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<div><img src="https://exsurgedomine.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/miniatura-250223-esp-1.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Dico vobis, quia si hi tacuerint,<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>lapides clamabunt.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">[“Les digo que si estas personas se callan,<br></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1">gritarán las piedras”]</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p2"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Lc 19, 40</span></p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Las noticias contradictorias sobre el estado de salud de Jorge Mario Bergoglio arrojan sombras inquietantes sobre la gestión de la comunicación vaticana. Hay quienes creen que “el Papa ya está muerto” y que lo mantienen oculto. Es evidente que el Vaticano y la <em>Iglesia profunda</em> bergogliana están en pánico y harán todo lo posible para reunir el consenso de los cardenales en torno a algún nombre que continúe la <em>revolución bergogliana</em>. Hay quienes tienen todo el interés en enterrar, con los de Bergoglio, también sus propios crímenes, mientras que en Estados Unidos hay un choque frontal entre el Episcopado y la administración Trump, después de que el escándalo de los fondos de la Agencia para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID, por sus siglas en inglés) sacara a la luz la complicidad de la Iglesia Católica en el negocio de la inmigración.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Es necesario impedir que la jerarquía progresista asegure un sucesor a Bergoglio, es decir, otro usurpador en el Trono de Pedro que sea el heredero y continuador del anterior. Por lo tanto, antes de clavar el último clavo en el ataúd de Bergoglio, es indispensable e impostergable que se arroje luz sobre la usurpación que perpetró y sobre la ocupación de la Iglesia Católica por parte de una jerarquía corrupta y traidora, cuyo único propósito es destruirla desde adentro.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Las maniobras de la mafia de St. Gallen con la izquierda ultra progresista; los crímenes de Theodore McCarrick que quedaron impunes; su rol en el seno de las administraciones demócratas; la influencia que ejerció en los nombramientos de sus “herederos” -todos homosexuales y corruptos- designados para ocupar puestos clave en Estados Unidos y en el Vaticano; las acciones llevadas a cabo por McCarrick con el régimen comunista chino en la firma del Acuerdo Secreto; el rol de los jesuitas en la promoción de la agenda globalista; los escandalosos encubrimientos por parte de Bergoglio de abusadores y pervertidos notorios; el encubrimiento del dossier sobre la red de corrupción en el Vaticano, entregado por el papa emérito Benedicto XVI a Bergoglio en abril de 2013 y descontinuado; el rol de Bergoglio en el crimen perpetrado contra la humanidad con la “pandemia del Covid” y la imposición de las vacunas; la cínica explotación de los migrantes ilegales destinada a destruir el tejido social de Occidente: todo esto y otras cosas más confirma que la Iglesia bergogliana no es solo cómplice del plan subversivo del <em>Foro Económico Mundial,</em> sino un protagonista de primer nivel. Sobre todos estos acontecimientos, los fieles tienen derecho a saber cuál es la verdad.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Después de años de mentiras, simulaciones y silencios, es necesario tomar nota del fraude de Jorge Mario Bergoglio y someterlo a juicio, restaurando la verdad y la justicia: los exigen las víctimas de sus represalias, de sus actos intimidatorios, de su connivencia con los crímenes de sus mandantes y sus protegidos. Se requieren investigaciones sobre su vida pasada, sobre los crímenes cometidos en Argentina (razón por la cual nunca hizo un viaje a su país natal) y sobre los turbios acontecimientos que mostrarían a Jorge Mario Bergoglio como responsable de abusos sexuales a jóvenes jesuitas, en la época en que fue maestro de novicios en Argentina. Se debe aclarar si Tomás Ricardo Arizaga (conocido como Tomasito), quien falleció el 20 de julio de 2014 a la edad de 11 años, incinerado y enterrado en 2019 en el Cementerio Teutónico del Vaticano después de que le fueron extraídos los dientes, es realmente el hijo de Bergoglio, como se rumorea desde hace demasiado tiempo y como sugieren múltiples elementos.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Una alianza criminal internacional unió fuerzas subversivas para eliminar a Benedicto XVI, obligándolo a renunciar y reemplazándolo por un emisario del globalismo. Lo admitió el cardenal Gottfried Danneels, al referirse a la mafia de San Galo; lo reiteró McCarrick al hablar en la Universidad de Villanova el 11 de octubre de 2013; la planificó el presidente y fundador de <em>Voices of Progress –</em>un grupo de presión que se ocupa del cambio climático, la migración y otros<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> temas <em>woke</em> – al discutir con John Podesta (jefe de campaña de Hillary Clinton), en los correos electrónicos difundidos por <em>Wikileaks</em> (<a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57579"><span data-sanitized-class="s2">aquí</span></a>).</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">La “primavera católica” se ha servido de Jorge Mario Bergoglio, un<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> personaje corrupto y manipulable, impuesto fraudulentamente como “Papa”. Solicitamos a las autoridades de Estados Unidos de América y de Argentina que aporten documentos y pruebas sobre estos hechos. Esto demostrará que Jorge Mario Bergoglio nunca ha sido Papa de la Iglesia Católica: todos sus actos de gobierno y magisterio son nulos, todos sus nombramientos son nulos, incluidos los de los cardenales que deberán elegir a su sucesor.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Es hora de enfrentar la verdad con valentía, para que sea radical y auténtica la liberación de la<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Iglesia<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Católica de los subversivos que la han ocupado durante demasiado tiempo para destruirla, y los cómplices del fraude -que todavía están en el Vaticano y sobrevivirán a Bergoglio- sean descubiertos y juzgados, antes de que su acción criminal destruya las pruebas de los crímenes que han cometido.</span></p>

<p>+ Carlo Maria Viganò, <em>Arzobispo</em></p>


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<div><img src="https://exsurgedomine.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/miniatura-250223-eng.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Dico vobis, quia si hi tacuerint,<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>lapides clamabunt.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>I tell you, if these are silent,<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>the stones will cry out.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Lk 19:40</span></p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">The contradictory updates being given about Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s medical condition casts a disturbing light on the way Vatican communications are being managed. There are those who believe that “the Pope is already deceased” and that this fact is being kept hidden from the public. It is clear that the Vatican and the Bergoglian deep church are in a panic and will do everything to gather the consensus of the Cardinals together around the name of someone who will continue the <em>Bergoglian revolution</em>. There are those who have every interest in burying their own crimes – along with those of Bergoglio – while in the United States there is a head-on clash of the US Bishops’ Conference against the Trump Administration, after the scandal regarding the funds of the Agency for International Development (USAID) has brought to light the complicity of the Catholic Church in the lucrative business of immigration.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">It is necessary to prevent the progressive hierarchy from ensuring that one of their own is Bergoglio’s successor, that is, another usurper on the Throne of Peter who will be the heir and continuator of the previous one. Before hammering the final nail into Bergoglio’s coffin, it is therefore essential and urgent that light be shed on the usurpation he perpetrated and on the occupation of the Catholic Church by a corrupt and treacherous hierarchy, whose sole aim is to destroy Her from within.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">The maneuvers of the Saint Gallen Mafia in tandem with the ultra-progressive Left; the unpunished crimes of Theodore McCarrick; McCarrick’s role within the Democrat Administrations; the influence McCarrick has exercised in obtaining episcopal appointments for his “heirs”– who are all homosexual and corrupt – designated to fill key positions in the US and in the Vatican; McCarrick’s work as Bergoglio’s liaison to the Chinese Communist regime in order to obtain the signing of the Secret Agreement with the Holy See; the role of the Jesuits in promoting the globalist agenda; Bergoglio’s scandalous ongoing cover-ups of notorious abusers and perverts; the cover-up of the dossier about the Vatican corruption network, delivered by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI to Bergoglio in April 2013 and about which there has still never been any follow-up; Bergoglio’s role in the crime perpetrated against humanity with the “Covid pandemic” and the imposition of vaccines; the cynical exploitation of illegal immigrants in order to destroy the social fabric of the West: all this and more confirms that the Bergoglian church is not only an accomplice in the subversive plan of the World Economic Forum but a leading protagonist. The faithful have the right to know the full truth about all of these events.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">After years of lies, dissimulations, and silence, it is necessary to acknowledge Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s fraud and put him on trial, restoring that truth and justice demanded by the victims of his reprisals, his intimidating acts, and his connivance in the crimes of his instigators and his protégés. Investigations are needed into his past life, into the crimes he committed in Argentina (which is why he never returned as “pope” to his native country) and into the murky events that allege Jorge Mario Bergoglio was personally responsible for the sexual abuse of young Jesuits when he was Novice Master in Argentina. It must be clarified whether Tomas Ricardo Arizaga (known as Tomasito), who died on 20 July 2014 at the age of 11, and who was then cremated and buried in 2019 in the Teutonic Cemetery in the Vatican after having had his teeth removed, is really Bergoglio’s son, as has been rumored for too long and as multiple elements lead us to believe.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">An international criminal alliance united subversive forces to eliminate Benedict XVI, forcing him to resign and replacing him with an emissary of globalism. Cardinal Godfried Danneels himself admitted it, referring to the Mafia of Saint Gallen; McCarrick reiterated it when speaking at Villanova University on October 11, 2013; the president and founder of <em>Voices of Progress</em> – a pressure group that deals with climate change, migration, and other woke issues – planned it, discussing it with John Podesta (Hillary Clinton campaign chairman), in emails released by Wikileaks (<a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57579"><span data-sanitized-class="s2">here</span></a>).</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">The “Catholic Spring” has made use of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a corrupt and maneuverable character, fraudulently imposed upon the Catholic Church as “pope”. We ask the Authorities of the United States of America and Argentina to provide documents and evidence of these facts. This will prove that Jorge Mario Bergoglio has never been pope of the Catholic Church: all his acts of government and teaching are null and void, and all his appointments are null and void, including those of the Cardinals who will elect his successor.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">It is now time to face the truth with courage, so that the liberation of the Catholic Church from the subversives who have occupied Her for too long in order to destroy Her may be <em>a radical and authentic liberation</em>, and so that the accomplices of the fraud – who are still in the Vatican and will survive Bergoglio – may be discovered and put on trial, before their criminal action destroys the evidence of the crimes they have committed.</span></p>

<p>+ Carlo Maria Viganò, <em>Archbishop</em></p>


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<div><img src="https://exsurgedomine.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/miniatura-250223-ucr-1.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Dico vobis, quia si hi tacuerint,<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>lapides clamabunt.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Кажу вам: коли оці замовчать,<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>кричатиме каміння.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Лк. 19,40</span></p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Суперечливі новини про стан здоров’я Хорхе Маріо Бергольйо кидають тривожну тінь на керівництво пресслужби Ватикану. Є ті, хто вважає, що «Папа вже помер» і що його переховують. Зрозуміло, що Ватикан і Берголіанська <em>глибинна церква</em> в паніці. Вони зроблять усе можливе, щоб отримати одноголосність кардиналів навколо конкретної<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> особи, яка буде продовжувати  <em>Берголіанську революцію</em>. Є ті, хто зацікавлені у тому, щоб разом із Бергольйо поховати власні злочини, тоді як у Сполучених Штатах між єпископатом і адміністрацією Трампа йде пряме зіткнення після того, як скандал щодо коштів Агентства Міжнародного Розвитку (USAID) висвітлив причетність Католицької Церкви до міграційного бізнесу.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Необхідно запобігти тому, щоб прогресивна ієрархія могла забезпечити наступника Бергольйо, тобто іншого узурпатора на престолі Петра, який був би спадкоємцем і продовжувачем дій попереднього. Перед тим, як забити останній цвях у труну Бергольйо, важливим є терміново пролити світло на узурпацію, яку він вчинив, і на окупацію Католицької Церкви корумпованою та зрадницькою ієрархією, єдиною метою якої є знищення Церкви зсередини.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Маневри мафії Сан Галло з ультрапрогресивними лівими; безкарні злочини Теодора МакКарріка; його роль в адміністрації демократів; вплив, який він мав на призначення своїх ставлеників – гомосексуальних та<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> корумпованих єпископів, які обійняли ключові посади в Америці та Ватикані; відносини</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">МакКарріка</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s1">з китайським комуністичним режимом у досягненні Таємної Угоди; роль Єзуїтів у просуванні глобалістичних цілей сталого розвитку; скандальне прикриття Бергольйо відомих кривдників і збоченців; приховування досьє про корупційну мережу Ватикану, передане Папою-емеритом Бенедиктом XVI Бергольйо в квітні 2013 року і яке залишилося без розслідування; роль Бергольйо у злочині, скоєному проти людства з «пандемією COVID» і нав’язуванням вакцин; цинічна експлуатація нелегальних мігрантів, спрямована на знищення соціального життя Заходу: все це, та багато іншого, підтверджує, що церква Бергольйо є не лише співучасником підривного плану <em>Всесвітнього</em> <em>Економічного Форуму,</em>  але й головним персонажем. Вірні мають право знати правду про всі ці злочини.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Після багатьох років брехні, прикриття та мовчання необхідно визнати шахрайство Хорхе Маріо Бергольйо та віддати його під суд, відновивши правду та справедливість. Цього вимагають жертви його репресій, його актів залякування, його потурання злочинам власних представників та його протеже. Потрібно провести розслідування його минулого життя: злочинів, скоєних в Аргентині (саме тому він ніколи не їздив у свою рідну країну) і  туманних подій, які визнають Хорхе Маріо Бергольйо відповідальним за сексуальне насильство над молодими єзуїтами в той час, коли він був магістром новиків в Аргентині. Потрібно з’ясувати, чи дійсно був сином Бергольйо Томас Рікардо Арізага (відомий як Томасіто), який помер 20 липня 2014 року у віці 11 років, кремований і похований у 2019 році на Тевтонському цвинтарі у Ватикані, після видалення зубів. Про це надто довго ходили чутки, та було багато елементів, які змушують нас цьому вірити.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Міжнародний злочинний альянс об’єднав підривні сили, щоб усунути Бенедикта XVI, змусивши його піти у відставку, та замінити його послом глобалізму. Це припустив сам кардинал</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">Даннелс</span><span data-sanitized-class="s1">,</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">посилаючись на</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s1">мафію Сан Галло; це повторив МакКаррік, виступаючи в Університеті Вілланова 11 жовтня 2013 року; це спланував президент і засновник <em>Voices of Progress (</em>група тиску, яка займається зміною клімату, міграцією та іншими тематиками <em>woke)</em> під час обговорення з Джоном Подестою (керівником виборчої кампанії Гілларі Клінтон) в електронних листах, опублікованих <em>Wikileaks</em> ( <a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57579"><span data-sanitized-class="s3">тут</span></a> ).</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">«Католицька весна» скористалася Хорхе Маріо Бергольйо, корумпованим і маніпульованим персонажем, шахрайським шляхом нав’язаним як «папою». Просимо владу Сполучених Штатів Америки та Аргентини надати документи та докази щодо цих фактів. Це доведе, що Хорхе Маріо Бергольйо ніколи не був Папою Католицької Церкви: усі його урядові акти та вчення є недійсними, також усі його призначення є недійсними, включно з призначеннями кардиналів, які обиратимуть його наступника.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Настав час сміливо дивитися правді в очі, щоб звільнення Католицької Церкви від противників, які надто довго окуповували її, щоб знищити, було радикальним і автентичним, а співучасники шахрайства, які все ще перебувають у Ватикані і переживуть Бергольйо, були виявлені та засуджені, перш,<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> ніж їхні злочинні дії знищать докази злочинів, які вони скоїли.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"> </span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">+ Карло Марія Вігано, <em>архиєпископ</em></span></p>


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<div><img src="https://exsurgedomine.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/miniatura-250223-fra.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Dico vobis, quia si hi tacuerint,<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>lapides clamabunt.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Lc 19, 40</span></p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Les nouvelles contradictoires sur l’état de santé de Jorge Mario Bergoglio jettent des ombres inquiétantes sur la gestion de la communication du Vatican. Il y a ceux qui croient que « le Pape est déjà mort » et que l’on tient le fait caché. Il est évident que le Vatican et la <em>deep church</em> bergoglienne sont en panique et feront tout pour rassembler le consensus des cardinaux autour d’un nom qui poursuivra la <em>révolution bergoglienne</em>. Il y a ceux qui ont tout intérêt à enterrer, avec ceux de Bergoglio, leurs propres crimes, tandis qu’aux États-Unis a lieu une opposition frontale de l’Épiscopat à l’Administration Trump, après que le scandale des fonds de l’Agence pour le Développement International (USAID) a mis en lumière la complicité de l’Église catholique dans le trafic de l’immigration.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Il est nécessaire d’empêcher la hiérarchie progressiste d’assurer un successeur à Bergoglio, c’est-à-dire un autre usurpateur sur le Trône de Pierre qui soit l’héritier et le continuateur du prédécesseur. Avant d’enfoncer le dernier clou dans le cercueil de Bergoglio, il est donc indispensable et urgent que la lumière soit faite sur l’usurpation qu’il a perpétrée et sur l’occupation de l’Église catholique par une hiérarchie corrompue et traître, dont le seul but est de la détruire de l’intérieur.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Les manœuvres de la Mafia de Saint-Gall avec la Gauche ultra-progressiste ; les crimes de Theodore McCarrick qui sont restés impunis ; son rôle au sein des Administrations démocrates ; l’influence qu’il a exercée dans la nomination de ses « héritiers » – tous homosexuels et corrompus – désignés pour occuper des postes clés en Amérique et au Vatican ; la coopération de McCarrick avec le régime communiste chinois dans la signature de l’Accord Secret avec le Saint-Siège ; le rôle des Jésuites dans la promotion de l’Agenda mondialiste ; les scandaleuses dissimulations par Bergoglio d’abuseurs sexuels et de pervers notoires ; l’enfouissement du dossier sur le réseau de corruption au Vatican, remis par le Pape émérite Benoît XVI à Bergoglio en avril 2013 et auquel il n’a pas été donné suite ; le rôle de Bergoglio dans le crime perpétré contre l’humanité avec la « pandémie Covid19 » et l’imposition des vaccins ; l’exploitation cynique des migrants illégaux visant à détruire le tissu social de l’Occident : tout cela et bien plus encore confirme que l’église bergoglienne n’est pas seulement complice du plan subversif de <em>Forum Économique Mondial</em> mais est un protagoniste de premier plan. Sur tous ces faits, les fidèles ont le droit de savoir quelle est la vérité.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Après des années de mensonges, de dissimulations et de silences, il est nécessaire de prendre acte de la fraude de Jorge Mario Bergoglio et de le juger, en rétablissant la vérité et la justice : les victimes de ses représailles, de ses actes d’intimidation, de sa connivence avec les crimes de ses instigateurs et de ses protégés, l’exigent. Des enquêtes sont nécessaires sur sa vie passée, sur les crimes commis en Argentine (raison pour laquelle il n’a jamais effectué un voyage dans son Pays natal) et sur les faits troubles qui verraient Jorge Mario Bergoglio responsable d’abus sexuels sur de jeunes jésuites, à l’époque où il était maître des novices en Argentine. Il faut faire la vérité sur Tomas Ricardo Arizaga (dit Tomasito), décédé le 20 juillet 2014 à l’âge de 11 ans, incinéré et enterré en 2019 au cimetière teutonique du Vatican après avoir ôté les dents [afin de ne laisser aucune trace d’ADN] : est-il oui ou non le fils de Bergoglio, comme la rumeur le dit depuis trop longtemps et comme de multiples éléments le suggèrent ?</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Une alliance criminelle internationale a uni des forces subversives pour éliminer Benoît XVI, le forçant à démissionner et le remplaçant par un émissaire du mondialisme. Le Cardinal Danneels, se référant à la Mafia de Saint-Gall l’a admis ; McCarrick l’a redit lors d’un discours à l’Université Villanova le 11 octobre 2013 ; la présidente et fondatrice de <em>Voices of Progress –</em> un groupe de pression qui s’occupe de changement climatique, de migrations et d’autres points de l’agenda <em>woke</em> – l’a planifié en discutant avec John Podesta (le directeur de campagne d’Hillary Clinton), dans les courriels publiés par <em>Wikileaks</em> (<a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57579"><span data-sanitized-class="s2">ici</span></a>).</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Le « printemps catholique » s’est servi de Jorge Mario Bergoglio, un personnage corrompu et manipulable, frauduleusement imposé comme « pape ». Nous demandons aux Autorités des États-Unis d’Amérique et de d’Argentine de fournir les documents et les preuves à l’appui de ces faits. Cela prouvera que Jorge Mario Bergoglio n’a jamais été Pape de l’Église Catholique : tous ses actes de gouvernement et de magistère sont nuls et non avenus ; toutes ses nominations sont nulles et non avenues, y compris celles des Cardinaux qui devront élire son successeur.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Il est temps d’affronter la vérité avec courage, afin que la délivrance de l’Église Catholique des subversifs qui l’ont occupée pendant trop longtemps pour la détruire soit radicale et authentique, et que les complices de la fraude – qui sont toujours au Vatican et survivront à Bergoglio – soient découverts et jugés, avant que leur action criminelle ne détruise les preuves des crimes qu’ils ont commis.</span></p>

<p>+ Carlo Maria Viganò, <em>Archevêque</em></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">© Traduction de F. de Villasmundo</span></p>


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<div><img src="https://exsurgedomine.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/miniatura-250223-ita.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Dico vobis, quia si hi tacuerint,<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>lapides clamabunt.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Lc 19, 40</span></p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Le notizie contraddittorie sullo stato di salute di Jorge Mario Bergoglio gettano ombre inquietanti sulla gestione della comunicazione vaticana. C’è chi ritiene che “il Papa sia già deceduto” e che lo si tenga nascosto. È evidente che il Vaticano e la <em>deep church</em> bergogliana sono nel panico e faranno di tutto per raccogliere i consensi dei Cardinali intorno a qualche nome che porti avanti la <em>rivoluzione bergogliana</em>. C’è chi ha tutto l’interesse a seppellire, con quelli di Bergoglio, anche i propri crimini, mentre negli Stati Uniti è in atto uno scontro frontale dell’Episcopato contro l’Amministrazione Trump, dopo che lo scandalo sui fondi dell’Agenzia per lo Sviluppo Internazionale (USAID) ha fatto emergere le complicità della Chiesa Cattolica nel business dell’immigrazione.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Occorre impedire che la gerarchia progressista possa assicurare un successore a Bergoglio, ossia un altro usurpatore sul Soglio di Pietro che sia l’erede e il continuatore del precedente. Prima di piantare l’ultimo chiodo sulla bara di Bergoglio è dunque indispensabile e indifferibile che venga fatta luce sull’usurpazione da lui perpetrata e sull’occupazione della Chiesa Cattolica da parte di una gerarchia corrotta e traditrice, il cui unico scopo è di distruggerla dall’interno.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Le manovre della Mafia di San Gallo con la Sinistra ultraprogressista; i crimini rimasti impuniti di Theodore McCarrick; il suo ruolo in seno alle Amministrazioni Dem; l’influenza che questi ha esercitato nelle nomine dei suoi “eredi” – tutti omosessuali e corrotti – designati a ricoprire posti chiave in America e in Vaticano; l’operato di McCarrick con il regime comunista cinese nella stipula dell’Accordo Segreto; il ruolo dei Gesuiti nella promozione dell’agenda globalista; le scandalose coperture da parte di Bergoglio di abusatori e pervertiti notori; l’insabbiamento del dossier sulla rete di corruzione in Vaticano, consegnato dal Papa Emerito Benedetto XVI a Bergoglio nell’aprile del 2013 e rimasto senza seguito; il ruolo di Bergoglio nel crimine perpetrato ai danni dell’umanità con la “pandemia Covid” e l’imposizione dei vaccini; il cinico sfruttamento dei migranti clandestini finalizzato alla distruzione del tessuto sociale dell’Occidente: tutto questo ed altro ancora conferma che la chiesa bergogliana è non solo complice del piano eversivo del <em>World Economic Forum</em> ma protagonista di primo piano. Su tutte queste vicende i fedeli hanno il diritto di sapere quale sia la verità.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Dopo anni di menzogne, di dissimulazioni e di silenzi è necessario prendere atto della frode di Jorge Mario Bergoglio e sottoporlo a processo, ripristinando la verità e la giustizia: lo esigono le vittime delle sue rappresaglie, dei suoi atti intimidatori, della sua connivenza ai crimini dei suoi mandanti e dei suoi protetti. Si impongono indagini sulla sua vita passata, sui delitti commessi in Argentina (ragione per cui non ha mai compiuto un viaggio nel suo Paese natale) e sulle torbide vicende che vedrebbero Jorge Mario Bergoglio responsabile di abusi sessuali su giovani gesuiti, ai tempi in cui egli era Maestro dei Novizi in Argentina. Si deve chiarire se Tomas Ricardo Arizaga (detto Tomasito), deceduto il 20 Luglio 2014 all’età di 11 anni, cremato e sepolto nel 2019 nel Cimitero Teutonico in Vaticano dopo averlo privato dei denti, è realmente figlio di Bergoglio, come si vocifera da troppo tempo e come molteplici elementi lasciano pensare.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Un’alleanza criminale internazionale ha unito forze eversive per eliminare Benedetto XVI, costringendolo alle dimissioni e sostituendolo con un emissario del globalismo. Lo ha ammesso lo stesso card. Danneels, riferendosi alla Mafia di San Gallo; lo ha ribadito McCarrick parlando alla Villanova University l’11 Ottobre 2013; lo progettava la presidente e fondatrice di <em>Voices of progress –</em> un gruppo di pressione che si occupa di cambiamenti climatici, migrazione e altre tematiche <em>woke</em> – discutendone con John Podesta (capo della campagna elettorale di Hillary Clinton), nelle mail diffuse da <em>Wikileaks</em> (<a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57579"><span data-sanitized-class="s2">qui</span></a>).</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">La “primavera cattolica” si è avvalsa di Jorge Mario Bergoglio, un personaggio corrotto e manovrabile, imposto fraudolentemente come “papa”. Chiediamo alle Autorità degli Stati Uniti d’America e dell’Argentina di fornire i documenti e le prove su questi fatti. Ciò comproverà che Jorge Mario Bergoglio non è mai stato Papa della Chiesa Cattolica: nulli sono tutti i suoi atti di governo e di magistero, nulle sono tutte le sue nomine, ivi comprese quelle dei Cardinali che dovranno eleggere il suo successore.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">È ora di affrontare la verità con coraggio, perché la liberazione della Chiesa Cattolica da eversori che la occupano da troppo tempo per distruggerla sia radicale ed autentica,<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> e i complici della frode – che sono tuttora in Vaticano e sopravviveranno a Bergoglio – siano scoperti e processati, prima che la loro azione criminale distrugga le prove dei crimini che hanno commesso.</span></p>

<p>+ Carlo Maria Viganò, <em>Arcivescovo</em></p>


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<div><img src="https://exsurgedomine.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/williamson.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p data-sanitized-class="p1"><em><span data-sanitized-class="s1">O mors, ero mors tua;<br></span></em><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>morsus tuus ero, inferne.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">O death, I will be your death;<br></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1">I will be your mortal blow, O hell.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Hos 13:14</span></p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">The land of Canterbury was consecrated to Christ by the blood of Saint Thomas Becket, martyred on the 29th of December, 1170, in the Cathedral which has now become Anglican. At that time, Archbishop Thomas opposed the Constitutions of Clarendon, with which King Henry II attacked the liberties and independence of the Catholic Church. He paid with his life for this courageous defense of the Catholic Church, and today the Saintly Bishop looks down on us from heaven as we celebrate the suffrages of another Bishop, Richard Nelson Williamson, whom we consider a witness to the Faith and Catholic Tradition in times no less troubled and hostile.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Bishop Williamson was not killed by four assassins of Henry II. He did not shed his blood by being struck while celebrating the Holy Sacrifice at the altar of his Cathedral. The Cathedral in which he would have celebrated was denied to him by a Hierarchy that is now allied and complicit with the same enemies of the past, which excommunicates not the enemies of the Papacy, but those who denounce the betrayal of a usurper. Bishop Williamson also was betrayed: not by four assassins, but by those who wounded him in the heart, betraying the legacy of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">I hope that the heroic example of Saint Thomas Becket and the testimony of white martyrdom given by Bishop Richard Williamson may awaken in us the feelings that they both shared: first and foremost, the love of God; the love of the God-Man, Our Lord Jesus Christ; the love of the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church; and the love of man for the sake of the love of God, from which flows the apostolic zeal of true Shepherds toward their sheep, who recognize in them the voice of the divine Shepherd.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">This earthly life is a battlefield, in which we fight without quarter against a mortal enemy. This enemy has already been defeated by Our Lord, on the Cross, the <em>Via Regia</em>, the Royal Road to the eternal glory of Heaven. This is what the prophet Hosea meant when, referring to Christ, he pronounced these words: <em>O mors, ero mors tua; morsus tuus ero, inferne</em>. Giving one’s life, giving all one’s life and all one’s energy for Our Lord Jesus Christ and for the Holy Church, and doing so in a daily crucifixion, allows us to be cooperators in the Redemption. Our human weakness, when placed at the service of the Gospel, allows Grace to accomplish great things; it allows us to face each day, even the last day, without giving up fighting the <em>bonum certamen</em> and repeating, with the Prophet: <em>O death, I will be your death; I will be your mortal blow, O hell.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Tempora bona veniant. Pax Christi veniat. Regnum Christi veniat.</em></span></p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">+ Carlo Maria Viganò, <em>Archbishop</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p7"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">February 26, 2025</span></p>


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<div><img src="https://exsurgedomine.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/williamson.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>+<br><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Mons. Richard Nelson Williamson<br></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1">A 8 III MCMXL – Ω 29 I MMXXV</span></p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><em><span data-sanitized-class="s1">O mors, ero mors tua;<br></span></em><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>morsus tuus ero, inferne.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">O morte, sarò la tua morte;<br></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1">sarò il tuo colpo mortale, o inferno.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Os 13, 14</span></p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">La terra di Canterbury è stata consacrata a Cristo dal sangue di San Tommaso Becket, martirizzato il 29 Dicembre del 1170 proprio nella Cattedrale oggi divenuta anglicana. A quei tempi, l’Arcivescovo Tommaso si oppose alle Costituzioni di Clarendon, con le quali Enrico II attentava alle libertà e all’indipendenza della Chiesa Cattolica. Egli pagò con la vita questa sua coraggiosa difesa della Chiesa, ed oggi il Santo Vescovo ci guarda dal cielo, mentre celebriamo i suffragi di un altro Vescovo, Richard Nelson Williamson, che consideriamo come testimone della Fede e della Tradizione Cattolica in tempi non meno travagliati e ostili.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Mons. Williamson non è stato ucciso da quattro sicari di Enrico II. Non ha sparso il suo sangue venendo colpito mentre celebrava il Santo Sacrificio all’altare della sua Cattedrale. La Cattedrale in cui avrebbe celebrato gli è stata negata da una Gerarchia oggi alleata e complice degli stessi nemici di allora, e che scomunica non i nemici del Papato, ma quanti denunciano il tradimento di un usurpatore. Anch’egli è stato tradito: non da quattro sicari, ma da chi l’ha ferito nel cuore, tradendo l’eredità dell’Arcivescovo Marcel Lefebvre.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Auspico che l’esempio eroico di San Tommaso Becket e la testimonianza di martirio bianco di mons. Richard Williamson possano risvegliare in noi i sentimenti che entrambi condivisero: l’amore di Dio, anzitutto; l’amore dell’Uomo-Dio, Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo e della Santa Chiesa Cattolica Apostolica Romana; l’amore dell’uomo per amore di Dio, dal quale sgorga lo zelo apostolico dei veri Pastori verso le pecorelle, che riconoscono in lui la voce del divino Pastore.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Questa vita terrena è un campo di battaglia, nel quale combattiamo senza esclusione di colpi contro un nemico mortale. Questo nemico è stato già vinto da Nostro Signore, sulla Croce, via regia verso la gloria eterna del Cielo. Questo intendeva il profeta Osea quando, riferendosi a Cristo, pronunciava queste parole: <em>O mors, ero mors tua; morsus tuus ero, inferne.</em> Dare la vita, dare tutta la vita e tutte le energie per Nostro Signore e per la Santa Chiesa, e farlo in una quotidiana crocifissione, ci permette di essere cooperatori della Redenzione. La nostra umana debolezza, quand’è posta al servizio del Vangelo, permette alla Grazia di compiere grandi cose; permette di affrontare ogni giorno, anche l’ultimo, senza rinunciare a combattere il <em>bonum certamen</em> e ripetere, con il Profeta: <em>O morte, sarò la tua morte; sarò il tuo colpo mortale, o inferno.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p4"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Tempora bona veniant. Pax Christi veniat. Regnum Christi veniat.</em></span></p>

<p><span data-sanitized-class="s1">+ Carlo Maria Viganò, <em>Arcivescovo</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p6"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">26 Febbraio 2025</span></p>


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title: Trump did on live TV what other US presidents would just do in private
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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-01T095347Z_1968591946_RC2T3DA6262S_RTRMADP_3_UKRAINE-CRISIS-USA-CONGRESS-1740842649_669d16-1740844315.jpg?resize=1200%2C630&amp;quality=80" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Psst. Over here. Over here.</p>
<p>You want to hear a trade secret?</p>

<p>The bulk of journalists who cover the so-called “halls of power” in Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, London, Paris and beyond prefer routine over spontaneity.</p>
<p>You see, predictability is easy. It’s comforting because most capital cities are mundane places where boring is not only an agreeable fact on the ground, but also a prevailing state of mind.</p>
<p>That is why the overwrought reaction to the lively dressing-down US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance gave Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was so in keeping with the White House press corps’ stubborn fondness for the veneer of practised civility over the impulsive truth.</p>
<p>Unlike so many other pundits and columnists who rushed instantly and almost universally onto the familiar cable news networks to express their disbelief and shock over the “embarrassing spectacle” of America’s tactless commander-in-chief “humiliating” his “wartime hero” guest, I was mesmerised by the remarkable scenes unfolding live on my computer screen.</p>
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<p>Rather than watching an orchestrated, forgettable set piece featuring smiling foreign dignitaries and heads of state visiting an ever-so-polite president in the Oval Office, it was refreshing to witness a blatant exhibition of the crudeness, rudeness, and brutishness of power politics that usually occurs far, far away from the cameras and, hence, reporters and the public.</p>
<p>They will be loath to admit it, but the sea of scribes who stood like mute mannequins while Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy traded rhetorical blows for several bruising rounds, expected another tame, pedestrian day at work like so many other tame, pedestrian days at work.</p>
<p>They know the predictable role they play during these choreographed pantomimes.</p>
<p>Step 1: Go to the Oval Office.</p>
<p>Step 2: Record the foreign head of state saying nice and sweet stuff about the US president.</p>
<p>Step 3: Record the US president saying nice and sweet stuff about the foreign head of state.</p>
<p>Step 4: Report that the US president and the foreign head of state said nice and sweet stuff about each other.</p>
<p>Step 5: Later, call sources who say that, in private, the US president and the foreign head of state did not say nice and sweet stuff about each other.</p>
<p>Step 6: Report, quoting anonymous sources, that despite having said nice and sweet stuff about each other publicly, privately, truth be told, the US president and his grinning guest cannot stand one another.</p>
<p>That was, in effect, the formulaic arc of much of the reporting after French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer made their pilgrimages to Washington last week to massage and mollify Trump.</p>
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<p>True to his unorthodox nature – to put it charitably – Trump and his clawing vice president – upended that traditional script, either by design or instinctively, with Zelenskyy.</p>
<p>Reporters and pundits came away confused and disoriented. This is not supposed to happen the way it has happened, they moaned – disappointed, apparently, at having to act as journalists rather than stenographers.</p>
<p>A lot of the hyperbolic outrage being directed at Trump is the product not so much of what he said to Zelenskyy – since his antipathy towards Ukraine and its president has been plain – but how and where he said it: in the Oval Office before TV cameras.</p>
<p>That’s what America’s genteel chattering class considers so rank and appalling – Trump did his berating and bullying openly, when more discreet and “diplomatic” presidents do their berating and bullying behind closed doors.</p>
<p>The glaring irony is that American networks and the personalities who populate them leverage broadcasting “live” to draw audiences tempted by the urgency of now and the prospect that, at any moment, real, not manufactured, drama and conflict might erupt.</p>
<p>Newsworthy drama and conflict did erupt in the Oval Office on Friday, but instead of embracing it, those same networks and personalities recoiled from it and labelled it as unseemly and unbecoming of the office of the presidency and the United States itself.</p>
<p>Here’s a bit of news for the yapping ostriches:</p>
<p>Aside from lying with a pathological ease and ordering others to kill without a scintilla of regret or remorse, being rude, crude, and a brute is a job prerequisite of any US president – Democrat or Republican.</p>
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<p>Trump is not the exception. He is the rule.</p>
<p>The administration of pretty boy, Harvard-trained President John F Kennedy enlisted the Mafia to try to murder Cuba’s young and charismatic leader, Fidel Castro, and gave its tacit approval to a coup in early November 1963 that saw the overthrow of South Vietnam’s government and the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem.</p>
<p>Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, was a six-foot, four-inch boor who physically assaulted much smaller public servants who angered him.</p>
<p>In 1965, a livid Johnson summoned Canada’s diminutive prime minister, Lester Pearson, to Camp David for a stiff talking to after the Noble Peace Prize winner denounced the US bombing of North Vietnam.</p>
<p>Johnson reportedly grabbed Pearson by the shirt collar, twisted it, and lifted the prime minister by the neck, shouting: “You pissed on my rug.”</p>
<p>That same year, an enraged Johnson shoved then-Chairman of the Federal Reserve William Martin against a wall for having raised interest rates against the president’s wishes.</p>
<p>“Boys are dying in Vietnam, and Bill Martin doesn’t care,” Johnson thundered.</p>
<p>That avatar of presidential probity, Richard Nixon, ordered the CIA to block, thwart, undermine, and destabilise Chile’s democratically elected Socialist president, Salvador Allende.</p>
<p>And Nixon’s obscene anti-Semitism makes Trump’s fiery remarks to Zelenskyy seem rather temperate, in comparison. He complained on tape that Washington “is full of Jews” and that “most Jews are disloyal”.</p>
<p>Whether the wailing pundits and TV personalities are prepared to acknowledge it or not, Trump was right. The sensational Oval Office fireworks made for great television.</p>
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<p>This time we were privy to the astonishing, history-making words and deeds of another “gangster” president in real-time, as it happened.</p>
<p><em><strong>The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.</strong></em></p>

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title: Will the US withdraw its support for Ukraine?
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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/image-1740855877.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&amp;quality=80" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>A public meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy descended into a spat.</p><div aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true" readability="62.172504378284">
<p>A visit that Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelenskyy hoped would secure US support in the face of Russia’s invasion, instead ended in a very <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/28/world-reacts-after-donald-trump-jd-vance-berate-ukaines-zelenskyy">public argument</a>.</p>
<p>The meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House was supposed to be about signing over rights to some of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals.</p>

<p>Kyiv hoped that would keep US assistance coming, despite not containing any guarantees of security against Russian aggression.</p>
<p>Instead, President Zelenskyy got a dressing down from Trump and his Vice President JD Vance, who accused the wartime leader of showing disrespect and ingratitude.</p>
<p>Now Trump is threatening to pull support from Ukraine.</p>
<p>What does this mean for the war in Ukraine?</p>
<p>And will Washington force a settlement with Moscow?</p>
<p><strong>Presenter:</strong> James Bays</p>
<p><strong>Guests:</strong></p>
<p>Michael Bociurkiw – Global affairs analyst and senior fellow at Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center</p>
<p>Scott Lucas – Professor of US and international politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin</p>
<p>Glenn Diesen – Professor of international relations at the University of South-East Norway and associate editor of Russia in Global Affairs</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>The crash happened on the route between the cities of Uyuni and Colchani, when one of the vehicles swerved into the oncoming lane.</em></p>
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<p>At least 37 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a crash involving two buses in the western Potosi region of Bolivia, police and local authorities have said.</p>
<p>The accident happened on Saturday at 7am local time (11:00 GMT) on the route between the cities of Uyuni and Colchani, when one of the vehicles swerved into the oncoming lane.</p>

<p>Uyuni is the gateway to the Salar de Uyuni, a major tourist attraction and the world’s largest salt flat at more than 10,000sq km (3,900sq miles).</p>
<p>“As a result of this fatal accident we have 39 people injured in four hospitals in the town of Uyuni, and 37 people have lost their lives,” a spokesperson for the Departmental Police Command of Potosi told reporters.</p>
<p>Police personnel are working to identify people who were killed and those who were injured and hospitalised, the spokesperson added.</p>
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<p>Police officers removed survivors from the steel wreckage, according to images shot by Radio Uyuni, which showed several bodies covered in blankets strewn across the high Andean flatlands.</p>
<p>A police spokesperson said one of the two drivers, who both survived the crash, was spotted by passengers consuming alcohol.</p>
<p>Bolivia’s mountainous, under-maintained and little-supervised roadways are some of the deadliest in the world, killing an average of 1,400 people every year.</p>
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title: Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,102
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>These are the key developments on day 1,102 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.</em></p>
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<p>Here is the situation on Sunday, March 2:</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="fighting">Fighting</h2>
<ul><li>The head of Russia’s Investigative Committee says Ukrainian attacks on Russian regions on and near the border have killed at least 652 civilians so far, Russian news agency TASS reported.</li>
<li>Moscow said it downed three Ukrainian drones targeting the Russkaya gas compressor station in the southern Krasnodar region, part of the TurkStream pipeline network.</li>
<li>A new monitoring mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine for the first time through Russian territory, a Russia-installed head of the plant said.</li>
<li>Odesa regional governor, Oleh Kiper, said a Russian missile struck port facilities, injuring two workers and damaging infrastructure and a vessel.</li>
<li>The Russian Ministry of Defence said its forces captured the villages of Sudne and Burlatske in the south of the eastern Donetsk region.</li>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="diplomacy">Diplomacy</h2>
<ul><li>Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy he was <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/1/zelenskyy-starmer-to-meet-as-europe-rallies-for-ukraine-amid-trump-spat">“very, very welcome”</a> in London a day after Zelenskyy <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/28/world-reacts-after-donald-trump-jd-vance-berate-ukaines-zelenskyy">clashed</a> with United States President Donald Trump.</li>
<li>British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Ukraine’s Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko signed a 2.26-billion-pound ($2.84bn) loan deal on Saturday, according to a statement from the Treasury. Zelenskyy said the loan would be used to manufacture weapons in Ukraine.</li>
<li>The Ukrainian leader said Kyiv was still willing to sign a rare earth minerals deal with the US following his clash with Trump in the “first step toward security guarantees”.</li>
<li>NATO chief Mark Rutte said the US, Ukraine, and Europe need to work together to end the war and bring “durable peace”; he called for Zelenskyy to mend his relationship with Trump.</li>
<li>Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has urged the European Union to open direct talks with Russia to end the war.</li>
<li>Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Moscow’s goals in Ukraine, including its “demilitarisation and denazification”, remain unchanged and accused Zelenskyy of being “obsessed with continuing” the war.</li>
<li>Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for more “flexibility” in the EU and German budget rules to facilitate more support for Ukraine.

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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AP25055597168689-1740548324.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Israel has halted the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza and threatened Hamas with more “consequences” if the Palestinian group does not agree to extend the now-ended phase one of their fragile ceasefire agreement.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday that “the entry of all goods and supplies to the Gaza Strip will be halted,” accusing Hamas of refusing to accept a framework for the continuation of talks proposed by US special envoy Steve Witkoff.</p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p1">“Israel will not allow a ceasefire without a release of our hostages,” the statement said. “If Hamas persists in its refusal, there will be additional consequences.”</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Hamas accused Israel of trying to derail the existing ceasefire agreement and said its decision to cut off aid was “cheap extortion, a war crime and a blatant attack” on the ceasefire, which took effect in January.</p>
<p>The first phase of the agreement ended on Saturday, but Israel is yet to move ahead with the second phase of the three-phase deal.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ">Netanyahu’s office said Israel has agreed to a proposal by Witkoff to extend the first phase of the ceasefire for six weeks during Ramadan – the Muslim holy month that began over the weekend – and the Jewish Passover holiday, which ends on April 20.</p>
<p>Netanyahu said Israel could resume military operations in Gaza if negotiations prove to be “ineffective” during this period.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ">While Witkoff has not made his proposal public, Netanyahu said it would begin with the handing over of half of all remaining living and deceased captives. The rest of the captives would be handed over when an agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire.</p>
<p>Netanyahu says Hamas is currently holding 59 captives: 24 alive and 35 dead.</p>
<p>Hamas had earlier <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/1/hamas-rejects-israels-formulation-to-extend-phase-one-of-gaza-ceasefire">rejected Israel’s “formulation”</a> of extending the first phase of the ceasefire during Ramadan and Passover and instead called for the second phase to unfold as originally agreed.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-ceasefire-must-hold">‘The ceasefire must hold’</h2>
<p>Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from southern Gaza, said Palestinians in the coastal enclave were “very stressed” by the prospect of a return to fighting.</p>
<p>“They feel that this ceasefire is very fragile,” she said. “There are Israeli jets and drones hovering in the sky, making Palestinians feel that at any minute, Israeli forces can target any place across the Gaza Strip.”</p>
<p>Humanitarian organisations have repeatedly said the ceasefire must continue if they are to provide much-needed aid to Palestinians in the coastal enclave, which has been devastated by the 17-month war.</p>
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<p>“The impact of safe and sustained humanitarian access is evident,” the World Food Programme said in a post on X on Saturday. “The ceasefire must hold. There can be no going back.”</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Hundreds of aid trucks have entered Gaza daily since the ceasefire began on January 19. But residents said prices doubled on Sunday as word of the closure spread and people raced to stock up.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">“Everyone is worried,” said Sayed al-Dairi, a man living in Gaza City, told The Associated Press. “This is not a life.”</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Fayza Nassar, a woman living in the heavily destroyed urban Jabalia refugee camp, said the closure would exacerbate already dire living conditions.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">“There will be famine and chaos,” she told AP. “Closing the crossings is a heinous crime.”</p>
<p>Stephen Zunes, the director of Middle Eastern studies at the University of San Francisco, says the US’s apparent proposal favouring Israel follows a well-established pattern seen since the beginning of the war.</p>
<p>“This is typical,” he told Al Jazeera. “Hamas and Israel will agree to something. Then Israel will try to revise it in its favour. Then the US will put forward a new proposal that is in Israel’s favour and then the US will blame Hamas for not accepting that proposal.”</p>
<p>Netanyahu’s refusal to move to the second phase of the ceasefire agreement has also been criticised in Israel, as hundreds of Israelis demonstrated outside the homes of several government ministers on Sunday to demand the completion of a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement.</p>
<p>“Israel signed an agreement that was supposed to begin negotiations for the second phase on day 16 of the first phase. However, Israel has avoided these negotiations,” Yair Golan, leader of the Democrats Party, told the Israeli media outlet Maariv.</p>
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<p>“Those who want to release the hostages need to understand a simple thing – we need to reach a long-term ceasefire and withdraw from most of Gaza. Netanyahu is constantly looking for ways to keep all Israeli citizens under extraordinary pressure and in a state of emergency, as it serves his political needs.”</p>

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title: Starmer calls on Europe to ‘step up’ to ensure security for Ukraine
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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-02T145746Z_1605096836_RC225DAG2EFK_RTRMADP_3_UKRAINE-CRISIS-BRITAIN-EUROPE-1740927639.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p data-sanitized-class="p1">British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told European leaders that they all need to “step up” to a “once-in-a-generation moment” for the security of the continent, at a <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/2/russia-ukraine-war-live-zelenskyy-to-attend-london-summit-after-trump-spat">summit</a> in London aimed at strengthening military cooperation and reaffirming support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Starmer said on Sunday that getting a good outcome for Ukraine was “vital to the security of every nation here and many others, too”.</p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p1">He was flanked by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron during the official photo to mark the start of talks, which more than a dozen European leaders are attending.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Earlier on Sunday, Starmer said the United Kingdom, France and Ukraine had agreed to work on a ceasefire plan to present to the United States.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">The summit is taking place two days after talks broke down between US President Donald Trump and Zelenskyy, when <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/28/key-takeaways-from-the-fiery-white-house-meeting-with-trump-and-zelenskyy">Trump blasted Zelenskyy</a> for not being grateful enough for US support.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Sunday’s summit is likely to include talks on establishing a European military force to be sent to Ukraine to underpin a lasting ceasefire and ensure Ukraine can deter future Russian aggression.</p>
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<p>European leaders are also set to prioritise increased economic pressure on Russia to strengthen Ukraine’s position.</p>
<p>Representatives from Germany, Denmark, Italy, Turkiye, NATO and the European Union are also attending the summit.</p>
<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday evening that Europe urgently needs to rearm and member states must be given the fiscal space to carry out a surge in defence spending.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Von der Leyen added that Europe also needed to show the United States that it was ready to defend democracy.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">“After a long time of underinvestment, it is now of utmost importance to step up the defence investment for a prolonged period of time,” she told reporters after the meeting in London.</p>

<p>Reporting from London, Al Jazeera’s James Bays said that diplomats are initially looking to try initially to salvage the deal with the United States, but are also going to be discussing a plan B.</p>
<p>“There are a number of different proposals floating around. The Italians want there to be a summit of the EU and the US to take place, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s proposal is backed by Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk,” Bays said.</p>
<p>“Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan … is proposing that Turkiye lead peace talks that would take place between Russia and Ukraine under Turkish auspices,” he continued.</p>
<p>Bays added that one of the things that is likely to be discussed in London and is the worry among NATO members is that Trump could pull back the troops stationed in several European countries after the invasion of Ukraine.</p>
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<p>Peter Zalmayev, executive director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, told Al Jazeera that now is the time for more countries to join the UK and France in pledging more security guarantees.</p>
<p>“I certainly hope they will because if Europe did not wake up this time, it will never wake up,” he said, speaking from Kyiv.</p>
<p>“We are talking about concrete actions and creative solutions even if they sometimes go against the norms regulating financial transactions.”</p>

<p>The meeting in the UK comes before a summit in Brussels, scheduled to take place on Thursday, where the European Commission will announce a defence package for Europe, including Ukraine.</p>
<p>The package aims to bolster Ukraine’s defences and reinforce regional security, emphasising the need for a strong, lasting deal to safeguard Kyiv’s sovereignty. Ukraine’s European allies are seeking to address growing concerns over Trump’s approach to negotiations with Russia, which many fear could undermine Kyiv’s position.</p>
<p>Zelenskyy <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/1/zelenskyy-starmer-to-meet-as-europe-rallies-for-ukraine-amid-trump-spat">arrived in London</a> on Saturday and was greeted by Starmer. The two leaders shared an embrace and announced a $2.84bn loan agreement to bolster Ukraine’s defence capabilities, funded by profits from frozen Russian assets.</p>
<p>Zelenskyy’s visit to London followed a tense encounter at the White House, where Trump and Vice President JD Vance criticised him for rejecting proposed truce terms and accused him of ingratitude. Trump also warned that Zelenskyy’s stance risked escalating the conflict into a global war.</p>
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<p>Despite the heated exchange, Zelenskyy emphasised that Ukraine remains open to dialogue with the US.</p>
<p>“Despite the tough discussions, we remain strategic partners,” he wrote on X after his meeting. “But honesty and directness are essential to understanding our shared goals.”</p>

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<p>Trump’s recent overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin have alarmed Kyiv and its European allies. The US president has positioned himself as a mediator between Putin and Zelenskyy, sidelining traditional diplomatic channels and prioritising rapprochement with Moscow.</p>
<p>Last week, Trump claimed “significant progress” had been made towards a peace deal in Ukraine, though details remain unclear.</p>
<p>But as the Ukrainian leader left the White House, Trump took to social media to say that Zelenskyy was not “ready for peace if America is involved”.</p>
<p>Following the spat, European leaders were quick to offer their <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/28/world-reacts-after-donald-trump-jd-vance-berate-ukaines-zelenskyy">support</a> for the beleaguered Ukrainian leader.</p>

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</header><p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead u-inline">A Boeing 767 cargo plane operated by FedEx was flying from New Jersey to Indianapolis when it suffered a bird strike, causing one of engines to burst into flames. The plane safely made an emergency landing back at Newark Airport. There were no injuries reported.</p>

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</header><p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead u-inline">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has welcomed the PKK’s declaration of a ceasefire after a 40-year conflict, but warned that Turkiye will be ready to keep fighting if the outlawed Kurdish group fails to disband.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>The latest Ebola outbreak, the sixth in Uganda, was declared at the end of January.</em></p>
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<p>A four-year-old has been identified as the second patient to die from the Ebola virus in Uganda after a recent outbreak.</p>
<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday night that Uganda’s Ministry of Health reported a positive Ebola case at Mulago Hospital, the country’s only referral centre for the virus, and it was discovered in a four-year-old who died on Tuesday.</p>

<p>On Tuesday, Uganda confirmed it had recorded 10 cases of a new strain of the virus. The first fatality from the latest outbreak was a male nurse who died before the outbreak was declared on January 30.</p>
<p>In February, the Health Ministry said all eight Ebola patients under care had been discharged, but at least 265 contacts remained under strict quarantine in Kampala.</p>
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<p>The latest outbreak is the sixth time Uganda has detected cases of Ebola. The cause of this new outbreak has been referred to as the Sudan Ebola strain, which does not have an approved vaccine yet.</p>
<p>The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people – the virus’s largest death toll.</p>
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<p>The virus is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids and tissues. Its symptoms include fever, vomiting and muscle pain.</p>
<p>Ebola surveillance work in Africa has come under threat as NGOs that used to be funded through the United States Agency for International Development <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/2/24/most-usaid-workers-to-be-fired-or-placed-on-leave">(USAID)</a> have been forced to stop as President Donald Trump is essentially dismantling the US government’s aid agency.</p>
<p>Charles Olaro, the director of health services at Uganda’s Ministry of Health, told The Associated Press that the aid cuts affect some NGOs that help nations respond to infectious diseases.</p>
<p>“There are challenges, but we need to adjust to the new reality,” Olaro said.</p>
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</header><p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead u-inline">Israeli forces have struck Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, as the first phase of the ceasefire deal ends without an agreement. Israel blames Hamas for not accepting a US-backed proposal for extending the truce that lacked an Israeli commitment to end the war.</p>

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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/16_White_Helmets_AC-1740497414.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Aleppo, Syria</strong> – Abu Ahmad flashes his phone’s torch onto an explosive he found in the basement of a building that used to be a regime military outpost housing soldiers, tanks and ammunition during the Syrian war.</p>
<p>Now Abu Ahmad commands a base for the Syria Civil Defence, or White Helmets, in the building.</p>
<p>The volunteers in the White Helmets worked tirelessly throughout the war and in the aftermath of the 2023 earthquakes to save people under rubble and get them emergency assistance.</p>
<p>They moved into the building a little more than a month after an opposition offensive led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took Aleppo on November 30 and went on to topple Bashar al-Assad eight days later.</p>
<p>Remnants of the former regime littered the place, Abu Ahmad said, with discarded military uniforms, tank shells and soldiers’ personal belongings tossed aside as people fled the outpost.</p>
<p>Pro-regime graffiti remains. One message reads: “With our soul, with our blood, we’ll sacrifice for you, Bashar.”</p>
<p>“Bashar” has been crossed out with a red X.</p>
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<p>In the aftermath of 13 years of war, there’s lots for the White Helmets to do.</p>
<p>They are clearing rubble, demining buildings and searching for mass graves – traces of a battle that strangled the city between 2012 and 2016, led to the regime retaking opposition-held areas of Aleppo and made it one of Syria’s cities most devastated by the war.</p>
<p>Abu Ahmad, who was among the first White Helmets volunteers in 2013, has seen it all.</p>
<p>As Russia pounded Aleppo from the air, the White Helmets pulled people from the rubble at great risk to themselves.</p>
<p>Russia used “double taps” bombing, waiting for rescue workers to arrive after an initial attack and then striking again to target the first responders.</p>
<p>“I lost five people close to me because of this Russian strategy,” Abu Ahmad recalled. “But the worst were the helicopters dropping barrel bombs.”</p>
<p>Before the battles in Aleppo, the building had been used as a fire station, and the regime had brought those firefighters back in 2016 after retaking the city to share space with the military.</p>
<p>Now Abu Ahmad wants to integrate the fire crews into the White Helmets’ work despite their past service to al-Assad.</p>
<p>“We forgive them for what they did,” he said. “What matters now is working together to rebuild the city.”</p>

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<p>The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/28/ramadan-mubarak-2025-hear-greetings-in-different-languages-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">begun</a> worldwide. For the next 29 or 30 days, Muslims observing the fast will refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk, a period lasting from 12 to 16 hours, depending on their location.</p>
<p>Muslims believe <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/10/ramadan-mubarak-hear-greetings-in-different-languages">Ramadan</a> is the month when the first verses of the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2022/4/27/visualising-the-quran">Quran</a> were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad more than 1,400 years ago.</p>

<p>The fast entails abstinence from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual relations during daylight hours to achieve greater “taqwa”, or consciousness of God.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="why-does-ramadan-start-on-different-dates-every-year">Why does Ramadan start on different dates every year?</h2>
<p>Ramadan begins 10 to 12 days earlier each year. This is because the Islamic calendar is based on the lunar Hijri calendar with months that are 29 or 30 days long.</p>
<p>Because the lunar year is shorter than the solar year by 11 days, Ramadan will be observed twice in the year 2030 – first beginning on January 5 and then starting on December 26.</p>
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<p>The number of daylight hours varies across the world.</p>
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<p>Muslims living in the world’s southernmost countries, such as Chile or New Zealand, will fast for about 13 hours while those living in the northernmost countries, such as Iceland or Greenland, will have fasts lasting 16 hours or more on their longest days.</p>
<p>For Muslims living in the Northern Hemisphere, the number of fasting hours will be a bit shorter this year and will continue to decrease until 2031, which is the year Ramadan will encompass the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. After that, fasting hours will increase in the Northern Hemisphere until its summer solstice, the longest day of the year.</p>
<p>For fasting Muslims living south of the equator, the opposite will happen.</p>
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<p>The table below shows the suhoor and iftar times on the first and last days of Ramadan 2025. Use the arrows or search box to find your city.</p>

<h2 data-sanitized-id="which-cities-have-the-longest-and-shortest-fasting-hours">Which cities have the longest and shortest fasting hours?</h2>
<p>Below are the average number of fasting hours in cities around the world. Actual fasting hours and times will vary by day as well as calculation methods:</p>
<p>– Nuuk, Greenland: 16 hours<br>– Reykjavik, Iceland: 16 hours<br>– Helsinki, Finland: 15 hours<br>– Oslo, Norway: 15 hours<br>– Stockholm, Sweden: 15 hours<br>– Glasgow, Scotland: 15 hours<br>– Berlin, Germany: 14 hours<br>– Dublin, Ireland: 14 hours<br>– Moscow, Russia: 14 hours<br>– Amsterdam, Netherlands: 14 hours<br>– Warsaw, Poland: 14 hours<br>– Astana, Kazakhstan: 14 hours</p>
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<p>Muslim-majority nations have various <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/28/ramadan-mubarak-2025-hear-greetings-in-different-languages-2">greetings</a> in their native languages for Ramadan.</p>
<p>“Ramadan Mubarak” and “Ramadan Kareem” are the most common greetings exchanged in this period, wishing the recipient a blessed or generous month, respectively.</p>
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<p><strong>Ramallah, occupied West Bank —</strong> <span>For more than 16 months, loss and grief have stalked the granite-floored corridors of the Retno Hotel.</span></p>
<p>On the evening of October 6, 2023, the family-run hotel was close to full occupancy. A few of the 70 or so guests were Palestinian Americans but most were from Gaza. Expecting to return home soon, they had brought just enough clothes for a week’s stay.</p>

<p>Among them were Ahmed Ayyash, a 72-year-old civil engineer from Gaza City, and his 62-year-old wife, Maha. Forty-four-year-old Shadia Abu Mrahil from Deir el-Balah was there with her 25-year-old son, Karam.</p>
<p>Like most of the guests from Gaza, they were regular visitors to the modest limestone building with its 45 double- or triple-bedded rooms. It wasn’t the quiet north Ramallah street that drew them there, nor the small courtyard out front with its plastic tables and chairs, although on sunnier days, the guests would sometimes sip their coffee there near a canopy of bright pink bougainvillaeas.</p>
<p>They were there to receive medical treatment – for cancer, heart problems and developmental disorders – that was unavailable in Gaza. Both Ahmed and Shadia have leukaemia.</p>
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<p>They would travel via the Beit Hanoon crossing, managed by the Israeli army and known to Israelis as Erez, in northern Gaza to Ramallah. For a few days at a time, they would stay at the hotel while they received their treatment and then return home to Gaza. Relatives would often accompany them. Some had been doing this for years. For Ahmed and Maha, these medical trips also offered an opportunity to visit <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/12/6/al-aqsa-mosque-five-things-you-need-to-know">Al-Aqsa Mosque</a> in occupied East Jerusalem and to eat kunafa with friends in Nablus, 50km (31 miles) away.</p>
<p>October 6, 2023, was a quiet day, a Friday. Most businesses in Ramallah were closed and many guests at the Retno Hotel took a break from their treatments. Ahmed went out to pray at a nearby mosque with Maha, his wife of 44 years. They had arrived in Ramallah the previous day and bought bread, cheese, chocolate, fruits and vegetables for their stay. When they returned to the hotel that evening, they ate dinner in the dining hall, and spoke to fellow guests before going to bed.</p>
<p>When they woke up the following morning, everything had changed. In the days that followed the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, Israel launched a massive bombardment of the Gaza Strip and cut off food, water and electricity. The Palestinian American guests at the hotel fled. Those who stayed, hospital patients and their family members, waited anxiously for news from Gaza. The phone service was down and many were unable to reach their loved ones back home. Some crowded into the hotel owner’s office to watch the developments on television, wondering what the fast-escalating war would mean for their families and for their treatments.</p>
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<p>Ahmed stayed in his room watching the news and scrolling through Telegram updates from journalists in Gaza. Guests who managed to contact loved ones during the sporadic moments when the phone service returned, shared whatever they learned with others. Others never got through.</p>
<p>“Some of the guests lost their children in the first month of the war, and I heard news of the martyrdom of many members of my family, such as the children of my cousin and his wife, and my cousin and her husband … and their children, and some friends,” Ahmed recalled.</p>
<p>“The bad news was constant.”</p>
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<p>Since 2017, the Retno Hotel has housed patients and their family members from Gaza during their medical visits to Istishari Hospital, a 10-minute taxi ride away.</p>
<p>It is among a network of accommodations — mostly hotels, but also lodgings including <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/tag/unrwa/">UNRWA</a> facilities — housing Palestinians granted temporary permits by Israel to leave Gaza to receive medical treatment in West and occupied East Jerusalem and the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/ten-maps-to-understand-the-occupied-west-bank">occupied West Bank</a>. The treatment is covered by the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Ministry of Health.</p>
<p>Over the years, Nawaf Hamed, the 66-year-old owner and manager of the Retno, has tried to keep the place cheerful. The common areas were often filled with music – everything from Western folk to classical Arabic. Guests would sometimes play the instruments – a tabla, guitar, qanun (a Middle Eastern string instrument) – that Nawaf kept around the lobby. “We would sing, and we [would] dance!” he reminisced wistfully. Those joyful nights stopped with COVID lockdowns, and never quite returned.</p>
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<p>When the war began, the permit arrangements for patients from Gaza quickly broke down. Those in hospitals in Jerusalem had to leave, fleeing to the occupied West Bank where they scrambled to register with the PA and find a new hospital. None were able to return to Gaza.</p>
<p>“The people [were] very afraid of the future,” recalled Nawaf of his guests.</p>
<p>Today, 400 patients from Gaza are currently registered with the PA with some staying in Ramallah as well as in Hebron, 60km (37 miles) to the south, and Nablus and Jenin, less than 100km (62km) to the north.</p>
<p>Over the months, more patients have moved into the Retno. Today, it is a temporary home to 33 adult and 14 child patients, and 37 family members. Seven patients at the hotel have died of their illnesses since the war started. As the others continue to fight their health battles, their family members have been killed, and their homes and former lives destroyed.</p>
<p>On a November afternoon, Shadia was sitting on a light grey couch in the corner of the hotel lobby where many guests gather. “What the war has done to my family, to my home, to my Gaza, kills me more every day than the cancer ever will,” she said, sighing.</p>
<p>As frail residents emerged from the lift, they greeted one another before heading to the hospital in shared taxis. A shuttle bus would bring them back later in the day.</p>
<p>Karam – his hair coiffed and beard well-groomed – sat beside his mother with his hands gently clasped in his lap. Nearby, Ahmed, dressed in a blue sweater and green button-down shirt, slouched in his chair, while Maha smiled warmly at fellow residents as they passed by. Other guests stopped to ask the front desk attendant, a woman in her 30s, for fresh towels or to grumble about the noise coming from their neighbour’s room at night.</p>
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<p>“Our feelings are [in Gaza], and it impacts every moment in our lives,” said an exhausted Shadia. “I am tired and sick already from the cancer treatment. And our thoughts of the future, of continuing day after day, are clouded not only by our own life-threatening illnesses, but the total destruction that sweeps our homes and families and communities in Gaza.”</p>
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<p>Nawaf, a stout man often with reading glasses on a cord around his neck, goes about his days running the family business while stopping to chat with guests.</p>
<p>When inside his small office, just next to the lobby, Nawaf will peer through the glass doors to see who is there and beckon them to come inside for a coffee. He has positioned the black leather couches in his office in a semicircle around a table to make the place more inviting. Guests come by to discuss their treatments, or to watch the news on television. On cold, winter nights, they come to sit by the fireplace. Some want to talk late into the night, others want to sit in silence.</p>
<p>On one sunny afternoon, when Nawaf was sitting in the courtyard, sipping Arabic coffee, Ahmed approached. He called out to the older man and shook his hand as he asked: “How are you, my friend?”</p>
<p>“Peace be upon you,” Ahmed replied with a faint smile before heading inside.</p>
<p>“May you have good health,” Nawaf called after him.</p>
<p>“That man was a great civil engineer in Gaza!” Nawaf declared, gesturing at Ahmed as he disappeared through the entrance door.</p>
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<p>As other guests walked by, Nawaf bellowed a hearty “hello” and shook their hands.</p>
<p>Nawaf and his father, Nayef, started building the hotel in 2000 and opened it four years later. They ran the place together until Nayef passed away two years ago. Nawaf’s 11 siblings are all involved in the family business, as are his two daughters, in their 20s and early 30s, who help with administrative tasks.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3474942" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3474942" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Retno-hotel-lobby-1738167460.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Retno Hotel [Al Jazeera]" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3474942"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3474942" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">The lobby at the Retno where guests gather [Al Jazeera]</figcaption></figure><p>Most hotels in the occupied West Bank are all but empty these days with the war bringing tourism to a standstill and restricting travel. The Retno is a rare exception. But even with all the occupants, the hotel is under financial strain. Although the PA covers the patients’ accommodation costs, these payments became erratic when Israel began withholding the PA’s tax revenues last April, says Nawaf. “Every week, we struggle to figure out how to pay the bills the next week,” he explained as he sat in the courtyard lined with potted citrus trees. “We don’t know what to do, how to spend money for breakfast. [Since June], the workers don’t have their [regular] salaries,” he said, referring to his 20 employees.</p>
<p>From the time breakfast is served, Nawaf tries to keep hotel operations humming as he listens to residents’ concerns, like complaints of a broken bulb or a problem with the toilet in their room.</p>
<p>Over time, he has seen some guests grow restless. Some get aggressive. Others worry that after 16 months of living in a hotel for free, the arrangement won’t last.</p>
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<p>“Some of them don’t let us clean their rooms,” Nawaf explained. “They think we are just going to use it as an excuse to actually kick them out.”</p>
<p>He has tried to put the patients at ease, occasionally bringing representatives from the PA or NGOs to offer psychosocial services or even theatre sessions. “Usually, we don’t speak about politics,” he said. Sometimes he half-jokingly suggests to single male patients to get married, saying they will be less lonely. “If nothing else, maybe the [PA] will distribute [wives] to them,” he added with a laugh.</p>
<p>Nawaf often tries to cheer up his guests with humour. When, on February 4, the Israeli military came to the area of Ramallah where the hotel is located, he asked me over the phone: “What do you think they want? Falafel or shawarma?”</p>
<p>But as the war continued, the despair grew among Nawaf’s guests. “They are under stress, because they always wait [for] sad news,” he reflected, his tone becoming sombre. “Nobody even speaks about happy things. Just — they are crying.”</p>
<p>Nawaf leaned back in his chair and looked out at the empty street. “At night, in corridors, you walk, it’s quiet, and you only listen to people crying,” he said slowly, taking a sip of his coffee. He let out a sigh. “It is a really difficult experience.”</p>
<p>Though he tries to stay positive, when the mood in the hotel gets too heavy, “I sometimes go to my office, [and] I close the door just so I can laugh,” Nawaf explained. He won’t laugh at anything in particular; it is just how he copes with the stress. Then, he might play some Mozart to try to unwind.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3474927" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3474927" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Karam-and-Shadia-in-their-room-1738167409.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C514" alt="Retno Hotel [Al Jazeera]" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3474927"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3474927" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Shadia and Karam in their hotel room [Al Jazeera]</figcaption></figure><h2 data-sanitized-id="he-s-everything-in-my-life">‘He’s everything in my life’</h2>
<p>Shadia and Karam have done their best to make their shared room at the Retno feel more like home. A small donated carpet, darkly coloured with geometric patterns, sits in the middle of the three-by-three-metre (10-foot-by-10-foot) room. On top of a dresser, an electric kettle waits – full of water – to prepare Arabic coffee. But it is a long way from their home near the beach in Deir el-Balah. Just a year old before the war began, it had marble floors, chandeliers and brand-new furnishings.</p>
<p>“Around our house were palm trees and olive trees,” recalled Shadia who was sitting next to Karam on his bed. “The people next to us planted cabbage, peas and cauliflower. And when we would look outside, all you would see would be green spaces and all this beauty.”</p>
<p>Now, at the Retno, shutters block the view of Ramallah’s limestone apartment buildings, empty lots and back roads.</p>
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<p>In Gaza, Karam spent time outdoors in the family’s garden and on the nearby beach.</p>
<p>An only child, he has always been close to his mother. “Her and my father, that’s all, that’s who I have,” said Karam.</p>
<p>“I don’t feel like she’s only my mother,” he added softly. “She’s my friend and my brother. We hang out together. In Gaza, we went to the beach together. I spent more time with her than even my friends.”</p>
<p>Shadia looked at her son and smiled. She suffers from joint pain, nausea, fatigue and dizziness, and often speaks in an anxious voice, but she brightens when talking about her son.</p>
<p>“Karam is not only my son,” said Shadia. “He is my father, my friend, my sister, my brother. He’s everything in my life, and I can’t imagine my life without Karam.”</p>
<p>In 2014, Shadia began to experience intense pain in her back and joints. For years, doctors kept misdiagnosing her ailments, at different points saying she had a bulging disk, or even that she was imagining the crippling pain. “The painkillers they gave me numbed the pain for a little while, but then it would only come back much stronger,” she recalled.</p>
<p>Finally, in 2022, she was diagnosed with leukaemia. “It came as a lightning bolt to [Karam] and to me,” said Shadia, “because to think that I could lose my life and leave him alone, especially because he doesn’t have a brother or sister to take care of him, put me in an extreme depression for over a year.”</p>
<p>Shadia started coming to Ramallah for treatment. Her sister and Karam would take turns accompanying her. She has had to undergo various treatments to try to find the right one, and suffered kidney failure and other organ dysfunction. Beginning her oral chemotherapy regimen just a few months before the war started, Shadia is supposed to maintain a strict diet that limits what she can eat to fruits and vegetables and requires her to avoid food two hours before and after taking her twice-daily medication.</p>
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<p>Even as she came to terms with her illness, the stress from the war has made everything harder, Shadia admits.</p>
<p>“Any bad news from Gaza, I could feel the pain in my body,” she said. The debilitating pain means she moves slowly when sitting or standing.</p>
<p>“Of course, the medicine does not [work] as it should, and the [medical] test [results] are bad because of what the war on Gaza does to me.”</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3474904" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3474904" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Abu-Mrahil-home-before-the-war-1738167360.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Retno Hotel [Al Jazeera]" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3474904"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3474904" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">The home Shadia and Karam shared with Hani, Shadia’s husband and Karam’s father, before an Israeli rocket destroyed it [Courtesy of Karam Abu Mrahil]</figcaption></figure><h2 data-sanitized-id="dying-slowly-in-our-alienation">‘Dying slowly in our alienation’</h2>
<p>Last August, an Israeli rocket destroyed the family’s home. Karam’s father, Hani, had already fled. Karam recalled how his mother “broke down crying and refused to receive any calls from her family in Gaza”.</p>
<p>“She sat in her room for a week, not speaking to anyone because our house was destroyed.”</p>
<p>Shadia refused to leave even for her hospital visit. Karam stayed with her, trying to cheer her up by showing her funny videos on his phone and making sure she ate.</p>
<p>“It didn’t only happen to us,” Karam told his grief-stricken mother, trying to comfort her. “It’s good that we didn’t lose any of our children or a partner, everything.”</p>
<p>“The most important thing is your health,” he kept telling her. “Everything is easy if your health is good. We have to accept it, and God willing, we will have something better.”</p>
<p>“This, we kept repeating to ourselves,” said Shadia.</p>
<p>Seventeen members of Shadia and Karam’s extended family have been killed in this war.</p>
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<p>Hani and the families of Shadia’s sisters whose homes were also destroyed have been living in tents in the Nuseirat refugee camp.</p>
<p>Throughout the war, Shadia has remained for days at a time in her and Karam’s room, nauseous from chemotherapy and overwhelmed with anxiety.</p>
<p>“I became homeless and I am sick, and I am unable to bear these difficult circumstances,” she said.</p>
<p>Without any improvement to her condition, Shadia, like many other residents, is looking at possible options for asylum or medical visas in Europe.</p>
<p>Although Shadia often stays indoors, she and other patients feel confined with outings mostly limited to shuttling between the hotel and Istishari Hospital. Many struggle with boredom.</p>
<p>“It feels like we’re in a prison,” Maha explained.</p>
<p>Since the residents have Gaza IDs, they cannot cross Israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank to enter other cities without risking detainment by Israeli forces, effectively trapping them in Ramallah.</p>
<p>Though residents say they try to keep each other company, they talk about their communities back home with a sense of longing, finding it easier to share memories of Gaza before the war than to talk about the situation today.</p>
<p>“The barbecues and picnics on the beach together!” exclaimed Karam one day in the lobby as others nodded enthusiastically.</p>
<p>“Mashallah! Everyone was just so kind and friendly,” added a gleaming Maha.</p>
<p>Even the usually restrained Ahmed cracked a smile. “In our neighbourhood of Remal [in Gaza City], there was such a friendly atmosphere,” he chimed in. “People would always invite each other over to their houses, even strangers. It’s very different from Ramallah, where everyone just comes here to work.”</p>
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<p>The displacement eats away at them all, particularly Shadia. “As a patient, you think of your treatments, your routines, the staff and doctors you get to know, and then you think of Gaza, and you can’t help but feel this alienation, this foreignness, even in Ramallah,” she said heavily. “We are dying slowly in our alienation.”</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3474921" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3474921" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Courtyard-area-next-to-Retno-entrance-1738167391.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Retno Hotel [Al Jazeera]" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3474921"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3474921" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">The courtyard area next to the Retno’s entrance [Al Jazeera]</figcaption></figure><h2 data-sanitized-id="worked-hard-to-raise-my-children-right">Worked ‘hard to raise my children right’</h2>
<p>The hotel provides a suitable breakfast for the patients that includes bread, fruits and vegetables. For lunch, Shadia and the other guests have received the exact same meal of rice and chicken provided by the PA at the hotel every day for months. It is a topic that elicits headshakes and sighs among the residents. Some patients struggle to eat this food or keep it down. “Someone who is doing chemotherapy cannot eat this,” said Shadia. But residents also feel guilty knowing that their family members in Gaza could for a long time only dream of eating a full meal, let alone meat.</p>
<p>The residents receive infrequent stipends from the PA, but they rarely have spare money, sending what they can to their families in Gaza. “Before the war, the restaurant in the hotel was working,” said Nawaf, who had to lower the cost of coffee from seven shekels to three for his guests. “People came for lunch. But now the [guests], their wallets are tight, so they buy a sandwich, not a meal.”</p>
<p>“We’re barely surviving, and we cannot even help [our families],” Shadia said. She and Karam often save food from breakfast to eat at dinner.</p>
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<p>With patients generally too sick to work, family members like Karam have tried to find work in Ramallah to support their families. While some have found employment with the PA, local businesses are largely wary of hiring Palestinians from Gaza, fearing trouble if there is an unexpected Israeli military raid. “I’ve gone to restaurants, supermarkets, anywhere I thought I could get a job, but they all refused,” Karam explained.</p>
<p>Throughout, many grapple with what and who, should it become possible for them to travel, awaits them in Gaza. They worry, too, that if they are able to return, they will lose access to medical care.</p>
<p>Mohammed al-Assali, a portly 59-year-old, often shuffles around the lobby joining conversations among guests to talk about the Egyptian football he avidly follows, or crack jokes.</p>
<p>He sat down slowly on one of the couches in the lobby. Prayer beads dangled from his stiff left hand.</p>
<p>Mohammed has no one left in Gaza to return to. His entire family was killed during the war, leaving him alone in the world.</p>
<p>Mohammad had come to Israel as a labourer to paint houses just two days before the war started. When the war started, he fled across the Green Line to the occupied West Bank. He registered with the PA’s Ministry of Labour, which placed him in cheap student housing in Jericho.</p>
<p>In November 2023, his family fled their home in Gaza City’s Remal neighbourhood to take refuge in a house they believed to be safer. Then, that house was bombed, killing his wife, their seven children, and all 10 of his siblings.</p>
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<p>Upon learning the devastating news, Mohammad had a stroke. He was rushed to the emergency room and then transferred to Istishari Hospital, where he had surgery.</p>
<p>“I underwent open heart surgery due to the intense grief after my family was killed,” Mohammed said.</p>
<p>The stroke left Mohammad with slight paralysis in his left hand and leg, which has prevented him from resuming work or wandering outside the hotel much. He spends the day in his room or speaking with other guests.</p>
<p>As the war proceeded, Mohammed, guests in the hotel say, would tell others that when there was a ceasefire, he would hand out sweets in the street. But when the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/15/what-do-we-know-about-the-israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal">deal between Israel and Hamas</a> was reached, Mohammed stayed in his room for two days straight, crying in grief.</p>
<p>“I worked really hard to raise my children right and make good people out of them. Three of them were engineers, and two were lawyers,” he explained in his calm, deep voice. “But now, they are all martyred, our houses are destroyed, and I have nothing there.</p>
<p>“I don’t know why I would go back to Gaza.”</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3474930" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3474930" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Maha-and-Ahmed-1738167421.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Retno Hotel [Al Jazeera]" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3474930"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3474930" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Maha and Ahmed arrived at the Retno two days before the war started in Gaza [Al Jazeera]</figcaption></figure><h2 data-sanitized-id="built-for-the-whole-society">‘Built for the whole society’</h2>
<p>Ahmed spends his days in Ramallah in his and Maha’s room pouring through an engineering book, drafting plans to rebuild Gaza, and visiting the mosque.</p>
<p>When the couple first arrived at the Retno, Ahmed kept to himself with Maha doing the talking for the couple. But spending more than a year living under the same roof with other guests has forced him to interact during encounters at breakfast, in the hotel lobby, or while sharing taxis and buses to and from the hospital.</p>
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<p>“You have a lot of interactions that you are forced to engage with, and to make pleasantries,” said Ahmed, shrugging his shoulders. “And so I was forced to engage and be part of a community.”</p>
<p>“Some of the people I like, and you get to talking about family or news or sports,” he mused. “Other people are annoying, loud or needy. But you just learn to deal with them.”</p>
<p>But most of the time, he likes to be on his own, studying mathematics and physics. “I don’t like to read literature or science fiction,” Ahmed said pointedly. “I like to deal with reality.”</p>
<p>Even as a child, Ahmed dreamed of building structures that could benefit people.</p>
<p>In each of the four wars between 2008 and 2021 to befall the besieged Gaza Strip, Ahmed played a pivotal role in reconstruction. He spearheaded the building of infrastructure like al-Shifa Hospital’s surgical wing, Gaza City’s sanitation system and buildings along al-Rashid Street in an area which has since been levelled completely to create the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/israeli-forces-withdraw-from-gazas-netzarim-corridor">Netzarim Corridor,</a> a heavily fortified Israeli military zone built during the war that until recently effectively separated northern Gaza from southern Gaza.</p>
<p>“The saddest moment in my life wasn’t my own home being destroyed,” said Ahmed, referring to the recent war. “It was when they destroyed these major public places that I helped build — schools and hospitals. Those were built for the whole society, not just for me.”</p>
<p>Throughout the war, Ahmed has battled a rare form of leukaemia affecting his stomach. He requires an injection which he can only get in Ramallah.</p>
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<p>Still, Ahmed and Maha are among those who yearn to return to Gaza, even if they have little faith in the ceasefire holding past its first phase, which finished on March 1. There is still no coordination by authorities to facilitate a return to Gaza for Palestinians stuck in the occupied West Bank, and it is unclear if or when it will become possible.</p>
<p>“I want to go back, and I am not hesitant to say that,” said Maha firmly shortly after the ceasefire deal was announced on January 15, as she and Ahmed sat alone one evening in the lobby. “It’s just our destiny if anything happens to us after that. But we need to go back.”</p>
<p>While people were celebrating on Ramallah’s streets — waving flags, chanting and handing out sweets — the reaction in the hotel was muted.</p>
<p>Key sticking points between Israel and Hamas — including who will administer the Gaza Strip in the future — were left to be resolved in negotiations during the envisaged three-part ceasefire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel reserves the right to resume the war, calling the first phase a “temporary ceasefire”.</p>
<p>“This war is not going to end,” said Ahmed. “Both sides are going to keep [fighting]. But no one goes back to Gaza thinking that all things just end. They don’t.”</p>
<p>“This is how life is in Gaza,” said Maha, a mother of five children and grandmother to 19, with a wistful smile and a shrug of her shoulders.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3474902" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3474902" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/A-sick-Ahmed-walking-along-the-beach-in-Gaza-1738167354.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="Retno Hotel [Al Jazeera]" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3474902"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3474902" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Ahmed walks along the beach in Gaza. Since this photo was taken, his health has improved [Courtesy of Ahmed Ayyash]</figcaption></figure><h2 data-sanitized-id="born-to-rebuild-gaza">‘Born to rebuild Gaza’</h2>
<p>Maha and Ahmed’s home in Remal was once the gathering place for their tightly knit family and Maha would prepare feasts of kabsa, maqlooba, and maftool.</p>
<p>During the war, the couple’s house was destroyed along with those of their five children who survived the bombardment with their families.</p>
<p>The long separation has been painful. “The most difficult thing is living without the children, because they are our only hope,” Maha said, her voice cracking.</p>
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<p>She is desperate to live in a home again. “If you stay in a hotel for more than a week, you’re going to go crazy,” exclaimed Maha as she threw up her hands in exasperation. “I just want to be in a home. This is not a home!”</p>
<p>Maha has tried to cope with the separation and displacement by focusing on helping her husband. In October 2021, doctors at An-Najah Hospital in Nablus told Ahmed’s brother that “there was no benefit from treatment and that it was better for me to stay with my family and await death,” Ahmed recalled. At the time, he was so weak he could barely walk.</p>
<p>But Ahmed kept trying different treatments, eventually discovering the injections. He says the war in Gaza has only motivated him to get better. “It motivates me more to go back and rebuild,” he explained.</p>
<p>Despite the doctors’ earlier prognosis, Ahmed’s condition has improved and stabilised. He is walking well and now mostly goes to the hospital on his own.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Ahmed’s mind has turned to rebuilding Gaza. He is part of an international network of engineers discussing and mapping out how to reconstruct the enclave, with <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-deaths-numbers-3e74e053814fd798fc1321c44f3e3c34" target="_blank" rel="noopener">69 percent</a> of all <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker">structures</a> destroyed or damaged.</p>
<p>For now, his health prevents him from leaving the Retno Hotel, but he is determined to beat his illness.</p>
<p>“I was born to rebuild Gaza,” Ahmed said matter-of-factly. “It’s what I’ve always done.”</p>

