“They were very humane towards us,” she said in an interview on Israeli state radio.
She also added that one Hamas fighter told her, ‘We’re not going to kill you. We want to take you to Gaza.’ Once released, Porat also claimed that the Israeli government gave her a specific script of talking points that she refused […]..
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This CrossTalk News episode is explosive. An Israeli survivor speaks out and tells the truth about what happened that day.
IDF slaughtered everyone, including Israeli Hostages.
On 8 Oct. an Israeli woman told this: “I served in the IDF Gaza division during the 2014 Gaza war. Listen to me and listen well. There’s no way in hell that someone can approach the border WITHOUT US KNOWING ABOUT IT” – video: https://t.co/UB41BKWUc8
In the same way the ADL plan the majority of anti-semitic "attacks" so they gain more support & funding, Hamas was created by the Zionists so they can create a basis for attacking the Palestinians with impunity. It's the oldest trick in the book. And it was an Israeli false flag
These are the names of every Palestinian child (-18) that has been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since this latest conflict started on October 7th.
This list does not include missing children, unidentified bodies (obvs), or those killed during the 12hr constant bombardment on Friday evening.
Now the narrative around the October 7th attack by Hamas is unraveling as independent investigators on the ground study the attack sites. No beheaded babies, no burning piles of bodies.
Many killed were IDF soldiers. Many were killed in Israeli crossfire, tank shelling and “zero-sum” attacks (the bombing by Israeli troops of buildings where hostages were held, killing Hamas fighter and hostage alike).
Experts now suggest that Hamas’ intention was hostage capture only with an aim of prisoner exchange with Israel. Also, intelligence sources claim they warned Benjamin Netanyahu that this attack was coming, and their warnings were ignored. It took IDF six hours to respond to a flagged attack on one of the most heavily surveilled and monitored few square miles on the planet.
Israel has now killed 20+ of the hostages taken from the kibbutz with their airstrikes (independently confirmed figure, as reported by Israeli media). Hamas contacted IDF – through Red Cross intermediaries – to arrange a hostage handover in return for the end of airstrikes on Gazan civilian centres for long enough to find and bury the dead. According to reliable sources Israeli government representatives refused.
By the time the world sees through the lies that Israeli government officials and IDF chiefs tell every time this sort of violence happens it’ll be too late for thousands of Palestinian civilians. Over 10,000 have already perished, a huge number of them children.
The average age in Gaza is just 18. How many have to die to sate Israel’s bloodlust, piqued by the massive humiliation of October 7th? Answer, from the mouth of one Israeli government minister: “Every Palestinian is Hamas. Those children had it coming”.
What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide of a brutality and cruelty that far surpasses that of Hamas on October 7th. Israel is a rogue state that has “declared war” on “meddling” UN Officials after UN Member states passed an unbinding motion calling for an immediate ceasefire.
USA voted with Israel, against a ceasefire. UK and Ukraine abstained on the vote. The ethnic cleansing we are seeing yet again in Palestine is happening with the explicit support of our own government and opposition.
A video broadcasted a few moments ago by Al Jazeera shows the areas that were targeted in the airstrikes last night in #Gaza, revealing the immense destruction and the efforts to rescue citizens from under the rubble. pic.twitter.com/sMypPxQvMp
War Crimes are being committed and Britain is complicit under International Law. But the impunity with which western states (and Israel) have been allowed to act around the world for the past hundred or more years has instilled a sense of untouchability in them. They know they can get away with war crimes, genocides, ethnic cleansing, etc because they’ve been getting away with it for a century.
Israel will only stop when every Palestinian is either killed or displaced, and when every scrap of Palestinian land has been stolen, levelled and built upon to house European and American Zionist settlers, again against international law.
Meanwhile our leaders stand by and say “Israel has a right to defend itself”. This isn’t self defense. This is the annihilation of an entire people in order to expand the building of a far right religious ethnostate on stolen land.
An important and decisive war has begun in Occupied Palestine. We spent the eighteenth day of the “Al-Aqsa Storm” operation while more than 4,900 Palestinians have been martyred in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and more than 15,000 people injured.
Since the beginning of this war, the Fauda movement has used all its field and media resources to confront the fascist Zionists.
Our young people in the West Bank, every day and night, are struggling and fighting the Israeli army and the security forces of the treacherous Palestinian Authority (PA) complementing the Zionist project in the West Bank.
We declare to every Zionist who has been occupying our land that we will resist until the last moment of our lives. And even if this war ends, we will be like active bombs which move in your settlements and rob you of your normal daily life.
You will never be at peace in our land. We will not leave you alone as long as you occupy our land.
Get out of it and get on with your lives. We request all free people in the world to burn the Israeli flag and march towards Israeli embassies in all countries.
Do your duty and be the voice of the Palestinians and the voice of all the innocent children and women who are being killed under the barbaric and brutal bombing of the Zionists.
Khalil Awawdah speak about his family and freedom. He's been on hunger strike against arbitrary detention for almost six months now pic.twitter.com/AwZgaJ2ujb
We tell all our enemies in the Zionist apartheid regime that we have a lot of surprises for you. And know that we will be on the lookout for you from the north to the south of Palestine, whether inside the occupied territory in the West Bank or even in the Gaza Strip.
We are anarchists. We are legends. We don’t forget. We don’t forgive. Expect us.
“Of course, Fauda is Arabic for Chaos. It’s used as a codeword by the Israeli ‘counter terrorism’ operatives. Though I’m yet to speak to an Israeli who can actually pronounce the word correctly in Arabic. Its also the name of a popular Israeli TV series now in its 3rd season on Netflix”
People around the world rally to support Gaza as continued Israeli bombing has killed nearly 8,000 Palestinians.
