December 2023

December 31th is the 86th day since the genocide in Gaza began

Today December 31 is the 86th day since the genocide in Gaza began. There has been no respite from Israel's air raids, artillery fire or ground fighting with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, to the despair of Palestinians surviving the onslaught. At least 100 people killed, 286 wounded in Israeli attacks on homes in central Gaza in the past 24 hours, health ministry says. The Israeli war cabinet will meet to discuss captive-prisoner exchanges as Netanyahu vows to continue the war. President Biden’s administration again bypasses Congress on weapons sales to Israel. At least 21,672 people killed and 56,165 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.

Israeli bombs mark new year for Gazans stuck in 2023 nightmare
Daily Sabah: With no end in sight to Israel's deadliest military offensive on Gaza, killing nearly 22,000 people, the Palestinians will leave behind a dark year on Sunday.There has been no respite from Israel's air raids, artillery fire or ground fighting with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, to the despair of Palestinians surviving the onslaught. Read More

Fresh Israeli airstrikes kill 68 Palestinians in Gaza City
Anadolu Agency: At least 68 Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on Sunday, according to the official Wafa news agency. Israeli fighter jets carried out airstrikes on the al-Zaitoun neighborhood, leaving 48 dead and scores injured, Wafa said, citing local sources. Another 20 people were killed in airstrikes in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa University, the broadcaster said. Read More

The future looks bleak if Israel’s war on Hamas continues unabated
Middle East Monitor: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted: “The war is exacting a very heavy price, but we have no choice but to continue fighting.” This woeful statement underscores Netanyahu’s blinkered determination to exact maximum carnage and an unwillingness to engage in diplomacy. Foremost, this war has forced the most exorbitant price on civilians in Gaza. The death toll, mainly comprising women and children, has exceeded 20,000. According to Middle East Monitor, there are more  than 23,000 orphans in Gaza. These astounding figures merely scrape the surface of human suffering. The United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) has warned of a looming famine as starvation permeates the Gaza Strip. Read More

Israel’s attacks on Gaza documented ‘minute by minute’ by int’l media outlets
Anadolu Agency: Thanks to international media outlets including Anadolu, it is the "first time in history" that we have a "a minute by minute" coverage of a "genocide," US-based scholar of Palestinian origin Hatim Bazian said, referring to Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip which have killed more than 21,000 people in 12 weeks. “This is the first time in the history where we actually have a minute by minute documentation of a genocide unfolding,” Prof. Hatim Bazian, who lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, told Anadolu in an exclusive interview. Read More

December 30th is the 85th day since the genocide in Gaza began

Today December 30 is the 85th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israel has continued its attacks across the Gaza Strip, including near hospitals and in the south of the besieged enclave where ground operations are intensifying.  According to casualty figures compiled by Al Jazeera, from October 7 to December 30: 21,672 Palestinians, including at least 8,800 children and 6,300 women were killed while 56,165 (including 8,663 children and 6,327 women) were wounded in Gaza while more than 7,000 were missing. In the occupied West Bank, at least 319 Palestinians, including 83 children were killed and 3,800 were injured. In the same period at least 1,139 Israelis were killed while 8,730 were injured.

South Africa files genocide case against Israel to the ICJ
Mondoweiss:  South Africa filed a case against Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday, accusing Tel Aviv of crimes of genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7. “South Africa is gravely concerned with the plight of civilians caught in the present Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip due to the indiscriminate use of force and forcible removal of inhabitants,” the South African government said in a statement. Read More

What the international community’s silence over Israel’s colonial violence has reaped in Gaza?
by  Ramona Wadi: As Israel plans to forcibly transfer Palestinians to the Sinai and expects the international community to collaborate by taking in Palestinian refugees for resettlement in host countries, the lack of action over Israel’s ethnic cleansing plans mirrors the path taken during the 1948 Nakba, when Israel was rewarded with recognition as a state after it forcibly displaced 750,000 Palestinians to replace them with settler-colonists. In real-time, and as more details of Israel’s atrocities come to light, the United Nations (UN) is merely using Gaza as a talking point from a distance, repetitively stating that the forced transfer of a civilian population constitutes an international law violation. That much is obvious – does the UN require a round of applause for stating basic facts? Read More

No Difference between Netanyahu and Hitler says Erdogan, leader of NATO Member Turkey
Middle East Monitor: There is “no difference” between what Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is doing in the months-long attacks on Gaza and what Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did decades ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. At a science awards ceremony in the capital Ankara, Erdogan said: “How do you [Netanyahu] differ from Hitler? These [actions] will make us look for Hitler as well. Is there anything Netanyahu does that is less than Hitler? No.” Read More

Houthis show no sign of ending Red Sea attacks: US commander
Al Jazeera: Yemen’s Houthi rebels show no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, the top commander of US naval forces in the Middle East says. Since Operation Prosperity Guardian was announced 10 days ago, 1,200 merchant ships have travelled through the Red Sea region, and none has been hit by drone or missile strikes, Vice-Admiral Brad Cooper said in an Associated Press interview. He said additional countries are expected to sign on. Read More

Monroe Doctrine: Two Centuries of Implacable Imperialism
By Heinz Dieterich: Latin America must forge a path toward a future where self-determination and international cooperation prevail. Since its inception in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine has been the ideological manifestation guiding the United States' foreign policy toward Latin America. Its intrinsic nature has served as an instrument of American expansion and domination in the region. From the early years of the United States' independence, the Monroe Doctrine emerged as a guiding principle. After the war against the English monarchy, the North American country adopted an expansionist approach, initially intervening in Canada and extending its influence into Latin America and the Caribbean. Read More

Scores of Palestinians killed, wounded as Israel keeps pounding Gaza Strip
Anadolu Agency: Israeli army continues incursion into central Gaza Strip with warplanes, tanks targeting refugee camps, residential buildings. Dozens of Palestinians were killed and injured in violent artillery and airstrikes launched by the Israeli army in the central Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses. The Israeli army continued its incursion into the Bureij Palestinian refugee camp as part of the latest phase of its ground operations in its war that has been ongoing for 85 days. Read More

Senior Hamas leader welcomes international forces only ‘to liberate Palestine'
Anadolu Agency: A senior Hamas leader said his movement will welcome the deployment of post-war international forces to the Gaza Strip to liberate Palestine, but rejected international forces as an alternative to “Zionist occupation.”In an interview with Anadolu, Osama Hamdan said: “If the international forces want to liberate Palestine and end the occupation, they are welcome.”Read More

Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust
by Chris Hedges: Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastrutrue, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day.Read More

For peace in Palestine, Zionism must be defeated
By Antonio Minaldi: There is only one real condition for us to talk about peace in Palestine and that is for Israel to be defeated. Naturally, we are not referring to a military defeat, but rather to a diplomatic isolation and a political, but also “ethical” and “cultural” defeat.Read More

Understanding the Palestinians
by Dr Akhtar Ali Syed: What has been happening to Palestinians for decades and what they have done in reaction is completely understandable from the standpoint of psychopathology. What they are going through will naturally influence how they react. They’ve seen how other options have been turned down and exhausted. Oppressors always have more options than the oppressed. Whether they choose dialogue or dispute, the oppressed have learnt the value of their lives.Read More

Controversial decision robs Pakistan of victory in Boxing Day Test
By Syed Rifaquat Ali: A bloomer on the part of third umpire Richard Illingworth paved way for Australia to beat Pakistan In the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne by 79 runs in the ongoing ICC World Test Championship 2024-2025. Read More

December 29 is the 84th day since the genocide in Gaza began

Today December 29 is the 84th day since the genocide in Gaza began. From October 7 to December 27, Israeli occupation forces have murdered 29,124 Palestinians, of whom 11,422 were children, and 5,822 were women. Israeli soldiers also injured 56,122 people and murdered 101 journalists. The figures on the genocide in Gaza were collected by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med), a Switzerland-based independent NGO.

Death Toll from Gaza Genocide Exceeds 29,000
Euro-Med Monitor: From October 7 to December 27, Israeli occupation forces have murdered 29,124 Palestinians, of whom 11,422 were children, and 5,822 were women. Israeli soldiers also injured 56,122 people and murdered 101 journalists. The figures on the genocide in Gaza were collected by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med), a Switzerland-based independent NGO. The catastrophe in this Palestinian territory is also accompanied by multimillion-dollar damages caused by the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure. Read More

Israeli advance on central Gaza causes new Palestinian exodus
Daily Sabah: A mounting Israeli military advance on central Gaza on Thursday pushed tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families to take flight again in a new mass exodus. Further south, Israeli forces struck the area around a hospital in the heart of Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip's main southern city, where residents feared a new ground push into territory crowded with families made homeless in 12 weeks of indiscriminate attacks. Read More

Palestinian resistance groups agree Gaza must have unity govt
Anadolu Agency: The five Palestinian resistance factions agreed Thursday on a national solution involving the formation of a unity government. They all rejected "solutions and scenarios for the so-called future of the Gaza Strip" after the end of the war waged by Israel.During a meeting attended by representatives of Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command in the Lebanese capital Beirut, they emphasized the "necessity to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip before achieving any prisoner exchange deal," according to a statement issued by Hamas. Read More

Israel guns for war with Lebanon and Iran
By Thomas Scripps: While the genocide in Gaza continues, Israel and its allies are looking to expand the scope of the war. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared earlier this week, “We are in a multi-front war. We are being attacked from seven fronts—Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria [the West Bank], Iraq, Yemen and Iran.” Read More

Hamas leader praises Palestinian steadfastness against Israeli aggression
Mondoweiss: In his first public message since October 7, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar said that the Izz al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades are waging a fierce and unprecedented battle against Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip in a letter published by Al-Jazeera Arabic on their website. Read More

‘We Will Come to You in a Roaring Flood’: The Untold Story of the October 7 Attacks 
by Dr Ramzy Baroud: The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers are not.  Few expected that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on October 7; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier – as done in 2006 – hundreds of Israelis, including many soldiers and civilians, would find themselves captive in besieged Gaza. The reason behind the ‘surprise’, however, is the same reason that Israel is still reeling under collective shock, which is the tendency to pay close attention to political discourses and intelligence analyses of Israel and its supporters – while largely neglecting the Palestinian discourse. Read More

The Companies Profiting from Israel’s 2023 Attack on Gaza
By American Friends Service Committee: The companies listed here have provided Israel with weapons and other military equipment used in its so-called “Swords of Iron” attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria during October-December 2023. Read More

“Both Israel and the US want to Implicate Iran.”
By  Mike Whitney: On Sunday, numerous articles in the western media reported that Iran had launched a drone attack on a Japanese-owned chemical tanker named the MV Chem Pluto in the Indian Ocean. Many of these articles based their reports on claims made by unidentified Pentagon sources or declassified intelligence. As of Tuesday, none of those allegations have been independently verified or proven to be true.  What we know from previous experience is that elements of the national security state frequently plant fictitious stories in the media in order to garner public support for unpopular military campaigns or to demonize foreign nations for things for which they are in no way responsible. Read More

December 28 is the 83rd day since the genocide in Gaza began

Today December 28 is the 83rd day since the genocide in Gaza began. The number of Gazans killed has hit 28,110, including 21,110 bodies identified at hospitals and approximately 7,000 additional people missing, most buried under the rubble. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported, “The majority of those killed in the Israeli air and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip were civilians, including 11,422 children, and 5,822 women.” Amounting Israeli military advance on central Gaza on Thursday pushed tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families to take flight again in a new mass exodus.

As Gaza death toll nears 30,000, Israeli leaders call for ethnic cleansing
by Andre Damon: On Wednesday, Gaza’s Government Media Office reported that the number of Gazans killed has hit 28,110, including 21,110 bodies identified at hospitals and approximately 7,000 additional people missing, most buried under the rubble. In a separate report, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported, “The majority of those killed in the Israeli air and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip were civilians, including 11,422 children, and 5,822 women.” Read More

Demanding an End to Israel’s Targeted Killings of Journalists
by Phil Pasquini: To commemorate the deaths of 100 journalists and media workers along with over 20,000 Gazans who have been murdered by the Israeli military with weapons supplied by the US, an action calling attention to the ongoing genocide along with the targeted killings of journalists took place in San Francisco. Outside of the Chronicle newspaper building journalists, media workers and supporters of journalism gathered to demand a permanent ceasefire now and an end to all US aid to Israel. Read More

Israeli advance on central Gaza causes new Palestinian exodus
Daily Sabah: Amounting Israeli military advance on central Gaza on Thursday pushed tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families to take flight again in a new mass exodus. Further south, Israeli forces struck the area around a hospital in the heart of Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip's main southern city, where residents feared a new ground push into territory crowded with families made homeless in 12 weeks of indiscriminate attacks. Read More

UN slams Israel's unlawful killings, rights situation in West Bank
Daily Sabah: The United Nations has called on Israel to "end unlawful killings" of Palestinians amid rapidly deteriorating rights situation in the West Bank occupied West Bank. A report released Thursday demanded an immediate end to the use of military weapons and means during law enforcement operations, an end to arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of Palestinians, and the lifting of discriminatory movement restrictions. Read More

The forces behind the assault on opposition to Gaza genocide
 Gabriel Black: To better understand the isolated character of the campaign to silence opposition to Israel’s genocide, it is useful to understand who is leading it. The first major group involved are a handful of multi-billionaires and economic power players whose stranglehold over the global economy positions them to control the political and cultural leadership of the major universities and other significant institutions. Read More

The Most Rich Turns Richer
Countercurrents: The world’s richest people got even richer over the past year, Bloomberg’s top-500 billionaire list, published on Wednesday, shows. Some 77% of the billionaires who made it on the list saw their fortunes grow even larger, while others experienced certain losses. Read More

December 27 is the 82th day since the genocide in Gaza began

Today December 27 is the 82th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Gaza’s health ministry says 195 people killed and 325 wounded over the past 24 hours. At least 30 people killed and many more injured in a deadly Israeli attack near al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. In Gaza, at least 21,110 people have been killed and 55,243 injured in Israeli attacks since October 7. More than 7,000 are missing. In occupied West Bank 313 Palestinians were killed while more than 3,450 injured. At least six Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone strike during a raid on a refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank, while Israeli forces expanded their operations across the territory. Ambulances were blocked by Israeli forces after attack on Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem.

Six killed in Israeli strike on refugee camp in occupied West Bank
Al Jazeera: At least six Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone strike during a raid on a refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank, while Israeli forces expanded their operations across the territory. The overnight drone strike hit a group of Palestinians in the Nur Shams refugee camp next to the town of Tulkarem, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and health officials said on Wednesday. Ambulances were blocked by Israeli forces after attack on Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem. Read More

Israeli forces continue to prepare eastern area for a buffer zone

Gaza officials allege Israel harvesting organs from Palestinian bodies
Daily Sabah: Gazan authorities have accused Israel of harvesting organs from Palestinian dead bodies and demanded an international probe. The Gaza-based government media office said Tuesday that the examination of several bodies showed that their shapes had changed significantly due to the theft of vital organs from the corpses. It added that the Israeli army handed over bodies without their names and refused to specify from where they were detained. Read More

Hamas official calls for Palestinian elections, national unity in the ‘day after’ the war
BY AMENA AL-ASHKAR: While the U.S. and other Western governments are discussing the prospect of installing an alternative administration over the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the current Israeli assault, possibly with the Palestinian Authority at its helm, Hamas is now launching its own alternative vision regarding Gaza’s postwar reality. This vision includes holding democratic Palestinian elections the day after the war and was shared in a wide-ranging interview with Osama Hamdan, the senior representative of Hamas in Lebanon. Read More

The Yemeni Houthis Take on the Empire
By Renee Parsons: While it is astounding that one small, feisty Arab tribe in the nation of Yemen has shown the mega-world how to creatively stand up to the Hegemon without threatening nuclear weapons, without initiating direct military conflict and yet achieve their goals – what is even more astounding is that the Houthis are not the least intimidated by the Empire’s pretentious display of empty threats and waning power. Read More

Houthis disrupt the most important maritime trading routes: Potential shock to global economy
By Mike Whitney: Yemen’s Houthi militia has shown how a small army can take on the American Empire and win. They have shown how courage, resolve and commitment to principle can act as a force-multiplier allowing a much weaker military to ‘punch above its weight’. They’ve also shown that a few well-placed missiles in key locations on the world’s most critical shipping lanes, can send tremors across the global economy and shake the “rules-based order” to its foundations. In short, the Houthis have shown that David can bring down Goliath without breaking a sweat, provided that David maintains his perch along the Bab-al-Mandab Strait. Read More

Yemen Resistance Remains Defiant as Pentagon Escalates Tensions in Red Sea
By Abayomi Azikiwe: The blanket bombing of Gaza along with the IDF raids on towns and refugee camps in the West Bank was bound to ignite solidarity efforts across the region and the world. Millions everyday engage in mass demonstrations and rallies while resistance forces in Iraq and Syria have launched attacks on U.S. military forces. In response to the declaration of the Ansar Allah Resistance Movement in Yemen that it would enforce a blockade on Israeli linked ships until the genocidal siege on the Palestinians ceased, the U.S. has pledged to protect commercial vessels traveling throughout the Red Sea. Therefore, such an initiative by Washington further exposes the false statements by the White House claiming the administration opposes the wanton slaughter of civilians, since the foreign policy trajectory of Washington and Wall Street is geared toward maintaining the occupation of Palestine. Read More

December 25 is the 80th day since the genocide in Gaza began

Today December 25 is the 80th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israel kills 100 Palestinians in one of Gaza's deadliest nights Sunday. Medics said an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza killed 23, bringing total Palestinian fatalities overnight to more than 100.  An Israeli attack on the headquarters of the Palestinian television channel Al-Aqsa TV in Gaza City resulted in the killing of 13 members of its media personnel and the total destruction of the building and equipment of the channel. Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday that Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support  of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian groups.

Israel kills 100 Palestinians in one of Gaza's deadliest nights
Daily Sabah:  At a funeral in Gaza on Monday a line of Palestinians touched white shrouds containing the bodies of at least 70 people who Palestinian health officials said were killed by an Israeli airstrike targeting Maghazi in the center of the besieged strip. It followed one of the enclave's deadliest nights in the 11-week-old battle between Israel and Hamas. Strikes that began hours before midnight persisted into Monday. Palestinian media said Israel stepped up air and ground shelling in central Gaza. Medics said an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza killed 23, bringing total Palestinian fatalities overnight to more than 100.  Read More

Israel uses foreign mercenaries in attacks on Gaza
Anadolu Agency: Recent reports and revelations by lawmakers and the South African government sparked controversy about Israel's use of thousands of mercenaries as it carries out one of the most ruthless attacks against Gaza. Israel has a history of using mercenaries from various countries, including the U.S., France, Spain, and Ukraine, in its wars since 1948, but the Israeli government has opted to remain silent this time. Read More

Israel Bombardment on Palestinian Al-Aqsa TV Chanel
Telesure: An Israeli attack on the headquarters of the Palestinian television channel Al-Aqsa TV in Gaza City resulted in the killing of 13 members of its media personnel and the total destruction of the building and equipment of the channel. The director of Al-Aqsa TV,  Muhammed al-Saidi, was killed a day earlier in the Israeli air attack on the Palestinian radio station when he and several members of his family were killed in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip. Read More

Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is Systemically Censoring Palestine Content
Human Rights Watch: Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 51-page report, “Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook,” documents a pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights. Human Rights Watch found that the problem stems from flawed Meta policies and their inconsistent and erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government influence over content removals. Read More

Israelis have killed the same Percentage of Gazans in 11 Weeks as Allies did Italians in all of WW II
By Juan Cole: The UN reports figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health as of Friday: “between 7 October and 7:00 on 22 December, at least 20,057 Palestinians were killed in Gaza. About 70 per cent of those killed are said to be women and children. As of then, 53,320 Palestinians have been injured.” Italy is a good comparison for Gaza, since about 1.1% of its pre-war population was killed in WW II. That took from 1940 to 1945 (Mussolini’s Italy entered the war in 1940 and he fell in 1943 but Allied dithering allowed the Nazi Germans to take over Italy until 1945). Read More

Jesus of Palestine. Jesus of the Gaza Strip
by Richard Eskow: Every now and then an image perfectly captures the moment, in all its light or darkness.I was struck by the creche that was set up in Bethlehem’s Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church after that city’s Christians canceled this year’s Christmas celebrations. You’ve probably seen it: it shows the Nativity scene, as all such displays do, but the newborn infant Jesus is lying in the ruins of a concrete building. “God is under the rubble in Gaza,” says the pastor who created the creche, Rev. Munther Isaac. “This is where we find God right now.” Read More

December 24 is the 79th day since the genocide in Gaza began

Today December 24 is the 79th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israeli occupation forces continued their airstrikes and artillery shelling on various areas in the region, resulting in the murder and injury of dozens of civilians. Health Ministry in Gaza says 166 Palestinians killed, 384 wounded in Israeli attacks in last 24 hours. The Israeli attacks have left Gaza in ruins with 60% of the coastal territory's infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and nearly 2 million people displaced amid shortages of food and clean water. In its atrocious war against Palestinians, Israel has demolished or ignored all international laws and norms “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” in the words of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

166 Palestinians killed in Gaza in last 24 hours
Al Jazeera: Health Ministry in Gaza says 166 Palestinians killed, 384 wounded in Israeli attacks in last 24 hours. UNRWA says it “cannot deliver meaningful aid” under intense Israeli bombardments of Gaza after the UN Security Council called for increased access. “Stop the genocide now,” says Bethlehem Pastor Munther Isaac, as churches across Palestine cancel Christmas celebrations. Read More

Gaza facing a Christmas genocide
by Jennifer Welborn Williams: Palestine’s Christian community is – not surprisingly – the oldest in the world, dating back to the first century. In Gaza, the community is now tiny, with just some 800 to 1,000 Christians remaining. But Gaza’s churches are some of the oldest in existence anywhere on the planet. Now these churches are shelters for refugees, and Christians are targets of Israel’s genocidal violence. Read More

Houthi Red Sea Blockade Could 'Starve' Western War Machine of Oil
By Ekaterina Blinova:  US oil stockpiles are at their 40-year lows and the Houthi Red Sea blockage can make matters much worse for Washington. Yemen's armed forces stepped up attacks on trade vessels linked to Israel in the Red Sea in a bid to force Tel Aviv into halting its ground operation in the Gaza Strip. In response, the US brought together a 10-nation coalition against the government in Sana'a led by the Ansarallah movement — dubbed the Houthis by the West. However, the coalition includes only one Arab state, Bahrain, while Yemen's other neighbors have so far hesitated to join the US-led Operation Prosperity Guardian. Could they jump on Washington's bandwagon anytime soon? Read More

US ‘Trapped’ in Red Sea, Should Prepare for Gibraltar Strait’s ‘Closure’ - IRGC
By Ilya Tsukanov: The US set to work this week assembling a coalition to secure the Red Sea for shipping amid unrelenting hijacking and missile attacks against Israeli-tied commercial cargoes by Yemen’s Houthi militias against the backdrop of the Gaza crisis. Now, Iran, leader of the regional ‘Axis of Resistance’ coalition, has stepped in with a warning of its own. The United States and its allies are “trapped” in the Red Sea and should prepare for the closure of waterways stretching all the way to the western gates of the Mediterranean Sea, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Chief of Staff Mohammad Reza Naqdi has warned. Read More