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<p>Iran’s economy minister has been impeached after parliament voted to dismiss him amid rising inflation and a falling currency.</p>
<p>Abdolnaser Hemmati was removed from office after 182 of 273 lawmakers voted against him, conservative parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced on Sunday, just six months after moderate President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government took office.</p>

<p>In 2015, the Iranian rial was worth 32,000 to the United States dollar, but by the time Pezeshkian took office in July, it <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/27/irans-government-hits-out-at-crypto-again-as-currency-freefalls">had plummeted</a> to about 600,000 to the dollar on the open market.</p>
<p>With <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/2/risk-of-long-feared-regional-war-rises-as-israel-and-iran-swap-threats">regional tensions escalating recently</a>, it dropped even further, trading hands in Tehran’s exchange shops and on its streets for about 950,000 rials to the dollar. The rial’s devaluation has led to widespread public discontent due to the rising cost of living and heightened inflation as the Nowruz New Year approaches this month.</p>

<p>Pezeshkian, who was present during the session of the Islamic Consultative Assembly on Sunday, defended Hemmati, a <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/30/irans-central-bank-chief-dismissed-for-running-for-president">former central bank governor and presidential candidate</a>. He told lawmakers: “We are in a full-scale [economic] war with the enemy. … We must take a war formation.”</p>
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<p>“The economic problems of today’s society are not related to one person, and we cannot blame it all on one person,” he added.</p>
<p>During the impeachment proceedings, Mohammad Qasim Osmani, a lawmaker supporting Hemmati, argued that rising inflation and exchange rates were not the fault of the current government.</p>
<p>He pointed to the budget deficit left by the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/8/2/iran-president-raisi-fix-economy">administration of hardline President Ebrahim Raisi</a>, which he said contributed to the economic instability.</p>
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<p>Hardline lawmakers, who have been attacking Pezeshkian’s team since his government took office, argued that Hemmati was instrumental in Iran’s economic instability and could be “dangerous” for the country if allowed to remain in office.</p>
<p>Hosseinali Hajidaligani, a longtime hardline lawmaker, accused the minister of intentionally devaluing the national currency to fill government coffers with a short-term windfall that would cover budget deficits at the cost of harming the economy and average Iranians.</p>
<p>Hemmati rejected the accusations and pointed to a 10-percentage-point reduction in inflation. He admitted that <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/3/2/iran-rial-depriciation">inflation still remained high</a>, standing at 35 percent. He told lawmakers that his team was working hard to address the issue but warned that the process would take time.</p>
<p>Hemmati emphasised that <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/14/the-iran-nuclear-deal-six-years-on">Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers</a>, which US President Donald Trump unilaterally abandoned in 2018, is now at a critical juncture. Western powers party to the deal have only until October to activate its “snapback” mechanism, which could reinstate all United Nations sanctions against Iran.</p>
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<p>Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has stressed that <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/25/iran-rules-out-direct-talks-with-us-while-trump-exerts-maximum-pressure">Tehran will not negotiate</a> under the “maximum pressure” policy of hawks in Washington. Pezeshkian told parliament on Sunday that he wanted to negotiate but changed his stance after the supreme leader’s remarks.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3548680" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3548680" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AP25061355772893-1740922632.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C514" alt="Pezeshkian in parliament" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3548680"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3548680" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Pezeshkian, top centre, listens to a lawmaker during an open session of parliament on the impeachment of Hemmati, bottom centre, in Tehran [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]</figcaption></figure><p>The economy minister’s pleas of unity were ultimately ignored, and the vote against Hemmati marked the first time hardline MPs have succeeded in removing a senior official in the administration of centrist Pezeshkian. However, Hemmati is unlikely to be cut out of the government because impeached ministers have been appointed as special advisers to the president on numerous occasions before.</p>
<p>Looking to challenge and influence the government’s policies, some lawmakers are continuing efforts to oust <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/26/leaked-javad-zarif-recording-stirs-hot-political-debate-in-iran">former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif</a> from the position of strategic adviser to the president.</p>
<p>Rampant local mismanagement and corruption paired with decades of US-led sanctions have battered Iran’s economy. Amid the expanding fallout of Israel’s war on Gaza and <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/21/the-iran-led-axis-of-resistance-in-the-aftermath-of-syrias-upheaval">blows dealt to the Iran-led “axis of resistance”</a> in recent months, public concern over further economic instability has only risen.</p>
<p>For the past three months, Iran has been <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/18/iran-key-services-shut-as-rial-plunges-amid-energy-crisis-regional">forced to shut down key services</a> across the country due to a lingering energy crisis.</p>
<p>US and Israeli officials, including Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, continue to regularly threaten to bomb Iran and its nuclear and energy facilities over Tehran’s advancing nuclear programme.</p>

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</header><p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead u-inline">Video shows Israeli soldiers chasing a 52-year-old Palestinian man with an intellectual disability, throwing him to the ground, and kicking him during a raid on the al-Fawwar refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, before another Palestinian man intervened.</p>

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<p>A French filmmaker’s promise to an Indigenous community in Panama is shattered when his documentary disappears. The Kuna people had opened their lives to be documented in 1975 but never knew that production had dried up and the film reels had been seized by a bank.</p>
<p>For half a century, the community searched for the lost footage as its story became a legend passed down from elders to younger generations. Decades later, decaying reels are discovered in the Panamanian Ministry of Culture, and a hidden copy of the film resurfaces in Paris. As elders recount the filmmaking process, a new generation rises to reclaim their cultural narrative.</p>
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<p>The Academy Awards will be held on Sunday to celebrate some of the past year’s most acclaimed films and performances.</p>
<p>As Hollywood gears up for its biggest awards night, we break down the key details, from the nominees and biggest surprises to predictions and how to watch the show live:</p>

<h2 data-sanitized-id="when-and-at-what-time-are-the-oscars-2025">When and at what time are the Oscars 2025?</h2>
<p>The 97th Academy Awards are scheduled for Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>The ceremony will start at 4pm (midnight GMT) with official red carpet coverage beginning at 3:30pm (23:30 GMT).</p>
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<p>This year’s Oscars will be hosted by comedian and former late-night show host Conan O’Brien, marking his first time emceeing the event.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Follow along as 97th Oscars host <a href="https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ConanOBrien</a> goes through the paces of every comedian's dream: promotional content for ABC.</p>
<p>Watch the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oscars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Oscars</a> LIVE on Sunday, March 2nd, at 7e/4p on ABC and Hulu. <a href="https://t.co/xKHIj1Wllh">pic.twitter.com/xKHIj1Wllh</a></p>
<p>— The Academy (@TheAcademy) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1894447443359469799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2025</a></p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="who-is-presenting-and-performing-at-the-oscars">Who is presenting and performing at the Oscars?</h2>
<p>Numerous stars will present awards at this year’s Oscars. Last year’s winners will return to present the golden statuettes, including Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.</p>
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<p>They will be joined by celebrities such as Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Willem Dafoe, Selena Gomez, Ben Stiller and Oprah Winfrey.</p>
<p>Nick Offerman, widely known for his role in the sitcom Parks and Recreation, will be this year’s show announcer.</p>
<p>Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, co-stars of Wicked, are to perform along with American rapper Doja Cat, Thai singer Lisa from the group Blackpink, singer and actress Queen Latifah and British singer Raye. The night will also feature a performance by the Los Angeles Master Chorale.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-movies-have-the-most-nominations">What movies have the most nominations?</h2>
<p>Leading the nominations is the Spanish-language musical Emilia Perez with 13 nods, setting a record for the most nominations for a non-English-language film in Oscars history.</p>
<p>Emilia Perez is a musical crime drama about a Mexican cartel leader who undergoes gender transition to escape their past.</p>
<p>Following closely behind with 10 nominations each are The Brutalist, a drama about an architect chasing his American dream after surviving the Holocaust, and Wicked, a film that tells the origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp in WICKED. Nominated for Actress in a Leading Role at the 97th Oscars.</p>
<p>Watch the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oscars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Oscars</a> LIVE on Sunday, March 2nd, at 7e/4p on ABC and Hulu. <a href="https://t.co/BddDeswdnE">pic.twitter.com/BddDeswdnE</a></p>
<p>— The Academy (@TheAcademy) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1890431217037619272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2025</a></p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-are-the-best-picture-nominees">What are the best picture nominees?</h2>
<p>The best picture category features 10 films:</p>
<ul><li>Anora</li>
<li>The Brutalist</li>
<li>A Complete Unknown</li>
<li>Conclave</li>
<li>Dune: Part Two</li>
<li>Emilia Perez</li>
<li>I’m Still Here</li>
<li>Nickel Boys</li>
<li>The Substance</li>
<li>Wicked</li>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="who-are-the-nominees-for-best-director">Who are the nominees for best director?</h2>
<ul><li>Sean Baker for Anora</li>
<li>Brady Corbet for The Brutalist</li>
<li>Luca Guadagnino for A Complete Unknown</li>
<li>Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez</li>
<li>Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two</li>
</ul><h2 data-sanitized-id="who-are-the-nominees-for-best-actor">Who are the nominees for best actor?</h2>
<ul><li>Adrien Brody for The Brutalist</li>
<li>Timothee Chalamet for A Complete Unknown</li>
<li>Colman Domingo for Sing Sing</li>
<li>Ralph Fiennes for Conclave</li>
<li>Sebastian Stan for The Apprentice</li>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in THE APPRENTICE. Nominated for Actor in a Leading Role at the 97th Oscars.</p>
<p>Watch the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oscars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Oscars</a> LIVE on Sunday, March 2nd, at 7e/4p on ABC and Hulu. <a href="https://t.co/TXR6dxVyuZ">pic.twitter.com/TXR6dxVyuZ</a></p>
<p>— The Academy (@TheAcademy) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1890129024883491149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="who-are-the-nominees-for-best-actress">Who are the nominees for best actress?</h2>
<ul><li>Cynthia Erivo for Wicked</li>
<li>Karla Sofia Gascon for Emilia Perez</li>
<li>Mikey Madison for Anora</li>
<li>Demi Moore for The Substance</li>
<li>Fernanda Torres for I’m Still Here</li>
</ul><h2 data-sanitized-id="what-are-the-biggest-surprises-and-snubs">What are the biggest surprises and snubs?</h2>
<p>This year’s nominations have featured both groundbreaking inclusions and surprising omissions.</p>
<p><strong>No Other Land</strong> stands out as the only film by an Arab filmmaker nominated for this year’s Oscars. A documentary directed by Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra and Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham, the film explores the starkly different realities the two friends navigate – Abraham with his yellow Israeli licence plate granting him unrestricted travel and Adra, confined to ever-shrinking Palestinian territory.</p>
<p>It has received a nomination for best documentary feature.</p>
<p>“I am living under a civilian law, and Basel is under military law. We live 30 minutes from one another, but I have voting rights, and Basel does not have voting rights,” Abraham told the media. “I am free to move where I want in this land, and Basel, like millions of Palestinians, is locked in the occupied West Bank. This situation of apartheid between us, this inequality, it has to end.”</p>
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<p data-start="52" data-end="442"><strong>Karla Sofia Gascon</strong>‘s nomination for best actress in Emilia Perez marks a historic moment. She becomes the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Oscar. However, her past social media posts have sparked controversy.</p>
<p data-start="52" data-end="442">Gascon’s old posts resurfaced in January, revealing offensive remarks about Muslims; George Floyd, a Black man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis in 2020, setting off a global racial reckoning; and diversity at the Oscars. In response, Netflix removed Gascon from promotional activities for Emilia Perez, and director Jacques Audiard criticised the posts in an interview with Deadline.</p>
<p data-start="52" data-end="442">Gascon skipped the nominees dinner on Tuesday but is expected to attend the Oscars ceremony.</p>
<p data-start="444" data-end="661" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>Selena Gomez, who was nominated for best supporting actress at the Golden Globe Awards and the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) for her role in Emilia Perez, has missed out on an Oscars nomination.</p>
<p data-start="444" data-end="661" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>Several high-profile actors were also absent in the nominations.</p>
<p data-start="444" data-end="661" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>Nicole Kidman, who portrays a high-powered CEO in Babygirl, and Angelina Jolie, who underwent extensive vocal training for her portrayal of soprano Maria Callas in Maria, were both overlooked in the best actress category.</p>
<p data-start="444" data-end="661" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>Denzel Washington also did not secure a best supporting actor nomination for his role in Gladiator II.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">“There cannot be coexistence if one side does not have existence.”</p>
<p>In their Oscar-nominated film, "No Other Land," a coalition of Palestinian and Israel directors document Israel’s decadeslong effort to expel Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank. <a href="https://t.co/71vxilqEcE">pic.twitter.com/71vxilqEcE</a></p>
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<h2 data-start="444" data-end="661" data-sanitized-id="how-can-you-watch-the-oscars-2025">How can you watch the Oscars 2025?</h2>
<p>Viewers can watch the Oscars live on the United States television network ABC.</p>
<p>For streaming options, the ceremony will be available on platforms such as Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-are-the-predictions-for-the-winners">What are the predictions for the winners?</h2>
<p>Early predictions indicate that Anora, a film about a Brooklyn stripper who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, is a strong best picture contender with director Sean Baker also emerging as a favourite in the best director category.</p>
<p>Anora recently secured wins at the Directors Guild and Producers Guild awards while Conclave, a thriller about power struggles and secrets in a Vatican papal election, won at the BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Conclave’s storyline becomes particularly poignant as concerns over <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/24/pope-francis-health-a-timeline-and-what-we-know-so-far">Pope Francis’s health</a> grow while he is in critical condition in hospital.</p>
<p>In the acting races, Adrien Brody’s performance as Hungarian-Jewish architect Laszlo Toth in The Brutalist has positioned him as a leading candidate for best actor, competing closely against Timothee Chalamet, who recently won at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.</p>
<p>Demi Moore, who plays an actor and a television fitness instructor facing a career decline due to ageism in The Substance, has garnered significant attention in the best actress category with Mikey Madison (Anora) and Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here) also featuring as prominent contenders.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Demi Moore (Best Actress nominee for THE SUBSTANCE) attends the 97th Oscars Nominees Dinner at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.</p>
<p>Photo Credit: Emma McIntyre/WireImage <a href="https://t.co/lZJPSmdPnS">pic.twitter.com/lZJPSmdPnS</a></p>
<p>— The Academy (@TheAcademy) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1894835488474697756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2025</a></p>
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<p>The world’s humanitarian system is overstretched, underfunded, and increasingly weaponised by politics. Tom Fletcher, the new United Nations humanitarian chief, warns that funding cuts, political games, and rising dangers for aid workers are crippling foreign aid.</p>
<p>With crises escalating in Gaza, Sudan, and beyond, is the global community turning its back on those who need help most? Can relief efforts survive under these conditions? Fletcher lays out the challenges, the stakes, and what must change to prevent a humanitarian collapse.</p>
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title: An open letter to Trump from former Guantanamo prisoners
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>The 16 signatories condemn Trump’s order to detain undocumented people in the military prison.</em></p>
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<p>We, the undersigned former Guantanamo prisoners, strongly condemn US President Donald Trump’s executive order to expand detention facilities for undocumented people at Guantanamo Bay.</p>
<p>Guantanamo is not just a prison – it is a place where law is warped, dignity is stripped, and suffering is hidden behind barbed wire. We lived it. We know the clang of metal doors, the weight of shackles, and the silence of a world that looked away. We know what it means to be caged without charge, without trial, without hope.</p>

<p>Now, the same system that stole years from our lives is expanding to imprison migrants, people seeking safety only to be sent to a place that exists outside the law designed to strip them of their rights. Guantanamo does not just allow abuse; it ensures cruelty. This executive order does not just enable injustice; it guarantees it.</p>
<p>Detaining migrants at Guantanamo denies them constitutional protections, trapping them in the same legal limbo we endured. This deliberate ambiguity enables abuse, just as it did with us. We know firsthand what happens when a system is designed to break people. This is not about security; it is about power, control, and using Guantanamo’s darkness to conceal yet another injustice.</p>
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<p>This decision is a direct result of the impunity the US has enjoyed for the crimes committed at Guantanamo. The <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/19/one-more-broken-promise-to-close-guantanamo">failure to close</a> the prison and reckon with its legacy has not only allowed these injustices to continue but has now enabled their expansion. Guantanamo should have been shut down long ago; instead, it is being revived for new victims.</p>
<p>We refuse to stay silent. We refuse to let others be swallowed by the same nightmare we endured. No one deserves to be thrown into a system built to erase them. We will not stop speaking. We will not stop fighting. We will not let Guantanamo’s horrors be repeated.</p>
<p>Close Guantanamo. End indefinite detention. Stop this order.</p>
<p>We are not just survivors of Guantanamo. We are witnesses. And we will not let the world forget.</p>
<p>In solidarity,</p>
<p>Mansoor Adayfi (GTMO441)</p>
<p>Moazzam Begg</p>
<p>Ahemed Errachidi</p>
<p>Lakhdar Boumediene</p>
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<p>Hisham Sliti</p>
<p>Abdul Latif Nasr</p>
<p>Sufyian Barhoumi</p>
<p>Hussein Yafai</p>
<p>Abdul-Almalik Abud</p>
<p>Ayoob Mohammed</p>
<p>Tarek Dergoul</p>
<p>Mohsin Alaskari</p>
<p>Djamel Ameziane</p>
<p>Hammami Hedi</p>
<p>Omar Deghayes</p>
<p><em><strong>The views expressed in this article are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.</strong></em></p>
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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AFP__20250228__36YW9TL__v3__HighRes__UkrainePresidentVolodymyrZelenskyVisitsTheWhite-1740816413.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On February 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a long-awaited meeting with US President Donald Trump in an attempt to persuade him to continue US support for Ukraine. The encounter was likely not what the Ukrainian head of state had expected.</p>
<p>Trump and US Vice President JD Vance chastised Zelenskyy in front of TV cameras for being “disrespectful” and for refusing to embrace their initiative for a ceasefire with Russia.</p>

<p>It is evident that Zelenskyy will not make a return to Washington during Trump’s presidency. It is also evident that US pressure on Ukraine will significantly escalate in the following weeks and months, as Trump presses Kyiv to make significant concessions to Russia in return for peace.</p>
<p>Even before the showdown at the White House, the Trump administration was questioning Zelenskyy’s legitimacy and pushing for presidential elections to be held. Holding a rushed election with the sole purpose of eliminating the incumbent, however, could spell disaster for the country.</p>
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<p>Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, <a href="https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&amp;cat=reports&amp;id=1069&amp;page=1.">approval ratings for Zelenskyy’s presidency were</a> as low as 28 percent and 11 percent for his party. Russia’s full-scale invasion sent Ukrainians rallying behind the president and his popularity reached record highs. However, over the past two years, his approval ratings have been on a consistent decline. According to <a href="https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/ukrayina-vybory-chy-provodyty-v-chas-viyny/33319302.html">polls</a>, trust in Zelenskyy fell from 54 percent in April 2024 to 49 percent in January – not as low as Trump has claimed, but a far cry from his 90 percent rating in May 2022.</p>
<p>Multiple factors have contributed to Zelenskyy’s declining popularity, including rampant corruption under his administration and the growing fatigue from the ongoing war.</p>
<p>The Ukrainian president – well aware of his vulnerability – has made clear that he is not comfortable with competition. For him, the stakes are high because if he were to lose a re-election bid, he could face prosecution for corruption or various forms of retribution from his rivals. The polls are already showing that if elections were to be held immediately, he would lose.</p>
<p>A formidable challenger to Zelenskyy has already emerged: Valerii Zaluzhnyi, a four-star general who served as commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces until February 2024. Polls show that Zaluzhnyi – if he were to run in a presidential vote – would defeat Zelenskyy. Public trust in him is among the highest and stood at 72 percent in January.</p>
<p>Although Zaluzhnyi was dismissed by the president on the heels of the failed Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2023, there have been speculations that his popularity in Ukraine may have also been a factor. The general was sent abroad to serve as the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom – a position he still occupies.</p>
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<p>So far, Zaluzhnyi has not declared an intention to run, although there are no guarantees he would not change his mind. If he stays out, other military figures, such as Kyrylo Budanov, may step in.</p>
<p>Budanov, Ukraine’s intelligence chief, has a public trust rating of 62 percent. He recently disappeared from the public eye after a year of high-profile media appearances. Rumours have spread that Zelenskyy’s office planned to remove him, resulting in his sudden retreat. But he may well reappear once the campaign begins.</p>
<p>Boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk could become a potential dark horse. In a country where a former comedian became president, a victorious athlete doesn’t seem like an unlikely contender. Although he has not made any political ambitions public, he has started appearing in polls and his rating currently stands at 60 percent.</p>
<p>Then there is former President Petro Poroshenko, who has low approval ratings, but remains a dangerous rival to Zelenskyy. Since 2019, more than 130 criminal cases have been launched against him – including one accusing him of treason for approving a coal-supplying scheme from the Russian-occupied Donbas region.</p>
<p>Poroshenko is an outspoken critic of Zelenskyy and is not hiding his political ambitions. He has <a href="https://x.com/poroshenko/status/1889743139860361566?lang=bg">travelled to the US</a> and met with Trump’s team. In February, when he tried to go to the Munich Security Conference, he was not allowed. He now faces state-imposed sanctions on “national security grounds”, which include an asset freeze.</p>
<p>The message of the sanctions is clear: Poroshenko will be eliminated from the presidential race before it even begins. In this context of perceived political persecution, other potential challengers have not come forward, being too afraid to run.</p>
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<p>There has been growing concern over Zelenskyy’s handling of opposition figures, but so far, no strong public rebuke has emerged from his allies. After the confrontation at the White House, European leaders expressed support for him. This has given Zelenskyy a temporary boost at home, but it is unclear how long it could hold.</p>
<p>Apart from the bitter political rivalries and retribution, the Ukrainian political scene is also marked by continuing divisions within society. The war has intensified emotions and split the country right down the middle, creating a volatile situation.</p>
<p>The ultranationalists not only hold sway among certain parts of the population but also are empowered as active participants in the war. There is also still a portion of society that leans pro-Russian and does not want the conflict to continue.</p>
<p>If an election is imposed from abroad in this volatile situation, it could prove more catastrophic than Russia’s invasion or the loss of Ukraine’s industrial heartlands. The danger isn’t just that a third of the population would be unable to vote and the election’s legitimacy may be in question.</p>
<p>The real threat is that the vote could ignite a fight of all against all before a single ballot is cast. An incumbent who fears losing a re-election bid and political rivals who are hellbent on regaining relevance may resort to exploiting societal divisions. The military and security agencies could be forced to act, which adds to a potentially explosive mix.</p>
<p>If presidential elections can dangerously polarise societies at peace – as we have seen in the United States – they can do much worse in times of war. A rushed election in Ukraine that serves the political plans of a foreign power is certainly a recipe for disaster. A vote should be held once there is a durable ceasefire that allows for all Ukrainians to cast their votes without fear of the prospect of polarisation and conflict.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>More than 50 workers submerged under snow and debris after an avalanche hit a construction camp in Uttarakhand state.</em></p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Rescuers recovered the eighth and final body from the site of an <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/1/at-least-4-killed-some-still-missing-in-avalanche-in-indias-uttarakhand">avalanche</a> in a remote area of northern India, the army has said, marking the end of a marathon operation in subzero temperatures.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1">More than 50 workers were submerged under snow and debris after the avalanche hit a construction camp on Friday near Mana village on the border with Tibet in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.</p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p1">Authorities had revised down the number of workers on site at the time of the avalanche from 55 to 54 after one worker, previously believed to be buried, was found to have safely made his way home before the avalanche hit.</p>
<p>By Saturday, rescuers had managed to pull out 50 people, but four later succumbed to their injuries, according to an Indian army statement.</p>
<p>By Sunday, rescue teams had recovered the remaining bodies, the army said, adding that they had used a drone-based detection system and a rescue dog to assist in its search operations.</p>
<p>Many of those trapped were migrant labourers working on a highway expansion project covering a 50km (31-mile) stretch from Mana, the last Indian village before the China border, to Mana Pass.</p>
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<p>They were living on site in steel containers considered stronger than tents and capable of withstanding harsh weather.</p>
<p>As the ground beneath them shook, the container that construction worker Anil and his colleagues were in began to slide down.</p>
<p>“At first we did not understand what was happening, but when we looked out of the window of the containers, we saw piles of snow all around,” Anil, 20, told the AFP news agency.</p>
<p>He said that the roofs of the containers began bending inwards.</p>
<p>“The way we were engulfed in snow, we had no hope of surviving,” he said, adding that being alive felt “like a dream”.</p>
<p>His colleague Vipan Kumar thought “this was the end” when he found himself unable to move as he struggled for air under the thick layer of snow.</p>
<p>“I heard a loud roar, like thunder … before I could react, everything went dark,” he told the Times of India newspaper.</p>


