezuela, according to U.S. intelligence. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> U.S. intelligence has assessed that little to none of the fentanyl trafficked to the United States is being produced in Venezuela, despite recent claims from the Trump administration, a senior U.S. official directly familiar with the matter tells Drop Site.      The official noted that many of the boats targeted for strikes by the Trump administration do not even have the requisite gasoline or motor capacity to reach U.S. waters, dramatically undercutting claims by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The claim is backed up by recent comments made by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who similarly noted that zero fentanyl is produced in Venezuela.

Screenshot of a video posted by Donald Trump to Truth Social on September 15, 2025 announcing a U.S. strike on an alleged drug vessel.

'They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World' (25 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our own rulers are the problem. 
 
'VS begint oorlog tegen Venezuela: weer een illegale oorlog op basis van leugens' (17 oktober 2025) 

'Drug Trafficking and Murder In the Special Forces (w/ Seth Harp) | The Chris Hedges Report' (16 oktober 2025) Een artikel met video en transcript van een interview dat  Chris Hedges afnam van Seth Harp >> Seth Harp chronicles how Special Forces atrocities fuel a cycle of crime and violence that starts overseas and makes it way back home — especially in and around the secretive Fort Bragg military base. >> Kortom nogmaals blijkt dat de VS overheid zelf mede verantwoordelijk is voor de invoer van grote hoeveelheden drugs, zoals dat al het geval was tijdens de Vietnam Oorlog en als laatst bekend bij mij de illegale oorlog tegen Afghanistan >> voorafgaand aan die oorlog had de Taliban verreweg het overgrote deel van de opiumhandel verboden, wat meteen ongedaan werd gemaakt in de door de VS en haar slaafse vazallen veroverde gebieden en dus weer werd toegestaan.... (nu is het daar weer verboden)


'Anti-Venezolaanse prop. richting volgende illegale VS oorlog waarschijnlijk met NAVO steun' (8 september 2025) En zie de berichten onder de links in dat artikel!! Daarvan zag je er hierboven al een aantal en hieronder de eerste 6//////// 

'US vs Venezuela: a new Caribbean Crisis [i](12 september 2025) Een artikel van Mike Mihajlovic gepubliceerd door Black Mountain Analysis >> "Enforcing Democracy While Taking the Oil"

Roaming Charges: Multiple Megalomaniacs (5 september 2025) een artikel van Jeffrey St. Clair, gepubliceerd op CounterPunch >> + Kill 11 people riding somewhere in the Caribbean on a dinghy with an outboard motor, broadcast the kill shot, gloat about it as if you’d sunk a Chinese battleship, then ask your minions to try to come up with a legal basis for the assassinations a couple of days later, if they could (they can’t)…  + There is no legal justification for Trump’s military strike on an alleged “drug boat” off the coast of Venezuela. The boat, a simple speedboat, posed no threat to the US Navy vessels. The little boat could have easily been interdicted, searched for drugs and its occupants detained if any were found. No proof was offered that it was carrying drugs or was associated with the Tren de Aragua “narco-terrorist organization.” In any event, drug trafficking is not a capital offense, even when it’s been proven. Most countries would consider this an act of terrorism and mass murder under international law. Indeed, such a strike is also prohibited under US law.

'Break Your Psychological Chains to an Evil called “The West” (1 september 2025) Een artikel van Karim gepubliceerd op BettBeat Media >> Oligarchy's propaganda machine has rewritten the history of a civilization that perfected industrial genocide as a story of progress and enlightenment.   Hier een passage uit dit artikel: These same oligarchs who manipulate Western populations extend their control globally through economic domination of other nations' resources. Jeffrey Sachs, another Ivy League professor and once a darling of the Western economic establishment, experienced his own awakening when he witnessed firsthand how the system crushes any threat to oligarchic resource extraction. His studies on Venezuela expose the deliberate destruction of nations that dare to chart independent courses—particularly when those courses involve nationalizing oil reserves that Western oligarchs had grown accustomed to plundering.

'Inside Trump’s gunboat diplomacy with Venezuela' (30 augustus 2025) Een artikel van Marc Caputo.

'Human Rights Watch dringt aan op zware schending mensenrechten van Venezolanen' (5 juni 2025) 

'Human Rights Watch liegt er weer eens op los: moedige Cubaanse artsen die o.a. het Coronavirus elders bestrijden zouden slaven zijn' (13 augustus 2020)


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Terzijde nog dit, om nog eens aan te geven hoe smerig de VS bezig is over de wereld: 'The FSB Just Foiled What Could Have Been A False Flag Provocation For The Ages' (11 november 2025) Een artikel van Andrew Korybko. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> Corrupting a MiG-31 pilot armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles into defecting, only to then shoot him down near what’ll be NATO’s largest airbase in Europe, risked sparking World War III.      Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) accused Ukraine and the UK of plotting a spectacular false flag provocation that could have led to led to war with NATO. According to them, they sought to corrupt a MiG-31 fighter jet pilot armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles into defecting, but then he’d be shot down near Romania’s seaside city of Constanta. Importantly, NATO’s largest airbase in Europe is being built nearby, so the incident could have resulted in an unprecedented exchange of hostilities.   >> False flag operaties: al decennialang de specialiteit van terreurorganisatie CIA......


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Let op!! De ruimte om reacties weer te geven werkt niet altijd. Als je commentaar hebt en het lukt niet op de normale manier, doe dit dan via het mailadres trippleu@gmail.com, ik zal deze dan opnemen onderaan in het bewuste artikel, althans als je geen geweld predikt, voorts plaats ik jouw reactie ook al staat deze diametraal tegenover dat bericht. Alvast mijn dank voor jouw eventuele reactie, Willem.

 

 

Update om  18.07 u. op 12 december 2025 >> een verduidelijking over de import van Venezezolaanse olie, wat allesbehalve een misdaad is, daar de sancties illegaal aan Venezuela werden opgelegd door de grootste terreurentiteit ter wereld >> de VS (gesteund door haar slaafse westerse vazallen). Bovendien zou de VS zelf 1 van de importeurs van die olie zijn. 

zondag 7 december 2025

Israël breidt terreur uit in illegaal bezet Syrisch grondgebied en een enorme door de msm verzwegen schuiver van de Britse premier

 

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De agressie en terreur van Israël kent geen grenzen meer, niet alleen figuurlijk maar ook letterlijk, dit geldt zowel voor de Gazastrook, de West Bank, Libanon, Syrië, Iran en zelfs Irak is niet veilig voor de Israëlische terreur.... 

 7e4f188c-7b32-4c01-b592-1a8810a487d1Foto uit een artikel van Human Rights Watch: 'Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South' Deze link is ook opgenomen in het grote blok met links en bij de noot aangaande 'From the River to the Sea*'.

Gezien het voorgaande is het dan ook een schande dat men zo hysterisch heeft gereageerd op de pro-Palestijnse leuze 'From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free', zeker als je bedenkt dat Israëlische uniformen op de mouw kunnen zijn uitgerust met een kaart van ' Groot Israël' waarop Israël wordt getoond met delen van Libanon, Syrië, Jordanië en Egypte*. Genocide pleger, psychopaat en ordinaire misdadiger Netanyahu heeft verklaard dat Israël een 'bufferzone' creëert die zich zal uitstrekken tot Damascus.....

 

Het volgende Facebook bericht nam ik over van Ton Geurtsen:

Kan een afbeelding zijn van de tekst 'ISRAEL KILLS TWO PALESTINIAN TEENAGERS IN THE WEST BANK MP. ते @MintPress www.MintPressNews.com @MintPressNews' MintPress News December 2, 2025

Two Palestinian teenagers were recently killed in separate incidents involving Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. These incidents are part of a surge in violence in the territory since the genocide in Gaza began in October 2023. 
The two teenagers killed in recent separate incidents were: 
Muhand Tariq Muhammad al-Zughair, 17, was fatally shot by Israeli forces near the Abu Dajjan area of Hebron.
Muhammad Raslan Mahmoud Asmar, 18, from the town of Beit Rima, died from critical injuries sustained from Israeli gunfire near the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah.

 

Intussen heeft Israël zoals algemeen bekend mag worden geacht, naast de illegale annexatie van de Golanhoogten, een nog groter stuk van Syrië bezet en gaat ook daar tekeer als op de West Bank, ofwel Israël is bezig met het etnisch zuiveren middels terreur op het illegaal door haar bezet gebied....

Ook deze illegale bezetting en etnische zuivering door Israël wordt niet veroordeeld door de westerse wereld en de eenzijdige berichtgeving door de reguliere westerse massamedia, zoals dat al meer dan 2 jaar het geval is met de genocide die deze genocidaal psychopathische terreurstaat uitoefent op de Palestijnen in de Gazastrook. Hier moet ik even gas terugnemen, immers sinds een paar maanden zijn er landen die Israël wel degelijk verantwoordelijk houden voor 'het geweld' tegen de Palestijnen, als mijdt men het woord 'genocide' als de pest.... 

 

 

Intussen hebben veel politici en vooraanstaande figuren in Israël er geen probleem mee om toe te geven dat men zelfs baby's met opzet vermoord, waarbij men dit verdedigt met te zeggen dat dit de terroristen van de toekomst zijn, de psychopathische moordenaars van het Israëlische leger (IDF) gaan zelfs zover dat ze vrouwen en meisjes dusdanig verwonden (als men ze al niet 'gewoon doodschiet') zodat ze geen kinderen meer kunnen krijgen.... Het is trouwens toch al zo dat men met opzet kinderen doodschiet of zodanig verwondt dat ze overlijden (er is een groot tekort aan medische middelen, medicijnen, artsen, verpleegkundigen en ziekenhuisbedden, zodat enorm veel Palestijnen en hun kinderen zelfs overlijden aan verwondingen die normaal makkelijk zijn te behandelen....) Bedenk hierbij dat een paar Israëlische militairen hebben verklaard dat hun scherpschutters per dag wisselen welk deel van kinderen als doel wordt genomen, ofwel de ene dag het hoofd, de volgende de borst, dan weer de buikstreek en zelfs het kruis wordt als doel genomen..... Ik kan die enorme inhumane schoften niet anders zien dan als nazi's...... Hieronder een foto die aangeeft hoe beestachtig Israëlische militairen zijn en bedenk hierbij dat de dieren, die wij ook aanduiden als beesten, zoiets nooit zouden doen!  Een aantal Israëlische politici zegt trots te zijn om als fascisten te worden gezien, of uiten zich als de eerste 'beste' fascist......

             

Dat men in Israël Palestijnse gijzelaars en gevangenen martelt is al evenmin voor velen iets nieuws, zelfs niet dat gevangenen worden verkracht, zowel meisjes, jongens, vrouwen en mannen. Nog walgelijker was om afgelopen donderdag op de site van Caitlin Johnstone te lezen dat men zelfs honden heeft getraind om gevangenen te verkrachten.....** Wat zijn dat voor walgelijke monsters?? Ook hier past geen andere typering dan >> smerige nazi-methoden... (al vraag ik me af of die monsters voorafgaand en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog ook zover gingen....)

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor hajo meijer 


Zoals gewoonlijk spelen de media, zoals hier al zo vaak aangegeven, weer een grote rol met valse manipulatie van berichten, dan wel totale verzwijging van feiten. In Groot-Brittannië zijn een groot aantal mensen gevangengezet om dat ze deelnamen aan vreedzame demonstraties, opgesloten met de beschuldiging dat ze zich schuldig maakten aan terrorisme, daar ze tijdens deze (nogmaals: vreedzame) demonstraties aangaven achter 'Palestine Action' te staan. 6 van hen zijn in hongerstaking gegaan en waar in de 80er jaren ook de reguliere media wel belangstelling hadden voor de hongerstakers van de IRA, zijn deze media nu doodstil over deze hongerstaking. Deze media zijn dan ook in handen van spuugrijke schoften, die er alle belang bij hebben dat de huidige westerse status quo overeind blijft door de westerse bevolkingen te hersenspoelen met onder andere fake news en desinformatie....*** (voorbeerlden te over, neem alleen al de berichtgeving over de illegale oorlogen die de VS deze eeuw met hulp va  andere NAVO-lidstaten is begonnen!!)

 

 

Israël is nog steeds bezig met de genocide op de Palestijnen en nog steeds steunen westerse regeringen deze fascistisch genocidale staat politiek en militair (en met wapenleveringen, Groot-Brittannië voert zelfs spionage vluchten uit boven de Gazastrook, waarvan de verzamelde gegevens worden doorgegeven aan het moorddadige Israëlische leger.... 

Rusland werd kort na de inval in Oekraïne uitgesloten van het Eurovisie Songfestival. Israël is nu al ruim 2 jaar bezig met het uitmoorden, verkrachten en martelen van Palestijnen, maar mag ook dit jaar weer gewoon meedoen.... Terwijl het Israelische geweld 1.000 keer verder gaat dan dat van Rusland.... Ik hoorde afgelopen vrijdagmorgen op Deutschlandfunk dat men trots is dat Duitsland zich heeft uitgesproken tegen uitsluiting van Israël (van het songfestival), terwijl er bijna geen uur voorbijgaat zonder dat men op die radiozender anti-Russische propaganda brengt...... (en dat zo eenzijdig als alle reguliere westerse media dat deden en doen, alleen dat al zou ieder weldenkend mens super achterdochtig moeten maken!!) 

Diezelfde afgelopen vrijdag berichtte men 's avonds op de Britse staatsradiozender BBC World Service na 23.00 u. (CET) al evenzeer over het Eurovisie Songfestival. Nog net werd genoemd dat een paar landen zich hadden teruggetrokken uit dit festival, al was dit volgens de presentator teruggebracht tot 1 land, vanwege 'het conflict' in de Gazastrook, zonder te stellen dat het hier om een overduidelijke genocide gaat. Men had een zionistische Israëlische journalist, die meteen ven leer trok en net deed alsof er op 7 oktober 2023 voor het eerst strijd was ontstaan tussen de Palestijnen en Israël met de uitbraak van Hamas uit de openluchtgevangenis die de Gazastrook was en is. (in werkelijkheid was hier al sprake van ver voordat Israël zich in 1948 illegaal als soeverein land neerzette). Deze namaak journalist hield zich aan het steeds groter wordende grote leugenboek dat Israël al sinds deze oprichting in 1948 hanteert en stelde dat Hamas op die bewuste 7 oktober 1.200 mensen had vermoord, terwijl het psychopathisch moordende Israëlische leger (IDF) zeker de helft van die 1.200 mensen heeft vermoord, dit in het kader van de Hannibal Richtlijn****, zoals onder andere is toegegeven door een ex-officier van het IDF. 

Intussen heeft de psychopathische ploert, genocidepleger en pedo Trump de Franse rechter bij het Internationaal Gerechtshof (International Criminal Court >> ICC) Nicolas Guillou op de sanctielijst geplaatst vanwege zijn vervolging van genocidepleger Netanyahu en een paar van zijn oorlogsmisdadige kabinet.... Deze rechter heeft geen toegang meer tot zijn bankrekening en kan niet meer reizen, mede met dank aan de slaafse VS-vazallen in de EU, Groot-Brittannië en Canada.....***** Een schande van bijna ongekende proporties!! 

