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Trump reiterates plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza following Netanyahu meeting at White House
On Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump in The White House during his second term. During the meeting, Trump doubled down on previous suggestions to remove Palestinians from Gaza.
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In Syria, the lunatics are running the asylum
As the dust settles in regime-changed Syria, a new reality emerges–one where the victors are not liberators, but former Al-Qaeda warlords restyled in suits, shaking hands with world leaders, and reshaping the state in their own sectarian image.
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The life expectancy of Palestinians fell by 11.5 years in the first three months of the genocide: The Fifth Newsletter (2025)
The U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza has led to a precipitous loss in the population’s life expectancy. Even as the ceasefire allows aid to enter Gaza, this profound demographic loss will take generations to revert.
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Trump says ‘clean out that whole thing’ as part of his plan for Gaza
The U.S. president suggests that Jordan and Egypt should take in more Palestinians from Gaza.
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‘Conspiracy Theory’ is now fact: Greater Israel has arrived
Ever since Tel Aviv’s 1948 creation, much has been said and written about ‘Greater Israel’—the notion Zionism’s ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims that this territory was promised to Jews by God.
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Raffi Berg: BBC Middle East editor exposed as CIA, Mossad collaborator
A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group.
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New realities of Israel/Palestine in the Trump Era: Settler Colonial Destinies in the 21st Century
The ceasefire is publicized as a demonstration of Trump’s and U.S. leverage with respect to Israel when it actively seeks results rather than merely wants to make a rhetorical impression, but there is more to this ceasefire that is immediately apparent.
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‘Banality of evil’: Artist turns Gaza settler dream into disturbing installation
Gil Mualem-Doron’s fake ads for villas in Gaza are actually based on a real Israeli estate agent advertising property on Gaza’s beachfront.
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Israel tightens its grip on Jenin and the wider West Bank
Gazans sift through 50 million tons of rubble, finding 200 bodies.
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Trump reverses sanctions on Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank in first act as president
The new White House website said Trump rescinded Executive Order 14115 issued on Feb. 1, 2024, which authorized the imposition of certain sanctions “on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank.”
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‘Beaten before release’: Israeli treatment of Palestinian prisoners casts shadow on celebrations
Former detainees recounted abuse, violence and humiliation, even up to a few hours before they were released.
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‘Why aren’t you in The Hague?’: Journalist Sam Husseini gets dragged out of Blinken’s last press conference
Grayzone reporter Max Blumenthal also confronted Blinken, asking if he was ‘compromised by Israel’
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Jihadism, capitalism and neo-Ottomanism
— “About this sudden change in Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister, said he had convinced Russia and Iran in Doha not to intervene on the side of the Syrian government, otherwise it would have been a bloodbath. It means that militarily the Russian and Iranian forces would have to face huge weaponry and mercenaries supplied by forces outside the country. Which ones?”
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The day after the ceasefire: Boycotts, sanctions and divestments must intensify
After 15 months of the most horrific live-streamed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has been forced into an interim ceasefire. How long it will last is anyone’s guess but Israel’s contempt for any restraining agreements doesn’t offer much hope.
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Statement by the Communist Party of Israel on the ceasefire agreement in Gaza
Communist Party of Israel & Hadash: The agreement and ceasefire are important and welcomed, but it cannot be sufficient.
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‘Complete surrender’: How Gaza defeated Israel and what it means—analysis
Israel assumed that by destroying Gaza, it would eradicate the resistance. However, that calculation was deeply flawed. The resistance in Gaza is directly tied to the Palestinian people. It’s not about eliminating a specific number of fighters but about the enduring bond between the people and the resistance itself.
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Statement from Katherine Franke
A statement from Katherine Franke, a longtime Columbia Law professor who was terminated after defending student Gaza protests.
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Palestinian filmmakers are doing the impossible to capture their stories
Palestinian creator and producer Rashid Masharawi discusses ‘From Ground Zero,’ a collection of twenty-two films by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza.
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Targeting doctors and hospitals.. Killing life in Gaza
The latest is the martyrdom of 31-year-old Thabat Ibrahim Muhammad Salim, a volunteer doctor at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, on 5 January, 2025.
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Genocidal president, genocidal politics
When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities necessary for Israel’s defense.”