Ibaitik Itsasora
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In 1948 Albert Einstein foresaw the Israeli terrorism in Palestine that would eventually bring a catastrophe on the Jewish colonists.
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Catherine Connolly the new President of Ireland 
Genocide in Palestine , the Zionists are totally losing the narrative.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982539523944022367
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Brian Allen@allenanalysis
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Ireland’s new president might just be the blueprint; unapologetically pro-Palestine, pro-LGBTQ, and not afraid to question U.S. power.
A leader with empathy and backbone. Imagine that.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982504429652742283
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What happened to Jeffrey Sachs is not an argument.
It is a ritual, the auto-da-fé of a dying civilization.
Europe no longer debates. It excommunicates.
Every time truth crosses its borders, it is denounced as heresy, burned in the square of public opinion, and buried under the flags of “values” it no longer lives by.
The Italian senator who called Professor Sachs a liar wasn’t defending Ukraine.
He was defending the psychological architecture of European dependence.
He cannot admit the truth because his career, his ideology, and his identity all collapse if he does.
Europe is no longer a continent. It is a colony that thinks itself free.
Washington writes the script, Brussels recites it, and the people pay for the performance in cold homes and silent factories.
They call it “solidarity.”
But solidarity with your own jailer is not virtue.
It is pathology.
Europe kneels before America and mistakes the floor for high ground.
It sanctions Russia and bankrupts itself.
It sacrifices its own citizens to fund a war it cannot win.
It destroys its own energy, its own diplomacy, its own industry, all to prove its loyalty to a master who despises it.
Jeffrey Sachs did not embarrass Europe.
He revealed it.
A continent that once produced Beethoven, Goethe, and Marx now worships at the altar of CNN and NATO press releases.
It has traded reason for narrative and memory for submission.
The tragedy of Europe is not that it was conquered.
It is that it volunteered.
It begged for occupation, and now calls vassalage “values.”
When Professor Sachs spoke, the Italian senator did not hear an argument.
He heard a mirror, and mirrors terrify those who live by illusions.
Europe isn’t being silenced by America.
It is silencing itself out of fear of remembering what it used to be.
A civilization that once claimed to civilize the world can no longer govern itself.
It outsourced its sovereignty, privatized its conscience, and mortgaged its dignity for access to Washington’s approval.
The slave masters of history have become servants in suits, begging their overseer for scraps of relevance.
Europe is no longer a continent.
It is an accent in America’s voice.
And even that accent is fading.
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Sky News reveals that Israel is backing four anti-Hamas militias operating behind the “yellow line,” the ceasefire boundary for IDF troops. Militia leader Hossam al-Astal said he and others – Yasser Abu Shabab, Rami Halas, and Ashraf al-Mansi – are part of a joint plan to “remove Hamas” and establish “The New Gaza.” His group operates less than 700 meters from Israeli positions, coordinating logistics and supply deliveries with the IDF through the Kerem Shalom crossing. Sky found similar coordination in northern Gaza, with militias receiving aid and vehicles via Israeli and PA channels, and possible Gulf backing, including ties to UAE-linked forces in Yemen. Al-Astal says, “Our project is ‘The New Gaza’ — no war, no Hamas, no terrorism.”
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Ben van der Merwe@_BvdM
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Israel is backing four separate anti-Hamas militias in Gaza, Sky News has confirmed. Militia leader Hossam Al Astal says they are part of an “official project” backed by Israel, the Palestinian Authority and unspecified Arab and Western states.
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#BREAKING: Global and independent initiative, Gaza Tribunal, established to investigate Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, announces its final decision, stating that weaponising hunger, denying medical care and forced displacement are tools of collective punishment and genocide against entire population
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982412951689544169
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While the world talks of a Palestinian state, Israel is playing a different game to surround, slice up and claim the occupied West Bank. Piece by piece, Israel is playing out strategies first perfected in ancient China. For Pinch Point, Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Hassan explains
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982447121144914221
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“A bomb”
No mention of WHO dropped all the bombs.
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Absolutely extraordinary paper by RAND, the main think tank of the US military-industrial complex, and another key sign that the U.S. deep state – despite all the chaos and noise – is shifting away from deterring China, towards accepting coexistence (it’s literally what they recommend in the paper).
These are the 3 most important recommendations in the paper (which link is here: https://rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA4100/RRA4107-1/RAND_RRA4107-1.pdf:
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Rejecting the false belief that a victory is possible in the China-US rivalry and accepting the legitimacy of the Communist Party:
They write that the U.S. should “clarify U.S. objectives in the rivalry with language that explicitly rejects absolute versions of victory and accepts the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party.” They explain that it’s necessary because victory is objectively impossible (“the effective destruction of the other is not a feasible option”), rejecting it is imposed by hard realities and because continuing to try would be catastrophic (as it would “threaten [either side’s] survival”).