Guillou kan zelfs in zijn eigen land Frankrijk geen gebruik meer maken van zijn bankrekening, daar alle stortingen en betalingen, die nodig zijn voor zijn rekening, zijn geblokkeerd, dus een ban op het gebruik van >> Visa, Mastercard, American Express en het zogenaamde Europese SWIFT banken betaal systeem.... Waardoor zelfs zijn leven onmogelijk wordt gemaakt, bovendien zijn de toegangen tot zijn accounts op WhatsApp, alle Google apps, Facebook en Instagram geblokkeerd voor gebruik.... Een reservering voor een hotelkamer werd 2 uur na boeking geannuleerd door Expedia..... Je zou denken dat dit alles tot grote protesten van de EU regeringen zou hebben geleid, maar nee, zelfs zijn eigen regering doet niets om hem te beschermen tegen deze meer dan schunnige gang van zaken, integendeel men werkt er zelfs aan mee...... Hiermee hebben de westerse EU-staten zich in feite monddood gemaakt en staan ze op de rangorde zelfs onder de staten in de VS.... 

 

 

Dan nog het volgende: naast de reguliere westerse media fungeert ook Google als spreekbuis van het fascistisch genocidale Netanyahu bewind: 

Google: Stop fueling Netanyahu’s lies

 

In het WDR5 nieuws van 16.00 u. vanmiddag het bericht over het bezoek van de Duitse bondskanselier met fascistische neigingen Merz aan Israël, waar hij nogmaals de onvoorwaardelijke steun van Duitsland toezegde, wel met de toevoeging dat Duitsland enigszins verontrust is over de situatie in de Gazastrook. Daarna liet de Palestijneslachter Netanyahu weten dat Israël zal doorgaan in de Gazastrook tot Hamas is vernietrigd, ofwel tot alle Palestijnen zijn uitgemoord.... Uiteraard gaf Merz daar geen verweer op......

 

 

Het volgende artikel werd geschreven door Hodo Matar en werd gepubliceerd op Drop Site. In dit artikel aandacht voor de illegale uitbreiding van Israëlisch gebied. Daaronder een artikel over Keir Starmer die afgelopen zomer volkomen lak had aan 'zijn politie', waarvan de top wilde voorkomen dat Maccabi supporters afreisden naar hun land, nadat ze hadden gezien wat deze ronduit terroristen hadden aangericht in Amsterdam.... Amsterdam waar de burgemeester, hare GroenLinks kwaadaardigheid Halsema, de politie niet liet optreden tegen deze terroristen, maar op tilt sloeg toen Marokkaanse jongeren hun landgenoten begonnen te verdedigen (het Maccabi geteisem schreeuwde zelfs herhaaldelijk dat alle arabieren moeten worden vermoord, ze vielen mensen aan waarvan ze dachten dat het arabieren waren en vernielden eigendommen), uiteindelijk konden de Maccabi terroristen zonder enig probleem vertrekken en werden Marokkanen veroordeeld tot gevangenisstraffen, mensen die waren opgekomen voor hun landgenoten: Berbers en arabieren (en uiteraard ook voor Berbers en arabieren uit andere landen....).... Nog steeds ongelofelijk!!!

 

 

“A Second West Bank”: Israeli Military Raids Escalate in Occupied Syrian Border Villages

Israeli forces are entrenching even further in Syria as Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants a demilitarized “buffer zone” stretching to Damascus.

Hodo Matar

December 3, 2025  

A small flock of sheep is seen in front of an iron security barriers erected by the Israeli army in the countryside of Quneitra province in southwestern Syria on November 05, 2025. (Photo by Bakr Al Kasem/Anadolu via Getty Images)


QUNEITRA, SYRIA—In what has become a regular occurrence in southwest Syria, Israeli tanks and troops stormed the Quneitra countryside on Monday, taking up positions in the village of Saida Al-Hanout. As drones flew overhead, Israeli military units set up a temporary checkpoint and searched civilians before eventually withdrawing.

Over the past year, Israeli forces have established nine military posts in southern Syria; constructed military installations less than one kilometer from villages; demolished at least 12 buildings in al-Hamidiya; razed over 45 hectares of the Jubata al-Khashab forest; and seized thousands of dunams of agricultural land, cutting off access to farmers’ livelihoods. Local officials told Drop Site News that, in total, Israel has illegally seized between 600 and 800 square kilometers of southern Syrian territory through more than 200 incursions.

Israeli military operations in the area have escalated in recent weeks, with Israeli troops displacing residents, destroying farmland, snatching people off the streets and taking them across the border to Israeli detention centers.

In the deadliest attack over the past year, thirteen Syrians were killed, including two children, and dozens more wounded in an Israeli military raid on the southern village of Beit Jinn on Friday. Residents confronted Israeli forces who entered the village after shelling the area, leading to “violent clashes,” according to Syrian state news agency SANA.

The border area in southern Syria was previously a UN-patrolled, demilitarized buffer zone established in a 1974 disengagement agreement that officially ended hostilities between Israel and Syria. Israel seized most of the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war, eventually building illegal settlements and unilaterally annexing the area in 1981—a move unrecognized by the international community. Since Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster last December, Israel has occupied more Syrian territory—including the whole of Jabal al-Sheikh, a mountain that overlooks northern Israel and southern Syria—and has been further entrenching itself in recent weeks, advancing to the outskirts of Damascus in what critics say is nothing more than a land grab.

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he wants a new “buffer zone” on Syrian land stretching to the capital. “What we expect Syria to do is, of course, to establish a demilitarised buffer zone from Damascus to the buffer area, including the approaches to Mount Hermon and the Hermon peak,” Netanyahu said, using the Israeli name for Jabal al-Sheikh.

Last month, Israeli soldiers installed a permanent yellow gate without warning at the entrance to al-Samadaniyah al-Gharbiyah, a small farming village. The gate is located four kilometers (2.4 miles) (2.4 miles) from the center of Quneitra governorate, cutting the village off from neighboring towns and obstructing the main road that that residents rely on to reach markets, schools, and hospitals. It marked the fifth permanent gate erected by the Israeli military across Quneitra since Assad’s fall last year. Israeli soldiers now regularly stop and harass residents, turning daily life into an ordeal.

“They are trying to impose a new reality, so that they can exploit later,” Hayel al-Abdullah, the village head of al-Samadaniyah al-Gharbiyah, told Drop Site.

Netanyahu visited Israeli military positions in Syria last week in a publicized trip that prompted widespread condemnation. Accompanied by top defense and security officials, Netanyahu reviewed deployments, received operational briefings, and argued that Israel’s continued presence in the cross-border buffer zone was essential for national security. The Syrian government condemned the move as a “serious violation” of its sovereignty and called for a full Israeli withdrawal and return to the 1974 agreement though it has taken no other action.

Life Under Occupation

Israel’s military expansion in southern Syria has been accompanied by systematic intimidation, with troops raiding homes in the middle of the night, setting up flying checkpoints without warning, and isolating villages behind military barricades and gates. Dozens of families have fled the area, according to residents and local officials, and over 40 Syrians have been detained.

A number of residents told Drop Site News that they are routinely stopped at both temporary and permanent checkpoints, where soldiers search them, inspect their belongings, and scroll through the contents of their mobile phones.

Majd Azzam, a man in his 20s from the village of Al-Asbah, was hospitalized after Israeli soldiers beat him at a checkpoint in Kudnah in October. His offense was a photograph on his mobile phone with him wearing a keffiyeh, the traditional checkered scarf worn across the region, which the soldiers viewed as “terrorist attire,” Azzam’s father told Drop Site. “Any photo they consider suspicious, they arrest the phone’s owner, or at minimum they beat him,” he said.

The number of home raids has escalated sharply in recent weeks, according to two local residents, Khalil Layla and Abu Kinan Bakr, who said Israeli soldiers frequently order all family members outside before conducting exhaustive searches “turning the home upside down.”

Abd al-Aziz al-Mousa, a driver who navigates the shifting network of barriers daily, said the pressure and harassment on residents is constant. “The patrols and flying checkpoints can appear at any time, anywhere,” he told Drop Site.

Closed roads and rerouted paths have made it difficult for residents to reach jobs, schools, and farmland. In mid-November, the Israeli military installed a temporary checkpoint at al-Samadaniyah al-Sharqiya for five hours, preventing residents from reaching their schools, workplaces, and local markets.

Khaled al-Khalil, a Syrian journalist and an expert on Israeli-Syrian affairs, said Quneitra has become “a second West Bank,” with Israel behaving as a brutal occupying power. “They resort to military aggression to secure their borders, using arrests, incursions and harassment of residents,” Al-Khalil said.

As is the case in the West Bank, the Israeli occupation has also disrupted the olive harvest in Quneitra, a cornerstone of the local economy and cultural identity. The Quneitra governorate is home to 400,000 olive trees, 350,000 of them productive, according to Jamal Ali, the provincial agriculture director. Roughly one-third now lie under Israeli control, with farmers barred from accessing thousands of hectares of agricultural land.

Ahmed Khair Allah—a farmer from the village of al-Esha, located 35 kilometers (21.7 miles) away from Quneitra—said residents are still waiting for permission from Israeli forces to harvest olives on the slopes of Tal al-Ahmar Gharbi, which Israeli forces have occupied and turned into a military base.

With the Syrian state largely absent in Quneitra, residents have used the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which monitors the buffer zone under a 1973 Security Council resolution, as an intermediary with the Israeli military. “We knock on the UN gate and inform them of our request, then wait for a response from the occupation forces,” Khair Allah said.

Mohammed Layla, a resident of Tarinjah, said UN forces retreat when they encounter Israeli forces on the road, and that Israeli tanks have positioned themselves near UN forces who take no action. UNDOF has issued no public statement on the recent incursions.

Jamil Abu Omar, the village head of al-Asbah in the southwestern border strip, said some of his village’s olive groves stretch along the slopes of Tal al-Ahmar Sharqi and Tal al-Ahmar Gharbi, where an Israeli flag now flies. He said twenty families have left the village for Damascus and the surrounding areas in recent weeks, driven out by the military pressure.(als je de Engelse taal niet beheerst, zet dan de tekst om in Nederlands met behulp van Google translate dat je rechts bovenaan deze pagina ziet staan, klik eerst in het menu op 'Engels', waarna je weer kan klikken op die vertaalapp, daarna zie je bovenaan in het menu 'Nederlands' staan >> klik daarop en de hele tekst staat vervolgens in het Nederlands, de vertaling is van een redelijk goede kwaliteit.)


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Village heads estimate that a total of 60 families have been displaced from al-Asbah, al-Esha, al-Hamidiyah, and Bir Ajam since last December.

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At least 46 Syrians have been detained and imprisoned in Israel over the past year according to Sajjel, a platform that tracks Israeli violations in southern Syria. Family members have no information about their whereabouts or conditions of detention and say they have contacted the UN and the Red Cross to no avail.

A young man who spoke to Drop Site on condition of anonymity said he was detained on November 10th along with his father, uncle, and cousin after they went to go check on the family farm. Neighbors had warned them that Israeli troops had raided the property overnight. When they arrived, they found the farm ransacked. After leaving, they were stopped by an Israeli patrol around 500 meters down the road.

“They handcuffed us and blindfolded us,” the man said. Within minutes, they arrived at what he believed was either al-Horriya base or al-Hamidiya base. He was held for a full day and night without interrogation before being released the following day near his home. His father, uncle, and cousin remain in custody. The family contacted the village heads of al-Hamidiya and al-Samadaniyah to try and get more information. When the mukhtar of al-Samadaniyah asked a passing Israeli patrol about the detainees, the soldiers reportedly only said “They are under investigation.” The UNDOF told the family it had no information.

Safa al-Safadi, from Beit Jinn, said seven people from her village were detained in June during a large raid on the area. She described long hours contacting state ministries trying to find out their fate, without receiving any answer.

Khalil Layla’s village of Tarinjah was raided one night in November. His brother Muhammad was taken along with others from Jabata al-Khashab. “We contacted the UN post, which in turn contacted the occupation forces, who acknowledged their presence but provided no additional information,” he told Drop Site.

As with thousands of Palestinians in Israeli custody, Syrian detainees have been swallowed up in Israel’s prison system with no due process. Palestinian lawyer Khaled al-Mahajnah, who is a member of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs in Palestine, confirmed that Syrian detainees are being held in Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank. Separately, lawyer Ahmad al-Mousa, who resides in Germany, has documented the names of 46 prisoners and corresponded with more than a dozen international bodies about the detentions with no recourse.

Across the southern Syrian countryside, occupying Israeli forces have now become a dangerous reality of everyday life. Last month, Um Mohammed Layla was picking olives in her grove close to the village of Tarinjah, as her young children played nearby when a drone appeared overhead. Moments later, Israeli soldiers arrived in the area. “The drones hover above the trees while children play, then soldiers from the occupation suddenly appear among the fields and on village roads, spreading terror and fear,” she said.

This article is published in collaboration with Egab.

 

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Voor de bezoekers die Engels niet kunnen lezen: voor de niet op dit blog gepubliceerde artikelen in het Engels onder de links, moet je zelf even een vertaalapp zoeken op het web. Er zijn gratis apps van redelijke kwaliteit die dit kunnen (soms in 2 of of meer delen >> bij lange artikelen). Af en toe krijg je bij het openen van een nieuwe pagina een pop-up die vraagt of je een vertaling wilt hebben als de bewuste pagina in een andere taal is gesteld.


Visitors who can't read Dutch for the articles other than from this blog: on the web you can find free translation apps with reasonable quality, which can do the job (it's possible you have to do it 2 or more times >> with lengthy articles) Sometimes when you open a new page in an other language, you get a pop-up with the question if you need a translation

 

Het volgende artikel werd geschreven door Jonathan Cook en werd onder andere gepubliceerd op Substack (een paar passages zijn door mij met geel gearceerd). Zie ook het artikel van Cook dat werd gepubliceerd op 20 oktober 2025: 'A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the British police as antisemitic' >> Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!' (deze link is ook opgenomen in het blok met links aan het eind van dit bericht) Cook maakte aan grote fout in deze tekst waar had moeten staan: Four months on, he's bullying the police for trying to bar Israeli football thugs from coming into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!'(waar Starmer uiteraard nooit de Israelische voetbalfans, lees: terroristen, zal omschiirjven als 'thugs', laat staan als terroristen en waar hij nooit zal toegeven dat deze terroristen zongen: "Death to theArabs") 

Hier de link naar een lijst met 92 bedrijven die actief de genocide op de Palestijnen en diefstal/vernieling hun huizen, dorpen, akkers, boomgaarden en gebieden steunen, daaronder uiteraard de banken ING, Rabobank, ABN Amro (van Lanschot), van Lanschot Kempen en verzekeraars waaonder ASR, Aegon, Achmea, Cardano Group en Pimco. Voorts pensionfondsen zoals ABP, Pensieonfonds Detailhanel, Pensioenfonds Vervoer, Pensioenfonds Rail & Openbaar Vervoer, BPL Pensioen, Pensioenfonds ING, Pensioenfonds Woningcorporaties (SPW) en Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW). Verder de oliemaatschappijen BP en TotalEnergie (de laatste is het voormalige Franse bedrijf Elf, niet genoemd in dit overzicht, maar deze maatschappij steunt Israël al meerdere decennia). Ook vervoerder Maersk mag niet ontbreken aan deze lijst, dit bedrijf vervoert wapens, wapensystemen en ander oorlogstuig naar de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël. Bijna alle universiteiten van Nederland werken semen met die van Israel en uiteraard zitten daar universiteiten bij in dat genocide plegende land die wapens, wapensystemen en controle systemen ontwikkelen >> wapens en wapensystemen die worden getest op de Palestijnen... (dat laatste is al een paar decennia bekend, zeker bij de universiteiten die samenwerken met die van Israel.....) Over wapens gesproken, hier een paar van de genoemde wapenfabrikanten: Fokker, Elbit Systems, Thales Nederland en Palantir Technologies.

In dit bericht van Cook wordt onder meer aangegeven dat de Maccabi Tel Aviv fascisten ernstige terreur hebben uitgeoefend in Amsterdam, maar zonder enig probleem het land konden verlaten en dat voor hun bescherming NB 5.000 politiemensen in stelling werden gebracht, De enigen die werden veroordeeld waren moslims, die zich hebben verzet tegen de terreur van de Maccabi-supporters, terwijl de politie deze Maccabi-terroristen hun gang lieten gaan..... Schandelijk genoeg spraken politici als de fascist Wilders en de burgemeester van Amsterdam over een 'jodenjacht', terwijl videobeelden duidelijk aantoonden wie er begonnen en dat het al begon al vóór de wedstrijd van Ajax tegen Maccabi!!******

Over voetbal gesproken >> de corrupte voetbalorganisatie UEFA sloot Rusland in 2022 met een bloedgang uit van deelname aan internationale toernooien vanwege de inval in Oekraine, terwijl Israël al meer dan 2 jaar lang een genocide kan uitvoeren zonder te worden uitgesloten, een genocide waarin Israël nu officieel meer dan 100.000 mensen heeft vermoord. Het werkelijke aantal vermoorde Palestijnen ligt nu hoogstwaarschijnlijk op meer dan 500.000 >> al in 2024 gaf Israel aan dat er nog 1,8 miljoen Palestijnen zijn, terwijl het aantal Palestijnse inwoners in de Gazastrook voor 7 oktober 2024 meer dan 2.2 miljoen bedroeg..... Er zijn echter deskundigen die het aantal vermoorde Palestijnen schat op meer dan 680.000....:

 


Maccabi Tel Aviv row breaks Starmer’s cover story for colluding in genocide

The legal and ethical earthquake from Israel’s carnage in Gaza was never going to be contained there. As the Aston Villa row shows, the shockwaves for Britain will keep growing louder

Jonathan Cook

October 28, 2025



[First published by Middle East Eye]

No one should be surprised that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confected yet another duplicitous antisemitism furore last week – one in which he implicitly cast West Midlands Police as colluding in Jew hatred and insisted that British Muslims be exposed to racist violence from visiting foreign football hooligans.

Starmer had demanded that a decision by the police to bar fans of an Israeli club, Maccabi Tel Aviv, from attending a Europa League match in Birmingham next month be overturned.

He indicated that the West Midlands force had approved the ban on the grounds that hatred towards Jews in Britain had reached such fever pitch that police could no longer guarantee the Israeli fans’ safety from antisemitic violence.

His reasoning defamed both the British public and the police. The media lost no time in amplifying his narrative.

But Starmer’s claims were pure disinformation – as he surely knew from the police intelligence reports that must have been submitted to him before he called for the ban to be reversed.

Sadly for Starmer, those assessments were leaked to the media. They show that West Midlands Police made the decision after receiving reports from Dutch police that Maccabi fans had instigated racist violence in Amsterdam last year – before, during and after a match with local team Ajax.

As one source with inside knowledge of the police assessments told the Guardian: “The biggest risk was always the extreme Maccabi fans who want to fight.” It had taken 5,000 Dutch police officers three days to bring the violence to an end.

The likely cost of policing next month’s Aston Villa game was estimated at at least £6m ($8m), and would have required the deployment of large numbers of specialist riot squads from across the UK.

Not unreasonably, the police concluded that giving licence to Israeli football hooligans seeking to make good on chants of “Death to Arabs” in an ethnically diverse city like Birmingham was a bad idea.

According to the assessment, even members of the Jewish community opposed letting Maccabi fans attend.

Many of the Israeli club’s hardcore supporters – those that attend away fixtures – are likely to be current or reserve soldiers who have participated in the Gaza genocide. They deserve arrest, not the UK rolling out the red carpet.

Race relations fires

But strangely, Starmer did not see it this way. In his eyes, it seems, foreign thugs and war criminals should enjoy greater privileges in Britain than local ethnic minorities. Maccabi hooligans’ right to bring their genocidal incitement and violence to the UK trumps the right of minorities to be protected.

What political advantage his advisers thought he would gain is hard to grasp. Starmer simply added yet more fuel to Britain’s race relations fires – by smearing, once again, Muslims as antisemitic and “un-British”. The only beneficiary will be Nigel Farage’s Reform party.

So what on earth is going on?

In normal circumstances, this kind of behaviour from a government whose polling figures are in freefall – and whose traditional urban heartlands are deserting it – would look like demented self-sabotage. But these are not normal times.

Starmer knows that US President Donald Trump’s “peace plan” has done nothing more than slow Israel’s genocide, and that the so-called “ceasefire”, which Israel is violating on a daily basis, will crumble sooner or later – more likely sooner.

The bad news from Gaza is not going away. But this time Israel will no longer be able to claim as a pretext that the carnage is necessary to “bring home” captives held by Hamas.

Israel’s criminality will be even more starkly on show – and so will Britain’s extensive collusion.

Starmer’s solution has been to furiously pump up fears of “antisemitism”, even if doing so – as with his implicit criticism of the West Midlands Police – makes him and his ministers look ridiculous, incompetent and bad-faith actors.

But there is a logic here – of sorts. The prime minister’s two-fold strategy on Gaza has been evident for a while.

On the one hand, Starmer has done the bare minimum to oppose Israel’s atrocities, and in the most mealy-mouthed way he can, so he can at least claim, however disingenuously, to be respecting international law.

That is what primarily drove his very belated and grudging recognition of Palestinian statehood, though he appended a raft of near-impossible conditions to hollow out the move.

And it is the rationale for his claimed – but entirely bogus – curbing of UK arms sales to Israel. In fact, Britain has been making record weapons sales to Israel since he became prime minister.

On the other, Starmer has sought to deflect attention from his core policy of inertia on Gaza – designed to keep him onside with Washington – by denouncing any meaningful criticism of Israel as posing a threat to British Jews.

Fortress state

To achieve this end, it has been necessary to wildly misrepresent the true source of the antisemitism threat in Britain.

Starmer needs to pin the blame for Jew hatred on those who oppose both Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza and his own complicity in supporting Israel with arms, surveillance intelligence, and rhetorical and diplomatic cover.

That means his main target is the anti-racist left – a left he has been industriously purging from his own Labour Party since he became leader – and Muslim communities that identify most closely with Gaza’s suffering.

Meanwhile, he must distract attention from the real antisemites – those on the far-right, ranging from sections of the Conservative and Reform parties to an army of white nationalist goons led by Tommy Robinson, a notorious Islamophobe with multiple criminal convictions.

The ultra-right may hate Muslims and Jews equally, but they love the muscular, militarised fortress “Jewish state” of Israel, which prioritises the kind of ethnic purity and anti-Muslim bigotry they would love to see replicated in Britain.

In these circumstances, Starmer’s switch-and-bait has not been easy. Nonetheless, with the media’s backing, he has relentlessly smeared as “antisemites” anti-racists and British Jews – the “wrong sort” – who recoil from a genocide Israel claims it is doing in the name of all Jews.

Meanwhile, he has endorsed the conflation of a genocidal Israel, including its most violent football hooligans, with supposedly “right-thinking” British Jews – that is, those who identify with Israel so strongly they are blind to its crimes.

‘Clash of civilisations’

Starmer now serves as a prominent champion of the hard right’s much-loved “clash of civilisations” thesis, in which a Judeo-Christian West is assumed to be in a life-or-death, defensive war against a supposedly savage, bloodthirsty Islamic East.

In this narrative, Israel is the rampart against “barbarian Muslim hordes” seeking to storm the citadel of western civilisation.

Naturally, the right brushes aside any other explanation. Such as that Israel’s decades-long meddling in the region and relentless onslaughts on local populations – under the banner of Jewish supremacy, and brazenly as a western client state – may have incited the very response western publics are now encouraged to fear.

Starmer is no less dismissive of the self-sabotaging nature of the West’s foreign policy and its unstinting support for Israel, even in the midst of the Gaza genocide.

He cannot countenance the idea that the western-backed slaughter breathes life into assertions – once confined to more extreme groups – that there can be no accommodation with the West. That the West acts in bad faith. That it treats the lives of non-westerners as entirely worthless.

Starmer’s commitment to the “clash of civilisations” worldview was less obvious when he was continuing the previous government’s manufactured fight with “pampered, out-of-touch students” in encampments or “Hamas-sympathising lefties” on anti-genocide marches.

But he has chosen to go further.

He has proscribed as “terrorists” – apparently an upgrade from “antisemites” – the activists of Palestine Action. Their unforgivable sin was to move from street protests to direct action. They sought to put a spoke in the wheels of the British government’s complicity with the genocide, targeting factories in the UK supplying weapons to Israel.

According to Britain’s draconian terrorism laws, it is also a terrorism offence to show any support for a proscribed organisation.

Starmer appears not to have foreseen that, as a result, the police would be forced to arrest thousands of upstanding citizens – including doctors, lawyers, barristers, retired military officers, and even a former adviser to King Charles.

They have refused to bend to his decree that no debate about the legality, let alone the morality, of Britain arming Israel’s genocide can be tolerated.

Face-off with police

But now things have turned even darker. Starmer’s current duplicity has led him into siding with violent Israeli football hooligans against his own police force and Muslim communities.

The fallout from his four-square support for Israel’s genocide is that Starmer has had to import more deeply into British domestic politics the inherently divisive “clash of civilisations” ideology.

In the process, he has risked revealing how much of a charade his antisemitism narrative has been from the start.

The government’s actions were never really about protecting the Jewish community. Rather, it has been cynically using British Jews as a collective human shield, allowing Starmer to denounce any meaningful criticism of Israel as posing a threat to the Jewish community.

Starmer’s need for a cover story has been especially urgent because he was himself once a distinguished human rights lawyer, one who even served as the lead advocate in a case before the International Court of Justice in 2014 arguing that Serbia had committed genocide in the Croatian city of Vukovar.



How is he to explain his behaviour partnering with Israel and Washington over Gaza’s destruction, when it has required him to shred Britain’s obligations under international law?

He cannot claim ignorance, should there come a day when he is brought before the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

So the story Starmer has been crafting instead is that he is the saviour of Britain’s Jewish community, that he has been charting a difficult course in the face of a supposedly rampant antisemitism from the left, from Muslims, from anti-genocide marchers, from student encampments, from human rights groups, from Holocaust scholars, from the United Nations, from the ICC, and now from the British police.

The over-arching narrative is that Starmer has been one of the key bulwarks against the return of Jew hatred to Europe.

The price required to protect British Jews, so this story goes, has been his role as a “critical friend” to Israel, working behind the scenes to curb its worst excesses, while damping down criticism of Israel that risks inflaming antisemitism.

The main problem for Starmer is that he is being forced to confront more and more groups and institutions to sustain this narrative – to the point where he put himself effectively in a face-off with the British police.

‘Lab rats’

Opponents of the genocide warned from the outset that what started in Gaza could not be contained there. The slaughter would inevitably provoke polarising dissent in the West, require the crushing of basic rights to silence critics of western complicity, and gradually normalise authoritarianism.

Starmer’s behaviour has proved just how correct those prognoses were.

The British prime minister’s woes are not about to end, as recent developments demonstrate. Rather, the danger continues to grow of him being charged one day as an accessory to genocide.

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s international law expert for the occupied Palestinian territories, helps make that case in a report published last week. Entitled “Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime”, she highlights the collusion of western states in Israel’s litany of atrocities.

She notes how keen western leaders have been to portray Israel’s onslaught “as a battle of civilisation against barbarism”. In doing so, “they have reproduced the Israeli distortions of international law and colonial tropes, seeking to justify their own complicity in genocide”.

She identifies four sectors where western support has been indispensable in allowing Israel to continue its crimes: diplomatic, military and economic backing, as well as the ideological framing of Israel’s bombing and starvation of Gaza’s people as self-defence, producing a “humanitarian” problem that needs addressing rather than serving as proof of Israel’s genocidal intent.

In this last regard, she specifically names Starmer. In three separate interviews as opposition leader, he claimed that Israel had a “right” to carry through threats to cut off water and power to Gaza’s population.



As she points out, Israel cannot invoke a right to “self-defence” in Gaza under Article 51 of the UN Charter, when it has been holding the enclave’s people under a belligerent, decades-old occupation.

Starmer knows this.

Instead she argues that western leaders like Starmer have echoed the assumptions of a racist, colonial discourse in which non-westerners are viewed as “savages” who are undeserving of the protections of international law.

That discourse serves to conceal the huge profits western corporations have been reaping by colluding in Israel’s long occupation, as she documented in a previous report.

Western businesses and governments have looked to Israel to use Palestinians as lab rats for testing new surveillance technologies, systems of control and displacement, and killing machines.

These forms of oppression are already being turned against domestic populations in the West.

She points out that Starmer’s government has made the most cursory of nods to international law, such as imposing entry restrictions on two fascist ministers in Netanyahu’s government, while treating other genocide-cheering figures, such as President Isaac Herzog and senior Israeli military officials, as honoured guests.

The UK has been evasive about whether it would enforce the ICC’s arrest warrant against Netanyahu for crimes against humanity – for the starvation of Gaza that Starmer endorsed. And the UK has done nothing to prosecute British citizens who have chosen to serve on Israel’s side in the Gaza genocide, or even dissuade them from participating.

Perhaps most egregiously, a British airbase on Cyprus has served as a crucial supply line for arms to Israel and for hundreds of UK surveillance flights over Gaza.



Albanese observes: “Flight numbers and durations, often coinciding with major Israeli operations, suggest detailed knowledge and cooperation in the destruction of Gaza, extending beyond ‘hostage rescue’.”

‘Political stunt’

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), often known as the World Court, threw its own substantial weight last week behind a verdict that also implicates western leaders such as Starmer.

It was the court’s third ruling since Israel launched its campaign of slaughter in Gaza two years ago.

The first had found it “plausible” Israel was committing genocide. ICJ judges are currently investigating that charge.

The second ruling, last summer, concluded that Israel’s decades-long occupation and Jewish settlement of the Palestinian territories were illegal; that Israel must immediately withdraw from those territories, including Gaza; and that other states were obligated to put whatever pressure they could on Israel to comply.

Israel has gone in exactly the opposite direction, with its parliament last week voting to formally annex the occupied West Bank.