A protester holds a placard reading ‘Save Gaza’ during a ‘March for Palestine’ in Dortmund, western Germany. [Ina Fassbender/AFP]
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallied in cities across Europe, the Middle East, the United States and Asia on Saturday to show support for the Palestinians amid brutal Israeli military onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
A video broadcasted a few moments ago by Al Jazeera shows the areas that were targeted in the airstrikes last night in #Gaza, revealing the immense destruction and the efforts to rescue citizens from under the rubble. pic.twitter.com/sMypPxQvMp
In one of the biggest marches, large crowds marched through the centre of the British capital, London, to demand the government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak call for a ceasefire.
Saturday’s march in London was mostly peaceful, but police said they had made nine arrests: two for assaults on officers and seven for public order offences – some of which were being treated as hate crimes.
People rally in support of Palestinians in Geneva, Switzerland. [Martial Trezzini/EPA]
Police estimated the turnout at between 50,000 and 70,000 people.
Echoing Washington’s stance, Sunak’s government has stopped short of calling for a ceasefire, and instead advocated humanitarian pauses to allow aid to reach people in Gaza.
The United Kingdom has supported Israel’s “right to defend” itself after the October 7 attack by Hamas killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians.
People hold signs as they gather in Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit, Michigan state of the US to call for a ceasefire and voice their support for Gaza. [Jeff Kowalsky/AFP]
The death toll in Gaza has crossed 7,700, also mostly civilians, since Israel’s bombardment began three weeks ago, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
In Malaysia, a large crowd of demonstrators chanted slogans outside the US embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysians protest outside the US embassy in support of Palestinians in Gaza, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [Hasnoor Hussain/Reuters]
An estimated 100,000 people rallied in the southern Indian state of Kerala in solidarity with Palestine.
Protests were also held in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Palestinian protesters in Hebron in the occupied West Bank called for a global boycott of Israeli products. “Don’t contribute to the killing of the children of Palestine,” they chanted.
‘Deaths of innocent children in the Israeli Blitz bombing soared to over 3000 yesterday. The UN is powerless due to US control. Advanced talks on liberation of civilian and foreign prisoners collapsed as the Israeli ground invasion spread..’
Elsewhere in Europe, people took to the streets of Copenhagen, Rome and Stockholm.
For years, it has been undeniable that there has been a concerted COINTELPRO-style campaign targeting the anarchist left in the U.S.
This has been an incontrovertible fact since at least 2021, when the Grayzone published an expose of Alexander Reid Ross, former editor of the Earth First! Journal, author of Against the Fascist Creep, and leading antifa ideologue.
(FULL DISCLOSURE – I contributed to the Earth First! Journal for years, but I got involved after ARR’s tenure as editor. I have never had any direct contact with this despicable creep.)
THE SMOKING GUN
In March of 2021, the Grayzone published an expose of Alexander Reid Ross by Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal.
The piece is important, as it is basically the “smoking gun” which proves my point – Alexander Reid Ross is a spook.
Ross was invited to speak at what the Integrity Initiative called its “main event,” in Seattle, Washington in December 2018. There, he delivered a typically incoherent talk laying out a furtive network of “red-brown” alliances and “syncretic” communist-fascist media outlets. His presentation ended by accusing Zero Hedge, an alternative financial and news outlet, of inspiring anti-migrant militia violence on the US-Mexico border.
In January 2021, Ross was named a “senior research fellow” by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a think tank funded by billionaires including right-wing oligarch Charles Koch. NCRI proclaims its mission is “to track, expose, and combat misinformation, deception, manipulation, and hate across social media channels.”
At the NCRI, Ross has co-authored reports with former top officials of the US national security state whom any self-respecting anarchist would undoubtedly view as an existential threat and absolute menace.
On March 11, the NCRI published a report on “Viral Disinformation of the COVID Vaccine.” The first contributor named in the list of co-authors was Alexander Reid Ross. Collaborating on the project with Ross was Kelli Holden, the former chief of operations for counterintelligence at the CIA.
THE ANARCHIST LEFT HAS NOT COME TO TERMS OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE REVELATION THAT ARR WAS A SPOOK
It annoys me to no end that the soul-searching that should have happened after ARR was exposed has not occurred.
Alexander Reid Ross was influential within the anarchist left in the U.S., and he worked closely with other authors with similarly divisive, dubious politics.
Most notably amongst these are Shane Burley and Spencer Sunshine. More on that later.
ARR was involved in the AK Press collective, and I have yet to see any sign that AK Press has distanced themselves from him or his collaborators, who represent a very distinct political faction.
You would think that AK Press, as an anarchist publisher, would want people to know that someone whose work they have promoted is an intelligence agent.
Why hasn’t AK Press followed the example of Southern Poverty Law Centre, who made it clear as far back as 2018 that ARR was a malicious actor?
The Grayzone explains:
Ross’ blog posts were so full of errors and slanderous attacks that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was forced to delete his entire archive. In March 2018, after the SPLC scrubbed Ross’s work from its website in humiliation, it issued an effusive apology to his many targets, including the authors of this article. When Ross’ disgrace became the subject of national embarrassment and widespread mockery, he blamed “pro-Russia trolls” and cried that he had been “censored.”
October 28, 2023 Palestinian resistance thwarted several Israeli incursions into Gaza strip overnight, as Israeli warplanes ramped up strikes against civilians in the besieged enclave. Hamas Palestinian resistance group announced on Saturday the failure of the Israeli ground attack, saying significant losses were inflicted upon the occupation forces. “The enemy fell into ambushes set up by […]
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