Trump’s ceasefire
(It is a sadistic game. A merry-go-round of death. This ceasefire, like those of the past, is a commercial break.)
Via Chris Hedges; American journalist, author, commentator and Presbyterian minister.
“There is no shortage of failed peace plans in occupied Palestine, all of them incorporating detailed phases and timelines, going back to the presidency of Jimmy Carter. They end the same way. Israel gets what it wants initially — in the latest case the release of the remaining Israeli hostages — while it ignores and violates every other phase until it resumes its attacks on the Palestinian people.
It is a sadistic game. A merry-go-round of death. This ceasefire, like those of the past, is a commercial break. A moment when the condemned man is allowed to smoke a cigarette before being gunned down in a fusillade of bullets.
Once Israeli hostages are released, the genocide will continue. I do not know how soon. Let’s hope the mass slaughter is delayed for at least a few weeks. But a pause in the genocide is the best we can anticipate. Israel is on the cusp of emptying Gaza, which has been all but obliterated under two years of relentless bombing. It is not about to be stopped. This is the culmination of the Zionist dream. The United States, which has given Israel a staggering $22 billion in military aid since Oct, 7, 2023, will not shut down its pipeline, the only tool that might halt the genocide.
Israel, as it always does, will blame Hamas and the Palestinians for failing to abide by the agreement, most probably a refusal — true or not — to disarm, as the proposal demands. Washington, condemning Hamas’s supposed violation, will give Israel the green light to continue its genocide to create Trump’s fantasy of a Gaza Riviera and “special economic zone” with its “voluntary”relocation of Palestinians in exchange for digital tokens.
Of the myriads of peace plans over the decades, the current one is the least serious. Aside from a demand that Hamas release the hostages within 72-hours after the ceasefire begins, it lacks specifics and imposed timetables. It is filled with caveats that allow Israel to abrogate the agreement. And that is the point. It is not designed to be a viable path to peace, which most Israeli leaders understand. Israel’s largest-circulation newspaper, Israel Hayom, established by the late casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to serve as a mouthpiece for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and champion messianic Zionism, instructed its readers not to be concerned about the Trump plan because it is only “rhetoric.”
Israel, in one example from the proposal, will “not return to areas that have been withdrawn from, as long as Hamas fully implements the agreement.”
Who decides if Hamas has “fully implemented” the agreement? Israel. Does anyone believe in Israel’s good faith? Can Israel be trusted as an objective arbitrator of the agreement? If Hamas — demonized as a terrorist group — objects, will anyone listen?
How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which reiterated that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end?
How can it fail to mention the Palestinian’s right to self-determination?
Why are Palestinians, who have a right under international law to armed struggle against an occupying power, expected to disarm while Israel, the illegally occupying force, is not?
By what authority can the U.S. establish a “temporary transitional government,” — Trump’s and Tony Blair’s so-called “Board of Peace” — sidelining the Palestinian right to self-determination?
Who gave the U.S. the authority to send to Gaza an “International Stabilization Force,” a polite term for foreign occupation?
How are Palestinians supposed to reconcile themselves to the acceptance of an Israeli “security barrier” on Gaza’s borders, confirmation that the occupation will continue?
How can any proposal ignore the slow-motion genocide and annexation of the West Bank?
Why is Israel, which has destroyed Gaza, not required to pay reparations?
What are Palestinians supposed to make of the demand in the proposal for a “deradicalized” Gazan population? How is this expected to be accomplished? Re-education camps? Wholesale censorship? The rewriting of the school curriculum? Arresting offending Imams in mosques?
And what about addressing the incendiary rhetoric routinely employed by Israeli leaders who describe Palestinians as “human animals” and their children as “little snakes”?
“All of Gaza and every child in Gaza, should starve to death,” the Israeli rabbi Ronen Shaulov announced. “I don’t have mercy for those who, in a few years, will grow up and won’t have mercy for us. Only a stupid fifth column, a hater of Israel has mercy for future terrorists, even though today they are still young and hungry. I hope, may they starve to death, and if anyone has a problem with what I’ve said, that’s their problem.”
Israeli violations of peace agreements have historical precedents.
The Camp David Accords, signed in 1978 by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin — without the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) — led to the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, which normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and Egypt.
Subsequent phases of the Camp David Accords, which included a promise by Israel to resolve the Palestinian question along with Jordan and Egypt, permit Palestinian self-governance in the West Bank and Gaza within five years, and end the building of Israeli colonies in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, were never implemented.
