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Israel, Gaza, and Broader Issues RON UNZ  TABLE OF CONTENTS A Sudden Attack by Hamas and Its Consequences EPub Format A couple of weeks ago, the smoldering political landscape of the Middle East suddenly exploded as the Hamas militants of Gaza launched a surprise attack against Israel, unprecedented in its size and success. News reports now place Israeli fatalities at around 1,400, more deaths in a single day than the country had ever suffered in any of its previous wars, and greater losses than in all of those conflicts combined since 1973, while as many as 200 Israelis were captured and taken back to Gaza as prisoners and hostages. In recent years, Israel had focused upon technological solutions for its border defense, relying upon numerous sensors an...

RON UNZ  Another week has now passed since the Middle East and the entire world were suddenly upended by the huge raid into Israel by the Hamas militants of Gaza. But the new developments over the last seven days have merely continued and confirmed the situation I’d already described last Monday. According to all news sources, some 1,400 Israeli soldiers and civilians died in the attack, most of them within the first 24 hours, probably making it the deadliest day in Israel’s entire history, amounting to more fatalities than the total for all of Israel’s wars during nearly the last fifty years combined. Back in 2011, the Israeli government had freed over 1,000 imprisoned Palestinians in exchange for a single captured soldier. So a key goal of this Hamas attack h...

"The souls of non-Jews come from impure sprits and are called pigs."JEWISH TALMUD Jalkut Rubeni gadol 12b Warrant for Genocide: Netanyahu Urges Israeli Troops to Regard the Palestinians as "Amalek" In the Old Testament the Amalekites were exterminated: "man, woman and infant" MICHAEL HOFFMAN  It’s Sunday, not normally a good day for gaining people’s attention on news or analytical current events’ columns. The ongoing emergency—the massacre of children and other civilians in Gaza however—trumps all other considerations, at least for this writer, so here goes. Part One: Netanyahu Channels Amalek In their ignorance (or malice), Old Testament haters will have a field day with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu having channeled “Amalek” as he ordered the Israeli ar...

JONATHAN COOK  It shocks me that in my threads I keep coming across variations of the following tweet: The Palestinians have it within them to rise up against Hamas to free themselves. Or Hamas can willingly surrender. Two real choices there. This view isn’t just being promoted in bad faith by Israeli apologists. It seems to resonate with ordinary people who presumably know very little about the histories either of Palestine or of settler colonial movements such as the Zionist movement that founded Israel. So let’s delve briefly into both. First, settler colonial movements are distinguished from standard colonialism – like British rule in India – by the fact that the settler population wishes not just to steal the native population’s resources but to replace the nativ...

October 30: Today’s news on Palestine & Israel  CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG  Emergency personnel and residents check damage at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 29, 2023 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters] (photo) Update on Gaza: death toll, new hostage video, humanitarian aid, medical risks, Israeli advances, US presidential promises. West Bank deaths. This is a developing story, check back for updates Find daily casualty figures and previous daily news updates here. For more news, go here and here. Live news is here. Latest statistics: Palestinian death toll 7,951* (7,835 in Gaza* (including 3,457 children, 2,136 women, and at least 116 in the West...

"The Jews are called human beings, but the non-Jews are not humans. They are beasts."JEWISH Talmud: Baba mezia, 114b Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Robert Inlakesh By: Sharmine Narwani Photo Credit: The Cradle Two weeks after the Hamas breakout assault on Israel on 7 October, a clearer picture of what happened – who died, and who killed – is now beginning to emerge.  Instead of the wholescale massacre of civilians claimed by Israel, incomplete figures published by the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz show that almost h...

Leaked: Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza The plan advocates the forced transfer of the population of the Gaza Strip to Sinai permanently, and calls for the international community to be leveraged to assist the move Palestinians shelter at a temporary tent camp set up for those who were displaced from their homes by Israel's evacuation orders and airstrikes, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip (Photo credit: Bloomberg)) Israeli culture magazine Mekovit published on 28 October a leaked document issued by Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence recommending the occupation of Gaza and total transfer of its 2.3 million inhabitants to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The document, issued on 13 October, identifies a plan to transfer all residents of the Gaza Strip to North Sinai...