One of the main reasons Israel’s “Hasbara” has been so easy to debunk is the fact that Israelis in Hebrew widely showcase their genocidal hatred towards the Palestinian people for the world to see.
The latest example, uncovered by historian Zachary Foster, shows two hosts on the mainstream Israeli outlet Channel 14- the Channel most closely connected with the ruling Likud party- laughing at and celebrating the deadly floods in Gaza that have killed four children in the past few days.
In the clip, the sadistic Israeli hosts play a song with the lyrics “rain, rain is dripping, rain rain how fun”, over images of displaced Palestinians civilians dealing with flooding in refugee camps.
The hosts sadistically laugh at footage of a Palestinian woman desperately scooping water out of her flooded tent with a cup, saying “within six years you’ll get it all out of the tent”, while laughing hysterically at her suffering.
The two evil hosts continue to laugh and mock Palestinian suffering, suggesting that Palestinians “open a water park”, while displaying a superimposed image of a water park over the ruins of Gaza, caused by Israel’s ongoing genocide.
The two hosts continue to dance and sing as they speculate what to call this “water park”.
This sadistic display of mocking and celebrating Palestinian suffering is not an isolated incident and is just another example of the sadism broadcast daily on Israeli TV.
Channel 14, where this genocidal screed was broadcast, is not a fringe network within Israel either, and actually emerged as one of Israel’s “most-watched news sources” in 2024, even beating the more mainstream Channel 12 in ratings.
Indeed, it is exactly this sort of genocidal barbarism that makes the channel popular with the Israeli public, which overwhelmingly supports genocide of the Palestinian people.
November 12, 2026
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Israeli aircraft bombed the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip early on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 20, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported.
The strike hit the second floor of a building in the complex, west of the city, and caused major destruction. Rescue crews recovered five bodies and evacuated more than 20 injured people.
The hospital’s director said the strike came from directly above, causing heavy damage in the intensive care and surgery departments.
Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Reuters it hit the surgery department, and medics identified one of the dead as a surgeon, Rezik Abushira.
Anadolu reported that the building hit was the Al-Yassin building inside the complex. Nasser is the main hospital serving southern Gaza and carries the heaviest burden in treating the wounded and providing medical care.
Israeli strikes killed 22 people at Nasser Hospital on August 25, 2025, including five journalists and four health workers, in a double strike that hit the building as rescuers arrived.
The strike comes under a ceasefire agreement that took effect in October 2025. Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks have killed 1,622 Palestinians and wounded 5,878 since then, and that 850 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble. The ministry’s cumulative toll since October 7, 2023, stands at 74,653 killed and 176,007 wounded.
November 11, 2026
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Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, Jewish Chaplain at Leeds University, one of 50,000 ‘Israeli-born’ people living in Britain, in a leaked image showing him in occupied Palestine during the recent phase of genocide.
Recent disclosures by the Zionist regime show that some 2,069 British nationals were serving in the IDF as of March 2025, according to Freedom of Information (FoI) requests submitted to the occupation forces (1,686 dual British-Israeli, plus 383 multinational). We cannot tell from the figures how many of these were already settler colonists and intend to stay in the colony, and how many will return or have returned to the UK. Presumably, those returning to the UK will number far fewer than 2,000, since many are known to have become permanently residents of the colony.
Additionally, the IDF figures only provide a snapshot, and do not tell us how many have served in the Jewish supremacist military either before or after March 2025. One way into the question of how many genocidaires are living in Britain is to ask how many current British residents were born in the Zionist colony. There is data on that, as we shall see.
Individuals in the UK Who Were Born in Occupied Palestine
England and Wales census data shows residents born in the Zionist settler colony nearly doubled in the decade after 2001. The 2001 census recorded 11,892 ‘Israeli-born’ people in Britain. By 2011, this reached 19,608. The 2021 census recorded 22,546 usual residents born in Israel in England and Wales, a jump of another 3,000 or so. Of course, in addition, many ‘Israelis’ who come to live in Britain were born in the UK, according to reports by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR). A JPR report estimates that by 2011, around 23% of Israelis coming to the UK had been born in the UK. Their analysis suggested that the total number of Israelis in the UK was 25,744, some 6,000 more than the ‘Israeli-born’ total. Extrapolating those figures would suggest that by 2021, the number was around 30,000.
Israelis are also brought to Britain by Zionist charities. The British Friends of Israeli War Disabled (BFIWD) invite wounded genocidaires for visits to the UK, with a focus on respite and rehabilitation for wounded IDF veterans. By 2022, BFIWD had brought around 5,000 genocide veterans to the UK over decades for therapeutic stays hosted by Zionist families. Smaller groups continue annually. Beit Halochem UK also brings veterans for visits (for example, 32 were brought to the UK in one 2025 London trip) and supplies guest speakers around the country. The speakers are wounded veterans who address UK synagogues and communities, including visits to primary and secondary schools, to promote racist ideas about ‘Israel’ and the Palestinian Resistance. No verified cumulative totals are published for UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers (UK AWIS) or other charities.
‘Israeli’ citizens moving to the UK have driven much of the growth in the Israeli-born population in Britain. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics records substantial long-term emigration. The Zionists deprecate emigration with the term ‘yerida’, meaning descent, the opposite of ‘aliyah’, which means ‘ascent’ — their term to whitewash settler colonialism. In their view, evidently, colonisation is good, and ending colonisation is bad. In recent years, the following numbers of settlers have left the colony: approximately 56,000–59,400 in 2022, 82,800 in 2023, 82,700 in 2024, and 69,300 in 2025.
According to estimates from the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), the UK accounts for around 7% of the global Israeli-born diaspora stock. Using this proportion as a rough proxy suggests that between 4,000 and 5,800 Israelis may have moved to Britain annually during this high-emigration period. This suggests a massive increase since 2021 with, on average, 4,900 arriving each year. By the end of 2025, this likely means that an additional 19,600 settlers arrived in the UK, taking the total to some 49,600, which is an increase over 2021 of 40% in four years.
UK data on citizens becoming settler colonists reveals actual yearly figures: 396 in 2023, approximately 700 in 2024, and 840 in 2025; this is a 19% rise, reportedly the highest increase in 40 years. The Institute for Jewish Policy Research reports that in the decade 2001–2011, more settlers arrived in Britain than British Jews became settler colonists, at a ratio of three to two. An average of 865 Israelis arrived annually, while 582 British Jews went to take part in the occupation of Palestine.
So, while there are also significant — if fewer — British-born Jews leaving the UK to become land thieves in Palestine, one effect of that tendency is to increase the proportion of British Jews who were born in Israel, and may still be, Israeli citizens.
The Office for National Statistics’ Census 2021 shows that 287,360 people “identified as Jewish in England and Wales”. This was 0.5% of the usual resident population. In the rest of the ‘United Kingdom’, there are only a few Jews. In Scotland, there were 7,313 in 2022, which is 0.1345% of the Scottish population. In Northern Ireland, there were 439 in 2021, which is around 0.02%, though there was no option to choose Jewish by ‘ethnicity’ in Northern Ireland, unlike the rest of the ‘UK’. So, Jews make up around 0.4% of the population in the UK. That makes a total of some 295,112 Jewish people in the UK.
Scotland’s Census 2022 tells us that some 552 Scottish residents were born in the settler colony, while the Northern Ireland census records another 99. This takes the total to 50,251 ‘Israeli-born’ or former settler colonists in the UK. That figure is equivalent to 17.03% of all Jews in the UK. In its 2015 report, the JPR concluded that ‘Jewish Israelis’ made up 6% of the British Jewish population. That is a massive increase of almost three-fold in a decade.
Many of the 2,000 British citizens serving in the genocide forces of the Zionist entity may have decided to stay and already have become permanent settler colonists. They are unlikely to return immediately.
So, there are perhaps 50,000 more ‘Israeli’ citizens walking the streets of the UK. There appear to be no reliable statistics regarding how many of these have served in the occupation forces, but if they are adults, it will be almost all of them. Some, of course, will have left the colony to avoid the draft, and some will be anti-Zionists of various sorts. Though, equally, the vast majority, like the majority of British-born Jews, are likely to be Zionists of one sort or another.
So, obviously, they should be taken into account. For example, some ‘Israeli-born’ British residents have subsequently involved themselves in serious public anti-Zionist campaigning, which can be evidenced. This would likely exempt them from their actions discussed here. Comrades like Prof Haim Breseeth, the author of a critical study of the IOF and a well-known activist in various anti-Zionist groups, is one example.
Similarly, consider activists like comrade Ronnie Barkan, who was a member of Palestine Action. On Nakba Day 2022, he participated in smashing up the UK headquarters of Israel-based Elbit Systems. Barkan has argued that if he was being very optimistic, he would say that are maybe 1,000 opponents of Zionism among Jews in occupied Palestine — which, he notes, is around 0.001% of the Jewish population. In the UK, this proportion would give a number of actual anti-Zionists totalling three. This would appear to be an underestimate!
Anecdotally, there are possibly several hundreds of such people, but who knows. There clearly are some ‘anti-Zionists’, however, who are more concerned about upsetting their family and friends than in acting materially to end Zionism. So, it would need to be a case by case examination.
For the rest, we need to do the following:
- Directly involve ourselves in research to find out who and where these people are, and investigate their involvement in genocide. Material should be produced in as ‘actionable’ a state as possible for lawyers, activists, and others.
- Pressure the police, intelligence services, and the political class to take action to hold the killers and genocidaires accountable. Declassified UK and the International Centre for Justice for the Palestinians have launched just such campaign, which is called Nobody Wants to Live Next to a War Criminal.
- Directly confront, with demonstrations, legal action, and/or direct action, those organisations involved in supporting the genocide which are located in the UK. Individuals who have directly participated in the genocide should be shunned. They and the organisations involved must have no peace until they are held accountable to the full force of the law for their alleged crimes.
While a recent opinion poll shows that 47% of British people favour fewer or no ‘Israeli’ immigrants, it is not clear that this is a sustainable solution. The question arises: are we asking for them to go back to being settler colonists in occupied Palestine? Well, the more that they leave, the fewer there are to fight and be defeated by the Palestinians and the Axis of Resistance. On the other hand, the more they are concentrated in occupied Palestine, the better, since this is the place they are most likely to be materially defeated. Whichever is the case, what is needed is a massive De-Zionisation programme, in which all genocidaires will need to be enrolled. Obviously, part of this will be a programme to eliminate the perhaps 3,000 Zionist organisations in the UK, to cut the roots from further Zionist radicalisation.
While 2,000 former occupation soldiers seems like a lot, the evidence here shows that they are only a fraction of the problem.
November 10, 2026
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Ten weeks ago, Donald Trump called Marjorie Taylor Greene, his former ally and a former Georgia Republican congresswoman, a “LOSER.”
Greene shot back that Trump was a “neocon puppet for Israel.” Both of them do this a lot these days.
Last week, it was Republicans who were big losers in the midterm elections. The president might have been the biggest loser of them all.
Greene knew why.
“Look, if you’re in the administration and you’re ready to… run for president, you need to continue taking in the lessons that were sent by the American people on Tuesday, and it was really the same lesson that was sent in 2024,” she advised in a video post the day after the midterms.
Greene laid out what she considered core issues that led to the 2024 re-election of Trump, and then, as borne out in the exit polls and vote counts, the Democrats’ 2026 sweep.
“No more foreign wars, (Americans) don’t support the war in Iran,” Greene said. “We don’t want to fund foreign countries and foreign wars. We don’t want to fund Israel, we don’t want to fund killing children in Gaza.”
“And we want to put Americans first,” she added.
The deeply unpopular Iran war was at the center of why Republicans performed so poorly on Tuesday. Even before that, voters in both major parties were already souring on the U.S. backing of Israel and particularly the bloodshed in Gaza at the hands of the Israel Defence Forces, a policy that Trump has been fully invested in, as was President Joe Biden. This anger was particularly salient among younger voters and even most young Jewish-Americans.
Among Republicans, Greene was ahead of the curve on this.
In mid-2025, then-Rep. Greene, who the New York Times described at the time as “an avatar of MAGA politics on Capitol Hill,” became the first congressional Republican to call the Gaza crisis a “genocide.”
“It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct. 7 in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza,” Greene said in a social media post on July 28, 2025.
As her vocal opposition to the war grew, so did her criticism of foreign aid, which she saw as prioritizing Israel over U.S. interests. She also demanded the administration release the Epstein files, an original MAGA promise. It was then that Trump began machine-gunning MTG with new names: calling her “wacky,” “lunatic,” and even “Marjorie Traitor Greene,” insisting that the once avid MAGAite had turned against him and his movement.
When she was elected to Congress in 2020, Greene was presented regularly by legacy media as merely the QAnon candidate, reportedly dabbling in rightwing conspiracy theories. In that same period, Trump called Greene “a future Republican star.”
Five years later, after she resigned from Congress, it was Trump who was calling Greene crazy. By then, the feeling was mutual.
Yet it was also Trump who went from promising no new wars on the campaign trail, often flanked by Greene, to later justifying his own war of choice by conjuring up questionable, but familiar, propaganda about Iran being weeks away from having a nuclear weapon and the U.S. having to end the war with Tehran after “47 years.”
In November 2025, Greene announced that she would not run for re-election, saying she refused to be a “battered wife,” seemingly referring to Trump’s reneging on his campaign promises combined with increased attacks on her personally. Trump had already vowed to back a primary challenger against her.
“I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms,” Greene explained a year ago.
Greene was in a similar position to that of her friend and fellow antiwar Republican ally, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who did run for re-election this year and was defeated in his Kentucky GOP primary in May by Trump-aligned, billionaire pro-Israel donors in the most expensive House primary race in U.S. history.
Greene never surrendered her antiwar, anti-genocide posture, and in fact has probably become more fierce since she decided not to seek re-election. Nor has she abandoned the America First brand that defined Trump’s 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential campaigns, a message that some Democrats successfully capitalized on after Trump discarded it.
And Greene noticed.
When Zohran Mamdani, the self-described democratic socialist mayor of New York City, participated in a debate during his 2025 campaign, the candidates were asked if he or she would like to visit Israel. Popular rightwing populist Tucker Carlson remarked to Greene during an interview that Mamdani, “was the only person in the New York City mayor’s debate to say he wanted to focus on New York City.”
Carlson noted that unlike the other candidates, Mamdani said “I’m running New York. That’s my job.”
“He gave the right answer,” Greene responded. Carlson agreed. How prescient both were.
In late October, Greene said the best way the Trump administration could ensure a win for Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed over reliably hawkish Republican Mike Rogers would be to attack Iran again before the midterms.
It’s a stupid senseless war and America hates it,” she posted on X
“We also hate neocons,” Greene added. “This is not an endorsement, I’m not a Democrat, but I’m also not a neocon Republican.”
El-Sayed himself was asked in July about a potential crossover between his philosophy and Greene’s, known to many as just “MTG.”
“So I talked to a former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on this podcast in April and it’s kind of remarkable how similar some of your positions are. Like, she also has condemned AIPAC’s influence and politics, called for no more US taxpayer dollars to Israel, said that the cost of health insurance needs to go down,” Dasha Burns posited to El-Sayed on her POLITICO podcast, “The Conversation.”
“Do you think you could build this new coalition with people like MTG?” the Democrat was asked.
“When you ask me about why establishment elite Democrats are so worried about me? It’s because there are a lot of people who listen to her who are going to vote for me in the general election,” he replied.
Many who once voted for Trump in 2024 went for Democrats in 2026.
Democrat El-Sayed handily defeated his Republican opponent last Tuesday by running his own version of an “America First” campaign. “And when it comes to the question of foreign policy, the difference is usually AIPAC money. And if we got that money out, maybe our political consensus would match our public consensus,” El-Sayed said of the formidable pro-Israel lobby.
Greene said after the election, “I think America spoke very loudly that we don’t want politicians that are loyal to AIPAC and loyal to a foreign country.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene began her Washington career as the most devoted Trump loyalist, who would go to the wall for his America First message. She still does.
It was Trump who reversed course, leading so many in the same coalition that delivered him the election two years ago to now reject him and his latest iteration of the GOP.
“Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up – a real WINNER!,” Trump wrote in 2020.
“We never changed, Trump did,” Greene wrote in August.
Donald Trump was right. Marjorie Taylor Greene never gave up.
But he did.
Jack Hunter is the former political editor of Rare.us. Jack has written regularly for Modern Age, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The American Conservative, Spectator USA and has appeared in Politico Magazine and The Daily Beast. Hunter is the co-author of the The Tea Party Goes to Washington by Sen. Rand Paul.
November 9, 2026
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More Canadian Jews were serving in the Israeli army in March 2025 than in the Canadian military as of earlier this year, The Maple reported on 6 November, according to documents from the Canadian and Israeli governments.
An article on the Government of Canada website published in March stated that an estimated 680 Canadian Jews currently serve in the country’s regular armed forces, making up one percent of its total number, with more serving in the reserves.
Jewish Canadians make up about 0.9 percent of the Canadian population.
By comparison, 1,524 Canadian Jews with Israeli citizenship were serving in Israel’s military as of March 2025, according to a document released by the Israeli government in February of this year.
This means that there may be double the number of Canadian Jews serving in Israel’s military than in Canada’s.
In addition, another 60 Canadians who do not hold Israeli citizenship are thought to be fighting in the Israeli army.
In October 2025, The Maple published an article about 49 Canadians who have served in the Israeli military since the genocide of Gaza began in 2023.
The majority were Canadians who moved to Israel to serve in the military as so-called “lone soldiers.”
A March 2026 Pollara survey commissioned by The Maple found that 54 percent of Canadians agree with making it illegal for Canadian citizens to serve in Israel’s military.
Canadians can currently serve in foreign state militaries unless that military is at war with a Canadian ally. It is therefore legal for Canadians to serve in the Israeli military.
