De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy
In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East. “Security zones” are being seized in…
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Is Trump Now Irked With Best-friend Netanyahu?
What should one make of the recent White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Well, this time Netanyahu was almost summoned to the…
Netanyahu’s Shin Bet Scandal: Who Holds the Power?
In just 24 hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Eli Sharvit as the new chief of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, only to quickly retract the nomination. This…
Civil War on the Horizon? The Ashkenazi-Sephardic Conflict and Israel’s Future
The phrase "civil war" is one of the most dominant terms used by Israeli politicians today. What began as a mere warning from Israeli President Isaac Herzog is now an…
Why the U.S. Must Reconsider Mike Huckabee’s Ambassadorship to Israel
Mike Huckabee—a Baptist minister, former Arkansas governor (1996–2007), and two-time Republican presidential candidate—has long courted controversy for his polarizing rhetoric on Israel and Palestine. President Trump’s nomination of Huckabee as…
UN Security Council must act quickly to stop Israeli attacks on southern Syria
Geneva – The United Nations Security Council must act swiftly and forcefully to prevent Israel from encroaching on Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, guarantee that its forces leave the southern regions of the country, and compel it to abide by…
Australia’s Universities Embrace Lying & Censorship For Genocidal & Neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel
Australia's 39 taxpayer-funded universities have endorsed a highly controversial new definition of antisemitism that was drafted by leaders from the Group of Eight (GoE), Australia's top universities, and is expected…
Netanyahu Says Israeli Forces Will Stay in Parts of Lebanon and Syria Indefinitely
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israeli forces will continue to occupy strategic locations in Lebanon and Syria. Speaking at a graduation…
Media Silent Over Israel’s Use Of The ‘Hannibal Directive’ on 7 October 2023
In an interview with Israeli television last Thursday, Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister, confirmed that the so-called ‘Hannibal Directive’ was implemented by Israeli military forces on 7 October 2023, the…
Israel Quietly Establishes Military Zone Inside Syria
Damascus (Quds News Network)- Israel has quietly established a military zone inside Syrian territory, Israeli Army Radio reported. No final date has been set for its withdrawal. The report said…
Arriving in US, Netanyahu pledges to “redraw” map of Middle East
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived Sunday in Washington D.C. ahead of an extensive series of meetings with US President Donald Trump this week aimed at planning the ethnic cleansing…
Gaza Ceasefire at Last: How Israel’s ‘First Defeat’ Will Shape the Country’s Future
The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: "For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War." Regardless of the reasoning behind this statement, which the article divides…
The War Criminal ‘Victim’: Netanyahu’s Inevitable Fate
Suddenly, Yoav Gallant, Israel's notorious Minister of Defense, disappeared into obscurity. The man who served in his country's military for about 35 years, in politics for nearly 10, and oversaw…
WHO chief says he was metres away from Israeli attack on Yemen airport
A wave of Israeli air attacks hit Yemen’s main airport just as the World Health Organization’s director-general said he was about to board a flight there, wounding one of the…
Israel Invades Syria: Who Will Stop Israel?
The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on Syria. Israel also attacked and destroyed most of the Syrian…
30 Israelis Injured as Yemeni Supersonic Missile Strikes Tel Aviv
About 30 Israeli settlers were injured by a supersonic missile fired from Yemen that landed in Tel Aviv, early Saturday morning. Israel’s Hebrew Radio said 30 Israelis were injured by…
500 Officers With The Rank of Major Leave The Israeli Army
Around 500 Israeli officers have left the army since mid-2024 because of the onslaught on Gaza after 7 October, 2023. According to Israel Hayom the army is in a critical…
Post-Assad: Why Is Israel Bombarding Syria?
As Syrian rebels claimed victory over Damascus and Bashar al-Assad fled, Israel acted swiftly, moving forces into southern Syria and occupying strategic areas like Mount Hermon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared…
Israel Violates 1974 Disengagement Agreement, Bombards Damascus After Syrian Opposition Topples Assad Regime
Damascus (Quds News Network)- Israel has escalated its attacks on Syria following the overthrow of President Bashar Al-Assad by the Syrian opposition. This power shift has raised regional tensions, with…
Netanyahu: Ideologue, Pragmatist or a Proxy?
