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  • COMMENTARY: By Ahmed Najar

    ‘To the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD! Make a SMART decision. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!’

    These were not the words of some far-right provocateur lurking in a dark corner of the internet. They were not shouted by an unhinged warlord seeking vengeance.

    No, these were the words of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the most powerful man in the world. A man who with a signature, a speech or a single phrase can shape the fate of entire nations.

    And yet, with all this power, all this influence, his words to the people of Gaza were not of peace, not of diplomacy, not of relief — but of death.

    I read them and I feel sick.

    Because I know exactly who he is speaking to. He is speaking to my family. To my parents, who lost relatives and their home.

    To my siblings, who no longer have a place to return to. To the starving children in Gaza, who have done nothing but be born to a people the world has deemed unworthy of existence.

    To the grieving mothers who have buried their children. To the fathers who can do nothing but watch their babies die in their arms.

    To the people who have lost everything and yet are still expected to endure more.

    No future left
    Trump speaks of a “beautiful future” for the people of Gaza. But there is no future left where homes are gone, where whole families have been erased, where children have been massacred.

    I read these words and I ask: What kind of a world do we live in?

    President-elect Donald Trump
    President Trump’s “words are criminal. They are a direct endorsement of genocide. The people of Gaza are not responsible for what is happening. They are not holding hostages.” Image: NYT screenshot/APR/X@@xandrerodriguez

    A world where the leader of the so-called “free world” can issue a blanket death sentence to an entire population — two million people, most of whom are displaced, starving and barely clinging to life.

    A world where a man who commands the most powerful military can sit in his office, insulated from the screams, the blood, the unbearable stench of death, and declare that if the people of Gaza do not comply with his demand — if they do not somehow magically find and free hostages they have no control over — then they are simply “dead”.

    A world where genocide survivors are given an ultimatum of mass death by a man who claims to stand for peace.

    This is not just absurd. It is evil.

    Trump’s words are criminal. They are a direct endorsement of genocide. The people of Gaza are not responsible for what is happening. They are not holding hostages.

    Trapped by an Israeli war machine
    They are the hostages – trapped by an Israeli war machine that has stolen everything from them. Hostages to a brutal siege that has starved them, bombed them, displaced them, left them with nowhere to go.

    And now, they have become hostages to the most powerful man on Earth, who threatens them with more suffering, more death, unless they meet a demand they are incapable of fulfilling.

    Most cynically, Trump knows his words will not be met with any meaningful pushback. Who in the American political establishment will hold him accountable for threatening genocide?

    The Democratic Party, which enabled Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza? Congress, which overwhelmingly supports sending US military aid to Israel with no conditions? The mainstream media, which have systematically erased Palestinian suffering?

    There is no political cost for Trump to make such statements. If anything, they bolster his position.

    This is the world we live in. A world where Palestinian lives are so disposable that the President of the United States can threaten mass death without fear of any consequences.

    I write this because I refuse to let this be just another outrageous Trump statement that people laugh off, that the media turns into a spectacle, that the world forgets.

    My heart. My everything
    I write this because Gaza is not a talking point. It is not a headline. It is my home. My family. My history. My heart. My everything.

    And I refuse to accept that the President of the United States can issue death threats to my people with impunity.

    The people of Gaza do not control their own fate. They have never had that luxury. Their fate has always been dictated by the bombs that fall on them, by the siege that starves them, by the governments that abandon them.

    And now, their fate is being dictated by a man in Washington, DC, who sees no issue with threatening the annihilation of an entire population.

    So I ask again: What kind of world do we live in?

    And how long will we allow it to remain this way?

    Ahmed Najar is a Palestinian political analyst and a playwright. This article was first published by Al Jazeera.


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  • China’s parliamentary advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, opened in Beijing this week.

    The Communist Party enlists carefully selected and loyal delegates from among celebrities, the private sector, ethnic minority communities and “people’s organizations” under the party umbrella.

    Delegates from minority political parties are also allowed, but only if they play a role subservient to the ruling party.

