Rula Jebreal
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Former CIA chief William Burns: “The fundamental problem was that Hamas was seeking an ‘end to the conflict once and for all,’ and Biden’s team pretended that Hamas was the obstacle, to help Israel definitively put an end to Gaza as a society and to the Palestinians as a people. In October 2023, Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed al-Thani stated that Hamas had agreed to release the hostages without conditions. A senior Israeli military official has now told *Haaretz* that, when Hamas’s offer reached the army, it was ignored: “To be honest, the issue of the hostages was not yet on the agenda at that stage, and no one, either at the military or political level, was willing to discuss the proposal.” Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was informed directly of Hamas’s offer and rejected it as well. “Israel is still under attack and there is no one to talk to,” he told the Qatari prime minister. This is the same Blinken who shortly afterward would say that, if Hamas released the hostages, “all of this could end tomorrow.”
Translated from ItalianThe United Kingdom, France, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden announce that they will ban in their countries imports of products originating from the illegal settlements of Israeli settlers in the West Bank. While the Meloni government provides an escort for Israeli soldiers vacationing in Italy to rest from the extermination of children in Gaza, and Italy continues to sell weapons to Israel, Germany and Italy – co-authors of the European genocide– continue to prevent the EU from complying with the Genocide Convention in Palestine. Meloni’s Italy and Germany are just as complicit as Israel in the first genocide broadcast before the eyes of the world.
Translated from Italian“‘The emir [MBZ] hoped that despite his reserved response, Netanyahu would take the message seriously and take action,’ the adviser says. None of them imagined that the PM would hear the message but would NOT brief the heads of the defense establishment. The head of the Shin Bet, the head of the Mossad, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff—none of them knew about bin Zayed's warning.” Netanyahu to his Likud party; “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.”
The shocking accusations: “The UAE warned Netanyahu before October 7. But he did NOT inform the intelligence services.” Two weeks before October 7, 2023, the president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed, called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu from Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes. During that conversation, Ben Zayed warned the Israeli PM that Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a large-scale operation against Israel. Bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to take the situation seriously. To his great surprise, however, the PM reacted with relative calm. Netanyahu stated that, in his assessment, Hamas intended to operate in the area of the occupied West Bank and reassured bin Zayed that Israel was ready to face any scenario… The October 7 attack was the biggest failure of Israeli security; two military units were removed from Gaza and moved to the occupied West Bank to protect the settlers and the illegal settlements. For years Netanyahu facilitated funding for Hamas, and considered them a strategic asset… to weaken the Palestinian National Authority and prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. To this day, the Israeli government refuses to open an investigative commission to investigate what happened; they have preferred to exploit the crimes in Gaza to commit a colonial genocide.
Translated from ItalianGenocide is where racism ceases to speak and starts to kill. It is supremacists’ final argument and goal. We’ve been grieving the televised ongoing genocide of 22,000 Palestinian children. https://t.co/BowAEUG9pX
Omer Bartov in the @BostonReview: "But the time when Israel had a blank check to kill in the name of the Holocaust is over. One genocide cannot be used to legitimize another. The Zionism that still exists today is a RACIST IDEOLOGY TO JEWISH SUPREMACY, and that ideology, like the ideologies of the twentieth century, must end up in the dustbin of history.”
The Financial Times (FT) openly calls for boycotting products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement l. “Western states should adopt a common position on banning exports from illegal settlements [both in Palestine and in Ukraine].” I invite everyone to read the extraordinary book by @luigidaniele10, The Law of the Strongest: The Destruction of the International Order. A fierce and unprecedented attack by the USA + Israel against international justice. The West has made a disastrous choice in favor of this deposing violence, which now threatens the fundamental structures of liberal democracies everywhere.
Translated from ItalianI am disgusted and horrified that Hakeem Jeffries is taking money from AIPAC amidst Israel's genocide in Palestine. That said, a term that I used to describe him was inappropriate and offensive and should never have been used. I apologize unconditionally.
