In not quite one year since the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, Israel has broken the ceasefire 4,600 times. It has killed hundreds of people, including infants, demolished tens of thousands of homes and annexed five areas of Lebanon. It was supposed to withdraw completely.
After a series of attacks throughout the night, the Israelis today at dawn bombed a café in the town of Houla, Lebanon, reducing it to rubble. This is an act of terrorism and further ethnic cleansing. pic.twitter.com/loNvRPhmuI
— courtneybonneauimages (@cbonneauimages) October 8, 2025
This situation is being replicated in detail in Gaza. In particular, the ceasefire in Lebanon is “guaranteed” by the USA and France and overseen by an international committee referred to as “the Mechanism”. The “Mechanism” is chaired by the USA. Accordingly the guarantors have refused to acknowledge a single breach of the ceasefire because the US-controlled “Mechanism” calls them counter-terrorist operations aimed at disarming Hezbollah.
The United Nations defers to “the Mechanism” and thus to the USA, and the presence of UN peacekeeping troops in Southern Lebanon is therefore useless. Lebanon is now under control of the US/Israeli puppet administration of General Aoun and effectively being run by US Special Envoy Tom Barrack.
Barrack stated that the borders of Israel and Syria are meaningless and that “Israel will go where they want, when they want, and do what they want to protect the Israelis and their border to make sure on October 7th it never happens again”. This is from the “guarantor” of the Lebanese ceasefire agreement.
There can be no doubt that Trump’s US-chaired “Board of Peace” for Gaza will take exactly the same line as “the Mechanism” in Lebanon. It is axiomatic that Israel will never honour any agreement. They never have.
BREAKING! “Ceasefire”, in Israel’s dictionary: you cease, I fire.
Just hours after the deal – as in January – Israel shoots at Palestinians waiting to return home.
Before any next step, member states must ensure that Israel honours the ceasefire. https://t.co/ne0YvhrVOj— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) October 9, 2025
What we know from Lebanon is not just that the Israelis will break any agreement, but that the American “guarantors” will support their continued violence as “counter-terrorism”. While the Gaza peacekeeping force may not be UN blue-helmeted, it will also almost certainly have terms of engagement that defer to the US-chaired “Board of Peace”.
Back in February I discussed the failure of the Lebanese ceasefire agreement with the UN spokesman in Lebanon, and the primacy of the “Mechanism”. In light of the Gaza agreement negotiations, it is worth revisiting that interview.
Hamas were right to enter the ceasefire negotiations and the prisoner exchange is a good thing. I am not supportive of Hamas’s policy of taking prisoners, other than active service personnel, and I do not believe it has done their cause any good these last two years, particularly as Israel had taken more hostages than they have released in exchanges. The “hostage” narrative, however twisted and unfair, has muddied the waters and hurt the Palestinians. So I shall be pleased to see the end of that phase, and of course welcome the release of Palestinians.
Israel will still hold over 9,000 Palestinian hostages after the releases, and possibly many more.
I will not go through the 20 points of the Agreement, all of which are just headings requiring the substance. But the Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza is of course fundamental, and entirely obscure in its timing and completeness. The “first stage” still leaves the Israeli military in over 60% of Gaza. 
Netanyahu has made plain to the Israeli public that he has no intention of the Israeli military leaving Gaza, or of agreeing to a Palestinian state. That this agreement is a phoney is not hidden at all – Israel is not pretending it will honour it.
But if the process gets three things into Gaza – food, journalists and peacekeepers – that will be a major improvement. I do not think you should underestimate the impact on world opinion once journalists can actually get into Gaza, witness the destruction and interview people. There is nobody more cynical than I about the mainstream media, but they are not going to be able to prevent the truth from bleeding into their coverage.
The victory for Palestine will take a few years. Israel is now a pariah state in the eyes of the majority of the inhabitants of this globe, and that will accelerate. Hamas are negotiating from a position of weakness, it is true. We are apparently going to see formal colonialism restored in Gaza for a while. There is more pain to be endured. But the balance is shifting.
I have two quotes for you, one from the West and one from the East.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.
They plan, and they plan, but Allah is the best of planners.
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For every Palestinian Israel releases it will kidnap 10 new from the West Bank. Israel will continue looking the other way whenever settlers murder West bank Palestinians.
You may not know but Israeli settlers have already started looking for land in southern Syria and they will build settlements in Lebanon too.
Demilitarised Zone or No man’s land, call it what you like, will never exist between Israel and its neighbours because Israeli settlers will always do as they wish, and the world governments will be happy to look the other way.
You are quite right. The Israeli Zionists are beyond reason. They are barbaric and violent. And the fact that so many countries in the west, especially the United States, support this violence in a material way no matter their claims of “wanting peace”, condemns the entire west to the dustbin of history. The west just doesn’t know this yet.
The ceasefire is a ruse, as is Trump’s twenty-points plan – the Zionists can’t be trusted period – Hamas are stupid to free the settler hostages – it will make Netanyahu look like a hero instead of the war criminal that he is okay the Zionists will release hundreds of abducted and illegally held without charge Palestinians who have suffered from starvation and torture, however once the settler hostages are released, they’ll just kidnap hundreds more.
Part of the so called deal was the release of Marwan Barghouti a kind of Palestinian Nelson Mandela, the Zionists agreed to release him now they have reneged on that promise.
Trump the sociopathic narcissist – is desperate to get his grubby orange hands on the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow – so he’ll say and do anything that looks like he’s brokered a peace deal – the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize should be Francesca Albanese – who has done great work in the region.
The only thing I don’t agree with is your calling Hamas “stupid”.
Israel is quite capable of exterminating every last Palestinian, with full American support all the way. That may have been the alternative to making the agreement that they did.
The fact that the American Government and most European Governments are controlled by rabid Zionists is not something that Hamas can do anything about.
Townsman.
Hamas should’ve kept the settler/occupier hostages – because it put pressure on Netanyahu from the other settler/occupier civilians in Palestine to free them – also as I’ve said further down this thread Netanyahu would’ve had no qualms in killing the hostages – dead men and women tell no tales – and besides the IOF will just illegally kidnapped more Palestinians and put them in prison – after this hostage/prisoner exchange is over.
Settler/occupier hostages leave Hamas confinement, fit and healthy and well fed – illegally abducted Palestinians held in prison, without charge (if they are not murdered first) – leave gaunt, shaken, ill – emaciated and mentally shaken.
There can be no Palestinian state – only when the settlers/occupiers are removed from the region entirely – will their be a Palestinian state, and if not peace, then something close to it.
You are right. No one should trust anything the Israeli Zionists say. Haven’t we seen the evidence of this for decades? Is the collective west incapable of learning anything?
The collective West is largely paid off. Starmer is not doing what he’s doing with regard to Israel (or much else) in the interests of the British people.