US Vice-President JD Vance, who was in Israel at the time babysitting Netanyahu to stop him sabotaging the ceasefire, called the parliamentary vote a “political stunt” and an “insult”.

But the White House’s concern appears to relate chiefly to the timing, which might threaten the ceasefire, rather than the substance.

His replacement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who arrived in Israel on Thursday, stated of the annexation vote: “At this time, it’s something that we … think might be counterproductive.” Note the conditional “At this time”.

The new, third ruling builds on the second – and hints at the likely outcome of the ICJ’s investigation of Israel for genocide. It finds Israel’s starvation policy in Gaza – the collective punishment of its population – in flagrant violation of international law.

The World Court justices declare: “The occupying Power may never invoke reasons of security to justify the general suspension of all humanitarian activities in an occupied territory.”

That should serve as a stinging rebuke to Starmer, who, as previously noted, declared that Israel had the right to carry out its declared policy of starving the people of Gaza.

The ICJ also rules that Israel must immediately allow in full supplies of food and aid, and cooperate with Unrwa, the UN aid agency that served as the main lifeline for the people of Gaza until Israel banned its operations last year based on a claim it had been infiltrated by Hamas.

The judges found that Israel had never produced any evidence to support such an allegation.

Health ‘catastrophe’

Israel replaced UN food distribution sites in Gaza with four, hard-to-reach “aid hubs” run by a US and Israeli military front group, the wildly misnamed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). It brought in a trickle of aid while Israeli soldiers regularly sprayed gunfire on desperate Palestinians queueing for food, killing and wounding many thousands.

Trump’s 20-point “peace plan” expressly required of Israel that it allow aid distribution “through the United Nations and its agencies”. And yet last Friday Rubio changed his administration’s own rules, as well as defying the World Court, by stating that Unrwa could play “no role” in aid distribution because it was supposedly “a subsidiary of Hamas”.

Tied to Washington’s apron strings, Starmer, like other western leaders, has made vague noises against Israel’s genocidal starvation campaign in Gaza, notably after images of emaciated children came to dominate social media six months ago.

But beyond the optics, he has done nothing substantive to reverse his original support for Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza, its blocking of food, aid and power.

Albanese notes in her new report that, as the Israeli-engineered famine gripped Gaza in the spring, the UK was among a handful of countries that launched operations to parachute aid into the enclave – an operation she describes as “expensive, inadequate and dangerous”.

But even worse, she concludes, the aid drops “only served to mislead international public opinion while the famine worsened”.

When British citizens recently joined an aid flotilla to Gaza, in an attempt to highlight Israel’s illegal naval blockade of the enclave, Starmer pointedly refused to offer them protection, even when they were abducted on the high seas and held in highly abusive conditions in Israel.

Despite Starmer behaving as if Trump’s so-called “peace plan” has ended the “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza, the UN World Food Programme stated last week that aid deliveries continued to remain well below its daily target of 2,000 tonnces.

The World Health Organisation, meanwhile, has warned that the “health catastrophe” Israel has engineered in Gaza will last for “generations to come”.

Trump’s ‘masterplan’

Last week the US news show 60 Minutes interviewed Trump’s two pointmen on Gaza: his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and his special envoy Steve Witkoff.

Kushner was keen to highlight how much destruction Israel had unleashed there, explaining that it looked like a nuclear bomb had been dropped.

This appeared to be his clumsy way of underscoring what an achievement Trump had secured in bringing to a halt the orgy of violence – a campaign of destruction, of course, that was made possible only because the US endlessly supplied Israel with armaments.

But with rising panic etched on his face, Kushner could only look on as Witkoff revealed that the pair had been working on a “masterplan” for Gaza’s reconstruction for two years – long before Gaza was levelled by the Israeli military. “Jared has been pushing this,” Witkoff explained.

Analysts have preferred to characterise Trump’s earlier, stated ambition to “clear out” the people of Gaza and build a playground for the rich – a Gaza Riviera – as some kind of hair-brained, improvised response to the scale of the enclave’s devastation.

But Witkoff indicated something even more sinister. That the Trump team had been informed from the outset of Israel’s bombing campaign that the intention was to eradicate Gaza, not Hamas. And so the Trump entourage began working on a business plan to cash in on the carnage.

Gaza, long the western military-industrial complex’s laboratory for field-testing weapons and surveillance technology, would now be repurposed as the world’s biggest redevelopment site.

As 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl approvingly observed of businessmen Kushner and Witkoff: “Part of the plan is the reconstruction, the building, rebuilding of Gaza. And you’re builders. You’ve been in real estate.”

The implication from Witkoff’s slip was clear: that what looked like a genocidal ethnic cleansing operation from the start was indeed just that. Trump’s team knew of Israel’s intentions and began putting together deals – both with the oil-rich Gulf states and, according to Witkoff, with Europe too.

The only continuing obstacle are armed resistance movements in Gaza that Washington is determined to disarm.

Starmer, like other western leaders, has hitched his wagon to the psychopaths who have been running this two-year horror show. It is not going away. They are determined to see it out, and reap the financial rewards.

Which means Starmer will have to maintain his “clash of civilisations” cover story and continue miring British politics more deeply in this divisive narrative.

That will require further demonising Britain’s ethnic minorities. It will exacerbate the country’s race relations wars. It will deepen the polarisation of British politics. It will lead to an ever-greater hollowing out of fundamental democratic rights. And, ultimately, it will usher in the far right on Farage’s coat-tails.

The legal and ethical earthquake that is the Gaza genocide was never going to be contained in Gaza. Its repercussions are simply too large. As the Maccabi Tel Aviv row demonstrates, the shockwaves for Britain are only going to keep growing louder.


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*     Zie o.a.: ''From the river to the sea...': wat betekent het en waarom maakt het zoveel los?' (!!!!) (4 november 2023) Een lesje anti-Palestijnse propaganda van staatszender NOS, kortom fake news (nepnieuws) en desinformatie van deze staatszender..... Zie waarmee militairen van het Israëlische leger rondlopen, dat gaat heel wat verder dan van de 'From the river to the sea' (dat door Palestijnen en sympathisanten wordt gebruikt en dat als een soort van super-antisemitisme wordt weggezet), ofwel Israël is van zins een deel van Egypte, Jordanië, Syrië en Libanon over te nemen!! (maar daarover lullen de westerse reguliere media en verreweg de meeste westerse politici niet) Deze link is ook opgenomen in het grote blok met links verderop hieronder. Zie het embleem op de foto hier direct onder:

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'Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South' (17 september 2025) Een artikel van Human Rights Watch >> Forced Displacement is a War Crime; Homes Razed, Syrians Detained and Unlawfully Transferred to Israel. Deze link is ook opgenomen in het grote blok met links iets verderop hieronder.

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 **    Zie:   'Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It’s Wrong To Train Dogs To Rape Prisoners' (4 december 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> One thing I try not to think about very often is how many reports we’ve been seeing about Israeli prison guards training dogs to rape Palestinian captives in torture camps like Sde Teiman. Deze linkis ook opgenomen in het grote blok met links verderop hieronder.


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***   Zie: 'Has the British public been tricked about what the Filton trial videos really show?' (9 december 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook, waarin wordt aangegeven dat het politieke proces tegen de 6 gevangenen niets anders is dan een volledig vals gemanipuleerd politiek proces. De voormalige Britse ambassadeur Craig Murray heeft feilloos aangegeven dat men video's heeft gemanipuleed dan wel stukken video voor het proces heeft weggelaten en dat de agenten en beveiligers van de Israëlische wapenfabriek Elbet Systems keihard hebben gelogen wat ook blijkt uit rechtbankverslagen...... >> Starmer desperately needs the trial of six peace activists who targeted Israeli arms firm Elbit to go his way, and bolster his government's claim that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation 

'The hunger strike is not being televised – nor will the last gasps of our dying freedoms' (4 december 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Six political prisoners who targeted factories arming Israel's genocide are weeks into a hunger strike. But in contrast to the IRA's 1980s hunger strike, this one is being blanked by the media. Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> Six political prisoners – held unlawfully for a year or more on remand, and retroactively deemed to be “terrorists” for trying to stop the Gaza genocide – have been on hunger strike for many weeks in prison. At least one is already seriously ill. Zie ook: 'Clownish Proscriptions' (30 november 2025) Een artikel van Binoy Kampmark, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> Challenging the Palestine Action Ban. Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> It did not take long for those well versed about human rights to protest this scrappy measure as absurd and needlessly authoritarian. The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, counting among their number Francesca Albanese, Ben Saul and Irene Khan, issued a press release in early July expressing their bafflement at the proscription. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.” Since the addition of Palestine Action to the naughty list of outlawed organisations, over 2,200 arrests have been made citing terrorism legislation, with 254 people charged with terrorism offences merely for participating in peaceful protests. Deze links zijn ook opgenomen in het grote blok met links verderop hieronder.

 

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****  Zie'Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide For Years And Then Demand Sympathy — And Other Notes' (8 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> I’m sorry but it’s just plain hilarious that we’re still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown exactly what it is that Hamas has been fighting. Hier de eerste passage uit dit artikel >> Never forget October 7th 2023, that fateful day when Israelis were brutally massacred by Israeli tanks and Israeli helicopters and Israeli drones and Israeli soldiers and Israeli bullets, and also by Hamas a bit. En zie de berichten onder de volgende links, die je ook terugvindt in het grote blok met links verderop hieronder:

'7 oktober 2023: Israël, een westers koloniaal project ten koste van de Palestijnen, plus het doorprikken van de zionistische 'religieuze claim' op Palestina' (7 oktober 2025)

'Ex-Israeli war chief confirms issuing Hannibal Directive to kill own civilians, soldiers on 7 Oct' (7 februari 2025) Een artikel van The Cradle >> Israeli forces used attack helicopters, drones, and tanks to kill their own civilians and soldiers while blaming the deaths on Hamas. Eén van de artikelen waarin dit werd gemeld, echter ik heb dit bericht niet in één orgaan gevonden behorend tot de reguliere westerse massamedia, ofwel deze media verzwijgen met opzet berichten die Israël totaal terecht in een kwaad daglicht stellen (al is dat bepaald geen nieuws), zelfs nadat Israël een genocide begon op basis van 7 oktober 2025, een genocide die intussen (het is nu 8 oktober 2025) al 2 jaar wordt uitgevoerd en die iedereen kan vinden in beeld en geluid op de sociale media, een genocide waarin minstens 680.000 Palestijnen zijn vermoord door die terreurstaat.....

'The most successful military raid of this century: the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel' (20 november 2023 // 7 oktober 2025) >> I published this article back on November 20, 2023, approximately six weeks after the Hamas raid on Israel. On this, the second anniversary of the Hamas raid, this article has stood the test of time.  Lees dit artikel mensen!! Een artikel van Scott Ritter, hier een passage uit dit artikel over de Kibboets Re'im >> The Israeli government has widely publicized what it is calling the “Re’im massacre,” citing a death toll of some 112 civilians it claims were murdered by Hamas. However, eyewitness accounts from both surviving Israeli civilians and military personnel involved in the fighting show that the vast majority of those killed died from fire from Israeli soldiers and tanks directed at buildings where the civilians were either hiding or being held hostage by Hamas fighters. It took two days for the Israeli military to recapture Re’im. It only did so after tanks fired into the civilian residences, collapsing them onto their occupants, and often setting them ablaze, causing the bodies of those inside to be consumed by fire. The Israeli government has publicized how it has had to make use of the services of forensic archeologists to identify human remains at the Kibbutz, implying that Hamas had burned the occupants’ home. But the fact is it was Israeli tanks that did the destruction and killing. (toegevoegd op 8 oktober 2025)

'Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened' (7 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> Israel supporters don’t want you looking at what happened before October 7, and they don’t want you looking at anything that’s happened since. 

'No More Non-Zionist Media Left. We Have a Problem' (7 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Karim, geplaatst op BettBeat Media >> The billionaires who bought your mind: how every platform you use now serves the Gaza genocide.  

'Israel Secretly Paid U.S. Influencers to Manipulate Public Opinion' (7 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Thomas Karat >> The Secret ‘Esther Project’ Exposed in U.S. DOJ Filings. 

'No one in power respects my grief. And no one is coming to console me' (5 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Politicians, the police and the media want millions of us to imagine we are alone in grieving the slaughter of Gaza's children – and that our grief is shameful. They need us to succumb to their lies. Hier nog 2 passages uit dit artikel >> Members of the Jewish community have been grieving for three days now over the killing of two innocent people in last week’s attack on a Manchester synagogue. Politicians and the media keep telling us how important it is to respect their grief.    I and millions of other Britons, some of them Jews, have been grieving for much longer – over the killing of tens of children in Gaza not on one day last week but on every single day, without break, for two years. And yet no politicians or media seem to think it important to respect my grief. (en dat eigenlijk al vanaf 1948 en zelfs al van daarvoor, al is de genocide die Israël nu uitvoert een enorme intensivering van de massamoord op Palestijnen en hun kinderen.....)

'7 oktober 2023 en laat onze regering je nooit vertellen wie je vijanden zijn' (7 oktober 2024)

 

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***** Zie: 'The Judge at the End of Europe' (5 december 2025) Een artikel van Yanis Varoufakis, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> The US Government Has De-Personned Nicolas Guillou for Carrying Out His Duties for Carrying Out His Duties. Deze link is ook opgenomen in het grote blok na de volgende link over Maccabi terreur.  

 

 

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****** Zie: 'Antisemitische pogrom' in Amsterdam: fake news, desinformatie en gevaarlijke demonisering (o.a. met video's die bewijzen dat er fiks is gelogen)' (15 november 2024)

'Ex-topambtenaar zet premier Schoof te kakken. Verder aandacht voor de strijd van terreurgroepen in Syrië' (6 december 2024)

 

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Voorts zie: aansluitend bij het hierboven weergegeven artikel van Jonathan/////A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the British police as antisemitic' (20 oktober 2025) Als gezegd een artikel van Jonathan Cook, wat je voorafgaand aan het hierboven weergegeven artikel kan lezen, of daarna //////////// >> Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!' Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> October 2025: West Midlands police announce that they are barring Tel Aviv Maccabi fans from attending a match in Birmingham against Aston Villa next month because of fears of violence. Tel Aviv’s supporters are notorious for their racist and violent behaviour, both inside Israel and abroad.   Nearly a year ago, there were ugly riots in Amsterdam’s streets provoked by the Tel Aviv fans – many of whom have served or are serving in the IDF – after their team lost against local side Ajax. Inside the stadium and later on the streets, the Tel Aviv fans could be heard chanting ”Death to the Arabs” and “There are no more schools in Gaza because we killed all the kids!”.

'Israel's biggest con trick: Hiding the true numbers it has killed in Gaza' (10 december 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Israel has penned us all into a 'debate', one entirely divorced from reality, that relates only to those killed directly by its bombs and gunfire – not the genocide it is waging by other means. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> The truth is that far, far larger numbers of people in Gaza have been actively killed by Israel not through these direct means but through what statisticians refer to as “indirect” methods.    These people were killed by Israel destroying their homes and leaving them with no shelter. By Israel destroying their water and electricity supplies and their sanitation systems. By Israel levelling their hospitals. By Israel starving them. By Israel creating the perfect conditions for disease to spread. The list of ways Israel is killing people in Gaza goes on and on. 

