West Bank

Posted by: John Phoenix A Qassam fighter in a Rafah tunnel. (Photo: video grab) The presence of Qassam resistance fighters remaining inside Rafah’s tunnel network has become a central point in negotiations over the next phase of the ceasefire agreement, with discussions ongoing between US and Israeli officials. The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that an official from Israel’s inner cabinet said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US envoy Jared Kushner had reached a provisional arrangement concerning approximately 200 Palestinian resistance fighters located in tunnels in Rafah, in southern Gaza. According to the official, the proposal would allow those fighters to leave safely. Meanwhile, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported that Kushner reques...

Posted by: John Phoenix UNRWA has warned that tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering in unsafe buildings by Dave DeCamp  At least one Palestinian was killed in Gaza on Thursday when a damaged building collapsed in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood, Al Jazeera has reported, an incident that comes as the UN’s Palestinian relief agency is warning that tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering in unsafe buildings. “Shelter needs remain largely unmet,” UNRWA said in a report on the situation in Gaza on Tuesday, adding that the UN and partnered organizations “continue to face significant challenges in bringing supplies into Gaza” as Israel continues to impose restrictions on aid entering the Strip in violation of the ceasefir...

Posted by: John Phoenix Workers, artists and political groups must demand our right to a voice, and to independent political action. Party leaflet When the mural in support of Liam Óg/Mo Chara was unveiled in Belfast, Kneecap wrote on Twitter: ‘West Belfast knows political policing. West Belfasts knows colonialism. West Belfast knows solidarity.’ https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2168644182&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true Download this leaflet as a pdf. Kneecap’s lead singer Mo Chara (meaning friend/comrade) is being prosecuted under the Terrorism Act 2000 for raising the flag of Hezbollah, the Lebanese political and military resistance group that has been a thorn in the side of Isra...

Posted by: John Phoenix The imperialists’ media lies are essential to their genocidal war efforts; workers must refuse to allow their propaganda to go unchallenged. Proletarian writers As the drive into WW3 accelerates, it is no coincidence that increasing numbers of journalists and political activists in Britain are being targeted under draconian ‘anti-terror’ legislation. The ruling class knows that keeping its grip on the narrative is an essential prerequisite for keeping its grip on power and continuing to prosecute its criminal wars abroad and vicious austerity at home. Mass opposition from the organised working class is the only force that can withstand and reverse this trend. Note to trade unionists: The following text has been compiled to help you frame a motion on thi...

Posted by: John Phoenix Hours before being killed in an airstrike, a Palestinian journalist describes Israel’s resumption of its scorched earth campaign in Beit Hanoun. Hossam Shabat To complement the imperialist media’s policy of refusing to cover (and/or deliberately misrepresenting) the many horrific acts that have characterised Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, the zionist state has enforced a policy of keeping foreign journalists out and killing as many local ones as possible (often along with their families). By these vicious methods the genocidaires have done their best to stifle the flow of information from Gaza to the wider world. Ultimately, they have failed, but the blood price paid by Palestinian media workers has been immense. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=ht...

Posted by: John Phoenix Like thieves shunning the scene of their crime, media and politicians are suddenly scrambling to distance themselves from Israel. Proletarian writers With popular outrage continuing to grow, and the war to crush all middle-eastern resistance movements failing, the imperialists are desperately seeking a way out that might allow them to retain their regional domination – ideally by somehow keeping Israel itself alive. Editors’ note: Since this article was written, the imperialists have launched a criminal, unprovoked, aggressive war against Iran. In this context, there has been a rush to whitewash Israeli crimes, to bury once again the truth about the Gaza genocide, and to present the zionist leaders as rational and principled actors. How long this narrat...

Posted by: John Phoenix If two years of live-streamed genocide proves anything, it is that there can be no peace in the Middle East while the settler colonial state of Israel continues to exist. There can be no permanent peace in the Middle East while colonists continue not only to occupy stolen land but additionally continue to extend remorselessly their occupation to wider and wider areas at the expense of the homes and livelihoods of untold thousands of Palestinian families, left homeless and without means of subsistence.  Suffice it to say that in 1993, at the time the Oslo Accords came into effect, which were, inter alia, intended to put a stop to further Israeli encroachment into the West Bank and Jerusalem, there were about 110,000 settlers in the West Bank and a...

Posted by: John Phoenix The recognizable ancestor of the IDF is not the Marquis De Sade, a mere sexual deviant, but your common serial killer with added pathological paraphilia, and the ability to industrialize the scale of his crimes. As I had remarked before, patterns of arousal—the commingling of serial killing and sex—are tied to psychopathy. The psychopathic fusion of lust and murder appears endemic among Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers. Honed in rendition torture camps, sexual violence has become the coin of the Greater Israel realm. A glimpse into Sde Teiman, a torture rendition camp in Israel proper, revealed to the world that Israel has de facto systemized the practice of anally rapturing the bowels of Palestinian prisoner...

investigation Posted by: John Phoenix Amid a crisis in recruitment, the U.S. military has found a new way of convincing a war-weary Generation Z to enlist: thirst traps. Chief among these attractive young women in uniform posting sexually suggestive content alongside subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) calls to join up is Hailey Lujan. In between the thirst traps and memes, the 21-year-old makes content extolling the fun of Army life to her 731,000 TikTok followers. “Don’t go to college, become a farmer or a soldier instead,” she instructs viewers in a recent video. “Just some advice for the younger people: if you’re not doing school, it’s ok. I dropped out of college. And I’m doing great,” she adds. If Lujan feels like a psyop (a psychological operation) it is becau...