Gaza population losing hope; over 5,000 settler violations in West Bank in 10 years; Trump admin distort truth about Hamas, hint at ethnic cleansing; Columbia University’s capitulation
Retired Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis was reportedly up for a top job with Tulsi but was the target of a smear campaign by pro-Israel hawks; he says U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza is a strategic and moral mistake. He joins a growing series of appointees in key positions across a number of national security agencies who are disliked by Israel Firsters
Hamas issued a 16-page document on Jan. 20, 2024 to ‘clarify the reality of what happened on Oct. 7, the motives behind it, its general context related to the Palestinian cause, as well as a refutation to the Israeli allegations.’ A second item contains reflections by a senior Hamas leader on the attack & its aftermath
Palestinians in Israeli prisons experience systematic torture, atrocities; Israel’s [terrible] new Gaza plan; Israel seeks 6-week extension of ceasefire phase one; Israeli army concludes it was defeated by Hamas on 7 October; Knesset bill to annex West Bank settlements near Jerusalem; Israelis spit on Christian churches; US approves $3 billion military sales to Israel amid ceasefire talks; man convicted by US court of murdering six-year old Palestinian boy in hate crime
Bus explosion in Tel Aviv, no injuries; in Jerusalem, Jewish man attacks Israeli woman with axe, mistaking her for a Christian; Bibas family; 8-year-old Palestinian girl blinded by Israeli bullet; more.
Gazans retrieve bodies with bare hands; in West Bank, Israeli forces continue killing, dispossessing Palestinians; Western leaders use threats in attempt to impose ethnic cleansing plan on Egypt; church leaders in Jerusalem react to Trump’s plan; more.
In light of the recent incarceration of Ali Abunimah in Zurich, it’s useful to examine the Israel lobby in Switzerland. As former HRW official Sarah Leah Whitson noted: “Switzerland has shamelessly kowtowed to the pro-Israel lobby by deporting an American citizen because he advocates for Palestinian rights.”
A Christian American reports in American Conservative magazine that Netanyahu is testing the 47th president with a fresh round of illegal actions in the West Bank, including vicious assaults on Christians. Many Palestinian Americans voted for Trump as a hoped-for peacemaker…
Israel kills 1 in Gaza with a “warning shot”; 2nd prisoner release is complete; 2 killed in West Bank, including toddler; Ali Abunimah arrested; pro-Israel groups target pro-Palestine int’l students for deportation
Harsh conditions in Gaza, as Trump admin halts almost all foreign aid (Israel is exempt); private US security contractors to run checkpoints in Gaza; countdown to UNRWA departure; West Bank under fire; Pope Francis stays in touch with Gaza; Lebanon news; Harvard; more.