‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 124:
Hamas propose 135-day truce to exchange captives and end war
Mondoweiss: Potential ceasefire deal still at discussion stage, as U.S. President Joe Biden calls Hamas counter-proposal “a little over the top.” Israel continues to bomb Rafah and Khan Younis in Gaza, as Israeli forces raid the West Bank, killing one teenager. Read More
Hamas submit counter-proposal for truce in Gaza
UN OCHA says Israel ordered Palestinians to evacuate two-thirds of Gaza
Israel commits 16 massacres in Gaza in 24 hours
ICJ elects Ugandan judge who voted against South Africa as Vice President
Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen near Nablus, storm Ain Shams refugee camp
Why were Orientalist studies handed over to Zionists?
By Selçuk Türkyılmaz: In the nineteenth century, when Orientalist studies reached their peak, the works of Western European countries regarding the Turkish-Islamic geography were both framed within a colonial context and had an ideological identity. Read More
Pakistan goes to the polls
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui: Pakistan, the Muslim-majority country of 241 million, is about to vote in a civilian parliament on February 8. Sadly, its most popular democratic leader – Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan – will not be on this year's ballot, because he is behind bars, serving a plethora of sentences that he and his supporters decry as "politically motivated" and "a conspiracy". Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 123:
New testimonies emerge of Israel torturing detained Palestinians in Gaza
Mondoweiss: Euro-Med publishes new testimonies of Palestinian detainees subjected to dog attacks, forced nudity, and sexual harassment in Israeli jails, as Israeli soldiers continue posting images and videos of themselves committing atrocities in Gaza. Read More
Israeli soldiers “show off” genocidal acts against Palestinians
“We were subjected to daily insults and beatings”
Israeli forces besiege Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
UN to create independent panel to assess UNRWA neutrality
Biden to veto standalone aid package for Israel amid row with GOP
Israeli forces kill 14-year-old boy in Jerusalem, demolish houses
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 122: Endless killings and despair in Gaza
BY LEILA WARAH: Biden urges Congress to “swiftly pass” a $118bn bipartisan deal that includes $14.1bn in military aid to Israel after the ICJ ordered Israel to halt its ongoing attacks on civilians in Gaza. Read More
Unlawful detainment and torture of Gaza residents
Israel blocks UNRWA bank account
Western countries escalate violence in the Middle East
Biden calls for another $14.1bn for Israel
Pakistan: The Generals and Judges Who Betrayed the Nation
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: Pakistan exhibits a portrait of authoritarian anarchy, political mismanagement, injustice, and degradation in global affairs and an elusive imagination terrified by the challenges of a disdained future. Political paradox represents a delusional culture of authoritarian absolutism led by profligacy, malevolence and tormenting miseries of varied multitudes. The trajectory calls into question the roleplay, deception and betrayal by the few Generals and a few judges of the Supreme Court - either bribed or coerced, playing with destiny of the nation. Their sinister and unacknowledged motives have incapacitated the mainstream thinking hubs of the nation by using power beyond their position, capacity and authority to imprison Imran Khan, PTI leader under false pretext of politically geared cases to reinstate a thug, a killer and criminally indicted Sharif brothers back to the powerhouse. Are the same values common to the perpetrators of this crisis? The national election scheduled on February 8, is just a fraudulent stunt to claim success achieved at the cost of degeneration of new age people and destabilization of the country. Read More
Pakistan elections 2024: By the numbers
Al Jazeera: On February 8, as Pakistan votes in national elections, the country’s democracy will face its latest test. It is an election that will decide the next government of the world’s fifth-most populous nation. Befittingly, it is also an election of large numbers – very large numbers. From voters and parties to the economy and more, here’s a guide to Pakistan’s election and to the nation itself, in those numbers. As 128 million voters prepare for the February 8 elections, Al Jazeera decodes the key numbers shaping Pakistan. Read More
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood Day 121:
Israel kills more than 1,000 Palestinians since ICJ ruling; U.S. bombs Yemen
Mondoweiss: Israeli forces bomb Rafah, where thousands of Palestinians are displaced in shelters near the Egyptian border, as an Israeli minister wishes to “encourage voluntary emigration” from Gaza. In West Bank, settlers attack Palestinian villages. Read More
Israeli minister wants to ‘encourage Gazans to voluntarily emigrate’
Israeli forces bomb kindergarten sheltering Palestinians in Rafah
Hamas releases video of attack that killed 21 Israeli soldiers
U.S. and U.K. bomb dozens of targets in Yemen
Israeli settlers rampage Palestinian villages in West Bank
Funding freeze could halt UNRWA operations by end of month in Gaza
