Palestinian genocide

EDITOR—The geopolitical analysis looks at: U.S. role in enabling Israel’s actions. The Arab states’ muted response (e.g., Saudi normalization paused?). Iran’s strategic posture and proxy dynamics. Turning to International Law & Resistance, Garland and Laith examine the legitimacy of Palestinian armed resistance under occupation, and ICC/Western double standards.  The hosts clearly disapprove of Israel’s lawless actions. Garland Nixon, well known for his critical view of U.S. foreign policy, emphasizes Palestinian sovereignty. Laith Marouf filters his comments through an Anti-imperialist lens, highlighting the innumerable crimes of Zionist settler-colonialism.

Continued Israeli military operations and civilian casualties make further bloodshed a certainty. Siege conditions (food, water, medical shortages), all of which are war crimes, continue unabated, while the key nations capable of stopping the genocide—US, UK, France, Germany, major Arab states, etc. and most EU members—are busy helping Israel instead of the victmised Palestinians. This is aggravated by the disgustingly biased coverage we see in all Western media. 

J. COOK—Anyone trying to make sense of the Trump administration’s policy towards Gaza should have a thumping headache by now.

Initially, US President Donald Trump called for the mass expulsion of Palestinians from the tiny territory wrecked by Israel over the past year and a half, so that he could build the “Riviera of the Middle East” on the crushed bodies of Gaza’s children.

He followed up last week with an explicitly genocidal threat addressed to “the people of Gaza” – all two million-plus of them. They would be “DEAD” if the Israeli hostages held by Hamas were not quickly released – a decision over which Gaza’s population has precisely no control.

To make this extermination threat more credible, his administration has expedited the transfer of an extra $4bn worth of US weapons to Israel, bypassing Congressional approval.

KATIE HALPER—Katie and Matt Lieb react to John Podhoretz’s zion*ist meltdown over No Other Land winning the Oscar for best documentary film. For the entire discussion, please join us on Patreon

INDRAJIT—Freeing prisoners is an urgent need across the Palestinian community because the conditions in ‘Israeli’ prisons are horrific. At least 60 prisoners have been killed during the Battle of Al Aqsa Flood, many of them tortured to death. People are shackled constantly, to the point that their limbs need to be amputated. Scabies and bacterial diseases are endemic and spread intentionally by the ‘Israelis’. Medical neglect is targeted, people are denied treatment as torture and punishment. Prisoners are not allowed to change clothes for months on end and barely allowed to bathe.

EDITOR —Palestine Hijacked (2022) is a book of deeply documented historical research (686 detailed endnotes) that tears the mask off the narrative that paints Zionism as a benign force. Through assiduous archival research in poorly accessed and newly declassified archives of the Central Intelligence Agency, the British National Archives, the Library of Congress, the Zionist Organization of America, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, etc., Suárez uses original source documents to hoist the well-known Zionist leaders with their own petards, often in their own words, words never meant to see the light of day.