    Meanwhile, state media portrays the conference as proof of China’s consultative model of “whole process democracy,” as well as its inclusion of people from “all walks of life” in politics.

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    Nicaragua announced last week it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a U.N. report that slammed the government’s human rights violations and warned the country was becoming an authoritarian state. The report by a panel of independent human rights experts adds to international pressure on the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega and first lady Rosario Murillo, who was recently named co-president. “Nicaragua has become a country of enforced silence and surveillance for those who stay in the country, while those who dare to speak out face a life of exile and denationalization,” says Reed Brody, a member of the U.N. expert panel, who has spent decades investigating rights abuses in Nicaragua.

    He speaks to Democracy Now! 40 years to the day since the release of his landmark 1985 fact-finding report Contra Terror in Nicaragua, which laid out how U.S. policy attempted to destabilize Nicaragua’s Sandinista government by funding the Contras and their campaign of torture, rape, kidnapping and murder.


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  • The Deep State’s war on truth is being waged with doubletalk, delusion and propaganda.

    Through deliberate manipulation of language—what George Orwell called “doublespeak”—Donald Trump has provided cover for the Deep State’s continued grip on power.

    While promising to drain the swamp, his administration has instead relied on contradictory policies, misinformation, and propaganda to further entrench the very system he claims to oppose. Although the Trump administration is merely the latest frontman for the Deep State’s efforts to maintain its stranglehold on power, we are approaching a tipping point beyond which there may be no turning back to freedom as we have known it.

    This is how “we the people” remain on the losing end of this devil’s bargain that is life in the American police state.

    What we desperately need is a reality check, and that starts by disconnecting from the Deep State’s propaganda-riddled, manipulated alternative reality about the state of our nation.

    While President Trump, well versed in the “art of the deal,” appears to be saying all the right things about peace, corruption, graft, wasteful spending, free speech, equality, bloated bureaucracy, national security, etc., his administration’s actions tell a far different story about his priorities and his loyalties, which remain self-serving, imperial, flagrantly unconstitutional and intended to keep the Deep State in power.

    As always, actions speak louder than words.

    When the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are still missing from the White House’s website, that oversight—or deliberate omission—speaks volumes.

    Any government that can’t be bothered to include the Constitution among its priorities, or include it anywhere on its administration’s website, is not a government that can be trusted to abide by the Constitution.

    Then again, trust has little to do with it.

    The Constitution is a contract between the people and the government. What we have been experiencing over the course of both Republican and Democratic presidencies, is a breach of contract. Where the Trump administration differs from those that have come before it is in its willingness to go rogue in defiance of Congress, the courts and the rule of law.

    You don’t wage a “common sense” revolution by discarding the Constitution. That way lies dictatorship.

    Remember, how you do something is just as important as why you do it.

    So, what’s really going on?

    As a populace, we have become so desensitized to political lies, especially Trump’s barrage of lies, that we shrug them off and move on. But in doing so, we act as enablers for what hides beneath those lies.

    Make no mistake: the Deep State—the real Deep State, not the decoy version of it that Trump trots out to justify dismantling our constitutional republic—hides behind that rhetoric.

    As journalist Shawn McCreesh explains, “In order to remake the government, President Trump and his administration are remaking the language used to describe the government... It is a vocabulary containing many curious uses of doublespeak.”

    Doublespeak, as media scholar Edward S. Herman defines it, is characterized by “the ability to lie, whether knowingly or unconsciously, and to get away with it; and the ability to use lies and choose and shape facts selectively, blocking out those that don’t fit an agenda or program.”

    The term is derived from George Orwell’s 1984, in which “doublethink” and “Newspeak” are used to manipulate the masses into going along with the government’s agenda.

    In true Orwellian fashion, Trump has mastered the art of doublespeak.

    Consider some of Trump’s uses of alternative facts, misdirection and misnomers to advance the Deep State’s agenda.

    In true doublespeak fashion, Trump’s path to peace leads to more war.

    Trump’s path to nationalism by way of isolationism is in fact empire building.

    Trump’s path to saving money is spending money.