In April 2024, the Israeli military killed Canadian-American military veteran Jacob Flickinger, along with six other aid workers in a drone strike in Gaza. He was working with World Central Kitchen (WCK) to help distribute food in the devastated strip when Israel killed him.
The attack attracted international condemnation because the aid workers were traveling in clearly marked humanitarian vehicles on a route that had been coordinated with the Israeli military.
Israel refused to pursue criminal charges against the soldiers involved. Ottawa issued statements condemning Flickinger’s killing but took no action to sanction Tel Aviv in response.
In 2006, the Israeli military killed a Canadian soldier, Major Paeta Derek Hess-von Kruedener, who was serving as a UN peacekeeper in Lebanon.
In the days before an Israeli airstrike killed him, the soldier had “sent emails home to Canada reporting that Israel was bombing schools and waging ‘a campaign of terror against the Lebanese people.’”
Past reporting from The Maple has found that Israeli military service is “celebrated by mainstream Jewish institutions in Canada,” including in Jewish schools, which promote fighting for Israel.
November 7, 2026
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Never hesitate to state the obvious: Everyone with eyes to see is recognizing that the US midterm elections have been sensational. The Democrats have achieved a stupendous – “historic” according to the Financial Times – triumph; the Republicans have suffered a crushing, Stalingrad-scale rout.
Let’s focus on the rout: This is the moment when, on the same day, a New York Times front page main headline promises to explain the GOP’s “historic collapse” while Tucker Carlson starts his show with a wry “well, that was a disaster” (adding that he really means “disaster,” as in the sinking of the Lusitania, not rain at a wedding party).
You may suspect both America’s paper of liberal Centrism and the former Fox host turned MAGA dissident of bias or, at least, Schadenfreude. Yet bias is simply irrelevant in this case, where, for once, the facts really do speak for themselves: The great, enormous, humungous GOP midterm catastrophe is quantifiably worse than the 2006 drubbing the party received for George W. Bush’s Iraq War insanity or the “shellacking” – in his own words – voters administered to Barack Obama and his Democrats in 2010. As the staid Economist has summed up the Republican fiasco, this is “not a normal midterm swing against a sitting president, but the biggest wave-election since the aftermath of Watergate more than 50 years ago.”
What is even clearer than that the Republicans have been devastated is that one man in particular has taken a stunning hit: US President Donald Trump. He may insist that he was not on the ballot as much as he likes. No one is fooled. Of course, he was, if not officially – as no president ever is during midterms – then all the more in reality. This was, the Wall Street Journal has noted correctly, “one of the most decisive repudiations of a president in modern history.”
The causes of this “blue tsunami” will keep commentators and, later, historians busy. Here, let’s just note two things: They go beyond the key issues of “affordability,” a typical US euphemism for mass impoverishment and the “Iran War,” in effect another euphemism, standing for a US defeat much worse than Vietnam, incurred for no real reason other than to please genocidal Israel. In particular, the spike in gasoline prices resulting, most of all, directly from this perfectly avoidable war and defeat has delivered a gut punch to Trump’s party.
But also recall that US voters, as we know from polls, are angry as well about such things as the tariff wars that made their lives more expensive even before the Iran War, the blatant rapacity of the Trump clan and their cronies, and the shooting of US citizens in brutal ICE crackdowns.
Not to speak of bulldozing part of the White House in a quixotic quest for the biggest, blingest ballroom of them all. Most of all, perhaps, there is a deep background noise of resentment at a president who seems to make a point out of displaying how little he cares. About his countrymen and about his own promises of no more wars and putting America first, and not Israel.
And now? That is, of course, the most important and most urgent question of this moment. Rumors are swirling: The (political) heads of Secretary of War (On Behalf of Israel) Pete Hegseth and Trump’s chief of staff and single most important adviser Susie Wiles are said to be on the chopping block, for instance.
In this volatile dog-eats-panicked-dog world, one man seems to have made up his mind rapidly. Vice President J. D. Vance, former vehement Trump critic, then devoted Trump convert, has had another moment of revelation and rebirth. With the battle scarcely over and lost, he has addressed the public via X to, in essence, put as much distance between himself and his losing boss as he possibly can while, perhaps, keeping his job.
In a long post, Vance has outlined his theory of why the GOP was crushed. Unusually rich in detail about polling, turnout, and voter movements from one camp (the GOP) into the other (the Democrats), the gist of the post is one clear if implicit message: It’s Trump who is to blame.
Because that’s what you are saying when you say, as Vance does, that the key issue that lost the election was the war against Iran. If you add, as Vance also does, that voters wanted not only an end to that war but also a “focus on cost of living/inflation,” putting America truly first, and a “change of our relationship to Israel,” the point gets only clearer. The Wall Street Journal is right: This was a “stunning repudiation” of Trump.
For while Trump is by no means the only one to blame for the perverse American dependency on and support of a hyper-aggressive and genocidal midget state (that would be virtually the whole US establishment), he has made himself the single most prominent epitome of this national syndrome. And that makes him the single most convenient fall guy, too.
There’s no reason to pity Trump for being stabbed in the back by his very own Brutus. It was always clear that Vance is, to put it mildly, highly flexible in his positions and values as well as unscrupulous. His burning ambition is, if anything, even more obvious: Hire a Vance, don’t complain when he’ll kick and stab you when you’re down.
The Iranian leadership has made no secret of being highly unimpressed by Vance’s latest self-update. “Losing gambler energy, can’t walk away from the table. Boss is prepping the next war phase while America teeters on an Israel-First cliff. Skip the TED talk. Why not say this to your boss?” That was the response of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s parliament.
Tehran has every reason to be harsh as well as skeptical. But for the rest of us, it makes sense not to dismiss Vance’s sally so quickly. His motives are certain to be selfish. The fact that he was launched by one of America’s most devious and power-hungry oligarchs, Antichrist-obsessive Peter Thiel, makes his CV even less appealing. But we still have to ask what he may have in mind with his “break” with Trump.
