Yet we tend to forget that these criminals are empowered and financed by the US government and most of its allies, who supply Tel Aviv with a full panoply of lethal weapons, and worse, these slimeballs enjoy the full moral and PR support of most Evangelical churches, which teach the SATANIC doctrine of "Christian" Zionism.

The Bible foreshadowed the modern phenomenon of fake Christianity. Jesus warned of false “Christs” and Revelation 2:9 says: “‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.”

Please listen to Jeffrey Sachs on the problems of the EU, Russia and China attributable to US foreign and other policies.

Like myself, he understands the contribution of the Evangelical “church” to the acceptance of Trump’s weird and inconsistent policies, although he claims these "Christians” are misled by the book of Revelations, but this is not entirely true. They are misled not by the Bible itself but by a false, made-up interpretation of this and other parts of the Bible – for example, the verse in Genesis where God tells Abraham that He will bless those who bless him (Abraham) and curse those who curse him.

The utter fools who subscribe to the doctrine of Evangelical Zionism actually behave as if they think God has, based on this verse, declared that no Hebrew (later named “Jews”) may be accused of a crime or held accountable for a crime, no matter how egregious or atrocious that crime may be. This enables them to continue supporting the murderous Netanyahu.

But if you examine this verse and the context of it, you can immediately see that it in no way indicates or hints that all Jews must be exempted from criminal law, and that no other passages of the Bible even hint that all Jews must be exempted from punishments applicable under criminal laws.

Very unfortunately, this utterly stupid interpretation that Jews must be exempted from criminal law is being enforced by the US and most US allies, who therefore believe the world must allow the Netanyahu regime to do as it pleases against the hapless Arabs, including murdering, imprisoning and torturing them and destroying their houses and property and then confiscating their land.

It’s all ok because if we try to prevent these crimes committed by Jews, God will curse us. Sound like sound jurisprudence?

Obviously not, but this “hillbilly-type” thinking is being applied under extreme pressure from the US almost throughout the world! Even Arab countries assist the application of this concept throughout most of the Middle East, where all military groups that oppose the Israeli criminals are automatically and unthinkingly considered “terrorists.” This is being played out in Lebanon right now, where the idiotic Lebanese government has blindly obeyed Trump’s order (delivered by US envoy Tom Barak) to disarm Hezbollah, the well-trained and disciplined military group that saved the Lebanese sovereign state from destruction in 2006. Without this army’s intervention, Lebanon would now be part of the dreamed-of Greater Israel project that Netanyahu has admitted he wants to implement in 7 different neighboring countries around Israel.

BTW, why do I call this “hillbilly-type” thinking?

I grew up in a backwoods environment in a family that believed in the doctrine that many people call “Christian” Zionism.

It wasn’t dad’s fault. He was an intelligent and kind man, the kind that would “give you the shirt off his back.” Back then few Americans had any inkling that the pseudostate of “Israel” was founded by 3 European Jewish terror groups (you can listen to the history of this founding, called the Nakba, in the documentary linked here: https://yandex.ru/video/preview/13073683258425795221.

And there was a general acceptance of the stories coming from the Israeli PR agencies, For example, to create the notion that the “founders” did not steal anyone’s land, they spread the creative but fake narrative of “a land without a people for a people without a land.”

I remember Dad rhapsodically speaking of how Israel had “made the desert bloom.” This slogan left Americans under the ridiculous notion that the land taken over by the founding terrorists was originally not fit for farming (supposedly, it was a kind of vacant lot in a desert). Back then – in the late 40s, early 50s – I never heard any of the people discussing Israel talk about the people who had lived in the “Holy Land” before the first settlers arrived. This part of the narrative was totally missing. And that was because the original residents were mostly farmers, relatively successful farmers, and the media, bowing to Israeli pressure, refused to discuss them – they “cancelled” the Palestinians.

There were 1.9 million people in a land “without a people”!