Yemen Ready to Stare Down a New Imperial Coalition
By Pepe Escobar: No one ever lost money betting on the ability of the Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder to construct a “coalition of the willing” whenever faced with a geopolitical quandary. In every case, duly covered by the reigning “rules-based international order”, “willing” applies to vassals seduced by carrots or sticks to follow to the letter the Empire’s whims. Read More

Tehran International Conference on Palestine kicks off
IRNA: Tehran International Conference on Palestine has started in Iran’s capital today with representatives from over 50 countries in attendance. Hosted by Iran’s Foreign Ministry, the single-day event addresses the latest developments in occupied Palestine. The attendees who are a group of former and present diplomats are to exchange views on the political and legal impacts of the Gaza war. Read More

December 23 is the 78th day since the genocide in Gaza began
Today December 23 is the 78th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israeli occupation forces continued their airstrikes and artillery shelling on various areas in the region, resulting in the murder and injury of dozens of civilians. At least 25,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched brutal operation on October 7. The toll in Gaza stood at 20,057 people as of Friday morning, amid renewed international calls for a fresh cease-fire in Gaza. The Gaza Health Ministry says thousands more dead remain buried beneath the rubble. About 70% of those killed are women and children, it says. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), only six of Gaza's 36 hospitals were receiving casualties, all of them in the south. The Israeli attacks have left Gaza in ruins with 60% of the coastal territory's infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and nearly 2 million people displaced amid shortages of food and clean water. In its atrocious war against Palestinians, Israel has demolished or ignored all international laws and norms “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” in the words of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

More than 200 dead in 24 hours in Gaza as Israeli raids turn ‘more intense’
Al Jazeera: At least 201 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 370 wounded by Israeli forces in the past 24 hours in Gaza as the assault on the besieged enclave nears its 12th week. Bombing in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp killed at least eight Palestinians, including children, on Saturday while another attack on Jabalia camp is believed to have killed dozens more. The death toll in Gaza during the 11-week assault has hit 20,258 while 53,688 others are wounded, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday. Thousands more bodies are believed to be trapped under the rubble across the strip. Read More

Gaza genocide death toll tops 20,000 amid mass starvation
by Andre Damon: The death toll of Israel’s genocide in Gaza reached 20,057, according to a statement Friday by Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Taking into account the 7,000 missing, most buried under rubble, the true death toll has likely already exceeded 25,000. A death toll of 20,000–25,000 out of a population of just over 2 million means that more than one out of 100 people in Gaza has been killed in the past two-and-a-half months. This is the equivalent of 3.3 million people in the United States. Read More

Normalization With Israel Has Been Ended by Its Brutal War on Gaza
by Vijay Prashad: The actions of Hezbollah and Ansar Allah have sent a message to the Arab capitals that at least some political forces are willing to offer material solidarity with the Palestinians. This will inspire the Arab populations to put more pressure on their governments. Normalization with Israel seems to be off the table. But, if this pressure mounts, countries like Egypt and Jordan might be forced to reconsider their peace treaties. Read More

170 container ships rerouted, 35 docked due to Houthi attacks in Red Sea
Yeni Safak: The American shipping company Flexport Inc. announced on Thursday that nearly 170 ships have been diverted from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea and 35 ships have been halted, awaiting instructions from their operating companies. According to a statement by the San Francisco-based company, about 170 container ships have been rerouted around Africa, with 35 other ships docked due to attacks in the Red Sea. Read More

December 22 is the 77th day since the genocide in Gaza began
Today December 22 is the 77th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israeli occupation forces continued their airstrikes and artillery shelling on various areas in the region, resulting in the murder and injury of dozens of civilians. Israeli warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp. Simultaneously, Israeli artillery targeted the Al-Bureij refugee camp. The toll in Gaza stood at 20,057 people as of Friday morning, amid renewed international calls for a fresh cease-fire in Gaza. The Gaza Health Ministry says thousands more dead remain buried beneath the rubble. About 70% of those killed are women and children, it says. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), only six of Gaza's 36 hospitals were receiving casualties, all of them in the south. The Israeli attacks have left Gaza in ruins with 60% of the coastal territory's infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and nearly 2 million people displaced amid shortages of food and clean water. In its atrocious war against Palestinians, Israel has demolished or ignored all international laws and norms to save “Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” in the words of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Security Council approves resolution urging more aid, humanitarian access to Gaza
Daily Sabah: The United Nations Security Council finally adopted a resolution urging the delivery of more humanitarian aid and access to Gaza, which has been devastated by ruthless Israeli attacks, after days of delays and negotiations. The resolution calls for "urgent steps" to immediately allow "safe, unhindered, and expanded" humanitarian access to Gaza amid the ongoing Israeli offensive on the strip. After several days of intense negotiations and nail-biting delays, the resolution submitted by the United Arab Emirates passed by a vote of 13-0, with the U.S. and Russia – both permanent council members – abstaining. Negotiations had dragged on all week amid Israel's U.S.-backed rejection of any explicit call for a cease-fire. Read More

Gaza death toll passes 20,000 as Israel's military faces rising scrutiny
Daily Sabah: In the grim aftermath of the Gaza conflict, health officials in the Hamas-controlled region reported a devastating toll, with 20,057 Palestinians being killed by Israel. This distressing figure, representing nearly 1% of the prewar population, highlights the profound human cost incurred during Israel's military offensive, intensifying calls to reevaluate the scale of the operation. The profound impact of the conflict extends far beyond the casualty count, as 85% of Gaza's population has been displaced over the past 11 weeks, leaving wide expanses of the coastal enclave in ruins. Earlier statements indicated that roughly 70% of those killed were women or minors, with an additional 53,320 Palestinians wounded. Read More

Israeli forces arrest 25 more Palestinians in West Bank, bringing tally to 4,655 since Oct. 7
Anadolu Agency: The Israeli forces detained 25 more Palestinians in the West Bank on Thursday, taking the tally since Oct. 7 to 4,655, according to prisoners' affairs groups. At least 302 Palestinians have been killed and more than 3,100 others injured in the occupied territory since then, according to Palestinian figures. Read More

Court convicts 5 Serbs for murdering Bosnian civilians in 1992
Daily Sabah: Bosnian court convicted five Serbs for killing dozens of Muslim Bosnians, including women and children in 1992. The perpetrators were sentenced to between 5 and 20 years in prison. The Bosnian State Court sentenced Ilija Zoric to a maximum of twenty years behind bars after he was found guilty of participating in the massacre of 29 women and children who had taken refuge in a house in the village of Zecovi near the northwestern town of Prijedor. Read More

Qassam Brigades kill Ukrainian mercenaries in Gaza
The Cradle: Fighters from Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, ambushed and killed at least seven Ukrainian mercenaries who were fighting with the Israeli army in Gaza, Quds News Network  reported on 21 December. According to sources speaking with the network, Qassam fighters targeted the mercenaries on 14 November after spotting them on Hassanein Street in the Shujaiya neighborhood, one of the main centers of Palestinian resistance to the ongoing Israeli ground invasion. Read More

Amid mass executions & genocidal rhetoric, US deepens support for Israeli onslaught on Gaza
by Andre Damon: Amid reports that Israel is carrying out mass executions of civilian prisoners in Gaza and open statements of genocidal intent by Israeli politicians, the US has doubled down on its support for Israel’s war on Palestinian civilians. Before the eyes of the whole world, the bloodbath in Gaza is emerging as “America’s genocide.” Read More

Human Rights Watch reports mass censorship of opposition to Gaza genocide
Kevin Reed: A 51-page report published by Human Rights Watch on Thursday exposes the collaboration of Facebook and Instagram with US imperialist and pro-Zionist propaganda by documenting the censorship of content that exposes the war crimes being committed in Gaza by the Israeli military. Read More

As Israel fights to destroy Hamas, the group's popularity surges among Palestinians
NPR: More than two months into Israel's war against Hamas, the militant group's popularity appears to be rising dramatically among Palestinians. The Palestinian Center for Policy and Researchsurvey, published Dec. 13, found less than half of Palestinians support Hamas as an organization, but respondents showed "wide public support for Hamas' offensive" against Israel. A previous poll conducted by the group Arab World for Research and Development in late October and early November found 68% of Palestinians in the West Bank supported Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. Read More

The Atrocities In Gaza Are The Perfect Embodiment Of ‘Western Values’
By Caitlin Johnstone: When Israeli president Isaac Herzog  described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” he wasn’t really lying. He was telling the truth — just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it. The demolition of Gaza is indeed being perpetrated in defense of western values, and is itself a perfect embodiment of western values. Not the western values they teach you about in school, but the hidden ones they don’t want you to look at. Not the attractive packaging with the advertising slogans on the label, but the product that’s actually inside the box. Read More

Israel is displaying barbaric brutality to save Western civilization
By Selçuk Türkyılmaz: This recent brutality should be charged to the Anglo-Saxons. If the Anglo-Saxons had not allowed Israel, Palestine would not have been drenched in blood from the beginning. This is not a brutality seen recently. Nations are also accomplices in this crime. If there were a different situation, we would have definitely seen some events in the opposite direction by now. But it didn't happen. Israeli President Isaac Herzog's statement, "This war is indeed a war to rescue Western civilization, the values of Western civilization," should have caused a reaction among the Anglo-Saxons as well. Read More

War on Gaza: What is Next after Genocide?
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: American complicity in Israel’s war of vengeance and collective punishment of innocent civilians of Gaza, debacles the American history of giving life to knowledge, wisdom, ideals of freedom and justice. Analyzing the compelling realities on the ground, America would undermine the way forward for its destiny as a powerful nation of reason, reliability and stability. Read More

The Dire Need for an Immediate Ceasefire in the Israeli War on
USCMO: The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) calls on President Biden and the United Nations to forcibly and immediately stop the U.S. supplied and diplomatically shielded Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the massive Israeli military and extremist settler-colonist assault on Palestinians in the West Bank. Read More

Türkiye’s Growing Drone Exports
The International Crisis Group: As drones change the face of modern warfare, their price sinks and their technological sophistication races ahead, more and more buyers are knocking on Türkiye’s door. Its flagship Bayraktar TB2 drone has proven effective on battlefields in Ukraine, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh and elsewhere; it generally costs less or performs better than rival models. Ankara, surprised at and proud of this success, sees drone sales as increasingly important for the growth of the Turkish defence industry. Read More

December 21 is the 76th day since the genocide in Gaza began
Today, December 21 is the 76th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Wafa reported on Thursday that dozens of people were killed and others were injured in the ongoing occupation attacks on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, and on several areas in the central Gaza Strip. Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians, with over 8,000 being children in Gaza and occupied West Bank.  For the past two months, Gaza has been without electricity, and access to water, and over 2 million surviving inhabitants are unable to access food and essential supplies. Israel restricts humanitarian aid to Gaza from entering.