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Accepting coexistence
They write that “each side [must] accept, in ways that are deeply ingrained and broadly shared among decision-making officials, that some degree of modus vivendi must necessarily be part of the relationship.” They also write that “each side [must] accept the essential political legitimacy of the other.”
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On Taiwan, they recommend not only reassuring China that it can achieve its reunification objective but also using US leverage AGAINST Taiwan to prevent provocations
This is probably the most surprising aspect of the paper. They recommend that “the United States and China should exchange a mutual set of signals” where the US would make “statements that it does not support Taiwan independence, seek a permanent separation across the Straits, or oppose peaceful unification.” They write that the US should be “creating the maximum incentive for Beijing to pursue gradual approaches to realizing its ultimate goal [i.e. reunification].”
More remarkably, they argue the US should “balance its commitments to Taiwan with leveraging its influence to ensure Taiwan’s actions do not escalate tensions with China.” The paper explicitly criticizes Taiwan’s Lai Ching-te for statements asserting Taiwan is “sovereign” and says Washington should use its “potential leverage over Taiwan to limit its activities that upset the status quo” – essentially US leverage to pressure Taiwan into not provoking China.
When such a think tank as RAND makes recommendations this deferential to a strategic competitor, it’s not out of kindness of heart, they’re anything but peaceniks. It’s because they realize that the material balance of power has dramatically shifted.
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Clint Ballinger@clintballinger
“Modern Monetary Theory – A Primer on the Operational Realities of the Monetary System”
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Jennifer Welch (@ivehaditpodcast): “When you’re bought and paid for by AIPAC, you’re not authentic. You’re Benjamin Netanyahu’s bitch. Period.“
Bideoa. https://x.com/i/status/1982672851321971097
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“The Greens believe that we can have diplomatic relations with Israel, and we think that is not okay.”
@zarahsultana breaks down the difference between Your Party and Zack Polanski’s Greens. Watch the full interview, live now.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982448011113382074
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China is the most technologically advanced nation the world has ever seen.
Fact.
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A retired US officer who investigated the 2022 killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh says
he is sure an Israeli soldier deliberately shot her and that the report was later softened.
Follow: http://T.me/presstv
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JUST IN: The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Palestinian Women’s National Day, Two Years of Genocide
On Palestinian Women’s National Day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates reaffirms on the steadfastness of Palestinian women, their immense sacrifices towards achieving independence. The Ministry extends its utmost appreciation to all Palestinian women and to all women around the world in calling for justice and an end to the illegal Israeli colonial occupation, its crimes, and apartheid policies.
During the Genocide, it is estimated that around 33,000 women and girls were unlawfully killed, and over 1.93 million Palestinians were forcibly displaced by the Israeli occupying forces, while being starved, intimidated, and without electricity, fuel, medicine, and healthcare services, alongside the widespread destruction of hospitals, schools, churches, and mosques.
The Ministry reaffirms on the need to act collectively and urgently for relief, recovery, and reconstruction amid the continued blockade and humanitarian aid restrictions. To take action for the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza Strip, where 2 million Palestinians are being starved, and the lack of clean drinking water, medicine, leading to hundreds suffering from infectious diseases. While also dealing with the psychological and social impact of genocide on women and children, and the of impact of poverty, and unemployment on women and girls.
On this occasion, the Ministry stresses on the importance of maintaining the international momentum following the recognitions of the State of Palestine and the adoption of the New York Declaration, as a pathway toward implementing the two-state solution and achieving the Palestinian legitimate right to independence. The Ministry calls for the international community to strengthen their legal efforts to hold the occupying power accountable for genocide, forced displacement, war crimes, and the systematic violations for the rights of Palestinian women and girls, while urging the international community to implement the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice and all relevant resolutions to end the Israeli colonial occupation of Palestine, protect the Palestinian women, men, and children, and to guarantee their rights to self-determination, independence, and the unconditional return of refugees.
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Listen to me chatting to Anne & Kev on the latest episode of the Radio MMT Podcast. Check it out.
Anne Maxwell & Kevin Gaynor are great hosts. Subscribe for great content, great banter and an MMT education. I’ve learned a lot from listening to Radio MMT.
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Vladimir Putin did not wake up on 24 February 2022 and decide, “I think I’ll invade eastern Ukraine today,” nor was the US campaign to expand NATO into Ukraine a last-minute maneuver. (US State Department documents show Ukraine’s future membership was discussed as early as 1994.)
9 Feb 1990: In a deal approved by Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, as a quid pro quo for accepting German reunification within NATO, Secretary of State James Baker pledged that NATO would not expand “one inch to the east.”
US, European and German leaders made explicit assurances to Gorbachev against any future eastward NATO expansion. Gorbachev understood the assurances as a “binding agreement.” Subsequently, Soviet leaders made decisions on that basis and acted on them – withdrawing the Red Army from Germany and dissolving the Warsaw Pact.