Here’s Jeffrey:

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Translation from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

https://alkhanadeq.com/post/9278/كمين-بيت-حانون-رسالة-لنتنياهو-بأن-غزة-ستفكك-أوهام-الهيمنة-العسكرية

Thursday, August 28, 2025, 03:49 AM

Beit Hanoun Ambush: A Message to Netanyahu That Gaza Will Shatter the Illusion of Military Dominance

Israeli Army Soldiers and Palestinian Resistance Operations

From the first moment of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the occupation leaders relied on brute force as the decisive approach to taming the resistance and breaking the will of the Palestinian people. Benjamin Netanyahu, who lives under the burden of his internal crises, judicial trials, and popular pressure, tried to exploit the war as an "existential battle" that would restore his leadership position and establish the myth of the "invincible army." However, what happened recently in Beit Hanoun—a well-planned ambush carried out by the Qassam Brigades—offered a completely opposite model, exposing the illusion of military dominance and revealing that the occupation is mired in a war it cannot win.

The Ambush as a Mirror of the Failure of Israeli Military Doctrine

The Beit Hanoun ambush was not just a successful field operation; it was a complex message. It targeted a force from Netzah Yehuda—one of the most ferocious battalions in the West Bank—killing five and wounding 20, all within earshot of the Erez military base. Most importantly, the operation was based on meticulous intelligence planning: explosive devices were planted 12 hours in advance, secret surveillance cameras were installed in the area, and a double-decker tactic that caught the backup force behind the initial attack.

However, what gave the ambush an additional dimension was the timing: the operation took place on July 7, while the video footage was not released until Tuesday, nearly 40 days later. This time gap in itself carries a dual message: that the perpetrators of the operation returned safely despite the intensity of the bombardment, and that the resistance carefully chose the timing of the release to create a double political and media impact and expose the occupation's narrative, which claimed to have eliminated the Beit Hanoun battalion.

Tactical Attack: A Resistance That Knows How to Manage the Ground

What distinguishes the ambush is its reliance on the concept of tactical attack, meaning that the resistance may relinquish control of a specific area in exchange for inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. This concept is consistent with the nature of guerrilla warfare, but in Gaza it has taken on a new dimension: the resistance does not defend fixed positions; rather, it withdraws and returns, mines and strikes, and then disappears. The result: an occupation that lives in constant fear, not knowing whether the route it takes is mined or monitored.

This flexibility is what renders Netanyahu unable to implement his plan to occupy Gaza City. Even if Israeli forces enter the heart of the city, the scene will repeat itself: ambushes, explosive devices, lightning clashes, and a hasty withdrawal. It is a "war of attrition" that exhausts the army internally and undermines its prestige in the eyes of Israeli and international public opinion.

Between Colonial Illusion and Resistance Reality

The ambush is not just a military event; it is a political text that deconstructs the colonial "Israeli" discourse. Israel presents itself to the world as a strong democracy, equipped with the latest weapons and technology, but in Gaza, it faces an existential dilemma: How can an army ranked among the world's most powerful be helpless against a group of fighters operating from beneath the rubble? The answer lies in the fact that military force, no matter how great, cannot break the will for liberation.

Beit Hanoun, which was razed to the ground since the beginning of the offensive, has once again asserted that a place cannot be wiped out by bombing, and that Palestinian society is capable of reproducing resistance even from beneath the rubble. This is the great paradox that Israel fails to grasp: that destruction breeds more resilient resistance, and that every killing or invasion becomes a catalyst for renewed confrontation.

Netanyahu Facing a Dead End

For Netanyahu, this operation represents a true nightmare. He understands that any attempt to penetrate further into Gaza will mean a repeat of the same scenario: continued losses, intelligence exposure, and the erosion of the Israeli public's trust in its military. Most importantly, the resistance proves to the world that the Israeli army, which boasts of its technological might, is incapable of subduing a people under siege for two decades.

The message is clear: Gaza will not be an occupied city, as Netanyahu plans, but rather a graveyard for the illusion of domination. Every street and alleyway could turn into a new Beit Hanoun, and any attempt to seize control of territory will be met with a more devastating ambush.

Gaza Dismantles Illusions of Power

The Beit Hanoun ambush is not only a successful military operation; it is a political-military declaration that encapsulates the essence of the conflict. The resistance says that the war has not been decided, and that what is being presented to the world as an "Israeli" plan to occupy Gaza is nothing but another colonialist illusion.

