The Levant aka Mid-East

mickeyrat · October 21

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted Monday that his army struck the Gaza Strip on Sunday with 153 tons of bombs, in what amounts to an admission of violating a ceasefire agreement, Anadolu reports.

Speaking at the opening of the Knesset’s winter session, Netanyahu faced repeated interruptions from opposition lawmakers protesting his government’s policies and its deliberate prolonging of the Israeli war in Gaza.

“During the ceasefire, two soldiers fell… We struck them with 153 tons of bombs and attacked dozens of targets across the Gaza Strip,” he said.

The Gaza government media office reported 80 Israeli ceasefire violations since the US-sponsored agreement came into effect on Oct. 10, resulting in 97 Palestinians killed, including 44 on Sunday alone, and 230 others injured.

Tel Aviv alleged that Hamas had attacked its forces in the southern city of Rafah. The Palestinian group has denied any involvement and reaffirmed its commitment to the ceasefire agreement.

The ceasefire deal was announced on Oct. 10, based on a phased plan presented by US President Donald Trump. Phase one included the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

The plan also envisages the rebuilding of Gaza and the establishment of a new governing mechanism without Hamas.

Since October 2023, the Israeli genocidal war has killed over 68,200 people and injured more than 170,200, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251020-netanyahu-says-153-tons-of-bombs-dropped-on-gaza-admits-breach-of-ceasefire-deal/

mickeyrat · October 21

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPe593qCk7G/?igsh=MW5jcnUxMmpheDltMQ==

Halifax2TheMax · October 21

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

“Never again”, eh?

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials

Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Gaza had been held in a notorious detention centre already facing allegations of torture and unlawful deaths in custody, officials from Gaza’s health ministry have told the Guardian.

The director general of the health ministry, Dr Munir al-Bursh, and a spokesperson for Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, where the bodies are being examined, said a document found inside each body bagindicated the bodies all came from Sde Teiman, a military base in the Negev desert where, according to photos and testimonies published by the Guardian last year, Palestinian detainees were held in cages, blindfolded and handcuffed, shackled to hospital beds and forced to wear nappies.

“The document tags inside the body bags are written in Hebrew and clearly indicate that the remains were held at Sde Teiman,” Bursh said. “The tags also showed that DNA tests had been carried out on some of them there.”

Last year the Israeli army launched a criminal investigation, which is continuing, into the deaths of 36 prisoners detained at Sde Teiman.

As part of the US-brokered truce in Gaza, Hamas has handed over the bodies of some of the hostages who died during the course of the war, and Israel has so far transferred the bodies of 150 Palestinians killed after the 7 October 2023 attack.

Some of the photographs of Palestinian bodies seen by the Guardian – which cannot be published due to their graphic nature– show several of the victims blindfolded, their hands tied behind their backs. One image shows a rope fastened around a man’s neck.

Doctors in Khan Younis said official examinations and field observations“clearly indicate that Israel carried out acts of murder, summary executions and systematic torture against many of the Palestinians”. Health officials said the documented findings included “clear signs of direct gunfire at point-blank range and bodies crushed beneath Israeli tank tracks”.

Eyad Barhoum, the administrative director of Nasser medical complex, said the bodies carried “no names but just codes” and that part of the identification process had started.

While there is substantial evidence that many of the returned Palestinians had been executed, it is much harder to determine where the victims were killed. Sde Teiman is a storage facility for bodies taken from Gaza but it is also a prison camp that has become notorious for deaths in captivity. Human rights activists are demanding an investigation to find out whether any of the dead were killed there, and if so, how many.

The body of Mahmoud Ismail Shabat, 34, from northern Gaza, bore marks of hanging around his neck, his legs crushed by tank tracks, which suggests he was killed or injured in Gaza and that his body was later taken to Sde Teiman. His brother Rami, who identified the body of his sibling by the scar from a previous head surgery, said: “What hurt us the most was that his hands were tied, and his body was covered with clear signs of torture.”