Amid the colonial genocide in Palestine, while Israeli ministers openly speak of ethnic cleansing and ethnic replacement… On behalf of Gaza’s Board of Peace, former British PM Blair, resurrected by Trump, asked the Palestinian Authority to remove the word “PALESTINE” from school textbooks, replacing it with “Samaria,” which is the Hebrew biblical designation for the occupied West Bank. Palestinians must also be erased from history books, while they are being exterminated by Israel with the complicity of the democratic West.
Translated from Italian"Today 70% of Gaza’s territory is a desert thanks to what the Israeli army has done; there are no inhabitants or homes left there. In Lebanon we razed dozens of villages to the ground and expelled 200,000 Lebanese. We also reoccupied the refugee camps in the West Bank and expelled 40,000 Palestinians”. Israel Katz, Israel’s defense minister, publicly boasts of having razed Gaza to the ground and of committing a colonial genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, Lebanon and the occupied West Bank. The Nazis sought to hide the corpses in concentration camps, but these criminals instead revel - proud - and publicly boast of their barbarity, the massacre and the ongoing slaughter in Palestine.
Translated from ItalianHere is the next Orwellian chapter about the rape of Palestinian detainees at the military torture center, Sde Teiman: The Israeli soldiers who raped Palestinian hostages in front of cameras have gone unpunished after the Israeli prosecution closed the case, and after the dismissal of the Israeli magistrate who was investigating the rapists. Today, the Israeli rapists have decided to sue the Israeli judiciary and seek damages for “defamation.” Some Israeli lawmakers have invoked the right to rape Palestinian detainees, and now the rapists themselves invoke the right to receive financial compensation…. Israeli rapist soldiers filing a lawsuit to obtain the right to rape Palestinians… we are facing a radicalized society that has completely lost any morality and humanity.
Translated from ItalianAn Israeli government minister openly confirms that Israel’s main objective is the ethnic cleansing of 2 million Palestinians from Gaza. Israel’s colonial genocide was always in the service of ethnic cleansing. https://t.co/piLqHMK40J
Even the Financial Times is urging the European Union to suspend the EU–Israel Association Agreement and ban trade with all illegal settlements. It is shameful that Germany under @_FriedrichMerz and Italy under @GiorgiaMeloni continue to obstruct and block such measures and violate both international law and the order of the Court of Justice.
Translated from ItalianAmidst its ongoing genocide, Israel’s government commissioned research on how to improve its image in the US. The study found: Israel’s best tactic to combat its negative image is to foment fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism” in the US. Propagandist Bari Weiss' CBS is deliberately insinuating that Abdul El-Sayed is connecting to 9/11 attacks. This is the kind of propaganda that led to a 6 year old Palestinian child, Wadee Alfayoumi, being stabbed to death in Illinois.
Mark Etkin, the son of a Holocaust survivor, states that “the main cause of antisemitism in the world today is the fact that Israel claims to represent all Jews and is committing a GENOCIDE in Gaza in the name of all Jews”. #ddlantisemitismo does NOT counter antisemitism; rather, it criminalizes those who criticize Israel’s barbaric genocidal policies.
Translated from ItalianFor those who read the international press. Today, some important statements appeared in the *New York Times* about the criminal and genocidal conduct of the Israeli army and government. Israeli generals compare Israel’s actions to Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust; these statements will certainly be picked up by the Italian press and condemned by defenders of the Israeli genocide. I would like to emphasize again that these statements come from Jewish Israeli generals and former prime ministers.
Translated from ItalianNetanyahu openly can brag publicly about dragging the US into a war with Iran on behalf of Israel, and boast about his skills at influencing US politicians and media: He roughly had 100s of hours of free airtime on U.S. networks. Yet, US citizens who suggest that Israel influences US politicians are smeared as anti-semites, censored and literally criminalized.
Palestinians journalists and experts have been documenting and telling the world that Israeli settlers, armed and financed by the government, are carrying out ethnic cleansing. Now, Israeli generals and ex-PM are confirming what we’ve been warning about for years. “A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with 🇮🇱 government support." “Once a society behaves this way,” one said, “that society is doomed.”