'I Thought I Knew What Genocide Was
Listening to the Testimonies of People in Gaza, I Realised I Know Nothing About Suffering
' (9 december 2025) Een artikel van Biljana Vankovska, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds. Hiere een passage uit dit artikel >> As a professor who has spent over 40 years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations—and, above all, the human consequences of armed conflict—I once believed I knew what genocide was. De auteur was deelnemer aan het Gaza Tribunaal dat plaatsvond in Istanbul van 23 tot 26 oktober 2025, als volgende nog 
een aantal punten uit de verklaring van bevindingen en het morele oordeel over de genocide, die werd en wordt uitgevoerd op dePalestijnen in de Gazastrook (zie ook het artikel van Ramzy Baroud over het Gaza Tribunaal verderop hieronder, gepubliceerd op 6 november 2025): 

The Jury condemns the commission of the following additional crimes

–      Starvation and famine throuhgh the deliberate denial of food, water and systematic destruction of the entire food system. 

–      Domicide is more than the intentional mass destruction of residential properties and their infrastructure – electricity, water and sanitation. A home is about love, life, a repository of memories, hopes and aspiration. Its destruction causes displacement, trauma, the disintegration of communities and profound cultural loss. 

–      Ecocide describes a particular kind of warfare based on ruination of land fertility, air quality, sources of food and water: catastrophic environmental damage that destroys the capacity to survive after the bombing ceases. 

–      Deliberate destruction and targeting of the healthcare infrastructure, equipment and personnel have been systematic for decades and has become almost total. The most important issue for physical and mental health is the Israeli occupation and the dehumanisation of the population.

–      Reprocide is the intentional and systematic targeting of Palestinian reproductive care through prevention of births, eliminating future lives and the ability to reproduce safely. 

–      Scholasticide is the genocide of knowledge, the destruction of Palestine’s intellectual future through the killing, silencing and displacing a generation of students and teachers, obliteration of schools and universities, destroying dreams and aspirations. 

–      Attacks on journalists. ‘Genocide documentation’ is carried out by Palestinian journalists and they and their families are targeted. Silencing these journalists is instrumental to the concealment of the genocide and more journalists have been killed than in any other conflict. 

–      Torture, sexual violence, disappearances, gender-based violence in detention, at checkpoints, in house searches, in displacement and elsewhere.

–      Politicide is the targeted assassination and kidnapping of political and cultural leaders, representatives, activists, and destruction of civic institutions.

The Jury finds a coherent and consistent pattern of exterminatory violence in the intentional and targeted destruction of homes, water supplies, schools, hospitals, clinics, universities, cultural and religious institutions, agricultural land, and natural ecosystems. The weaponization of hunger, denial of medical care, and forced displacement are not collateral damages of war—they are instruments of collective punishment of the entire population and of genocide. They are not justified by any claim of military objectives. 

 

'Nearly 100 bodies recovered under Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza; UAE-backed separatists claim control of southern Yemen' (9 december 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site Daily.

Israel voert in feite een zelfde terreurbewind uit als de nazi's tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in de concentratiekampen >> 'PI Briefing No. 45  Prisoners' (8 december 2025) Een artikel van Progressive International Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> In occupied Palestine, Israel’s vast prison ar chipelago has turned into an engine of extermination. Since the Gaza genocide began over two years ago, thousands of Palestinians have been disappeared into cages, camps, and subterranean cells, denied sunlight, food, medical care and even their own names. The evidence is overwhelming: Israel is not detaining Palestinians — it is destroying them.  Gevangenen worden ook nog eens verkracht, zelfs door daarvoor getrainde honden: 'Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It’s Wrong To Train Dogs To Rape Prisoners' (4 december 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> One thing I try not to think about very often is how many reports we’ve been seeing about Israeli prison guards training dogs to rape Palestinian captives in torture camps like Sde Teiman. 

'Israel raids UN compound in Jerusalem; FBI making a list of American “extremists”; Mass rapes by RSF in Sudan' (8 december 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site News, onder andere met het aantal doden sinds het zogenaamde 'vredesplan' van oorlogsmisdadiger en mede genocidepleger Trump. (de ploert is mede verantwoordelijk voor 3 genocides, in zijn eerste termijn de militaire steun voor de Saoedische genocide op de sjiiten in Jemen en nu mede verantwoorfdelijk voor de genocide op de Palestijnen in de Gazastrook en de genocide in Soedan)

'Public Broadcasters Quit Eurovision 2026' (6 december 2025) Een artikel van Ana Vračar, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> Slovenia, Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands Withdraw Over Participation of Israel. 

'The Judge at the End of Europe' (5 december 2025) Een artikel van Yanis Varoufakis, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> The US Government Has De-Personned Nicolas Guillou for Carrying Out His Duties llou for Carrying Out His Duties.

'A story of a 1930s uprising against British colonialism is key to understanding Gaza today' (5 december 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> 'Palestine 36’ is a potent reminder that the blueprint for Israel's depraved war crimes in Gaza were laid down by a British empire whose tyranny the Palestinians tried - and failed - to end. Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> Palestine 36, directed by the remarkable Palestinian film-maker Annemarie Jacir, illuminates more about the events unfolding for the past two years in Gaza than anything you will read in a British newspaper or watch on the BBC – if, that is, you can find anything at all about Gaza in the news since Donald Trump rebranded the killing and dispossession of Palestinians as a “ceasefire”.

The hunger strike is not being televised – nor will the last gasps of our dying freedoms' (4 december 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Six political prisoners who targeted factories arming Israel's genocide are weeks into a hunger strike. But in contrast to the IRA's 1980s hunger strike, this one is being blanked by the media. Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> Six political prisoners – held unlawfully for a year or more on remand, and retroactively deemed to be “terrorists” for trying to stop the Gaza genocide – have been on hunger strike for many weeks in prison. At least one is already seriously ill. Zie ook: 'Clownish Proscriptions' (30 november 2025) Een artikel van Binoy Kampmark, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> Challenging the Palestine Action Ban. Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> It did not take long for those well versed about human rights to protest this scrappy measure as absurd and needlessly authoritarian. The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, counting among their number Francesca Albanese, Ben Saul and Irene Khan, issued a press release in early July expressing their bafflement at the proscription. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.” Since the addition of Palestine Action to the naughty list of outlawed organisations, over 2,200 arrests have been made citing terrorism legislation, with 254 people charged with terrorism offences merely for participating in peaceful protests. 

'The Biggest Zionist Lies of All Time' (29 november 2025) Een artikel van Robert Rosenthal, gepubliceerd op The Progressive Jew'. Hier de eerste passage uit dit artikel >> Zionism has always relied on myths, distortions, and falsehoods to maintain support among Western audiences. ZBS (Zionist bullshit) has kept generations of Jewish Zionists and goyishe backers of that racist project thoroughly misinformed.

 Why is Corbyn apologising after an AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR condemned Israel  EIGHT YEARS AGO? | Vox Political

'Deliberate Contradiction' (5 december 2025) Een artikel van Ramzy Baroud, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> How the West Plays Dumb and Kills People in Gaza. 

Palestinian photojournalist killed in Israeli drone; Indonesia floods death toll tops 700; 40 killed in Sudan in alleged army strike' (2 december 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site Daily.

'Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu' (1 december 2025) Een artikel van Jeremy Scahill
and Jawa Ahmad, gepubliceerd op Drop Site >> The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause. Hier nog een passage uit dit artikel >> “It’s an Israeli plan that has been rebranded as a Trump plan,” said Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer who previously served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators. “All of the guarantees are being given to Israel, but there’s no guarantees that are given to Palestinians. The fact [is] that all of the control rests in the hands of Israel. No control is ceded to anybody else; it looks to me entirely like an Israeli plan that was rebranded as a Trump plan—not the other way around,” Buttu told Drop Site. “It was a plan that was designed to ease the pressure off of Israel and, at the same time, let Israel continue to kill Palestinians—let them try to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It exatly matches what Israel said from the beginning.”  

'Amnesty' (28 november 2025) Een artikel van Juan Cole, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >>
So-Called Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ Becoming Smokescreen For Continued Israeli Genocide. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> Ms. Callamard warned that: “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal. But while Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.”    Amnesty observes that Israeli fighter pilots and troops have killed about 350 people in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire was trumpeted on 9 October. Moreover, Israelis are deliberately obstructing the process of rebuilding “life-sustaining infrastructure.” This cruel behavior is also illegal, directly violating “multiple orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for Israel to ensure that Palestinians have access to humanitarian supplies.”

'UNSC Resolution 2803' (28 november 2025) Een artikel van Ramzy Baroud, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> The US-Israeli Scheme to Partition Gaza and Break Palestinian Will. Hier de eerste 2 passages uit dit artikel >> United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive destruction, and the expansion of Israeli violence to the West Bank and elsewhere in the Middle East.   The resolution, passed on 14 November 2025, was a consolation prize to Israel after failing to achieve its ultimate objective from the two-year Gaza genocide: the ethnic cleansing of the population and the complete takeover of the Gaza Strip.

'How Palestinian History Is Systemically Forgotten (w/ Micaela Sahhar) | The Chris Hedges Report' (28 november 2025) Een interview van Chris Hedges met Micaela Sahhar, inclusief transcript >> Micaela Sahhar reframes monumental events in Palestinian history through an intimate lens of her own family’s displacement during the 20th century. 

'Don’t Buy into Occupation V report' (per mail ontvangen op 28 november 2025) Een rapport van The Rights Forum >> The Private Actors Behind the Economy of Occupation and Genocide. Onder andere met de vermelding van de bedrijven, banken en verzekeringsmaatschappijen, die op de één of andere manier verdienen aan de bezetting van de West Bank of de genocide op de Palestijnen, dan wel producten en diensten afnemen van Israël, of zelfs wapens leveren aan de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, zoals gebruikt voor de genoemde genocide.

'The state of Israel: West Bank mosque torched as Europeans condemn 'massive increase' in settler violence' (27 november 2025) Een artikel van Haaretz (een joods nieuwsplatform) In westerse reguliere media stelde men vooral dat e.e.a. gebeurde tijdens gevechten tussen Palestijnen en kolonisten, zonder te vermelden dat het alweer de zogenaamde kolonisten waren die tekeergingen op de West Bank, logisch dat Palestijnen zich proberen te verweren tegen deze psychopathische zionisten (volgens Hajo Meijer, een overlevende van Auschwitz, zijn zionisten nazi's).....

'UN Hands Gaza to its Killers | W./ Vanessa Beeley & Fiorella Isabel' (26 november 2025) ettBeat Media. Een video van Karim (BettBeat Media) met Vanessa Beeley, Florella Isabel en Peter Beattie. Hier de eerste 2 passages uit het begeleidende schrijven >> Monday’s vote was not just a betrayal of Palestine—it was a declaration of war against every person who believes in human dignity. The Security Council has told us exactly who they are.     As Karim wrote: “The great tragedy of Monday’s vote is not just what it means for Palestinians—though that alone should be enough to provoke global uprising. The greater tragedy is what it reveals about the complete absence of meaningful opposition to the forces destroying our world. 

'Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies' (25 november 2025) Een artikel van Abdel Qader Sabbah en Sharif Abdel Kouddous, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News >> “This pipe doesn’t make up for my leg,” said 10-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq. Om nog eens aan te geen hoe duivels Israel en het IDF bezig zijn!!

'Gaza faces more winter storms; RSF declares “truce” in Sudan after genocidal killing spree; Trump to reassess all Biden refugees' (25 november 2025) Een arikel van Drop Site Daily. >> Israeli strikes hit multiple areas in the Gaza Strip as demolitions continue. Rains drench displaced Palestinians once again, with winter storms continuing to wreak havoc on Gaza’s increasingly exposed population. Unexploded munitions kill a child and injure several others in Gaza City. Hamas to return the body of another Israeli captive. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it is leaving Gaza, but that its model—which has been condemned as a series of “death traps”—will be adopted and expanded. A new study by the Max Planck Institute says that more than 100,000 died in the Gaza genocide. The Israeli military launches a raid into Nablus.

'PI Briefing No. 43 No Peace for the Plundered' (24 november 2025) Een artikel van Progressive International >> Donald Trump insists he is a peacemaker. Who is his “peace” really for? LEZEN MENSEN!! (een artikel dat handelt over meerdere oorlogen waarin het westen de aanstichter is) Hier de eerste 3 passages uit dit artikel >> In the Progressive International's forty-third Briefing of 2025, we look at Sudan, Congo, and Palestine — and the fraudulent “peace deals” imposed by the United States on their people, which serve only to facilitate their continued plunder.   On 17 November 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution endorsing Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s so-called “peace plan” for Gaza. In a statement, the Cabinet of the Progressive International condemned it as a colonial scheme and a “calculated attempt to erase the horizon of Palestinian liberation.”    This is not the first time the Trump administration has imposed a so-called “peace” on a besieged people. In Sudan, the US is brokering a “peace process” under the banner of the Quad Initiative — a mechanism launched by the US together with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, all of which have supplied parties to the vicious war for their own benefit.

'A Single Warehouse in Jersey City Moved Over A Thousand Tons of Military Cargo to Israel Every Week' (24 november 2025) Een artikel van Jose Olivares
and Alex Colstongepubliceerd op Drop Site News >> Three New Jersey-based logistics companies have worked for decades with Israel's Ministry of Defense, U.S. contractors, and weapons manufacturers to ship military equipment from the U.S to Israel.  

'Weapons of Willpower: Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Trump's Gaza Plan' (23 november 2025) Een artikel van Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad, gepublicerd op Drop Site News >> The UN put a stamp of legitimacy on President Trump’s colonialist plan for Gaza. In a Drop Site exclusive, Palestinian resistance leaders assess the state of the war.

'You Don’t Hate The Mass Media Enough' (23 november 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> The western press see the killing of Palestinians as such a baseline norm that Israel can massacre dozens of people in Gaza and they’ll go, “Gosh I sure hope this doesn’t lead to any violations of the ceasefire!”

'Israel Moved Gaza's Yellow Line And Then Shelled Palestinians For Being On The Wrong Side' (22 november 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, hier 3 passages uit dit artikel (deel van de tekst is vetgemaakt door mij) >> Drop Site News reports that the IDF quietly moved part of the “yellow line” which divides Gaza 300 meters forward, and then started shelling Palestinians for being on the “wrong side” of the line.   They just keep finding new ways to carve off more pieces of Gaza and murder more Palestinians.  Haaretz has a disturbing story out about a 14 year-old Palestinian boy who was waiting for his school bus in the West Bank on a quiet street eating a cookie, when suddenly a bunch of IDF vehicles pulled up and a soldier shot him directly in the face with a teargas canister. Then they sped off.    The boy lost his right eye in the attack. Zie ook verderop het bericht onder de link van 20 november 2025 met de titel ' The New Kill Zone'   

'Polish TNT Powers Bombs Dropped on Gaza' (23 november 2025) Een artikel van Ana Vračar, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> Report Finds Nitro-Chem Involved in Everyday Violence Committed Against Palestinians. Hier de eerste passage uit dit artikel >> Polish company Nitro-Chem is complicit in the genocide in Gaza through the sale and delivery of thousands of tonnes of TNT used in bombs deployed by Israeli occupation forces, according to a new report published by the People’s Embargo for Palestine initiative. “Without Polish-made TNT, the unprecedented scale and intensity of aerial bombardment that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and destroyed the conditions of life in Gaza—including hospitals, schools, markets and refugee camps—would not be possible,” the campaign wrote.

'Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket' (21 november 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realised – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell.

'Who Is Ready to Die for Trump’s Gaza Plan?' (21 november 2025) Een artikel van Medea Benjamin gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> So Far, Nobody. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> On 17 November 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump’s plan for Gaza, including a transitional government headed by Trump himself and an International Stabilization Force (ISF) that is expected, among other tasks, to disarm Hamas, a task that Israel has failed to do through two years of genocide and mass destruction.    The ISF will be tasked with securing the borders in a way that confines Palestinians, stabilizing Gaza’s security environment by suppressing resistance, demilitarizing Gaza while leaving the Israeli regime untouched, and training the Palestinian police to control the population. Yes, the force is also mandated to “protect civilians” and assist humanitarian aid. But under US supervision, can anyone honestly expect it to restrain Israel when Israel simply refuses to comply—as we see with the current so-called “ceasefire”?

'From Libya to Palestine: The UN's Betrayal Of Arabs and Muslims' (21 november 2025) Een video met inleiding door Dmitri Lascaris met Owen Schalk (duur iets meer dan 50 minuten), hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> On November 17, 2025, the UN Security Council betrayed the Palestinian people by adopting a resolution that endorsed Donald Trump’s criminal and fraudulent “peace plan” for Gaza.   That resolution, Resolution 2803, is by no means the first time that the UN Security Council has stabbed Arab and Muslim peoples in the back.

'The New Kill Zone' (20 november 2025) Een artikel van Ramzy Baroud >> Gaza’s Borders after the "Ceasefire". Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> Gaza’s new Yellow Line is but the latest, most egregious military demarcation in a long, cruel history of lines intended to make the lives of the Palestinians impossible. The current line, however, is worse than any before it, as it completely suffocates the displaced population in a fully destroyed area, without functioning hospitals and with only trickles of life-saving aid.

'“Finish Them”: Decoding the Psychological Architecture of Political Rhetoric' (20 november 2025) Een artikel van Thomas Karat >> A deep dive into how politicians weaponize evolutionary psychology to bypass your logic and hack your vote. Het handelt hier om een uitspraak van hare fascistische kwaadaardigheid Nikki Haley over Hamas. 

'Canada's Speech Gestapo Strikes Again' (22 november 2025) Een video (53 minuten) van en met een inleiding door Dimitri Lascaris. Hier 2 pasages uit de inleiding >> When he arrived at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Canadian border officials took his passport and that of his wife, Hilal Elver, who accompanied him. Like Professor Falk, Ms. Elver is an accomplished scholar in international law.    Canadian border officials detained them at Pearson airport for four hours. A customs official questioned them extensively about the Palestinian cause. Among other things, they were asked whether they support the Palestinian right to resist.

'Israel Kills Over 30 Palestinians in Gaza in Second Bloodiest Assault of "Ceasefire"' (20 november 2025) Een artikel van Abdel Qader Sabbah en Sharif Abdel Kouddous, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News >> Israeli warplanes bombed tent encampments and displacement shelters while troops moved deeper into Gaza City, expanding the "yellow line" and seizing more territory. Zie wat betreft de 'yellow line' ook/////:

'Israeli forces extend "red zone" further into Gaza City; Mamdani retains controversial NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch' (20 november 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site Daily.

'A Crime of Historic Proportions: UN Hands Gaza to its Killers' (20 november 2025) Een artikel van Karim, gepubliceerd op BettBeat Media >> Monday’s vote was not just a betrayal of Palestine—it was a declaration of war against every person who believes in human dignity. The Security Council has told us exactly who they are.

'UN Security Council Resolution On Gaza Is An 'Atrocity' w/ Craig Mokhiber' (19 november 2025) Een video (1 uur) met een interview door Dimitri Lascaris >> Hier een paar passages uit de inleiding >> On Monday, November 17, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution endorsing Donald Trump’s so-called ‘peace plan’ for Gaza.   The resolution approves the creation of a Trump-led “peace board” to supervise the Gaza Strip, calls for the ‘demilitarization’ of Gaza without imposing any restrictions on the arming of Israel, and authorizes an “international stabilization force” to police and disarm Palestinian resistance groups. 

'U.S. Mercenary Firm Tied to Notorious Aid Scheme Is Recruiting for New Gaza Deployment' (19 november 2025) Een artikel van Sharif Abdel Kouddous, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News >> UG Solutions, which provided security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has been interviewing ex-soldiers for potential “robust security” operations. Owel: psychopathische moordenaars gezocht om Palestijnen te vermoorden die voedselhulp proberen te krijgen bij 'hulpposten' voor hun gezin/familie.....

'Clandestine Cleansing' (19 november 2025) Een artikel van Binoy Kampmark, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> Al-Majd Europe, Gaza and Israeli Policy.

'Israeli airstrike on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills 13; Congress approves release of Epstein files' (19 november 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site Daily met onder andere de volgende passage >> A report from Samidoun says that the imprisoned Palestinian leader Abdullah Barghouti, serving 67 life sentences in Israel’s Gilboa Prison, has faced years of torture, prolonged isolation, starvation, untreated fractures, infections, and has lost more than 77 pounds. Guards in his prison have allegedly employed dogs and electric shocks to torture him and exposed him to scabies. Rights groups warn he is among several high-profile detainees facing escalating abuse, as at least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 2023.

'Zionists Are Freaking Out About Losing Control Of The Narrative' (19 november 2025) Een arikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> More and more often we’re seeing them say the quiet parts out loud as they frantically scramble to manage perceptions and manipulate minds around the world. 

'Heavy rains flood tents in Gaza; Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear to target “narco-terrorists”' (14 november 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site Daily.

'Polishing Genocide' (13 november 2025) Een artikel van Ramzy Baroud, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> Israel's Desperate War to Erase History. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> Many pro-Palestine activists are now highlighting the direct complicity of Western media, especially in the UK, in attempting to whitewash the rape accusations against Israeli soldiers. Instead of using the unequivocal word “rape,” mainstream outlets refer to the horrific Sde Teiman episodes merely as “abuses.” While Israeli politicians and other war criminals are openly celebrating the so-called “abuses” and the rapists as national heroes, mainstream British and French media are still refusing to accept that the widespread torture, rape, and mistreatment of Palestinians is part of a centralized, systemic agenda, not mere individual “abuses.”    Compare this to the wall-to-wall, sensationalized coverage of alleged “mass rape” by Palestinians in southern Israel on 7 October—despite the fact that no independent investigation was ever conducted, and that the claims were made by the Israeli army without credible evidence.

'There Have Only Been 3 Criminal Indictments Against Israeli Soldiers for Gaza War Crimes in First 18 Months of War' (13 november 2025) Een artikel van Umer Zaib Khan, gepubliceerd op Drop Site >> According to internal Israeli records, the military filed just three criminal indictments for all Gaza-related offenses, part of a justice system designed to act as a smokescreen and provide impunity. In oktober 2023, bij het begin va de genocide op de Palestijnen liet Netanyahu weten dat géén israelische militair zou worden gestraft voor oorlogsmisdaden......

'“On the First Day I Was Raped Twice”' (13 november 2025) Een artikel van Ana Vračar, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> PCHR Report Exposes Sexual Abuse of Palestinian Prisoners by Israeli Forces.

'Israel Impedes Immunisation of Children in Gaza' (13 november 2025) Een artikel van Juan Cole, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> Israelis Block Syringes and Refrigerators for UNICEF Vaccination of Toddlers in Gaza. De inhumane fascistische monsters!! En nog steeds zelfs niet één sanctie tegen dat geteisem..... Zie de enorme hypocrisie vergeleken met de behandeling van Rusland, dat NB Oekraïne binnenviel met de belangrijkste reden dat de Oekraïense nazi's etnische Russen op grote schaal vermoordden >> wat dat betreft is de Oekraïense fascistische regering goed te vergelijken met die van Israël....

'The Member States Complicit in Genocide (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report' (13 november 2025) Een artikel met een Chris Hedges met Francesca Albanese, het uitgeschreven interview en de video met het interview (44 min.) >> Francesca Albanese’s new report examines how 60+ countries are complicit in Israel’s war crimes and how their contributions will come back to haunt their own citizens.:

'Israel bombs Gaza; the UK and Colombia stop sharing intelligence with the U.S.; House set to vote to reopen U.S. government' (12 november 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site Daily. Onder andere >> Israel continues to attack Gaza, with at least three airstrikes on Gaza on Wednesday. The UN says Israel is blocking vaccines and baby bottles. More than 1,500 buildings beyond the “yellow line” have been destroyed. Settlers set fire to vehicles, including dairy trucks, in West Bank villages. Israel’s Parliament advances the “Al Jazeera Law” aimed at curtailing access for unfavorable journalism in its territories.

'American-Palestinian Doctor Recounts The Horrors He Witnessed In A Gaza Hospital' (12 november 2025) Een video met tekst inleiding door Dimitri Lascaris >> After witnessing the horrors in Gaza, Dr. Dhiaa Daoud volunteered for the Gaza Freedom Flotilla:


'Rescue Teams Dig Up Over 50 Bodies Buried in Shallow Graves in Courtyard of Gaza City Clinic' (12 november 2025) Een artikel van Abdel Qader Sabbah, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News >> “Since the ceasefire began, we’ve been in the first stage, still looking for our children.”

Civil Defense teams dig up bodies buried in the courtyard of the Sheikh Radwan clinic in Gaza City on November 11, 2025. (Screenshot of video by Abdel Qader Sabbah.)

'"Mody Onboard": Epstein Pressed Steve Bannon to Meet With Indian PM Shortly Before His Death' (21 november 2025) Een artikel van Meghnad Bose, Biplob Kumar Das, and Murtaza Hussain, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News >> Records of emails and text messages reveal previously unknown details about Epstein’s efforts to broker influence on Indian geopolitics and his interactions with a senior leader of Modi’s party. Zie ook de berichten onder een aantal van de volgende links

'Sometimes The Media Ignoring A Major Story Becomes The Story' (12 november 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> It is interesting how often such instances involve the state of Israel. In dit artikel aandacht voor de desinteresse van de reguliere westerse media als het gaat om pedo schoft Epstein als spion voor Israël.... (zoals ook zijn banden met bekende westerse leiders als Bill Clinton al lange tijd worden verzwegen, aanvankelijk kreeg dit enige aandacht maar het verdween sneller dan dat het eerder werd opgepakt door de reguliere westerse media.....) 

'Jeffrey Epstein Helped Israel Sell a Surveillance State to Côte d’Ivoire' (7 november 2025) Een artikel van Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News, hierin wordt duidelijk gemaakt dat met de totale controle op telefoon en internet, met hulp van opperploert Epstein, geleverd door Israël , de dictator van Ivoorkust aan de macht kan blijven juist door die controle...... Voorts geeft het geheel ten overvloede nog eens aan dat Israël een smerige terreurstaat is en volkomen lak heeft aan moreel, ethisch handelen en mensenrechten..... Leaked emails show the details behind talks between Cote d’Ivoire and Israel shepherded by Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein. Zie ook het bericht onder de volgende foto!!

'Israeli Spy Stayed for Weeks at a Time With Jeffrey Epstein in Manhattan' (11 november 2025) Een artikel van Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News >> Leaked emails show Epstein working on a wire transfer to Ehud Barak's top aide, Yoni Koren, who regularly stayed at his apartment.

'The Algorithm Has Become a Zionist Asset—And It's Rewiring Your Brain' (9 november 2025) En artikel van Karim gepublicerd op BettBeat Media >> Israel has Turned the West into a Weapon of Arab Destruction. Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> Across the field, we see the use of agentic AI, typically the sort of software agents that complete menial tasks. In 2024, Boston Consulting Group earned a fifth of its revenue from AI related work. IBM raked in over US$1 billion sales commitments for consulting work through its Watsonx system. From earning no revenue from such tools in 2023, KPMG International received something in the order of US$650 million in business ventures because of generative AI.
 
'Verdict from the People' (6 november 2025) Een artikel van Ramzy Baroud, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> Why the Gaza Tribunal is about Accountability, Not Symbolis 

Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes' (6 november 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> They’re using bureaucratic red tape and arbitrary restrictions to put as much inertia on the effort to rush aid into Gaza as possible. 

'The Death House' (30 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Chris Hedges >> The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism. Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by their own occupations and genocides — in India, Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America — are returning to their roots as they face a global climate crisis and the obscene levels of social inequality that they engineer and sustain. >> Neem ook de westerse onverschilligheid over het verdrinken van duizenden vluchtende mensen in de Middellandse Zee, mensen die voor het overgrote deel op de vlucht zijn geslagen door westers geweld, die veel landen in een enorme chaos hebben gestort, neem als bijvoorbeeld alleen al Libië en Soedan.... De fascisten in ons land spreken als ze het over deze mensen hebben zelfs van gelukzoekers....  

'Despite A 'Ceasefire", Israel Massacres Forty-Six Children in Gaza' (30 oktober 2025) Een video met inleidend schrijven van Dimitri Lascaris >> On October 28, Israel’s military reported that one of its soldiers terrorists had been killed by sniper fire in the occupied Gaza Strip.     Hamas immediately denied any involvement in the shooting, but that did not stop Israel from committing one of the bloodiest assaults on Gaza since its genocide began more than two years ago.    On night of October 28/29, Israeli airstrikes slaughtered more than 100 Palestinians, including at least 46 children and 20 women.



'It’s Just Wall-To-Wall News Stories About The US And Its Allies Abusing The World' (29 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> The US can make threats, impose sanctions and amass war machinery, but you don’t truly know they’re serious about attacking a country until they start churning out Pentagon propaganda in the mainstream press.

'The Powerful Who Stand With Israel' (29 okotber 2025) Een artikel van Vijay Prashad, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds >> Israel's Powerful Western Allies Have Supplied It With Diplomatic Cover and Weapons. Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> In November 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed a warrant for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. Based on this recent UN report, the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, should be obliged to file warrants against Rishi Sunak, Starmer, Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump—at a minimum. Anything less makes a mockery of the rules-based international system, namely the United Nations Charter. 

'Israel kills over 100 Palestinians in overnight bombardment of Gaza; thousands killed in Sudan's El-Fasher' (29 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site News. >> At least 104 Palestinians in Gaza were killed, including 46 children and 20 women, in Israeli attacks on Gaza overnight, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. At least 253 Palestinians were wounded, including 78 children and 84 women. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 68,643 killed, with 170,655 injured. >> In werkelijkheid zijn er hoogstwaarschijnlijk bijna 700.000 Palestijnen vermoord door de genocidale fascistische staat Israël....