Clearly, Vance is positioning himself for a potential run for the presidency. But what would be his agenda if he ran and won? Skeptics see a massive psyop: Vance will only pretend to offer MAGA cleansed of Trumpian contaminations, in other words, to really put America and Americans first, and cut Israel loose. In reality, they predict, his aim is to betray his potential voters no less than Trump has. Trust neither Vance nor his friend and MAGA rebel Tucker Carlson, the skeptics warn, because they will, in the end, sell out to Zionism and give you the same old, same old again.
There is no compelling reason to rule out such a scenario. Yet there is no reason to find it inevitable either. It is equally possible that Vance – out of opportunism, not because of the conscience he does not have – could really stand for a great right-wing turn away from Israel. Not because Israel is genocidal and all-purpose criminal, but because being tied to it is becoming far too politically costly.
This possibility should not be dismissed out of hand. For two reasons: First, being Israel’s tool in the Middle East has really produced catastrophe for the US and its establishment. And second, until now – or perhaps recently – supporting Israel come-what-may has been a vile bipartisan consensus. To break it down entirely will require great changes both among Democrats and Republicans.
US politics is exceptionally dark and often outright evil. But the geopolitics and the domestic calculus of the long decades of America’s “Israel First” obsession could shift even in that world of darkness. For Israel’s victims, the Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Yemenis, Iranians, and many others, it won’t matter why exactly the US will finally stop propping up their tormenters. A realistic commitment to their liberation must focus first of all on getting the US out of the Middle East. Under what regime at home it will make that retreat may matter. Or not.
Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory.
November 6, 2026
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While it is true that conventional weapons cannot penetrate Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Site, there is no guarantee that using a nuclear weapon will actually yield results. Instead, the fall-out is the only thing that is certain.
The United States, at the behest of their Israeli partners, are speculated to be weighing the nuclear option against the Islamic Republic of Iran. In recent weeks, US President Donald Trump has continued to make threats against Tehran, claiming that he will even deploy the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB).
However, the target that the Trump administration and Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu appear the most obsessed with, is the facility located under Pickaxe Mountain, near the Natanz Nuclear Facility. Satellite imagery suggests that there has been significant activity at the site, at least according to US media.
All the talk of bombing this site, which Trump himself has publicly threatened to do, is predicated on the concept that Iran’s highly enriched Uranium is located at this underground facility. Based upon this assessment, there’s only one way to go about destroying that target. A MOAB is not a bunker buster munition, it is an airburst weapon, therefore officials in Washington can’t be seriously considering this as their weapon of choice.
Conventional weapons have failed to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and underground missile facilities, meaning that the only natural last option is a tactical nuclear weapon.
Yet, there are a number of problems with this strategy, beyond the obvious implications of using nuclear weapons in the first place. The first obvious issue is that the US and Israelis don’t actually know with any degree of certainty that Iran is storing its enriched uranium at this site, at best it is an educated guess.
The next issue they face is that tactical nuclear weapons have never been used in combat, yet alone against this specific kind of target. While hypothetically the force of the weapon would destroy the underground facility, it is also possible that the mountain will absorb a lot of the shock, meaning that what will be felt will be like an earthquake, but not necessarily enough to destroy the infrastructure.
Another major issue that the US has is that they have no idea how deep the infrastructure is actually buried underneath the mountain range. They estimate that the nuclear facility could be buried around 80-100 meters, but have no blueprints and are again guessing. No nuclear inspectors have gained access to it to inspect, so there is no way of telling for sure. It is also unknown precisely where the US, or the Israelis, would have to strike in order to have any hypothetical success.
Let us assume that the US or their Israeli partners use the nuke and still fail to destroy the facility, or that Iran’s nuclear material is not even located there, would it be worth it to deploy such a weapon? Iran has built these facilities and its missile cities, with the threat of nuclear weapons in mind, meaning that they are more than likely prepared for such an eventuality also.
The response that would come to a nuclear attack on Pickaxe Mountain would then be enormous, killing any hope of a negotiated settlement in the short term, ensuring a long and bloody war. As we have seen demonstrated since the Israeli attack on Iran in June of 2025, conventional weapons cannot destroy Iranian underground missile facilities, meaning that they would then have to use countless nuclear weapons if they hoped to penetrate them. It would then be a doomsday scenario, and every front would ignite in a way that cannot be anticipated. In addition to this, the use of these weapons is not even guaranteed to achieve their goals.
Overall, the US-Israeli alliance is not actually attacking Iran over the nuclear weapons issue; they have attempted to inflict regime change. Using nuclear weapons against nuclear sites will do nothing to achieve the overthrow of the Iranian government.
For every offensive action that Washington carries out at the behest of Tel Aviv, Tehran has an answer for it. If there was a quick and simple road to victory, Netanyahu and Trump would have already taken it.
Using nuclear weapons would be a ridiculous and reckless mistake, with potential far-stretching consequences that span much further than the scope of this article. While the third round appears inevitable, the outcome will ultimately have to be a US retreat from the region. First, it is clear that the Zionist regime must be dealt a strategic defeat in order for that to be allowed to happen.
November 5, 2026
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It usually began with the engineers walking the length of a street, threading charges through house after house along a whole block. Then the countdown, and then the block went down together, a single rolling wall of dust where a neighborhood had stood, and over the noise the men who had wired it could be heard cheering. The soldier holding the phone kept it steady on the collapse, because he was proud of it, and he posted it when it was done. This was not one street or one crew. The same scene plays across Gaza in thousands of clips, filmed by unit after unit who set the charges and whooped as the buildings fell, some of them dedicating the blast to a dead comrade or a holiday back home. The deliberate leveling of whole residential blocks, which the men who set the charges filmed and cheered as it happened, is among the most common scenes in the entire archive of soldier video.
The law speaks directly to this. The Fourth Geneva Convention forbids an occupying army from destroying civilian property unless a specific military operation leaves it no choice, and the extensive, wanton destruction of property is listed among the grave breaches that count as war crimes. A victory video is the clearest possible proof that the test was not met. A building demolished out of genuine operational need is not an occasion for celebration. The cheer on the soundtrack is the admission. The block came down because the army could and wished to, and someone filmed it to be enjoyed later.
