NGOs in Gaza; Israel breaks records in offending, supplanting Palestinians; Martyr’s Fund money goes to Israeli families; how to refurbish Israel’s reputation?; Iran headlines; much more
Tucker Carlson and Ambassador Mike Huckabee touched on the question of Jewish indigeneity in Palestine – but in light of the enormous impact of the Zionist project of the Palestinians (and the world), it is worth delving in a bit deeper. Fully half of Israel’s prime ministers came directly from Eastern Europe. The rest were children of parents from Europe or America.
Saving artifacts in Gaza; settler violence; Lapid embraces Huckabee’s Greater Israel; “how will they eat?”; most moral army debate; American warplanes in Israel; Witkoff speaks at AIPAC; Randy Fine gets away with anti-Palestinian hate speech; more.
A minute-by-minute reconstruction of the massacre by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found Israeli soldiers fired over 900 bullets at the aid workers, killing 15.
NYT calls concern about Israel’s attack on a US Navy ship an “obsession,” signaling that Americans shouldn’t care about Israel’s attempt to sink the ship with all men aboard … just as it published David Brooks dismissively calling concern about Jeffrey Epstein’s Israel connections an “obsession,” not mentioning Brooks’ ties to Israel and to Epstein…
A decade passed between the killing of the first son and the second. Nur was killed at a West Bank checkpoint, and Rayan was shot in an ambush on his way home. IDF soldiers took Rayan’s body, and Israel now refuses to return it
Eight months after Trump insisted that Operation Midnight Hammer “totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program, he has deployed the largest military presence in the Middle East since the Iraq War.
Israeli incitement during Ramadan; Area C; Huckabee’s words still reverberate; Israel upholds segregated prayer at Western Wall; US sees no evil; more.
In dozens of cases, the Committee to Protect Journalists documented a recurring set of abuse – from beating to starvation, sexual violence, and medical neglect – of journalists because of their work – a deliberate strategy to silence journalists and destroy their ability to bear witness.
The continued silence from the international community enables this.
Security equipment and alarms were installed by the Israeli government at a notorious Manhattan residence frequented by former PM Ehud Barak.