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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...

Posted by: John Phoenix Restoration is not symbolic. It is material, legal, and historical. Justice is the return of what Israel, the colonizer and occupier, took. Global Research, Introduction: Fractured Optics and the Need for Clarity The ceasefire and prisoner exchange have burst onto our screens in a confusing array of images and clashing narrative frames, with commentators interpreting events differently depending on their geographic and political vantage points. This essay analyzes the visual and rhetorical strategies surrounding the October 2025 prisoner exchange between Palestinian resistance factions and Israel, Donald Trump’s speech to the Israeli Knesset, and the summit in Sharm al-Shaikh. It expos...

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, Author’s Note: Israel’s war in Gaza is an assault on the nervous system itself. This essay documents how Israel weaponizes fundamental human reflexes — empathy, grief, trust, the instinct to survive — to engineer Palestinian societal collapse. It does so by dismantling perception, using cloned voices, fraudulent maps, and mimicked care to bait, betray, and sabotage. Palestinians are resisting through a collective project: to protect empathy, to sanctify grief, and to safeguard identity against Israel’s systematic assault targeting the very bedrock of human connection. *** Israel’s Neurotoxin: A War on Reflex, Grief and Trust It is almost impossible to comprehend what Israel has done and continues to do in G...