'Israel: The Billionaire Elite's Laboratory for Global Domination' (26 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Karim, gepubliceerd op BettBeat Media >> The world gets a masterclass in constructing a society that satisfies every depraved impulse of absolute evil while marketing itself as civilization’s last hope against barbarism. Hier een passage uit dit artikel >> For seventy-five years, we have been fed the mythology of Israel as a beleaguered democracy surrounded by barbarous enemies. This is perhaps the most successful propaganda campaign in modern history. Israel is not a democracy under siege—it is a laboratory. A testing ground where the techniques of surveillance, control, torture, abuse and extermination are perfected before being exported to every corner of the globe where capital seeks to crush resistance. 

'The Speech That the National Press Club Censored: The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists' (25 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Chris Hedges >> Chris Hedges details the access-based journalism that pervades the mainstream media and has betrayed Palestinian people. >> een video van 28 minuten, helaas niet ondertiteld in het Nederlands.

'They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World' (25 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our own rulers are the problem. 

PalestineRecognition of What? And Why. (24 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Biljana Vankovska, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds. Lezen mensen!! Deze professor legt nog eens heel precies uit hoe hypocriet de westerse staten zijn die Palestina erkennen, maar tegelijkertijd goede banden blijven onderhouden met terreurstaat Israël (zelfs met wapenleveringen) en hoe smerig en openlijk de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, ondanks het zogenaamde vredesakkoord de genocide blijft uitvoeren op de Palestijnen. 

'The Unvanquished Will: Gaza’s Triumph of Spirit Against the Architecture of Genocide' (24 oktober 2025)  Een artikel van Ramzy Baroud, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds.

Palestinians in Gaza Struggle to Retrieve Their Dead With Little More Than Hammers' (22 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Adel Qader Sabbah, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News >> As the world focuses on the bodies of Israeli captives, thousands of Palestinians are missing and buried under the rubble. Hier de eerste 2 passages uit dit artikel >> GAZA CITY—An Israeli airstrike on Vivian Al-Har’s home killed her entire family barely two weeks before the ceasefire went into effect during Israel’s concentrated military offensive on Gaza City, the disfigured and dismembered bodies of her husband, four daughters, son, and brother-in-law were pulled out of the ruins and buried. Her older son’s body remains trapped under the rubble.    “I am left alone, I am the only one remaining in the family. I have no sons, no daughters, no husband, no one,” Al-Har told Drop Site, weeping as she spoke. “There is no equipment. All the floors collapsed on my son; there were no tools and no one able to get him out. My son and my neighbor’s son are in the same house, and no one can reach them. As much as we tried to appeal to civil defense, there are no services. There is nothing in Gaza.”

'Dozens of unidentified bodies returned by Israel buried in a mass grave in Gaza; Trump seeks $230 million compensation for past federal investigations' >>  Drop Site Daily: October 22, 2025 >> Gaza authorities bury 54 unidentified bodies handed over by Israel, some bearing signs of abuse and torture. The number of food trucks allowed into Gaza remains far below the required minimum as outlined in the ceasefire agreement. Three Palestinian fishermen are arrested off the coast of Gaza. Israeli forces detain at least 45 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank. Vice President JD Vance tells reporters on his visit to Israel that disarming Hamas is “going to take a little bit of time,” and threatens to “obliterate” the group unless it is fully cooperative. Sixteen-year-old Palestinian-American Mohammad Zaher Taysir Ibrahim details the severe overcrowding, starvation, and unsanitary conditions inside Ofer prison, where he was detained.

'Israel Flipped Out And Killed 45 Palestinians After Running Over Their Own Bomb' (!!!!) (20 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> Killing Palestinians is so normalized and accepted as a baseline expectation in the western press that CNN called it the “first major test” of the ceasefire after Israel killed people in Gaza every single day since the ceasefire agreement was signed.

'The Genocide Will Not End' (19 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Vijay Pashad, gepubloiceerd op Savage Minds >> Unless the Palestinian Political Leaders Are Free. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >>  Slowly, a full picture of the devastation of Gaza by Israel is becoming clear. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a report around the time of the ceasefire that began to lay out the numbers: Israel’s bombardment of Gaza resulted in the total destruction of 190,115 buildings and the almost total destruction of another 330,500 housing units. The constant artillery and aerial fire over the 734 days of the genocide resulted in the wrecking of eighty-five percent of Gaza’s water and sewage system. Only one medical facility remained open in Gaza City at the time of the ceasefire, with ninety-four percent of hospitals and clinics destroyed or badly damaged. In fact, according to the PCBS, Gaza is currently unlivable.     It is impossible to know the full extent of the physical and mental damage inflicted upon the Palestinian people of Gaza: the Ministry of Health has inadequate numbers for the dead and injured, and the trauma will only be known over the course of the years—if specialists are indeed able to return to the area. The United Nations reports that its entire child protection apparatus in Gaza has ‘almost collapsed’. Stunningly, the UN notes that one in five babies in Gaza is born preterm or underweight, and that in June 2025, 11,000 pregnant women faced famine conditions while 17,000 more struggled with acute malnutrition without much relief.

'They Said The Massacres Would Stop When The Hostages Were Released. They Haven’t Stopped' (18 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> Israel’s genocidal intent has been on full display every minute of every day, and it continues to be even during this joke of a “ceasefire” where the genocide was theoretically supposed to be on pause for a little while. Hier nog een passage uit dit artikel >> On Friday Israel reportedly blew up a vehicle carrying a Palestinian family of eleven people, including seven children. The IDF gave its usual excuse for the massacre: the civilians were deemed to have crossed an invisible line into a forbidden zone which made the Israeli soldiers feel unsafe. They did this exact same thing constantly during the last “ceasefire” as well.

'Returning to Shujaiya: Palestinians Are Going Back to Gaza City Despite Proximity of Israeli Troops' (17 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Abdel Qader Sabbah, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News >> Parts of Shujaiya lie inside the “yellow line,” an invisible demarcation where the Israeli military withdrew as part of the initial phase of the ceasefire agreement. )Hier een passage uit het uiterst trieste artikel (ik heb een deel van de tekst vetgemaakt >> Much of Gaza is still in the grip of a worsening famine, with Israel restricting the number of humanitarian aid trucks admitted under the terms of the ceasefire deal and with the Rafah border crossing still closed. Along with the continued restrictions on food, fuel, and medicine, Israel is restricting the entry of heavy equipment and machinery necessary to clear tens of millions of tons of rubble, underneath which thousands of Palestinians killed in the war remain buried and missing. A United Nations Development Program representative told a press briefing this week that the amount of rubble in Gaza would stack 12 meters high in all of Central Park in New York City or be enough to build 13 giant pyramids in Egypt.

Bilal Hameed, a displaced Palestinian who returned to Shujaiya, Gaza City after the ceasefire. October 15, 2025. (Screenshot of video by Abdel Qader Sabbah.)

'Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza' (13 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> Israel’s top officials are openly declaring that they intend to terminate the Gaza ceasefire after they get their hostages back. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> Defense Minister Israel Katz has posted a tweet in Hebrew which machine translates as follows: “Israel’s great challenge after the phase of returning the hostages will be the destruction of all of Hamas’s terror tunnels in Gaza, directly by the IDF and through the international mechanism to be established under the leadership and supervision of the United States. This is the primary significance of implementing the agreed-upon principle of demilitarizing Gaza and neutralizing Hamas of its weapons. I have instructed the IDF to prepare for carrying out the mission.”    Hamas has not agreed to any demilitarization or destruction of its tunnels. There is no way to demilitarize Gaza and neutralize Hamas of its weapons against their will without continued warfare, something Israel has demonstrated it cannot do without killing shocking numbers of civilians. (de laatste link gaat naar een Guardian artikel, helaas achter alweer een belachelijke betaalmuur, in dat artikel  wordt erover gesproken dat 83% van de Palestijnen die zijn vermoord behoren tot de burgerbevolking, ofwel 17% van de vermoorden bestaat uit Hamas strijders en die van Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)..... Hier een link naar een artikel van Al Jazeera met een zelfde bericht: 'Israeli data shows 83 percent of Gaza war dead are civilians: Report' (21 augustus 2025) >> Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.

'Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg(16 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> Ronduit nazi-gedrag van de Israëlische bewakers en de Zweedse ambassade moet zich kapot schamen!! 

'The Onus Is On Israel And Its Allies To End The Genocide, Not Their Victims' (16 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> The onus for stopping a genocide is on the party committing the genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to end it by meeting certain conditions. This should not even need to be said. 

'The Trumpanyahu Administration Is Already Sabotaging The Ceasefire' (15 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> The IDF reportedly killed nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes today under the usual justification that they were traveling in some kind of unauthorized area in ways that made the troops feel threatened, blah blah. They did this all the time during the previous “ceasefire” at the beginning of the year, using the exact same excuses.     Just as we speculated the other day might happen, Israel has announced that it is going to cut the aid it allows into Gaza in half and cut off fuel and gas shipments because Hamas hasn’t returned the bodies of all the dead Israeli hostages. Israel was fully aware when it signed the agreement that Hamas would not be able to deliver the bodies of all the hostages right away due to the rubble and chaos caused by the Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza.

'Once again, Jeremy Bowen is misleading the British public about Gaza' (14 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> The BBC international editor is required to report what Hamas actually thinks. Otherwise he is not a journalist, he's just another western propagandist. >> Een artikel waarin Cook o.a. ingaat op het stelen van voedsel en andere humanitaire hulp in de Gazastrook door terreurgroepen die worden gesteund door Israël.

'Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement' (14 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Drop Site News.

'Merchants of Death 2.0' (14 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Thomas Karat >> The Machinery of Corruption Behind Western Arms Deals Amid Genocide.

'Israel is the excuse to snatch away freedoms we once took for granted' (13 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Starmer's government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel – from classing protests as 'terrorism' to banning repeat marches and fining universities that allow student to demonstrate

'Feminist Solidarity Means All Women' (11 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Heather Brunskell-Evans >> Confronting the Silence Around 7 October. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >>  It seems necessary to revisit the issue of rape, not only because, on the second anniversary, social media is filled with discussions about the atrocities, including the allegation of rape, committed by Hamas. For many pro-Israel individuals, Hamas caused the “war” on 7 October and bears responsibility for the deaths of Palestinian civilians. Israel’s primary goal has been to defeat Hamas and ensure Israel’s safety, but “war is war,” and unfortunately women and children have been the innocent victims.   It is necessary to address the issue of Hamas rape because it has resurfaced as a dividing issue between feminists, some of whom are pro-Israel, and some who are pro-Palestine. The feminist disagreement is not a side issue, an internecine fight between competing feminist groups, but instead has actively contributed to shaping public debate in favour of Israel, particularly through the success of pro-Israel feminists in having their views platformed and promoted by mainstream media. (zie ook het artikel van Brunskell-Evans onder de link 'Free Free Palestine', hieronder weergegeven op de datum 27 september 2025)

'Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement' (12 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Younis Tirawi and Yaniv Cogan, gepubliceerd op Drop Site News>> Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.” Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel dat ten overvloede nog eens aangeeft dat de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël met opzet de Gazastrook onbewoonbaar heeft gemaakt >> In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s announcement on Thursday that both Hamas and Israel had signed off on an agreement to stop the fighting, the Israeli military launched an arson spree, setting fire to civilian infrastructure, including the destruction of an essential sanitation plant in Gaza City.  The destruction of Palestinian structures following the departure of soldiers who had used them as temporary bases has been a hallmark of Israel’s approach to Gaza for two years. In July, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham collected testimonies from soldiers describing a myriad of arson methods. “Every Arab house we entered had olive oil [...] We poured the oil on the sofas, on anything flammable in the apartment, and then we ignited [it] or threw in a smoke grenade. This was a common practice,” one of them described.    Hier een foto uit dit artikel met Israëlische militairen die een huis in brand steken (en reken maar dat alle voorwerpen van waarde werden gestolen door dit psychopathisch moordende geteisem):


'Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World's Richest Israeli' (14 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone.

'The Free Press Called Out "Incomplete" Reporting on Gaza's Starving Children. Here's the Complete Story' (12 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Ryan Grim >> CBS's Bari Weiss touted Free Press article as the "ground truth." Drop Site spoke to the actual families. 'The Free Press' is niet de alternatieve pers zoals je wellicht zou kunnen denken, maar de reguliere pers, die niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets van doen heeft met 'vrijheid', daar die pers in handen is van de superwelgestelden en investeerders die de reguliere westerse media in handen hebben en die er alle belang bij hebben dat de huidige status quo gehandhaafd blijft en de wapenindustrie plus de farmaceutische maffia zoveel mogelijk winst kunnen blijven maken.....

'Interview: Israel Gets What It Wants and Then Ignores the Agreement' (11 oktober 225) Een interview met Chris Hedges (18:22 m.) >> I recently joined George Galloway on MOATS to discuss the Gaza peace plan which violates one international law after another:



'Trump’s Sham Peace Plan' (11 oktober 2025) Chris Hedges >> There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.  Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> There is no shortage of failed peace plans in occupied Palestine, all of them incorporating detailed phases and timelines, going back to the presidency of Jimmy Carter. They end the same way. Israel gets what it wants initially — in the latest case the release of the remaining Israeli hostages — while it ignores and violates every other phase until it resumes its attacks on the Palestinian people.      It is a sadistic game. A merry-go-round of death. This ceasefire, like those of the past, is a commercial break. A moment when the condemned man is allowed to smoke a cigarette before being gunned down in a fusillade of bullets.

'Thousands of Palestinians Return to Gaza City to Find a Wasteland of Rubble' (11 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous, gepubliceerd op Drop Site >> “There’s nothing left for them to destroy.” :

Displaced Palestinians returning to Gaza City on October 10, 2025. (Screenshot of video by Abdel Qader Sabbah.) Dit vreselijke beeld overgenomen uit het bericht onder de link hierboven (waarin deze videoprint veel groter is te zien).

'The Impunity of Western War Criminals Must End | w/ Assal Rad' (11 oktober 2025) Een video met bijschrift op BettBeat Media (helaas voor velen zonder Nederlandse ondertiteling) >> Political Therapy Session: We Cannot Heal Until We Have Nuremberg Trials.

'Thoughts On The Ceasefire News' (10 oktober 2025) Caitlin Johnstone >> Israel always does this. When normal people get a ceasefire agreement they think “Good, this means we can finally stop fighting and killing.” Whenever Israelis get a ceasefire agreement they go, “This means we have to hurry up and kill as many people as possible before it takes effect. >> De staatszender NOS berichtte vanmorgen (10 oktober 2025) dat Israël ook afgelopen nacht alsnog de Gazastrook bombardeerde, waarbij werd gezegd dat niet bekend is hoeveel Palestijnen er waren omgekomen (lees: vermoord). Ik neem aan dat dit bericht een foutje was, daar geen andere radiostation van Nederland, Duitsland en Groot-Brittannië dit wist te melden, daarmee bedoel ik niet dat het bericht niet waar zou zijn.....

'Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas' (7 oktober 2025) Jeremy Scahill op Drop Site >> Hamas says it wants to make a deal and sees Trump as the key, but will not “raise the white flag.” >> Hier een passage uit de inleiding naar het interview >> In an exclusive interview with Drop Site on Monday, Abu Marzouk said, “Stopping the war means a complete [Israeli] withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. I want Trump to fulfill his pledge and promise.” Addressing Trump, Abu Marzouk said, “Thank you for your efforts, and for your promise to stop the war and release the prisoners. We are committed to it. Just stop the war.”

'Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide For Years And Then Demand Sympathy — And Other Notes' (8 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> I’m sorry but it’s just plain hilarious that we’re still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown exactly what it is that Hamas has been fighting. Hier de eerste passage uit dit artikel >> Never forget October 7th 2023, that fateful day when Israelis were brutally massacred by Israeli tanks and Israeli helicopters and Israeli drones and Israeli soldiers and Israeli bullets, and also by Hamas a bit.

'7 oktober 2023: Israël, een westers koloniaal project ten koste van de Palestijnen, plus het doorprikken van de zionistische 'religieuze claim' op Palestina' (7 oktober 2025)

'Ex-Israeli war chief confirms issuing Hannibal Directive to kill own civilians, soldiers on 7 Oct' (7 februari 2025) (!!!!) Een artikel van The Cradle >> Israeli forces used attack helicopters, drones, and tanks to kill their own civilians and soldiers while blaming the deaths on Hamas. Eén van de artikelen waarin dit werd gemeld, echter ik heb dit bericht niet in één orgaan gevonden behorend tot de reguliere westerse massamedia, ofwel deze media verzwijgen met opzet berichten die Israël totaal terecht in een kwaad daglicht stellen (al is dat bepaald geen nieuws), zelfs nadat Israël een genocide begon op basis van 7 oktober 2025, een genocide die intussen (het is nu 8 oktober 2025) al 2 jaar wordt uitgevoerd en die iedereen kan vinden in beeld en geluid op de sociale media, een genocide waarin minstens 680.000 Palestijnen zijn vermoord door die terreurstaat.....

'The most successful military raid of this century: the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel' (20 november 2023 // 7 oktober 2025) >> I published this article back on November 20, 2023, approximately six weeks after the Hamas raid on Israel. On this, the second anniversary of the Hamas raid, this article has stood the test of time.  Lees dit artikel mensen!! Een artikel van Scott Ritter, hier een passage uit dit artikel over de Kibboets Re'im >> The Israeli government has widely publicized what it is calling the “Re’im massacre,” citing a death toll of some 112 civilians it claims were murdered by Hamas. However, eyewitness accounts from both surviving Israeli civilians and military personnel involved in the fighting show that the vast majority of those killed died from fire from Israeli soldiers and tanks directed at buildings where the civilians were either hiding or being held hostage by Hamas fighters. It took two days for the Israeli military to recapture Re’im. It only did so after tanks fired into the civilian residences, collapsing them onto their occupants, and often setting them ablaze, causing the bodies of those inside to be consumed by fire. The Israeli government has publicized how it has had to make use of the services of forensic archeologists to identify human remains at the Kibbutz, implying that Hamas had burned the occupants’ home. But the fact is it was Israeli tanks that did the destruction and killing. (toegevoegd op 8 oktober 2025)

'Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened' (7 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> Israel supporters don’t want you looking at what happened before October 7, and they don’t want you looking at anything that’s happened since. 

'No More Non-Zionist Media Left. We Have a Problem' (7 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Karim, geplaatst op BettBeat Media >> The billionaires who bought your mind: how every platform you use now serves the Gaza genocide.  

'Israel Secretly Paid U.S. Influencers to Manipulate Public Opinion' (7 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Thomas Karat >> The Secret ‘Esther Project’ Exposed in U.S. DOJ Filings. 

'No one in power respects my grief. And no one is coming to console me' (5 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Politicians, the police and the media want millions of us to imagine we are alone in grieving the slaughter of Gaza's children – and that our grief is shameful. They need us to succumb to their lies. Hier nog 2 passages uit dit artikel >> Members of the Jewish community have been grieving for three days now over the killing of two innocent people in last week’s attack on a Manchester synagogue. Politicians and the media keep telling us how important it is to respect their grief.    I and millions of other Britons, some of them Jews, have been grieving for much longer – over the killing of tens of children in Gaza not on one day last week but on every single day, without break, for two years. And yet no politicians or media seem to think it important to respect my grief. (en dat eigenlijk al vanaf 1948 en zelfs al van daarvoor, al is de genocide die Israël nu uitvoert een enorme intensivering van de massamoord op Palestijnen en hun kinderen.....)

'Israel Droned Flotilla Activists And Then Abused Greta Thunberg' (5 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Jonstone >> If you’ll launch drone attacks on activists trying to bring aid to starving civilians, there’s nothing you won’t do. Hier 2 passages uit het artikel >> Who would have imagined five years ago when we were seeing Greta Thunberg amplified by every mainstream western liberal institution that we would one day hear reports that she has been captured and tormented by the Israeli military for trying to bring formula to starving babies?    ‘They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,’ the Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.

'680.000 Palestijnen vermoord sinds 7 oktober 2023, De Hannibal-richtlijn en 'westerse terroristen van 70+'' (18 september 2025) En zie de video's plus de berichten onder de links in dat artikel!!

'Manchester: The Pornography of Convenient Terror' (3 oktober 2025) Eeen artikel geschreven door Karim en gepubliceerd op BettBeat Media >> In the theater of Empire, even authentic tragedies become scripted performances, and even genuine grief becomes political capital. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> The machinery of Empire requires perfect timing. As Israeli bombs fell on Gaza, erasing 45 lives in a single night, the world’s attention was conveniently redirected to Manchester. A man named Jihad Al-Shami—a name so perfectly crafted for Western consumption it borders on parody—attacked worshippers at the Heaton Park Hebrew congregation on Yom Kippur, killing two and injuring three before being shot by police.     Within minutes, the narrative crystallized with the efficiency of a well-rehearsed production. Anti-Semitic terror. Jews under siege. Israel vindicated. The suspect wore a fake suicide vest—theatrical prop rather than weapon—ensuring maximum visual impact. His name, translating roughly as “Holy War the Syrian,” could hardly have been more convenient if crafted by Hollywood screenwriters for English-speaking audiences conditioned by decades of War on Terror propaganda. 

'Who's really encouraging attacks like the one on a synagogue? Look to our leaders' (3 oktober 2025) Een artikel van jonathan Cook >> The attack in Manchester is evidence not of a rising tide of antisemitism but of something else entirely: a growing and dangerous political illiteracy being cultivated in our societies. Hier 2 passages uit het artikel >> Israel very much wants such political illiteracy – and has been actively cultivating it for decades. Israel does so by falsely describing itself, and legislating itself, as a state that supposedly represents every Jew in the world – even those Jews who despise the ethnic supremacist ideology of Zionism, which has rationalised for so long the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, apartheid rule over Palestinians, and now the genocide of Palestinians.    This political illiteracy exists because it has been nurtured by Jewish public figures in Britain like Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who constantly identifies the Jewish community with Israel and its military; who lauds the Israeli military’s crimes against Palestinians, even its slaughter of children; and demands that protests in solidarity with Palestinians be outlawed to protect Israel.

'The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists' (3 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Chris Hedges, hiier de eerste 2 passages uit dit artikel >> 

'On The Manchester Synagogue Attack' (3 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> I wish the attack on the Manchester synagogue had never happened. I also feel weird about even talking about it while dozens of Palestinians are killed today whose individual names I’ll never know and whose individual deaths I’ll never see decried in western media headlines.    Last I heard it is unknown whether the synagogue attacker was motivated by Israel’s actions in Gaza, but if he was I’d say that’s one more reason to oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza. If you are too racist or apathetic to oppose a genocide on principle, then you should oppose it because it is fomenting violent extremism which could end up hurting people who look like you and live where you live

'Billionaire takeover of Gaza' (2 oktober 2025) Een artikel van Thomas Karat >> Trump’s Riviera Plan, Blair’s GITA & Ellison’s Money. Hier de eerste passage uit dit artikel >> September 2025 marked a watershed in the world’s response to Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza. As the war dragged into its second year, former U.S. president Donald Trump unveiled a 21‑point plan ostensibly designed to end the fighting and set up a Gaza International Transitional Authority (GITA). Leaked drafts showed the authority would be chaired by Tony Blair and staffed mainly by international businesspeople and investors with minimal Palestinian representation. In parallel, investigations revealed that tech magnate Larry Ellison had become the single largest donor to the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), pledging more than £257 million and effectively underwriting the institute’s expansion newstatesman.com. Rumours circulated that Sigrid Kaag, the UN’s Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, had been offered a GITA board seat. These claims, combined with the plan’s apparent alignment with Israeli and U.S. interests, raised questions about whether a privately‑funded governance architecture was being constructed to entrench Israeli control over Gaza.

'Free, Free Palestine!' (27 september 2025) Feminism, Zionism, and the Death of Truth. Een artikel van Heather Brunskell-Evans, gepubliceerd op Savage Minds. Hier 2 passages uit dit artikel >> First, the letter claims that Hamas carried out “the murder, torture, rape, and kidnapping of over 1,500 people.” Regarding the figures, although Hamas was undoubtedly responsible for many deaths, the army was also responsible, as pictures of hundreds of burnt cars and shelled homes by aerial bombardment demonstrate. The army had invoked the Hannibal directive which means that the exact number killed by Hamas, rather than Israel, remains unclear. I will return to the rape claim shortly.     Second, the letter describes the attack as unprovoked, creating the illusion that the conflict with the Palestinians began on 7 October. This claim masks the historical context and political realities. Israel is not a liberal democracy as we typically understand it, as we are constantly told. The state of Israel was established in 1948 as an ethno-nationalist state and has been maintained through violence and acts of terrorism against Palestinians—land theft and forced displacement, apartheid policies, sieges, and the mass incarceration of Palestinians, including children, without trial. Erasing the historical context of the 75-year violation of Palestinian human rights also obscures how the Palestinians, abandoned by the international community, have attempted unsuccessfully to break free from oppression and state-sanctioned violence, to pursue self-determination and statehood. Ook wordt aandacht besteed aan de opzettelijke femicide door het IDF op Palestijnse vrouwen en meisjes en de hypocrisie van westerse feministen die geloof blijven hechten aan de meermaals doorgeprikte leugen dat Hamas strijders op 23 oktober 2025 joodse vrouwen en meisjes zouden hebben verkracht, terwijl ze geen oog hebben voor de meermaals bewezen opzettelijke moorden, verkrachtingen en martelingen door het Israëlische leger op Palestijnse vrouwen en meisjes.... (deze opmerking heb ik toegevoegd op 12 oktober 2025, zie wat dat betreft ook de link naar een ander bericht van Brunskell-Evans: 'Feminist Solidarity Means All Women', hierboven op datum 11 oktober 2025)

'How the media tears up its own rulebook to hide Israel's atrocities(29 september 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook, waarin hij o.a. spreekt over de arrestatie van George Galloway >> The news cycle has rules every rookie journalist understands. When the media choose to break them, you can be sure it is for entirely non-journalistic reasons. Hier 2 passages uit het artikel >> But I want to highlight a less noticed element to the media’s perverse coverage of Israel. And that is the regular skewing of the traditional news cycle. Too often the media simply skip the breaking stage of a news story and head straight to the follow-up. By now, you might be able to guess why. Because a breaking story presents only the essential facts, and those facts cannot disguise the nature of Israel’s crimes.

'The World Doesn’t Hate Jews, The World Hates Israel (28 september 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, hier 2 passages >> They’re just talking about people who oppose Israel for perpetrating a live-streamed holocaust. People don’t hate Israel because it’s full of Jewish people, they hate Israel because of the things Israel does.      It is absolutely mind-boggling that to this day we’re seeing a hypermilitaristic apartheid ethnonationalist state starving and massacring civilians because of their ethnicity, bombing hospitals, assassinating journalists and medical professionals, murdering humanitarian workers, starting wars, invading neighboring countries, manipulating foreign governments, threatening activists, and actively working to crush free speech throughout the western world, all with the backing of the most powerful empire in history — and we’ve still got western institutions trying to convince us that people hate Israel because of religious prejudice.

'Hoe ChristenUnie en SGP een heilige strijd tegen de Palestijnen voeren' (26 september 2025) Een artikel van The Rights Forum >> Israël gebruikt christelijke overtuigingen over het einde der tijden om de steun te verwerven van protestants-christelijke politici overal ter wereld, en hiermee parlementen naar hun hand te zetten. Een speciaal hiervoor opgerichte organisatie, de Israel Allies Foundation (IAF), vindt in Nederland welkome medestanders: de SGP en ChristenUnie.

'Recognition of Palestine is a repeat of the West’s Oslo 'peace' fraud' (26 september 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Britain’s Keir Starmer is already pulling the rug from under his own grudging declaration. The only hope of change is of the unintended consequences variety

 'The Two-State Solution Is A Western Liberal Fairy Tale' (25 september 2025) Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone >> The only real benefit to this latest western recognition” of Palestine is that it drew out high-profile Israeli politicians to explain to western liberals in plain English that the entire state of Israel stands opposed to their vision of a two-state solution.

'How the West Normalizes the Crimes of Zionism' (23 september 2025) Een artikel van Nick Estes, gepubliceerd op CounterPunch >> “The colonial world is the Manichean world,” wrote Frantz Fanon. Split into stark binaries, nuance is excised by force. Those are the conditions not of the Native’s own making but brutally thrust upon them. War ends nuance. Bombing a hospital ends nuance. Shrapnel tearing children apart ends nuance. Systemic sexual violence and torture end nuance. Genocide ends nuance.

'680.000 Palestijnen vermoord sinds 7 oktober 2023. De Hannibal-richtlijn en westerse terroristen van 70+' (18 september 2025) En zie de berichten onder de links in dat artikel!!

'Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South' (17 september 2025) Een artikel van Human Rights Watch >> Forced Displacement is a War Crime; Homes Razed, Syrians Detained and Unlawfully Transferred to Israel. 

'In Gaza, western colonialism has been unmasked(9 september 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up  En hier het vervolg op dat artikel:

'The billionaire class want you thinking Israel controls the West(10 september 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Western elites don’t care what you think or say, so long as you don’t notice that they are the ones making money from a genocide, asset-stripping western economies and trashing our planet\
 
''From the river to the sea...': wat betekent het en waarom maakt het zoveel los?' (!!!!) (4 november 2023) Een lesje anti-Palestijnse propaganda van staatszender NOS, kortom fake news (nepnieuws) en desinformatie van deze staatszender..... Zie waarmee militairen van het Israëlische leger rondlopen, dat gaat heel wat verder dan van de 'From the river to the sea' (dat door Palestijnen en sympathisanten wordt gebruikt en dat als een soort van super-antisemitisme wordt weggezet), ofwel Israël is van zins een deel van Egypte, Jordanië, Syrië en Libanon over te nemen!! (maar daarover lullen de westerse reguliere media en verreweg de meeste westerse politici niet):
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Laatste update op 11 december 2025 Op 8 december 2025 heb ik onder andere de 2 links toegevoegd die verwijzen naar de terreur van de Maccabi supporters in november 2024.