“Where is the world?” said Shabat’s mother. “All our hostages returned tortured and broken.”

Some Palestinian doctors say the fact that many of the bodies were blindfolded and bound suggests they were tortured and then killed during their detention at Sde Teiman – where, according to Israeli media reports and testimony from prison guard whistleblowers, Israel is holding nearly 1,500 bodies of Palestinians from Gaza.

A whistleblower who spoke to the Guardian and who witnessed the conditions of detention at Sde Teiman said: “I did witness a patient from Gaza being brought with a gunshot wound to the left chest. He was also blindfolded and handcuffed, naked as he arrived to the emergency department. Another patient, with a right-leg gunshot wound also arrived to my hospital in similar conditions.”

Another whistleblower has previously described how patients, all from Gaza, were handcuffed to the beds. They had all been dressed in nappies and were blindfolded.

He was told that some patients had come from hospitals in Gaza. “These were patients who had been captured by the Israeli army while being treated in Gaza hospitals and brought here. They had limbs and infected wounds. They were moaning in pain.”

He claimed the military had no proof that detainees were all members of Hamas, with some inmates repeatedly asking why they were there.

In one case, he said, he learned that a detainee’s hand had been amputated “because the wrists had become gangrenous due to handcuffing wounds”.

Shadi Abu Seido, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza who works for Palestine Today, who was released after 20 months’ detention at Sde Teiman and in another Israeli prison, said he had been seized by Israeli forces at al-Shifa hospital on 18 March 2024.

“They stripped me completely naked for 10 hours in the cold,” he said in a video interview published on Instagram by the Turkish public broadcaster TRT. “I was then transferred to Sde Teiman and held there for 100 days, during which I remained handcuffed and blindfolded. Many died in detention, others lost their minds. Some had limbs amputated. They suffered sexual and physical abuse. They brought dogs that urinated on us. When I asked why I had been arrested, they answered: ‘We have killed all the journalists. They died once. But we brought you here and you will die hundreds of times.’”

Naji Abbas, the director of the prisoners and detainees department at Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHR), said: “The signs of torture and abuse found on the bodies of Palestinians recently returned by Israel to Gaza are horrifying – yet, sadly, not surprising.

“These findings corroborate what Physicians for Human Rights Israel has exposed over the past two years about conditions inside Israeli detention facilities – particularly at the Sde Teiman camp – where Palestinians have been subjected to systematic torture and killings by soldiers and prison guards.”

PHR said: “The unprecedented number of Palestinians who have died in Israeli custody, together with verified evidence documented of deaths resulting from torture and medical neglect – and now the findings on the returned bodies – leave no doubt: an independent international investigation is urgently needed to hold those responsible in Israel accountable.”

The Guardian submitted photographs of the bodies to an Israeli doctor who also witnessed the treatment of prisoners at the field hospital in Sde Teiman.

On condition of anonymity, the physician said one of the pictures “shows the man had his hands tied likely with zip ties. There is a change in colour between the arms and the hands at the level of the zip ties, likely indicating ischemic changes due to excessive restraints.”

He added: “This might be someone who was either injured and captured (thus died under Israeli custody) or someone who died due to injuries inflicted after his capture.”

Dr Morris Tidball-Binz, a physician specialising in forensic science and a UN rapporteur, said: “A call should be made for independent and impartial forensic assistance to assist efforts to examine and identify the dead.”

Contacted regarding the allegations of torture, the Israel Defense Forces said they had asked the Israel Prison Service to investigate. The IPS did not respond to a request for comment.

As for the alleged abuses at Sde Teiman and the torture of prisoners, the IDF previously said it treated detainees “appropriately and carefully” and that “any allegation regarding misconduct by IDF soldiers is examined and dealt with accordingly. In appropriate cases, criminal investigations are opened by the military police.”

Asked about the claim Palestinian bodies had come from Sde Teiman, the IDF said they “are not commenting on this matter”.

