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Posted by: John Phoenix The moment Canada deemed two UN scholars a “security threat” Author’s NoteI wrote this essay to show what really happened when Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained at the Canadian border — and to explore what it reveals about power, accountability, and the fight to speak truth to authority. Introduction: Two Scholars Detained, A Truth Confronted Richard Falk has spent the better part of a century inside the world’s most serious rooms: the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the international legal tribunals where the language of war, occupation, and human rights is hammered into shape. At ninety-five, he carries his papers in neat folders and moves with the slow care of a man who has spent a lifetime thinking rath...

Posted by: John Phoenix ACT I — The Arab Viewer’s Loop As an Arab viewer, I don’t turn on the TV or open the news website anymore expecting updates that resemble “normal” war coverage. The loop has changed since Trump’s ceasefire, which has turned out to be “cease” for us and “continue to fire” for Israel. Each broadcast drips with reports of daily Israeli violations both in Gaza and Southern Lebanon: airstrikes, drone incursions, and ground advances that kill and maim without reprisal, turning what was once a narrative of resistance into a one-sided chronicle of endurance and impotence. Before the ceasefire, the loop had a bitter symmetry — Israeli aggression met with Hezbollah rockets arcing over the border or Hamas ambushes in the tunnels, offering us a fleeti...

Not a Ceasefire Day 58   Israeli forces violate the ceasefire by targeting the tents of displaced Palestinians, killing five people, including two children in Khan Younis, Gaza on December 3, 2025. (Mahmoud Bassam – Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be ongoing, and in its 789th day.) Israeli forces killed at least eight Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday. Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 373 Palestinians. Among the dead are at least 136 children. At least 970 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative. Israel has so far viola...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinians carrying bags return from a food distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation near the Netzarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip on October 5, 2025. (Drop Site News) (Photo) UG Solutions, which provided security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has been interviewing ex-soldiers for potential “robust security” operations. by Sharif Abdel Kouddous, reposted from Drop Site News, November 19, 2025 UG Solutions, a leading U.S. military subcontractor that provided security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), is stepping up its recruitment efforts amid possible plans for several aid distribution sites to be set up in Gaza by next month, Drop Site has learned. A former army officer who applied for a...

Posted by: John Phoenix Israeli Settler Soldiers (Wikipedia) By Jamal Kanj, November 18, 2025 In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian villages have become open fields for illegal Jewish settlers operating under the protection of the Israeli army. In recent weeks, organized Jewish mobs, some armed with rifles and sticks, others carrying torches, have unleashed violence across occupied Palestinian towns and villages. It is not only that Israeli soldiers stand providing cover for the illegal Jewish mobs, but the army also blocks Palestinian farmers from accessing their farms for the annual olive harvest. The Jewish mob’s thuggery follows a clear pattern where settlers attack homes, burn olive groves, beat villagers, and drive ou...

Posted by: John Phoenix (Clarion India.net) The past two years have seen a catastrophic failure by Western journalists to report properly what amounts to an undoubted genocide in Gaza. by Jonathan Cook, reposted from Clarion India, November 17, 2025 This is an adaptation of a talk the writer presented at an event ‘Reporting Gaza: Work, Life and Death’, organized by the South Wales National Union of Journalists, held at the Temple of Peace in Cardiff on 10 November 2025. This has been a low point even by the dismal standards set by our profession, and further reason why audiences continue to distrust us in ever greater numbers. There is a comforting argument – comforting especially for those journalists who have failed so scandalously during this period – that se...