In this sense, the ambush provides a practical example of what the occupation will face if it attempts to storm Gaza City. There, in the dark alleys, tunnels, and destroyed homes, all illusions of "Israeli power" will be shattered. Gaza is not only fighting in self-defense; it is teaching the world a lesson: that peoples, no matter how besieged, are capable of resisting empires and dismantling their myths.

Author:

Dr. Mohammed Al-Ayubi
Palestinian Journalist
Bachelor's Degree in Journalism and Media
PhD in Law
mohammedwajeehal@gmail.com

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Yemeni Strikes Pierce Israeli Enemy’s Heart Before the Sirens Sound

Yemen: Motivated by religious, moral, and humanitarian principles, the Yemeni Armed Forces have once again delivered a direct blow to the myth of Zionist military supremacy, challenged Western-American regional dominance, and shattered the illusion of Israel’s invulnerability.

In a bold and precisely executed operation, the Yemeni Air Force launched three drone strikes targeting critical sites in the occupied cities of Jaffa and Ashkelon, as well as the strategic Port of Haifa—one of the key pillars of the Zionist economy.

These coordinated strikes carried a multidimensional message: the era of unchecked Zionist aggression and Western-backed impunity is over. Launched from over 2,000 kilometers away, the drones successfully bypassed layered defense systems—including the Patriot, Iron Dome, THAAD, and the US-led air and sea defense umbrella spanning the Red Sea, the Arabian Gulf, and the borders of Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.

Analysts observed that Yemen’s military operations are not spontaneous reactions but part of a long-term, accumulative strategy. The goal: to exhaust the enemy from within, shake faith in its defense systems, and dismantle the imposed rules of engagement.

The nature of these strikes highlights Yemen’s decentralized leadership within the Axis of Resistance. While spiritually and strategically aligned with regional allies, Yemen retains independent decision-making—operating beyond geographic limits and outside the need for direct, real-time coordination.

Yemen’s continued military support for Gaza has elevated it into a central force reshaping the regional balance of deterrence. Drawing from a revolutionary political vision, indigenous military capabilities, and a renewed Quranic combat doctrine, Yemen has redefined the parameters of confrontation.

In its latest statement, the Yemeni Armed Forces accused the international community of remaining suspiciously silent amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It warned that both this silence and the Arab-Islamic complicity will not go unanswered, stressing that Palestinian blood will remain etched in the conscience of free peoples.

The message was clear: what the United Nations has failed to prevent—and what some Arab regimes have enabled—is now being actively confronted by a nation besieged for over a decade. Armed only with faith, resilience, and domestically built capabilities, Yemen continues to challenge global injustice.

On the day of the strikes, Hebrew media confirmed that Yemeni drones had successfully penetrated Israeli airspace, triggering alarms across several areas of occupied Palestine—especially in the Gaza envelope, which had not previously been targeted by Yemen.

Israel’s Channel 14, aligned with the Netanyahu government, reported a “mysterious incident” in which a military jeep overturned near Kerem Shalom following the drone breach—highlighting chaos among Zionist forces or possibly indicating a successful strike.

Zionist media acknowledged this was the second successful Yemeni drone infiltration in just five days—both without any sirens activated until after impact—exposing the fragility of a defense system once hailed as impenetrable.

Analysts emphasize that the strength of Yemen’s military strategy lies not only in its precision and reach, but in its moral clarity. These operations are responses to genocide, the desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the starvation of the people of Gaza.

Through these accumulating actions, Yemen asserts that warfare is not only a political instrument but an expression of dignity, loyalty, humanity, and justice.

The new reality is now evident: Zionist ports are vulnerable, Israeli airspace is no longer secure, and the interior of occupied Palestine lives under the constant threat of retaliation. Yemen has imposed a new equation of engagement on one of the world’s most technologically advanced militaries.
To Palestinians and freedom-seekers worldwide, Yemen’s drones deliver what many states have failed to articulate: there is no security without justice, no supremacy without morality, and no deterrence without will—when a people possess vision, leadership, and belief in the righteousness of their cause.