    Trump’s path to law and order is allowing the police to act lawlessly.

    Trump’s path to efficiency is giving rise to even greater inefficiency.

    Trump’s path to economic triumph is spelling economic disaster.

    Trump’s path to draining the swamp is letting the swamp run the show.

    Trump’s path to free speech is censorship.

    Trump’s path to transparency is replacing watchdogs with yes-men and loyalists.

    Trump’s path to ending cancel culture is more cancel culture.

    When you set aside the mountain of contradictory policies and propaganda that have become hallmarks of Trump’s time in office, a grim picture emerges: Trump’s efforts to make America great again are really just a variation on one theme, which is keeping the Deep State in power at the expense of our freedoms.

    Indeed, George Orwell’s fictional 1984 could increasingly be mistaken for the Trump Administration’s instruction manual on how to remake the government in the dystopian image of Oceania, the authoritarian regime run by Big Brother.

    The key to maintaining the Deep State’s chokehold on power is what Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels referred to as the “big lie.”

    If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,” stated Goebbels.

    This is how that slippery slope to authoritarianism begins, with lies that masquerade as truths and a populace disinclined to think for themselves.

    Which brings us back to the tactics being deployed by the Trump administration.

    Conformity, compliance and group think are necessary ingredients for tyrants to succeed.

    Yet as historian Anne Applebaum writes in The Atlantic, “We are not a theocracy or a monarchy that accepts the word of the leader or the priesthood as law. We are a democracy that debates facts, seeks to understand problems, and then legislates solutions, all in accordance with a set of rules.”

    The answer, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, is that we must re-learn what it means to think for ourselves.

    Pay attention. Question everything. Dare to be different. Don’t follow the mob. Don’t let yourself become numb to the world around you. Be compassionate. Be humane. Most of all, don’t allow yourselves to become so desensitized to Trump’s brand of politics that you tolerate behavior in government officials that you would never tolerate from your own children (lying, bullying, name-calling, greed, etc.).

    When all is said and done, Trump’s path to putting America First is really about putting Trump first and leaving Americans in bondage to the Deep State.

    In Orwell’s world, the state maintained power through deception.

    In Trump’s America, doublespeak remains the Deep State’s most powerful weapon—one that thrives as long as the public fails to recognize it for what it is—and Trump is proving to be its most effective mouthpiece.

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  • A claim began to circulate in Chinese-language social media posts that the Delta Air Lines flight that overturned and crashed while landing at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in February was flown by an “unqualified” pilot who only became certified in January.

    But the claim lacks evidence. Delta and an airline pilot union said the flight’s captain began his career as early as 2007, while the co-pilot started hers in April 2024, adding that both pilots held the necessary Federal Aviation Administration certifications and had the required flight experience for the journey.

    The claim was shared on Weibo on Feb. 21.

    “Follow-up on the Toronto airport plane rollover accident … The pilot is a 26-year-old woman who just obtained her airline transport pilot certification last month!” reads the claim.

    The post also shared what appears to be a screengrab of a news article.

    Keyword searches found the article was published by the Pakistani English-language daily The Express Tribune on Feb. 20.

    “Kendal Swanson identified as alleged pilot of Delta flight that crashed upside down in Toronto,” the headline of the article reads.

    The Delta pilot was rumored to be a 26-year-old woman with insufficient flight qualifications.
    The Delta pilot was rumored to be a 26-year-old woman with insufficient flight qualifications.
    (Weibo and X)

    ​On Feb. 17, 2025, Delta Connection Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, crashed while landing in Toronto.

    The Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft, arriving from Minneapolis with 76 passengers and four crew, flipped upside down upon landing. All 80 individuals survived, though 21 were injured, including at least two critically.

    The incident occurred amid harsh winter conditions, with significant snowfall impacting the region.

    The Transportation Safety Board of Canada and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the crash.

    But the claim about the pilot’s qualification lacks evidence.

    According to a press release by Delta and the Air Line Pilots Association, the captain of the flight was hired by the now-defunct Mesaba Airlines in 2007 and now flies for Endeavor Air, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta.

    They said that the co-pilot joined Endeavor Air in January 2024 and began flying later in April after completing her training, adding that both pilots held the necessary Federal Aviation Administration certifications and had the required flight experience for the journey.

    While Delta did not give the name or ages of the captain and co-pilot, it referred to the captain as “he” and the co-pilot as “she.”

    Delta told AFCL that it was not providing any personal information about the pilots.

    Does a photo show rescue workers saving the plane?

    Separately, a photo also began to circulate online alongside a claim that it shows rescue workers putting out a fire near the crashed Delta plane.

    But the image is likely AI-generated.

    A comparison between the image shared on social media and the photos published by media outlets here, here and here shows a significant discrepancy.

    Chinese-language media and social media users recently circulated a purported image of the recent Delta Air Line crash in Toronto.
    Chinese-language media and social media users recently circulated a purported image of the recent Delta Air Line crash in Toronto.
    (Line Today and X)

    A reverse image search found the image circulated on social media with the label “GROK” superimposed.

    Grok is an AI chatbot developed by xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, which allows users to generate AI images.

    A test using the AI image inspection tool Hive shows that the photo was more than 98% likely to be AI-generated.

    The image was judged as highly likely to have been AI-generated.
    The image was judged as highly likely to have been AI-generated.
    (Hive)

    The claim has also been debunked by other international fact-checking organizations, including AFP.

    Translated by Shen Ke. Edited by Taejun Kang.

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  • On Feb. 11, Hun Sen, Cambodia’s de-facto ruler, claimed that the authorities had weeks ago uncovered a plot to kill him at his provincial mansion using drones.

    One person was apparently arrested, Hun Sen said, but others may still be at large.

    Who knows whether it is true or not?

    Some people suspect it’s a conceit by Hun Sen, the former prime minister who handed power to his eldest son in 2023, to justify his incoming law that will brandish political opponents as “terrorists”, in an attempt to deter foreigners from aiding the exiled opposition movement.

    Cambodia's Senate President Hun Sen at a ceremony marking the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, in Phnom Penh on Jan. 7, 2025.
    Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen at a ceremony marking the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, in Phnom Penh on Jan. 7, 2025.
    (Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP)

    Speaking about the alleged plot on his life, Hun Sen connected the two: “This is an act of terrorism, and I’d like to urge foreigners to be cautious, refraining from supporting terrorist activities.”

    Such skepticism led one commentator, in an interview with Radio Free Asia, to claim that “ordinary citizens do not have the ability” to hit his heavily guarded Takhmao home.

    In fact, they do.

    Cheap drones for Myanmar opposition

    Myanmar’s four-year-old civil war has shown just how much drones have revolutionized not just warfare but the balance of power between the state and the individual.

    A long-range modified and armed drone costs Myanmar’s rebels around US$1,500.

    By comparison, the International Crisis Group reckons second-hand AK-47s or M-16s cost US$3,000 each.

    Myanmar’s military recently took delivery of six Su-30SMEs fighter jets from Russia, for which it paid $400 million — excluding the weaponry.

    As one commentator put it last year: “In an asymmetric conflict, the drone is helping to equalize the battlescape.”

    Members of the Mandalay People's Defense Force prepare to release a drone amid clashes with Myanmar's military in northern Shan state, Dec. 11, 2023.
    Members of the Mandalay People’s Defense Force prepare to release a drone amid clashes with Myanmar’s military in northern Shan state, Dec. 11, 2023.
    (AFP)

    Junta forces are catching up, for sure. AFP reported a few weeks ago that “the military is adopting the equipment of the anti-coup fighters, using drones to drop mortars or guide artillery strikes and bombing runs by its Chinese and Russian-built air force.”

    However, the revolutionary importance of drones isn’t that a superior force will never adopt the same technology. It’s that drones — now an irreplaceable weapon in modern warfare — cannot be monopolized by a state.

    Not for almost two centuries has there been such a technological leap in the balance of power. Not for at least the past 100 years has a dominant weapon been as cheap and available to the masses.

