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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...

Posted by: John Phoenix Two Palestinian children amidst the rubble in Khan Younis, Gaza. January 2025. Source: still from the film “Kids Under Fire” (Mohammed Ibaida). (source) American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers. by Amel Guettatfi, reposted from Drop Site, March 27, 2025 Drop Site News is publishing this story in collaboration with our colleagues at Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English’s award-winning documentary news program. On August 24, four-year-old Mira Al-Darini had just woken up to a hot summer morning in a crowded displacement camp, located between a local prison and the mediterranean sea in Khan Younis, when the sound of Israeli military tanks and gunfire erupt...

Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, who was 17 years old, is the first known child killed in an Israeli prison.By Sharon Zhang Palestinian Child Killed in Israeli Prison After Being “Systematically Starved” Meggido prison in northern Israel is pictured on October 21, 2020. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. The first known Palestinian child to be killed in an Israeli prison, Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, was starved, had untreated diseases, and was repeatedly beaten by guards before he died last month, his autopsy report shows. The autopsy shows that Ahmad suffered from “extreme body muscle and fat wasting, evidenced by a sunken abdomen,” caused by “...

Posted by: John Phoenix Video Interview with Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, February 09, 2025 فيديو: “محو غزة من الخريطة”: أجندة المال الكبير. مصادرة احتياطيات فلسطين من الغاز الطبيعي البحري لقراءة الترجمة إلى اللغة العربية، قم بالتمرير لأسفل Introduction Israel has launched an invasion (October 7, 2023) of the Gaza Strip. As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 10 years ago in a December, 30 2013 article:  “Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, “If All Goes to Plan”. In the current context, Israel’s “All Goes to Plan” option consists in bypassing Palestine and “Wiping Gaza off the Map”,  as well confiscating ALL Gaza’s maritime offshore gas reserves, worth&nb...