The 1993 Oslo Accords, signed in 1993, saw the PLO recognize Israel’s right to exist and Israel recognize the PLO as the legitimate representatives of the Palestinian people. Yet, what ensued was the disempowerment of the PLO and its transformation into a colonial police force. Oslo II, signed in 1995, detailed the process towards peace and a Palestinian state. But it too was stillborn. It stipulated that any discussion of illegal Jewish “settlements” were to be delayed until “final” status talks. By then, Israeli military withdrawals from the occupied West Bank were scheduled to have been completed. Governing authority was poised to be transferred from Israel to the supposedly temporary Palestinian Authority. Instead, the West Bank was carved up into Areas A, B and C. The Palestinian Authority had limited authority in Areas A and B while Israel controlled all of Area C, over 60 percent of the West Bank.
The right of Palestinian refugees to return to the historic lands that Jewish settlers seized from them in 1948 when Israel was created — a right enshrined in international law — was given up by the PLO leader Yasser Arafat. This instantly alienated many Palestinians, especially those in Gaza where 75 percent are refugees or the descendants of refugees. As a consequence, many Palestinians abandoned the PLO in favor of Hamas. Edward Said called the Oslo Accords “an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles” and lambasted Arafat as “the Pétain of the Palestinians.”
The scheduled Israeli military withdrawals under Oslo never took place. There were around 250,000 Jewish colonists in the West Bank when the Oslo agreement was signed. Their numbers today have increased to at least 700,000.
The journalist Robert Fisk called Oslo “a sham, a lie, a trick to entangle Arafat and the PLO into abandonment of all that they had sought and struggled for over a quarter of a century, a method of creating false hope in order to emasculate the aspiration of statehood.”
Israel unilaterally broke the last two-month-long ceasefire on March 18 of this year when it launched surprise airstrikes on Gaza. Netanyahu’s office claimed that the resumption of the military campaign was in response to Hamas’s refusal to release hostages, its rejection of proposals to extend the cease-fire and its efforts to rearm. Israel killed more than 400 people in the initial overnight assault and injured over 500, slaughtering and wounding people as they slept. The attack scuttled the second stage of the agreement, which would have seen Hamas release the remaining living male hostages, both civilians and soldiers, for an exchange of Palestinian prisoners and the establishment of a permanent ceasefire along with the eventual lifting of the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
Israel has carried out murderous assaults on Gaza for decades, cynically calling the bombardment “mowing the lawn.” No peace accord or ceasefire agreement has ever gotten in the way. This one will be no exception.
This bloody saga is not over. Israel’s goals remain unchanged: the dispossession and erasure of Palestinians from their land.
The only peace Israel intends to offer the Palestinians is the peace of the grave”.
Chris Hedges: American journalist, author, commentator and Presbyterian minister.
Posts Tagged ‘#FreePalestine #SaveGaza’
Trump’s Peace Plan
Posted in Historical, news from around the world, tagged #FreePalestine #SaveGaza, #freepalestinefromzionistoccupation #FreePalestineFromTheRiverToTheSea, #gazagenocide #standupandbecounted #protest #genocide, #Palestine #genocide #poems #savethechildren on October 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Zionism, what it is, and why it has nothing to do with religion, and the big lie
Posted in Historical, news from around the world, Travel, tagged #dictators #trump, #FreePalestine #SaveGaza, #freepalestinefromzionistoccupation #FreePalestineFromTheRiverToTheSea, #gazagenocide #standupandbecounted #protest #genocide, #Palestine #genocide #savethechildren, #recognisePalestine, #Zionism on October 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »
A “Zionist” is a supporter of Zionism, a nationalist movement for the creation and support of a Jewish state in Palestine, the historical homeland of the Jewish people. The term comes from “Zion,” a hill in Jerusalem, and describes someone who believes in the Jews’ right to self-determination in the Land of Israel. NB: There were 3 or 4 possible locations in countries other than Palestine that were considered for the establishment of this ‘Land of Israel’. It had little to do with Christ or the supposed Holy land. See the end of this for other locations that were considered. None of which have any links to where Christ was born.
Zionism emerged in the late 19th century in Europe as a response to antisemitism, aiming to establish a homeland for Jewish people.
Israel is a Zionist project. Conceived by
Theodor Herzl: The founder of the modern Zionist movement, Herzl, envisioned an independent Jewish state in the 20th century.
The movement is rooted in an ancient connection and religious attachment of Jews to the historical region of Palestine.
NB: PALESTINE!!!
Zionists support the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their historic homeland.
NB: That historic ‘homeland’ is ALSO the historic homeland of the Arabs; Palestinians who ultimately converted to either Christianity or Islam.