<p>The ecologically fragile Himalayan region, increasingly affected by global warming, is prone to avalanches and flash floods.</p>
<p>In 2021, nearly 100 people died in Uttarakhand when a huge chunk of a glacier fell into a river, triggering flash floods.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/6/22/india-monsoon-flooding-kills-nearly-600">Devastating monsoon floods</a> and landslides in 2013 killed 6,000 people and led to calls for a review of development projects in the state.</p>
<p>In 2022, an avalanche also killed 27 trainee mountaineers in Uttarakhand, while a glacier that burst in 2021 triggered a flash flood and left more than 200 people dead.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Firefly says it is the first private company to make a ‘fully successful’ soft landing on the moon.</em></p>
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<p>Firefly Aerospace, a United States-based private space company, has successfully landed its Blue Ghost spacecraft on the moon for a two-week research mission amid a race between a handful of private firms.</p>
<p>The touchdown took place at 3:35am US East Coast time (08:35 GMT) on Sunday in the Mare Crisium region, a prominent lunar basin visible from Earth.</p>

<p>Firefly becomes the second private firm to achieve a moon landing with the company declaring itself the first to make a “fully successful” soft landing.</p>
<p>Houston-based Intuitive Machines had a lopsided hard landing last year with its <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/15/private-company-shoots-for-first-us-moon-landing-in-more-than-50-years">Odysseus lunar lander</a>, which came out mostly intact but many of its onboard instruments were damaged.</p>
<p>The Firefly mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme, which seeks to leverage private industry to support the agency’s return to the moon. Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific and technological payloads, including NASA instruments designed to study lunar dust, radiation and surface materials.</p>
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<p>Key instruments on board will measure the moon’s internal heat flow and prevent lunar dust accumulation on equipment and include a retroreflector for laser-ranging experiments.</p>
<p>The spacecraft was launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on January 15.</p>
<p>Firefly plans to follow up with two additional Blue Ghost missions in 2026 and 2028, both of which are expected to deliver more scientific payloads and support NASA’s long-term lunar objectives.</p>
<p>Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro said at Firefly’s landing event on Sunday that the moon remains part of the US goal to “dominate” space.</p>
<p>The success underscores the growing role of private companies in space exploration as NASA and other agencies increasingly rely on commercial partners to achieve scientific and technological breakthroughs.</p>
<p>A host of other countries are also advancing their own lunar efforts, including China with its robotic <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/25/chinese-probe-returns-from-far-side-of-the-moon">Chang’e programme</a> and plans to put Chinese astronauts on the moon’s surface by 2030.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>India beat New Zealand by 44 runs to set up rerun of the Cricket World Cup final against Australia in last four.</em></p>
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<p>Spinner Varun Chakravarthy returned figures of 5-42 as <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/liveblog/2025/3/2/live-india-vs-new-zealand-icc-champions-trophy-2025-score-commentary-stream-start-time-where">India beat New Zealand by 44 runs</a> to set up a semifinal clash with Australia in cricket’s Champions Trophy.</p>
<p>India won all three of their group matches to top Group A and will play the first semifinal of the 50-over tournament in Dubai on Tuesday. The match is a rerun of the 2023 Cricket World Cup final, which the Australians won in Ahmedabad.</p>

<p>New Zealand will take on Group B winners South Africa in Lahore on Wednesday.</p>
<p>India are playing all their matches at the Dubai International Stadium after they refused to tour hosts Pakistan due to security reasons.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3549125" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3549125" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AP25061562739022-1740930123.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="India's Varun Chakravarthy, centre, celebrate the wicket of New Zealand's Glenn Phillips , right, during the ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between India and New Zealand at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri )" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3549125"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3549125" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">India’s Varun Chakravarthy, centre, celebrates the wicket of New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips, right, during the ICC Champions Trophy match [Altaf Qadri/AP]</figcaption></figure><p>Australia and South Africa had to travel to Dubai from Pakistan despite not knowing if they would be playing there, as India were told ahead of the tournament they would play the first semifinal if they qualified no matter where they finished in the group.</p>
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<p>South Africa will now have to fly back to Pakistan ahead of their meeting with New Zealand.</p>
<p>Shreyas Iyer’s 79 and a late 45 by Hardik Pandya steered India to 249-9 after being invited to bat first on Sunday.</p>
<p>New Zealand pace bowler Matt Henry stood out with figures of 5-42 from his eight overs.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3548036" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3548036" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AP25061328073663-1-1740912004.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="New Zealand's Matt Henry bowls a delivery during the ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between India and New Zealand at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3548036"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3548036" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">New Zealand’s Matt Henry is the first player to take five wickets against India in a Champions Trophy match [Altaf Qadri/AP]</figcaption></figure><p>Chakravarthy took his first ODI five-wicket haul in just his second match as India bowled out New Zealand for 205 in 45.3 overs despite a valiant 81 by Kane Williamson.</p>
<p>Williamson survived two dropped catches on 17 and 68 in his 120-ball knock before he finally fell, stumped off Axar Patel.</p>
<p>New Zealand lost Rachin Ravindra early as Patel took a superb catch to dismiss the opener for six.</p>
<p>Chakravarthy cut short Will Young’s innings on 22 when he bowled him with a googly.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3549017" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3549017" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AP25061543673541-1740928156.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="New Zealand's Kane Williamson, left, celebrates his fifty runs with his batting partner Tom Latham during the ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between India and New Zealand at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri )" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3549017"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3549017" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">New Zealand’s Kane Williamson, left, celebrates his fifty runs with his batting partner Tom Latham [Altaf Qadri/AP]</figcaption></figure><p>Williamson stood firm but could not find a long-term partner as Daryl Mitchell and Tom Latham were dismissed for 17 and 14 respectively.</p>
<p>India’s spinners dominated in helpful conditions, as Kuldeep Yadav sent back Mitchell and Ravindra Jadeja trapped Latham lbw.</p>
<p>In between the two wickets, Williamson hit Jadeja for a boundary to raise his 47th ODI half-century, but India kept taking wickets.</p>
<p>Earlier, India were in trouble at 30-3 when Virat Kohli, playing in his 300th one-day international, fell victim to a stunning one-handed catch from Glenn Phillips.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3547872" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3547872" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-2202793361-1740909126.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - MARCH 02: Virat Kohli of India looks dejected as he leaves the field after being dismissed during the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 match between New Zealand and India at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on March 02, 2025 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images)" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3547872"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3547872" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Virat Kohli scored a century against Pakistan for India in their last match [Francois Nel/Getty Images]</figcaption></figure><p>An airborne Phillips clung on to a fast-travelling ball at backward point to dismiss Kohli for 11 off Henry.</p>
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<p>Kohli was left standing in disbelief before trudging off the ground to stunned silence.</p>
<p>Iyer and Patel, who made 42, put on 98 for the fourth wicket to rebuild the innings against a disciplined New Zealand attack.</p>
<p>Another stunning catch – this time by Williamson, who flung himself to his left at backward point to make a one-handed grab close to the ground – dismissed Jadeja for 16 off Henry.</p>
<p>Pandya struck four fours and two sixes in his run-a-ball innings to give India a total that proved to be enough.</p>
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<p><span>It’s so infantile and embarrassing to love a state like Israel or the US and spend your time defending its actions. It’s a sign of a feeble mind to feel emotional attachment to</span> <em><strong>any</strong></em> <span>power structure, but especially the ones that are doing the most evil things in the world right now.</span></p>
<p>Every day I am accused of “loving” this or that empire-targeted nation or group, depending on what’s in the news and who westerners are being told to hate by their pundits and politicians. Some days it’s Russia, other days it’s China, Iran or Hamas. Really I have no special emotional attachment to any of those entities — those who hurl this accusation are merely projecting their own internal values onto me: I hate what they love so they assume I must love what they hate.</p>
<p>I don’t love the western empire’s enemies, and I don’t defend them. In reality I am simply standing against the world’s most tyrannical and abusive power structure, whose imperial umbrella I happen to live under here in Australia. I would oppose that tyranny and abuse regardless of the nations it happens to be targeting on any particular day. I have nothing against Russia, China or Iran, but I also have no personal emotional relationship with them. They have nothing to do with me.</p>
<p>It’s impossible to have a real personal emotional relationship with any nation. You can have a personal relationship with people, with individual communities and neighborhoods, with a specific beach or forest or countryside, but nations are too large and full of too many people for you to have a meaningful relationship with them as an individual. In order to feel loving feelings toward a nation, you have to create a symbol of it in your mind and love that symbol instead of the actual thing that the nation is. You’re not loving the actual country, you’re loving a small mental representation of it that you have constructed inside your head. As George Carlin said, I leave symbols to the symbol-minded.</p>
<p>So the very idea of loving a nation in itself is absurd, but it’s exponentially weirder to then extend the positive feelings you have toward a nation to its government and their actions and military objectives as well. Then it’s just the same power-worshipping bootlicker mentality that has fueled all of history’s worst atrocities. You have abdicated your responsibility toward your own mature relationship with the world and signed it over to a giant conglomerate of forces whose operators you’ve never met, and whose material interests have nothing to do with your own.</p>
<p>People who love and defend a government are creating parental figures out of the state instead of growing up and taking their stand as mature individuals. And if you are doing this with the US and Israel or their allies, you’re not just handing your responsibility over to a single nation’s government — you’re doing it with an entire globe-spanning empire.</p>
<p>When your umbilical cord is cut you’re meant to begin growing into a sovereign being with a sovereign mind, and instead these empire simps are plugging the end of their umbilical cord into the Pentagon. It’s pathetic.</p>
<p>I have no respect for people who do this. People who grovel at the feet of the mightiest power structure on earth instead of learning to relate to life as free thinking individuals. People who abdicate their responsibility to figure out what’s true and right and how the world should be, and let a tyrannical empire and its interests decide these things for them. They have chosen to remain drooling infants in their minds instead of growing up. They have wasted their time on this planet.</p>
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title: The Gaza Ceasefire Is Being Sabotaged By Israel, By Trump, And By The Media
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i564jVrO1CM" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i564jVrO1CM" rel>:</a></p>


<p>The Gaza ceasefire (if you can even call it that) is already in grave peril.</p>
<p><span>Hamas</span> <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/abu-obeida-says-release-of-israeli-detainees-delayed-due-to-israeli-violations/" rel>has announced</a> <span>that it will be postponing the release of any more Israeli hostages in response to repeated ceasefire violations from Israel and consistent failure to meet its terms of the agreement. The IDF has been</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-still-slaughtering-civilians" rel>routinely killing Palestinians in Gaza</a> <span>ever since the so-called “ceasefire” went into effect, with</span> <a href="https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6613/Despite-ceasefire,-Israel-continues-to-commit-genocide-in-Gaza" rel>110 killed</a> <span>in less than three weeks according to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.</span></p>
<p>The first obstacle to the ceasefire holding was always that it depends on good behavior from individual IDF troops, many of whom (A) quite like murdering Palestinians and (B) hope the ceasefire ends so they can murder more. These troops could also be reasonably confident that they would incur no consequences from their superiors for those killings.</p>
<p><span>In response to the Hamas announcement, President Donald Trump</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqhY4sLBR5w" rel>told the press</a> <span>that if “all” hostages are not returned by Saturday at 12 PM, the truce should end and Israel should “let hell break out.”</span></p>

<p><span>It’s likely that Hamas was made more willing to risk the collapse of the ceasefire by</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-goes-all-in-on-stealing-gaza" rel>Trump’s comments</a> <span>regarding the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip over the last two weeks. The president</span> <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5137309-trump-jordan-egypt-aid/" rel>said on Monday</a> <span>that he may cut off aid to Jordan and Egypt if they do not agree to take in Palestinians in what would amount to a forced evacuation of the enclave. Trump has also begun</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/10/trump-says-no-right-of-return-for-palestinians-in-gaza-under-his-plan/" rel>clarifying to the press</a> <span>that his plan to purge Gaza of Palestinians would indeed be a permanent removal and that its inhabitants would not be permitted to return after reconstruction, contradicting earlier</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/05/trump-officials-defend-plan-to-take-over-gaza-but-soften-some-aspects/" rel>statements from the White House</a> <span>that this would be intended as a temporary relocation.</span></p>
<p>If Hamas believes the US and Israel are going to permanently end the existence of Palestinians in Palestine, then they are naturally going to be less invested in extending this ceasefire.</p>
<p><span>Then you’ve got reports from Israeli media saying that Benjamin Netanyahu has returned from his weeklong tour of Washington determined to obstruct the ceasefire from moving on to its second phase, with one source</span> <a href="https://archive.vn/79y8U" rel>telling Haaretz</a> <span>that “Once Hamas realizes there won’t be a second stage, they may not complete the first.”</span></p>

<p>And the mass media aren’t helping.</p>
<p><span>Imperial news outlets were already beginning to pound the drums of war before all this started in response to the emaciated appearance of three Israeli hostages released by Hamas this past Saturday, expressing outrage at the idea that the captives would have lost weight under a</span> <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide" rel>starvation blockade</a> <span>imposed by the IDF, without ever mentioning the</span> <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/1/palestinians-released-by-israel-show-signs-of-torture-starvation" rel>evidence of starvation and torture</a> <span>in Palestinian hostages being released by Israel at the same time.</span></p>
<p><span>“</span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz7124dppo" rel>What will anger at sight of gaunt hostages mean for a fragile ceasefire?</a><span>” asks a headline by the BBC, who spent the last year and a half</span> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bbc-israel-gaza-letter-tim-davie-bias-palestine-b2636737.html" rel>performing gold medal Olympian verbal gymnastics</a> <span>to minimize Israel’s daily massacres in Gaza.</span></p>
<p><span>“</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/08/israel-hamas-war-hostages-release/" rel>Israel decries ‘shocking’ images of gaunt, pale hostages freed by Hamas</a><span>,” reads a headline from The Washington Post.</span></p>
<p><span>“</span><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/opinion/emaciated-hostages-show-we-need-a-bomb-the-rails-to-auschwitz-plan/" rel>Emaciated hostages show we need a ‘bomb the rails to Auschwitz’ plan</a><span>,” reads the New York Post headline to an op-ed by the odious Bethany Mandel.</span></p>
<p><span>“I’ve got to be honest. My sympathy for ‘ordinary Palestinians’ is pretty low this morning,”</span> <a href="https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/1888198766756261959" rel>tweeted</a> <span>the Mail on Sunday’s Dan Hodges regarding the hostages.</span></p>
<p>The idea the public is meant to ingest from this type of messaging, of course, is that it would be good and right for the ceasefire to end and the Gaza holocaust to resume as before.</p>

<p><span>Such manipulations are ramping up as the ceasefire becomes more tenuous. The New York Times just ran a piece titled “</span><a href="https://archive.is/XllDF" rel>Hamas Postpones Release of Hostages ‘Until Further Notice’</a><span>” and subtitled “Stalling the next release of hostages from the Gaza Strip, scheduled for the coming weekend, raises new challenges for the already tenuous six-week truce and chances for a lasting end to the war.”</span></p>
<p>If you noticed the complete absence of any mention of Israel’s ceasefire violations as Hamas’ reason for the move, you get an A in media literacy for today. Anyone skimming the news headlines on their social media feed would assume that Hamas is the provocateur in this standoff instead of Israel.</p>
<p>So the governments of the US and Israel appear to be ramping up to resume the incineration of Gaza, and the media outlets which administer propaganda for both of these tyrannical states are grooming the public into accepting this.</p>
<p>Here’s hoping sanity somehow finds a way to prevail.</p>
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<p><span>As we witness whatever’s going to happen with the</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-gaza-ceasefire-is-being-sabotaged" rel>highly jeopardized ceasefire agreement</a> <span>between Israel and Hamas, I’d just like to make sure everyone’s aware that official Israeli sources have been telling the press that Israel was violating the ceasefire prior to the current standoff, and that Hamas was not.</span></p>
<p><span>Following the</span> <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/abu-obeida-says-release-of-israeli-detainees-delayed-due-to-israeli-violations/" rel>announcement</a> <span>by Hamas that it would be delaying the release of Israeli hostages until numerous Israeli ceasefire violations have been addressed, Israeli news outlet Maariv</span> <a href="https://www.maariv.co.il/news/military/article-1171856" rel>reported</a> <span>that according to the IDF itself, Hamas has not been guilty of any ceasefire violations up to this point.</span></p>
<p><span>Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah</span> <a href="https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/1889322495032836547" rel>flagged on Twitter</a> <span>that according to Maariv, “the defense establishment and the IDF say that so far the terrorist organization has not violated the agreement, and therefore it is very doubtful whether Israel can take steps against Hamas at this stage.”</span></p>

<p><span>Contrast this acknowledgement with a</span> <a href="https://archive.vn/IpVOn" rel>report from The New York Times</a><span>, which cites multiple anonymous sources to state way down toward the bottom of the article that Hamas’s claims about Israeli ceasefire violations are “accurate”.</span></p>
<p>Paragraphs 14 and 15 of the New York Times write-up read as follows:</p>
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<p>“The current standoff stems in part from Hamas’s accusation that Israel has not upheld its promises for the first phase of the cease-fire. Israel was required to send hundreds of thousands of tents into Gaza, a promise that Hamas says Israel has not kept.</p>
<p>“Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, three Israeli officials and two mediators said that Hamas’s claims were accurate.”</p>
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<p>So it’s been established beyond a doubt that Israel is to blame for the precarious state of the ceasefire today. That’s not coming from me, it’s coming from inside the Israeli government and military.</p>

<p><span>The ceasefire is deteriorating more rapidly by the day. After some flip-flopping on its position, the Netanyahu government</span> <a href="https://archive.is/w0gQp" rel>has now clarified</a> <span>that it is demanding the release of “all” hostages held by Hamas by Saturday — a condition which</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/11/netanyahu-gaza-truce-will-end-if-hamas-doesnt-release-hostages-by-saturday/" rel>is not part of the ceasefire agreement</a><span>. This is a brand new condition which was first introduced not by Israel but by the president of the United States the previous day; Donald Trump</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqhY4sLBR5w" rel>told the press</a> <span>that Israel should terminate the ceasefire if “all” hostages are not released by Saturday at 12 PM.</span></p>
<p>Israel making new demands of Hamas which are not in the ceasefire deal as written is a reckless act which could easily lead to the resumption of fighting if Hamas decides it’s been pushed too far or can’t trust Israel to sufficiently hold up its end of the bargain.</p>
<p><span>And Trump helped bring things to this point. After Netanyahu visited Washington and</span> <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-will-return-to-israel-on-saturday-night-after-6-days-in-washington/" rel>stayed for nearly a week</a><span>, the Israeli outlet Haaretz</span> <a href="https://archive.vn/79y8U" rel>reported</a> <span>that the prime minister was planning to sabotage the ceasefire deal upon his return. Now here we are, watching the ceasefire being actively sabotaged by Netanyahu with a goal assist from Trump.</span></p>
<p>We can be reasonably certain that the western media will conveniently omit most of these important facts from its reporting in the coming days, so it’s important to hold all this in mind as we watch things unfold.</p>
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<p>The two big stories in the news today are the Trump administration saying Ukraine is going to have to give up territory and NATO ambitions in order to secure a peace deal, while Israel appears to retreat from its ceasefire standoff with Hamas.</p>
<p><span>US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYEunzCH2Yg" rel>said on Wednesday</a> <span>that the US “does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome for a negotiated settlement,” and that “returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective.” This comes as Trump</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/12/trump-speaks-with-putin-says-talks-to-end-ukraine-war-will-start-immediately/" rel>announces</a> <span>that he is in talks with Vladimir Putin to bring the war in Ukraine to an end.</span></p>
<p><span>Both NATO membership and recapturing all territory lost to Russia have been the goal of Ukraine’s President Zelensky and the NATO enthusiasts throughout the western world who adore him. Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/12/hegseth-says-no-nato-membership-for-ukraine-return-to-pre-204-borders-unrealistic/" rel>explains</a><span>:</span></p>
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<p><span>Restoring Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders has been a war goal of Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, although there have been signs in recent months that he’s accepted that’s unrealistic. But he is still</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/11/zelensky-europe-cant-guarantee-ukraines-security-without-the-us/" rel>calling for strong security guarantees from the US</a> <span>that involve the deployment of troops, which Hegseth also dismissed.</span></p>
<p>“Any security guarantee must be backed by capable European and non-European troops. If these troops are deployed as peacekeepers to Ukraine at any point, they should be deployed as part of a non-NATO mission, and they should not be covered under Article 5,” he said.</p>
<p>“There also must be robust international oversight of the line of contact. To be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine,” Hegseth added.</p>
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<p><span>“Hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive had Biden been willing to say this three years ago,” Aaron Maté</span> <a href="https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/1889728205374009681" rel>wrote on Twitter</a> <span>regarding Hegseth’s comments. “Instead, Biden refused, fueled a proxy war, presided over Ukraine’s decimation, and then turned around and said that Ukraine isn’t ready to join NATO anyway. It was all a bait and switch with one goal only: use Ukraine to bleed Russia. Whoever went along with this epic disaster — and that sadly includes progressive lawmakers and media — should ask themselves if it was worth it.”</span></p>
<p><span>And now the US treasury secretary is</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/12/us-treasury-secretary-says-rare-earth-minerals-deal-will-give-ukraine-post-war-security-shield/" rel>meeting with Zelensky</a> <span>to negotiate a deal granting the US access to Ukraine’s considerable rare earth mineral wealth — not to continue the war, but to pay for a post-war “security shield” that the US would be supplying under President Trump’s plan. Ukraine has been scorched, shredded and spat on by its buddies in Washington, and now it’s being strip-mined.</span></p>
<p><span>Everyone who knew anything about anything said from the very beginning of the war that this would happen. Professor John Mearsheimer</span> <a href="https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1700719265635246114" rel>warned back in 2015</a> <span>that the west was leading Ukraine down the primrose path and that the result would be Ukraine getting wrecked. Many</span> <a href="https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1700719253685678286" rel>other experts and analysts warned</a> <span>that NATO provocations would lead to disaster for Ukraine, long before the war began.</span></p>
<p><span>So much easily avoidable death. This war</span> <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/09/07/if-everyone-understood-that-the-us-deliberately-provoked-this-war/comment-page-1/" rel>was provoked</a><span>, and was</span> <a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/this-war-wasnt-just-provoked-it-was-provoked-deliberately-2b866c6d8a54" rel>provoked deliberately</a><span>, solely to move a few pieces around on the grand chessboard to help the US secure planetary domination. The US and its allies refused off-ramp after off-ramp after off-ramp to this nightmare, both before Russia invaded and</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/09/victoria-nuland-admits-us-discouraged-ukraine-from-signing-peace-deal-with-russia-in-2022/" rel>in the weeks immediately afterward</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>Imagine being a Ukrainian fighting on the front lines right now as the US secretary of defense says you’re going to lose your territory and you’ll never join NATO while Kyiv signs over your nation’s rare earth mineral wealth to Washington. I would desert so hard.</p>
<p>Other US-aligned proxies take note: this is what happens when you put your country on the line for the advancement of US strategic agendas. I hope Taiwan is watching these events closely.</p>