When talking about the Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, we must not miss the point that in effect he is a politician, thus, he is both an ideologue and a pragmatist.…
AIPAC Goes Transatlantic
Like the US, Britain has long been captive of the Zionist lobby, which wields much influence in the country through access to ministers, donations to the parties, and the repression…
In Choosing to Ban UNRWA, Israel Has Entrenched Itself as a Pariah State
Introduction In choosing to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Israel has permanently branded itself as a pariah state. However, what…
Expel Israel from UN
by Sandeep Pandey and Saleem Khan To: Antonio GuterresSecretary General, United NationsNew York Dear Mr. Guterres, The genocide - the ongoing Holocaust in Gaza - and who stands in clear…
FIFA is whitewashing and sportswashing Israeli genocide and sporticide
Israel ‘Defense’ Forces, with unconditional support of the United States, have been waging a genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023, resulting in an unparalleled humanitarian catastrophe. They dropped over…
US Reportedly Plans to Approve $680 Million in Arms to Israel
Just hours after a cease-fire between the Israeli government and Lebanese group Hezbollah took effect, the Financial Times revealed that "U.S. President Joe Biden has provisionally approved a $680 million weapons sale to Israel," which has…
Geopololitics Glues US to Gaza Genocide
In our previous article at multiracialunity.org,, US and Israel Ironclad, we briefly discussed US ties to Israel, but it has become clear that many wish to explore this matter in…
US Senate overwhelmingly rejects resolutions to block weapons shipments to Israel
On Wednesday, the US Senate affirmed its support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has killed and injured over 300,000 people since October 7, 2023, and roundly rejected a…
Making Israel Great Again: Who’s Who in Trump’s Pro-Israel Cabinet Picks
As President-elect Donald Trump shapes his administration, his cabinet picks have raised eyebrows, especially among those concerned about US foreign policy and long history of wars. A significant number of…
Natural Resources and Palestinian Sovereignty: Israel’s Further Isolation
Two more United Nations committee resolutions. Both concerning the conduct of Israel past and current. While disease, hunger and death continue to stalk the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank…
The West Buries A Genocide – By Making Victims Of Israel’s Football Thugs
There has never been a harder time to do political and media analysis than right now. Each day, the western establishment unmoors itself further from reality. Its priorities are so…
Who is Israel Katz: Netanyahu’s Defense Minister Overseeing Israel’s War Crimes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in what he described as a “crisis of trust”, and appointed Israel Katz instead amid outrage inside the occupation state and…
“An Obstacle to Peace”: UNRWA or Israel?
Last week Israel took an utterly illegal decision, decried by the whole world, to unilaterally ban UNRWA operations which are the lifeline of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians made refugees…
Malaysia Works on Draft Resolution to Expel Israel From UN
Kuala Lumpur (Quds News Network)- Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said his country, among others, is drafting a resolution proposing Israel’s expulsion from the UN “should there be a violation of laws,…
Israel Kills The Journalists. Western Media Kills The Truth Of Genocide in Gaza
Israel knew that, if it could stop foreign correspondents from reporting directly from Gaza, those journalists would end up covering events in ways far more to its liking. They would hedge every…
The Biden Administration’s THAAD Deployment and the Path to War
This month, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin authorized the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to Israel, along with American personnel to operate it. According to…
Political Labelling: The EU’s Legal Stance on Goods from Israel’s Illegal Settlements
Never let it be said that the European Union, whose officials self-advertise as staunch defenders of international law, that some bending can take place. Take, for instance, the recent revelations…
Israel’s Biblical Wars of ‘Self Defense’: The Myth of the ‘Seven War Fronts’
Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different. Recently, Israeli…
US Veterans Applauds Israeli Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Gaza, Call for US GI’s to Resist Illegal Wars and War Crimes
The US organization Veterans For Peace has issued a statement in support of Israeli soldiers who are refusing to fight in Gaza. “You are doing the right thing,” the veterans…
Is Israel Evil?