The prisoners were the other great subject. Across the strip soldiers filmed the men they had rounded up, stripped to their underwear and blindfolded, made to kneel in long rows, and they filmed themselves standing over them. One case stands for the pattern. In December 2023 a soldier named Yossi Gamzoo posted footage of a Palestinian stripped and bound, bleeding, under interrogation at Gaza College, then marched barefoot through the street, and a second clip of hundreds of men herded into Yarmouk stadium, many in their underwear, some blindfolded, kneeling in rows, three women among them on their knees behind a goal. Another soldier, later identified as Ilya Blank, set a montage of blindfolded detainees crammed into a pickup truck, a comrade grinning and raising a thumb, to an Israeli rap track. These were not stray cruelties. The Geneva Conventions require that people in custody be treated humanely and protected from public curiosity, and the lawyers who examined the footage for the BBC found that it breached those rules. The soldiers filmed the breaches under their own names, for an audience they trusted to cheer.
Some of the worst was never meant to be seen, and surfaced only because someone inside leaked it. On August 6, 2024, Israel’s Channel 12 broadcast surveillance video from Sde Teiman, a military camp in southern Israel holding Palestinians taken from Gaza. It showed soldiers walking a detainee into a corner and closing around him with riot shields, so that what they did to him happened just out of the camera’s reach. The army’s own indictment spelled out what the shields had hidden. The soldiers set upon the man with severe sexual violence and drove a sharp object into him that penetrated near his rectum and tore the rectal wall. The same assault left him with cracked ribs and a punctured lung. The broadcast called it a rape; the charges that came stopped at aggravated assault.
One kind of footage the soldiers made themselves and published as a trophy. The other had to be dragged into the open against them. Both ended up in the same place, beyond the reach of the men who appeared in it and the state that sent them, as evidence in front of courts and investigators far from the ground where it was filmed.
Every state that has ever set out to erase the evidence of its crimes has begun from the same position. It held the record, and the work was to destroy or bury it before anyone on the outside could see. My last article followed Britain doing exactly that with the paper archive of its empire. Israel’s war in Gaza has produced something that method was never built for. The evidence was not held by the state and then concealed. It was made by the perpetrators and broadcast by them, in real time, before any authority had the chance to decide what the public would be allowed to know. The confession arrived ahead of the cover-up, and the cover-up has been running backwards ever since.
Outside investigators turned the flood of posts into a map. The Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi spent months identifying soldiers and their units from what they had published, among them a sniper team he traced after one of its members uploaded a video that recounted the unit’s operations in Gaza City and showed unarmed people being shot. Tirawi gathered post after post of soldiers displaying the lingerie and the mannequins of the women whose homes they had taken. Al Jazeera’s investigative unit, pulling the wider record together, built a database of more than two and a half thousand accounts belonging to serving soldiers.
The posts did more than embarrass. They turned into evidence that followed the men who made them. A Belgian group, the Hind Rajab Foundation, began converting soldiers’ own social media into criminal complaints, identifying individuals from what they had published and lodging cases wherever those individuals travelled. Within a year the group had filed around fifty complaints in courts around the world and handed the International Criminal Court the names of a thousand soldiers, backed by thousands of items of footage and posts. In Brazil a judge issued an arrest warrant against one soldier, who evaded it only by slipping across the border into Argentina. A complaint in Portugal rested on a sniper’s own online boast of four bullets and no misses. The group built a further case in Belgium against a dual-national member of the sniper team, around the siege of a Gaza hospital. The Israeli military answered by warning its soldiers to stop posting the details of their service and by urging some of them to leave the countries they were visiting before they could be seized.
The audience was wider than any poster had reckoned on. When South Africa brought its genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, its lawyers played the soldiers’ own videos in the courtroom and read out the statements the soldiers had made on camera, offering them as evidence of intent. The court found the Palestinians’ claim to protection from genocide plausible and handed down binding provisional measures. One of them ordered Israel to take effective steps to prevent the destruction and to ensure the preservation of evidence bearing on the allegations. A later order went further and required Israel to let United Nations investigators into Gaza to secure that evidence. A court in The Hague was reduced to instructing a state not to destroy the proof of what it stood accused of, in the same weeks that the proof was being uploaded by the state’s own soldiers.
From that point the machinery of erasure ran in reverse. A government that in an earlier age would have controlled the only copies now had to chase material that was already public and already on other people’s drives. In February 2024 the chief of the general staff, Herzi Halevi, wrote to his commanders telling soldiers not to loot and not to shoot revenge videos, and in a separate message assured his own ranks that the army was not on a killing spree and was not committing genocide. Soldiers who had posted footage of their demolitions were told to take it down. The stated worry, in the words of the military’s own people, was that the clips could feed the cases building at the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. By the middle of 2025 the chief military censor had issued an order restricting what could be posted about strikes at all. The instruction reaching the soldier had less to do with the enemy in front of him than with the camera in his hand.
The pursuit did not stop at the soldiers’ phones. By 2026 the army’s chief of staff had instructed the military’s lawyers to examine legal action against the makers of a prize-winning documentary NAZA in which soldiers described the deliberate mass killing of civilians in Gaza, and the prime minister called the film shocking. The effort had travelled from deleting a soldier’s post to pursuing the people who gathered such material into an account the world might watch.
The deleting did not fall evenly. While the soldiers’ trophies moved freely, the documentation coming from the other side was being swept off the same platforms. Across October and November 2023, Human Rights Watch logged more than a thousand removals and suppressions of Palestinian content on Instagram and Facebook. Of the 1,050 cases it examined, 1,049 concerned peaceful content in support of Palestinians, and a single one supported Israel. The suppression took six recurring forms, from outright removal and account suspension to shadow-banning and the blocking of live video, and it reached even posts that carried clear news value. Human Rights Watch traced the pattern to automated moderation and to government pressure on what the company agreed to pull, among it referrals from Israel’s state cyber unit. The throttling grew heavy enough that Palestinians and their supporters took to misspelling the word Gaza, or standing in a watermelon for the banned flag, to get a post past the filters. A United States senator wrote to the company about it. Meta’s own commissioned review had already found, the year before the war, that its moderation was damaging Palestinian rights. For a stretch of the fighting the record of the people being bombed was harder to keep online than the footage shot by the people bombing them.