Dozens killed and wounded in the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip
WAFA: Dozens of people, including children and women, were killed and others were injured since dawn today, and dozens of homes and buildings were destroyed in the ongoing Israeli occupation bombing of the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air. Local sources reported that dozens of people were killed and others were injured in the ongoing occupation attacks on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, and on several areas in the central Gaza Strip. During the past 24 hours, 55 people were killed in Israeli raids on homes in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. Read More

Hamas demands release of 3 top Palestinian leaders in any hostage deal with Israel: Report
Anadolu Agency: Hamas demands the release of three top Palestinian leaders in any hostage swap deal with Israel, according to Israeli media on Thursday. Hamas insists Marwan Barghouti, Ahmed Saadat and Abdullah Barghouti be on the list of prisoners to be released in any new deal, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported. Read More

The future of Gaza: Post Israeli war scenarios
By Ali Bakir: The 2023 Israeli war on Gaza has ignited a flurry of speculations about the future of the Gaza Strip and who will hold sway there once the dust of the Israeli aggression settles. These questions are not only pivotal for the immediate future of Gaza and the Palestinians but also have far-reaching implications for the broader Middle East region and international diplomatic efforts. At the heart of the unfolding catastrophe lies the fate of Hamas, the de facto governing authority in Gaza following the 2006 elections. Since its decision to put boots on the ground in Gaza on October 7, Israel's officials have asserted that the goal is to “destroy” Hamas. However, the action of defeating Hamas, in this case, is not defined, which makes it almost impossible. Read More

Gaza Genocide: Hezbollah Confronting and “Inflicting Serious Damage” on Israel. “Expect Escalation…”
Global Research: Hezbollah is not sitting passively watching Israel completing its genocide on Gaza. The real and vast scale on which Hezbollah is causing damage on Israel is hidden by the US media, but the Hindustan Times reports on it. With over 500 attacks so far, Hezbollah is inflicting serious damage on Israel – all the time. Read More

United Nations reports Israeli forces are carrying out mass summary executions in Gaza
by Andre Damon: On Wednesday, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report alleging that Israeli forces carried out a mass execution of civilians in northern Gaza Tuesday, separating 11 men from their families and summarily shooting them. This report and a similar allegation by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor imply that Israel has moved from murdering civilians through bombing to mass executions. Read More

The Evil Israel Does is the Evil Israel Gets
By Chris Hedges: Israel’s genocide in Gaza is rearing a new generation of enraged, traumatized and dispossessed Palestinians who have lost family members, friends, homes, communities and any hope of living ordinary lives. They, too, will seek retribution. Their small acts of terrorism will counter Israel’s ongoing state terror. They will hate as they have been hated. Read More

The anatomy of Zionist genocide
Yoav Litvin: War in Gaza not only poses a threat of elimination to the Palestinian people but since the Occupied Territories are used as a laboratory for the development and testing of new military technology and strategies, it could also set the stage for similar violent escalations against oppressed communities in the Global South as well as against BIPOC and immigrant communities within the Global North. Read More

US-client Field Marshal Al-Sisi to remain president of Egypt till 2030
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Not unexpectedly, on December 18, 2023, US-client Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi clinches victory in a controversial election. The Egyptian electoral officials of his regime announced his victory. He received 89.6 percent in the three-day elections between December 10 and 12 and is therefore set to rule the country until at least 2030.  Read More

December 20 is the 75th day since the genocide in Gaza began
Today, December 20 is the 75th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians, with over 8,000 being children in Gaza and occupied West Bank.  Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported Wednesday Israeli air attacks hit close to an Al Jazeera crew reporting live on air, striking a residential building near a hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza. For the past two months, Gaza has been without electricity, and access to water, and over 2 million surviving inhabitants are unable to access food and essential supplies. Israel restricts humanitarian aid to Gaza from entering.

Over 70% of Gazans face extreme hunger as Israel's war grinds on
Daily Sabah: Nearly 71% of Gazans are facing extreme hunger as they continue to suffer under relentless Israeli attacks, according to a study by the rights group Euro-Med Monitor. Released Tuesday, the study’s findings included a sample of 1,200 people in Gaza where 98% of the respondents said they eat insufficient amounts of food. Meanwhile, 64% admitted to eating grass, fruits, immature food and expired materials to satiate their hunger. The study also found that the rate of access to water in Gaza, including drinking, bathing and cleaning water, is down to 1.5 liters per person per day. Read More

UNSC delays Gaza vote as members wrangle over resolution wording
Daily Sabah: With members wrangling over wording, a U.N. Security Council vote on a resolution calling for a pause to Israel's war on Gaza was postponed for a second time Tuesday. Three diplomatic sources said the vote on the text, the latest version of which calls for the "suspension" of hostilities, had been pushed to Wednesday. Members of the council are grappling to find common ground on the resolution, a vote on which was pushed back several times throughout the day, according to diplomatic sources, after being postponed Monday. Read More

Some 'external forces' trying to use Gaza situation to fuel regional unrest in Mideast: Russia
Anadolu Agency: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday that some "external forces" are attempting to fan a fire of regional discord between Middle Eastern states by exploiting the situation in Gaza. The purpose of such actions is to "weaken countries that pursue an independent foreign policy course," Lavrov said at the Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum in Morocco's capital, Marrakesh. Read More

Israeli-flagged ships banned by Malaysia amid Gaza conflict
Daily Sabah: Israeli-flagged cargo ships have been banned from docking at Malaysian ports in response to Israel's actions in Gaza, which Kuala Lumpur says ignores "basic humanitarian principles." Ships on their way to Israel will also be barred from loading cargo at any port in the largely Muslim Southeast Asian nation with immediate effect, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said in a statement. Anwar singled out Israel's biggest shipping firm ZIM. Read More

The Balfour Declaration And Palestine
Countercurrents: The Balfour Declaration which supposedly gave the Zionists the right to establish a NATIONAL HOME for Jewish people in Palestine is completely illegal. On November 2nd, 1917, when the Balfour declaration was issued, Palestine was still under the domain of the Ottoman Empire and the British had no legal rights to give away a land which was not under their dominion. Further, the declaration speaks only of establishing a “NATIONAL HOME for Jewish people in Palestine” and not a JEWISH STATE. The declaration clearly states that “IT BEING CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT NOTHING SHALL BE DONE WHICH MAY PREJUDICE THE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS OF EXISTING NON-JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN PALESTINE“. Whatever that the Zionists are doing now against Palestinians are against the Balfour declaration that the Zionists so dearly hold on to.Read More

Natural Gas Fuelling Conflict In Gaza
by Karyn Pomerantz: Hidden behind the justifications for the war on Gaza is the longstanding Zionist plan to ethnically cleanse all of Palestine and to gain control of natural gas and oil. Zionists justify the war as retribution for the October 7th killings of Israelis. Hamas portrays it as pay-back for decades of oppression. Neither side advocates unity of Palestinian and Israeli workers to establish a society that meets their mutual needs. Nothing short of an anti-racist, anti-capitalist global movement can end these conflicts. Read More

Comparing Gaza Genocide & Other Atrocities
by Dr Gideon Polya: The horror of the Gaza Genocide continues to worsen. As of Day 70, and considering the 8,000 buried in rubble, Occupied Palestinian deaths totalled 34,000 including 13,000 child deaths. This ever-worsening atrocity is succinctly compared quantitatively below  to genocidal  WW2 and post-WW2 atrocities. Ceasefire Now is insufficient –  humanity demands that the World must enforce an immediate end to the US-backed Israeli Occupation by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Read More

December 19 is the 74th day since the genocide in Gaza began
Today, December 19 is the 74th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians, with over 8,000 being children in Gaza and occupied West Bank.  Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported Tuesday that tens of people have been killed and others wounded as a result of an Israeli bombing of a building in the Remal neighbourhood in Gaza City. The reporter added that dozens of others are missing and their fate is still unknown. At least 19,667 killed in Gaza and 297 in West Bank and East Jerusalem. For the past two months, Gaza has been without electricity, and access to water, and over 2 million surviving inhabitants are unable to access food and essential supplies. Israel restricts humanitarian aid to Gaza from entering.

Israel: Starvation Used as a Weapon of War in Gaza
Human Rights Watch: Evidence Indicates Civilians Deliberately Denied Access to Food, Water. The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip, which is a war crime. Israeli officials have made public statements expressing their aim to deprive civilians in Gaza of food, water, and fuel – statements reflected in Israeli forces’ military operations. The Israeli government should not attack objects necessary for the survival of the civilian population, lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, and restore electricity and water. Read More

As reports of hate crimes against American Muslims grow, here’s how you can help
CNN: The rise in anti-Muslim acts is undeniable and unnerving. Three Palestinian college students were shot in Vermont, and when a six-year-old was stabbed in Chicago, his mother couldn’t attend his funeral because she’d been stabbed, too. In Georgia, a middle school teacher was arrested after he allegedly threatened to behead a 13-year-old Muslim student. But most incidents of Islamophobia don’t make headlines – or even go reported. This recent unprecedented surge of anti-Muslim bias prompted the White House to announce a national strategy to combat Islamophobia. Read More

Sacking, censorship, threats: Pro-Palestine supporters face growing global backlash
Anadolu Agency: Over 2,100 such cases reported in the US between Oct. 7 and Dec. 2, Farah Afify of Council on American-Islamic Relations tells Anadolu. Read More

The War in Gaza: It’s Not About Hamas. It’s About Demographics
By Mike Whitney:  We’ve been told repeatedly that the goal of Israel’s operation in Gaza is to “defeat Hamas”. But is that true? We don’t think it is. We don’t think that any reasonable person would attempt to eradicate a militant organization by laying to waste vast swaths of the country while killing tens of thousands of innocent people. That is not how one garners support for one’s cause nor is it an effective strategy for defeating the enemy. Instead, it is a policy that is guaranteed to horrify allies and critics alike greatly undermining the operation’s chances of success. And that’s why we don’t believe that Israel’s attack on Gaza has anything to do with Hamas. We think it’s a smokescreen that’s being used to divert attention from the real objectives of the campaign. And, what might those “real objectives” be? The real objectives relate to an issue that is never discussed in the media, but is the primary factor driving events. Demographics. Read More

25 dead in Israeli strikes on Rafah homes, 10 killed in Jabalia
Daily Sabah: At least 35 people were killed and dozens of others injured in two separate Israeli attacks on Gaza Tuesday. Some 25 Palestinians were killed and many others injured in overnight airstrikes on southern Gaza's Rafah city, according to Palestinian media and health officials. In another attack on Tuesday morning, at least 10 people were killed and 40 others wounded in an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Read More

Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks exceeds 19,600
Daily Sabah: The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip mounted to 19,667 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said Tuesday. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra added that 52,586 other people were injured in the Israeli onslaught. “Hospitals in Gaza's south are no longer able to accommodate more injured people,” the spokesman said at a press conference. Read More

American settlers in the West Bank...
By Abdullah Muradoğlu:  There are about 700,000 illegal settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem now – a significant upgrade from the approximately 200,000 just two years ago. A significant number of these Zionist settlers are citizens of the U.S. and other Western countries. People and organizations in the U.S., among other places, are financing Jewish migration to Israel, particularly to expand these illegal settlements. Read More

The Holocaust Industry...
By Taha Kılınç: American Jewish scholar Prof. Dr. Norman Finkelstein, in his seminal book 'The Holocaust Industry,' explains how the Holocaust, perpetrated against Jews during World War II, was turned into an exploitation and profit system by Zionists. Finkelstein, who says, 'To boast to helpless people is the courage of organized American Jewry,' reveals the comprehensive panorama of American Judaism and the support offered to Israel. In his book, which he blends with his own family story as the son of parents who survived the Holocaust, Finkelstein exposes the hypocrisy of the Zionists, laying bare all their double standards. Read More

Zionism vs. humanity
BY MUHITTIN ATAMAN: Faced with Israeli atrocities against civilians, the world is divided into two camps: pro-Zionism and anti-Zionism, with the latter advocating for an end to bloodshed in Gaza. Instead of deterring Israel from committing more violent acts, the Western governments have been trying to abandon their traditional values of free speech and freedom by forbidding their citizens from criticizing Israel’s oppressive policies and atrocities against innocent Palestinians. Pro-Israeli governments are trying to punish institutions or heads of institutions that remain silent about the peaceful demonstrations. Officials in Western countries are trying to undermine the independence of higher education institutions. For example, presidents of some Western universities were punished for their neutral perspectives and their tolerance toward the pro-Palestinian peaceful demonstrations or other kinds of reactions. Read More

December 18 is the 73rd day since the genocide in Gaza began
December 18 is the 73nd day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israel has killed more than 22,000 civilians, with over 8,000 being children in Gaza and occupied West Bank.  At least 19,453 killed in Gaza and 297 in West Bank and East Jerusalem. In Gaza, there are 7,000 missing or unaccounted for, and the number of casualties is staggering, with hospitals overwhelmed and more than 54,000 injured awaiting treatment. Injured include 8,663 children. For the past two months, Gaza has been without electricity, and access to water, and over 2 million surviving inhabitants are unable to access food and essential supplies. Israel restricts humanitarian aid to Gaza from entering. 