On October 7 Hamas stumbled into a trap they should have seen twenty miles away. Did they never stop to ask why they were never halted at the perimeter fence?
It would make sense to elect Marwan Barghouti as the next Palestinian president, although or precisely because he is in Israeli custody. That would build up considerable pressure.
Pnyx.
I doubt the illegal settlers/occupiers will release him – I think they’d kill him first, and make it look like an accident.
Like poisoning Yassir Arafat?
If you can find anyway to access Jolt.film all about netinyahu’s corruption, please highlight. I can get snippets but not the whole film! My snippets are from Candice Owens! It seems the
UK government has it banned from view! I concur with almost all your statements, but the exception to Hamas! The Palestinians are starving, Hamas as you know, shares everything equally with prisoners and its people!
There’s no reason to think an election is in the plan.
Fatah would get their arses kicked, just as they did in 2006, and probably harder.
It’s not clear what’s going to happen. I will believe that the occupiers are allowing foreign military personnel into Gaza only when I see it. AIUI this would be the first time this has ever happened on territory they took in 1967.
I would tend to agree with Craig that taking and keeping the hostages was probably not the best move for the Palestinians and has been counterproductive. It has merely allowed the Israeli government to create alibis and multiple diversions over time, and ammunition for Zionist apologists particularly in West Europe (curiously, apologists in West Europe have made more use of the hostages diversion than their counterparts in the US), while not succeeding in stopping or at least limiting the genocidial nature of the Israeli operation.
But it is certainly true that the Israeli narrative and reputation have suffered big time. Whether even a tiny proportion of these can be recovered remains to be seen, only time will tell.
Luis Cunha da Silva
There are one or two UN resolutions – that say occupied people can take back their lands by force – I’m just surprised Hamas didn’t kill them, Netanyahu had no qualms about killing his own using the Hannibal Directive – taking the settler/occupiers hostage might have looked back to the outside world, but it put pressure on Netanyahu – pressure from the rest of the civilian settlers in occupied lands to get them back alive – and even though Netanyahu has no qualms about killing the hostages – it did give Hamas a little bit of leverage – as they did release some of them, and in return gravely ill and gaunt illegally held Palestinians were released by the settlers forces.
There can be no Palestinian state, nor peace – until the illegal settler state (Israel) is removed entirely.
Agreed on your last sentence.
The second Sumud flotilla was kidnapped much further out in international waters, yesterday, and large quantities of aid were lost. I understand that European MEPs were on board and people from many countries. Greta Thunberg was magnificent leading the first siege breaking peace flotilla but we have yet to have confirmation that all on board that flotilla have been released, including Nelson Mandela’s son. I have not seen any updates on how the new detainees are faring either.
Aid has been allowed into the north via Rafah today, from Egypt.
Excellent article. I am not optimistic either (in the short term, at least), as I discussed in these 2 articles:
1. https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/why-is-trump-rushing-for-peace-in?r=25fc37
2. https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/is-trumpanyahus-peace-plan-being?r=25fc37
sorry to bother you @ geopolitiq: trying to subscribe to your ss, which I like, the subscribe button does not seem to respond. also, I tried to send in a comment, but the ‘reply’ button doesn’t respond either. this was my comment:
where is the recognition of Palestinian independence, including protection, safety and national statehood for its citizens? yes, Gaza is in ruins, but in what form will it be rebuilt? maybe I’m missing something, but the root cause – total control by US-backed Israel – doesn’t seem to be addressed. where can the Palestinians go to heal?
please stay critical (subb’d).
Well said, Craig.
Generalgouvernment a-go-go.
Kaminski and Dirlewanger live again.
Kaminski and Dirlewanger operated during the period of the Generalgouvernement (particularly in its latter half) but were not directly agents or sub-entities of the GG.
It’s a nice soundbite, but could you explain how those two ghastly characters are germane to whatever argument you’re making?
Could you also have a stab at naming their 2025 equivalents in the context of the Gaza tragedy?
If the killing is halted/slowed it’s a good thing. However, there will never be peace in the ME until Israel, as it currently exists, is utterly destroyed. And, that won’t happen until the USA stops it’s funding.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UN_Palestine_Partition_Versions_1947.jpg
That isn’t the Gaza Strip, this is.
These are the kind of pious hopes best described as “bromides”.
Probably more accurate is “God helps those who help themselves.” And the Israelis are certainly good at “helping themselves” – to other people’s property.
The US Special Envoy Barrack has been trying to gin up a civil war in Lebanon for the past 6 months by leaning on the government and Army to seize Hezbollah’s weapons, to no avail, Army Chief and President Joseph Aoun knows that to try and disarm Hezbollah is a bridge too far. The US/Israel would prefer all its neighbours to have no means to defend themselves, that is why US military aid comes in the form of a couple of crop duster type biplanes and some flintlock rifles that when fired a flag pops out the end with ‘bang’ on it. The Iranians did at one time offer to completely equip the Lebanese army, but other countries political interference probably Israel/US and the Saudis stopped that. It is my opinion that the ‘arc of resistance’ Hezbollah, Iran and Ansa Allah (the Hoothies) have more than enough fire power to attrit the Genocidal state. Most pundits say it is only a matter of time before Iran is attacked, to be honest Israel/US are demanding No enrichment of uranium at all. Iran has the right in International law to enrich uranium to approx 2.75% for peaceful purposes. they are also demanding a limit on their ballistic missile defences, that of course is a non starter, and Iran must abandon its proxies in the region, another non starter. All these outrageous demands are non starters, together with the snap back arrangements brought back by UK, France and Germany to intimidate Iran will also fail since both Russia and China have declared the snap back sanctions illegal, since it was Trump who tore up the JCPOA in his first term. China/Russia are in the process of arming Iran to the teeth with anti air missiles. even jet fighters. Iran is so important to China’s belt and road initiative and supplies almost 90% of its oil. An attack on Iran, from the US point of view could be a twofer against China, but Iran could counter by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, thereby wrecking Western economies, destroying the vital infrastructure of Israel, making it unviable, or even attacking any of the family Monarchies who dare assist an attack on Iran.Remember Trump saved Israel from a severe beating last June, after Netanyahu appealed to Trump to stop the Iranian bombardment. Iran has plenty of unstoppable hyper sonic missiles. In my opinion a attack on Iran would be suicide, but when you are dealing with delusional people who think they are the masters of the Universe, anything can happen, one only has to hear what Trump and Hegseth said to the assembled Admirals and 4 star Generals last week to realize the US are led by psychopaths.
None of the facts you lay out about the ceasefire in Lebanon have been mentioned in the round-the-clock coverage by British media and its highly-paid Middle East correspondents.
Not sufficiently germane.
That is the point.
The Zionists stage a “ceasefire” stunt, quickly secure the hostages and then the media circus moves on.
Israel’s creeping expansion continues… More “facts on the ground”
“The victory for Palestine will take a few years. Israel is now a pariah state in the eyes of the majority of the inhabitants of this globe, and that will accelerate.”
I really hope you are right but unfortunately I sense the exact opposite will happen: media, already bad, showing less and less interest to write about the plight of the Palestinians after the phony “peace deal”, the pro-Palestinian movement will without a doubt wane from now on, the Genocide narrative/momentum will wither apart to great extent, the journalists that should expose the Genocide seems more keen on attacking, sluring pro-palestinian protesters et.c.
The US was after all a pariah state after Vietnam war, how long did it not take for people to forget about that Genocide? Or Iraq, Bush and Blair was condemned, today all that is – apparently – forgotten by a whole lot of people. Or the heinous “Operation Cast Lead” attack on Gaza in 2009? Forgotten.
So we will hear less about the genocide and instead nonsense about the importance of israelis and palestinians coming together and forgetting what just happened to “benefit” and to “heal” the “peace process”, we will see a expansion of the “Abraham Accords” and so on.
Norman Finkelstein said a couple of years ago that he had pretty much given up on Palestine:
“And as things looked, the night before October 7th, when the question of Gaza was disappearing from the public stage, I will admit to you, Piers, I myself had given up on Gaza. In 2020, I decided it’s hopeless, pointless, and I only have a finite years left in my life, and it’s time for me to move on. And I’ll tell you, that was a wrenching decision on my part. Because I knew I was abandoning the people who for 15 years I had devoted my life to chronicling every detail of the horror that had been inflicted on those people. I gave up on them, and that meant, if I gave up, they had no future, because I was the last chronicler of Gaza, I have the only book that’s been written on the subject. […] The people of Gaza have the right to hate the people who destroyed lives”.
https://portalcioranbr.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/norman-finkelstein-piers-morgan/
…no doubt the situation of today is even more bleak.
You speak as though it is only opinion in the US and western Europe that matters; the rest of the world doesn’t count. But even there there’s fear in Israel that the young generation in the US is no longer pro-Zionist in the way their parents are. The rapid decline in Israel’s reputation abroad is likely not reversible. It may be that the donor class, having bought out the media, Tiktok included, can hold out against public opinion for a while, but not for ever.
In my view, the thing is that mere anti-israel sentiment do not mean much in the end – it does not matter if a majority of europeans think israel is bad, it does not matter if majority of arabs in the Middle East think that israel is bad, obviously.
Palestinians need real allies, real friends, real patrons that will use real actual soft and hard power to defend the palestinians.
It does matter if there’s change in the US. why do you think Charlie Kirk was killed? He was extremely influential, and curiously had abandoned his support for Israel. In any case, the change is much more widespread than just the followers of Kirk.
There are a lot of people who believe in the eternal (evil) omnipotence of US/Israel. I don’t. If Israel does go ahead with its new attack on Iran, there’ll be a new crash.
In any case, the way Israel will lose is through the bleeding out and emigration of the western jewish population, which will leave a weakened extremist community. Crooke says it, probably others think it too. It’s obvious.
The fleeing of rich Jews from Israel may very well destabilise the Israel project. However, it has become fairly obvious that every Israeli is an extremist bigot. If these people move to the west it just means their extremist views will be used to lobby their new hosts so that the killing continues. Deradicalisation doesn’t work, so we can look forward to many years of wars in the ME promoted by extremist Jews – with or without Israel.
Firstly, apologies for intervening so often – it’s just that I have some time on my hands today.
I tend to agree with you in your exchange with Laguerre, that is to say the reputational loss (and increasing world awareness of the true nature) of Israel is unlikely to have any immediate or medium-term effect on the country and its policies. Only the US position counts here, for the others economic considerations and (erroneous) feelings of guilt for the Holocaust will prevail. As for the shift in US public opinion – Laguerre is correct when he agrees with others that this is occurring – it would be a mistake to give too much weight to that as a factor that will affect US policies toward the region. I assume Laguerre is a European and would guess fro his name that he is French or lives in France. Public opinion in France has been shifting against certain of Macron’s policies for years, but I don’t see those policies changing. Further examples of this disregarding of shifts in public opinion can be found in other countreis, including the UK. In other words, do not exaggerate the extet to which increasingly authoritarian governments bow before public opinion.
I further think this phenomenon of western Jews leaving (re-leaving Israel), apart from being exaggerated, won’t change very. There is still immigration into Israel (including by European and American Jews) and in any event how would it be a positive development if the remaining population contains a higher proportion of extremists?
On this latter point, two points: firstly, why this distinction between Western European Jews and Eastern European Jews, and, secondly, is it not a rather racist to imply that the Western European Jews are the moderates and the remainder – consisting of Eastern European Jews and the brown skins from the Maghreb and Mashraq – are the extremists?
I’m going to go through my whole position every time I write a comment, but this was worth a response:
“why this distinction between Western European Jews and Eastern European Jews, and, secondly, is it not a rather racist to imply that the Western European Jews are the moderates and the remainder – consisting of Eastern European Jews and the brown skins from the Maghreb and Mashraq – are the extremists?”
Westerners have somewhere to run to if things get sticky. Cyprus is where they are buying up massively at the moment. They’re the ones with the money. No I didn’t distinguish racially. Arab Jews, as Shlaim calls them, have zero record of anti-semitism or difficulty with other communities. Such has only existed since the foundation of Israel. I still don’t understand how Ben Gvir, an Iraqi Jew, came to his extreme posiition, but he did. Arab Jews lost a lot more when they came to Israel; maybe that’s it. Bridges have been burnt. There’s nowhere to go back to, as westerners have.
Laguerre
Thank you for that. I believe your hypotheses about the Arab Jews and their attitudes have great merit, in that effectively they cannot/would not wish to go back to where they came from.
Regarding the European Jews, though, perhaps the difficulty arises from your use of the word “Western”, which would lead most readers to assume you’re making a distinction between Western European Jews and Eastern European Jews. Perhaps the confusion arises from a loose use, on your part, of the word “Western” when you really meant ALL Jews from Europe, whether West or East?
PS on the “methodology” : I apologize if I gave you and perhaps others the impression I was expecting you to respond ALL of my points. It might perhaps have enabled an interesting discussion and a teasing out of thoughts to continue a little but certainly there’s no obligation on anyone to respond to all – or even one – of the points made by anyone else.
“is it not a rather racist to imply that the Western European Jews are the moderates and the remainder – consisting of Eastern European Jews and the brown skins from the Maghreb and Mashraq – are the extremists?”
The Western European versus Eastern European thing probably doesn’t mean much in the occupation except perhaps for a small part of what counts as the “old money” bourgeoisie in Tel Aviv.
Fear not Jack, your comments over the past few months have done more for the Palestinian cause than all 57 Arab and Muslim countries combined, in other words they (the 57 nations) have contributed F*** All. As the BRICS grows, and it will eventually be bigger than the US led West, then it will be in a position to call the shots in the middle east. At the moment these Arab and Muslim nations want to help the Palestinians but are held back by their governments fear of Israeli/US economic and military consequences, some say they have no self respect and that they should defy the empire, easier said than done. Israel with US backing has attacked seven countries over the past few months, they are on a rampage and are determined to pacify the middle east using ALL available means, this is doomed to failure, unfortunately the defeat of the colonial project will happen, it may take some time but it is inevitable.
I became convinced of this when Netanyahu said Israel must be the new Sparta, it must manufacture its own weapons and be self sufficient etc, he is delusional, Israel exists because the US and the west generally wants it to exist, Recently German Chancellor Merz and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said that Israel was doing the dirty work for the west. Soon they will become a liability to the west and will be dropped like any vassal whose usefulness has passed its sell by date. At present Israel/US are using unrestrained violence on opponents, this may work for a time, but even now Iran and the arc of resistance have greater fire power through their hyper sonic ballistic missile programs. Like any settler colonial project if you are overwhelmingly more powerful, you can stay, if not you must leave. Israel will shortly be presented with the choice. As in Algeria ‘The suitcase or the coffin’, many have already made that choice.
Something as meaningless (in my opinion) as the Nobel peace prize, is so important to Trumps ego, other nations are willing to debase themselves by insisting Trump should win it… “On the same day, Egypt’s President Sisi told President Trump in phone call that he ‘deserves Nobel Peace Prize’ – adding to the growing list, Including Netanyahu Meanwhile Officials in Norway (a US ally) are bracing themselves for a backlash from Trump, pathetic. As you can see all this fawning over probably one of the biggest A.. Holes the US has ever elected speaks volumes for the collective west. If US allies can be so easily suborned (picture the seven dwarfes including our own PM, Dopey, around Trumps table being read the riot act). Is it any wonder the 57 Arab and Muslim nations utter not one squick.
“Fear not Jack, your comments over the past few months have done more for the Palestinian cause than all 57 Arab and Muslim countries combined, in other words they (the 57 nations) have contributed F*** All. ”
I don’t think it is a coincidence that the only Muslim countries that have done anything for the Palestinians are those that have kicked out the governments foisted on them by the West.
And now in Afghanistan…. Trump requested return of the Bagram (?) airport maybe 3 weeks ago? Last week all Wi-Fi services ceased to operate across Afghanistan. Today large explosions in Kabul are happening and thought to be from bombing
Afghan internet restored after two days.
Alyson
Afghan officials told Trump to get lost – Bagram is sovereign Afghan territory – Trump also wrongly claimed, that the Afghan’s should give the base back to the Americans because they built it – the Soviets built Bagram – thankfully Trump didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, but the prize went to a US puppet anyway in María Corina Machado.
For those that are unaware Machado – is a US puppet – that opposes Maduro of Venezuela.
I’ve said it before – the Nobel Society has lost all its credibility.
Just wondered who might be bombing Kabul this morning, RoS, and whether the events were linked
Alyson.
It might have something to do with this – Pakistan claims he’s dead – and Afghan officials say the opposite.
Pakistan’s airstrike in Kabul aimed at killing TTP leader Noor Wali Mehsud
Afghan Taliban’s Government in response to last night’s Pakistani airstrikes:
“Pakistan violated Afghan airspace, bombed a civilian market near the Durand Line, infringed upon territory of capital Kabul.
We strongly condemn this violation of Afghan airspace, and defending our territory is our right.
If situation escalates further following these actions, the consequences will be the responsibility of the Pakistani military.
Noor Wali Mehsud is the fourth chairman of the TTP and has led the group since 2018. He is one of Pakistan’s most wanted individuals and is accused of orchestrating terrorism across the country, including extortion, kidnappings, and attacks on security forces. The Pakistani government considers the TTP its most serious internal security threat in over a decade.
Afghanistan FM Muttaqi in a press conference in India:
“Some of our areas have been attacked by Pakistan, we have warned them. They should learn from the Soviet’s, United States and NATO the consequences of troubling Afghan’s – not to mention Perfidious Albion.
Afghan FM Amir Khan Muttaqi in India:
“Chabahar Port in Iran is vital for India and Afghanistan. We must jointly address U.S. sanctions and keep trade routes open”
Re. Bagram – someone is playing Trump like a violin.
Possibly relevant, possibly not: an explosion at an explosives factory in Tennessee, USA, has killed 18 people.
Some people are much more cynical than you about the MSM.
In some good news, the Norwegian committee didn’t give Donald Trump the Nobel peace prize. Maria Machado is a right-wing pro-privatisation arsehole, but at least she isn’t Trump.
Yeah luckily the prize did not go to Trump but as you said, the committee could not keep themselves from showing what a politicized prize this really is. When they were about to announce the award they said that it would go to a fearless woman, I thought for a second that Greta Thunberg would get the prize, stupid me.
Of course the anti-Venezuelan angle of the prize come just days after rumors that Trump plan to attack the Venezuelan government. Now the western population must be conditioned to believe that there must be regime change in Venezuela, sigh.
Even Russia seems to embrace Trump as some peace-dove now, so stupid.
Russia would back a potential Nobel Peace Prize for US President Donald Trump, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said on Friday.
https://swentr.site/russia/626178-russia-trump-nobel-prize/
I suspect Russia would support almost anything if it moves Trump in the required direction on the chessboard. The Nobel peace prize is widely recognised as a corrupt entity, and is just another distraction from reality. We shouldn’t place too much meaning on this charade. Meanwhile in Gaza men, women and children are still being murdered by Israel and it’s western enablers.
” The Nobel peace prize is widely recognised as a corrupt entity, ”
Then why does it matter so much that Trump didn’t get it?
Because the group amongst which ” The Nobel peace prize is widely recognised as a corrupt entity, ” doesn’t include one Donald John Trump, perhaps?
I expect there’s a distinct sense of irony to those statements, plus it costs nothing to keep D.C distracted with a meaningful bauble. If it truly is such a big deal to Trump.
It’s still a big win for Trump, advancing his push for regime change in Venezuela.
Their claim that this lady is a tireless campaigner for democracy is hardly less laughable than saying Trump is a tireless campaigner for Palestine. She is a comprador gusano working tirelessly to restore oligarchic/ US corporate rule. The award is a joke even by Nobel Peace Prize standards.
“heir claim that this lady is a tireless campaigner for democracy is hardly less laughable than saying Trump is a tireless campaigner for Palestine. ”
When was the prize renamed the “Nobel Democracy Prize”? I must have missed that.
Yes, by the terms of their own remit alone there is zero justification.
The thinking behind it could relate to wanting a peaceful democratic transition, and hoping it dissuades/hinders Rubio’s desired regime change. Rubio has long been obsessed with Cuba (from where both his parents fled to the U.S.) and more recently, Venezuela.
The Nobel Committee also know about the buildup of U.S. Naval forces off Venezuela, and Trump’s trigger-happy nature; as witnessed with the summary execution of alleged drug dealers off Venezuela’s coast in recent months : no attempt at interdiction; no trial, just elimination. Imagine if the U.S. behaved like that in Europe – the diplomatic fallout, public protests.
This illustrates the problem with the U.S. as a global rules-based order enforcer; they have zero respect for the sovereignty of countries they view as of lesser class or status. Trump, while here in the UK on his official visit, even urged the use of the the military(Navy) to sink and kill those on the dinghies heading here from France. Somehow, I don’t think those along England’s south coast would appreciate lots of dead bodies washing up along the shoreline, in the summer when the beaches are packed.
I don’t know much about Maria Corina Machado, but if she’s anything like Juan Guaidó, Venezuelans would be swapping the increasingly autocratic for subservience. They need only look at the sham election in Syria. The West doesn’t want real democracy to flourish anywhere; they want their own handpicked ideological soulmates in charge, so they can profiteer from privatising the country’s natural resources, together.
A peaceful democratic transition to what exactly?
In any event they know very well this woman requested a violent US invasion and has helped lead failed military coups and violent street riots. The award is a blatant effort to green light and justifiy a US-Exxon regime change war on Venezuela.
zoot
I was trying to explain the Nobel Committee’s logic, I don’t necessarily agree with it.
I’ve just seen Afshin Rattansi’s post on X :
“If we win, we will move the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem to support Israel.”
Like many other US-backed Latin American politicians, her policies are copy & paste support for Israel, support for Washington’s neoliberalism, and servitude to US hegemony…
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She’s clearly another atrocious one straight off the Hillary, von der Leyen; Kallas, Sanna Marin, Baerbock production line.
Ursula von der Leyen has been quick to congratulate Maria Corina Machado. Apparently :
She signed a cooperation agreement with Israel’s Likud party in 2020 on political, ideological, social, and security matters.
She supported Netanyahu in his war on Gaza.
She pledged to restore relations with Israel if she wins the presidency.
Ursula von der Leyen only congratulates those who agree with her. After the recent Czech election, in which Andrej Babiš’s party came top and will likely have a majority to form a coalition, von der Leyen’s social media was silent. Babiš has been a critic of his country fueling and arming the war in Ukraine. Contrast this, to her rapid response to the recent deeply flawed Moldovan election.
The EU is apparently also suppressing the report on election rigging in Pakistan…. all to back a military dictatorship which supplied weapons to Ukraine and will recognize Israel
Who does von der Leyen work for? Because it certainly isn’t European citizens.
Who does Ursula von der Leyen work for “Europe has the values of the Talmud”
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=von+der+lyen+i+am+a+talmudist&mid=6F818CC3531D1F53EA546F818CC3531D1F53EA54&FORM=VIRE
Javier Milei congratulates Maria
https://x.com/JMilei/status/1976631905262207038
Peace Prize Winner Has Supported Trump’s Military Actions in the Caribbean
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/americas/maria-corina-machado-trump-support-maduro.html
Supporting attacks against her own nation, this is nothing but a traitor of course.
And the Guardian are running puff pieces about her presumably “for the sisterhood?”, glossing over her revolting views.
A swear this lot would have supported a female Pinochet if dressed up as a female empowerment exercise. They buy the narratives handed down to them so completely, they actually believe they are on the good team.
“Palestine Action proscription challenged under Scots law”-The Herald
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The action, we learn, is being mounted by a former ambassador. I wonder who that might be? 😊
It’s also reported now in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/10/former-british-diplomat-craig-murray-challenges-palestine-action-ban-scotland [ or https://archive.is/9OwPV ]
Good luck, Craig.
“ Good luck, Craig.”
Amen to that
And from Novara:
‘ A former British diplomat is seeking a full judicial review of the ban on Palestine Action in Scotland.
Craig Murray, formerly the British ambassador to Uzbekistan, officially served notice of the petition for a judicial review of the ban on the Scottish solicitor general on 10 October.
The next stage will be a hearing to decide whether the case can proceed to trial.
If successful, this could lead to the controversial ban on Palestine Action being ruled unlawful in Scotland – but not in England and Wales, or Northern Ireland.
Murray’s case is separate to the judicial review of the Palestine Action ban being brought at the High Court in London in November. Decisions in the High Court and the Court of Appeal in England and Wales do not apply to Scotland.
Defend Our Juries, which has organised high-profile protests against the ban, said this could create a potential “constitutional crisis”, further demonstrating that the ban “is simply not enforceable”.
Murray’s legal challenge argues that the proscription order contravenes rights to freedom of speech and assembly, and that there was insufficient consultation in the proscription process – where pro-Israel lobby groups and weapons manufacturers were consulted but not Palestine Action.
Murray said: “It is a maxim in Scots law that the law cannot be absurd. To claim that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation is plainly absurd.
“This proscription is a politically motivated action in support of a genocide and it is poisoning Scottish civil society. Entirely peaceful protestors are being arrested and charged as terrorists.”
More than 2,100 people in Britain have been arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 for protesting the ban since it came into force in July’
If Craig wins this case I am going to insist, as an ex Ambassador, he is addressed by the correct title and salutation “Your Excellency”: Being a gentleman Craig, I’m sure will not insist on it, except when being addressed by Starmer.
The only way he wins is if the govt wants an off-ramp. There are reports many think the terrorist designation was an error, especially given so many old and disabled people have been arrested. This is hugely problematic for convictions and sentencing too; risking trivialising terror offences and bringing terrorism legislation itself into disrepute. And.. there is an alternative :
In 2015, Green Party policy was as follows : “it should not be a crime simply to belong to an organisation or have sympathy with its aims, though it should be a crime to aid and abet criminal acts or deliberately fund such acts”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/green-party-leader-natalie-bennett-says-it-should-not-be-a-crime-to-belong-to-alqaeda-or-isis-10001999.html
That seems perfectly sensible and the farcical scenes in London make it more likely.
The ‘many’ here include MI6, according to a source in touch with Matt Kennard, who disclosed that the agency “wanted to make public the opposition within the intelligence agency to the proscription of Palestine Action … It is a distraction from the battle against real terrorist threat – and should never have happened.” Glad s/o in Vauxhall is paying attention.
“The only way he wins is if the govt wants an off-ramp.”
Quite an interesting idea. What is “winning” for Starmer? Does he expect to win another election? I doubt it. “Winning” may, for him, be the ability to ram an anti-democratic globalist agenda (e-currency, digital ID, genocide support, austerity, privatisation, pension pilfering, war funding) through parliament in the remaining time. If it involves throwing the PLP under a bus, so what? Does he have Labour principles from which deviation would be a personal loss? Not visibly. It cannot be much of a loss if you lose only a transient association with something irrelevant to your core beliefs. So he has no need for a political off-ramp. Starmer’s off-ramps are career changes, the hallmark of someone concerned only with expedience and greasy poles (no reference to Radish Sikorski intended). If he completes his neofeudal agenda, his reward will be to enter the rotating door of WEF appointments like Kaja Kallas, Annalena Baerboch or Mark Rutte. My crystal ball predicts only that he will in all things follow the inspiring example of his mentor, Mr. T. Blair. Until it becomes expedient to do otherwise.
A bow from starmer and and a curtsy from his partner would not be out of place.
“I am not supportive of Hamas’s policy of taking prisoners, other than active service personnel, and I do not believe it has done their cause any good these last two years, particularly as Israel had taken more hostages than they have released in exchanges.”
Most colonial settlers could get passports in other countries, if they don’t have them already. They know what they’re doing, staying as occupier-settlers subjugating the local population.
Worth remembering that Hamas and allies launched the camp breakout because they believed an assault on al-Aqsa was imminent. (The red heifer, etc.) This may yet come. If it does, there will be war in the West Bank. The Gulf will be shaken, to put it mildly, and the positions of Turkey and Pakistan could change. It would be a bigger event than the camp breakout.
This is a must read. So the same West that claim that israel do not carry out a genocide in Gaza because according to them, israel have no such genocidal intent the same West joined the Gambia vs Myanmar case at the ICJ, and look who try to throw the genocidal-intent-part out of the window…
“Is the ICJ’s standard of proof for genocide unattainable?”
“In the The Gambia v Myanmar case, many states including France, Germany and the United Kingdom submitted a joint declaration ‘directed at the questions of construction of the Genocide Convention arising in this case’ (para 14). Particularly on the question of specific intent, the Declarants submitted that:
‘Because direct evidence of genocidal intent will often be rare, it is crucial for the Court to adopt a balanced approach that recognizes the special gravity of the crime of genocide, without rendering the threshold for inferring genocidal intent so difficult to meet so as to make findings of genocide near-impossible’ (para 51)”.
https://rsilpak.org/2024/is-the-icjs-standard-of-proof-for-genocide-unattainable/
Here is the moment of Maria Corina Machado being told of the award. How different her attitude is from Trump’s:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70821201ego
I congratulate her on fighting for human rights and democratic freedom against dictatorship.
Naive.
She’s a Zionist. Anyone who has courted Likud and supported Netanyahu over Gaza, isn’t a good person. Add to that, she appears to have urged the use of force by an outside power to topple the govt. As Venezuelans not linked to the Maduro leadership have said, there are people in Latin America genuinely worthy of the prize, but she isn’t one of them. If she came to power she’d act in a wholly predictable way; with a massive privatisation programme, handed to her from Washington, and a complete diplomatic realignment. It’d be akin to what Reza Pahlavi would do in Iran. There would be nothing free, natural or organic about it.
Machado as well as Maduro illustrate the ambiguity of human regimes. Thus Machado is a fighter for human rights in South America but apparently not in Palestine, while for Maduro it is the other way round. Iran supports Palestinians but is a repressive regime at home. As was the case with Saddam Hussein and Syria under the Assad family.
The solution, as I see it, is to be consistent in supporting democracy and human rights. Thus I support Machado in Venezuela but not the apartheid regime in Israel.
Persecuted govts and regimes – by cruel, selectively-applied western sanctions – stick together. Hardly surprising is it?
If you don’t bow before the U.S., they’ll attempt to crucify you. Regimes that should have little in common with each other thus find common ground in the fact they are persecuted by the same ruthless power. These strange bedfellows e.g. Islamic Iran and Catholic Venezuela; Russia and N. Korea, have little choice but to partner. The U.S. has imposed economic sanctions on Venezuela purely out of ideological spite; as a result, Venezuela can”t raise funds or refinance its debt in the international money markets. Due to that inability, a country that should be very wealthy from oil revenues is in fact stuck in poverty with hyperinflation, which peaked at over 1,000,000% in 2018 – the currency(bolivar) became near worthless due to hyperinflation. The U.S. has engineered Venezuela ‘s plight, and wants to impose someone it’ll champion, with privatisation strings attached. And the worst of it is, MCM knows all this and supports the U.S..
“consistent in supporting democracy and human rights.”
Machado has no more to do with democracy and human rights than Zelensky or any of the other NED-funded US assets globally. She comes from the same US indoctrination programme as Guaido. NATO NGO-funded regime change is scarcely democratic. I’m really unable to make sense of your conclusion.
“Thus Machado is a fighter for human rights in South America ”
“Fighting for peace is like f*cking for virginity” – old but still pertinent.
This is the Nobel Peace Prize, not the Nobel Democracy Prize or the Nobel Human Rights Warrior Prize.
It looks like Trump will not take yes for an answer where Venezuela is concerned it seems like Trump wants it all. This is commensurate with his polices all over the world,As the Commander in Chief Private Bone Spurs Trump told the assembled Admirals and Generals, forget the ‘rules based order’, forget morality and the rules of war, we have the best military in the world and we are going to win everywhere. Buckle up folks it looks like we have a new Führer to contend with.
Under a deal discussed between a senior U.S. official and Mr. Maduro’s top aides, the Venezuelan strongman offered to open up all existing and future oil and gold projects to American companies, give preferential contracts to American businesses, reverse the flow of Venezuelan oil exports from China to the United States, and slash his country’s energy and mining contracts with Chinese, Iranian and Russian firms. However, the report says that President Trump still rebuffed this offer.
@Glenn_Diesen
Why give the Nobel Peace Prize to an opposition leader who applauds US pressure against her country when the US Navy is preparing for an attack on Venezuela?
– Is the logic that democracy delivers peace, and the US military delivers democracy through war? https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/maduro-offered-us-vast-resources-avoid-war-nobel-winner-maria-corina-vows-go-bigger
Too right about the truth of the death and devastation seeping out into the media around the globe.
Israel is a pariah state around the word. Of that there is no doubt. But Israel’s actions were fully aided and abetted by the the US and Great Britain. Sir Keir Starmer is every much a war criminal as Netenyahu. Sir Keir Starmer was active in the Gaza slaughter. Moreover, as rime Minister he used his offices to camp down on anyone trying to criticise what his policy was, and how wrong the slaughter is Gaza was.
Starmer is a vicious killer. And now his government embark on the most extensive population control measures ever implemented in the history of the world. Just look around and you see the iron net closing in on every one of us.
So where do we go from here. What happened to Gaza could happen here, Nazi Germany was no accident. Apartheid South Africa was no accident. The extermination of every indigenous aborigine is Tasmania was no accident The destruction of the indigenous people of North America was no accident.
And so for our trusting hapless for the mot part population maybe the reminder of ” caveat emptor ” for truly they know not what they are buying in their faux democracy.
“Starmer is a vicious killer. ”
No he isn’t. He wouldn’t be doing what he is doing if it wasn’t to the personal benefit of Sir Kier Starmer. He’s amoral, not vicious. Possibly, he could be being blackmailed, but that just makes him an amoral coward.
My personal opinion is pretty simple.
Trump is not known for largesse and caring and sharing work.
What he does care about is himself and the fomenting in his MAGA ranks that it looks like
Israel’s tail is wagging the US Dog.
Therefore Trump has put himself in a bind here.
If Netanyahu breaks ranks again when he decides to have another crack at Iran what’s Trump
going to do about it?
You would think from the gushing media that all that is needed is good faith and then they will
eventually escape having to lie on behalf of Israel and the US when they attack all and sundry.
There are another 20 points to go in what has been described as a ‘vague’ ceasefire plan masquerading
as a peace Plan.
I am certainly pleased that the Gazans have got some respite from the bombings and attacks in general but
the other parts have yet to be implemented, particularly food/water and medicine.
I will believe that when I see it.
Maybe Trump thinks he is being sincere but, the nasty fly in the ointment (as always ) is what Netanyahu under
pressure from his mad mates is actually going to do once the gloss wears off?
Israel is a Pariah State and in the eyes of the world so too is the US.
This is much more than the Tik Tok PR that Netanyahu envisages will win back previous supporters.
That ship has long sailed and the US MAGA younger people because of Netanyahu’s actions are questioning
as to- just who is in charge here – Trump or Netanyahu?
If Trump is undermined again his reaction has to be more than a fake slap on the wrist.
Unless of course Trump agrees with those actions?
Forget the Israelis and forget the Gazans/Palestinians this is for his MAGA Base – young and old
and he has come up with loose plan – not for a Peace Plan just an ever tenuous ceasefire.
Being as Israel has broken every past ceasefire why would they not break this one?
Iran could be attacked next week but, not without the nods and winks from the US.
If it all goes wrong for Israel will the US become involved in the air and particularly on the ground?
This time Iran may not stop and Tel Aviv could dis-appear meaning, Israel could dis-appear.
Because despite the Israeli rhetoric Iran – not Hamas has always been a danger to the State of Israel
and if the US wants its plans to flower Iran has to be defeated.
The question is :
Will the US risk its Military in a place that will be far harder to occupy than Afghanistan?
China is sensibly starting to flex its muscles in terms of its rare earth element supply dominance. While Trump cries “not fair!”.
The US DoD, or now DoW – confusion prone name change much? May have to pick their wars carefully, and be more selective about supply to allies, to take into account future RE supply issues. It pertains to advanced weaponry; missiles, radar and military satellites etc. Rare earth processing plants aren’t just thrown up, it’s a bit like advanced semiconductor fabrication plants, which take years to build. And China have perfected processing – the processing of some of these elements produces extremely toxic waste. China dominate in rare earth element extraction technology and have lots of patents related to REE.
Goose speaking of flexing muscles, weapons, weapons, weapons – if only we spent the money on bettering society.
“President Putin announced that a new weapon has been “perfected” and will soon be revealed. It’s believed that he is referring to the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, featuring a fast-neutron reactor engine with an estimated range of 20,000–30,000 km.”
Oh and there’s this as well with China in mind – I wonder how many countries businesses will circumvent this, and how many will the US impose sanctions – if caught.
” President Trump announces a 100% tariff on China starting November 1st and export controls on “any and all critical software.””
Very small fry compared to a million dead Iraqis or Starmer’s murderous frenzy in Gaza, but following a Freedom of Information request a document has been released by the National Archives that reveals Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein in 10 Downing Street.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tony-blair-jeffrey-epstein-blair-jonathan-powell-bbc-b2843508.html
‘Lord Mandelson suggested former US president Bill Clinton wanted to introduce “his travelling friend” Epstein to Sir Tony.’
Could this be why Trump, another Epstein-Mossad honeypot paedophile rapist, has appointed Blair to oversee Gaza for their Israeli masters?
Yes blackmailing is nothing new in the israel-context, even netanyahu himself seems to have been caught up in that once:
1993: “Popular Israeli Politician Embroiled in Sex Scandal”
Benjamin Netanyahu, one of Israel’s most popular politicians and a contender for leadership of the right-wing Likud Party, was caught up Friday in a sex scandal after charging that rivals were threatening to show a videotape of him cheating on his wife unless he quit the race.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-16-mn-1334-story.html
..and as often occur, the victim become a victimizer himself.
That’s interesting, did not know that. I wonder if Netanyahu, having been snared himself, helped set up the Epstein operation?
The Blair Epstein Mandelson Clinton material suggests that Epstein was in a position to offer a bribe to Blair himself.
Mandelson told Rycroft to tell Blair, “(Clinton) thinks you would find worthwhile a conversation with him about a) science and b) international economic and monetary trends.”
Wink wink. The international economy and monetary trends. Nudge nudge.
Perhaps this rewrite will make things clearer: “We’ve got this nice friend who can help you on the, y’know, international currency side, Tones. He already helps Bill Clinton.”
And we can be sure that Blair wouldn’t have been cheap to bribe. So, yes, the Epstein operation must surely have been globally strategic for the organisation known as “Zionism”.
Then there is the science part of it. I know there are some here who are a bit naive (and rather sensitive) about “trans” and “climate change”, and who think they’ve won an argument when they invoke the great god Science whom some of us don’t actually pray to, but in actual fact real science works on the basis of funding (who knew?) and it’s highly centralised. (It’s been like that since about the 1920s.)
What TF the Epstein operation was about on that front is not wholly clear, but we can be sure it won’t have been at peanuts level.
Those who want another angle on Epstein might care to look at this photo, taken at his Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, USA:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NINTCHDBPICT000541738483-1.jpg?w=1240
Anyone familiar with works on mind control, e.g. by Walter Bowart, will suspect that mind control is what was going on here. This Christian imagery really needs an explanation for why it was in Epstein’s desert ranch.
It’s a quite plausible explanation that Bill Clinton “travelled” with Epstein for conversations about science.
Who better to consult on the subject?
Is it a prerequisite for fascist oriented regimes to be run by psychopathic perverts ?
Trump’s vision of what Gaza will be – Trump shared this vision with us all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslOp883rfI&t=19s
And the Guardian’s diplomatic correspondent Patrick Wintour describes construction as Trump’s “hinterland” (a term which goes back to Denis Healey). Not exactly the response that most of us have to such a disgusting video.
The Electronic Intifada explains how none of Israel’s military objectives have been achieved, so that the ceasefire was not as a result of Gazan resistance being defeated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-SMQeXDbA
Any failure of the Israelis is not due to lack of help from Britain.
The Electronic Intifada on your own government’s facilitation of the Gaza Genocide ..
“Britain’s Outsize Role in Israel’s Genocide”
Ali Abuminah with Matt Kennard.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/day-341-britains-outsize-role-israels-genocide
It must not be forgotten that Israel covets the Litani river and Netanyahu’s advisor has claimed many villages in Southern Lebanon and the area in general as ‘part of Israel’. Israels rampage includes Southern Lebanon, it is possible they may encourage Syrian head choppers (HTS) and their followers in Lebanon together with the Phelangist Lebanon Israel’s Maronite Christian allies to team up probably with US approval to try and destroy Hezbollah, Hezbollah could be in for a huge battle.
“Satellite imagery and media footage analysed by Amnesty International reveals that between 1 October 2024 and 26 January 2025, Israel destroyed more than 10,000 structures, including places of worship, agricultural land and even a football field. In several municipalities, the damage was near-total, affecting 70 percent of all structures.
Most of these sites were attacked after, not before, the end of active combat, with manually laid explosives and bulldozers.
Maps presented by the World Zionist Organization to the Paris Conference clearly show that Zionists sought to include in their territory southern Lebanon, including the Litani River and up to the coastal city of Saida – an estimated 60km from the current border. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-israel-laying-groundwork-ethnic-cleansing-southern-lebanon
In an interview with the National released Monday, U.S. special envoy Tom Barrack defended Washington’s push to make the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) the agent of Hezbollah’s disarmament — even as he conceded the U.S. will not equip the army to confront Israel.
“Who are they going to fight? … you’re arming them so they can fight their own people, Hezbollah,” he said — language critics say reflects how U.S. aid is designed to interfere in Lebanon’s internal political and security dynamics.
Barrack’s remarks came after the Pentagon approved a $14.2 million drawdown to “degrade Hezbollah,” a move many denounced in Beirut as one-sided. https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/518232/Tom-Barrack-US-arms-Lebanon-to-fight-its-own-people
Israel is not seeking any viable path to peace:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naOFjnEq4jU
This week’s Order of the Brown Tongue goes to Patrick Wintour, diplomatic editor of the Guardian, who reported on the Gaza ceasefire with the immortal words that
“to the extent (that Trump) has a hinterland, it is construction”.
Wintour’s father was the editor-in-chief of the Evening Standard. His sister was the long-time editor-in-chief of Vogue. He himself was the editor of Granta when he was a student at Cambridge. And this is the kind of sycophantic c*ck he puts his name to.
It’s not clear that the settler regime will allow foreign service personnel to enter Gaza as an “international stabilisation force”, but if they do it won’t be surprising if they vet every single service man and woman who takes part – nor if all lines of communication and supply go through settler-held territory and none through Egypt or coming in from the sea.
The collaborationist leaders in the arab world are on 24/7 stand by to support just about any idea by israel, I believe israel will have no trouble finding complacent actors wanting to do their bidding. New report show for example how the arab regimes have expanded their ties to israel past year:
Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals
https://www.icij.org/news/2025/10/arab-states-deepened-military-ties-with-israel-while-denouncing-gaza-war-leak-reveals/
The arab leaders have become modern day kapos to israel, that is, participating in suppressing their own brothers and sisters on behalf of the israelis.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/kapo
Quite right to observe the parallels between Lebanon and Gaza “peace” agreements. The pattern also reminds me of the Minsk I and II agreements, although the mendacity of agreement guarantors there was at least more discreet than the willful, very public, collusion of guarantors in Gaza. The US remains, as Putin tactfully put it, not “agreement capable”.
Starving people to death is pretty sick but it is not just happening in Palestine
It is also happening in UK Hospitals. My Sister had a stroke and was transferred to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital
First they decided she was terminal this used to mean she was likely to die within the next 24 to 48 hours but now it means that she will not recover even if her condition is not immediately life threatening. They wanted to remove her IV by day 2 but I stopped that then day 3 they wanted to put her on a end of life pathway this involves stopping any medication that might help stopping any nutrition and hydration and using morphine as medical cosh , This is exactly the same as the banned Liverpool care pathway that they just renamed. I stopped that. But they have not provided any nutrition given varies excuses risk of infection possible swallow reflex , Its been 19 days now.
They revised her life expectancy from a few days to 2 months about how long someone would last without nutrition. Mean while my sister has opened her eye’s and is looking around .
Murder by doctor is the new normal. My family member weighed 28 stone when he went into hospital following a stroke. He was on an I v drip for three months and lost ten stone in weight before moving to a care home. We and he declined to sign a DNR now called a ‘Respect’ declaration. The pressure is on again in the Care Home, and the wording used by the GP, that he ought to have a DNR/Respect form on his file, has been quite determined. Just be aware. Signing a DNR, and a Power of attorney for Health, giving the doctor the power to decide what he thinks is in the patient’s best interests, is the new normal.
Hedge funds own the Care sector now, so ‘seeing off’ your loved one may be preferable to giving all his money and property value to the financial institution. The new Assisted dying Bill will increase the pressure. Just be aware. And dispose of your assets before they get sequestered and choice no longer exists.
It was called The Daffodil Standards when they terminated my mother during covid lockdown. Look it up. Liverpool Pathway? Same difference.
Commiserations for your loss Alyson.
The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) was developed during the late 1990s at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, in conjunction with Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute. It was intended to provide the best possible quality of care for dying patients, and was seen as a way of transferring best practice from hospices into other care settings such as hospitals. Its aim was to ensure that everyone expected to die within hours or days received the same high standard of care, regardless of where they were being cared for.The LCP was not a form of treatment but instead set out a number of steps that doctors and nurses should take to make a dying patient as comfortable as possible. Critics dubbed it the “road to death” and accused the NHS of killing off thousands of elderly patients.
Since the covid fiasco, pathways are the chosen method to cull anyone over 60 entering the NHS deathcamp hospitals. Too many reports to write this off as coincidences or conspiracies.
FYI.
Film, “UNSEEN examines the so-called care pathways that became death sentences, and gives voice to eight grieving families whose loved ones fell victim to the deadly guidelines. The film exposes the rampant use of
potentially lethal medications like midazolam, the covert imposition of Do Not Resuscitate orders (DNRs) and the
haunting revival of end-of-life protocols reminiscent of the abolished Liverpool Care Pathway.” [The Light, issue 61]
https://tinyurl.com/nhsf3fv