<p><span>The other major story today is that Israel appears to be backing down on its ceasefire brinkmanship in Gaza. Barak Ravid</span> <a href="https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/1889742055099801809" rel>reports for Axios</a> <span>that according to an unnamed Israeli official, Israel has told mediators that it will abide by the ceasefire terms as long as Hamas releases three hostages on Saturday as originally planned.</span></p>
<p><span>This would be a significant walk-back from the Netanyahu regime, who shortly beforehand</span> <a href="https://archive.is/w0gQp" rel>had been insisting</a> <span>that Hamas must release “all” hostages on Saturday, which went against the terms of the ceasefire agreement.</span></p>
<p><span>Additionally, the aid requirements Hamas had been demanding now appear to be flooding in from Israel. Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed</span> <a href="https://x.com/AbubakerAbedW/status/1889771157470982487" rel>reports</a> <span>from the Gaza Strip:</span></p>
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<p>Thousands of tents and caravans have entered Gaza. The situation is becoming more stable, and aid has been flowing in consistently over the past hours.</p>
<p>The same is true in terms of medical aid as local reports indicate that at least five medical aid trucks have gotten into Gaza during the last 24 hours.</p>
<p>The ceasefire will likely hold as Hamas gears up to release the three Israeli prisoners on Saturday in exchange for dozens of Palestinian hostages.</p>
<p>Israel is beginning to allow a surge of aid instead of a trickle.</p>
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<p><span>It’s hard to see this as anything other than a win for Hamas. The ceasefire became jeopardized when Hamas</span> <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/abu-obeida-says-release-of-israeli-detainees-delayed-due-to-israeli-violations/" rel>announced</a> <span>it would be delaying the scheduled release of Israeli hostages until Israel began abiding by the ceasefire, and Israeli officials</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-admits-it-violated-the-ceasefire" rel>have been admitting to the press</a> <span>that Israel was violating the ceasefire while Hamas was not. Hamas demanded Israel hold up its end of the bargain and Israel made some threats, but apparently eventually backed down. Perhaps Tel Aviv was just practicing the Israeli tradition of “</span><a href="https://x.com/wyattreed13/status/1883522941474005334" rel>shitat hamatzliah</a><span>” — just trying to do whatever you want to do and seeing if you get away with it.</span></p>
<p>So all is not lost. Amidst all the madness of this world, peace may yet get a word in edgewise.</p>
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<p><span>Doctors Without Borders emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin</span> <a href="https://www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-in-the-north-health-system-reduced-to-ashes/" rel>reports</a> <span>that lifesaving medical equipment inside the hospitals in northern Gaza has been methodically destroyed, “smashed to pieces, one by one, to make sure no medical care could be provided anymore.”</span></p>
<p>“You have to ask: What is the motivation of such action? These machines are made to save people’s lives, mothers, fathers, children,” Seguin writes.</p>
<p>But we all know the motivation. The motivation is to make the Gaza Strip unlivable for Palestinians.</p>
<p>I mean, what excuses could the Israel apologists possibly produce for this one? Were Hamas hiding in the ventilators? Were the MRI machines being used as human shields? Was there a weapons stockpile in the defibrillator? Was the incubator moving in ways that made IDF troops feel unsafe? What’s the hasbara line on this, exactly?</p>
<p><span>Doesn’t look like there is one. After all the lies about Israel’s reasons for</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-savage-destruction-of-gazas" rel>systematically destroying Gaza’s healthcare facilities</a><span>, they’ve now dropped all pretenses and are openly targeting medical equipment itself for destruction. The goal was always to make the Gaza Strip uninhabitable in order to facilitate the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.</span></p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>Those who say “Fuck anyone who didn’t vote for Kamala” because of this or that ugly domestic policy Trump advances simply ignored Gaza during the Biden administration. They ignored it with their eyes, their minds, and their hearts.</p>
<p>They avoided looking at the gruesome video footage of dismembered children and burning bodies. They avoided thinking about the daily massacres and imagining what it would be like if it was their own neighborhood being incinerated. They avoided feeling the unpleasant feelings you will necessarily experience if you allow your eyes and your mind to behold these things with unwavering attention.</p>
<p>They’ve been living in a different universe than those of us who have been looking at these horrors and contemplating them and feeling them. That’s the one and only reason they can say “Fuck anyone who didn’t vote for Kamala”. If they hadn’t spent more than a year keeping their eyes, minds and hearts tightly screwed shut, it would never occur to them to say such a thing.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p><span>An important point that’s getting lost in the conversation about the Trump administration’s</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/washington-drops-ukraine-israel-backs" rel>recent Ukraine moves</a> <span>is that polling now shows a majority of Ukrainians</span> <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukrainians-ready-to-end-war/" rel>want the war to end</a><span>. They don’t want to fight anymore.</span></p>
<p>That should be the end of the conversation right there. There’s nothing left to debate. The very last argument the proxy warriors had — “The Ukrainians want to keep fighting” — died months ago. If you still want this proxy war to continue even after the Ukrainians themselves want it to stop, then you’re a monster. You want Ukrainians to keep throwing their lives into the wood chipper of an unwinnable war against their will just so you can feel nice feelings instead of uncomfortable feelings. You’re a psycho. Everyone should ignore everything you have to say about the world.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p><span>The Trump administration has</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/12/trump-suspends-funding-to-the-national-endowment-for-democracy/" rel>frozen funding</a> <span>for the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front which facilitates US regime change operations around the world. This follows the</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/06/report-trump-to-keep-only-294-out-of-10000-usaid-employees/" rel>stripping of USAID</a><span>, another US soft power operation. It remains to be seen how much of this is a lasting policy shift and how much is just a restructuring of the imperial manipulation machine.</span></p>
<p>I was excited to flaunt my told-you-sos at all the empire simps on social media who’ve been calling me a Russian propagandist for saying Ukraine is an unwinnable proxy war that should never have been started — then I realized most of them are probably offline now that they’re not getting paid.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>I’m still getting dopey Trumpists telling me their president is making heroic efforts to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians in ways no other president has. Yeah dipshit, he’s doing it by giving Israel literally everything it’s ever wanted by removing the Palestinians. That’s not solving a problem or achieving peace, that’s just using force to declare a winner and taking everything from the declared loser. It’s like saying you resolved an argument by murdering one of the participants. It’s like saying you can fix racism by eliminating everyone of a different race.</p>
<p>Trump’s whole plan is “No more Palestinians means no more Israel-Palestine conflict!” How stupid do you have to be to believe that’s what peace and justice looks like? You can end ANY dispute by eliminating the other side, but that doesn’t equal peace. In this case, it equals giving a genocidal ethnostate everything it’s ever wanted, which advocates of peace and justice have spent generations trying to stop.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>For an entire decade now American consciousness has been plagued by the delusion that fighting the power has something to do with Donald Trump. Democrats act like they’re being brave revolutionaries by standing against him. Republicans act like they’re being brave revolutionaries by supporting him.</p>
<p>In reality the fight against real power has almost nothing to do with Donald Trump. It’s got very little to do with opposing him, since the US president is just a figurehead and if it wasn’t Trump standing in that position it’d be some other ideologically identical empire goon. And it’s certainly got nothing to do with supporting him, since he’s completely unified with establishment power structures.</p>
<p><span>Progressives view Trump as a Hitlerian dictator who plans to end democracy in America, while rightists view him as a heroic populist who is leading a charge to dismantle the Deep State. In reality Trump’s record</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/both-trumpism-and-anti-trumpism-are" rel>has established beyond a doubt</a> <span>that he is nothing other than a standard shitty Republican president. As far as his material policy decisions and governance are concerned he is not extraordinary, and he is not special. His few superficial differences from his predecessors are eclipsed by his similarities with them, which dwarf the differences by orders of magnitude. The only reason Trump is regarded as an aberration rather than a continuation of US status quo politics is because both sides of the imaginary partisan divide keep fueling that delusion with baseless emotion-driven narratives.</span></p>
<p>The network of plutocrats and empire managers who really run America have been in power since long before Trump, and could easily run things today without Trump, and will continue to run things after Trump. For the previous four years the United States had a president who was an actual dementia patient, and it made no difference to the functioning of the empire. Trump is the same. Anyone could be sitting in that figurehead position, and the tyranny and abuses of the US empire would continue uninterrupted.</p>
<p>To meaningfully oppose real power is not to take some special stance toward Donald Trump, or any other individual empire manager for that matter. The abuses of the empire aren’t the product of any one individual, but rather the inevitable fruits of the systems and practices that the empire is premised upon. Capitalism. Imperialism. Hegemonic control. Plutocracy. Militarism. Ecocide. Exploitation. Extraction. Authoritarianism. Propaganda.</p>
<p>Fighting the power means taking your stand against these things. You know this is true because while the powerful permit and encourage the partisan feuding for and against Donald Trump, they have violent conniptions whenever a robust movement against imperial war agendas or capitalist oligarchy emerges anywhere in the world. One need only look at how aggressively the FBI targeted antiwar activists, communists and black civil rights groups with COINTELPRO operations to stomp out any movement toward justice and equality in the United States, and contrast this with how freely opposition and support for Donald Trump is allowed to flourish in mainstream discourse, to see what real opposition looks like.</p>
<p>If you want to fight the power, take your stand against the empire itself. Help discredit its propaganda machine in the eyes of the public, so that people will stop consenting to its abuses. Help oppose its war agendas, so that its abuses will become harder to inflict upon the world. Help open people’s eyes to the injustices that are baked into capitalism, so people can see that a better world is possible. Help spread awareness of the way the empire really operates, so people can stop throwing their energy into the delusion that fighting real power has something to do with Donald Trump.</p>
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<p><span>The Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph has been</span> <a href="https://archive.is/hzYdH" rel>caught trying to orchestrate</a> <span>what can only be described as a mass media psyop to inflame public hysteria about antisemitism in Australia.</span></p>
<p><span>In a project</span> <a href="https://archive.is/7bbJu" rel>internally titled “UNDERCOVERJEW”</a> <span>supposedly designed to show “what it’s like being Jewish in Sydney”, a man wearing a Star of David hat and video glasses went around targeting Muslim and Arab businesses trying to instigate hostility from staff members trailed by a video producer and a Telegraph reporter.</span></p>
<p><span>The man, who is reportedly associated with the Australian Jewish Association, entered an Egyptian cafe called Cairo Takeaway and</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rPpOQsWdNI" rel>postured with his Star of David hat</a> <span>without getting any reaction from anyone. He then started</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm4DZWMW9d4" rel>making comments to cafe staff</a><span>, who caught on to what he was doing and started recording him. Police were then called and it caused a big scandal.</span></p>

<p>It’s obvious that the intention here was to instigate something that could be framed as an “antisemitic incident” and provoke a national outcry and draw all the usual fiery denunciations from Australian officials, followed by arguments citing the incident as evidence that Australia needs even more aggressive speech laws to stomp out all criticism of the genocidal apartheid state of Israel.</p>
<p><span>And it should here be noted that The Daily Telegraph</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph_%28Sydney%29" rel>is owned by News Corp</a><span>, the Murdoch media conglomerate which</span> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-14/fact-file-rupert-murdoch-media-reach-in-australia/100056660" rel>dominates the Australian press</a><span>. Rupert Murdoch became the media giant he is</span> <a href="https://johnmenadue.com/how-reagan-and-us-agencies-made-murdoch-a-king/" rel>with the help of his ties</a> <span>with the Ronald Reagan administration and US government agencies. Also noteworthy is that Murdoch</span> <a href="https://michaelwest.com.au/compromised-genie-energy-and-the-murdoch-medias-climate-denial/" rel>is a board member and significant shareholder</a> <span>of Genie Energy, which holds a contract to drill for oil and gas in the Golan Heights — territory illegally occupied by Israel.</span></p>
<p><span>This is just the latest in a spate of incidents in which a narrative about an urgent epidemic of antisemitism in Australia is being marketed to the public based on false information. Just today we</span> <a href="https://archive.is/m3Bgm" rel>learned from The Sydney Morning Herald</a> <span>that the Dural caravan laden with explosive materials</span> <a href="https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/explosives-in-dural-a-potential-mass-casualty-antisemitic-attack-20250129-p5l85j" rel>we were told</a> <span>a couple of weeks ago was intended for</span> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn1dd6g1po" rel>use in a “mass casualty event”</a> <span>targeting Jewish sites was not only full of unusable 40 year-old explosives with no detonator, but was involved in a scheme by underworld crime gangs to help negotiate reduced sentences with law enforcement.</span></p>
<p><span>The entire Australian political-media class lost their minds about this story when it first came out. The words “</span><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/stop-this-disease-israel-lashes-government-over-antisemitism-20250130-p5l88l.html" rel>antisemitic</a><span>” and “</span><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-31/sydney-antisemitism-schools-parents-concerned-dural-caravan/104879068" rel>antisemitism</a><span>” were rife throughout the Australian press. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese</span> <a href="https://archive.is/B7apg" rel>declared</a> <span>that “There’s zero tolerance in Australia for hatred and for antisemitism, and I want any perpetrators to be hunted down and locked up.” The federal government’s special envoy on antisemitism, Jillian Segal, called the incident a “chilling reminder that the same hatred that led to the murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust still exists today”.</span></p>
<p>And it had nothing to do with antisemitism. At all.</p>

<p><span>We saw a similar incident earlier this month when headlines blared about an</span> <a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/group-of-women-egged-in-antisemitic-attack-at-bondi-beach-police-search-for-three-men-as-investigations-continue/news-story/9a0bf4c92d5fae96d7952d31ef3e1db0" rel>“antisemitic attack” at Bondi Beach</a> <span>involving eggs being thrown at a group of young women. A couple of days later</span> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/nsw-sydney-egg-women-teenagers-charged-random-attack/104893590" rel>it came out</a> <span>that the egging was perpetrated by two teenagers getting up to teenage mischief and had</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_njBr-Aas4" rel>nothing to do with anyone hating Jews</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Right now we’re seeing an uproar over two Arab Australian nurses who were</span> <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/13/omon-f13.html" rel>baited by an Israeli influencer</a> <span>into saying on the website Chatruletka that they would kill Israelis if they came into their hospital. The comments by the nurses were obviously extremely ill-advised and unethical, but a police investigation</span> <a href="https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/nsw/2025/02/13/bankstown-nurses-video-probe" rel>has so far found</a> <span>that they’ve never harmed anybody, and if you watch</span> <a href="https://x.com/theafroaussie/status/1890220613165613517" rel>the extended footage</a> <span>of the exchange it’s clear the influencer went out of his way to inform them that he served in the Israeli military and killed Palestinians. One of the nurses has</span> <a href="https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/nsw/2025/02/13/bankstown-nurses-video-probe" rel>reportedly</a> <span>lost 70 family members to Israeli atrocities in Palestine.</span></p>
<p>Without defending the irresponsible comments of the nurses, I don’t think anyone would expect a Jewish person who came in contact with a Nazi soldier in the 1940s to maintain their cool and avoid violent speech, much less so if that person had lost family members in the Holocaust, and even less if they believed they were having a conversation in private. These chat roulette sites are not intended as mass public broadcast forums; people participating in them tend to interact on the assumption that they are having a private conversation, so the exchange should be viewed as angry words being hurled at a perceived abuser, not as a public declaration of intent to harm others. I don’t condone a healthcare provider saying she’d kill Israeli nationals in her hospital, even if she has lost scores of family members in the Gaza holocaust. But I also wouldn’t confuse what I was seeing with evidence of an antisemitism crisis in Australia.</p>

