Laughable, if the implications weren't so deadly and tragic. Our "diplomacy" has devolved to a kindergarten level. The combination of incompetence and being dog-walked by Israel is breathtaking. We have burned our political capital and standing in the world, even in the eyes of other Western allies who have been supporting the Genocide. Our credibility and word have no value. We have no standing, other than as a global bully. So ashamed and mortified.
Thanks so much for giving us the true details of what is going on in these 'negotiations." The MSM will continue to spin this as Hamas's refusal to act in good faith, but we, who read your reporting know better.
On 25 August 2025, Israel struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis twice, killing 22 civilians — including journalists, doctors, rescue workers, and a 14-year-old child. Today, the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court, exposing the full chain of command behind the massacre. Our investigation proves that the Golani Brigade engineered and coordinated the attack under continuous drone surveillance, the 188th Armored Brigade executed it with guided missiles, and senior commanders up to Prime Minister Netanyahu authorized and enabled it. This was not crossfire, but deliberate killing with genocidal intent. Justice demands accountability.
I know that the polls show that 80 % of Americans support the Palestinians - however, amongst my anti-Trump Jewish friends - admittedly a small sample ) they rarely mention that Trump's support of Gaza and all things Netenyahu - as a reason for their continued TDS . It's tariffs and RFK they concentrate on. = Anything dealing with Gaza is framed as the anti-semitism they are experiencing in their well nourished lives and the security guards now guarding their upscale synagogues. How does this happen? the only answer that makes sense is from Illan Pappe who details the indoctrination from birth to death that many Americans = including the grandschildren of my friends -are subjected to with their all paid trips to Israel etc. Pappe knows the routine - before his eyes opened when he got out of Israel to study, he too was a captive of Israel's propoganda.
I forgot one thing. The Catholics used to say - and perhaps still do - give me a child until he or she is 7 and they are ours forever. In my ministerial career, this was very true. I would get a few never again Carholics in my Prostestant congregations when they were approaching middle age but inevitably they would leave and go back to the Pope, the all male priesthood, etc. They honestly felt what they had been taught at confirmation -- - there was no gate to heaven exept through the Roman Catholic church. Pappe said iin an interview that all of the academics and intellectual class that he knows can logically assess and criticize anything - plays, music, their own governments, etc- but they never criticize Israel. He says a book needs to be written to analyze what happens when indoctrination starts early.
Sorry if it appeared muddled to you - I was using it to underscore my argument re the Israelis, that if you are indoctrinated enough at an early age , it stays with you for a lifetime. . Pretty clear to me and some others , but not all minds work on the same track.
The indoctrination is multi-fold. Here are some key elements: 1) lies and false history about how Israel came into being. 2) erasure of Palestinians, past and present. 3) dehumanization of Palestinians by describing them as blood-thirsty, murderous, uncivilized people who don't love their own children and who worship death, and, very importantly, 5) instilling fear and paranoia from early in childhood about being universally hated and perpetually under threat. An American Jewish friend relayed how at her synagogue, they were made to walk through a hallway of life size photos and portraits of murdered Jews on Holocaust remembrance. She was so traumatized by this she refused to do it after a couple of years when she was old enough and capable of asserting herself.
Diaspora Jews get this "training" at synagogue, camp, at home, and when they go on their Birthright trips to Israel (I am generalizing, of course- this does not apply to everyone but to the majority).
Very importantly, and this explains how Israel can conduct a Genocide which has the support of 60-80% of the population (many recent polls), Israeli kids are taught this at school from very early on, and this is turbo-charged during military training. See Nurit Peled's book which covers this in detail:
Israel is racing against the clock to kill them all before they are forced to stop. Oct 7th was a wag the dog scenario, the excuse they needed to launch their own “final solution”.
I agree about the indoctrination, but comparing the number of Jews who expose their kids to this is likely by far less than the evangelical Christian adults who are zealouly evangelical Zios. That group helped elect W Bush... and grew exponentially since
Reason being, there are far less Jews in the population, and of those most ascribe to a belief Jews do not proselytize, and there are many different frequencies of their observance of the religion & the traditions practiced by their grandparents because of their places in the diaspora.
Now we see the very Orthodox "Torah Jews" speaking up at pro-Palestine demonstrations because they believe the very concept of a State is antithetical to their essential religious doctine. And we see 2nd, 3rd+ generation American Jews who were taught assimilation over religion by non-zio parents often becoming status quo "liberals" who refuse to rock the boat under any circumstances. And those are the ones up for grabs by slick media from aipac and appeals to "help kids in Isr."
There’s a campaign to have the Delaware Attorney General, Kathy Jennings, dissolve the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) which is incorporated in Delaware. The group DELPHR has launched an effort to put pressure on the Deleware Attorney general, with a letter-writing effort. You can do your part and sign on here:
national letter-writing tool which was created by the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Evict Israeli weapons manufacturers, Easy Aerial and Crye Precision, from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and establish a policy of no weapons manufacturers.