Israel kills 110 Palestinians over just 24 hours in northern Gaza
Daily Sabah: At least 110 Palestinians were reported killed and dozens of others injured in Israeli strikes in northern Gaza over 24 hours, the Gazan Health Ministry said early Monday. In a brief statement, the ministry said: "There were 50 martyrs in occupation strikes on houses in Jabalia," bringing the number of deaths to 110 in the area since Sunday. At least 90 others were wounded and many others are still under the rubble, local sources said. Read More

Another journalist killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, tally rises to 96 since Oct. 7
Yeni Safak: Another Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Monday, taking the tally to 96 since Oct. 7, the government media office said. Read More

Mossad, CIA chiefs to meet Qatari PM for talks on new hostage swap deal with Hamas
Yeni Safak: Israeli Mossad chief David Barnea and CIA Director William Burns are scheduled to meet with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani for talks on a new hostage swap deal with Hamas, Israeli media reported on Monday. The three officials will meet in the Polish capital, Warsaw, to discuss a number of possible outlines for negotiations on a new deal to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas, Israeli Channel 12 reported. Read More

TFF Statement On the Genocide in Gaza
Countercurrent: As the brutal slaughtering in Gaza unfolds in increasingly horrific proportions, we, as an experienced research foundation for peaceful conflict resolution and peace-making since 1986, feel the urge to contribute our analytical points, sentiments and constructive conflict-resolution ideas. The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF) also wants to be on record with this Statement so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see who stood with whom and who advocated peace instead of ongoing genocide. Read More

As Gaza genocide continues, US prepares major escalation of war throughout Middle East
By Andre Damon: As Israel continues to massacre hundreds of Gazans each day and starve the entire population of 2.2 million, a series of US officials are traveling to Israel to coordinate US support for the genocide and prepare a military escalation throughout the Middle East. Last week, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan traveled to Israel to hold high-level meetings with Israeli officials. During the trip, Sullivan reiterated the United States’ open-ended support for Israel’s onslaught against the population of Gaza. Read More

The Death of Israel
by Chris Hedges: By the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza — Israel is talking about months of warfare — it will have signed its own death sentence. Its facade of civility, its supposed vaunted respect for the rule of law and democracy, its mythical story of the courageous Israeli military and miraculous birth of the Jewish nation, will lie in ash heaps. Israel’s social capital will be spent. It will be revealed as an ugly, repressive, hate-filled apartheid regime, alienating younger generations of American Jews. Its patron, the United States, as new generations come into power, will distance itself from Israel the way it is distancing itself from Ukraine. Its popular support, already eroded in the U.S., will come from America’s Christianized fascists who see Israel’s domination of ancient Biblical land as a harbinger of the Second Coming and in its subjugation of Arabs a kindred racism and white supremacy. Read More

December 17 is the 72nd day since the genocide in Gaza began
December 17 is the 72nd day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israel has killed more than 22,000 civilians, with over 8,000 being children in Gaza and occupied West Bank.  At least 19,088 killed in Gaza and 297 in West Bank and East Jerusalem.. In Gaza, there are 7,000 missing or unaccounted for, and the number of casualties is staggering, with hospitals overwhelmed and more than 54,000 injured awaiting treatment. For the past two months, Gaza has been without electricity, and access to water, and over 2 million surviving inhabitants are unable to access food and essential supplies. Israel restricts humanitarian aid to Gaza from entering. 

Israeli strikes on Gaza homes kill 47 civilians, 5 die in West Bank
Daily Sabah: At least 47 Palestinians were killed Sunday in Israeli airstrikes targeting houses in Jabalia and the Deir al-Balah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported. "35 Palestinians were killed and dozens were injured on Sunday during an Israeli bombing of a house in the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip," Palestine's official news agency WAFA reported. At least 90 others were wounded and many others are still under the rubble, local sources said. Read More

Death toll across Palestine surges to 19,088, over 54,450 wounded
WAFA: In the wake of the devastating Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the Ministry of Health announced in an update this evening that the death toll has surged to at least 19,088, with over 54,450 individuals wounded. Read More

Israel bulldozes, 'buries alive' dozens at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital
The New Arab: Israeli forces bulldozed and buried alive dozens of displaced Palestinians at Kamal Adwan Hospital in North Gaza, according to local journalists. Read More

Yemeni drones pound Israel’s Port of Eilat in solidarity with Gaza
Yemeni Armed Forces say they have launched a large-scale drone strike against “sensitive” targets in the occupied territories in a show of support for the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip. Read More 

Israel and US Plan Complete Deportation from Gaza
By Marc Vandepitte: Deporting all Gazans is the joint plan of the US and Israel. According to the plan, the Palestinians will be ‘relocated’ to Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, and Yemen. This large-scale ethnic cleansing is cynically presented as a “moral and humanitarian” aid plan. Read More

The Gaza War, “Big Money” and the Insidious Role of the World Economic Forum
By Ernst Wolff: Some background events that are largely withheld from the general public by the mainstream media, but which may also be decisive for the future development of the conflict, could shed light on this. As is now widely known, there are natural gas and oil deposits worth around $500 billion about 20 nautical miles off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians would actually be entitled to the proceeds, but Israel has been withholding them for a good 20 years, contrary to international law. Read More

December 16 is the 71th day since the genocide in Gaza began
December 16 is the 71th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israel has killed more than 19,000 civilians, with over 8,000 being children in Gaza and occupied West Bank.  At least 18,787 killed in Gaza and 270 in West Bank. In Gaza, there are 7,000 missing or unaccounted for, and the number of casualties is staggering, with hospitals overwhelmed and more than 50,000 injured awaiting treatment. For the past two months, Gaza has been without electricity, and access to water, and over 2 million surviving inhabitants are unable to access food and essential supplies. Israel restricts humanitarian aid to Gaza from entering. . Read More

Israel keeps the pressure on Gaza as Qatar confirms truce talks
Al Jazeera: The Israeli army has continued to pound areas across the Gaza Strip to devastating effect as Qatar has confirmed that talks are once more under way to evaluate if a new truce can be reached. Attacks on Saturday heavily targeted Khan Younis in the south, where thousands have been forced to flee. The Qatari foreign ministry said in a statement Saturday that talks are continuing. Read More

'Perfect storm' of deadly diseases looms over battered Gaza
Daily Sabah: The residents of Gaza, who have so far survived Israel's bombs and bullets, are now facing a silent, invisible killer as the besieged Palestinian territory faces a "perfect storm' of deadly diseases. A lack of food, clean water and shelter have worn down hundreds of thousands of traumatized people and, with a health system on its knees, it's inevitable epidemics will rip through the enclave, 10 doctors and aid workers told Reuters. Read More

The Plague as Life: 327,000 Stricken with Infectious Diseases in Gaza
By Juan Cole: The plague has come to Gaza. What happens when you force 1.8 million people into a postage-stamp-sized territory and destroy or damage half of their dwelling places, breaking the water pipes with 2000-pound bombs? You create homeless people sleeping rough, with few toilets. Many people are forced to urinate and defecate in the streets. Read More

Hezbollah member killed in clashes with Israeli forces on Lebanese border
Anadolu Agency: The Lebanese group Hezbollah said Thursday that one of its fighters was killed in clashes with Israeli forces near the border between Lebanon and Israel. Tensions have flared along the border between Lebanon and Israel amid intermittent exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in the deadliest clashes since the two sides fought a full-scale war in 2006. Lebanese group says 105 members killed in clashes with Israeli troops since Oct. 8. Read More

Israeli regime assassinates journalist in Gaza amid growing threat of region-wide war
Jordan Shilton: The Zionist regime’s barbarism was demonstrated once again Friday with the targeted killing of Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa. Abudaqa was fatally wounded in a drone strike on a school in Khan Younis. His colleague, Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, suffered light injuries. A third journalist, Ramy Budair of the New Press Agency, also died in Khan Younis Friday. Earlier in the conflict, Dahdouh was forced to mourn the loss of almost his entire family following a deliberate Israeli air strike on his house. Read More

Is ICC still relevant? Not so, says Brazil’s Lula da Silva. And he is not alone
Pressenza: On December 4, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, the President of Brazil (which has taken G20 presidency) said, after meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, that he will invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 Summit that will take place in Brazil. Previously, Lula da Silva had stated Putin should not worry about being arrested, should he visit Brazil, despite the county’s membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Brazilian leader later withdrew this promise but has maintained the invitation, thereby prompting a political controversy about the court in the Latin American country. On March 17, 2023 the Hague-based court issued a controversial arrest warrant for both Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights (of Russia) and for Putin, a ruling that has been praised by US President Joe Biden, among others. Read More

December 15 is the 70th day since the genocide in Gaza began
December 15th. It is the 70th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israel has killed more than 19,000 civilians, with over 8,000 being children. In Gaza, there are 7,000 missing or unaccounted for, and the number of casualties is staggering, with hospitals overwhelmed and more than 50,000 injured awaiting treatment. Read More

Israel continues Gaza onslaught despite US envoy’s ‘new phase of war’
Al Jazeera: Israel has continued to pound Gaza despite a senior United States official saying that Tel Aviv has agreed to end widespread bombing and ground operations and move towards precision targeting of Hamas. Despite mounting international calls for restraint, Israel on Friday pressed on with its offensive in Gaza. Air strikes across the strip killed dozens of people, according to local authorities.The bombardment came after US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read More

Israeli officials spell out plans for ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians, as Gaza massacres continue
by Thomas Scripps: Following the United Nations General Assembly vote Tuesday for a ceasefire in Gaza, the Israeli government has not only pledged to continue the war but made clear its plan for an onslaught against the Palestinians across the whole region. Its leaders know they have full license to do so, whatever cynical votes are cast at the UN or statements made to the press by its imperialist backers. Read More

May Peace Prevail in Gaza
By Jim Miles: The feeble words and excuses of the U.S. government only emphasize how the politicians, the military-industrial-financial complex, and the corporate “persons” – all of whom reap large financial rewards for this carnage – do not want the savagery to end.  The military corporations – Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northop Grumman, an almost endless list – and those supplying them, are providing as per President Biden a financial boost for the U.S. economy.  Lives and deaths are not important; the dollar reigns supreme, both for profits and global hegemony. Read More

Death and Destruction in Gaza
By Jonas E. Alexis: I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history. Read More

‘Palestine Must Be Obliterated’: ‘Times of Israel’ Publishes, Deletes Article Calling for Genocide
By Palestine Chronicle Staff: An article appeared in the popular Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel on Thursday, openly calling for the genocide of the Palestinian people. Though the piece seems to have been removed from the blog section of the website, it is still accessible through the digital library Internet Archive. The article had listed Chicago-based blogger Jeffrey Camras, as the author, who is described in the bio as a person with a “deep love for the Jewish people and the state of Israel”. “In order to right a wrong, in order to make peace and move forward, Palestine must be obliterated,” Camras wrote, adding, “It is an affront to society, morality, humanity. It represents lies and antisemitism, oppression and terror. Nothing more.”  Read More

BRICS and the Resistance Axis: a convergence of goals
By Pepe Escobar: The Gaza war has accelerated cooperation between Global South behemoths resisting western-backed conflict. Together, the Russian-led BRICS and Iran-led Axis of Resistance can shape a US-free West Asia. Read More

Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks nears 18,800
Anadolu Agency: The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has soared to 18,787 since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said that 50,897 other people were injured in the Israeli offensive. Read More

