How Israel Supported Hamas Against the PLO

by Jeremy R. Hammond Since the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023, Israel has been executing a devastating assault on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, blocking humanitarian aid, internally displacing 75% of Gaza’s population, systematically destroying civilian infrastructure, and otherwise bombing indiscriminately. To date, over 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children.1 More than 10,000 additional Palestinians are missing under the rubble, and over 77,000 have been injured.2 Children have been dying from hunger and malnutrition due to Israel’s use of starvation as a method of warfare.3 In a case brought against Israel by the government of South … Continue reading How Israel Supported Hamas Against the PLO

An ultra-Orthodox ultimatum, and the future of the ‘Jewish’ state

(Photo Credit: The Cradle) The widening schism between Israel’s secular and ultra-Orthodox communities impacts not only the state’s military and economic wellbeing, but poses an existential threat to the stability of the entire Zionist project. By Robert Inlakesh Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, known as the Haredim, is the fastest-growing segment of the country’s population. This demographic shift is occurring amid escalating tensions between secular right-wing and religious-nationalist factions in Israel, raising concerns about the stability of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist coalition – particularly over contentious issues like Haredi military conscription. Projected to constitute approximately 16 percent of the occupation state’s population by … Continue reading An ultra-Orthodox ultimatum, and the future of the ‘Jewish’ state

The Gaza War and the Red Cows of Prophecy

Image: The Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible Illustration. How an arcane Old Testament legend and Rapture-ready Texas evangelicals may have helped set the table for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. By CHRISTOPHER LORD Hamas plotted the Al-Aqsa Flood operation in great secrecy. Although Israeli military intelligence caught wind of extensive and mysterious training in Gaza months earlier, the final preparations for the Oct. 7 attacks were known only among Hamas’ top leadership. A rare window into the decision-making process, however, was opened during a bizarre interview on Oct. 26 on the Egyptian satellite TV channel Sada El Balad.  Mustapha Bakri, an … Continue reading The Gaza War and the Red Cows of Prophecy

In Gaza, Satellites Show 157,200 Damaged or Destroyed Buildings

Top: On February 21, 2024, a boy stands atop a damaged building following Israeli air strikes in Rafah, Gaza. Visual: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images As the field of conflict remote sensing grows, experts are leaning on satellite images for humanitarian purposes. BY RAMIN SKIBBA ON OCT. 22, 2023 Israeli warplanes bombed buildings near Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, according to Reuters. Over the following weeks, airstrikes hit near the medical facility and neighboring structures, with some damage documented on video by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. By Nov. 12, in need of both electricity and generator fuel, Gazan health officials were forced to shut down both … Continue reading In Gaza, Satellites Show 157,200 Damaged or Destroyed Buildings

How the Gaza War Can Be Big News and Invisible at the Same Time

Illustration by Walker Gawande by Norman Solomon – Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of many books including War Made Easy. Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the illusion that when we see news about the Gaza war, we’re really seeing the war. We are not. What we do routinely see is reporting that’s as different from the actual war as a pointed finger is from the moon. The media words and images … Continue reading How the Gaza War Can Be Big News and Invisible at the Same Time

When Victims Become Executioners

Ibrahim Rayintakath for Noema Magazine Converging shifts in the Middle East erupt in the Israeli-Hamas war. BY NATHAN GARDELS – editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. The threads of conflict go back ages in the Middle East and never seem to end. Antipathies gestating from long-ago wounds are triggered by some current set of circumstances into fresh bouts of violence and war that conjoin with and compound past harms. What’s worse is that the impassioned hostility arising from existential stakes has intensified over the years into the horrifically unspeakable face-to-face brutality witnessed in the Hamas attack followed by the collateral toll from Israeli … Continue reading When Victims Become Executioners

The Little-known Disorder Tearing Romantic Relationships Apart

Psychologists are increasingly convinced that there’s an obsessive disorder associated with romantic relationships. How can ROCD – relationship obsessive-compulsive disorder – be treated, and why are religious Zionists particularly susceptible to it? by Dani Bar On What cause would you donate $50,000 to? Faced with this dilemma, most people would probably choose to aid cancer research, help Syrian orphans or establish a shelter for animals. But when Leonardo, a multimillionaire American tech entrepreneur, took out his wallet, he chose to inject $50,000 into development of a website that would help people experiencing with a controversial form of a wily psychological … Continue reading The Little-known Disorder Tearing Romantic Relationships Apart

How Jewish Immigrants Changed American Psychology

By: Peter Feuerherd  Secular Jewish psychologists like Boris Sidis criticized the positive optimism of Protestant-centered psychology. When many people face a crisis, whether related to health, personal finance, or other factors, they often respond by turning to religion for wisdom and comfort. Historically, this has sometimes happened with great intensity. In the late nineteenth century, a Ukrainian-American psychologist named Boris Sidis (1867–1923) wrote extensively about religious revivals, seeing in them potential dangers to society. Sidis’s essay “American Mental Epidemics” (1898) notes that “American society oscillates between active financial mania and attacks of religious insanity.” Sidis argued that sometimes religious revivalism was a … Continue reading How Jewish Immigrants Changed American Psychology

Alain Soral Sentenced to 2 Years Jail for Sharing “Gilets-Jaunes” Anti-Rothschild Rap Video

He Could Pay Over €170,000 in Fines and Compensation by GUILLAUME DUROCHER  A French writer and publisher will be jailed for sharing this meme The French civic-nationalist and anti-Zionist intellectual Alain Soral was sentenced to two years prison last week for sharing a rap video entitled “Gilets-Jaunes.” The music clip (watch it while you still can) is typical of the Yellow Vests in denouncing French media, political, and financial elites, and making a plea for direct democracy, notably the famous proposed Citizen’s Initiative Referendum (Référendum d’Initiative Populaire or RIC). The video also argues for the abrogation of the banking law of … Continue reading Alain Soral Sentenced to 2 Years Jail for Sharing “Gilets-Jaunes” Anti-Rothschild Rap Video

9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV by LAURENT GUYÉNOT  Technical impossibilities Thanks to courageous investigators, many anomalies in the official explanation of the events of 9/11 were posted on the Internet in the following months, providing evidence that this was a false flag operation, and that Osama bin Laden was innocent, as he repeatedly declared in the Afghan and Pakistani press and on Al Jazeera.[1] The proofs of this appalling fraud have been accumulating ever since, and are now accessible to anyone willing to spend a few hours of research on the Web. (Although, while preparing this article, I … Continue reading 9/11 Was an Israeli Job