These historic strikes confirm that the balance of power is shifting from the southern Arabian Peninsula. Resistance is no longer a slogan—it is a living creed across the Islamic world. To those who believe Gaza stands alone, Yemen’s leadership and people have sent a resounding message: Gaza is not alone. All of Palestine lives in our hearts, and every inch of it lies within the range of liberation.

Translated by Almasirah English website

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My notes in bold and in [brackets]

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/eli-gerzon/livestream-terms-servitude

“ A lot of us are aware that these companies are lying,” says Omar Zahzahauthor of Terms of Servitude, a groundbreaking new book documenting how US tech companies support Israeli settler-colonialism and genocide.

Large online platforms often remove content from Palestinians and their supporters and then claim it was a mistake, Zahzah explained on The Electronic Intifada Livestream for 21 August, in a discussion of how tech firms actively collaborate with Israel’s crimes.

[The “experts” on press freedom, including Reporters without Borders, have made a pseudoscience out of rating press freedom, and if you examine their system closely, you can see it is designed to slander the states non-aligned with the US, especially Russia and China. The system includes such categories as Economic factors in press freedom. You ask what economics has to do with press freedom? The rating “experts” don’t tell us. This secretiveness gives them free rein to slander Russia based on an ill-defined rating category. This article from Electronic Intifada is a perfect example of how the US has long been indirectly distorting the news. Distortion of news is the best way to interfere with press freedom and get away with it. The US doesn’t always interfere with press freedom directly, it kills freedom via the back door– in Ukraine and Israel, it backs the killers of freedom with money and weapons that kill reporters. THAT is the most effective way to destroy press freedom and then pretend to be innocent. But we know. The tech companies mentioned above that support Israel and criminal settlers also support the Nazis in Ukraine and Trump can pretend he’s being “fair” and unbiased when he looks the other way]

Also, on this episode, executive director Ali Abunimah took an in-depth look at how one of Israel’s top cyberwarriors escaped the US after being arrested and charged in a child sex-crimes sting.

Meanwhile in Gaza, a 15-year-old orphan survived being shot in the head while trying to get food for his eight siblings. That was one of the harrowing incidents associate editor Nora Barrows-Friedman reported in her news brief as Israel escalates its mass murder and starvation of Palestinians.

Israel’s forced starvation has killed 269 people, according to the health ministry in Gaza.

Survivors could suffer permanent disability, including cognitive issues, according to  Dr. Thaer Ahmad who spoke to Barrows-Friedman in a separate episode of The Electronic Intifada Podcast.

Contributing editor Jon Elmer’s resistance report focused on resistance operations against Israeli troops who invaded the Zaytoun area in northern Gaza as well as the Israeli army’s severe shortage of soldiers.

You can watch the whole program in the video above.

Complicity with genocide is a choice 

Omar Zahzah – assistant professor of Arab, Muslim, Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University – told the Livestream that by claiming to remove content in error, platforms repress speech while dodging accountability for systematic censorship.

The previous week, Twitch abruptly took down The Electronic Intifada Livestream’s in the middle of the broadcast. Twitch claimed The Electronic Intifada had violated one of the streaming platform’s rules.

Editors lodged an immediate appeal. By the time the Livestream ended, Twitch said it had made a mistake and put the channel back up.

 ”But by that time we lost viewers. They never told us in that initial notice what they claim our violation was,” explained executive director Ali Abunimah – citing this as a possible example of the tactics Zahzah was exposing.

Tech companies are complicit in more direct ways as well: Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is used in Israel’s genocide as former and current Microsoft employees told the Livestream in May.

In recent days, Microsoft workers have been protesting outside the company’s headquarters.

Microsoft has acknowledged the protests and announced on 15 August that it is hiring an outside law firm to investigate. But it seemingly pre-empted the supposedly independent probe by asserting: “ We have found no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict.”

According to Zahzah, many Western tech firms employ veterans of the Israeli military’s notorious cyberwarfare division Unit 8200.

“ This shadowy cyber unit that is responsible for direct surveillance as well as creation of many of the fatal algorithmic AI targeting platforms that we’re seeing unleashed in Gaza right now,” Zahzah said.

Microsoft alone employs about 250 Unit 8200 veterans and Nvidia, Meta, Google, Intel and Apple employ dozens more, according to Drop Site News.