<p><span>There is a concerted effort to manufacture the illusion of an antisemitism crisis in Australia in order to protect Israeli information interests — and the call isn’t coming entirely from inside the house. Albanese</span> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/22/paid-actors-antisemitic-attacks-australia-pm-anthony-albanese-police-afp-ntwnfb" rel>has acknowledged</a> <span>that the perpetrators of a spate of allegedly antisemitic attacks in this country may have been paid actors working for foreign operatives. The prime minister refused to speculate as to which country might be sponsoring these incidents which just so happen to greatly benefit the interests of Israel, but you don’t exactly need to be Sherlock Holmes to narrow it down.</span></p>
<p><span>And some of these so-called “antisemitic” incidents are so obviously staged it hurts. When you see</span> <a href="https://x.com/AustralianJA/status/1877565576060498065" rel>graffiti on a synagogue</a> <span>with “Free Palestine” written next to swastikas, it calls to mind the Mississippi man who notoriously</span> <a href="https://www.wlox.com/story/29644391/man-discovers-burnt-ms-state-flag-racial-graffiti-in-front-of-his-pascagoula-home/" rel>claimed in 2015</a> <span>that his driveway had been vandalized by black activists with graffiti that said “BLACKS RULE”.</span></p>
<p>Apparently we’re all supposed to take very seriously the idea that either (A) Nazis are spray painting the words “Free Palestine” next to their swastikas, or (B) that supporters of Palestinian rights are spray painting Nazi symbols next to their pro-Palestinian slogans. And we are never meant to consider the possibility that this incident was staged by Israel’s supporters or by paid actors working for foreign Zionists.</p>
<p><span>It is always okay to express skepticism about dubious incidents of “antisemitism” in today’s political environment. Israel’s supporters are shitty, evil people who support genocide, and faking antisemitic incidents is a standard hasbara tactic with a</span> <a href="https://x.com/OzyShahanshah/status/1878220521759981924" rel>well-documented history</a><span>.</span></p>
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<p>There is no antisemitism crisis in Australia. There is an anti-Palestinian crisis in Australia. An anti-Arab crisis in Australia. A pro-genocide crisis in Australia. The fact that our politicians and media have been shrieking their lungs out 24/7/365 about a made-up epidemic of abuse against Jews while standing with Israel and its American sponsors as they demolish Gaza and prepare to ethnically cleanse a Palestinian territory shows that there is indeed something deeply and profoundly sick about our society — but that sickness has nothing to do with antisemitism.</p>
<p>There are of course people with hateful attitudes and superstitions toward Jews to be found in any country, but they are a small fringe group whose beliefs have far less meaningful impact on people’s lives than prejudices against Palestinians, immigrants, or Indigenous Australians. The average Australian spends very little time thinking about Jews and Jewishness one way or the other, and we’d spend far less if we weren’t constantly being bombarded with false messaging about how our country is full of dangerous Jew haters.</p>
<p>Antisemitism exists in the same way discrimination against divorced mothers exists; it used to be a major issue that did great harm, but in terms of how much it actually affects people’s lives in modern secular times it’s mostly just an obsolete relic of the past. As a divorced mother I might run into the occasional weirdo on the internet calling me a harlot if I mention my personal history, but life is infinitely easier for people like me than it was a century ago. Antisemitism is the same.</p>
<p>Generally when you hear people talking about incidents of antisemitism it falls into three separate categories which are too often conflated:</p>
<p>1. People conflating support for Palestinians and criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews. This is the most common category by an extremely massive margin.</p>
<p><span>2. People conflating October 7 with a Holocaust-like event in which Jews were murdered simply for being Jewish. In reality October 7 was an act of desperation by the oppressed inhabitants of a</span> <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/gaza-concentration-camp/285976/" rel>giant concentration camp</a><span>, and they would have killed their oppressors regardless of their religion.</span></p>
<p>3. Real hatred of Jewish people and real attacks on Jews because they are Jewish. This, while relatively uncommon, is being made more common by Israel’s practice of committing genocide under a Star of David flag while claiming to represent all Jews.</p>
<p><span>Israel apologists always go out of their way to conflate these three categories. The Anti-Defamation League officially made this conflation a standard practice in 2023 by</span> <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/177993/adl-abandons-pretense-tracking-antisemitism-honestly-palestine-rallies" rel>categorizing incidents of pro-Palestinian activism</a> <span>as antisemitic incidents. The Anti-Defamation League recently</span> <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/22/adl-faces-backlash-for-defending-elon-musks-raised-arm-gesture" rel>drew controversy</a> <span>by saying that Elon Musk’s infamous Nazi salute was</span> <em><strong>not</strong></em> <span>antisemitic, while we’re on the subject.</span></p>
<p>There is no antisemitism crisis in Australia. As The Daily Telegraph and their agent provocateur found out, antisemitism is one crisis we don’t have. They tried to provoke an antisemitic reaction, and they failed. No one cared.</p>
<p>The real crisis in Australia is that we are the kind of country that would sit and watch a live-streamed genocide without moving heaven and earth to stop it. We have a morality crisis. An apathy crisis. A crisis of our hearts, minds and souls. But what we do not have in this country, in any meaningful way, is an antisemitism crisis.</p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANGdJmVgi_0" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p><span>So Israel held a bunch of Palestinians in concentration camps</span> <a href="https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1890785767028392402" rel>without charge</a> <span>just for being Palestinian, and then they not only</span> <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/1/palestinians-released-by-israel-show-signs-of-torture-starvation" rel>starved and tortured them</a> <span>but actually</span> <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-forced-released-palestinians-to-wear-shirts-with-jewish-symbol/3483509" rel>made them wear a Star of David</a> <span>on their prison garments. But remember kids, it’s evil and wrong to compare Israel to Nazi Germany — no matter how cartoonishly blatant they make the similarities.</span></p>
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<p><span>According to an Israeli media report, last May IDF troops</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/16/israeli-soldiers-in-gaza-used-80-year-old-as-human-shield-before-killing-him-and-his-wife/" rel>strapped explosives to the neck</a> <span>of an 80 year-old Palestinian man in Gaza and used him as a human shield for hours. They then shot and killed him and his wife.</span></p>
<p>When the Gaza holocaust first started I used to read headlines like this and go “Holy shit that must be an exaggeration,” and then I’d read up on it and go “Fuck, nope, that’s exactly what happened.” Now I read them and sigh and just sort of wilt inside.</p>
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<p><span>People who are medically evacuated from Gaza are</span> <a href="https://x.com/el_sabawi/status/1890793341790335099" rel>reportedly</a> <span>being forced to sign paperwork at exiting checkpoints saying they cannot return to the enclave. This revelation comes shortly after Doctors Without Borders</span> <a href="https://www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-in-the-north-health-system-reduced-to-ashes/" rel>informed us</a> <span>that Israeli forces have been entering hospitals in Gaza and methodically destroying all the medical equipment inside them. This is a cold, calculated move to facilitate the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.</span></p>
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<p><span>Someone accused me of being “obsessed with Israel” yesterday and it just blew my mind. Civil rights are</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/civil-rights-are-being-destroyed" rel>being destroyed</a> <span>throughout the west to defend a state that’s committing genocide and ethnic cleansing with western backing, and we’re not meant to talk about that state and the things it’s doing? Huh?</span></p>
<p>I mean, do people think I like writing about this sleazy apartheid state all the time? Does it look like I enjoy it? Do you think it’s been fun having to look at videos of children with their guts ripped out by western-supplied weapons and getting called a Nazi when I say it’s wrong? Yeah man that shit’s like crack to me. I’m obsessed with it.</p>
<p>I’m not “obsessed” with Israel. I hate writing about Israel. I wish I never had to think about it. Israel just happens to be the focal point of the worst things that are happening in the world right now, all with the backing of the western empire I live under. I can’t just not talk about this; if I didn’t I’d be a shitty person. This is obvious to anyone with a working mind and a healthy heart.</p>
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<p>Israel apologists conflate all Jews with the actions of the state of Israel. They will deny that they do this, but they indisputably do. That is the message they are circulating when they accuse anyone who criticizes Israel’s actions of hating all Jews. They create antisemitism.</p>
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<p><span>Trump</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/13/trump-says-military-spending-could-be-cut-in-half-and-that-theres-no-reason-to-build-new-nukes/" rel>says</a> <span>he wants to mutually denuclearize with Russia and China and negotiate a mutual 50 percent cut to the military budget of all three nations. These would both be wonderful new developments. And, I’ll believe it when I see it. As always, ignore their words. Watch their actions.</span></p>
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<p>I’m harder on people who get close to the truth and then swerve than I am on people who are just completely asleep. Anarchists who wind up supporting NATO. Conspiracy analysts who wind up supporting Trump. Socialists who wind up supporting Democrats. These half-awake sleepwalkers annoy me in ways the average fully asleep member of the public does not, because they’re forming their dopey worldviews based on a lot more information.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be mad at a blind person for knocking over my things, but someone who has one working eye and stumbles around wearing two eyepatches is just being a douchebag. They’re like a man who pulled his head out of his ass, looked around, and then knowingly re-inserted it.</p>
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<p><span>Someone recently tried to tell me that the “jury is still out” on Trump’s actions regarding Israel, because maybe he’ll wind up being not so bad on the issue. This is nonsense. The jury isn’t out on Trump regarding Israel. He’s</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/08/state-dept-plans-new-7-billion-arms-sale-to-israel/" rel>sending Israel weapons</a> <span>while it’s</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-nonstop-military-operation-known" rel>murdering people</a> <span>in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.</span></p>
<p><span>These are not things Trump</span> <em><strong>might</strong></em> <span>do. These are not things Trump is</span> <em><strong>saying</strong></em> <span>he will do. These are things Trump</span> <em><strong>is</strong></em> <span>doing. Presently. Even if you choose to believe his ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza are actually brilliant 9-D chess maneuvers secretly designed to free Palestine and achieve peace (and they absolutely are not), you have to ignore hard material actions you are seeing right now right in front of your face in order to believe the jury is still out. You also have to ignore the fact that Trump</span> <a href="https://x.com/mtracey/status/1837886438903357920" rel>has publicly admitted</a> <span>to being bought and controlled by the Adelsons.</span></p>
<p><span>There are arguments to be made that in terms of hard material facts on the ground</span> <em><strong>so far</strong></em> <span>Trump was the lesser evil on Israel, but there are no arguments to be made that he isn’t still very evil. The jury is not out on that. The jury is very much in.</span></p>
<p>And it doesn’t actually matter if Trump winds up being less destructive than Biden on Palestine. The election has been over for months. Trump is the president now. Biden is completely irrelevant. There is no excuse for defending the depraved actions of the president of the world’s most powerful and destructive nation.</p>
<p>The experience of talking to Trump supporters about Trump’s Israel sycophancy is identical to the experience of talking to Biden supporters about Biden’s Israel sycophancy. It’s exactly the same. These partisan livestock will make excuses for literally anything.</p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dkio7fqEV0" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p><span>Everyone from</span> <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-oddly-squeamish-under-questioning-about-contact-with-putin-232348229856" rel>Rachel Maddow</a> <span>to</span> <a href="https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1892273951599931747" rel>Bernie</a> <a href="https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1892244851053256743" rel>Sanders</a> <span>is freaking out about the</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/18/us-russia-agree-to-normalize-diplomatic-ties-seek-end-to-war-in-ukraine/" rel>Trump administration’s moves</a> <span>toward ending the war in Ukraine. David Hogg, now the vice chair of the DNC,</span> <a href="https://x.com/davidhogg111/status/1892042965033296313" rel>said on Twitter</a> <span>that “If we abandon Ukraine — Poland is next. You know what’s going to be a lot more expensive than finishing this war and forcing Putin out of Ukraine? A third world war and a second Marshall plan.”</span></p>
<p><span>These histrionics are as ridiculous as they are depraved. Obviously the war in Ukraine needs to end.</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/19/poll-majority-of-ukrainians-want-peace-talks-to-end-war-with-russia/" rel>Polls say</a> <span>Ukrainians themselves want the war to end. If you want Ukrainians to keep dying in this war</span> <em><strong>against the will of the Ukrainians themselves</strong></em> <span>while you sit safe at home eating snacks and posting on the internet, you’re a monster.</span></p>
<p><span>But saying this really doesn’t go far enough. We should all be raging at everyone who pushed things to this point, especially at the leaders of the western empire we live under. These psychopaths</span> <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/09/07/if-everyone-understood-that-the-us-deliberately-provoked-this-war/comment-page-1/" rel>knowingly provoked</a> <span>an</span> <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/07/24/the-empire-knows-its-pouring-ukrainian-blood-into-an-unwinnable-proxy-war/" rel>unwinnable war</a> <span>of unfathomable horror by first</span> <a href="https://www.aaronmate.net/p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia" rel>backing a regime change operation in 2014</a> <span>and then</span> <a href="https://jmss.org/article/view/76584" rel>amassing a proxy military threat</a> <span>on Russia’s border in ways the US</span> <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/08/27/the-last-time-a-foreign-military-threat-was-placed-near-the-us-border-the-world-almost-ended/" rel>would never permit on its own border</a><span>, then refusing off-ramp after off-ramp both before and</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/09/victoria-nuland-admits-us-discouraged-ukraine-from-signing-peace-deal-with-russia-in-2022/" rel>after Russia invaded</a><span>. Everyone who paved the way to this nightmare belongs in a cage.</span></p>
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<p><span>And that includes Trump. The sitting president is on social media right now trying to</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/19/trump-calls-zelensky-a-dictator-who-has-done-a-terrible-job/" rel>pin this whole thing on Zelensky</a><span>, when Trump himself</span> <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/03/28/re-visiting-russiagate-in-light-of-the-ukraine-war/" rel>helped pave the way to this horror</a> <span>by becoming the first president to start</span> <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/russiagate-helped-secure-dangerous-arms-deal/" rel>openly pouring weapons into Ukraine</a> <span>while</span> <a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/25-times-trump-has-been-dangerously-hawkish-on-russia-ada915b07f97" rel>ramping up cold war tensions and shredding treaties</a> <span>with Russia. Trump, Obama, Biden, Boris Johnson, and all of NATO helped throw Ukraine into the meat grinder while countless western experts and analysts warned urgently that their actions would result in Ukraine’s destruction. They should all suffer immense consequences.</span></p>
<p>But of course we all know they won’t. None of the government officials, empire managers, career politicians, pundits and think tank swamp monsters who helped steer Ukraine into the inferno will suffer any consequences of any kind for their atrocities. Nobody will even lose their career.</p>
<p>And what’s worse is knowing that most of them will re-emerge like zombies from the grave to help manufacture support for the next imperial bloodbath. Many of the same people who drummed up support for the war in Ukraine were responsible for helping to destroy Iraq, when they should have been languishing in a prison cell at The Hague this entire time.</p>
<p>We are ruled by the worst among us. Our world will never know peace as long as these freaks are at the steering wheel.</p>
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<p><span>Now that Trump is back in office I’m again seeing Democrats</span> <a href="https://x.com/daviddunn177/status/1891512343923695743" rel>posting fondly about Barack Obama</a> <span>and how wonderful it was to have a president whose worst scandal was wearing a brown suit once. During the first Trump administration such sentiments were a great way to go viral on Liberal Twitter.</span></p>
<p>And the thing about this genre of tweet is that they’re kind of right — Obama didn’t have any “scandals” of the level we see from Trump. But the fact that the evil things Obama did weren’t considered scandalous says profoundly ugly things about the kind of society we are living in.</p>
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<p><span>Obama committed all kinds of atrocities while president that would be considered scandalous if we lived in a world that is even remotely sane.</span> <a href="https://original.antiwar.com/eland/2015/07/20/lessons-from-obamas-war-in-libya/" rel>Destroying Libya</a> <span>and leaving it a smoldering crater of</span> <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-ponders-2020-run-lets-not-forget-her-real-libya-scandal-glenn-reynolds-column/895853001/" rel>humanitarian disaster</a><span>. Tearing apart Syria with</span> <a href="https://www.aaronmate.net/p/al-qaeda-is-on-our-side-how-obama" rel>the dirty war</a> <span>that featured pouring weapons into the arms of al-Qaeda affiliates. Initiating the US-backed</span> <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/11/obama_is_killing_yemen_a_yemeni" rel>incineration of Yemen</a><span>. Lighting the fuse for the ruination of Ukraine with the US-backed</span> <a href="https://www.aaronmate.net/p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia" rel>regime change op in 2014</a><span>. His notorious</span> <a href="https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/" rel>drone program</a><span>.</span> <a href="https://x.com/eshaLegal/status/943234477156945920" rel>The list goes on</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>But none of that stuff registers for the average Democrat. They don’t care about it. They don’t think about it. It’s not even a blip on their screen. All they are interested in is the feelings Barack Obama made them feel inside about their favorite political faction. That’s all they’ve been trained to focus on.</p>
<p>The typical westerner inhabits a mental universe that is completely divorced from reality. Atrocities are only committed by foreign states that their government doesn’t like. Propaganda is something that only happens to people in other countries, or to people with different political ideologies. Scandals are whatever controversies the imperial media choose to focus on and inflame. The actual things that are happening in our world don’t register.</p>
<p><span>This happens because we live in a mind-controlled dystopia where public thought, speech, and behavior are aggressively manipulated by mass-scale psyops in the service of the powerful. The news</span> <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/05/caitlin-johnstone-15-reasons-why-media-dont-do-journalism/" rel>is propaganda</a><span>. The search algorithms</span> <a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/censorship-by-algorithm-does-far-more-damage-than-conventional-censorship-882b94556125" rel>are wildly slanted</a><span>. The social media platforms herd us into isolated</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_%28media%29#Online_communities" rel>ideological echo chambers</a><span>. Nobody who meaningfully challenges the information interests of the powerful is</span> <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/05/30/why-celebrities-arent-speaking-up-about-gaza/" rel>allowed to ascend to fame and influence</a><span>. Hollywood is just a</span> <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/hollywood-propaganda/247154/" rel>PR machine for the empire</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>So most westerners are kept from forming an accurate picture of reality in their minds, which is what allows them to hold absurd beliefs like “Barack Obama never did anything bad.” They’re cut off from seeing all the immense suffering that’s inflicted upon the world by the empire they live under and the sociopaths who rule over it, and in its place a crude crayon drawing of a world which confirms their power-serving biases has been inserted into their minds.</p>
<p>They can’t see Libya. They can only see the feelings they felt while Obama was in office, and contrast them with the feelings they feel under Trump. This is the way they have been conditioned to relate to the world. Mass-scale psychological manipulation has turned them into drooling infants. And nobody benefits from this but the powerful.</p>
<p>We won’t be free until our minds are free. We can’t have a healthy world as long as we are thinking in the ways the powerful have trained us to think.</p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwB2BNd9YM4" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p>Liberals hate socialists for the same reason socialists hate liberals: because socialists are the thing liberals pretend to be. Socialists stand for truth, justice, peace and equality while liberals only pretend to stand for these things, and they both know it. Liberals know their favorite political party supports war, militarism, oligarchy and inequality and is rife with power-serving corruption, and socialists know it too, so they can critique these dynamics in ways that have the unpleasant sting of truth.</p>
<p>Liberals don’t mind it when some dopey right winger criticizes their ideological faction, because the rightist has no idea what they’re looking at and offers up the dumbest and least relevant criticisms imaginable. When a socialist critiques that same faction they do it in ways the liberal knows are true, and it causes the liberal to experience cognitive dissonance. If you love AOC it’s not going to bother you when a rightist calls her a woke commie terrorist lover, but someone to the left of you pointing out the various ways she serves the ugliest aspects of the US empire will grate against some of your most deeply treasured belief systems.</p>
<p>Most liberals secretly hate socialists more than they hate rightists, because while rightists attack their political agendas, socialists attack their egos. They expose core identity structures for the sham that they are. Cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable, and nobody enjoys feeling like they’ve been exposed as a phony.</p>
<p>That’s what liberal left-punching is really about. It’s not about “political pragmatism” or any of that nonsense. It’s petty, vindictive egotistic meltdowns dressed up in reasonable-sounding words. It’s never anything nobler than that.</p>
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<p>There are only two types of Israel supporters:</p>
<p>1. Those who know Israel’s existence is premised on continually abusing Palestinians and think this is fine.</p>
<p>2. Those who lie to themselves and others about Israel’s nature and pretend it could be a just and moral country someday.</p>
<p>Those in the first category are often categorized as “right-wing extremists”, while those in the second category are typically thought of as more “liberal” and “moderate”. But in reality they are the same category. They are not at all different in terms of the actual concrete abuses they will throw their weight behind and facilitate; they differ only in the narratives they lay on top of those abuses. Category 1 supported the incineration of Gaza while saying “Haha yes exterminate the Arab scum,” while Category 2 supported the incineration of Gaza while tut-tutting at Netanyahu and talking about how “tragic” the whole thing is.</p>
<p>It’s the same movie with a different soundtrack.</p>
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<p><span>Australian civil rights</span> <a href="https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/politicians-are-curtailing-liberties-and-chastising-the-public-over-contrived-antisemitism/" rel>are being destroyed</a> <span>to protect Israeli information interests because of highly dubious “antisemitic attacks” which are being perpetrated by people with no ideological interest in Jews who appear to have been paid for their actions by foreign operatives.</span></p>
<p>It’s always okay to share your opinions about Israel. If civil rights in your country are being shredded to promote the interests of a foreign state, then you get to voice very strong opinions about that state and its actions. Anyone who disagrees with this is wrong.</p>
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<p>The unspoken premise behind the plan to keep capitalism going is that the world will be saved by sociopathic tech plutocrats like Elon Musk. The idea is to just continue the plan of infinite growth on a finite world until hopefully some tech company produces technology that makes such growth sustainable in a way that both (A) benefits everybody and (B) turns billionaires into trillionaires.</p>
<p>That’s the assumption underlying the decision to keep capitalism in place even as we watch our biosphere disappear before our eyes, and it’s pure fantasy. As long as mass-scale human behavior is driven by the pursuit of profit, you’re going to see the interests of humanity and the ecosystem subverted by that pursuit. The belief that capitalism will rescue us from the ecological disasters it creates assumes that the blind pursuit of profit for its own sake will somehow possess the wisdom necessary to preserve the delicate ecosystemic context upon which human life depends while also ensuring that we all have a decent quality of life (as long as we work hard enough, of course).</p>
<p>This is a religious belief. It’s blind faith dogma, based on literally nothing other than one’s desire to believe it. It ascribes a wisdom to the “invisible hand of the market” that is tantamount to claiming that capitalism is being steered by God. It’s something people want to believe because the alternative is falling back on some form of socialist system to ensure our survival on this planet, which we in the west have been indoctrinated into reflexively dismissing.</p>
<p>Market forces are not guided by wisdom, they are guided by greed and fear, and by the unresolved early childhood trauma of the Musks and Theils and Bezoses of this world. Capitalism is a great way to guarantee more production and consumption, but it is completely useless for curbing ecocide and restoring planetary health.</p>
<p>As long as ecocide remains profitable under a system where mass-scale human behavior is driven by profit, ecocide will inevitably continue. What we need, then, is a completely different system. One where we move from competing with each other at the expense of our biosphere to collaborating with each other and with our ecosystem. Collaboration-based systems are inherently incompatible with the competition-based ones we live under today — but they are also the only way we are going to be able to continue living on this planet.</p>
<p>And proponents of capitalism might here say “Aha! That’s what you are missing! We’re NOT going to continue living on this planet! Daddy Elon’s going to take us all to Mars!”</p>
<p>But that’s kinda my whole point here. This is a baseless religious belief. Proponents of capitalism rely on the entirely faith-based belief that technological innovations will soon make it possible for limitless space colonization to occur, thereby enabling the infinite expansion upon which capitalism depends.</p>
<p>But there is no scientific evidence that humans will ever be able to live outside the biosphere from which we emerged. The closest we’ve ever gotten are these glorified scuba excursions wherein astronauts pack up pieces of Earth’s biosphere and suck on them for a while before returning to their planet’s surface. Assuming this means we can colonize space and live permanently completely independent of Earth’s biosphere is the same as assuming you can one day flap your arms hard enough to fly into the clouds just because you are able to jump.</p>
<p>The assumption of space colonization as a reality in our future arises not from science but from the egoic delusion which pervades human consciousness that we are much more separate from our world than we actually are. The human organism is no more separate from its biosphere than a ripple in a teacup is from the tea. Assuming we can just pack up our bodies and permanently move them offworld is like assuming you can take a single ripple in a teacup and transport it into another cup of tea in a country across the ocean.</p>
<p><span>Science simply does not understand the many different ways in which the human organism is interconnected with Earth’s biosphere, and isn’t anywhere close to understanding it. Even if it is technically possible to someday have us survive on another planet (or in floating space cylinders as per</span> <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/05/12/bezos-reveals-his-ugly-vision-for-the-world-hes-trying-to-rule/" rel>Jeff Bezos’s plan</a><span>) — and again it is a complete article of faith that such a thing is even possible — we have no reason to assume that we’ll be able to attain this goal fast enough to avert ecological disaster here on Earth. The technology to adequately replicate our planet’s living conditions to make human life and reproduction sustainable in the long term could be many centuries off, by which time capitalism will have long ago devoured the face off of this world.</span></p>
<p>So the belief that capitalism will be able to carry us into the future is entirely faith-based and premised upon many unknowns and absurdities. We can keep clinging to those baseless superstitions hoping our evidence-free gamble eventually pays off so we never have to change ourselves, or we can move into a mature relationship with reality and start building something different together.</p>
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<p>You don’t have to pick a team.</p>
<p>You don’t have to side with Democrats because Trump is bad.</p>
<p>You don’t have to side with Trump because Democrats are bad.</p>
<p>You don’t have to give Trump “credit” for anything.</p>
<p>You don’t have to give Trump the benefit of the doubt.</p>
<p>You don’t have to buy into narratives that Trump presents some dangerous new threat that other US presidents did not.</p>
<p>You don’t have to trust right wing media just because the liberal mainstream media are liars.</p>
<p>You don’t have to like Trump just because bad people don’t like him.</p>
<p>There’s this weird assumption that Americans are under some kind of moral obligation to take a side side either with Trump or with his pretend opposition in the Democratic Party, and it’s just silly nonsense. You don’t have to, and you should not.</p>
<p>The US empire is the single most murderous and corrupt power structure on this planet, by an extremely massive margin. Everyone at the upper echelon of empire management is the sort of person who is willing to facilitate the incomprehensible atrocities and abuses that are necessary for the continuation of that empire. Thinking you need to choose a favorite empire manager is like thinking you need to choose a favorite Nazi.</p>
<p>A lucid mind does not look at the turmoil of corruption and psychopathy of the Washington swamp and start calculating which of the vampiric slime beasts are their friend. A lucid mind looks at all the managers of the US-centralized power structure as part of the same enemy.</p>
<p>Sure the swamp monsters bicker and contend with one another along various fronts; you’ll see that under any power structure. That doesn’t mean they’re not all devoted to advancing the interests of an empire that feeds on human blood, and it certainly doesn’t mean they are your friend.</p>
<p>No US president will ever be your friend. No Washington politician, empire manager or oligarch will ever be your friend. Donald Trump is not your friend. Chuck Schumer is not your friend. Elon Musk is not your friend. Hakeem Jeffries is not your friend. Marco Rubio is not your friend. Bernie Sanders is not your friend. JD Vance is not your friend. AOC is not your friend. RFK Jr is not your friend. Elizabeth Warren is not your friend. Tulsi Gabbard is not your friend. Joe Biden is not your friend.</p>
<p>These people have some differences, but what they all have in common is that they have all knowingly made careers out of serving the interests of a globe-spanning empire that can only be maintained by nonstop tyranny, abuse, and murder. That one quality rules them out as anyone you should side with, sympathize with, or support. The only reason this isn’t immediately obvious to everyone is that the entire western world is marinating in a highly controlled information ecosystem where such obvious facts are hidden from our perception.</p>
<p>Whenever I talk about how everyone in Washington is a corrupt monster I get called negative or “blackpilled”, but nothing could be further from the truth. I have plenty of hope for positive outcomes for our world, I’m just not delusional enough to believe those outcomes will ever come from the heart of the power structure most responsible for our world’s problems.</p>
<p>I have plenty of hope in humanity as a collective. Plenty of hope in the real revolutionary movements of the global south. Plenty of hope in the possibilities that could potentially open up with the rise of a multipolar world. I just have no hope in the one power structure on earth nobody should ever place any hope in, in the same way nobody should look to a rapist currently committing rape for solutions on how to curb sexual assault. They are the problem. They are what needs to be fought.</p>
<p>Real solutions will begin emerging as soon as there is sufficiently widespread understanding of our problem. Our task — and it is a difficult one — is to punch through the propaganda matrix of imperial narrative control by circulating as much true information as we can about our world, our rulers, their abuses, and their lies. In this way we can start opening eyes to the reality of our situation and begin organizing together to effect real change using the power of our numbers.</p>
<p>Is that easy? No. Is it harder than casting a vote for your preferred presidential candidate? Yes. But unlike voting and cheerleading for your favorite swamp monster, it stands a chance of actually bringing positive change to our world.</p>
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<p>A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as an important deadline for ceasefire negotiations draws near.</p>
<p><span>The IDF is now</span> <a href="https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/israel-at-war/briefings-by-idf-spokesperson-rear-admiral-daniel-hagari/february-24-press-briefings-1/press-briefing-by-idf-spokesperson-radm-daniel-hagari-february-21-2025-1/" rel>claiming</a> <span>that the Israeli children Kfir and Ariel Bibas “were both brutally murdered by terrorists while being held hostage in Gaza, no later than November 2023.”</span></p>
<p><span>IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWlyj00C1_s" rel>told the press</a> <span>on Friday that, “Contrary to Hamas’ lies, Ariel and Kfir were not killed in an airstrike. Ariel and Kfir Bibas were murdered by terrorists in cold blood. The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys, they killed them with their bare hands. Afterward, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities.”</span></p>
<p>Anyone who has been following the events in Gaza over the last year and a half will be unsurprised to learn that Israel provided no evidence to support these incendiary claims.</p>

<p><span>Benjamin Netanyahu</span> <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1892904911375126852" rel>released a video statement</a> <span>in his signature American English waving around an enlarged photograph of the children and talking about what savage monsters the Palestinians are.</span></p>
<p>“Hamas murdered them in cold blood,” Netanyahu says, while the camera zooms in on the adorable little redheads. “As the prime minister of Israel, I vow that I will not rest until the savages who executed our hostages are brought to justice. They do not deserve to walk this earth. Nothing will stop me. Nothing.”</p>
<p><span>This happens just as Netanyahu has been working to sabotage ceasefire negotiations by</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/20/report-netanyahu-adds-new-demands-in-talks-on-second-phase-of-gaza-deal/" rel>adding new non-starter demands</a> <span>that were not in the original agreement, just as sources in Israeli media</span> <a href="https://archive.is/79y8U" rel>predicted he would do</a> <span>upon his return from Washington earlier this month. The six-week-long first stage of the ceasefire deal with Hamas is</span> <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-20/israel-hamas-ceasefire-where-it-stands-and-where-its-headed" rel>set to expire</a> <span>at the beginning of March.</span></p>
<p><span>This is obvious babies-on-bayonets</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda" rel>atrocity propaganda</a><span>, being released at the most convenient of times. After Israel</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFEurGy05ps&amp;rco=1" rel>has been caught lying</a> <span>about beheaded babies and mass rapes and so much more, only an idiot would take any of these claims on faith.</span></p>

<p><span>But it’s doing the job. Now everywhere you look you’ll see Israel supporters calling to end the ceasefire and reignite the Gaza holocaust to avenge these innocent children. I just saw an article from Tablet Magazine titled “</span><a href="https://archive.is/21h3F" rel>Their Time Is Up</a><span>,” subtitled “The murder of the Bibas children caps off an 18-month catalog of horrors that has told us exactly who our Palestinian neighbors are. Backed by a friend in the White House, Israel must secure its future through strong unilateral action.”</span></p>
<p><span>All this despite the fact that we know the most likely cause of the children’s death was the fact that their own government was raining military explosives on places where hostages were being held during that time. Hamas</span> <a href="https://archive.is/LnV6t" rel>reported</a> <span>back in November 2023 that the Bibas children had been killed in an Israeli airstrike along with their mother. In December 2023 it was</span> <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231201-hamas-says-offered-to-hand-over-remains-of-hostage-baby-family" rel>reported in the mainstream press</a> <span>that Hamas had offered to return their bodies to Israel but Israel refused, telling the press that “Israel will not address propaganda-based reports coming from Hamas”.</span></p>
<p><span>You don’t need to trust Hamas or anyone else to deduce that a woman and two children being killed by Israeli airstrikes in an area where</span> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1153216" rel>many women and children</a> <span>were being killed by Israeli airstrikes every day is a much more likely scenario than Palestinian resistance fighters spontaneously deciding to murder children with their bare hands instead of using them as negotiating leverage as planned.</span></p>

<p><span>As journalist Muhammad Shehada recently</span> <a href="https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1893015031303823557" rel>noted on Twitter</a><span>, Israel already has an established track record of lying about Hamas killing hostages who were actually killed in Israeli airstrikes. In December 2023, Israel informed the families of three hostages that they had been murdered by Hamas. The mother of one of the hostages kept digging and eventually discovered that they had died of asphyxiation when IDF troops “gassed” the tunnel they were hiding in. Last September the IDF admitted that they killed the hostages in an airstrike and lied about it.</span></p>
<p><span>Three weeks ago Shehada correctly predicted in an</span> <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/is-israel-weaponizing-bibas-children-deaths" rel>article with Zeteo</a> <span>that Israel was preparing to use the Bibas deaths as an excuse to terminate the ceasefire, long before any of this started. Shehada noticed the way pro-Israel narrative managers had been pushing the line that great vengeance must be exacted upon Gaza if it turns out the Bibas children have been harmed, despite Hamas having announced their deaths more than a year ago. They knew those children were dead, so after the ceasefire was announced in late January they began circulating the narrative that discovery of their demise would be a valid reason to end it.</span></p>

<p><span>Israeli forces</span> <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1893042058249805894" rel>shot and killed two Palestinian children</a> <span>in the West Bank just today — both of them shot in the back. You could be forgiven for not knowing that this happened, because the western political/media class has been too focused on the deaths of two little white kids to pay attention to such trivialities.</span></p>
<p>Israel needs to keep “discovering” new Hamas atrocities from 2023 because otherwise it just looks like one-sided atrocities being committed by Israel this whole time. First it was beheaded babies, then later it was “We’ve discovered Hamas did mass rapes!”, and now it’s the Bibas kids.</p>
<p>They need to do this because the Hamas attack was the last time anything happened where Israel could frame itself as the victim, so they’ve been milking it and milking it and milking it for as long as possible while committing orders of magnitude worse abuse in Gaza. It’s all designed to drum up outrage, and to draw sympathy toward Israel and away from the obvious victims who Israel has been abusing, displacing and mass murdering for a year and a half.</p>
<p>As calls to rain vengeance upon Gaza grow louder, remember this: the Bibas kids aren’t the reason, they’re the excuse. The excuse to advance pre-planned agendas against the Palestinians that have been in place since long before those children were born.</p>
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<p><span>Activist and author Yves Engler has been</span> <a href="https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/canada-dispatch-montreal-activist-jailed-after-series-of-charges-over-israel-gaza-social-media-posts/" rel>jailed by Montreal police</a> <span>for criticizing media figure Dahlia Kurtz and her support for Israeli atrocities in Gaza, after Kurtz</span> <a href="https://x.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1809339723480985960" rel>said</a> <span>Engler’s comments made her feel “afraid for my safety”.</span></p>
<p><span>After Engler wrote about the charges against him, he</span> <a href="https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1892383517251662182" rel>reported</a> <span>that he was subsequently charged for “harassing the police” by drawing public attention to his case.</span></p>
<p>It’s fascinating how everyone who supports Israel always collapses into playing the victim at the earliest opportunity—even western police forces tasked with persecuting Israel’s critics. Israel models this victim-LARPing behavior, and its entire goon squad follows its example.</p>

<p>But what’s interesting is that being perceived as the victim has no value in and of itself — what has value is sympathy. It is sympathy that Israel’s supporters are after. Playing the victim is just a means toward that end.</p>
<p>If you’ve ever known anybody with a personality disorder that inclines them toward manipulative behavior, you may have noticed that one of the main things they manipulate in people is their sympathy. They do everything they can to draw as much sympathy toward themselves while working to kill off any sympathy that people might have toward their perceived enemies. They’ll sacrifice almost any piece on their psychosocial chessboard in order to control a bit more of the sympathy among the people in their life.</p>
<p>They do this because sympathy is a fundamental primer for narrative control. If you sympathize with someone, you are much more likely believe the things they say and trust their narratives about what’s going on. If you lack sympathy for someone, then anything they say is going to be viewed with much more skepticism.</p>
<p>This is just how humans are wired as a social animal. We’re evolutionarily conditioned to place more trust in people we perceive as belonging to our own tribe than we place in those outside it — those within our group are the ones with whom we sympathize. That’s why for example you’ll see Trump supporters start voicing opinions they’d never held before as soon as Trump and his MAGA pundits take a certain position on a given issue; they sympathize with the source, so they espouse its position on that issue.</p>

<p>A good manipulator understands this, so they do everything they can to make sure everyone is sympathetic toward them and unsympathetic toward anyone whose interests conflict with theirs. That’s why we’re still talking about October 7 even after 16 months of genocidal atrocities and ethnic cleansing plans. Israel and its apologists throughout western governments and media have been working diligently to draw sympathy toward Israel for those killed and abducted on October 7, and to stomp out all sympathy for the orders of magnitude more Palestinians who’ve been killed and abducted by Israel. This has allowed narratives which serve the interests of Israel to dominate the mainstream western consensus on this issue, thereby bringing in concrete material benefits like weapons, bulldozers, the weakening of Israel’s enemies, and the eventual replacement of Palestinians with Israeli Jews on what used to be Palestinian territory.</p>
<p>So you can see how victim-LARPing leads to sympathy, sympathy leads to believed narratives, and believed narratives lead to concrete material benefits. All skillful manipulators understand this dynamic and use it in their own lives; the only thing that differs is the specific narratives they use and the material benefits they’re trying to extract. One manipulator might use sympathy to extract sexual favors from women and deference from men. Another might use it to extract money or resources. Another might use it for status in their social circle. It’s on a different scale and has different objectives, but the dynamic is the same.</p>
<p>Normal people don’t typically understand this, so we’re highly susceptible to these kinds of manipulations because they tend to fly under our radar. Normal people place a lot more value on telling the truth and doing what’s right than highly manipulative people do, because normal people prioritize human connection much more highly than manipulators. Normal people use language to communicate and understand and connect with each other, while manipulators use it to extract material benefits. These are two drastically different ways of relating to one’s social environment, and normal people are often completely unaware that the other way of relating is even a feature for some of the people in their lives. This makes them ideal targets for manipulation.</p>
<p><span>That’s what you’re seeing when Israel cries victim about October 7 or Israeli hostages held by Hamas. It’s what you see when Israel supporters shriek about an</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/there-is-no-antisemitism-crisis-in" rel>entirely made-up crisis</a> <span>of “antisemitism” in our society. It’s what you see when the propaganda machine for the western empire frames its enemies as the evil perpetrators of “unprovoked” aggressions to which the empire is just an innocent passive witness, or when they try to generate sympathy for the poor oppressed people living under this or that evil dictatorship that happens to be sitting on top of a lot of oil. They’re manipulating public sympathy so they can control the narrative, so that by controlling the narrative they can advance their material agendas.</span></p>
<p><span>There’s a legendary</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AwLbwZh_Dw" rel>video of Norman Finkelstein</a> <span>shouting down a sobbing young Israel apologist on a college campus for trying to play the Holocaust card to silence his criticisms of Israel. One of the reasons this video is so widely shared and resonates with so many people is because Finkelstein happens to be the Jewish son of Holocaust survivors and could therefore speak with great authority, but another reason is because it’s such a skillful shutting down of an attempt to manipulate sympathy for the benefit of the Israeli state. By taking sympathy off the table, he took away the Israel apologist’s primary weapon.</span></p>

