Tag: Gaza

Trump breaks silence on Israel’s military campaign in Gaza: ‘Finish the problem’

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By Vaughn Hillyard and Allan Smith The former president has largely avoided weighing in on Gaza as President Joe Biden has faced criticism from within the Democratic coalition over his support for Israel. PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that Israel must “finish the problem” in its war against Hamas, his most definitive position on the conflict since the terror group killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostages on Oct. 7. “You’ve got to finish the problem,” Trump said on Fox News on Tuesday when asked about…

Joachim Hagopian, Israel’s Rafah Ground Invasion – Zionist War Against Islam Is about to Explode

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Joachim Hagopian The deadliest ever Israeli bombardment by land, sea and air on Rafah, Gaza Strip’s southernmost border city, took place while America was sidetracked with Superbowl Sunday festivities. On Sunday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on ABC News “This Week” to announce: Victory is within reach. We’re going to do it. We’re going to get the remaining Hamas terrorist battalions in Rafah, which is the last bastion, but we’re going to do it. Then overnight on Monday February 12th, anywhere from over 100 to 164 Palestinians were reportedly murdered by Israeli attacks. International alarm and condemnation of…

Omar Karmi, Gaza genocide turns into PR disaster for US

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Omar Karmi  Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is turning into a public relations disaster for the US.Israel has been openly and increasingly defying its main sponsor and ally despite the Biden administration’s fulsome support for Israel’s massive assault on the tiny coastal territory it occupies, and despite the administration repeatedly circumventing its own legislature to deliver munitions to Israel.In December, the US said it wanted Israel to wind down its Gaza operation by mid-January. It hasn’t happened. Twice in January, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly contradicted the US administration over a two-state solution. The second time, he…

Will World Court’s Ruling in Genocide Case Signal the End of International Law?

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Michel Moushabeck A credibility crisis with sharp consequences could result if the court rules in favor of Israel, despite the evidence. There is very little more we can say that the thousands of reports and images of death, destruction and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza have not. Israel, without a doubt — its genocide watched globally in real time — has already lost in the court of public opinion. But will the International Court of Justice (ICJ) — the UN’s highest legal organ — find Israel guilty of genocide? Nearly 30…

Nathan Soloman, US Attack on Yemen Exposes the Lie of Supposed “Rules-Based International Order”

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Norman Solomon  Antony Blinken’s lofty rhetoric about “rules” and “rights” is emptier than ever after Biden’s illegal attack on Yemen. Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s a grimly laughable premise, but the nation’s major media outlets routinely take such claims seriously and credulously. Overall, the default assumption is that top officials in Washington are reluctant to go to war, and do so only as a last resort. That framing was in evidence when the New York Times published this sentence at the…

Ron Unz, American Pravda: Israel and the Holocaust Hoax

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Ron Unz  Last month I explored the historical origins of the State of Israel and the intertwined expulsion of the Palestinian refugees from their ancient homeland. During this discussion, I emphasized the crucial role that the Jewish Holocaust had played in justifying and facilitating those momentous events of three generations ago. American Pravda: The Nakba and the Holocaust Ron Unz • The Unz Review • December 11, 2023 • 14,600 Words I read or reread more than a dozen books for my long review article, and also glancingly mentioned an additional one, which I’ve…

Joachim Hagopian, HOSPITALIZED SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LLOYD AUSTIN’S HEAD MAY ROLL

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Joachim Hagopian [Editor’s note: Russians Claim: Austin Dead In Ukraine. Report https://realrawnews.com/2024/01/russian-claim-austin-dead-in-ukraine/] US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization on January 1st resulting from a post-surgery complication from an elective medical procedure was kept quiet to even senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress. Not even Austin’s boss President Biden knew he was in the hospital. On Friday January 5th, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Gen. Pat Ryder was forced to admit that the Pentagon was unaware its chief has been a patient all week long at Walter Reed National Military Center. Though unsure of…

Joachim Hagopian, CHRISTMAS WEEK IN PALESTINE: THE COMING STORM IS UPON US

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Joachim Hagopian   [Editor’s note: Joachim Hagopian & Omar Khan on The Dean Mackin Show – 05 January 2024 | TNT Radio On today’s show, Joachim Hagopian discusses the release of Epstein documents. Later in the show, Omar Khan discusses the pandemic response in 30 days and revisits the topic of Epstein.] Back channels between Iran supporting the Shiite Houthis and Saudi Sunni supported puppet government in Yemen through the United Nations just revealed the 9-year Yemini “civil war” is coming to an end with a brokered peace plan. With reports that…

Joachim Hagopian, City of London Pawns US and Israel are Fast Becoming Rogue State World Pariahs  

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Joachim Hagopian Every week Israel and US governments’ genocidal war in both Gaza and larger Middle East increasingly alienates and dooms both these nations as global outcasts. Even a Wednesday December 20th Washington Post cast doubt on Israel’s capacity to defeat the heavily entrenched Hamas militants fighting on their own demolished turf in Gaza. Though near all of Gaza’s buildings lay in rubble, with 90% of its Palestinian residents displaced and homeless, and over 20,000 of them dead, 2 out of 3 women and children, with all its pulverizing military might, WaPo insists that Israel…

The Antisemitic Moment: Maligning critics by Jewish groups to “protect” Israel only damages their credibility

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PHILIP GIRALDI    In a 2002 interview the former Israeli government minister Shulamit Aloni was asked by Amy Goodman: “Often when there is dissent expressed in the United States against policies of the Israeli government, people here are called antisemitic. What is your response to that as an Israeli Jew?” Shulamit Aloni replied “Well, it’s a trick, we always use it. When from Europe somebody is criticizing Israel, then we bring up the Holocaust. When in this country [the US] people are criticizing Israel, then they are antisemitic.” She added that there…