“Since September 2024, a decentralized coalition of Brooklyn Navy Yard neighbors, workers, and community members have organized under the banner Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The landlord in question is the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), a non-profit developer charged with managing business leases at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is owned by the City of New York.” Story from Mondoweiss
Call on Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. He can go to Gaza right now, and insist aid be allowed in.
Is there anything more important in today's world than this?
Arab countries like Egypt and Yemen need to step up to become guarantors of this new and "final" proposal. It offers no mechanism to get Israel to comply so that both Israel and the USA can continue the lie that Hamas rejects a peace deal.
Only sanctions from other Govts will help shift this impossible situation of ridiculous deal making/threats via the US who are complicit amoung others, to save people. Govts have to step up and suck up the tariffs used as sanctions by Trump to tow his line and do trade elsewhere. Keep pressuring your own Govts internationally and throw everything we can at them.
60 days or until negotiatios conclude... How can negotiations conclude when the chief negotiators are assassinated on the regular?
Why not a team from both sides ...Palestine & Isr only in same room maybe in Geneva/ not held in US?? Maybe 2 moderators, maybe SouthAfrican, Chinese, Columbian, from Spain?
...Keep US at bay/ deny any US input ...same technique as managing a toddler's tantrum in a public place...
Laughable, if the implications weren't so deadly and tragic. Our "diplomacy" has devolved to a kindergarten level. The combination of incompetence and being dog-walked by Israel is breathtaking. We have burned our political capital and standing in the world, even in the eyes of other Western allies who have been supporting the Genocide. Our credibility and word have no value. We have no standing, other than as a global bully. So ashamed and mortified.
Yeah, right: put your faith and trust in the honesty and integrity of people who have made their living in real estate.
Thanks so much for giving us the true details of what is going on in these 'negotiations." The MSM will continue to spin this as Hamas's refusal to act in good faith, but we, who read your reporting know better.
Support the Hind Rajab Foundation
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On 25 August 2025, Israel struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis twice, killing 22 civilians — including journalists, doctors, rescue workers, and a 14-year-old child. Today, the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court, exposing the full chain of command behind the massacre. Our investigation proves that the Golani Brigade engineered and coordinated the attack under continuous drone surveillance, the 188th Armored Brigade executed it with guided missiles, and senior commanders up to Prime Minister Netanyahu authorized and enabled it. This was not crossfire, but deliberate killing with genocidal intent. Justice demands accountability.
I know that the polls show that 80 % of Americans support the Palestinians - however, amongst my anti-Trump Jewish friends - admittedly a small sample ) they rarely mention that Trump's support of Gaza and all things Netenyahu - as a reason for their continued TDS . It's tariffs and RFK they concentrate on. = Anything dealing with Gaza is framed as the anti-semitism they are experiencing in their well nourished lives and the security guards now guarding their upscale synagogues. How does this happen? the only answer that makes sense is from Illan Pappe who details the indoctrination from birth to death that many Americans = including the grandschildren of my friends -are subjected to with their all paid trips to Israel etc. Pappe knows the routine - before his eyes opened when he got out of Israel to study, he too was a captive of Israel's propoganda.
I forgot one thing. The Catholics used to say - and perhaps still do - give me a child until he or she is 7 and they are ours forever. In my ministerial career, this was very true. I would get a few never again Carholics in my Prostestant congregations when they were approaching middle age but inevitably they would leave and go back to the Pope, the all male priesthood, etc. They honestly felt what they had been taught at confirmation -- - there was no gate to heaven exept through the Roman Catholic church. Pappe said iin an interview that all of the academics and intellectual class that he knows can logically assess and criticize anything - plays, music, their own governments, etc- but they never criticize Israel. He says a book needs to be written to analyze what happens when indoctrination starts early.
You know nothing about Catholicism, so stop spewing lies about it.
Throwing Catholicism into this mix dilutes and muddies your argument.
Sorry if it appeared muddled to you - I was using it to underscore my argument re the Israelis, that if you are indoctrinated enough at an early age , it stays with you for a lifetime. . Pretty clear to me and some others , but not all minds work on the same track.
The indoctrination is multi-fold. Here are some key elements: 1) lies and false history about how Israel came into being. 2) erasure of Palestinians, past and present. 3) dehumanization of Palestinians by describing them as blood-thirsty, murderous, uncivilized people who don't love their own children and who worship death, and, very importantly, 5) instilling fear and paranoia from early in childhood about being universally hated and perpetually under threat. An American Jewish friend relayed how at her synagogue, they were made to walk through a hallway of life size photos and portraits of murdered Jews on Holocaust remembrance. She was so traumatized by this she refused to do it after a couple of years when she was old enough and capable of asserting herself.
Diaspora Jews get this "training" at synagogue, camp, at home, and when they go on their Birthright trips to Israel (I am generalizing, of course- this does not apply to everyone but to the majority).
