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10/11/2025

The Netanyahu Cabinet’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide
Dan Steinbock
Recently, a classified report by a U.S. government watchdog discovered that Israeli military units have committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in the Gaza Strip. The findings by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General mark the first time a U.S. government report has acknowledged the scale of Israeli actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of Leahy Laws that bar U.S. assistance to foreign military units credibly accused of gross human rights abuses. Indirectly, these findings also highlight U.S. complicity in the Gaza genocide, due to continuing arms transfers and financing.

Conveniently, the story was released only after two years of Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza. In light of an avalanche of international reports during the period, the classified report represents a tip of iceberg.

And yet, in November 2024, after an investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for only two Israeli government leaders: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. The two were alleged to be responsible for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and for crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts in early Gaza war (genocide was not included.).

More on Informed Comment -- plus the links therein. .juancolecom/2025/11/netanyahu-cabinets-complicity.html

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08/11/2025

Israel's digital iron dome collapses. Reality got there first.
Benjamin Netanyahu called it a Digital Iron Dome. Not the one in the sky, the one in your head. / by KernowDemo

The idea was simple enough: if you can’t stop the bombs being seen, you can at least stop people understanding what they’re looking at. So the Israeli government signed the contracts, moved the money through the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, hired the same US campaign operatives who sell presidents like detergent, and told the public to be “digital soldiers.” Fill the feeds. Drown the footage. Influence the search field so even ChatGPT speaks in their voice.

And it might have worked, if Gaza hadn’t had cameras too. If the footage hadn’t moved faster than the messaging. If the audience hadn’t stopped believing the statements. The Digital Iron Dome didn’t fail because someone broke it. It failed because reality got there first and Israel itself still hasn’t cottoned on to that notion.

The objective written in the language of public diplomacy, but the targets were American churches, social platforms, and the algorithmic routes that decide which story surfaces first when people search for such things using AI services. Israel assumed control of the narrative field as a constant. Their hasbara has delivered for them for years, sure its taken a bit of a knock lately, but surely if we throw enough money at it, we can regain control. Israeli thinking. In their heads, they had no reason to imagine that control could fail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH1JDrLE79g&t=703s

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17/07/2025

Iranian Missiles’ Precision
by Fadi Lama / author / WHY THE WEST CAN'TWIN
Newly leaked images from the ground have revealed Iran’s strikes on the US Al-Udeid base in
Qatar hit the expensive US communications complex there with shocking precision:
Iran’s June 23 missile strike on the U.S. Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar destroyed a radar
installation. The radar dome was visibly burned, and an adjacent structure sustained damage—
contradicting Pentagon claims that all missiles were intercepted and no damage occurred.
New images also reveal the destruction of the U.S. military’s “Modernized Enterprise Terminal”
— a hardened wideband satellite communications system — as a result of the IRGC Aerospace
Force strike.
The target, the now destroyed Modern Entreprise Terminal (MET) was installed at the base in
2016 at a cost of $15 million and provided secure communication capabilities including voice,
video and data services, linking service members in the U.S. Central Command area of
responsibility with military leaders around the world.
The most significant confrontation between Iran and the U.S. was the January 8, 2020 missile
attack on Ain Assad air base in Iraq, avenging the U.S. assassination of General Qasem
Soleimani.265 Satellite image analysis of the Ain al-Assad air base strike266 indicates that
Iranian missiles had an average blast radius of 21 meters and accuracy measured in CEP (circular
error probability) of 11 meters average, 7 meters median.
The Ain al-Assad missile attack had significant tactical and strategic ramifications.
In addition to displaying Iranian missiles’ accuracy, the Ain al-Assad attack demonstrated Iran’s
stand-off weapons capability. Iranian missiles’ range is 2,000 km while the operational range of
U.S. carrier-based fighter jets is significantly lower: the F-18 is 800 km, and the F-35 is 1,100
km.
Iran demonstrated on Jan 8, 2020 that it has stand-off weapons capable of sinking aircraft
carriers and of destroying all bases within a 2000 km of Iranian borders.
The Iranian missile attack effectively put a brake to empire. If an empire cannot project power, it
is no longer an empire. Bases surrounding a country are transformed from threat-projecting
assets to vulnerable liabilities. Aircraft carriers, the ‘long arm of the law,’ are transformed from
floating islands for launching offensives into fat sitting ducks.
If a date is to be placed for the End of Empire, then that date would be January 8, 2020.

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06/03/2025

Alfred de Zayas: A Peace Plan For Ukraine in a Broken Europe
Interviewed by Glenn Diesen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xdSmZz2tlE

02/03/2025

Israel violates ceasefire, sets impossible conditions, closes Gaza to preserve coalition.
Elijah Magnier:

'In an attempt to further control the terms of the ceasefire, the Netanyahu government has ordered the complete closure of all entry and exit points to and from Gaza, increasing the suffering of the civilian population and using the blockade as a means to force the Palestinian resistance to accept its dictated terms for an extended Phase One.
The humanitarian consequences of this closure have been catastrophic. With no access to food, clean water, medical supplies and essential humanitarian aid, the already dire living conditions in Gaza have deteriorated further. Hospitals, operating with limited resources due to previous bombardments and blockades, are unable to treat the wounded, leading to an increasing number of deaths from preventable injuries and diseases. Malnutrition and dehydration are worsening, especially among children, as food shortages become more acute. Unable to leave or receive aid, the people of Gaza are trapped in a forced humanitarian crisis that is worsening by the day. The blockade has turned the enclave into a suffocating open-air prison, where civilians are collectively punished for Israel's political manoeuvres.
From the outset, Israel has ignored its humanitarian obligations under the ceasefire agreement. The delivery of aid, including food, medical supplies and shelter for the displaced, has been deliberately delayed or severely restricted. The evacuation of wounded civilians and their families through the Rafah crossing has been slowed to a near standstill, leaving many in desperate conditions. Furthermore, despite agreements to reduce military surveillance, Israel has continued aerial and ground surveillance of Gaza, maintaining pressure on an already beleaguered population.
Can Netanyahu push this through without US approval?..."