At least 75 Palestinian detainees have died in Israeli jails since 7 October 2023, according to the UN.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/mutilated-bodies-palestinians-held-notorious-israeli-jail-gaza-officials

gimmesometruth27 · October 21

Halifax2TheMax said:

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

“Never again”, eh?

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths
At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Gaza had been held in a notorious detention centre already facing allegations of torture and unlawful deaths in custody, officials from Gaza’s health ministry have told the Guardian.
The director general of the health ministry, Dr Munir al-Bursh, and a spokesperson for Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, where the bodies are being examined, said a document found inside each body bagindicated the bodies all came from Sde Teiman, a military base in the Negev desert where, according to photos and testimonies published by the Guardian last year, Palestinian detainees were held in cages, blindfolded and handcuffed, shackled to hospital beds and forced to wear nappies.
“The document tags inside the body bags are written in Hebrew and clearly indicate that the remains were held at Sde Teiman,” Bursh said. “The tags also showed that DNA tests had been carried out on some of them there.”
Last year the Israeli army launched a criminal investigation, which is continuing, into the deaths of 36 prisoners detained at Sde Teiman.
As part of the US-brokered truce in Gaza, Hamas has handed over the bodies of some of the hostages who died during the course of the war, and Israel has so far transferred the bodies of 150 Palestinians killed after the 7 October 2023 attack.
Some of the photographs of Palestinian bodies seen by the Guardian – which cannot be published due to their graphic nature– show several of the victims blindfolded, their hands tied behind their backs. One image shows a rope fastened around a man’s neck.
Doctors in Khan Younis said official examinations and field observations“clearly indicate that Israel carried out acts of murder, summary executions and systematic torture against many of the Palestinians”. Health officials said the documented findings included “clear signs of direct gunfire at point-blank range and bodies crushed beneath Israeli tank tracks”.
Eyad Barhoum, the administrative director of Nasser medical complex, said the bodies carried “no names but just codes” and that part of the identification process had started.
While there is substantial evidence that many of the returned Palestinians had been executed, it is much harder to determine where the victims were killed. Sde Teiman is a storage facility for bodies taken from Gaza but it is also a prison camp that has become notorious for deaths in captivity. Human rights activists are demanding an investigation to find out whether any of the dead were killed there, and if so, how many.
The body of Mahmoud Ismail Shabat, 34, from northern Gaza, bore marks of hanging around his neck, his legs crushed by tank tracks, which suggests he was killed or injured in Gaza and that his body was later taken to Sde Teiman. His brother Rami, who identified the body of his sibling by the scar from a previous head surgery, said: “What hurt us the most was that his hands were tied, and his body was covered with clear signs of torture.”
“Where is the world?” said Shabat’s mother. “All our hostages returned tortured and broken.”
Some Palestinian doctors say the fact that many of the bodies were blindfolded and bound suggests they were tortured and then killed during their detention at Sde Teiman – where, according to Israeli media reports and testimony from prison guard whistleblowers, Israel is holding nearly 1,500 bodies of Palestinians from Gaza.
A whistleblower who spoke to the Guardian and who witnessed the conditions of detention at Sde Teiman said: “I did witness a patient from Gaza being brought with a gunshot wound to the left chest. He was also blindfolded and handcuffed, naked as he arrived to the emergency department. Another patient, with a right-leg gunshot wound also arrived to my hospital in similar conditions.”