Beneath the new problem, the older kinds of erasure went on as they always have. The physical record of Gaza was being destroyed with everything else. Early in the war an airstrike flattened the Central Archives of Gaza City, which held about a hundred and fifty years of the territory’s history in some 110,000 documents and photographs. The library of the Islamic University of Gaza had already been leveled in the war’s second week, and the public library of Gaza City, with its ten thousand volumes, went soon after. United Nations experts put a word to the wider assault on schooling, scholasticide, the deliberate destruction of a people’s means of knowing itself. By their count more than 80% of Gaza’s schools were damaged or destroyed. Among the dead were 5,479 students and 261 of their teachers, along with ninety-five university professors. The last functioning university was demolished in January 2024, after the army had held it for seventy days as a base and a detention site. One survey of the cultural wreckage counted at least twenty-two of Gaza’s archives and libraries destroyed or damaged in the first three months alone.
The people who keep the record were being killed alongside it. By the reckoning of the Committee to Protect Journalists, 2024 was the deadliest year for the press since the group began counting in 1992, with 124 killed, most of them Palestinians in Gaza, and roughly 60% of the global toll laid at Israel’s door. The dead included Hamza Dahdouh, himself a journalist and the son of a journalist, killed in a strike on his car, and Ismail al-Ghoul with his cameraman Rami al-Rifi, killed in a vehicle that carried press markings while both wore vests identifying them as media. Thirty-one of those killed in Gaza were freelancers who had stepped in after their newsrooms were destroyed and most journalists were killed, filling a gap that existed because Israel kept foreign correspondents out except on escorted military trips, a bar that more than fifty of those correspondents signed a letter to protest.
The oldest layer of all reaches back to the founding. For two decades, under a chief who ran it until 2007, a secretive unit of the Israeli defence ministry known by the Hebrew acronym Malmab has been pulling documents out of the state’s own archives, often with no legal authority, and in some cases resealing papers that the military censor had already cleared for release. The historian Benny Morris (whom this author interviewed) found that files he had quoted fifteen years earlier were no longer open to him. The largest archive in the country, the military’s own, sits almost completely sealed. Among the documents withdrawn was an internal report on how Palestinian villages were destroyed in the first months of the 1948 war, a record that cuts against the official account of people who simply chose to leave. The method is the one Britain would know at once, the quiet removal of a document that was already in the open.
Libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard argued that a state survives less by force than by managing what its subjects can be brought to believe about it. The soldiers’ footage took that management out of the state’s hands for a season, and the deleting that has followed has not fully restored it.
What binds these methods together is also what sets this case apart from the British one. Britain had time and a monopoly. It held the only copies, and it had fifty years and a locked building in which to decide what the world would ever see. Israel has had neither of those advantages. The decisive evidence in its war was made by its own soldiers and handed to the internet before any censor could reach it. It was copied to strangers’ drives within hours and read into the record of a court before any order to delete it could take hold. A government can burn an archive, because an archive sits in one place. Unpublishing a confession that several thousand men have already made to the world is a harder thing by far. The attempt goes on regardless, and the attempt, as in every case that came before it, is its own kind of admission.
November 4, 2026
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Algeria’s Defence Ministry announced on Sunday the launch of a second operation to remove radioactive waste from former French nuclear test sites in the Sahara Desert, as Paris continues to refuse to hand over maps showing where the waste was buried or take responsibility for clearing it.
The ministry said in a statement that the operation had begun on Sunday at the Beryl E2 test tunnel site in the In Ekker area of Tamanrasset province, in the country’s far south.
The work is being carried out under the supervision of the Defence Ministry and in coordination with the National Agency for the Rehabilitation of Former French Nuclear Test and Explosion Sites in southern Algeria, the statement said.
It added that the operation is being conducted using Algerian expertise and resources, in line with applicable national and international standards.
The ministry accused France of evading its responsibilities and refusing to hand over records and maps showing the locations where nuclear waste was buried, saying the issue continued to hinder development in In Eker, in Tamanrasset province, and Reggane, in Adrar province in the country’s south-west.
It said Algerian specialists are working to clear the nuclear waste left behind by French colonial rule in southern Algeria and rehabilitate the affected sites.
The operation, for which the state has allocated financial and human resources, includes identifying radioactive areas, collecting nuclear waste and storing it in specially designed concrete containers, while adhering to safety procedures and international standards.
November 3, 2026
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US President Donald Trump has claimed he could have won the Vietnam War in a week, criticizing his predecessors’ military strategy and suggesting that Washington should have intensified its bombing campaign against North Vietnam, as the US war on Iran enters its ninth month.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sunday ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, Trump called previous US leaders “stupid” and criticized the prolonged use of Agent Orange to clear forest cover during the Vietnam War.
He argued that instead of spending “years, and years, and years” dropping the chemical defoliant on forests, the US should have bombed Ho Chi Minh City and other locations to secure victory.
However, Trump’s proposed strategy overlooked a fundamental geographical and historical distinction: Ho Chi Minh City was known as Saigon during the Vietnam War and served as the capital of US-backed South Vietnam, not North Vietnam.
Trump’s remarks came as his administration continued its war against Iran, which began in February 2026 and has entered its ninth month. The president has repeatedly threatened further military action against Tehran, including warning on Sunday that Washington would eventually have to give Iran “the hammer.”
During the Vietnam War, the US military used Agent Orange and other herbicides under Operation Ranch Hand, which ran from 1962 to 1971. The program aimed to strip dense jungle vegetation that provided cover for Vietnamese forces while exposing supply routes and destroying crops used to sustain resistance forces.
The US sprayed nearly 19 million gallons of herbicides across Vietnam during the operation, including approximately 11.2 million gallons of Agent Orange, according to the US Department of Veterans Affairs. The chemical’s toxic legacy continues to affect exposed populations and their descendants, as children born in the area to this day suffer from disabilities and birth defects.
