Middle East

Genocide’s Back: Trump-Backed Israel Defense Feces (IDF) Gets Extra-Brutal Ilana Mercer  If we in the West are the most propagandized people in the world; Gazans are the least propagandized. Outwardly captives, Gazans are liberated from the illiberal political propaganda that grips the West * Warning: indelicate language. WHAT has Israel been up to since March 18, 2025, which was when the “genocidal entity” formally broke the nominal ceasefire agreement in Gaza? Oracular insight here is unnecessary. Israel has been trampling underfoot everything decent and good. Genocide is back. This time with President Trump in fawning agreement, playing procurer and pimp for the Israeli State, and subjecting ingrate Bibi Netanyahu to no more than a curt jerk of the lea...

Posted by: John Phoenix Gaza Nazi Holocaust Day: 573 May 2, 2025   With nowhere else to turn, displaced Palestinians count on dwindling food supplies distributed by aid organizations in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp in northern Gaza on April 30, 2025. (Mahmoud İssa – Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them. Medical sources report that at least 31 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza throughout Thursday. Also killed on Thursday was 29-year-old Alaa Shawkat Ahmad...

Posted by: John Phoenix Christian Zionists are literally hammering the nails into the wrists of an entire people they have dehumanized, ignoring Jesus’s warning: “It is to me that you did it.” (Bruno van der Kraan via Unsplash) This Easter, the divide between Palestinian Christians and those in the West has never been larger. The core of this divide is the racist theology of Christian Zionism. by Qassam Muaddi, reposted from Mondoweiss This weekend, in a rare occurrence, Christians of all denominations will be celebrating Easter at the same time as Eastern and Western Christian calendars coincide. Yet, as has become an undeniable reality for many Christian Palestinians, the only thing we share in common between our Easter and the Easter of many Christians in the ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Nazi’s detention policies have deeply affected Palestinian life for decades. According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, since 1967, Nazi entity have detained an estimated one million Palestinians, or approximately 20 percent of the Palestinian population. Statistically, this means one out of every five Palestinians has been imprisoned at some point in their life. For many families, arrest has become an inevitability. This systemic practice has fragmented communities, perpetuated cycles of trauma, and generated widespread resentment. As Nazi’s arrest campaign continues, many Palestinians fear that mass imprisonment is not just a byproduct of occupation but a deliberate tool of control. For the thousands currently behi...

Posted by: John Phoenix Dr. John Kahler, co-founder of MedGlobal, treats a child in Tal al-Sultan refugee camp in Gaza in March 2024. (photo) As a doctor with more than 25 years of experience in crisis zones, I believed I had seen the worst. Then I went to Gaza. by Dr. John Kahler, reposted from USA Today, August 16, 2024 While U.S. and international mediators continue to try to get the Israeli government and Hamas to agree to a cease-fire in Gaza, the appalling war there continues to take a devastating toll on innocent Palestinian civilians. We saw its effects once again last Saturday, when nearly 100 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed by an Israeli airstrike on a school shelter. A cease-fire is desperately needed, but I kn...

Posted by: John Phoenix Biden Administration: A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy By Brett Murphy, Reposted from ProPublica In early November, a small group of senior U.S. human rights diplomats met with a top official in President Joe Biden’s State Department to make one final, emphatic plea: We must keep our word. Weeks before, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the administration delivered their most explicit ultimatum yet to Israel, demanding the Israel Defense Forces allow hundreds more truckloads of food and medicine into Gaza every day — or else. American law and Biden’s own policies prohibit arms sales to countries that restrict humanitarian aid. Israel had 30 days to comply. [Editor’s note: See info about Blinken here.] In the...

Posted by: John Phoenix US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) at the White House on 27 January 2020 in Washington, DC ([Kobi Gideon/GPO/Anadolu Agency]) Like the Biden administration, Trump is claiming an “emergency” in order to bypass Congress. By Brett Wilkens, Reposted from Common Dreams, 28 February 2025 As Palestinians released from Israeli imprisonment recount torture and other abuse suffered at the hands of their former captors, the Trump administration on Friday approved a new $3 billion weapons package for Israel. UPDATE: Trump Admin Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4B as It Blocks Aid Into Gaza The new package, reported by Zeteo‘s Prem Thakker, includes nearly $2.716 billion worth of b...