Another whistleblower has previously described how patients, all from Gaza, were handcuffed to the beds. They had all been dressed in nappies and were blindfolded.
He was told that some patients had come from hospitals in Gaza. “These were patients who had been captured by the Israeli army while being treated in Gaza hospitals and brought here. They had limbs and infected wounds. They were moaning in pain.”
He claimed the military had no proof that detainees were all members of Hamas, with some inmates repeatedly asking why they were there.
In one case, he said, he learned that a detainee’s hand had been amputated “because the wrists had become gangrenous due to handcuffing wounds”.
Shadi Abu Seido, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza who works for Palestine Today, who was released after 20 months’ detention at Sde Teiman and in another Israeli prison, said he had been seized by Israeli forces at al-Shifa hospital on 18 March 2024.
“They stripped me completely naked for 10 hours in the cold,” he said in a video interview published on Instagram by the Turkish public broadcaster TRT. “I was then transferred to Sde Teiman and held there for 100 days, during which I remained handcuffed and blindfolded. Many died in detention, others lost their minds. Some had limbs amputated. They suffered sexual and physical abuse. They brought dogs that urinated on us. When I asked why I had been arrested, they answered: ‘We have killed all the journalists. They died once. But we brought you here and you will die hundreds of times.’”
Naji Abbas, the director of the prisoners and detainees department at Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHR), said: “The signs of torture and abuse found on the bodies of Palestinians recently returned by Israel to Gaza are horrifying – yet, sadly, not surprising.
“These findings corroborate what Physicians for Human Rights Israel has exposed over the past two years about conditions inside Israeli detention facilities – particularly at the Sde Teiman camp – where Palestinians have been subjected to systematic torture and killings by soldiers and prison guards.”
PHR said: “The unprecedented number of Palestinians who have died in Israeli custody, together with verified evidence documented of deaths resulting from torture and medical neglect – and now the findings on the returned bodies – leave no doubt: an independent international investigation is urgently needed to hold those responsible in Israel accountable.”
The Guardian submitted photographs of the bodies to an Israeli doctor who also witnessed the treatment of prisoners at the field hospital in Sde Teiman.
On condition of anonymity, the physician said one of the pictures “shows the man had his hands tied likely with zip ties. There is a change in colour between the arms and the hands at the level of the zip ties, likely indicating ischemic changes due to excessive restraints.”
He added: “This might be someone who was either injured and captured (thus died under Israeli custody) or someone who died due to injuries inflicted after his capture.”
Dr Morris Tidball-Binz, a physician specialising in forensic science and a UN rapporteur, said: “A call should be made for independent and impartial forensic assistance to assist efforts to examine and identify the dead.”
Contacted regarding the allegations of torture, the Israel Defense Forces said they had asked the Israel Prison Service to investigate. The IPS did not respond to a request for comment.
As for the alleged abuses at Sde Teiman and the torture of prisoners, the IDF previously said it treated detainees “appropriately and carefully” and that “any allegation regarding misconduct by IDF soldiers is examined and dealt with accordingly. In appropriate cases, criminal investigations are opened by the military police.”
Asked about the claim Palestinian bodies had come from Sde Teiman, the IDF said they “are not commenting on this matter”.
At least 75 Palestinian detainees have died in Israeli jails since 7 October 2023, according to the UN.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/mutilated-bodies-palestinians-held-notorious-israeli-jail-gaza-officials