Unit 8200 likely played a direct role in the assassinations of Palestinian journalists including Anas Al-Sharif, as The Hind Rajab Foundation’s Dyab Abou Jahjah explained on last week’s Livestream.

“ They don’t need to go to one of the most elite repression units of a colonial government in order to bolster their products,” Zahzah said, emphasizing that these tech firms knowingly choose to work with Israel during a genocide.

Zahzah notes that online platforms were meant to be an alternative to tightly controlled corporate media but have taken on the same pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian biases.

Still, Zahzah shared some reasons to stay hopeful and motivated.

One of the most powerful voices in his book is that of Asem Alnabih, writer, engineer, spokesperson for the Gaza Municipality and a frequent contributor to The Electronic Intifada.

Alnabih – who spoke to Zahzah from Gaza – feels that Palestinians have already proved the futility of tech censorship.

Inspired by Refaat Alareer, the beloved educator murdered early in the genocide, Palestinians have strategically used online platforms to raise consciousness and humanize Palestinians, bypassing gatekeepers and reaching people directly.

Zahzah said Alnabih’s optimism should prompt us to resist feelings of impotence and despair.

“ We need to ask ourselves who does that feeling benefit?”  Zahzah said. “Companies, the Israeli colonial project and the entities that support it need us to feel powerless.”

Resistance report

In our previous show, Jon Elmer predicted that resistance operations would be mostly limited to firing artillery at the Israeli army as it confined itself to defensive positions before a planned invasion of Gaza City.

In the past week, however, Israel mounted a surprise attack in the Zaytoun neighborhood, on the outskirts of Gaza City.

“ But immediately we saw the resistance hit them as soon as they came into that neighborhood,” Elmer said in his latest report, noting that the resistance carried out operations within 24 hours of Israeli troops invading the area.

Elmer regularly highlights that the resistance is organized into territorial units, each responsible for its own area. This is why fighters can respond quickly to Israeli attacks. They don’t need to travel between areas of Gaza.

Videos of resistance operations in Zaytoun provided a clear view of a new, locally manufactured weapon: a lighter version of the Shawaz explosively formed penetrator called the “Barq” or “Lightning Bolt.”

These can be carried two at a time and thrown into tanks, Elmer said.

On multiple occasions seen in resistance videos, Israelis have left the hatches of their armored vehicles open – apparently due to poor or malfunctioning air conditioning amid intense summer heat that can push temperatures inside as high as 60C.

Soldiers have been complaining about this but in the meantime the resistance has adapted.

Israel short of soldiers

Israel continues to raise the alarm about its lack of soldiers.

At one point, Israeli army radio said about half of reservists recently called for duty failed to show up. To make up the shortfall, Israel is now trying to step up recruitment of military-age Jews aged from around the world, with a focus on the US and France.

Israel has long relied on foreign Jewish recruits and even before October 2023 about 1,200 Americans were serving in the Israeli military at any given time.

Remembering JoAnne Lingle, who stood with Palestine

At the end of the livestream, Abunimah highlighted a moving tribute to activist JoAnne Lingle, written by Edward E. Curtis IV for The Electronic Intifada.

Curtis writes that Lingle was a “quiet, yet fierce example of activism not often associated in contemporary times with nice, white, Midwestern Christian women.” She was arrested many times while protesting and spent a lot of time in the West Bank as part of the Christian Peacemaker Teams.

Lingle passed away on 2 May 2025 with no press coverage. Curtis said it was important that her contributions not be lost to history.

Abunimah expressed a similar sentiment on the livestream and noted that Lingle also supported The Electronic Intifada for 20 years.

“[This article] honors JoAnne Lingle but it’s also a way of honoring so many people who have worked and are working in solidarity with Palestinians.” He said so many people, “ work silently away from the limelight in this global struggle for justice.”

You can watch the program on YouTube, Rumble and Twitter/X, or you can listen to it on your preferred podcast platform.

Tamara Nassar produced and directed the program. Michael F. Brown contributed pre-production assistance and this writer contributed post-production assistance.

Past episodes of The Electronic Intifada livestream can be viewed on our YouTube channel.

Ali Abunimah contributed reporting for this article.

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