by Maureen Clare Murphy: UNRWA will be forced to shut down its operations as soon as the end of the month if funding is not restored, according to agency director Philippe Lazzarini. Donor countries including the US, the agency’s largest funder, suspended $440 million worth of aid after Israel made unverified allegations that a handful of UNRWA’s staff in Gaza were involved in the 7 October attacks led by Hamas. Read More
Iraq says 16 people, including civilians, killed in ‘new US aggression’
By Al Jazeera Staff: At least 16 people have been killed in US strikes in Iraq, the government said, as it condemned the “new aggression against” its sovereignty and warned of dire consequences in the region. Civilians were among those killed and 25 people were wounded in the bombings that targeted both civilian and security areas, a government spokesperson said on Saturday. Read More
“The Houthis Are Not Iranian Proxies”: Helen Lackner on the History & Politics of Yemen’s Ansar Allah
Democracy Now: The U.S. continues to launch airstrikes on Yemen in response to the campaign of missile and drone attacks on commercial ships along key global trade routes through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden led by Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis. The Houthi strikes have expanded from targets connected to Israel, in protest of the siege and bombing of Gaza, to ships affiliated with the U.S. and U.K. in what the group calls acts of self-defense. “The Houthis have been extremely explicit and repeat on an almost daily basis that their attacks on ships in the Red Sea will stop as soon as the Gaza war ends,” says Helen Lackner, author of several books on Yemen, who describes the history of the Houthis, the political landscape in Yemen, and debunks the idea the group is controlled by Iran. “The Iranian involvement has become greater, but it’s very important to know that the Houthis are an independent movement. The Houthis are not Iranian proxies. … They make their own decisions.” Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 120:
Gaza’s economy in shambles amid fears of escalating regional tensions
Mondoweiss : Hamas leaders continue to deliberate a ceasefire agreement as the U.S. intensifies strikes on Iran-affiliated targets in Iraq and Syria. Read More
Gaza economy will need decades and billions of dollars to recover
Gaza ceasefire essential to regional de-escalation
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 119:
Israel vows to push forward into Rafah, leaving Palestinians with nowhere left to flee
Mondoweiss: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declares the Israeli ground invasion will continue into Rafah, where 1.9 million civilians are currently sheltering. One Palestinian tells Reuters, “If the tanks storm in, it will be a massacre like never before.” Read More
Displaced Palestinians trapped as Israeli Defense Minister vows to move into Rafah
Raids across the West Bank, U.S. sanctions on settlers, anger among Arab-Americans.
US 'actively pursuing' establishment of independent Palestinian state
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Apparenly, in a policy shift, the US is "actively" pursuing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state "with real security guarantees" for Israel. The State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, said Wednesday: "We are actively pursuing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with real security guarantees for Israel, because we do believe that is the best way to bring about lasting peace and security for Israel, for Palestinians and for the region." Read More
India goes to the poll – my thoughts
By Habib Siddiqui: General elections are expected to be held in India between April and May 2024 to elect 543 members of the Lok Sabha. Will this year’s elections deliver a change for better? The 2019 elections have transformed India from what was a de-facto apartheid democracy into a kind of de-jure apartheid democracy. But they also marked a shift toward authoritarianism in which opposition voices are muffled. Most media moguls in today’s India are businessmen supporting the BJP who have become promoters of Modi’s authoritarian regime, crony capitalism, and Hindutvadi agenda. Consequently, if the government is not happy with some of the journalists, they ask the businessmen to remove those journalists unless they ‘fall in line’. Read More
ICJ on Gaza: Acting Against Israel
by Dr Chandra Muzaffar: We should not be surprised that Israel has defied the ICJ. It has defied it before. Israel has nothing but contempt for international law. It sees itself as above the law. It has always acted as though the restraints and limits that law imposes upon states and individuals do not apply to it. Israel is special. It can do what it wants. Read More
Biden’s Generals in Pakistan
By Junaid S Ahmad: As the world, and especially Muslims, correctly has been focused on the Zionist genocide in Gaza, we seem to have forgotten President Biden’s criminality in another part of the world. Indeed, just as Israel’s savagery has been wholeheartedly supported by the Biden Administration, the regime change operation in March-April of 2022 in Pakistan was also on Biden’s watch. More and more Pakistanis, especially in the largest and politically dominant province of Punjab, have come to recognize the venality of the military establishment. Though the other provinces of Pakistan had no illusion of the nefarious and violent role of the generals in Pakistani social and political life, people in Punjab had to experience the torturous wrath of the military top brass after the removal of former Prime Minister Imran Khan – to realize the cold-bloodedness of the military high command. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 118:
Mass grave found of Palestinians tied up, killed ‘execution-style’
Mondoweiss: A mass grave in northern Gaza was found following the withdrawal of Israeli forces. The already decomposing bodies were tied up, blindfolded, and dumped after allegedly being killed execution-style. Read More
Khan Younis hospitals under attack and starving
Bodies found tied up and executed
Israel is making Gaza uninhabitable Risk of famine in Gaza grows
West Bank: Children scared to go to school
Federal case against Biden dismissed
Israel Is Ignoring UN Court Ruling Ordering It To Prevent Deaths In Gaza, Says South Africa
Countercurrent: Israel has ignored the ruling by the U.N.’s top court last week by killing hundreds more civilians in a matter of days in Gaza, South Africa’s foreign minister said Wednesday, adding that her country has asked why an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been issued in a case South Africa filed at the separate International Criminal Court. Read More
Killing of Four Soldiers is a Psychological Blow to the Israeli Army in Gaza
By Dr. Marwan Asmar: The killing of four Israeli soldiers in battles in north Gaza according to the Jewish army in the last 24 hours is devastating for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. This means fighting has returned to the north of Gaza between the Israeli army and the Palestinian resistance as dominated by Izz Al Din Al Qassam and Saraya Al Quds fighters who are redeploying their forces in the north with great speed. Read More
The Silence of the Damned
Chris Hedges: Our leading humanitarian and civic institutions, including major medical institutions, refuse to denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This exposes their hypocrisy and complicity. Read More
Israel confirms flooding of Hamas tunnels
RT.COM: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on Tuesday that it has been flooding Hamas’ underground tunnel network with seawater, a controversial tactic that it first trialed late last year. Previous methods of destroying the passages have reportedly proven ineffective. Read More
Rushing into a Hindu Rashtra
by Dr Ranjan Solomon: Modi has proven to the country that he means business. He promised the country the Ram Temple in the very location where the Babri Masjid once proudly stood. He fulfilled that promise. A mob of right wingers, RSS cadres, and lumpen elements brought it down unabashedly. Bringing down the mosque in 1992 was an act that split the country and created bloodshed. It followed a Movement led by BJP stalwarts such as L K Advani, and Murli Manohar Joshi, both of whom Modi dropped from the list of invitees to the opening of the new Temple. Read More
US plans “weeks” of attacks throughout the Middle East
Andre Damon: Seizing upon Sunday’s killing of three US troops in an airstrike by Iraqi militia in Jordan, the United States is planning a protracted military offensive throughout the Middle East. NBC News reported that US officials said that the strikes being planned by the Biden administration would be a “campaign” that would last “weeks.” The strikes will include “Iranian targets outside Iran,” NBC reported. White House National Security spokesperson John Kirby appeared to confirm NBC’s reporting in a press briefing on Wednesday, declaring that the US response “won’t just be a one-off … the first thing you see will not be the last thing.” Read More
U.S. military personnel in Iraq put on standby to support ground involvement in Israel’s war on Gaza
The Intercept: Despite Biden’s promises of no boots on the ground, documents obtained by The Intercept suggest the military has prepared for the possibility. Read More
Flashpoint for War: The Drone Killings at Tower 22
by Dr Binoy Kampmark: The BBC’s characteristically mild-mannered note said it all: What is Tower 22? More to the point, what are US forces doing in Jordan? (To be more precise, a dusty scratching on the Syria-Jordan border.) These questions were posed in the aftermath of yet another drone attack against a US outpost in the Middle East, its location of dubious strategic relevance to Washington, yet seen as indispensable to its global footprint. On this occasion, the attack proved successful, killing three troops and wounding dozens. Read More
US troops told to prepare for war in Gaza – media
RT.COM: US Air Force personnel in Iraq have been ordered to remain on standby in case of “on ground US involvement in the Israel Hamas war,” The Intercept reported on Tuesday, citing a Pentagon memo. Circulated earlier this month, the memo instructs an unknown number of troops to be placed “on standby to forward deploy to support troops in the case of on ground US involvement in the Israel Hamas war,” the news site reported. The standby order applies to troops stationed in Iraq since last year, according to a separate Pentagon document seen by The Intercept. Read More
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