No end in sight for Gaza war as conflict benefits Hamas, Israel
BY DILARA ASLAN ÖZER: Hamas has achieved at least three crucial goals as a result of the Oct. 7 incidents and what followed. The decadeslong Palestinian cause, in which the international community had lost interest, has currently become the main global agenda, leaving behind other conflicts and wars, such as Syria and even Ukraine. Hamas has achieved its goal of Gaza becoming the center of the resistance after being left in the shadow for years, with attention being focused mainly on the occupied West Bank due to continuous illegal Israeli settlements and the tensions born out of it. Read More

The West Does Not Seek to Establish a Palestinian State: Lavrov
Telesur: On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asserted that the United States and its allies are not interested in the creation of a Palestinian state. "Judging by the current stance of the West, they have no intention of establishing a Palestinian state," he stated during an appearance in the Russian Senate. Read More

Conscience of the World Is Being Activated, as the ‘West’ Is More Isolated Than Ever
EIR: A resounding defeat for the “rules-based order” was delivered today with the United Nations General Assembly vote for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza. This resolution passed overwhelmingly, with 153 in favor, 10 against, and 23 abstaining. Compared to the last UN vote in October which called for a “humanitarian truce,” at 120-14 and 45 abstentions, this shows that the world is increasingly opposed to the barbaric slaughter being conducted by Israel, and that the U.S. and its allies are isolated to a degree never seen before. Read More

Getting Serious About Halting Israeli Genocide
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies:  Many experts compare apartheid Israel to apartheid South Africa. Speeches at the UN may have helped to bring down South Africa’s apartheid regime, but change didn’t come until countries around the world embraced a global campaign to economically and politically isolate it. Read More

Any Solution to the Current Crisis must Put Palestinians at the Center of Decision-Making
BY JOHN FEFFER: Right now, ordinary Palestinians are powerless to the point of erasure. Any solution to the current crisis must put Palestinians at the center of decision-making. They must be given the chance to shed their victim status and become architects of their own lives. Read More

This Is Not a War Against Hamas
Jeremy Scahill: The notion that the war would end if Hamas was overthrown or surrenders is as ahistorical as it is false. Israel has quite understandably grown accustomed to many Western media outlets accepting its lies — no matter how outrageous or vile — when they are told about Palestinians. Read More

Gaza is a Living Hell: UNRWA Commissioner Lazzarini
Telesure: On Wednesday, the three-day Global Refugee Forum 2023 (GRF) kicked off in Geneva with the participation of some 4,000 delegates from 165 countries. Among them is Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). When speaking to attendees at this event, Lazzarini began by highlighting his direct personal experience of what is happening in Gaza as a result of the Israeli bombings. Read More

Latin America and the Caribbean stand with Palestine: Israel viewed as a US proxy
Pressenza: The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza. Perhaps more than any other region, they have expressed their solidarity with Palestine. Most recognize that the partnership between US imperialism and Israeli Zionism applies not only to Palestine, but also to Israel’s role as attendant to US domination in this hemisphere. Read More

Sermon From A Wizard
By Syed Rifaquat Ali: India's hegemony in World Cup hockey is unceremoniously over. India had won gold medals in Field hockey in summer Olympics in 1928,1932, 1936, 1948, 1952  1956, 1964 and 1980. Read More

BRICS: Russia & South Africa Ditch US Dollar in $265M Oil Deal
By Joshua Ramos: In a continuation of the bloc’s overarching de-dollarization efforts, BRICS members Russia and South Africa had ditched the US Dollar in a landmark $265 oil deal. Indeed, reports have stated that the former tabbed Russian bank, Gazprombank as the preferred investor for the massive gas refinery contract. Read More

‘Let It Be a Tale’: On Refaat Alareer and the Martyrdom of the Gaza Intellectual 
by Dr Ramzy Baroud: What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under a long, brutal siege for many years, facing one of the greatest military powers in the world. And yet, it refuses to be defeated.  Not even the legendary tenacity of Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ characters can be compared to the heroism of Gazans, living over a tiny stretch of land while subsisting on the precipice of calamity, even long before the Israeli genocide. Read More

Never Forget: Rachel Aliene Corrie
by Gary Steven Corseri: Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American peace activist and a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement. She was crushed to death while trying to stop an Israeli Defense Forces armored bulldozer from demolishing Palestinian homes in Rafah, in the occupied Gaza Strip. This poem is dedicated to her, in memoriam.) Read More

Gaza death toll tops 18,600 as Israeli attacks continue
Anadolu Agency: At least 18,608 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry said Wednesday. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said as many as 50,594 others were also injured in the onslaught. Read More

Israeli media extensively covers Hamas ambush in Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City
Anadolu Agency:  Israeli media on Wednesday extensively covered the ambush by fighters of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas that left nearly a dozen Israeli elite soldiers killed in the Shejaiya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City. Early on Wednesday, the Israeli army announced the names of nine troops from the Israeli army's elite Golani Brigade who were killed, as well as four others who were seriously injured. Read More

As UN calls for Gaza ceasefire, Israel begins flooding Gaza with seawater
By Andre Damon: With potentially even more catastrophic effects, Israel has begun pumping seawater into Gaza with the stated aim of flooding underground tunnels and structures. The Netanyahu government has said the hostages are being held in underground tunnels, but President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he has been told Israel is not flooding tunnels where hostages are being kept. Read More

Is the Houthi threat to world order worse than the war on Gaza?
By Zoran Kusovac: Yemen’s Houthis endanger shipping through the strategic Bab el-Mandeb between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean – a narrow passage that is the world’s third-largest choke point for oil shipments after the Straits of Hormuz and Malacca. More than six million barrels pass through it every day, mainly on their way to Europe. Read More

Houthis attack tanker & French warship in Red Sea
Asia Times: Houthi rebels using a drone hit a Norwegian tanker ship for the second time in the Red Sea on Monday, December 11. The ship had first been hit on Sunday by a Houthi cruise missile, most likely a Quds-1, a copy of the Iranian Soumar cruise missile or the Russian Kh-55. Read More

UN General Assembly adopts resolution demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza
Anadolu Agency: The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a draft resolution Tuesday demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. The non-binding resolution, presented by Egypt with the support of nearly 100 countries passed with 153 votes in favor as the 193-member General Assembly gathered for an emergency special session on Palestine. Ten countries, including the US, Israel and Austria, voted against the resolution, while 23 countries including the UK, Germany, Italy and Ukraine abstained from voting. Read More

UN General Assembly vote breakdown

World Health Organization: 449 Israeli Attacks on Health Services in Palestine
Middle East Monitor: World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday confirmed more than 449 attacks on health services in Gaza and the West Bank since Oct. 7, saying “now the work of the health workers is impossible.” Read More

Gaza death toll crosses 18,200 amid incessant Israeli attack
Daily Sabah: Palestinian death toll in Gaza crossed the grim mark of 18,200, making it the deadliest-ever Gaza war, as incessant Israeli attacks on the besieged continued Tuesday. Volcanic-like clouds of grey smoke rose over central Gaza while there were reports of night-time strikes and automatic weapons fire in Khan Yunis and bombings that shook several urban areas. Israel had urged civilians to seek refuge in the far south, but the army has kept striking targets throughout the territory. Read More

9 in 10 Gazans report lack of food
By Andre Damon: As Israel continues its bombing, starvation and ethnic cleansing of the people of Gaza, hunger has reached epidemic proportions. Nine in 10 people in Gaza reported going to bed hungry, the United Nations’ World Food Program reported. More than half of the population—over 63 percent—reported going for days without food. “Hunger stalks everyone,” UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine), the United Nations body responsible for Palestinian refugees, wrote in a statement on Twitter. “Too many people haven’t eaten now for two, three days in the Gaza Strip.” Read More

War on Gaza:  How America used Veto to Support Israel and Insult Humanity?
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: The Gazan landscape is filled with deaths and destruction which could have been avoided and undone if reason and honest policies were implied to the crisis. The time and opportunities call for rethinking and new ideas to reject violence and vengeance as contrary to the nature of humanity, peace and intellect. To avoid most dreadful tragedies in the making, we must reject tyranny of war as a means to solve political problems and demand a return to persuasive communication and dialogue for conflict management and peace-making. Read More

What should Israel expect now?
Ersin Çelik: Like everyone else, we watch Gaza with 8 billion eyes. The question 'What can we do?' is long outdated. We understand and confront our helplessness. However, this is exactly what Israel wants. It aims to kill us while we are alive, condemning us to helplessness. As mentioned in a previous article, 'Gaza has become our breaking point,' and Israel is exerting pressure on humanity with all its might. If we succumb to the psychological pressure upon us and continue this way, we will turn into depleted, reflex-weakened societies that cannot yield results from their attempts. Read More

Power, Protest, and All That’s News on the Israel-Gaza War
By Nan Lavinson: What a world! For eight weeks now, events in Israel and Gaza have been the story of the hour, day, week. And what exactly are we to make of that? Let’s start with the obvious: American media coverage of the horrors there has been nonstop since the Hamas slaughter of October 7th. In fact, it’s knocked Russia’s war in Ukraine, the one we were told was so essential to the future of democracy, off front pages (and their media equivalents) everywhere. And the coverage of recent protests has strikingly outpaced those of any other antiwar protests in this century. What the American news media do is, of course, only part of any story, but their recent protest focus contrasts vividly with how they’ve typically covered antiwar and peace actions and so reveals something about how we Americans are thinking about war and peace right now. Read More

Mass protests continue in Pakistan’s Balochistan province over extra-judicial killings
By Dr. Zayar: Mass protests have continued for almost three weeks in Pakistan’s poorest province, Balochistan, against the Pakistani state’s use of forced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and other illegal means to suppress widespread opposition, including an ethno-nationalist separatist insurgency. The immediate trigger for the protests was last month’s extra-judicial killing of 24 year-old Balaach Mola Bakhsh by state security forces. Read More

The Genocidal State of Israel
By Prof. Anthony J. Hall: To be more explicit, the objective of Netanyahu and his Jewish supremacist constituents led by fascist Itamar Ben-Gvir, is to quickly eliminate by a variety of means the entire population of Palestinians who have survived three generations of violent abuse under the rule of Zionist Israel. For decades these Palestinians have stubbornly refused to remove themselves from the lands of their ancestors regardless of all the pressures put on them to leave, to die, to suffer, or to just fade away into despondent despair. The objective of the Israeli genocidaires is to destroy all the infrastructure that makes life possible in Gaza. Part I    Part II    Part III

US arrests dozens of activists demanding truce in besieged Gaza
TRT World: Several dozen activists calling for the United States to push for a permanent ceasefire have protested in a US Senate office building before police ended the protest and took dozens into custody. Groups, including the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and Jewish Voice for Peace organized the protest, which called for the US government to divert funds to domestic priorities such as affordable housing and childcare instead of further arming Israel with US weapons. Israeli onslaught on blockaded Gaza — now in its 66th day — has left at least 18,205 Palestinians dead and more than 49,645 wounded while thousands are feared dead under debris of bombed buildings. Read More

The View from Washington: Let the Killing in Gaza Continue
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark: Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion. The ongoing campaign in Gaza by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction. But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge for the propaganda outlets: How to justify it? Fortunately for Israel, the United States, its unqualified defender, is happy to provide cover for murder covered in the sheath of self-defence. Such cover also takes the form of false fairness and forced balance. Read More

Ethnic cleansing of Gaza: The unambiguous goal of Israel’s genocidal assault
Mustafa Barghouti:  Israel won’t succeed in its goals to ethnically cleanse Gaza due to the heroic steadfastness of Palestinians but the price is their blood, unless all people of conscience use all possible channels to force Israel to stop. Read More

The Evil Israel Does is the Evil Israel Gets
By Chris Hedges: Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel speaks. Read More