    ‘History of weapons’

    In October 1945, George Orwell published a short essay that’s best known for popularizing the term “Cold War”.

    “You And The Atom Bomb” also offered a take on the weapons that’s rarely reflected on these days.

    Had the nuclear bomb been as cheap and easy as a bicycle to produce, Orwell reasoned, it might have “plunged us back into barbarism.”

    But because the bomb is a rare and costly thing to make, it might “complete the process [of] robbing the exploited classes and peoples of all power to revolt.”

    Mutually Assured Destruction would keep the peace between the nuclear states, but it meant that existing dictatorship could become permanent, Orwell feared.

    How would a band of rag-tag rebels fair against a despot or imperialist prepared to quell any rebellion with a nuclear explosion?

    Would the dictator who happily drops biological weapons on their own people not as easily reach for tactical nuclear bombs if they could?

    A cruise missile that North Korea has implied has nuclear capabilities nears its target during a test flight off the coast of the Korean peninsula, Feb. 26, 2025.
    A cruise missile that North Korea has implied has nuclear capabilities nears its target during a test flight off the coast of the Korean peninsula, Feb. 26, 2025.
    (KCNA via Reuters)

    Would the North Korean regime not prefer to go down in a nuclear blaze if the masses were ever to rise up?

    Orwell noted that “the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons.”

    Students of history are taught that gunpowder made possible a proper rebellion against feudal power; that the musket, cheap and easy to use, replaced the cannon and made possible the American and French revolutions.

    Its successor, the breech-loading rifle, was slightly more complex, yet “even the most backward nation could always get hold of rifles from one source or another,” Orwell noted.

    State arsenals only

    The early 20th century, however, saw the invention of weapons only available to the state and only the most industrialized states—the tank, the aircraft, the submarine and, foremost, the nuclear bomb.

    Vietnamese communists, by some accounts, were peasant volunteers who battled with nothing but smuggled guns, punji traps and a clear sense of what they were fighting for, but they were able to defeat the industrialized armies of France and the United States.

    In reality, the communists were well supplied with non-rudimentary weaponry by Beijing and Moscow.

    East Timorese pro-independence FALINTIL rebels set off on patrol Oct. 3, 1999.
    East Timorese pro-independence FALINTIL rebels set off on patrol Oct. 3, 1999.
    (John Feder/News Ltd. via AFP)

    More representative of rag-tag guerrilla success were the East Timorese rebels, who had no patrons and only the most basic weapons to battle against Indonesian imperialism and its vastly superior forces.

    Their stunning achievement was simply keeping their struggle alive for so long.

    But the East Timorese were never going to secure independence in the jungles and hills; their victory depended on staying in the fight until international opinion turned in their favor.

    Had it not, Timor-Leste would still be a province of Indonesia, as West Papuans know all too well.

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    Perhaps drone warfare won’t bring victory to Myanmar’s revolutionaries.

    Fighting alone doesn’t win wars. Alliances, superior industrial production, international opinion and quite a bit of luck — all are as important.

    Yet without drone warfare, the junta would arguably have won this battle a lot sooner.

    It probably hasn’t been lost on the Thai military that another coup might not be accepted as meekly as in earlier military takeovers by a populace which has closely observed events in neighboring Myanmar.

    Cambodian soldiers attend celebrations marking the 65th anniversary of the country's independence, in Phnom Penh, Nov. 9, 2018.
    Cambodian soldiers attend celebrations marking the 65th anniversary of the country’s independence, in Phnom Penh, Nov. 9, 2018.
    (Samrang Pring/Reuters)

    Intentional or not, Hun Sen’s revelation that someone apparently tried to kill him using drones has imbued him and his impregnable regime with a rare sense of vulnerability.

    His family rules over a 100,000-strong military that he has instructed to “destroy… revolutions that attempt to topple” his regime, plus a loyal National Police and an elite private bodyguard unit.

    One son is head of military intelligence. Another son, Prime Minister Hun Manet, was previously the army chief.

    But, as despots are now realizing, all that now means a lot less in the age of the drone.

