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Posted by: John Phoenix The Infamous "Oded Yinon Plan". Introduction by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, October 18, 2024 Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc. 3 March 2013 One of our most popular articles, first published on March 1st, 2013 Update and Analysis On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.” which wasled by its Military Chief Mohammed Deif.  On that same day, Netanyahu confirmed a so-called “State of Readiness For War”. Israel has now (October 7, 2023) officially declared a new stage of its long war against the people of Palestine.  . Military operations are invariably planned well in advance (See Netanyahu’s January 2023 statement below). Was “Opera...

Posted by: John Phoenix Image Source - Pixabay Free Content. The zionist entity’s terrorist attacks on Lebanon on September 17/18 and 23 have horrified the world. In the first attack, dozens of people were killed, and thousands wounded, when pagers and radios began exploding. The carnage was indiscriminate. Countless civilians, including many women and children, were killed or maimed by the explosions. On September 23, the zionists launched hundreds of air strikes on South Lebanon, the Beka‘a Valley as well as South Beirut. At least 569 people were killed and more than 1850 wounded. These attacks continued the following day raising fears that it might erupt in a regional war with catastrophic consequences. Let us return to the attack in which pagers and radio sets exploded...

Posted by: John Phoenix Nazi settlers today attacked vehicles belonging to Palestinian residents of Yatma village, south of Nablus, in the northern Nazi occupied West Bank. According to the Wafa news agency, the Nazi Jewish settlers attempted to assault passengers, escalating tensions in the area. Although no injuries have been confirmed, the atmosphere remains tense as residents fear further violence from Nazi Jewish settlers. Meanwhile, in a separate incident in Al-Khader, near Bethlehem, Nazi Jewish settler assaulted a local Palestinian family while they were harvesting olives. The JEWISH settler forced the family to leave their land threatening them with a weapon, warning they would be arrested if they returned. This olive harvesting season in the West Bank has seen re...

Posted by: John Phoenix Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contemplated implementing the Generals’ Plan in Gaza, backed by former Israeli Defence Forces planning and operations chief General Giora Eiland who has described the siege as “compliant with international law”. The plan, Eiland explained, would give Palestinians a week to evacuate and anyone who remains becomes a legitimate military target. This week, Axios reported that Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant assured US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin that the Generals’ Plan would not be implemented. Presumably, the US is now reassured that Palestinians in Gaza will not be starved by Israel, nor considered legitimate military targets. Can we consider for just a few seconds t...

Posted by: John Phoenix “We’re going to do everything we can to keep a wider war from breaking out,” U.S. President Joe Biden promised when war erupted in Gaza. But that foreign policy legacy is in tatters. War has spread from Gaza to Lebanon and has arrived at the doorstep of Iran. There is a real danger that the war could continue to spread. On October 1, Iran demonstrated its capability to evade Israel’s air defense systems and deliver ballistic missiles to their targets in Israel. Since then, Hezbollah has demonstrated the ability to evade Israel’s air defense systems with slower moving drones. Israel has promised a response that “will be lethal, precise and above all, surprising.” Iran has promised that if that happens, t...

Posted by: John Phoenix The Criminalization of International Law, Part II By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, September 19, 2024 عملية “العلم الكاذب” لتبرير الإبادة الجماعية الإسرائيلية الأمريكية ضد شعب فلسطين . The Criminalization of International Law. Part I “Fake Justice” at The Hague: The ICJ “Appoints” Netanyahu to “Prevent” and “Punish” Those Responsible for “Genocidal Acts” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 04, 2024 The following text was first published on February 9, 2024 Part II The Criminalization of International Law A “False Flag” Operation to Justify The Israel-U.S. Genocide against the People of Palestine by: Michel Chossudovsky Introduction From the outset on October 7, 2023, “A Tissue of Lies” h...

Posted by: John Phoenix Hamas today confirmed that its chief, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in fighting in Gaza, a statement issued on the group’s social media channels said. “Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya announces the martyrdom of the great leader, President of the Hamas Political Bureau, the hero of Al-Aqsa Flood, Yahya Sinwar, who sought martyrdom and attained it after clashing with a zionist force alongside other fighters in the #Gaza Strip,” the movement said. “Hamas will remain until a Palestinian state is established on all historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital,” Al-Hayya continued, adding that Sinwar’s martyrdom, like that of his predecessors including Hamas founders Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi, will only “empower the resistance” and “will be a curse ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Nazi forces killed a Palestinian woman, on Thursday morning, while she was picking olives on her land in the village of Faqqu’a, northeast of Jenin in the northern Nazi occupied West Bank. Medical sources at the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, announced that the citizen, Hanan Abdul Rahman Abu Salama, 59, died of a critical gunshot wounds after Nazi soldiers shot her in chest with live ammunition. Media sources said that Abu Salama was shot and critically injured while she and her family were harvesting their olive crops near the Apartheid Wall, built on the expropriated lands of Faqqu’a village. Mahmoud Al-Saadi, the director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (WAFA) in Jenin told WAFA News Agency that their ambulance crews transported the critica...

Posted by: John Phoenix  Oct 17, 2024 Nazi soldiers shot two Palestinian children, one seriously, in the Al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the Nazi occupied West Bank’s southern part. Media sources said several military jeeps invaded the refugee camp, leading to protests, before the Nazi soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs. They added that the Nazi soldiers shot two children with live fire, including one who suffered a life-threatening injury due to a gunshot wound to the head, before the medics rushed them to the Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron. Video Player In related news, the Nazi soldiers invaded the Al-Jab’a village, southwest of Bethlehem, before storming and ransacking the homes of Samir Ali Hamdan and his brother, ...