Israel raises hell in southern Gaza with renewed US support
Daily Sabah: Seemingly emboldened by U.S. support at the Security Council, Israel launched Sunday a major new push into the main city in the southern Gaza Strip as tanks battled their way to the center of Khan Younis. Residents said tanks had reached the main north-south road through the middle of Khan Younis after intense combat through the night that had slowed the Israeli advance from the east. Warplanes were pounding the area west of the assault. Read More

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 66: Israel attacks ambulances, medics in Gaza
Mondoweiss: 17,997 killed*, including 7,729+ children, and 49,229 wounded in the Gaza Strip. At least 275 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7. International medical groups are becoming increasingly concerned about Israel’s full-on attacks against healthcare as the military continues targeting paramedics, ambulances, patients, and doctors. On Sunday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS)  reported the Israeli military opening fire on an ambulance carrying critically wounded patients as well as obstructing, detaining, and abusing paramedics. Read More

Israel-Palestine War: The Big Picture
By Peter Koenig and Mike Adams: The Zionist concept of the Chosen People was always intent to expand their territory – Palestine – to “Greater Israel”. Greater Israel – in the planning since the ’60s, and definitely after the Yom Kippur War – would stretch east to comprise parts of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and, of course Jordan (see map above). This might constitute 30% to 50% of what is today’s Middle East. The Three Point Plan that serves the West is part of the Great Reset and Agenda 2030 playbook – and is supposed to lead to the “promised” One World Government run by what might be called the Financial-Military-IT-Media and Pharma (FMIMP) Complex. Read More

Moscow and Gaza: Is Russia Ready for a Major Shift in its Middle East Policy?
By Dr Ramzy Baroud: Time will tell whether Russia will be able to stake a claim and help define a new Middle East in the post-Gaza war. However, one of the most important factors that Russia will consider before making any major moves is the tangible outcome of the Israeli war on Gaza. Time will tell whether Russia will be able to stake a claim and help define a new Middle East in the post-Gaza war. However, one of the most important factors that Russia will consider before making any major moves is the tangible outcome of the Israeli war on Gaza. Read More

Genocide in service of Nakba 2023
By Nour Odeh: The ongoing genocidal war on Gaza is not about Hamas or Israeli captives, but the depopulation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people which is being implemented in brutal but deliberate stages. Read More

No captives will be released without negotiations: Hamas
Al Jazeera: In a pre-recorded message, the spokesperson for Hamas’s Qassam Brigades says Israeli captives will not be released by military force. “We tell the Israelis that Netanyahu, Gallant, and others in the war cabinet cannot bring back their captives without negotiations. The latest killing of a captive they tried to take back by force proves that.” Read More

Palestinian toll crosses 17,700 as Israel kills 10 in southern Gaza
Daily Sabah: At least 10 Palestinians were killed and many others injured when the Israeli army bombed a house in southern Gaza Strip's Khan Younis on Sunday, according to the WAFA news agency. Israeli artillery units also targeted the vicinity of European Hospital in Khan Younis. Read More

Erdoğan renews UN reform call after US veto to cease-fire in Gaza
Daily Sabah: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's oft-repeated call for reform in the U.N. Security Council found a new meaning after the U.S. blocked the call for a cease-fire in Gaza. Erdoğan reiterated the call among notorious move by Israel's chief supporter he accuses of complicity earlier in atrocities in besieged Gaza. Read More

Biden Administration Bypasses Congress to Rush Tank Shells to Israel
By Julia Conley: Hours after United States Ambassador Robert Wood on Friday acted alone to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, the Biden administration again illustrated its growing isolation in continuing to back Israel’s onslaught as it bypassed Congress to send more weapons to the country’s extreme right-wing government. Read More

Why Yemen’s Houthis are Intervening in the Israel-Hamas Conflict and how it Could Disrupt Global Shipping
The Conversation: In recent days, three Israeli-linked commercial vessels were targeted by ballistic missiles and drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, marking a clear escalation in maritime attacks in the critical Bab el Mandab strait between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The Houthis have claimed responsibility for two of the attacks, as well as an earlier hijacking of a Japanese-operated cargo ship by helicopter last month. On Sunday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree reemphasised that all Israeli-affiliated vessels travelling along the Yemeni coast would be fair game if Israel does not cease its attacks on Gaza. Read More

US Vetoes Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution at UN Security Council
By Julia Conley: As the United Nations humanitarian chief warned that aid workers in Gaza are “hanging on by our fingertips” as they try to mitigate an “untenable” disaster, and with Americans’ support for Israel’s U.S-backed bombardment of the enclave eroding, the United States on Friday vetoed a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire at the U.N. Security Council. Read More

Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Author Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer sparks global outrage
By Jacob Crosse: The December 6 targeted assassination of gifted English teacher, author, translator and Palestinian rights advocate Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer in Gaza by the US-backed Israel Defense Forces has provoked mass outrage across the globe. Dr. al-Ar’eer, a professor at the Islamic University in Gaza, which has since been destroyed by the IDF, is one of over 17,400 Palestinians who has been murdered by the IDF in the last two months. Read More

Yemen says no ships bound for Israel will pass Red Sea
ABC News: All ships bound for Israel, notwithstanding their nationality, will be stopped from passing through the Red Sea and become "a legitimate target" until more aid is delivered to Gaza on these ships, a Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson said. Read More

How state-backed Hindutva rhetoric is fuelling the ethnic cleansing of Uttarakhand?
By  Harsh Mander: India’s most populous hill state Uttarakhand is in unprecedented turmoil. It is the first state in India in which an influential and popular campaign for ethnic cleansing has gathered ominous momentum: a battle for the expulsion of all Muslims from the state. This crusade is tacitly supported by the state government. Read More

Ethno-Religious Cleansing in India
By Parker Harrison Sears: Hindutva nationalism plays a large factor in the BJP’s electoral success. Since elections bring an upswell in human passion, a political leader can seize this fervor and use it to inflict damage on party enemies or groups of people. History has shown that elections can ignite conflict, such as when the south seceded upon Abraham Lincoln’s election, which sparked the American Civil war. Read More

At least 23 killed in Israeli airstrikes on 2 Gaza refugee camps
Daily Sabah: At least 23 people were killed early Thursday when Israeli fighter jets targeted two houses in a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip as well as a camp in the southern part of the enclave.At least 17 Palestinians were killed and scores more injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the al-Maghazi refugee camp, as reported by the Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing local sources. The agency also reported that at least six Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli military airstrike on a house in the al-Shabora refugee camp in Rafah, southern Gaza. Read More

Genocide Resumes in Gaza
By Dr Chandra Muzaffar: After an uneasy seven day truce, Israel and Hamas are now once again locked in a violent combat. Each side has accused the other of violating the truce. What is really important is the consequence of this resumption of conflict. Thousands more Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are going to be killed. According to various sources, within 24 hours of the end of the truce on Friday 1st December, 184 Palestinians were wiped out as a result of Israeli bombardments. This brings the total number of dead Palestinians at the hands of Israeli fire-power since the present phase of fighting broke out on 7^th of October 2023 to 15,500. In contrast, 1332 Israelis and others have been killed by Hamas and its allies. Read More

Dying to Be Free: Releasing Palestinian Captives is Not a Numbers Game 
By Dr Ramzy Baroud: There is a reason why Palestinians are keen on releasing their prisoners, despite the heavy price they continue to pay for their freedom. It may seem rational to ask the question: what is the point of releasing a few Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons, if the price of doing so is the death of over 15,000 Palestinians in Gaza? In fact, even if all Palestinian prisoners – numbering about 7,000 – are released, they would not even amount to 30 percent of the total number of Palestinian dead and missing, so far, in the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Strip. Read More

Gaza health system collapses amid nonstop Israeli bombardment
By Benjamin Mateus: With Israel’s resumption of the assault on Gaza with “maximum force,” a genocidal campaign that has been recently escalated by Israel against the Palestinians is driving a significant majority of the population out of their homes into shelters and refugee camps in the south. In the course of the last few days, hundreds more innocent civilians, the majority women and children, have been killed in the incessant bombing that, as one commentator on the ground noted, turns “the sky grey and the ground red” with blood. In northern Gaza, Kamal Adwan Hospital has been surrounded by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) trapping hundreds of people who have sought treatment or refuge in the buildings and adjacent compounds. Read More

Israel encircls Khan Younis, mounts fiercest attacks since Oct. 7
Daily Sabah: The Israeli military mounted some of the fiercest attacks on Wednesday since Oct. 7 as it encircled southern Gaza's main city, Khan Younis. Tel Aviv's closest ally the United States, in the meanwhile, again pressed to allow fuel and vital aid into the Palestinian enclave. Israel said its forces, backed by warplanes, were engaged in fierce battles in Gaza on Wednesday, a day after the military reached the heart of Khan Younis and also surrounded the city. Read More

Israel’s biggest strength Islamic world’s division
Daily Sabah: Israel’s biggest strength does not lie in its capacities but rather in the dividedness of the Islamic world, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş told Qatar’s Al-Sharq newspaper on Wednesday. Kurtulmuş underlined that the reactions of the Islamic countries 60 days after the start of the war were insufficient. “Unfortunately, this is the part that saddens people the most. People follow the events in Gaza with great pain and condemn them, but unfortunately, no steps are taken that will yield results,” he said. Read More

West Bank feels the heat as Gaza endures Israeli bombing for 2 months
Yeni Safak: Besides pummeling the besieged Gaza Strip with relentless bombing since Oct. 7, the Israeli army intensified its military campaign against the occupied West Bank, killing and arresting hundreds of Palestinians. According to Anadolu reporters, the Israeli army turned all the West Bank into a "battlefield" through its daily incursions, erecting military checkpoints to cut the connectivity between the Palestinian areas and hindering the Palestinians' movement. Read More

Erdogan rebukes Israeli threat to carry out assassinations in Türkiye
TRT World: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Tel Aviv of heavy price amid reports of Israeli plot to assassinate Hamas members living outside Palestine. “If they dare to take such a step against Türkiye and Turkish people, they will be doomed to pay a price which they cannot recover from,” Erdogan told journalists Tuesday on his return flight from a two-day Qatar trip when he was asked about a Wall Street Journal article which claimed that Israel plans to kill Hamas members living outside Palestine. Read More

Mossad's assassination threat and the reaction of Turkish intelligence
By Murat Aslan: Neither Türkiye nor any other country would ever accept being a playground for Mossad’s intelligence operations, as this would violate Turkish laws and sovereignty. Read More

Unable to Defeat Palestinian Resistance, Israeli Regime Intensifies Killing and Torturing Children
By Finian Cunningham: Despite Western media’s systematic attempts to normalize Israeli state terrorism, it is inescapably evident even from their distorted lens just how wicked the Netanyahu regime is. All Palestinians released so far in hostage exchanges by the Israeli regime are women and children. Women and children! Why were they even in detention in the first place? What sort of despotic regime does that? Locking children up and threatening their families with punishment if they show the slightest emotion is the dirtiest terror tactic. Read More

The Israel-India-U.S. Triangle: Its Human Toll Will Be Incalculable
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox: Today, the Israeli weapons-robotics firm Elbit Systems has even established a drone factory in India and now has a $300 million contract to supply drones to the Indian army occupying Kashmir. Meanwhile, Modi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have established a mutual-admiration society, dubbed by the media of both countries the “Modi-Bibi bromance.” And New Delhi has all but abandoned the Palestinians. Read More

At least 50 Palestinians dead in overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza
Daily Sabah: At least 50 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes on southern Gaza's Khan Younis and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian media reports. Palestinian news agency WAFA reported an Israeli airstrike on a residential building of the al-Yazigi family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, which left an unspecified number of casualties, including women and children. Another Israeli airstrike on a home in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip caused several deaths and injuries. Read More

WHO says 1 child killed every 10 minutes in Gaza
Anadulo Agency: On average one child is killed every 10 minutes in Gaza, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative said on Tuesday, calling the situation "humanity's darkest hour." "We are talking almost about 16,000 people killed, its more than 60% (are) women and children, and more than 42,000 people injured," Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in occupied Palestinian territories, told a UN press briefing in Geneva. Read More