    David Hutt is a research fellow at the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS) and the Southeast Asia Columnist at the Diplomat. The views expressed here are his own and do not reflect the position of RFA.


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    With international media’s attention on the Israeli and Palestinian captives exchange,  Israel’s military and settlers have been forcibly displacing tens of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, says Al Jazeera’s Listening Post media programme.

    The European Union has condemned Israel’s military operation in West Bank, attacking and killing refugees, and destroying refugee camps while the Western media has been barely reporting this.

    It has also criticised the violence by settlers in illegal West Bank villages.

    Israel’s military operation in the occupied territory has been ongoing for more than 40 days and has resulted in dozens of casualties, the displacement of about 40,000 Palestinians from their homes, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure.

    The EU has expressed its “grave concern” about Israel’s continuing military operation in the occupied West Bank in a statement.

    “The EU calls on Israel, in addressing its security concerns in the occupied West Bank, to comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law by ensuring the protection of all civilians in military operations and allow the safe return of displaced persons to their homes,” the statement read.

    “At the same time, extremist settler violence continues throughout the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

    Israel ‘has duty to protect’
    “The EU recalls that Israel, as the occupying power, has the duty to protect civilians and to hold perpetrators accountable.”

    The bloc also condemned Israel’s policy of expanding settlements in the West Bank, and urged that demolitions “including of EU and EU member states-funded structures, must stop”.

    “As we enter the holy month of Ramadan, we call on all parties to exercise restraint to allow for peaceful celebrations,” the EU said.

    Meanwhile, Israeli journalists are parroting military talking points of security operations.


    Israel invades the West Bank.  Video: AJ: The Listening Post

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    Abdaljawad Omar – Assistant professor, Birzeit University
    Jehad Abusalim – Co-editor, Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
    Ori Goldberg – Academic and political commentator
    Samira Mohyeddin – Founder, On the Line Media

    On the Listening Post radar:
    This week, the return of the Bibas family bodies dominated Israeli media coverage.

    Tariq Nafi reports on how their deaths have been used for “hasbara” — propaganda — after the family accused Netanyahu’s government of exploiting their grief for political purposes.

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    Populated by loudmouths, shock artists and unapologetic chauvinists, the Kenyan “manosphere” is promoting an influential — and at times dangerous — take on modern masculinity.

    Featuring:
    Audrey Mugeni – Co-founder, Femicide Count Kenya
    Awino Okech – Professor of feminist and security studies, SOAS
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  • Ralph welcomes acclaimed investigative report, Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News to give us his report on the state of the ceasefire in Gaza, why both sides tend to undercount the deaths and casualties, the nature of the October 7th assault, and the threat of a wider war with Iran. Plus, Ralph responds to a DOGE supporter, who on social media called him a hypocrite.

    Jeremy Scahill is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, and author of the books Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield and Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He was one of the founding editors of The Intercept and he is co-founder (with Ryan Grim) of Drop Site News, a non-aligned, investigative news organization dedicated to exposing the crimes of the powerful — particularly in overt and secret conflicts where the U.S. government is playing a key role.

    If you study the past 76, 77 years of history of the Palestinians, there is no chance that they are going to voluntarily leave their land. There is no chance that they are going to lay down their arms in a struggle for national liberation. And I think that the only certainty here is that the Palestinians are not going to give up.

    Jeremy Scahill

    When you’re talking about 2,000 families being wiped out, when you’re talking about thousands upon thousands of people buried under the rubble of what used to be their homes. And then the Israelis come in with their utterly sadistic macabre tactics where they then bulldozed people, put them in mass graves. I don’t think we right now have any sense of the scope of the killing that has happened.

    Jeremy Scahill

    A friend of mine, Ali Abunima who runs Electronic Intifada, said that the Germans have been punishing the Palestinians for the German mass murder of Jews for many decades now.

    Jeremy Scahill

    There’s more outrage among what I call blue MAGA, these sort of cultish partisan Democrats, over Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza as a Middle East Riviera than most of these people ever said during Biden and Harris actively facilitating a genocide.

    Jeremy Scahill



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