Very importantly, and this explains how Israel can conduct a Genocide which has the support of 60-80% of the population (many recent polls), Israeli kids are taught this at school from very early on, and this is turbo-charged during military training. See Nurit Peled's book which covers this in detail:
https://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Israeli-School-Books-Propaganda/dp/1780765053/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2J1P0BXI2TPSA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.BzOeYTo7aAlqsudtEjgnQnFgAMR_a9Rf2dbI_j6yKgProCQU8MQirq0C6N1HkffZiVVTq-BWKLcuwAVe1IGJJerCT0XnV_ThmykGe_p4Wgk.APLhv0fjfRDd1v9iPTpwxdV_G-5Fvs9FmIMYsHPPIAU&dib_tag=se&keywords=nurit+peled-elhanan&qid=1757359087&sprefix=nurit+peled%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-1
Israel is racing against the clock to kill them all before they are forced to stop. Oct 7th was a wag the dog scenario, the excuse they needed to launch their own “final solution”.
I agree about the indoctrination, but comparing the number of Jews who expose their kids to this is likely by far less than the evangelical Christian adults who are zealouly evangelical Zios. That group helped elect W Bush... and grew exponentially since
Reason being, there are far less Jews in the population, and of those most ascribe to a belief Jews do not proselytize, and there are many different frequencies of their observance of the religion & the traditions practiced by their grandparents because of their places in the diaspora.
Now we see the very Orthodox "Torah Jews" speaking up at pro-Palestine demonstrations because they believe the very concept of a State is antithetical to their essential religious doctine. And we see 2nd, 3rd+ generation American Jews who were taught assimilation over religion by non-zio parents often becoming status quo "liberals" who refuse to rock the boat under any circumstances. And those are the ones up for grabs by slick media from aipac and appeals to "help kids in Isr."
Whats the matter with the West allowing Netanyahu & Trump to drag thier dignity through the gutter? They're reminders of Hitler and Mussolini.
Put a stop to GHF
There’s a campaign to have the Delaware Attorney General, Kathy Jennings, dissolve the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) which is incorporated in Delaware. The group DELPHR has launched an effort to put pressure on the Deleware Attorney general, with a letter-writing effort. You can do your part and sign on here:
national letter-writing tool which was created by the Center for Constitutional Rights.
More details can be found in this article:
https://passblue.com/2025/08/29/a-us-group-demands-probe-into-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-alleging-war-crimes/
Go to a boat marina in FL and see the most glitzy yachts are registered in Delaware, home of magas before Magas/no taxes. Scams? Drug running boats?
Take action today
Tell FIFA, ban Israel from playing in the 2026 World Cup
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ban_israel_from_the_world_cup_2_0/?bezdetb&v=169237&cl=22311971612&_checksum=6d83a36799686c95d03116e8c556125ab456e12a3f0eebd7c7cf7b35a91a2184&utm_source=email&utm_medium=blast_email&utm_campaign=169237
Evict Israeli weapons manufacturers, Easy Aerial and Crye Precision, from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and establish a policy of no weapons manufacturers.
“Since September 2024, a decentralized coalition of Brooklyn Navy Yard neighbors, workers, and community members have organized under the banner Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The landlord in question is the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), a non-profit developer charged with managing business leases at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is owned by the City of New York.” Story from Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/09/activists-and-residents-are-banding-together-to-force-companies-complicit-in-the-gaza-genocide-out-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/?ml_recipient=164884890941130665&ml_link=164884848201172892&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-07&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines+RSS+Automation
See also:
https://www.instagram.com/demilitarizebklynnavyyard/
Call on Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. He can go to Gaza right now, and insist aid be allowed in.
Is there anything more important in today's world than this?
https://chng.it/gkvBfY44rq
Please sign the petition and share widely.
Deception - dont expect anything else from the compromised occupant of the White House.
Arab countries like Egypt and Yemen need to step up to become guarantors of this new and "final" proposal. It offers no mechanism to get Israel to comply so that both Israel and the USA can continue the lie that Hamas rejects a peace deal.
Any chance that the UNGA members who support a free Palestine can pressure?/sanction? US
to stop funding &:arming Isr
both to end apartheid aggression/ occupation (Gaza & West Bank)
and also not allow US weapons to attack Lebanon, Syria, Yemen & Iran??,
Also to isolste/ostracize Isr?
And.to keep US out of negotiations?
Only sanctions from other Govts will help shift this impossible situation of ridiculous deal making/threats via the US who are complicit amoung others, to save people. Govts have to step up and suck up the tariffs used as sanctions by Trump to tow his line and do trade elsewhere. Keep pressuring your own Govts internationally and throw everything we can at them.
60 days or until negotiatios conclude... How can negotiations conclude when the chief negotiators are assassinated on the regular?
Why not a team from both sides ...Palestine & Isr only in same room maybe in Geneva/ not held in US?? Maybe 2 moderators, maybe SouthAfrican, Chinese, Columbian, from Spain?
...Keep US at bay/ deny any US input ...same technique as managing a toddler's tantrum in a public place...
Put the date at the top of your paper.