Israel expands ground offensive into refugee-crowded southern Gaza
Daily Sabah: The Israeli military expanded its ground offensive into Gaza's refugee-crowded south on Monday while Israeli bombing continued to kill and injure dozens of Palestinians. The renewed attack followed the end on Friday of a seven-day pause in the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas which had allowed an exchange of 105 hostages held by Hamas, most of them Israelis, for 240 Palestinian prisoners. Read More

Erdoğan warns against its expansionist designs
Daily Sabah: Addressing an economic event of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul on Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the Israeli administration was a "murderer" and "thief" and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would eventually be tried as a war criminal. Erdoğan also urged the Muslim world to unite against Israel's expansionist ideals and warned it may have plans to invade other places in the region. Read More

Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse
By Chris Hedges: Phase One of Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza has ended. Phase Two has begun. It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction. Read More

Leaked Israeli Govt Plan: Expel All Palestinians From Gaza And Send Them to Europe and Canada
972Magazine: A leaked Israeli Intelligence Ministry document reveals the goal of their war with Gaza is to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population and send the refugees to Europe and Canada. Read More

Death toll soars to over 15,500 as Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip continue
Anadolu staff: The death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has surged to 15,523 since the start of the conflict on Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian enclave announced Sunday. "The toll of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip reached 15,523 martyrs" since Oct. 7, ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qedra said in a news conference. The number of wounded through the same period has risen to 41,316, Al-Qedra added. Read More

Israel issues evacuation orders for southern Gaza amid brutal bombing
Daily Sabah: Israel shifted Sunday its brutal military operation in Gaza toward the southern half of the territory and issued evacuation orders for more areas in and around the city of Khan Younis. Heavy bombardments were reported overnight and into Sunday in the area of Khan Younis and the southern city of Rafah, as well as parts of the north that had been the focus of Israel's blistering air and ground campaign. Many of the territory’s 2.3 million people are crammed in the south after Israeli forces ordered civilians to leave the north in the early days of the 2-month-old war. Read More

Thousands remain trapped under rubble in Gaza: Civil defense unit
Yeni Safak: Thousands of bodies remain under the debris of buildings destroyed by ongoing Israeli attacks, civil defense teams in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday, with equipment shortages preventing their retrieval. In a written statement published by Gaza's Interior Ministry, civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said Israeli forces have been targeting their teams in the enclave constantly since Oct. 7. Read More

Israel using AI to identify potential civilian targets to maximize Palestinian casualties
Anadolu Agency: Israeli army using intelligence application 'Habsora' to select targets in Gaza in one of deadliest military attacks on Palestinians since 1948 Nakba, says Israeli media investigative report Israel is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure by using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify potential civilian targets and maximize Palestinian casualties in the ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, said two independent media organizations in their joint report published recently. The report also highlighted the role of former and current intelligence sleuths in Tel Aviv in producing what has been described as one of the deadliest Israeli army attacks against Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba. Read More

Muslim Americans vow to ditch Biden in 2024 over Gaza war stance
Daily Sabah: American Muslim community leaders from several swing states pledged to withdraw support for U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday at a conference in suburban Detroit, citing his refusal to call for a cease-fire in Gaza. Democrats in Michigan have warned the White House that Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war could cost him enough support within the Arab American community to sway the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Leaders from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania gathered behind a lectern that read "Abandon Biden, cease-fire now" in Dearborn, Michigan, the city with the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States. Read More

The anglosphere's Five Eyes is said to be on Gaza!
By Abdullah Muradoğlu: "Five Eyes" is the name given to the "Electronic Intelligence Alliance" among the post-World War II countries of the "Anglosphere," including the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The National Security Agency (NSA) in Australia's "Pine Gap" base monitors a large region through satellites. The coverage area of this base includes the Middle East and Africa. An article titled "Targeting Palestine: Australia's Secret Support for Israel's Gaza Attack through Pine Gap" was featured on the Australian-based "Declassified Australia" news site. The report, authored by Peter Cronau, included information provided by David Rosenberg, who served at "Pine Gap" and the NSA for many years. According to these details, "Pine Gap" allegedly transfers communication and electronic intelligence data obtained in the Gaza Strip to the Israeli army. David Rosenberg, known for his books on "Pine Gap," claimed that the base personnel were tasked with collecting signals emanating from "command and control" centers in Gaza. Read More

Two months that shook the world: The first phase of the Gaza war
The Intercept: As Israel resumes its bombing of Gaza, the risk of a wider regional war grows. Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of the Arab Studies Institute’s megzine Jadaliyya,  analyzes the military and propaganda battles between Hamas and Israel. Read More

Türkiye's defense exports log fresh record even before year-end
Daily Sabah: Türkiye's defense and aviation industry has outpaced its earlier annual export record. It is now left with a month to build on what is about to go into history as a new milestone. Shipments rose by more than a third from January through November to $4.8 billion (TL 138.72 billion), according to Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) data. The capabilities of Türkiye's vehicles, spearheaded by its combat drones, triggered unprecedented demand that saw its defense exports peak at more than $4.4 billion in 2022. Read More

Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks tops 15,200
Middle East Monitor: The death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has soared to 15,207 since the start of the conflict on Oct. 7, the government media office in the blockaded Palestinian enclave said Saturday, Anadolu Agency reports. Read More

Over 100 Palestinians killed in Israeli missile strike on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza
Anadolu Agency: Dozens injured, and many others still missing and under rubble of collapsed residential building, reports Palestinian media. Read More

Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui: Is Zionism anything but crass racism? Do the Indigenous people have any right to exist in their homeland? Apparently not, if they are Palestinians who are evicted and killed by the Apartheid Zionist state of Israel. Are not the Palestinian Arabs Semites? Apparently not – in the dictionary of the Zionists. Read More

Will the Israelis perpetrate a clandestine 9/11-style terrorist attack in the US?
By Jad Melki: Will the Israelis perpetrate a clandestine 9/11-style terrorist attack in the U.S. to cover up their genocide, regain the media narrative, and help Biden’s reelection? Read More

The death rattle of American domination
By Roqayah Chams: are agents of history in “Israel’s” war of attrition, and they are refusing to abide by their occupier’s terms. Read More

 ‘The Horror! The Horror!’, Revisited in Palestine
By Pepe Escobar: There are so many invisible horrors enacted behind the fog, in the heart of a jungle now replicated as an urban cage. Helplessly watching the wanton killing of women and children, the carpet bombing of hospitals, schools and mosques, it’s as if we are all passengers in a drunken ship plunging into a whirlpool, admiring the powerful majesty of the whole scenery. And we are already dying even before we glimpse death. Read More

Israel resumes its genocidal assault on Gaza, targeting the southern strip
by Thomas Scripps: Israel resumed its genocidal assault on Gaza Friday morning within minutes of the seven-day “operational pause” expiring. By the end of the day, at least 178 more Palestinians had been reported killed, and 589 injured. A woman and her son were killed in Lebanon by Israeli artillery fire, after shooting restarted across the border. Read More

Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse
by Chris Hedges: Phase One of Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza has ended. Phase Two has begun. It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction. Read More

Who are you betting on to win, Hamas or the US and Israel?
by Rima Najjar: Thinking outside the box for the US and Israel will begin only when Israel’s army is renamed from Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Martin Luther King believed justice is indivisible; it is a unified concept and cannot be divided into separate parts. For that reason, Palestine cannot be partitioned. Read More

Documents expose Israeli conspiracy to facilitate October 7 attack
By Andre Damon: On Friday, the New York Times published a report establishing conclusively that Israel was fully informed, in detail, of plans by Hamas to attack its border that were executed on October 7. These revelations make clear that Israeli officials, knowing full well where and how Hamas would strike, made a deliberate decision to stand down in order to facilitate the attack. Read More

New York Times Hides Its Own Reporting on Israel-Gaza War; Emulates Fox “News”
by Kim Scipes: On December 1, 2023, the story on the upper right side of the front page of the physical copy of the New York Times is headlined “Israelis Saw Plan for Hamas Attack Over a Year Ago.” The story begins, “Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show.  But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed this plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. Read More

Israeli, Zionist & US Alliance Lies Hide Genocidal Intent Of Apartheid Israel’s 7 October False Flag & Ongoing Gaza Massacre
by Dr Gideon Polya: Despite Apartheid Israeli censorship, and the entrenched culture of lying of neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel and its US Alliance politician and media Western backers, there is mounting evidence, in particular from eminent Western journalists such as Chris Hedges and Jonathan Cook, that many of the Israelis killed on the 7 October 2023 were killed by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) in an Israeli  false-flag operation designed to enable the genocidal massacre and expulsion of Gaza Palestinians. Read More

Unravelling the Disinformation Machine: How the Hamas-Israel War Became a Tool for Pre-Election Fear-Mongering?
by Mohd Ziyaullah Khan: In the realm of contemporary politics, the utilisation of disinformation has become a potent tool for shaping narratives, influencing public opinion, and, in some cases, instigating fear. As India gears up for elections, the party in power has been accused of deploying a disinformation strategy that exploits the ongoing situation in Gaza for pre-election fear-mongering. This article aims to unravel the tactics employed by the BJP’s alleged disinformation machine and the implications of using international crises as political leverage. Read More

World’s media conceal the brutal treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails
By Jean Shaoul: Amid their rejoicing over the release of some of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza, the international and Israeli media have for the most part remained silent over the Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel and the appalling conditions of their arrest and detention. To do otherwise would confirm that Israel is the aggressor in this one-sided conflict and that its mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Gaza builds on a record of unparalleled brutality against the Palestinians of a fascistic character. Read More

Modi government bans all expressions of solidarity with Palestine in Indian-held Kashmir
:By Kranti Kumara:  India’s US-aligned, Narendra Modi-led, far-right government is using violence and intimidation to prevent any and all expressions of support for the Palestinians of Gaza in Indian-occupied Kashmir. India’s only Muslim-majority state until the Modi government illegally stripped it of its semi-autonomous status and reduced it to a central-government controlled Union Territory, Indian-held Kashmir has for decades suffered under brutal state repression enforced by half-a-million security forces. Read More

Henry Kissinger and the crimes of American imperialism
Patrick Martin: In the Middle East, Kissinger helped stave off the military defeat of Israel in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, rushing huge volumes of military equipment to the Zionist state, and then bribed the Egyptian regime of Anwar Sadat to change sides in the Cold War and become an American rather than a Soviet client. Read More

Fighting resumes in Gaza as ceasefire officially expires
Media Reports: Fighting resumed in Gaza early Friday local time after Hamas and Israel failed to announce an agreement on extending the ceasefire before it expired. The renewed fighting comes after a seven-day pause during which Hamas more than 100 hostages, including two Americans, and Israel released 240 Palestinians from Israeli jails. Read More

Henry Kissinger, responsible for millions of deaths, dies at 100
By Nick Turse: Henry Kissinger, national security adviser and secretary of state under two presidents and longtime éminence grise of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, died on November 29 at his home in Connecticut. He was 100 years old. Kissinger helped prolong the Vietnam War and expand that conflict into neutral Cambodia; facilitated genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; accelerated civil wars in southern Africa; and supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America. He had the blood of at least 3 million people on his hands, according to his biographer Greg Grandin. Read More

On Top of Everything Else, Henry Kissinger Prevented Peace in the Middle East
By Jon Schwarz: The encomiums have flowed voluminously for Henry Kissinger, and there have been some condemnations too. But even in the latter, little attention has been paid to his efforts to prevent peace from breaking out in the Mideast — efforts which helped cause the 1973 Arab–Israeli War and set in stone the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. This underappreciated aspect of Kissinger’s career adds tens of thousands of lives to his body count, which is in the millions. Read More

 

 

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