Trump’s reference to Ho Chi Minh City also overlooks the city’s position during the war. Then known as Saigon, it was the capital of South Vietnam, which Washington supported militarily and politically. The city was renamed Ho Chi Minh City following the fall of Saigon in April 1975.
North Vietnam’s capital was Hanoi, which was among the targets of extensive US bombing operations. Washington launched Operation Rolling Thunder in March 1965, a sustained aerial bombing campaign against North Vietnamese targets that continued until November 1968. US forces also struck Hanoi and Haiphong during subsequent phases of the bombing campaign.
November 2, 2026
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Israel is reportedly forcing some Palestinians in Gaza, among them resistance fighters and supporters of the resistance, to choose between being assassinated alone or alongside their families, Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported on 1 November.
“They received a call from the occupation giving them a choice between being bombed along with their families or being killed alone,” the paper wrote.
Relatives of activists affiliated with Palestinian resistance factions killed by Israel say they were targeted by Israeli drones while walking alone on side streets or main roads, or while on the rooftops of homes, residential buildings, or shelters where they lived with their families.
In the latest case, an Israeli drone killed a young Palestinian man, Mohammed al-Bayouk, on Wednesday afternoon in central Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
Bayouk’s relatives stated that before he was assassinated, he received a phone call from an officer of Israel’s General Security Service (Shin Bet) who gave him a choice between being bombed along with his family or going up to the roof of the shelter where they were living to be killed alone.
Bayouk chose to spare his family and went to the roof where a small missile killed him.
One of his aunts suffered serious injuries while chasing after Bayouk to prevent him from leaving the family’s small room in the shelter alone after receiving the call.
Similar assassinations involving advanced phone calls have been reported in Lebanon amid Israel’s war on Hezbollah.
According to sources who spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat, Israel has carried out at least five such killings in Gaza over the past three months.
Israel has also used similar tactics against Palestinian detainees to force them to reveal security information, the sources explained.
Palestinian detainees are threatened with the killing of their relatives if they refuse to provide the information wanted by interrogators.
In some cases, prisoners were shown photographs of their children and relatives after they had been killed to exert psychological pressure on them.
By contrast, Israel continues to kill senior Palestinian leaders and prominent field commanders using multiple missiles and explosive-laden drones while they are among their family members, resulting in the deaths of large numbers of civilians.
Earlier in the genocide, Israel killed over 100 civilians in a single strike to kill a prominent Hamas commander.
The sources said that Israel’s decision to contact lower-level Palestinian fighters and activists before killing them “does not mean that the occupation is showing mercy toward Palestinians or attempting to improve its image before the world.”
They emphasized that many Israeli bombardments continue to kill civilians, including women and children.
Haaretz reported in September that Israel is killing fewer civilians in Gaza due to pressure from the US to avoid collateral damage and to preserve larger bombs dropped by warplanes for attacks on Iran and Lebanon.
As a result, Israel has increasingly used smaller munitions launched from drones.
According to the Israeli paper, this is the reason for the relative decline in civilian deaths from Israeli airstrikes in recent months. Recently, the ratio has been approximately 0.6 civilians killed for every resistance fighter killed, Haaretz claimed.
One source speaking to Asharq al-Awsat disputed the reports, calling them inaccurate.
The source emphasized that recent Israeli airstrikes had killed civilians during attempts to assassinate individuals, while other civilians had been killed as a result of continued indiscriminate bombardment.
November 1, 2026
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A group of former US government officials who resigned because of Washington’s policy in the Gaza Strip has urged candidates seeking the 2028 presidential nomination to pledge not to appoint officials they said enabled Israel’s genocide in the enclave, Anadolu reports.
“Senior Biden Administration officials who were architects of the Gaza policy are now actively white-washing their own roles in enabling genocide,” Gaza Resignees said in a statement signed by 12 former officials.
“They violated U.S. and international law by providing U.S. weapons while Israel indiscriminately and disproportionately attacked civilians and civilian infrastructure, and as Israel arbitrarily blocked humanitarian assistance to Gaza,” it said.
The signatories include former State Department officials Josh Paul, Annelle Sheline and Stacy Gilbert, former diplomats Hala Rharrit and Mike Casey, former White House official Anna Del Castillo and former USAID senior adviser Alexander Smith. Also among them are former Army officer and Defense Intelligence Agency official Harrison Mann, former Air Force Maj. Riley Livermore, former Navy Lt. Cmdr. Hani Z. Nofal and former political appointees Tariq Habash of the Education Department and Lily Greenberg Call of the Interior Department.
“Not even two years since the end of their disastrous time in office, many of these same officials appear to be pursuing a path back into the halls of power,” they said.
“The most basic level of accountability, the most minimal level of consequences, is to ensure that those who have wreaked so much harm from within the highest levels of our Government cannot return to it,” according to the statement.
The group said that “Gaza has become a litmus test for the credibility of American politicians and the viability, in particular, of Democratic candidates.”
The pledge asks candidates to acknowledge US “complicity” in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It also asks them to exclude any past or present political appointee who was “an architect, leader, defender, or key enabler” of the policy.
In a video released with the statement, the former officials took turns reading the call over images of former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who now sits on the board of directors of the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank.
“We have watched as elite institutions have welcomed these officials,” said Mann, as the video showed former White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk, who is now with venture capital firm Lux Capital and a CNN commentator. It also showed former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and former USAID Administrator Samantha Power, who both joined Harvard Kennedy School after leaving office.
“We have watched as these officials have tried to launder their bloody reputations,” Paul said, with Rharrit adding, “and prepare to re-enter the halls of power.”
“And we say, enough,” the former officials said in the video. “Enough with the culture of impunity in Washington. Enough with policies that break our laws and defy our values.”
“They have blood on their hands,” they added.
Top Biden administration officials at that time acknowledged civilian suffering in Gaza but defended Israel’s right to defend itself following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack.
US-made weapons were photographed several times in Israeli strikes in Gaza, although US authorities have declined to confirm this.
Since October 2023, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded over 175,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. It has also caused widespread destruction affecting around 90% of the territory’s civilian infrastructure.
More than 1,500 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since an October 2025 ceasefire went into effect.
October 28, 2026
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