At that time, the population was a mix of Semetic peoples; Christian, Islamic, Jewish…the true Semites – NOT the Ashkenazi Jews from Europe who have NO genetic link to Palestine.
A central goal of Zionism was the creation of the state of Israel, which was declared in 1948 after World War II.
NB: AFTER WW2.
Zionism[a] is an ethnocultural nationalist[b] movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe, seeking to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine.[2] This region corresponds to the Land of Israel in Judaism and is central to Jewish history.[3] Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible. Ref Google
Zionism initially emerged in Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment.[5][6] The arrival of Zionist settlers to Palestine during this period is widely seen as the start of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Zionist claim to Palestine was based on the notion that the Jews’ historical right to the land outweighed that of the Arabs.
NB: this notion of a ‘right’ to a particular land is based on white supremacist colonialism.
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
NB ‘ a small MINORITY!! But typical of white supremacist colonialism.
In 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence and the first Arab-Israeli war broke out. During the war, Israel expanded its territory to control over 78% of Mandatory Palestine. As a result of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, an estimated 160,000 of 870,000 Palestinians in the territory remained, forming a Palestinian minority in Israel.
NB: this was the Palestinians land as much as it was the land of the small minority of Jews in 1947/48.
But the Israelis forced 750,000 Palestinians out of their homes, their farms, their lands, their villages, and displaced to Arabs countries surrounding the newly formed Israel. If they refused to leave, they were killed.
The villages were razed to the ground and either rebuilt as Israeli settlements or covered with pine trees from EUROPE to hide the destruction.
Alternatives like British East Africa (Uganda) and Argentina were also seriously discussed. Other locations that were explored include Cyrenaica, Mesopotamia, Brazil, Paraguay, Nevada, Australia, Siberia, Cuba, Canada, Cyprus, Mozambique, the Sinai Peninsula, Suriname, and Madagascar.
Kidnap in international waters
Posted in around the UK, Historical, news from around the world, tagged ##globalsumudflotilla, #FreePalestine #SaveGaza, #freepalestinefromzionistoccupation #FreePalestineFromTheRiverToTheSea, #gazagenocide #standupandbecounted #protest #genocide on October 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Somebody fixed the incorrectly worded BBC headline to reflect the truth.
Israeli pirates illegally board Gaza flotilla and kidnap activists including Greta Thunberg – far more accurate than “Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla and detains activists including Greta Thunberg”.
But I guess the BBC News wouldn’t let a little breaking of international law and piracy get in the way. They’re not here to present the truth, the reality of Netanyahu’s war crimes. Their journalists, editors et al are paid to suppress the truth, twist the reality to suit the Zionist Israeli terrorist agenda, and to ably assist with the #genocide of the Palestinians, and now the abuse of #globalsumudflotilla activists and volunteers trying to #BreakTheSiege and deliver #humanitarianaid to the people of #Gaza who are currently, deliberately, being starved by the #IGF and the devil’s spawn Netanyahu…another war crime, but they won’t let that get in the way of their hasbara. (Hasbara, a Hebrew word for “explanation” or “public diplomacy,” is a strategic communicative effort by the Israeli state and its supporters to explain and justify its actions and narratives to an international audience. While intended to provide information and a specific perspective, critics often describe it as a form of propaganda used to shape public opinion, promote a positive image of Israel, and counter negative narratives about its policies and the conflict with Palestinians.)
We simply can’t have the truth being reported…that would not fit the agenda of Keir Starmer or David Lammy and the rest of the government’s narratives. No. No. No. Can’t have that. 726 days of lies, untruths and dishonesty, plus 75 years of occupation. The British Broadcasting Corporation needs to keep up the pretence.
The slaughter of babies
Posted in around the UK, Historical, news from around the world, tagged ##globalsumudflotilla, #FreePalestine #SaveGaza, #Palestine #genocide #poems #savethechildren, #recognisePalestine, #stopthegenocide on September 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »
While our attention is focus on the #globalsumudflotilla the terrorist state of Israel is intensifying the slaughter of the Palestinians!!!! How are we not stopping this Keir Starmer David Lammy Yvette Cooper You’ve apparently recognised Palestine, mealy mouthed words, but what do you actually mean by this recognition. Because you’ve done absolutely nothing to stop the genocidal maniacs of Israel’s #IGF Is that vile monster Netanyahu keeping you on a short leash? Are you compromised? Are you actually working for the Zionist entity? We know you get paid by the LFoI, that’s already clear, but gas the illegal state of Israel upped the ante? Do you get paid extra per child beheaded or shredded? Do they give you a bonus for limbs ripped off? For the elderly obliterated? How do they keep count when so many people are buried under the rubble? When so many Palestinians are eviscerated and the pieces of body parts need to be collected by survivors and packed into plastic bags! How does it work then? A 💰 per bag of flesh, or is it weighed for payment per kg? How are the Israelis keeping you from being human and halting these atrocities? SANCTION. BOYCOTT. DIVEST. stop providing parts from your pot Starmer!!! Stop providing the RAF intel from those hired planes out of Akrotiri!!! There are independent journalists who ARE doing their jobs! They DO uncover your complicity !! Unlike the saps at BBC and ITV and Channel 5 and The Guardian The Telegraph CNN and so many others.