02/03/2025

Why Netanyahu should fear the Trump-Zelenskyy showdown
Ha'aretz today: Amir Tibon

The shocking scene in the Oval Office carried important significance for Israel, perhaps more than any other country apart from Ukraine itself

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office on Tuesday, when Trump starting dropping his Gaza bombshells.

he shocking scene in the Oval Office on Friday, during which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was lambasted in front of the entire world by U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, carried important significance for Israel, perhaps more than any other country apart from Ukraine itself.

It's hard to think of another country that relies so heavily on American support as much as Israel. For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the showdown between Trump and Zelenskyy must have been petrifying to watch. Right now, Netanyahu is in Trump's good graces, but he knows very well that every word that the U.S. president told Ukraine's leader in front of the cameras could have been said to him regarding Israel's war against Hamas and Hezbollah, not to mention its decades-long fight against Iran.

Even more than that, Netanyahu should be concerned by the reaction of several prominent Republican senators, who until the Trump-Zelenskyy brawl were fierce defenders of Ukraine, but in its aftermath, chose to delete posts about meeting the Ukrainian president from their social media accounts, or to call for Zelenskyy's resignation. No one should have any doubt that these politicians, who fear Trump's wrath more than anything else, would shift their positions on Israel in a second in case the president did.

For now, there are no signs that Trump is about to do this. He applied pressure on Netanyahu before entering the White House to accept the Gaza cease-fire deal that has allowed for the release of 33 hostages so far, but is now looking the other way while Netanyahu breaks the terms of the deal and threatens to renew the war. Instead of insisting that the deal be implemented in full, Trump has given Netanyahu free rein to break and bend it.

But there is no guarantee that this will remain his policy in the long run, and Netanyahu knows it. Trump still hopes to achieve a grand peace agreement in the Middle East, and sooner or later, he may realize that Netanyahu's constant surrender to his fanatic coalition partners is pushing that dream farther away...."

27/02/2025

31/10/2024

The BRICS Summit in Kazan: A Manifesto for a Rational World Order
Alfred de Zayas
"The Kazan Declaration of 23 October 2024, adopted at the 16th BRICS Summit[1] hosted by Russia in the city of Kazan on the Volga river from 22 to 24 October and attended by 36 countries[2], constitutes a pivotal moment for humanity. There is hope in the air, a certain optimism that we can gradually change the paradigm, marshal the world disorder, move away from bloc-mentality, abandon confrontational politics, phase out dependence on the US-dollar, and craft a coherent policy to enhance trade, social and cultural exchange in tandem with the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and in the spirit of the UNESCO Constitution[3].

True enough, US and NATO provocations and war-mongering are not likely to disappear anytime soon. In fact, judging by what we read in the mainstream media, there is a surge in bellicose rhetoric in the West and a real danger that continued escalation will drive humanity to Apocalypse — in which case the UN Charter and the Kazan Declaration will not matter, because we will no longer inhabit planet Earth. Civilizations are not eternal. The Assyrian, Persian, Etruscan, Maya[4] civilizations all went under. We could wake up dead tomorrow – if we do not prevent a nuclear confrontation. As John Lennon sang, “War is over – if you want it”.[5]

While tensions will persist for years, the very existence of BRICS and the future-oriented Kazan Summit offer an alternative to Western nihilism. BRICS has just added 13 new members, and there are dozens more who want to join. This is eloquent proof that the world is changing and will continue to evolve away from US hegemonic fantasies. Indeed, BRICS is far more representative of global realities than the EU or the G-7. The thirteen new members are Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam – a panorama that encompasses all continents.

Unlike the UN Summit of the Future and Pact for the Future[6] of 20-22 September 2024, the Kazan Declaration with its 134 paragraphs constitutes a major step in the development of a multipolar world order and a reaffirmation of the will of the Global Majority to strengthen international peace and security through multilateralism. A return to the principles and purposes of the UN is possible when enough states commit to resolve all differences through diplomacy and exercise good faith instead of continuing to practice a “culture of cheating”[7]. ..."
More on CounterPunch.
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29/10/2024

Alastair Crooke : Israel’s Preference For Self-Destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txkNk76E3SI
KEY analysis of Israel's aborted strike against Iran /
It was supposed to lead off with the destruction of the air defenses of Iran and of Iraq and Syria on the way so that then the second and third waves could come in with conventional weapons to destroy the Iranian targets...But those second and third waves never happened. Suddenly the Israelis stopped. They discovered they were being locked on to by another missile defense system and were frightened...

Much more there; apologies for fragmentary capture from transcript.

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