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Posted by: John Phoenix Israeli troops board the Gaza-bound Handala ship in international waters on 26 July 2025 (Social Media/Screen grab). Harsh and Degrading Conditions in Israeli Prisons By Col. Ann Wright (ret.), Reposted from Antiwar.blog, July 20, 2025 As a former US diplomat charged with the protection of US citizens outside the U.S., I am appalled that no officials from the US Embassy in Israel have made visits to Givon prison in Israel to check on the welfare of the seven US citizens from the Gaza flotilla ship Handala who have been imprisoned for over four days. Officials from other countries whose citizens were on the Handala have made visits to the prison to talk in person about their welfare, conditions and treatment in the prison and treatment by Isr...

Posted by: John Phoenix American activist Chris Smalls. ( [Photo/freedomflotilla.org]). Smalls, the only Black person on a crew hoping to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza, was beaten by Israeli officers. By Sharon Zhang, Reposted from Truthout, July 31, 2025 American labor activist Chris Smalls was released from Israeli imprisonment on July 31 after being assaulted by soldiers who abducted him and the rest of the crew of a ship headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid on July 26. The Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition said that Smalls, the founder of Amazon Labor Union, and a Tunisian activist, Hatem Aouini, were released Thursday (July 31) morning. All 21 of the ship’s crew members have now been released from prison, the group said. “All 21 Handala...

Posted by: John Phoenix   Posted by: John Phoenix Israeli police stand in front of orthodox Christians at the Via Dolorosa near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during Good Friday processions, April 2015. (photo) By Sanad Sahelia, Reposted from Catholic News Agency, June 26, 2025 In a disturbing and increasingly frequent pattern, the Palestinian town of Taybeh, located east of Ramallah and known as the last remaining town in the West Bank inhabited entirely by Christians, faces ongoing attacks by Israeli settlers targeting residents, their property, and farmlands. According to ACI MENA, CNA’s Arabic-language news partner, in recent weeks, settlers have established a new outpost on the eastern edge of Taybeh atop the ruins of a farmhouse whose own...

Posted by: John Phoenix US corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians [An audio version of this article is available here] The Financial Times revealed this month that a cabal of Israeli investors, one of the world’s top business consulting groups and a think-tank headed by former British prime minister Tony Blair had been secretly working on plans to exploit the ruins of Gaza as prime real estate. The secret consortium appears to have been seeking practical ways to realise US President Donlad Trump’s “vision” of Gaza as the “Riviera of the Middle East”: transforming the small coastal enclave into a playground for the rich and an enticing inv...

Posted by: John Phoenix British workers must resolutely oppose the imperialist Labour party, which is complicit in, and the active perpetrator of, the Palestinian genocide. Lalkar writers Subscribe to our  channel Weighing just 2kg, the photograph of emaciated five-month-old Siwar Ashour is the latest image to horrify workers all over the world, as Israel continues to use mass starvation as a means of warfare against civilians. And if anyone was in any doubt about the deep complicity of the entire British political and media establishment, recent analysis suggests that the current ‘Labour’ government granted more weapons licenses to Israel in a three-month period last year than the previous Conservative government did over four years. While the focus of world atte...

Jonathan Cook  Some 17 years ago an Israeli general and government minister threatened Gaza with a “Shoah” – a word until then reserved for the Holocaust. The trajectory in Gaza has been unwavering ever since There are too many pundits, like the interminably dim-witted Piers Morgan, who are slowly, oh-so-slowly coming round to the idea that Israel might be committing a genocide in Gaza. But of course, they are still dismissing as “antisemites” those of us who pointed out from the start that it was a genocide. They hope to get away with this face-saving ploy only because the establishment media continues to ignore what happened before 7 October 2023, events that over many years had made clear Israel was readying to commit genocide – and would grasp a pretext when it arriv...

Posted by: John Phoenix Bibi, and Trump, are zooming off a cliff https://rumble.com/embed/v6uiw3o/?pub=4 Video Link Rumble link Bitchute link FFWN link This week Israel accelerated its genocide of Gaza, intensifying the ongoing mass starvation, shooting hundreds of starving people as they lined up for food, attacking the last standing city in Gaza, Deir al-Balah, and shocking even Caitlin Johnstone by having snipers shoot kids in the genitals one day, the head in the next, and so on. These people have a genius for being cartoonishly evil. https://youtu.be/8pjo_eaEl2s https://www.youtube.com/embed/8pjo_eaEl2s?feature=oembed Video Link Bibi thinks he’s accelerating towards some kind of victory. But he’s actually zooming...

Posted by: John Phoenix A man mourns as he carries the shrouded body of his 6-month-old son, Yahya Sayyam, who was killed in an Israeli strike on July 7, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images) I take my final exams on an empty stomach, with a fogged mind and a weakened body, as prices skyrocket and Gaza is starved to death while the world watches in silence by Tahwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, reposted from Middle East Eye I never thought I would say the words “I’m hungry” out loud. Now I say them every day. For most of my life, I barely cared about food. I often skipped meals and sometimes lost my appetite entirely – especially during exam periods. At home, I was used to being scolded for not eating properly, while my friends at school teased that I ran on sol...

Posted by: John Phoenix The bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on the Zikim area in the northern Gaza Strip are seen lying on the ground at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza, on July 20, 2025. (Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty Images) No foreign military, no matter how close the alliance, should receive blank checks from the U.S. government when there is credible evidence they are violating international humanitarian norms and committing war crimes. by Dr. Mark Brauner, reposted from Common Dreams The Leahy Law is not a fringe idea. It is settled United States law, enshrined in bipartisan legislation that prohibits American tax dollars from funding foreign military units that commit gross violations of human rights. Its purpose is sim...