When are The Labour Party MPs going to dig their morals out the sewer and clean off the stench of Israeli money. But you know retirement…lush islands, swimming pools, fancy homes, free flights, good food, young girls…I guess that’s all way more attractive than stopping a genocide.
I am Israel
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I am Israel. I never miss a chance to claim victimhood while inflicting violence.
In 1947, the United Nations handed me more than half of someone else’s land. A gift I didn’t earn, from colonial powers who didn’t own it. I accepted. My neighbors objected. I called it war —and in the chaos, I began my cleansing. Over 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes—some fled, yes—but many were forced out at gunpoint, their villages razed, their names erased.
Then I planted pine trees over the ruins—to hide the memory. Forests where homes once stood. Parks over cemeteries. I made it green so the world wouldn’t see the black underneath. I called it “reforestation.” They called it erasure.
I am Israel. I have never chosen peace—only dominance.
In 1967, I launched a pre-emptive war and seized Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and Sinai. I claimed it was for security. I held onto it for power. I built settlements, one by one, choking Palestinian towns. International law said it was illegal. I ignored it. My map grew. Their freedom shrank.
I am Israel. I could have ended the occupation. Many times. But I always said no.
In 2000, at Camp David, I offered a patchwork of disconnected enclaves surrounded by walls, checkpoints, and soldiers. I called it peace. Palestinians walked away. I called them extremists. Then I built a wall, not on my border—but deep in theirs. I called it security. They called it theft.
I am Israel. I glorify militarism. I raise children to believe they are chosen.
My textbooks erase Palestine. My soldiers patrol streets with rifles pointed at teenagers. My media justifies bombings. My politicians joke about flattening Gaza. I send airstrikes to refugee camps, schools, and hospitals. Then I say they were human shields.
I am Israel. I elected Netanyahu. Again and again.
Not once, by mistake. But knowingly. I voted for leaders who vowed to crush the Palestinians, to expand settlements, to never allow a Palestinian state. My ministers speak of “the Arabs” as a demographic threat. My settlers burn olive trees. My mobs chant “Death to Arabs.” I call it patriotism.
I am Israel. I speak of democracy—but deny it to millions under my control.
I rule over millions who cannot vote in the country that controls their lives. I build roads they cannot drive on. I issue permits for them to breathe, to move, to live. I bomb Gaza, then seal it off and say it’s their fault. I say I left Gaza— but I control its air, sea, and borders. I say they are free — then I starve them.
I am Israel. I demand recognition — but give none in return.
I demand that Palestinians accept me as a Jewish state — while refusing to even say the word “Nakba.” I ignore the homes, lands, and history of those I displaced. I hold their keys in museums, not their hands. I deny the refugees their right to return. I make laws that call them “absentees,” even when they’re just over the hill.
I am Israel. I cry antisemitism — when what I fear is accountability.
I call any critic a hater. I blur the line between Judaism and Zionism, using one to shield the crimes of the other. I weaponize history to excuse apartheid. I manipulate trauma to justify conquest. I say “Never again” — but let it happen to others, by my own hand.
I am Israel. I will never stop killing and bombing and stealing land…you are next!
Leading the charge for a genocide
Posted in around the UK, news from around the world, tagged #FreePalestine #SaveGaza, #gazagenocide #standupandbecounted #protestZionism #stopthegenocideingaza, #Palestine #genocide #savethechildren on September 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Starmer is a self declared Zionist. He’s said it out loud. Occasionally he blathers in the House he shames with his presence and drips poisoned lies from his mouth. He is fully supportive of the genocide of the Palestinian people. He supplies weapons and RAF intel. He gets paid by Labour Friends of Israel. He has no morals. He has blood on his hands and the deaths of 19,000++++ slaughtered babies and children on his hands. 🩸🤲🏻🩸🤲🏻🩸🤲🏻🩸🤲🏻
The UK government has no backbone and are complicit in genocide.