This Israeli war criminal is Adi Karni, the same one who had himself filmed blowing up mosques and other civilian infrastructure in Gaza. After committing atrocities in Gaza, he was allowed to roam freely in Rome, Milan, London, and New York. Adi Karmi was invited to give lectures at Jewish schools in Rome and Milan, despite the criminal investigations against him in Peru, following the war-crimes complaint initiated by the Hind Rajab Foundation. Last week, he disguised himself as a Palestinian to infiltrate demonstrations by students from Columbia University in NYC. Why do Jewish schools in Italy invite war criminals from the Israeli army to preach in Jewish schools? What could they teach Italian Jewish students?
Translated from ItalianIsrael has lost global support because of its own war crimes, the genocide in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank and in Lebanon, and illegal bombardments toward 5 sovereign countries… now it is launching a hybrid war made up of propaganda, lies, and disinformation to destabilize Western democracies. First and foremost, the European countries critical of the ongoing colonial genocide in Palestine. The assault on Ceuta was facilitated and incited by propaganda generated by Israel. How many more crimes will Israel have to commit before sanctions are imposed on this rogue state?
Translated from ItalianIsraeli Minister Ben-Gvir is conducting an election campaign, with campaign ads, promising to continue torturing and starving Palestinian detainees. I am not aware of a historical precedent in which a genocidal regime ran campaign ads or boasted about committing crimes against humanity and war crimes. This sadism and barbarism are the direct result of the complicity and support of the democratic West. International law and also the credibility of the European Union have been buried beneath the rubble of Gaza.
Translated from Italian (Italy)A survey conducted by Brandeis University in the USA among U.S. college students shows that opinion of the criminal Israeli government is slightly worse than opinion of Hamas and far worse than opinion of the Palestinian National Authority, while opinion of the Palestinian people is far better than opinion of the Israeli people. The overwhelming majority of American citizens are against the genocide in Palestine and in favor of suspending all military and financial aid to Israel.
Translated from ItalianFrench authorities have exposed the Israeli company BlackCore, linked to Mossad, while it was interfering in elections in Europe, the USA and Latin America. Fake accounts, AI-based bots and smear campaigns: a tried-and-tested strategy to push voters toward right-wing, pro-Israel candidates. In addition, an American journalist exposed an IDF soldier who was posing as Palestinians in front of Columbia University. An IDF soldier, accompanied by a Mossad agent, resort to deceptive tactics: they pretend to be Palestinians, wear the Palestinian keffiyeh, wave the Palestinian flag, and said they were Hamas fighters and showed footage of October 7, and asked students whether they supported armed resistance in Palestine. The objective in both cases: to spread Israeli propaganda, dehumanize and criminalize solidarity with Palestinians, and subvert liberal democracies. What we know is only the tip of the iceberg of the blackmail tactics (Epstein), threats, corruption, and direct and indirect killings of pro-Palestinian activists and politicians.
Translated from ItalianAn investigation by Haaretz denounces Israel’s use of armed MILITIAS linked to radical ISIS elements in the Gaza Strip, which add their war crimes to those of the Israeli army, despite the so-called “ceasefire”. The militias are clans that Netanyahu publicly admitted to having recruited to “counter” Hamas, which Netanyahu himself financed for years before October 7 as part of an effort against a Palestinian state. Europe refuses to sanction and arrest this fugitive for war crimes.
Translated from ItalianZelensky is undermining international solidarity toward Ukraine. In this post on X, he cites Israel as an example, even though it is a state that chronically violates international law, has been implicated in war crimes and crimes against humanity, and has illegally occupied the Palestinian Territories for 59 years… the same principle that Ukraine is invoking against Russia’s illegal aggression. The International Criminal Court (ICC), which Ukraine joined a year ago, has issued arrest warrants for Putin and his associates. The same international court has issued an international arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes committed in Palestine. Both leaders/countries are under investigation and fugitives from justice for war crimes before the ICC. International justice is not à la carte. Zelensky is not only short-sighted but also self-destructive.
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