except it happens more frequently than people like to admit.

Halifax2TheMax · October 22

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

All Hamas, eh? And just another “media anecdote”.

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel

Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide

Prominent Jewish figures around the world are calling on the United Nations and world leaders to impose sanctions on Israel over what they describe as “unconscionable” actions amounting to genocide in Gaza.

Over 450 signatories, including former Israeli officials, Oscar winners, authors and intellectuals have signed an open letterdemanding accountability over Israel’s conduct in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The letter’s release comes as EU leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday amid reports they plan to shelve proposals for sanctions over human rights violations.

“We have not forgotten that so many of the laws, charters, and conventions established to safeguard and protect all human life were created in response to the Holocaust,” the signatories write. “Those safeguards have been relentlessly violated by Israel.”

Signatories include former speaker of the Israeli Knesset Avraham Burg, former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, British author Michael Rosen, Canadian author Naomi Klein, Oscar-winning film-maker Jonathan Glazer, US actor Wallace Shawn, Emmy winners Ilana Glazer and Hannah Einbinder, and Pulitzer prize winner Benjamin Moser.

The signatories urge world leaders to uphold international court of justice (ICJ) and international criminal court rulings, avoid complicity in international law violations by halting arms transfers and imposing targeted sanctions, ensure adequate humanitarian aid to Gaza, and reject false claims of antisemitism against those advocating for peace and justice.

“We bow our heads in immeasurable sorrow as the evidence accumulates that Israel’s actions will be judged to have met the legal definition of genocide,” the letter reads.

The appeal follows a sharp shift in public opinion for US Jews and the wider electorate over the last few years. A Washington Post poll found that 61% of US Jews believe Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, and 39% say it is committing genocide. Among the broader American public, 45% told the Brookings Institution they believe Israel is committing genocide, while a Quinnipiac surveyin August found half of US voters share that view, including 77% of Democrats.

Other signatories to the letter include the Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov, playwright V (formerly known as Eve Ensler), American comedian Eric André, South African novelist Damon Galgut, Oscar-winning journalist and documentarian Yuval Abraham, Tony award winner Toby Marlow and Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm.

“Our solidarity with Palestinians is not a betrayal of Judaism, then, but a fulfillment of it,” the signatories write. “When our sages taught that to destroy one life is to destroy an entire world, they did not carve exceptions for Palestinians. We shall not rest until this ceasefire carries forward into an end of occupation and apartheid.”

Since 7 October 2023, at least 65,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 167,000 injured, according to Gaza’s health ministry, while the UN estimates that roughly 90% of the population is internally displaced. Two US Democratic senators, Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley, concluded after a fact-finding mission to the region in September that Israel was implementing “a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza”, with the US complicit in these actions.

Their report detailed the near-total destruction of civilian infrastructure, the weaponization of food and systematic obstacles to humanitarian aid delivery.

The 10 October ceasefire has been shaken by repeated violations. The Palestinian news agency said Israel had violated the ceasefire 80 times and killed at least 80 Palestinians in the past 11 days. The Israeli military accused Hamas of violating the agreement, killing two Israeli soldiers in Rafah and delaying the return of hostages’ bodies.

The public letter says that the truce makes no reference to the West Bank, where settler violence continues, and the underlying conditions of occupation remain unaddressed.

More than 3,200 Palestinians have been injured in attacks in the West Bank this year, according to the latest UN humanitarian office report, and the UN documented 71 settler assaults during a single week in October. In one incident this week, a 55-year-old woman was hospitalized after being clubbed by a masked settler while picking olives, an attack captured on video.

The Israeli civil rights group Yesh Din has found that just 3% of investigations into settler violence between 2005 and 2024 led to convictions. Shortly after taking office, Donald Trump lifted the limited sanctions Joe Biden had imposed on dozens of violent settlers and settler groups.

The ICJ is expected to issue a new ruling this week clarifying Israel’s obligations in the occupied territories, following its July 2024 non-binding advisory opiniondeclaring the occupation unlawful. Yet EU foreign ministers are reportedly backing away from sanctions, despite findings by the bloc’s diplomatic service that there were “indications” Israel was breaching its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel association agreement.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/jewish-notables-open-letter-un-sanction-israel

gimmesometruth27 · October 22

Halifax2TheMax said:

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.
All Hamas, eh? And just another “media anecdote”.
Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
Prominent Jewish figures around the world are calling on the United Nations and world leaders to impose sanctions on Israel over what they describe as “unconscionable” actions amounting to genocide in Gaza.
Over 450 signatories, including former Israeli officials, Oscar winners, authors and intellectuals have signed an open letterdemanding accountability over Israel’s conduct in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The letter’s release comes as EU leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday amid reports they plan to shelve proposals for sanctions over human rights violations.
“We have not forgotten that so many of the laws, charters, and conventions established to safeguard and protect all human life were created in response to the Holocaust,” the signatories write. “Those safeguards have been relentlessly violated by Israel.”
Signatories include former speaker of the Israeli Knesset Avraham Burg, former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, British author Michael Rosen, Canadian author Naomi Klein, Oscar-winning film-maker Jonathan Glazer, US actor Wallace Shawn, Emmy winners Ilana Glazer and Hannah Einbinder, and Pulitzer prize winner Benjamin Moser.
The signatories urge world leaders to uphold international court of justice (ICJ) and international criminal court rulings, avoid complicity in international law violations by halting arms transfers and imposing targeted sanctions, ensure adequate humanitarian aid to Gaza, and reject false claims of antisemitism against those advocating for peace and justice.
“We bow our heads in immeasurable sorrow as the evidence accumulates that Israel’s actions will be judged to have met the legal definition of genocide,” the letter reads.
The appeal follows a sharp shift in public opinion for US Jews and the wider electorate over the last few years. A Washington Post poll found that 61% of US Jews believe Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, and 39% say it is committing genocide. Among the broader American public, 45% told the Brookings Institution they believe Israel is committing genocide, while a Quinnipiac surveyin August found half of US voters share that view, including 77% of Democrats.
Other signatories to the letter include the Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov, playwright V (formerly known as Eve Ensler), American comedian Eric André, South African novelist Damon Galgut, Oscar-winning journalist and documentarian Yuval Abraham, Tony award winner Toby Marlow and Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm.
“Our solidarity with Palestinians is not a betrayal of Judaism, then, but a fulfillment of it,” the signatories write. “When our sages taught that to destroy one life is to destroy an entire world, they did not carve exceptions for Palestinians. We shall not rest until this ceasefire carries forward into an end of occupation and apartheid.”
Since 7 October 2023, at least 65,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 167,000 injured, according to Gaza’s health ministry, while the UN estimates that roughly 90% of the population is internally displaced. Two US Democratic senators, Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley, concluded after a fact-finding mission to the region in September that Israel was implementing “a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza”, with the US complicit in these actions.
Their report detailed the near-total destruction of civilian infrastructure, the weaponization of food and systematic obstacles to humanitarian aid delivery.
The 10 October ceasefire has been shaken by repeated violations. The Palestinian news agency said Israel had violated the ceasefire 80 times and killed at least 80 Palestinians in the past 11 days. The Israeli military accused Hamas of violating the agreement, killing two Israeli soldiers in Rafah and delaying the return of hostages’ bodies.
The public letter says that the truce makes no reference to the West Bank, where settler violence continues, and the underlying conditions of occupation remain unaddressed.
More than 3,200 Palestinians have been injured in attacks in the West Bank this year, according to the latest UN humanitarian office report, and the UN documented 71 settler assaults during a single week in October. In one incident this week, a 55-year-old woman was hospitalized after being clubbed by a masked settler while picking olives, an attack captured on video.
The Israeli civil rights group Yesh Din has found that just 3% of investigations into settler violence between 2005 and 2024 led to convictions. Shortly after taking office, Donald Trump lifted the limited sanctions Joe Biden had imposed on dozens of violent settlers and settler groups.
The ICJ is expected to issue a new ruling this week clarifying Israel’s obligations in the occupied territories, following its July 2024 non-binding advisory opiniondeclaring the occupation unlawful. Yet EU foreign ministers are reportedly backing away from sanctions, despite findings by the bloc’s diplomatic service that there were “indications” Israel was breaching its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel association agreement.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/jewish-notables-open-letter-un-sanction-israel

careful or they will get called anti semites.