<p><span>Israel and its supporters understand the power of narrative control better than most. That’s why they have a carefully cultivated discipline dedicated to narrative control with its own special name:</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy_of_Israel" rel>hasbara</a><span>. Hasbara is all about manipulating the narrative about Israel in mainstream public discourse.</span></p>
<p>The real currency of our world is not money or resources, nor gold, nor even weapons. The real currency of our world is narrative and the ability to control it, because if you can control the narrative, you can control everyone.</p>
<p>The average human life is dominated by mental stories, so if you can control the stories that humans are telling each other about their world, you can control the humans.</p>
<p>If you’ve ever tried to meditate, then you know how pervasively dominated human consciousness is by mental chatter. Our minds are constantly babbling about how things are, how we are, how the people around us are, and what’s going on. If you can exert control over how this powerful deluge of mental narrative is occurring for large numbers of people regarding an issue you’ve got a vested interest in, then you have a much better chance of advancing your interests than someone who does not. You have a lot of real power.</p>
<p>Mountains of abuses exist in our world because manipulators understand this dynamic while normal people do not. The strings of our sympathy are continually jerked around without our awareness, by which we are herded into belief systems which advance the interests of the powerful.</p>
<p>That’s why it’s very important to withhold sympathy wherever it’s being weaponized. If someone is using a weapon to hurt people, your first order of business is to take their weapon away from them. You really can’t cede any ground to Israel apologists when they try to tug at your heartstrings about the victims of October 7 or fake “antisemitism” emergencies in western society, because any sympathy you extend in that direction will be used as a weapon to murder and abuse people in the middle east who’ve never done anything to you.</p>
<p><span>This is something to keep in mind as Israel and its apologists</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-pushes-new-atrocity-narrative" rel>work to whip up public sympathy</a> <span>using dead Israeli children in order to reignite the genocide in Gaza.</span></p>
<p>Whoever controls the narrative controls the world, and whoever controls sympathy controls the narrative. Never give manipulators that power over people.</p>
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<p>The trouble is that there’s no money in the pursuit of the good, and there’s no goodness in the pursuit of money.</p>
<p>If you want to devote your life to doing good, then you will likely need to consign yourself to a life of far less material comfort than if you had not. Teaching. Nursing. Social work. Environmental work. The vocations which are typically sought out by people who feel called to dedicate their lives to helping are also notoriously low-paying for how stressful they can be and how much education is required to get into them. Many important callings like peace activism, environmental activism and community volunteer work don’t pay anything at all.</p>
<p>People who devote themselves to the pursuit of money wind up looking in the exact opposite direction. Think of all the surest ways to get extremely wealthy and you will find exploitation, ecocide and abuse at every turn. Extracting profits from the toil of the working class. Investing in surefire sources of profit like defense contractors and fossil fuels. Offloading the costs of industry onto the ecosystem and the developing world. War profiteering. Scams (both the legal and illegal varieties). Monopolistic practices which crush smaller businesses and lay waste to entire communities. The countless depraved manipulations that go into selling medicine for profit.</p>
<p><span>The Sackler family</span> <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain" rel>amassed a fortune</a> <span>by creating an epidemic of opiate addiction. The Walton family got rich by deliberately</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-Sr3SjBzk" rel>destroying the local economies</a> <span>of small towns so that everyone would work and shop at the local Walmart. Elon Musk</span> <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/elon-musk-not-renegade-outsider-cia-pentagon-contractor/280972/" rel>is a Pentagon contractor</a> <span>who’s helping US intelligence construct a</span> <a href="https://booty.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-helping-us-intelligence" rel>planetary surveillance network</a><span>. Jeff Bezos got rich with the help of contracts with</span> <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/washington-post-bezos-must-disclose-relationship-cia-media-watchdogs/175558/" rel>the CIA</a> <span>and</span> <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/07/google-oracle-amazon-and-microsoft-awarded-9-billion-pentagon-cloud-deals.html" rel>Pentagon</a><span>, and Amazon’s aggressive campaign to</span> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/amazons-is-trying-to-control-the-underlying-infrastructure-of-our-economy/" rel>control the underlying infrastructure of the economy</a> <span>is</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/13-billion-hack-how-amazon-destroying-whole-joshua-mathias-kdf1f/" rel>destroying whole industries</a> <span>and creating</span> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/10/25/a-hard-hitting-investigative-report-into-amazon-shows-that-workers-needs-were-neglected-in-favor-of-getting-goods-delivered-quickly/" rel>immense suffering</a> <span>for workers. Larry Ellison’s Oracle</span> <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/oracle-shadowy-tech-giant-league-cia-israel-alan-macleod/284301/" rel>is intertwined</a> <span>with the US intelligence cartel and the Israeli genocide machine, as is</span> <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/peter-thiel-gaza-ai-war-white-house/288372/" rel>Peter Theil’s Palantir</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>These are just a few examples of how depraved you have to be to amass immense amounts of wealth; beyond that there are all the ugly manipulations people engage in to protect the status quo upon which their wealth is premised. The extremely wealthy</span> <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/05/caitlin-johnstone-15-reasons-why-media-dont-do-journalism/" rel>buy up narrative control</a> <span>in the form of media, think tanks and Silicon Valley platforms in order to influence public political opinion to their benefit. They</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig" rel>influence the government</a> <span>through legalized bribery in the form of campaign contributions and lobbying. Sometimes they even</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/donald-trump-is-the-empire-unmasked" rel>hop right in to the actual government itself</a> <span>like Donald Trump and Elon Musk. All to ensure the continuation of the unjust systems which allow them to amass wealth while destroying the biosphere and making everyone else poorer, busier, sicker, more exhausted, and more propagandized.</span></p>
<p>These are the kinds of people who rise to the top in our current system: the absolute worst among us. The more ruthless and underhanded you are willing to be, the easier it is for you to become obscenely wealthy and powerful. Our systems reward and elevate sociopathy, which is why we now find ourselves ruled by sociopaths.</p>
<p>And meanwhile the best among us toil in obscurity, swimming against the current of this sociopathic dystopia their entire lives before dying with nothing to their names but the love that they shared. These should be the people running the world and charting the course for our species, and instead they live and die unknown and unrecognized, because our system does not elevate such beings. Instead it elevates narcissistic plutocrats, vapid celebrity artists, and groveling pundits and politicians.</p>
<p>This is what you get when you have a system in place where mass-scale human behavior is determined by what is profitable instead of by what is right. This is what that looks like.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1vqfey5yg" rel>Israel has announced</a> <span>that it will continue to occupy parts of Syria and Lebanon indefinitely, and that the new Syrian government is forbidden to have a military presence south of Damascus. Israel has also</span> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/23/israel-west-bank-jenin-tanks" rel>sent tanks into the West Bank</a> <span>for the first time in decades, saying they will remain for at least a year. A week earlier, Netanyahu vowed to</span> <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/16/middleeast/heavy-bombs-israel-rubio-visit-intl/index.html" rel>“finish the job” against Iran</a> <span>with the help of the Trump administration.</span></p>
<p>The middle east is being dramatically restructured in alignment with longstanding Israeli objectives. Gaza has been destroyed and Trump is pushing a plan for permanently removing all Palestinians from the enclave, and they’re already working on doing the same to the West Bank. Syria has been wholly regime changed allowing Israel to grab up large swathes of land and strategic control. Hezbollah has been significantly weakened and Israel effectively controls southern Lebanon. Who knows what awful things they’re working on with Iran.</p>
<p><span>And I guess it’s worth mentioning as all this unfolds that there are</span> <a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1893791050591875224" rel>mountains</a> <span>upon</span> <a href="https://booty.substack.com/p/october-7" rel>mountains</a> <span>of</span> <a href="https://booty.substack.com/p/before-107-idfs-gaza-border-spotters" rel>evidence</a> <span>that Israel knew the October 7 attack was coming and intentionally allowed it to happen, thereby manufacturing support for the advancement of all these agendas. Just the other day a new</span> <a href="https://www-ynet-co-il.translate.goog/news/article/yokra14264734?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-US&amp;_x_tr_hist=true" rel>Hebrew Ynet report</a> <span>alleged that Mohammed Deif almost called off Operation Al-Aqsa Flood at the last second because Hamas noticed Israel wasn’t mobilizing against the coming attack despite their immense surveillance capabilities, suspecting it could be a trap. Well it looks like it was a trap — just maybe not the kind Hamas officials suspected.</span></p>
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<p><span>The deputy speaker for the Israeli Knesset</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/24/deputy-speaker-of-israeli-knesset-says-all-adult-men-in-gaza-should-be-killed/" rel>recently said</a> <span>during a radio interview that all adult men in Gaza should be exterminated and called Palestinians “subhumans”, saying “Who is innocent in Gaza?”</span></p>
<p>It’s almost a cliché to say “Imagine if this was said about Jews” at this point, but seriously: imagine if this was said about Jews. Imagine how hard the earth would shake if a parliamentary leader in your nation said this about Jews in Israel. It’d be the only story in the news.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>Giving Israel sympathy is giving it a weapon to murder innocent people. Giving Israel’s supporters sympathy is giving Israel a weapon to murder innocent people. When someone weaponizes sympathy to advance deadly agendas, to give them sympathy is to give them a deadly weapon.</p>
<p>Some Zionist victim-LARPer asked me “Why do you hate Israel?” as though that would be a barbaric position to hold. I told him I hate Israel because I’m not a fucking psychopath. It’s a genocidal apartheid state that exists in a constant state of war and has never at any time existed without extreme tyranny and abuse. If you support Israel you’re a garbage human being. Israel is not a victim.</p>
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<p>The US was always going to end its support for Ukraine. If it wasn’t Trump doing it it’d be someone else. This only looks like a shocking betrayal to people who thought the US really was backing Ukraine to protect democracy. It’s not okay for grown adults to believe such things.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p><span>Everyone thinks of Elon Musk as the Tesla guy, the Twitter guy, the Mars guy, but he’s not: he’s the satellite guy. Musk</span> <a href="https://archive.is/878Dl" rel>owns most of the operational satellites</a> <span>in Earth’s orbit, and they’re</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUem8oyyR6M" rel>being used</a> <span>to help the US military-intelligence machine</span> <a href="https://booty.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-helping-us-intelligence" rel>rule the planet</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>And this is the guy who MAGA pundits insist is</span> <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1894225040687993296" rel>fighting the Deep State</a><span>. The unelected</span> <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/elon-musk-not-renegade-outsider-cia-pentagon-contractor/280972/" rel>military-industrial complex plutocrat</a> <span>is fighting the Deep State you guys.</span></p>

<p>Trumpism is history’s dumbest cult. The oligarchic Pentagon contractors are fighting the deep state. The plutocrat-owned president is leading a populist revolution. The conspiracy theories just so happen to benefit the Republican Party. Analysis of government agency malfeasance just so happens to begin and end solely with things that can be framed to make Democrats look bad.</p>
<p>The cult’s adherents believe they’re part of some exciting new movement which fights the power and defends the interests of the little guy, when underneath all the narratives they’re just garden variety Republicans defending a standard shitty GOP president who wants to cut taxes and regulations and give Israel everything it wants and militarize against China while inflaming diversionary partisan culture war tensions.</p>
<p>They’re power-worshipping bootlickers posturing as brave revolutionaries. Everything about their whole thing is fake and stupid. Anyone still buying into this scam should feel embarrassed.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>I’ve been watching the show Shrinking, which features a main character who was severely traumatized by his time in Afghanistan. About halfway through the second season, completely out of nowhere, that same character starts recommending that another character enlist in the US military and the other characters start talking about what a great life choice military service can be. It happens in a way that makes no sense for any of the characters, especially for the veteran who’s been struggling with his psychological trauma from the army the entire time.</p>
<p>It was like the Pentagon bought a recruitment ad right in the middle of the show I was watching. I can’t prove that that’s what happened, but I find it extremely suspicious that a show which made military recruitment look very unappealing in its first season suddenly shifted gears in its second season to convey the exact opposite message in a way that contradicts everything the show had told us about the characters and their motives up to that point.</p>
<p>And what sucks is I had been really enjoying the show; it was a very funny and emotionally intelligent exploration of trauma and growth. Now it’s gross and I can’t watch it anymore.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>Iraq was what permanently radicalized me. It should have permanently radicalized everyone. I always had a healthy distrust of the Americans and of my own government, but that was when it really hit that “Okay, this power structure is my enemy, and it needs to be brought down.”</p>
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<p><span>President Donald Trump has</span> <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114068387897265338" rel>shared</a> <span>a shockingly awful</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_uTs0ukLik" rel>AI-generated music video</a> <span>envisioning a future Gaza that has been turned into an ostentatious resort town where everyone parties amid showers of cash while Trump and Netanyahu sip drinks by the pool.</span></p>
<p><span>The video is intended to reflect</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/10/trump-says-no-right-of-return-for-palestinians-in-gaza-under-his-plan/" rel>Trump’s plans</a> <span>for a Gaza Strip that has been permanently ethnically cleansed of Palestinians.</span></p>
<p>If you haven’t watched it yet you definitely should, because words can’t do justice to just how terrible it is.</p>

<p>This video is simultaneously the most American thing that has ever happened and the most Israeli thing that has ever happened. Fake. Gaudy. Sociopathic. Genocidal. Emblematic of all the ugliest values that both dystopian civilizations have come to embody.</p>
<p>They used the most artless art medium in existence to digitally dance on the graves of mountains of dead civilians. The most powerful government on earth celebrated the idea of Trump and Netanyahu presiding over orgiastic parties for the obscenely wealthy on a land that has been purged of its indigenous inhabitants following a year and a half of brutal slaughter. Twerking to shitty AI-generated techno music surrounded by golden Trump statues and hundred dollar bills, because you are so happy that you finally found a Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem.</p>
<p>It doesn’t get any more American than this, and it doesn’t get any more Israeli. This soulless, artless, conscienceless expression of egotistic masturbation lubricated with the blood of dead children is the empire at its most honest. This is the very best this globe-dominating power structure has to offer our world.</p>
<p>This entire civilization is diseased. Not just the United States and Israel but every nation on earth that is subject to the metastases of their cancerous influence. They’re making us all dumber, sicker, nastier, crueler. Less creative. Less artful. Less caring. Less insightful. They are poisoning our minds and turning our hearts into shit.</p>

<p><span>I’ve always said that the only thing I like about Trump is that he</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/donald-trump-is-the-empire-unmasked" rel>puts an honest face on the empire</a><span>. In terms of actual policy and actions he’s not much different from any other Republican president, but he has this compulsive inclination to constantly yank off the plastic smileyface mask of the empire and reveal the snarling blood-spattered face beneath. This is a perfect example of what I’m talking about.</span></p>
<p>That one video, all by itself, tells you more about what the US empire really is than every movie its PR agents in Hollywood have ever produced. This is the real America. This is the real Israel. This is the real empire.</p>
<p>And this is why we must defeat them.</p>
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<p>The aggressive fetishization of the red hair of Ariel and Kfir Bibas is part of an absolutely disgusting war propaganda campaign aimed at white westerners, and we need to talk about it.</p>
<p><span>For those who don’t know, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were two Israeli child hostages who were killed in Gaza along with their mother in the early weeks of Israel’s genocidal onslaught upon the enclave. Israel</span> <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/there-is-no-evidence-hamas-killed-members-of-the-bibas-family-israel-is-using-their-death-to-manufacture-consent-for-genocide/" rel>claims without evidence</a> <span>that Hamas murdered them with their bare hands, while common sense says it’s much more likely that they died from Israel’s scorched-earth bombing campaign along with the</span> <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1153216" rel>many other women and children</a> <span>who were being bombed to death every day in the same area during that time. Israel has</span> <a href="https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1893400129723334981" rel>enlisted the help of Chen Kugel</a><span> — the forensic pathologist who helped promote the</span> <a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/beheaded-babies-how-uk-media-reported-israels-fake-news-as-fact/" rel>bogus atrocity propaganda</a> <span>about “beheaded babies” on October 7 — to market its version of events regarding the Bibas family.</span></p>
<p><span>Israel and its supporters have been forcefully</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-pushes-new-atrocity-narrative" rel>hammering on this narrative</a> <span>that Hamas murdered these two little children with their bare hands in order to manufacture support for ending the ceasefire and resuming Israel’s daily massacres across the Gaza Strip, and lately it’s been taking an even creepier turn. In Israel and throughout the western world, the fact that these children had red hair is being aggressively pushed into public attention at every opportunity.</span></p>

<p><span>Israel’s foreign ministry has released a</span> <a href="https://x.com/IsraelMFA/status/1894483553456378307" rel>brazenly propagandistic video</a> <span>featuring an AI image of a redheaded child while a narrator says Hamas murdered the Bibas children, asserting that “from today, every redhead will remind us: Hamas murdered them, and Hamas will do it again — unless it’s wiped out.”</span></p>
<p><span>This is pretty standard babies-on-bayonets</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda" rel>atrocity propaganda</a><span>, but it’s done with a twist — a highly racialized one.</span></p>
<p><span>Throughout the Israel-aligned world,</span> <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/404576" rel>the color orange is being used</a> <span>by government leaders to mourn the deaths of these children in the most public forums possible. Landmarks like the</span> <a href="https://x.com/EmpireStateBldg/status/1894852703798358486" rel>Empire State Building</a><span>, the</span> <a href="https://x.com/Jeab1030599/status/1895046315836612643" rel>Eiffel Tower</a><span>, and</span> <a href="https://x.com/YakiLopez/status/1894815556416496007" rel>the Brandenburg Gate</a> <span>have all been illuminated in orange lights explicitly to commemorate the ginger Bibas children, and</span> <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/orange-balloons-released-around-the-world-in-memory-of-bibas-family/ar-AA1zLdGb" rel>orange balloons</a> <span>have been released throughout Israel and the west in their honor.</span></p>

<p>Why all this emphasis on the redheadedness of these children? Why make such a big deal about a seemingly trivial detail in their lives?</p>
<p>Well the answer is simple but ugly: it reminds westerners that these children were not like the dark children whose deaths we’ve been told to ignore for the last year and a half. It reminds us that these children were white.</p>
<p><span>Look at any</span> <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/481016233_1209629970521522_1271371855640549846-e1740039189171-960x640-1.png" rel>photo of the Bibas kids</a> <span>and you will see children who look just like the white children you’ll see in any western nation. Westerners will look at them and see their own children, or children in their own community. The propagandists noticed the potential in this long ago, which was why they began</span> <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/is-israel-weaponizing-bibas-children-deaths" rel>ramping up the outrage machine</a> <span>as soon as a ceasefire was announced,</span> <a href="https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1882845249325953414" rel>pretending they didn’t know</a> <span>the children were already dead and promising vengeance and hellfire if they weren’t returned alive.</span></p>
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<p><span>This is why when Benjamin Netanyahu</span> <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1892904911375126852" rel>released a video statement</a> <span>in English the other day, he produced an enlarged photo of the children and spent some time pointing at them as he spoke. He wanted westerners to see that these were not the kind of children we were told to be indifferent toward as they were butchered by the thousands in Gaza. He wanted to make sure we could all see that they were white.</span></p>
<p><span>The idea, as with</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-and-its-apologists-weaponize" rel>so much Israel apologia</a><span>, is to generate sympathy. If you sympathize with the children, you are more susceptible to narratives saying that Hamas must be destroyed and the ceasefire must end in order to avenge their deaths. If you sympathize with Israel, you are more likely to trust its narratives about what happened and what should happen in response. The western propaganda machine has spent generations killing off all sympathy for its brown-skinned victims in the global south, but our sympathy for white children has been left intact.</span></p>
<p>Propagandists are fetishizing the red hair of two dead white kids to market the reignition of the Gaza holocaust to white westerners. Israel apologists will deny this, but that’s plainly what’s happening. They couldn’t be more obvious about it.</p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKGNWVasrPE" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p><span>A Palestinian man who was held captive by Israel for over a year</span> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ex-palestinian-prisoner-shows-signs-torture-acid-attack-during-israeli-detention" rel>has been released</a> <span>with horrific scarring all over his body. The man, Mohammed Abu Tawila, told local media that the marks came from his captors pouring acid and other chemicals onto his skin in order to torture him. One of his eyes was also destroyed, reportedly in a savage beating.</span></p>
<p><span>You think you’ve seen the worst thing you can possibly see in this ever-unfolding nightmare, and then you</span> <a href="https://x.com/translatingpal/status/1894471492424843508" rel>see something</a> <span>like</span> <a href="https://x.com/MosabAbuToha/status/1894986101959598219" rel>this</a><span>.</span></p>

<p>And of course the western press has nothing to say about it. If an Israeli hostage were returned with these signs of torture the entire western political-media class would demand that everyone in Gaza be exterminated with poison gas. But he’s Palestinian, so they ignore him.</p>
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<p>It’s weird how Israel’s supporters will just pretend to believe complete nonsense in order to advance Israeli agendas. Oh yeah, Hamas strangled those redheads with their bare hands! OMG Hamas beheaded babies and roasted them in ovens! Oh no, Jeremy Corbyn is a Nazi! We totally believe these things!</p>
<p>And what’s even weirder is they expect you to pretend to believe they’re not pretending. If you come out and say something like “Okay but surely nobody actually believes Hamas has been hiding in every hospital in Gaza,” they’ll flip out at you. If you point out that it’s much more likely the Bibas family was killed by Israeli airstrikes in an area where women and children were getting killed by Israeli airstrikes every day than that the Israeli government is telling the truth about something they lie about constantly just as a critical ceasefire deadline approaches, you’ll be swarmed by Israel supporters not only pretending to be absolutely certain they were murdered by Hamas, but demanding that you pretend to take them seriously.</p>
<p>It’s just so silly. These freaks act out these ridiculous stage plays where they pretend to be outraged about bogus atrocity propaganda or pretend to “feel unsafe” because of some completely made-up antisemitism crisis, and everyone knows they’re fulla shit, but we’re supposed to pretend we don’t know that or we’re the worst person in the universe.</p>
<p>This is a bunch of grown adults rolling around on the floor having manipulative tantrums about made-up nonsense and then having tantrums at anyone who doesn’t take their tantrums seriously. It’s like, come on. Have a little dignity. Where is your self-respect? Is advancing Israeli information interests and facilitating foreign land grabs really worth debasing yourself like this?</p>
<p>Just about the cringiest, most embarrassing thing I’ve ever witnessed.</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p>Oh, and a humble observation: if people protesting genocide and ethnic cleansing makes you “feel unsafe”, then perhaps you are the fucking problem.</p>
<p>❖</p>

<p>❖</p>
<p><span>Jeff Bezos has just come right out and</span> <a href="https://x.com/JeffBezos/status/1894757287052362088" rel>announced</a> <span>that he’s making sweeping changes to The Washington Post’s opinion pages, saying, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”</span></p>
<p>In other words, he’s going to have his news outlet’s opinion pages dominated by people arguing in support of unfettered capitalism. One of the richest people in the world bought one of the most influential newspapers in the world to turn it into an even bigger capitalist propaganda rag than it already was.</p>
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<p>After four years and one month observing how Trump supporters behave while their cult leader is in power I can confidently say that they will justify anything their president does. Literally anything. They have a whole sequence of excuses they’ll make which they just flow through until they find one that makes sense to them. In justifying any ugly thing their president does, the excuses go as follows:</p>
<p>1. What Trump did is good.</p>
<p>2. If what Trump did is not good, then it was actually a brilliant strategic 4D chess maneuver designed to advance the greater good in the long term.</p>
<p>3. If no discernible good can come of it in the long term, then he was just trolling.</p>
<p>4. If he wasn’t just trolling, then the Deep State made him do it. You can’t just go against the Deep State, you know. What kind of naive idiot are you?</p>
<p>❖</p>
<p><span>Amnesty International has formally</span> <a href="https://www.amnesty.org.au/australian-universities-decision-to-adopt-contested-definition-of-antisemitism-is-an-attempt-to-stifle-freedom-of-expression-across-campuses-nationwide/" rel>denounced Australian universities</a> <span>for adopting an insane and speech-stifling definition of antisemitism to assist Israeli ethnic cleansing agendas. So at least that’s something.</span></p>
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<p><span>I publish my work in print form every month in a collection called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new edition is titled “We Are Ruled By Sociopaths Because Capitalism Elevates The Worst Among Us,” and it’s available to</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1923372041" rel>order in print</a> <span>or download as a pay-what-you-want</span> <a href="https://caitoz.gumroad.com/l/cuhrf" rel>e-book version</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>In a system which elevates those who are willing to do whatever it takes to make the most money, it is only natural that we now find ourselves</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/when-theres-no-money-in-the-pursuit" rel>ruled by sociopaths</a><span>. That’s why we’re seeing</span> <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/elon-musk-not-renegade-outsider-cia-pentagon-contractor/280972/" rel>Pentagon contractor</a> <span>Elon Musk throwing his weight around in a presidential administration that</span> <a href="https://x.com/BoltzmannBooty/status/1894219144066720191" rel>he co-owns</a> <span>with Israeli billionaire</span> <a href="https://x.com/mtracey/status/1837886438903357920" rel>Miriam Adelson</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>Under capitalism we are ruled by the worst among us, while the living saints of our society toil without recognition in our hospitals, schools and slums. In our status quo systems there is no money in the pursuit of goodness and no goodness in the pursuit of money; it is those who pursue money above all else who wind up on top, and they have no goodness in them.</p>
<p>This, plainly, is unsustainable.</p>
<p><span>You can get a paperback copy of this issue by</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1923372041" rel>clicking here</a><span>, or a pay-what-you-feel digital copy by</span> <a href="https://caitoz.gumroad.com/l/cuhrf" rel>clicking here</a><span>.</span></p>
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<p><span>You can also get a subscription to the digital versions which will be sent to your inbox every month by</span> <a href="https://caitoz.gumroad.com/l/mmjbro" rel>clicking here</a><span>.</span></p>


<p><em>Tom Cotton Admits The US Doesn’t Actually Care About Spreading Democracy … 3</em></p>
<p><em>They’re Still Slaughtering Civilians In Gaza … 6</em></p>
<p><em>They Don’t Just Tell Us What To Think, They Train Us HOW To Think … 8</em></p>
<p><em>Fathoms … 10</em></p>
<p><em>How To Be Both Happy And Well-Informed … 12</em></p>
<p><em>Trump Goes All-In On Stealing Gaza For His Zionist Owners … 14</em></p>
<p><em>Only 3 Percent Of Jewish Israelis Think Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan For Gaza Is Immoral … 16</em></p>
<p><em>The Nonstop Military Operation Known As Israel … 18</em></p>
<p><em>As The Gaza Agenda Moves Forward, The Imperial Narrative Shifts With It … 21</em></p>
<p><em>The Tiger Show … 22</em></p>
<p><em>Civil Rights Are Being Destroyed Throughout The West In Service Of Israel … 24</em></p>
<p><em>The Plan To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza Didn’t Start With Trump … 26</em></p>
<p><em>It’s Gross And Cringey To Love A State Like Israel Or The USA … 28</em></p>
<p><em>The Gaza Ceasefire Is Being Sabotaged By Israel, By Trump, And By The Media … 30</em></p>
<p><em>Israel Admits It Violated The Ceasefire And Hamas Did Not … 32</em></p>
<p><em>Washington Drops Ukraine, Israel Backs Down On Hamas Demands … 34</em></p>
<p><em>The IDF Didn’t Just Target Hospitals, They Destroyed Individual Medical Machines … 36</em></p>
<p><em>There Is No Antisemitism Crisis In Australia. It’s A Carefully Constructed Lie. … 39</em></p>
<p><em>I Write About Israel All The Time Because I Have To, Not Because I Want To … 42</em></p>
<p><em>Anyone Who Wants The Ukraine War To Continue Is A Monster … 44</em></p>
<p><em>Meditations On The Notion That Obama “Never Had Any Scandals” … 46</em></p>
<p><em>You Don’t Actually Need To Pick A Team … 48</em></p>
<p><em>Israel Pushes New Atrocity Narrative Just As Ceasefire Deadline Approaches … 50</em></p>
<p><em>Liberals Hate Socialists Because Socialists Are The Real Thing … 52</em></p>
<p><em>Israel And Its Apologists Weaponize Sympathy In Order To Facilitate Genocide … 55</em></p>
<p><em>When There’s No Money In The Pursuit Of The Good And No Goodness In The Pursuit Of Money … 58</em></p>
<p><em>The Empire At Its Most Honest … 60</em></p>
<p><em>They’re Fetishizing The Bibas Kids’ Red Hair To Sell Genocide To White Westerners … 62</em></p>
<p><em>All These Israeli Agendas Were Planned Long In Advance … 64</em></p>
<p><span>Again, you can get a paperback copy of this issue by</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1923372041" rel>clicking here</a><span>, or</span> <a href="https://caitoz.gumroad.com/l/cuhrf" rel>click here</a> <span>for a digital pay-what-you-feel copy.</span></p>
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