In an increasingly secular world, calling someone or something “evil” will seem to many as an anachronistic label, conjuring up as it does a reddish figure featuring a fiendish face…
Widening the War: The US Sends Troops to Israel
The dangers should be plastered on every wall in every office occupied by a military and political advisor. Israel’s attempt to reshape the Middle East, far from giving it enduring…
Israel’s War on the World
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their way to…
Nuclear Fever: War Mongering on Iran
The recent string of exaggerated military successes – or at least as they are understood to be – places Israel in a situation it has been previously used to: prowess…
Israel’s War on the United Nations
The United Nations is an easy body to hate. At times, it seems to be effusion without substance, body with no backbone. It was conceived in a fit of post-war…
Extermination Works. At First.
Israel will continue its mass killing to achieve its immediate goals, but in the long run the blowback from its genocide will doom the Zionist state. Extermination works. At first.…
Nuclear Clouds over the Middle East can spread far and wide
In the ongoing war in the Middle East, news that Iran could think of changing its nuclear doctrine is very disturbing but not unexpected. As the situation is developing in…
US deploys combat troops to Israel as preparations mount for an attack on Iran
The US Defense Department announced Sunday that a THAAD missile defense battery manned by US soldiers is being deployed to Israel, marking the first time US “boots on the ground”…
Following US troop deployments to Israel, questions arise regarding the extent of US involvement in a wider middle-east war
On October 13, Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder announced the authorization of the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery and associated crew of US military personnel to…
Israel’s Paradox of Military Success and Political Stalemate: A Nation at a Crossroads
On October 7, 2023, Hamas executed a devastating surprise attack on Israel, shattering the long-held belief that the country’s fortified southern border was impenetrable. Despite Israeli intelligence being aware of…
The Macaron President: Macron’s Arms Embargo on Israel Crumbles Under Scrutiny
Emmanuel Macron and the macaron have many similarities. Both the French President and the French dessert are airy and insubstantial and are loved by the rich elite. For these reasons,…
Two Leaders Entangled in Very Messy and Destructive Wars Are Suggesting Strongly—I Want a Bigger War
If a country is entangled in a destructive and messy war what is its leader most likely to say? In most cases the answer would be that the leader would…
Russia aligns with Iran, war clouds scatter
Israel has apparently shelved its planned attack on Iran. A combination of circumstances can be attributed to this retreat, which rubbishes Israel’s own high-pitched rhetoric that it was raring to go. Despite…
United States Spending on Israel’s Military Operations and Related U.S. Operations in the Region, October 7, 2023 – September 30, 2024
by Linda J. Bilmes, William D. Hartung and Stephen Semler U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related U.S operations in the region total at least $22.76 billion and counting.…
Israel – Murder Inc.
Israel occupies a land that was inhabited by and belonged to the Palestinians. Confining the Palestinians to genocidal and inhuman conditions, Israel has since its inception, invaded almost all its…
Israel-Hezbollah conflict must end immediately to prevent high civilian casualties
On October 1, 2024, Israel launched a ground invasion into southern Lebanon, marking a dramatic escalation in the long-standing conflict with Hezbollah. This military operation, catalyzed by a series of…
Israel Wants Its War With Iran—But If Netanyahu Not Stopped, They Might Spark World War III
Israel has assassinated the leader of Hezbollah and killed many of its members by way of booby-trapped pagers and walky-talkies. After a blitzkrieg bombing campaign, Israel once again invaded Lebanon this…
How top arms exporters have responded to the war in Gaza
Following the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, Israel launched an intensive military campaign in Gaza, with the stated aims of destroying Hamas’s military and governing capabilities and bringing…
Ending the Cycle of Revenge
With the first anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel approaching, the death toll in Gaza climbing to more than 41,500, and Israel inflicting ever more extreme violence on the West Bank and…
Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratios: Nazi-style Genocidal Racism Of US, UK, Australia & Apartheid Israel
The huge city of Gaza has been reduced to rubble but the killing continues with US-backed Apartheid Israel now bombing Lebanon. Perhaps the only thing that will stop the Zionazis…
Israel: Missiles, Sirens and Underground Shelters
Despite their heinous war on Lebanon, Israelis today are gripped with fear and psychological problems in a cyclone of fear dominated by incoming missiles, drones and blasting sirens all over…
Why massacring civilians is Israel’s deliberate strategy
All of humanity is less secure after a year of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank and as Israel now unleashes its wrath on Lebanon.…
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