The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) said today that the British government’s reception of the President of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog, reflects the blatant political hypocrisy of the Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government. “Starmer has been vocally calling for an end to the war in Gaza, while at the same time his government continues to export weapons to Israel and cooperate with it on all levels. Today he welcomes the president of a state whose government is overseeing the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people.”
In a press statement issued today, the AOHR UK stressed that Herzog, despite his “ceremonial” position, is one of the pillars of the fascist regime that engineered the genocide and continues to implement it in full view of the world. The organization noted on 12 October 2023, Herzog declared: “All Palestinians in Gaza are responsible, and there are no innocents.”
This statement, widely reported in Hebrew and Western media, was deemed a direct authorisation for the targeting of civilians and a clear endorsement of genocide.
The AOHR UK added that receiving Herzog in London can only be read as a green light for the Israeli government to continue its war of extermination. The message Starmer is sending to Israel is clear: “Continue the killing, destruction, and starvation. Keep demolishing residential towers in Gaza. Do not worry about condemnatory statements; they are merely public relations exercises to contain growing popular pressure in Britain.”
The AOHR UK pointed out that this visit comes as part of Herzog’s and his government’s efforts to break their growing international isolation, especially after European countries such as Spain, Norway, and Belgium took steps towards recognising the State of Palestine or imposing restrictions on cooperation with Israel. Meanwhile, the Israeli Prime Minister can no longer visit most European countries due to the arrest warrants issued against him by the International Criminal Court.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250909-rights-group-herzogs-reception-in-britain-a-green-light-for-the-genocide/
The Israeli dream is over
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Israel’s dream is over! These are the words of the editorial of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, titled “The Palestinians are the best people on earth in defending their homeland.” Is it possible to believe that Israel’s most prominent newspaper today recognizes the truth about the Palestinians, describing them as one of the most noble peoples on earth who rose up to defend their rights after seventy-five years, as if they were a single body? Here is the translation of the editorial into Arabic:
One of the most wonderful things that a living conscience pulsates with, the most beautiful thing that intellectual freedom blossoms with, and the purest fruit of empowerment. Read what the author wrote: During the war on Gaza and the resistance’s rocket attacks on us, our losses exceeded $912 million every three days, in costs for warplanes, Patriot missiles, and refueling vehicles, in addition to the consumption of ammunition and missiles of all kinds. This does not include the cessation of trade, the collapse of the stock market, the paralysis of institutions and construction, the disruption of agriculture and industry, the deaths of poultry on farms worth millions of dollars, the shutdown of some airports and trains, and the costs of sheltering those fleeing to shelters, not to mention the destruction caused by resistance rockets to homes, shops, cars, and factories.
We are the ones who ignited this war and fueled its flames, but we are not the ones who control it, and we certainly are not the ones who will end it. Its outcome is not in our favor, especially after Arab cities inside Israel surprised us with their uprising against us, even though we believed they had lost their Palestinian identity. This is an ominous sign for a state whose politicians have discovered that their calculations were miscalculated, and their strategies are unable to see beyond what they had planned. As for the Palestinians, they are the true owners of this land. Who else would defend it with their soul, money, and children with such strength, pride, and defiance? As a Jew, I challenge all of Israel to demonstrate such a deep sense of belonging and connection to the land.
If our people were truly attached to the land of Palestine, we would not have seen these massive numbers of Jews rushing to the airports to emigrate since the beginning of the war. We have subjected the Palestinians to the bitterness of murder, imprisonment, siege, and separation. We have immersed them in drugs, and attempted to indoctrinate their minds with deviant ideas that distance them from their religion, such as liberation, atheism, doubt, corruption, and perversion. Yet, it is astonishing to find among them a drug addict rising up to defend his land and Al-Aqsa Mosque, shouting “Allahu Akbar” as if he were a venerable scholar.
Indeed, despite knowing the humiliation and arrest that awaited them, they never hesitated to go to Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray. Ironically, the full-strength armies of other countries have not dared to do what the Palestinian resistance did in just a few days. The myth of the invincible Israeli soldier has been shattered, and he is now being killed and kidnapped. Since the resistance’s rockets have reached Tel Aviv, it is best to abandon the illusory dream of Greater Israel. The Palestinians must have a neighboring state with which we can live in mutual peace. This alone might extend our existence on this land by a few more years.
I believe that even if we persist for a thousand years—and that is, if we manage to survive for another ten years as a Jewish state—there will come a day when we will pay the price for everything. The Palestinian will return again, again and again, and this time he will come on horseback, heading toward Tel Aviv.
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