Lerxst1992 · October 22

Exactly gimme, isn't it funny how it's always jokes in the Russia thread, and serious hate on this one?

mickeyrat · October 23

easy to abhor actions such as this....

https://www.threads.com/@elenileoussi/post/DQIsbyzCJQg?xmt=AQF0AgY6DlS_qh0WePv3jVy6RuoCguQvULyf569h58X2bg&slof=1

gimmesometruth27 · October 23

how's that peace plan going?

if trump had won the nobel, could the committee ask for it back?

mickeyrat · October 23

Exclusive: US mulls Gaza aid plan that would replace controversial GHF aid operation - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-mulls-gaza-aid-plan-that-would-replace-controversial-ghf-aid-operation-2025-10-23/

mickeyrat · October 23

Trump dismisses bid by some Israeli lawmakers to annex West Bank - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/secretary-rubio-warns-west-bank-annexation-endangers-trumps-gaza-plan-2025-10-23/

gimmesometruth27 · October 23

trump is like mac from it's always sunny in philadelphia.

"i am playing both sides. that way i always come out ahead."

mickeyrat · October 23

US President Donald Trump has said that Israel "would lose all of its support from the United States" if it were to annex the West Bank.

His comment appears in a transcript of an interview with Time magazine that was published on Thursday, a day after Israeli MPs voted to advance two bills on the annexation of the occupied West Bank.

'It will not happen. Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened,' Trump told the magazine. 'It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries.'

US Vice President JD Vance, who is visiting Israel, said the move by MPs looked like a stupid 'political stunt' that he viewed as an 'insult'.

Click here to read more: https://news.ae/4qpWgYY

mickeyrat · October 24

Pay close attention to the master plan....

https://youtu.be/iwy3lKuLTCA?si=cjomy5qejUiOADGb

mickeyrat · October 24

Oh thank god. Everybody can rest easy now.

Jared Kushner is back. The president's son-in-law — and former chief adviser — had said he wasn't planning to join the administration for a second time.
He successfully returned to the private sector and was raking in millions in foreign investments from ties nurtured during his first stint at the White House. But then President Trump drafted him back to help secure a ceasefire in Gaza.

https://www.wosu.org/npr-news/2025-10-23/what-jared-kushner-brings-to-the-negotiating-table-in-the-middle-east?fbclid=Iwb21leANnwANleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHu58rByb_6PrOqDk3Vq7-hBhkzcZ6tTD0s6cfmNKLGZ-72cRBwE6-5Eb_Vb-_aem_d-yTJTG9XyCsbfXpTKOYkQ

gimmesometruth27 · October 24

mickeyrat said:

Oh thank god. Everybody can rest easy now.

Jared Kushner is back. The president's son-in-law — and former chief adviser — had said he wasn't planning to join the administration for a second time.
He successfully returned to the private sector and was raking in millions in foreign investments from ties nurtured during his first stint at the White House. But then President Trump drafted him back to help secure a ceasefire in Gaza.

https://www.wosu.org/npr-news/2025-10-23/what-jared-kushner-brings-to-the-negotiating-table-in-the-middle-east?fbclid=Iwb21leANnwANleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHu58rByb_6PrOqDk3Vq7-hBhkzcZ6tTD0s6cfmNKLGZ-72cRBwE6-5Eb_Vb-_aem_d-yTJTG9XyCsbfXpTKOYkQ

fuck kushner.

we are due for some good news. these last two weeks have been fucking brutal.

mickeyrat · October 27

Israel won't accept Turkish armed forces in Gaza, foreign minister says - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-wont-accept-turkish-armed-forces-gaza-foreign-minister-says-2025-10-27/

Israel will decide which foreign forces can enter Gaza, Netanyahu says - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-says-israel-will-determine-which-international-forces-are-unacceptable-2025-10-26/

gimmesometruth27 · October 27

goalposts be moving, as usual.

mickeyrat · October 28

you dont say...

Rubio says Israeli strike on Gaza didn't violate ceasefire - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/rubio-says-israeli-strike-gaza-didnt-violate-ceasefire-2025-10-27/

Halifax2TheMax · October 28

mickeyrat said:

you dont say...

Rubio says Israeli strike on Gaza didn't violate ceasefire - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/rubio-says-israeli-strike-gaza-didnt-violate-ceasefire-2025-10-27/

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

We all know the eventual outcome, from the river to the sea.

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At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel

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