For more information on the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, please see IfAmericansKnew.org
Explosive new book reports that as Biden publicly counseled a measured response, his administration privately supported Israel’s maximalist goals. Biden was haughty & sure of his Middle East expertise; his inner circle maintained wilful ignorance about the genocide in Gaza
Hamas had negotiated with Israel for an end to the 17-year siege strangling Gaza, an increase in food entering Gaza, & release of Palestinian political prisoners. The Israeli army advised Netanyahu respond to these demands with an all-out attack on the Gaza. Al-Aqsa Flood was an attempt to preempt this attack.
After seeing it, I can understand why Israel finds it so threatening. Its subjects described factory-scale targeting, enabled by artificial intelligence, in which little effort was made to avoid enormous numbers of civilian casualties. The Israeli military made a series of choices that ensured Gaza would become a killing field
Palestinian groups called for a gathering in Shatila on Wednesday, commemorating 44 years since the 1982 massacre of refugees there.
Ben-Gurion wrote that the partition of Palestine, while not ideal, would give the Zionists (advocates of Jewish statehood) a foothold from which to expand into the whole of Palestine, including Transjordan (Jordan)
The world was lied to about the Gaza holocaust – the truth is coming out in Israeli media, and we must pay attention.
In September ’23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM’s failures surrounding Oct. 7. Netanyahu: ‘This is an absolute lie’
As Israeli strikes leveled museums and 5,000-year-old sites across Gaza, volunteers dug through the rubble by hand to save what they could. Meanwhile, looted artifacts quietly resurfaced in a Paris exhibition.
Israel, which has long promoted anti-Muslim views, is increasing this tactic in the US and beyond, Now there is a spike in Islamophobic comments (five articles)
In Israel, militarization has become an economic model: occupation, surveillance, and assaults on Palestinians generate technologies that can then be marketed abroad as “combat-proven.” Palestinian lives have effectively become part of the research, testing, and marketing cycle of death.