JM—UN-linked data shows a sharp rise in Israeli Killing in the West Bank, with more deaths in the past three years than the previous 17 years. Reports state over 1,244 Palestinians were killed and tens of thousands displaced due to ongoing violence and operations. Humanitarian groups warn the situation is worsening, calling for stronger protection of civilians amid rising instability.

Unless the US can put an end to Israeli killings in Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank, there can obviously be no peace in the MIddle East. The US can stop it anytime it wants – by cutting off support for the ZioNazi state, which is just another proxy.

OBB—And, just in case we might forget, who is it who is involved in pushing for this MOU? Could it possibly be the world’s most egregious violator of all kinds of agreement known to the human species? Why, yes, certainly – it is the treacherous, murderous, odiously obnoxious regime led by the ignoble 80-year-old orange demon and his army of gross plutocrats, the US corporate colossus and genocide enabler.

And who is it, just in case it matters (it probably doesn’t), who is it who is doing the mediating?

Oh, could it be that very same country whose intelligence service worked hand-in-glove with the other culpable parties involved in 9/11, had helped shoe the Taliban into power in the 1990s and then helped to sabotage the tinpot US colonialist regimes that replaced them in the naughties, is currently fighting the new Taliban government and the Pashtun people north of the Durand line, is a conduit for Chinese Belt and Road influence even as its secessionists in Baluchistan sabotage B&R initiatives, yet remains a staunch US “ally,” a power that shelters Saudi Arabia beneath its nuclear umbrella, in return for loads of Saudi $, and talks of a Middle East from Turkey to Egypt that will be free of the US. Well, well. Trust and respect, not so much.

KI—Israel’s concerns revolve around Hezbollah’s entrenched presence in Lebanon and potential Iranian nuclear ambitions, which they see as an existential threat.  If Syria successfully restrains Hezbollah as Trump expects, it could reduce Israeli military interventions, but the risk of continued proxy conflict remains high.

PE—You will have noted that whatever the hell is in this ‘deal’, Bozo has not made it public.  Not so, in Iran.  Their 14 points and redlines have not changed an iota from their first issuance.  They consist of demands that Trump and The Empire can not comply with short of de facto surrender.

They include, but are not limited to, refusal to yield, or cease enrichment of, their uranium; full control and management of Hormuz; a total end to war on Gaza and Hezbollah; restitution of billions of stolen sovereign funds; and removal of all U.S. war-making bases from our sycophant princelings in the Gulf.

NORA HOPPE—The arts – in their truest and noblest forms – have always posed a serious threat to despotic powers because they represent a freedom of spirit and independence of thought. During the Third Reich, the Nazis engaged in “Cancel Culture” by censoring various forms of music, literature, films, theatre plays that were considered an “insult to German feeling” and which they condemned as “Entartete Kunst” [degenerate art]. Instead, they promoted works that exalted the “blood and soil” values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience.