Ibaitik Itsasora
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Gaza BEFORE Israel showed up
Israel is a criminal state
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1887980771178070396
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Zionists in 2025… “Palestine never existed”
Zionists in 1899… “We will colonise Palestine”
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In 1948 Albert Einstein foresaw the Israeli terrorism in Palestine that would eventually bring a catastrophe on the Jewish colonists.
Severe malnutrition in under-5s has tripled at Gaza City clinic, charity reports
Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and William Christou in JerusalemFri 25 Jul 2025
Rates of severe malnutrition among children aged under five at Médecins Sans Frontières’ Gaza City clinic have tripled in the last two weeks, the charity has said, as starvation in the Israeli-besieged strip worsens.
The global aid community has sounded the alarm as Gaza descends deeper into mass starvation, with resulting deaths being reported daily as Israel allows only a trickle of aid into the territory.
MSF said a quarter of all young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women it screened at its clinics last week were malnourished, with the number of people needing care for malnutrition at its Gaza City location quadrupling since May.
MSF is one of the largest medical providers in Gaza, with more than 1,000 staff in the strip providing medical services ranging from maternity care to emergency surgery.
The charity blamed what it called an Israeli “policy of starvation” for the hunger crisis, as global condemnation grows over what more than 100 aid groups say is Israel’s blockade of most aid into Gaza.
“Israeli authorities’ deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with patients and healthcare workers themselves now fighting to survive,” MSF said in a statement on Friday.
At least 122 people have died from starvation in Gaza, with nine more dying in the last 24 hours, according to health authorities.
The World Food Programme on Friday said nearly a third of people in Gaza were not eating for days, and that the hunger crisis had reached “new and astonishing levels of desperation”.
“Nearly one person in three is not eating for days. Malnutrition is surging, with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment,” the WFP said in a statement.
Naji al-Qurashali, an obstetrician-gynaecologist in Gaza, said statistics appeared to underestimate the true scale of the problem, estimating that 50% of the hundreds of pregnant women he saw each day were suffering from malnutrition.
“The malnutrition situation is unimaginable. Throughout my entire medical career, I never expected, not even in my wildest dreams, that things would reach this level,” said Qurashali.
Miscarriages had increased significantly among the patients he saw as mothers struggled to find food to feed themselves, he said. Those babies that were carried to term were significantly underweight and were increasingly born prematurely or with disfigurements.
Qurashali said he lacked many of the medical supplies necessary to treat the malnourished women. He and other doctors were forced to use unsanitary medical gloves and prescribe expired medication to patients.
“As a helpless doctor, it is an incredibly painful feeling,” he said. “Many times, I leave the hospital running, because I can’t bear the fact that I can’t meet even the simplest needs of these women.”
Medical experts have said that society’s most vulnerable, children and pregnant women, are the first to die in mass hunger events.
Desperate Palestinians wait to receive food distributed by a charity in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City on Friday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Israel has denied it is responsible for the hunger crisis in Gaza, with the foreign ministry calling it a “deliberate foreign ploy to defame Israel”, and blamed the UN for failing to distribute aid. The UN said it was operating as well as it could under Israeli restrictions, which prevent the UN-led aid system from using its 400 aid distribution points throughout the strip.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, accused the international community of sticking its head in the sand as Palestinians starved in Gaza, lambasting what he called a “lack of humanity”.
“This is not just a humanitarian crisis. It is a moral crisis that challenges the global conscience. We will continue to speak out at every opportunity,” Guterres said on Friday.
The leaders of the UK, France and Germany said in a joint statement on Friday that the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza “must end now” and called on the Israeli government to lift restrictions on aid.
“We firmly oppose all efforts to impose Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territories,” the leaders said, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said late on Thursday that France would recognise a Palestinian state at the UN general assembly in September. The UK prime minister has come under pressure to do the same, with more than 100 MPs signing a letter demanding Keir Starmer follow suit.
Macron had previously urged the UK to recognise a Palestinian state alongside France and is expected to try to enlist other European countries to do the same. Starmer called the humanitarian situation in Gaza “unspeakable and indefensible” in a post on X on Thursday, but said nothing about recognising a Palestinian state.
Macron’s move was dismissed by Donald Trump, who was due to meet Starmer on Friday evening when he arrived in Scotland. The US president said of Macron on Friday: “He’s a very good guy. I like him, but that statement doesn’t carry weight. Here’s the good news: what he says doesn’t matter. It’s not going to change anything.”
The Israeli military announced on Friday that it had agreed to let Jordan and the United Arab Emirates airdrop aid into Gaza. Each flight carrying aid is far more expensive and holds fewer supplies than lorries do. Hamas described it as a political stunt.
“The Gaza Strip does not need flying aerobatics, it needs an open humanitarian corridor and a steady daily flow of aid trucks to save what remains of the lives of besieged, starving civilians,” Ismail al-Thawabta, the director of the Hamas-run Gaza government media office, told Reuters.
Amal Masri, a 31-year-old mother in Gaza who is pregnant, said finding food was near impossible. The food she did find was unsuitable for her pregnant state, and if she ate it out of desperation, she vomited.
“Most of the time I am completely exhausted, my blood pressure is very low, and I often feel like I’m suffocating, like I’m on the verge of death,” Masri said.
Her husband, like many Palestinians, has been unsuccessful at getting food from the private US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution sites, and arrives home injured and empty-handed. More than 1,000 people have been killed while trying to get food at GHF or aid sites – the GHF denies any responsibility for shootings outside its distribution sites.
As the humanitarian situation declines, ceasefire negotiations appear to have collapsed. On Thursday, Israel and the US recalled their negotiators from Qatar, where talks were being held.
Trump blamed Hamas for the collapse, accusing it of not wanting to make a deal or give up Israeli hostages. The US president said he thought Hamas leaders would be “hunted down”.
Hamas officials denied they were responsible for the end of the round of peace talks, and accused Israel of stalling.
Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, said: “What we have presented – with full awareness and understanding of the complexity of the situation – we believe could lead to a deal if the enemy had the will to reach one.”
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John Mearsheimer: “This isn’t just any genocide. It’s a genocide that’s being filmed. We can see it happening before our eyes. During the Holocaust, hardly anybody saw any evidence of what was happening… But in the case of Gaza, it’s manifestly apparent what’s going on”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1949025649747767359
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Council Estate Media@CE_Media_
New Corbyn party already bigger than Tories and Reform as 300,000 sign up in one day
The new party founded by @jeremycorbyn and @zarahsultana might not have a name, but it already has over 300,000 sign ups. To put that in perspective, Reform has around 229,000 members and the Tories have 131,000. The evidence could not be clearer: people are desperate for change.
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We now have 300,000 people signed up and the establishment is clearly frightened.
Westminster is broken, but the real crisis is inequality: just fifty families now own more wealth than half the population.
Let’s change that together.
Join us: http://yourparty.uk
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The children of Gaza are starving.
Not because the world couldn’t help, but because the world refused to help.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1949031044193133023
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Bassem Youssef Commentary@bassem_youssef9
Some still believe that these are human beings.
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After 41 years in prison, his first words were “Freedom for Palestine and we must strengthen the revolutionary struggle.”
Zionists will never win.
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António Guterres@antonioguterres
Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis – it is a moral crisis that challenges the global conscience.
We will continue to speak out. But words don’t feed hungry children.
The @UN stands ready to make the most of a ceasefire to dramatically scale up humanitarian operations.
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“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
— Omar El Akkad
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BBC News Press Team
@BBCNewsPR
uzt. 24
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
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Let’s dissect this terrible New York Times headline and understand it for the propaganda that it is.
1. Firstly, the Times chooses to use the word “Gazans”, rather than Palestinians. We know from leaked internal emails that NY Times senior management forbid reporters from using the word “Palestine” or “Palestinians” when covering the topic? Why? Because using those words legitimizes them as a people with a state. “Gazans”, by contrast, does not. In this light, then, we can understand this choice as a deliberate attempt to erase a people’s identity and statehood.
2. “Are dying of starvation” — this makes it sound, to a casual reader, that this is a natural phenomenon, as if there is a drought or a famine. Nothing could be further from the truth. Palestinians in Gaza are being starved by Israel.
3. No mention of the perpetrator. This is such standard practice nowadays that it is almost a trope to even point it out. But it is important. Not identifying Israel as an active participant in the genocide frames the story differently and disinvites the reader to see Israel as the bad guy.
4. And that is exactly the point. The New York Times is an overtly pro-Israel publication, with senior management explicitly telling staff to report in a pro-Israel manner. Studies have shown that The Times is vastly more likely to report on Israeli deaths than Palestinian ones, and to use emotive language like “slaughter” when doing so (https://theintercept.com/2024/01/09/newspapers-israel-palestine-bias-new-york-times/).
Management have told staff that they cannot use words like “occupation”, “refugee camp”, “genocide”, or even “Palestine” in their reporting. (https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/)
Many top NY Times figures have exceedingly close links to the IDF and to Netanyahu himself (https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier). The New York Times even hired a “former” Israeli spy with zero journalistic experience to write a now discredited propaganda piece about Hamas atrocities (https://mintpressnews.com/revealed-israel-unit-8200-spies-american-media/288457/).
In short, then, The New York Times remains one of the premier pro-Israel propaganda outlets in the world. And headlines like this underscore that fact.
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Rachel Chinouriri@rachelchinourir
Just so I’m clear … you’re holding an emergency meeting… to discuss how to stop the killing of civilians … that are being killed by soldiers you allow to train on UK military bases… by the weapons you give them? Just want to make sure I understand …
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Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
uzt. 24
The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.
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So after two years of “Hamas steals all the aid” hysteria, Israeli military officials admit they found—checks notes—zero evidence. Israel is systematically starving Gaza on purpose, just like Palestinians, aid orgs, and human rights groups have been telling us.
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“Hamas fires on people who try to obtain aid” is one of the most self-evidently absurd hasbara narratives going around today, given that IDF soldiers have already admitted to the Israeli press that they are the ones firing on people who try to obtain aid.
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Jenna Ortega — Israel’s brutal war “is a clear genocide.” Gaza is “a concentration camp.”
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PRESSURE GOVERNMENTS! An Israeli Heron drone is actively circling the #Handala. We are currently at coordinates N 31.990316° E 32.802406°, 90 NM from Gaza and beyond the point where the #Madleen was illegally intercepted. We must demand immediate action for Gaza.
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BREAKING: At least 20 Israeli drones are hovering above the Handala Freedom Flotilla as it approaches Gaza. The ship is unarmed. It carries aid, not weapons. This is a peaceful humanitarian mission, and it’s under Israeli threat.
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“Nobody with any sanity, including myself, would have anything but sympathy for the Palestinian plight. There’s not a sane person on earth who in any way sanctions what the fuck the Israeli authorities are doing.” – Sinéad O’Connor
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The Ayrshire Separatist@DanielJMath1
“ISRAEL HAS THE RIGHT TO CUT OFF FOOD AND WATER”. Kier Starmer. 2023.
You despicable cunt.
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Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
uzt. 24
The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.
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It took mass starvation in Gaza for some to finally speak out.
The charred bodies, decapitated babies, amputations, mass graves, limbless bodies, relentless carpet bombing, torture, extermination and near-total destruction were all tolerable – until now.
Shame.
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Amnesty Ireland@AmnestyIreland
“Netanyahu is laughing at us. Refusing to lift his despicable siege, he distracts by “offering” air drops. Europe plays along with his genocide while more Palestinians die of hunger. We cannot say we did not know” Stephen Bowen, Amnesty Ireland ACTION NOW
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Dr Rahmeh Aladwan@doctor_rahmeh
I am not suicidal (suicide is haram) or reckless. If anything happens to me, I blame the genocidal UK pro-‘israel’ lobbies and media, doxxing groups, and jewish supremacists (zionists) who have engaged in a sustained campaign of inciting hatred and violence against me over the last two years. (These include: GnasherJew, UKLFI, CST, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish News, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Medical Association, Heidi Bachram, Arsen Ostrovsky, Andrew Fox, Emily Schrader, Dr Miriam Green, Sabrina Miller, Starmer Sycophant, Nicole Lampert etc)
Sensitive information was previously shared on their posts which resulted in police involvement. People have commented on their posts saying they are disappointed that I’m still breathing and recently, that I should be treated as an enemy combatant.
I am simply a part-Palestinian British doctor who wants the genocide in Gaza to end. I have never harmed anyone, and I am using my freedom of speech, which is a human right.
I will not stop. But if anything happens to me, I blame Britain (Government, including Health Secretary @wesstreeting and the @gmcuk) for allowing these groups to operate and by taking on their vexatious and malicious complaints which put British citizens in danger.
Free Palestine
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They’re not just monsters. They’re monsters who somehow think people are so dumb to fall for their piss-poor attempts at gaslighting people into thinking they’re not monsters.
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AIPAC 
@AIPAC
uzt. 25
The food, medicine and aid are IN Gaza. The @UN won’t distribute it. Hundreds of truckloads are sitting there. The trucks are loaded. Demand they deliver. Yesterday, Hamas again rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal that Israel accepted. Where’s your unequivocal condemnation?
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1948773431014572356
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China in English@ChinainEnglis
BREAKING |
Belgian FM: Belgium officially recognizes the State of Palestine. The government has been directed to impose severe sanctions on Israel. What Israel is committing in Gaza is a systematic act of genocide. We will not remain silent in the face of such crimes
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PALESTINE ONLINE @OnlinePalEng
Anti-genocide Jewish activists stormed the Salzburg Festival in Austria, demanding a complete boycott of the Israeli occupation.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1949135031756091575
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Bombshell reporting from Israeli Channel 11. The IDF has destroyed 1,000 trucks worth of aid and buried it rather than provide it to Palestinians. This occurred two months ago, resulting in the current hunger crisis in Gaza. The same source says that the IDF is about to destroy more aid. Don’t let anyone tell you the hunger is not intentional. This is a deliberate Israeli policy.
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KHAL@Hal9000_T1
uzt. 25
Breaking:
IDF whistleblower says aid from 1,000 trucks was buried in pits or burned.
This is internationally funded aid – IDF dug pits, everything from cooking oils to water and buried or burned it.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1948831490831257938
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It is clear the memo went out in recent days among Western leaders to once again try to appease public fury at the genocide they’re collectively responsible for, trotting out in front of cameras to do their best impression of human beings. Nobody’s fooled. See you in the Hague.
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Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
uzt. 25
The appalling scenes in Gaza are unrelenting. The UK will pull every lever we have to get food and lifesaving support to Palestinians, and we will evacuate children who need urgent medical assistance.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1948823446441341226
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Doctors Against Genocide gathered outside the Egyptian embassy to demand the opening of Rafah crossing.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1949086421324599371
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This is the leader of the blood-soaked US empire giving his green light to the Israeli colonial regime to implement its Final Solution and finish the genocide in Gaza. “They’re gonna have to finish the job”, Donald Trump said, as Israel starves Palestinians to death.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar
uzt. 25
Trump on Gaza: “Hamas didn’t really want to make a deal. I think they want to die … they’re gonna have to finish the job … they’re gonna have to fight and they’re gonna have to clean it up. You’re gonna have to get rid of it.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1948741239324455383
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Then open the fucking gates.
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Current Report@Currentreport1
uzt. 24
Egypt says it condemns the unjust accusations that it has participated in the blockade imposed on Gaza.
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BREAKING: IDF whistleblower EXPOSES that aid from 1,000 trucks was BURIED in pits or burned.
The IDF dug pits and buried or burned the aid and then they blamed Hamas!
Just let that sink in.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1948837708664897585
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A map of the countries that recognize the State of Palestine.
What do you notice?
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People are once again forced to be displaced in #Gaza by Israeli Authorities orders.
They have nowhere to go.
No one is safe in Gaza.
No place is safe in Gaza.
Not aid workers, not medical workers, not UN staff.
No one has been spared.
People have endured over 650 days of relentless, endless killings, destruction, and despair.
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Here is a US colonel testifying that Israeli troops are firing into crowd of starving Palestinians. There is no crime in history more documented as it happened than Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The atrocity deniers are sick, morally depraved scum.
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Steve Howell@FromSteveHowell
uzt. 26
A US colonel accuses Israel of war crimes… “In my entire career, never have I witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving, civilian population.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1949007903651664219
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BREAKING: China demands the arrest of Netanyahu, accusing him of committing genocide in Gaza.
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BREAKING: An Israeli drone is now circling above the Handala Freedom Flotilla.
The boat is just 90 nautical miles from Gaza.
A peaceful, humanitarian mission is being tracked and threatened by a regime that has bombed hospitals, refugee camps, and aid convoys.
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BREAKING:
The Handala Freedom Flotilla is just 105 nautical miles from Gaza’s shores — having now passed the point where Israel intercepted the last aid boat, Madleen.
Unarmed. Full of aid. Carrying hope.
The world is watching.
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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
Israel bombardea un vehículo de WCK y mata a tres trabajadores de la organización del chef José Andrés
https://deia.eus/mundo/2024/11/30/israel-bombardea-vehiculo-wck-mata-8997327.html
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World Central Kitchen reclama una investigación independiente del ataque israelí https://deia.eus/mundo/2024/04/04/world-central-kitchen-reclama-investigacion-8074054.html
Honen bidez:
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José Andrés: Gaza eta gosea
https://unibertsitatea.net/blogak/heterodoxia/2025/07/28/jose-andres-gaza-eta-gosea
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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
Gaza respira, pero el hambre persiste: Jordania y los EAU lanzan 25 toneladas de ayuda humanitaria vía
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The Law of Non-Contradiction: Until a few hours ago, the Israeli government’s defenders insisted Israel isn’t blocking aid, blaming the UN and other mainstream aid agencies for holding it up. Now, Bibi tells his people that he was (regretfully) “forced” to allow aid to enter.
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Drop Site@DropSiteNews
uzt. 27
WATCH: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, speaking in Hebrew from Ramon Air Base, addressed the Israeli public to explain why he is now being “forced” to allow “minimal humanitarian aid” into Gaza.
“Let it be clear that we will achieve our goal and destroy Hamas,” he said.
“To defeat Hamas and bring our hostages home, we are continuing both the fighting and the negotiations. In any path we choose, we will be forced to allow the entry of minimal humanitarian aid,” Netanyahu told Israelis—many of whom had brought their children to the border in the last days to physically block aid trucks from entering Gaza.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1949529035052089568
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I have signed up to Corbyn’s new party and I recommend everyone else does so as well. We have to ensure that it will be an actually anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist socialist labour party, not a bullshit Owen Jones Guardian George Monbiot NATO “soft left” Labour clone
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BREAKING: The Netherlands officially labels Israel a national security threat for the first time over political interference.
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— Zendaya Helped Raise $30 Million For Starving Children in Gaza.
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A Must Read!
The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine:
The Mass Killing that Changed the World
By Ivan Katchanovski
By analyzing thousands of hours of video, footage, the testimony of 300 witnesses, plus ballistics he proves that the Maidan Massacre was carried out by the Maidan leaders
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Dr. Hussam we have NOT Forgotten You!
A young girl begging for food in Gaza, July 26, 2025.
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FLASH: Zainab, a very young Palestinian child, has died of starvation in Gaza.
They KlLLED this child then ran over his body 
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israel killed the young woman Salma Abu Al-Rous and her daughters Nour and Salam when it dropped a missile at their home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. Families are being erased from the civil registry every day in Gaza, and this is yet another one.
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They stole his right to a normal life — his childhood, his safety, his future.
Israel is a terrorist state.
Say it loud. Say it clearly
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1949054649639559191
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The punitive conditions (for Europe) of the EU-US trade deal are the ultimate example of the fact that the European Union, from making Europe “stronger together”, has delivered a structural subordination to the US unseen in the postwar era. My latest:
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EU trade deal is a capitulation to America
(https://unherd.com/newsroom/eu-trade-deal-is-a-capitulation-to-america/)
By Thomas Fazi
Yesterday, the European Union and the United States finalised a trade agreement imposing a 15% tariff on most EU exports to America — a deal US President Donald Trump triumphantly hailed as “the biggest one of them all”. While the agreement averted an even harsher 30% tariff threatened by Washington, many in Europe are calling it a resounding defeat — or even an unconditional surrender — for Brussels.
It’s easy to see why. The 15% tariff on EU goods entering the US is significantly higher than the 10% that Brussels had hoped to negotiate. Meanwhile, as Trump himself boasted, the EU has “opened up [its] countries at zero tariff” to American exports. Crucially, EU steel and aluminium will continue to face a crushing 50% tariff when sold into the US market.
This asymmetry places European producers at a severe disadvantage, raising costs for strategic industries such as automotive, pharmaceuticals and advanced manufacturing — sectors that underpin the EU’s $1.97 trillion transatlantic trade relationship. The so-called “rebalancing” measures clearly tilt the playing field in favour of the US, forcing European economies to absorb higher costs simply to preserve access to American markets.
Even worse, the EU has committed to $600 billion in new US investments, as well as $750 billion in long-term energy purchases and increased procurement of American military hardware. This further deepens the continent’s structural dependency on US energy supplies and military resources.
The political reaction in Europe has been scathing, with French Minister Benjamin Haddad labelling the agreement “unbalanced”. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tried to present the deal as a pragmatic compromise to avoid an all-out trade war, but few were convinced. As geopolitical commentator Arnaud Bertrand observed on X: “In exchange for all these concessions and extraction of their wealth the EU gets… nothing. This does not even remotely resemble the type of agreements made by two equal sovereign powers. It rather looks like the type of unequal treaties that colonial powers used to impose in the 19th century — except this time, Europe is on the receiving end.”
A few lessons can be drawn. First, the deal should finally shatter the longstanding myth that the EU strengthens its member states by increasing their negotiating power. For decades, Europeans have been told that only by pooling sovereignty into a supranational bloc could they wield enough collective clout to stand up to global powers. This was always a convenient fiction. In reality, the opposite is true: the EU systematically erodes the ability of individual nations to respond flexibly to domestic and external challenges based on their own economic and political priorities. The bloc’s rigid framework — its multilayered and bureaucratic decision-making structure, chronic lack of democratic accountability, and suffocating regulatory overreach — only compounds these weaknesses..
By locking European nations into a supranational straitjacket, Brussels has deprived them of the sovereign tools — industrial policy, trade flexibility, and energy independence — needed to defend their own interests. What’s more, the EU has always been ideologically and strategically wedded to Atlanticism — and its progressive integration with Nato in recent years has only deepened its subordination to the US. This alignment has become embarrassingly apparent under von der Leyen.
As a result, far from making Europe “stronger together”, the EU has delivered an unprecedented loss of leverage and autonomy. The bloc now resembles the very thing it was supposed to overcome: a collection of vassal states, unable to chart an independent course and increasingly reduced to the role of Washington’s economic protectorate.
Trump is not entirely wrong when he accuses the EU of engaging in unfair trade practices. Over the past two decades, Brussels has embraced a hyper-mercantilist, export-driven growth model which systematically suppresses domestic demand in order to bolster price competitiveness on the global stage while keeping imports low. In other words, it has consistently prioritised trade surpluses over internal economic development.
This model has come at a steep cost. European citizens have paid the price through stagnant wages, precarious employment and chronically underfunded public services. Meanwhile, the EU’s trading partners — most notably the US — have been forced to absorb Europe’s ever-growing export surpluses, feeding an increasingly unbalanced global economic relationship.
A rebalancing was indeed long overdue. But this agreement represents the worst possible kind of rebalancing. Instead of using this moment as an opportunity to rethink its fundamentally flawed economic strategy — by raising European wages, boosting internal demand, and accepting that exports might become less competitive as a result — the EU has doubled down on the very model that hollowed out its own economic resilience. Rather than shifting towards a healthier, more domestically-driven growth path, Brussels has chosen to preserve its export-led paradigm at all costs. That now means exposing Europe’s industrial base to a flood of imports, accelerating deindustrialisation, and deepening its dependence on foreign markets.
Thomas Fazi is an UnHerd columnist and translator. His latest book is The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Toby Green.
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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:
We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury, proper currency1, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NATO, maybe being a BRICS partner…
Ikus Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka
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Esadazu arren, zer da gu euskaldunok egiten ari garena eta zer egingo dugun
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MTM: Zipriztinak (2), 2025: Warren Mosler
(Pinturak: Mikel Torka)
Gehigarriak:
MTM klase borrokarik gabe, kontabilitate hutsa da
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1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)
