PALESTINIANS

JON COOK—Israel has repeatedly attacked UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon, while the presence of UN forces has done nothing to curb Israel’s continuing “ceasefire” violations.

A stabilisation force will be able to do little to stop Israel meddling directly in Gaza through drone assassinations; restrictions on imports of concrete, food and medical supplies; and a naval blockade of the enclave’s territorial waters.

Trump’s vision of “peace” is of Palestinians eking out a bare existence among Gaza’s ruins, at the mercy of Israel’s ever-watching drones.

Ramy Abdu, chair of Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, told the Intercept this week that what we are most likely to see over the coming weeks and months is a move by Israel from wanton genocide to what he called a more “managed genocide, a managed forcible displacement”.

Israel will now be able to sit back, obstruct the rebuilding of the enclave, sending a clear message to a destitute population that their salvation will never be found in Gaza.

GARLAND NIXON—The discussion underscores the global shift in attitude toward the Zionist project, marked by widespread international condemnation, diplomatic isolation of Israel, and increasing grassroots activism, including cultural and maritime boycotts.
______________________________
The video also delves into the ineffectiveness of Israeli air defenses against Yemeni drone and missile attacks, highlighting the growing strength and morale of Yemen’s resistance.

In Syria, the surge of organized resistance forces, including various nationalist and sectarian groups, points to an inevitable collapse of U.S.-backed factions like Al Golani’s HTS and a possible reassertion of a sovereign, anti-Zionist Syrian government. The humanitarian and economic crisis in Syria is described as dire, with mass unemployment, poverty, and a refugee overflow into Lebanon, creating a volatile regional situation.

GEORGE HAZIM—Howe’s latest column in The Australian, grandly titled “Easiest thing to see in the Middle East? The gulf between good and evil,” is not journalism at all. It is a desperate act of service to a boss who demands loyalty to Israel above truth, a clumsy sermon that dresses up war crimes as morality and caricatures Palestinians as savages. Howe doesn’t report — he recites. And in doing so, he exposes not only his own bankruptcy as a commentator but the rot at the heart of Murdoch’s empire.

FPTV—Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait pick up Richard Medhurst from Beirut airport as he takes a break from political persecution in Austria and the UK, and immediately take him to the borders of South Lebanon and Occupied Palestine to witness the largest funeral in the history of Hizbullah, as more than 100 fighters are laid to rest in Aitaroun. They also meet two generations of al-Hijazi family who returned from Australia to bury their martyrs.

EDITOR—Israel has been bombing Tehran relentlessly. Iran, on the other hand, has fired over 400 missiles at Israel. Israeli air defenses have struggled to stop the incoming missiles. Israel started this war underestimating its enemy. Now it’s running out of interceptor missiles and soon may have nothing to stop the unrelenting barrages of hypersonic rockets sent by Iran.