12 March 1999: Clinton is president. The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became members of NATO. A weakened post-Soviet Russia, led by Boris Yeltsin, controlled by a cabal of Oligarchs, could do nothing to prevent it. Powerless, Yeltsin was said to be “infuriated” with “his friend Bill Clinton…”
29 March 2004: George W. Bush is president. Seven more Eastern European countries join NATO: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia – largest wave of NATO enlargement ever.
April 2008: At the Bucharest NATO summit, George W. Bush announced that Ukraine and Georgia are on an “immediate path to NATO.” Bill Burns, ambassador to Russia, sent a memo to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “Across the board,” he wrote, the Russian political class told him, “Ukraine is the reddest of red lines” – “Nyet means nyet.”
22 Feb 2014: Just as the Sochi Winter Olympics were underway, Kiev erupted in violence. State Department official Virginia Nuland boasted that since the 2004-2005 “Orange Revolution,” the US had spent $5 billion on regime change in Ukraine. NATO rooftop snipers killed both protestors and police, forcing Ukraine’s democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country.
2 May 2014: Bussed to Odessa from Kiev, Right Sector thugs carrying baseball bats confront ethnic Russians protesting the coup. When protestors fled into the city’s Trade Unions House, the building was set on fire. Forty-eight people were burned or bludgeoned to death – the Donbass civil war point of no return.
11 Feb 2015: Putin and Ukrainian President Poroshenko meet with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Belarus to negotiate the Minsk ceasefire accords. The leaders agreed to a deal that would have ended the fighting – granting autonomy to the Russian-speaking Donbass, but successive Ukrainian governments refused to implement the accord.
German Chancellor Merkel later admitted that Minsk was a stall tactic to allow the West to build Ukraine’s army up to NATO standards.
17 Dec 2021: Team Biden rejects Putin’s proposed mutual security accords that would have left a “neutral” Ukraine intact. For years, Russia had tried to convince US administrations that Ukraine was off-limits to NATO membership, but Russian concerns were brushed aside. December 2021, Team Biden insisted, “Russia doesn’t say who can join NATO.”
18 Feb 2022: During the Winter Olympics in China, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) documented that Ukraine had ramped up artillery attacks along the Line of Contact.
(Since the 2014 coup in Kiev, the Armed forces of Ukraine, including the Neo-Nazi Banderites, had killed thousands of ethnic Russians in the Donbass.
19 Feb 2022: Invited to speak at the Munich Security Conference, Ukrainian President Zelensky said, “Ukraine will get and deploy nuclear missiles.”
20 Feb 2022: On CBS 60 Minutes, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said, “Ukraine will never honor the Minsk cease fire.”
21 Feb 2022: Russia captured a Ukrainian soldier, killed five others as they crossed over the border into Rostov. Russia learned the invasion of Donetsk city was imminent and recognized the breakaway Donbass and Luhansk oblasts as independent republics.
24 Feb 2022: With about 90,000 troops, Russia launched its “Special Military Operation” – not a “full scale invasion.” Citing the UN principle, “Responsibility to Protect,” Russia intervened in the eight-year Donbass civil war after all prospects for diplomacy had failed.
April 2022, week six of the war, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators convened peace talks in Istanbul. Later, Ukrainian diplomat Oleksandr Chalyi recalled, “Putin tried to do everything possible to conclude an agreement…” [The tentative accord would have left a “neutral” #Ukraine intact.]
On 1 April, USAID revealed photographic evidence of a “massacre” in Bucha and financed a press tour featuring US public figures. Problem: Four days earlier at a press conference, the mayor had announced that the Russians had retreated from the city [and he did not report there had been a massacre].
After the Russians voluntarily retreated, the regime scattered bodies in the streets that included both actors in body bags and recently killed “Russian collaborators” from around Bucha – giving an “outraged” Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, who flew unannounced to Kiev, the justification to order Zelensky to “keep fighting.”
If the US, UK and EU continue rejecting Russian proposals for a long term, European wide peace accord – as Putin proposed in December 2021 – the Russian army will continue advancing toward Kharkiv in the north and Odessa on the Black Sea. As Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasized: There will be no Minsk III.
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An Israeli says it’s “funny to kill babies in Gaza.”
Israel has normalized genocide to the point where the death of children is a source of amusement. Israel isn’t just committing genocide—it’s raising a generation that celebrates it.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982553050343411869
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And it still wasn’t enough.
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Israel is burning children alive
You are destroying this country shame on all of you
Former U.S. intelligence officer and soldier Josephine Guilbeau criticized her country’s unconditional support for Israel during a congressional hearing
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982777568571826446
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Greens have supported BDS for other a decade, and were the first party to call a genocide a genocide
Meanwhile Sultana was quite happy standing on a pro Israel labour platform in 2024 after the leader legitimised war crimes
Absolute hypocrite
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PoliticsJOE@PoliticsJOE_UK
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“The Greens believe that we can have diplomatic relations with Israel, and we think that is not okay.”
@zarahsultana breaks down the difference between Your Party and Zack Polanski’s Greens.
Bideoa:https://x.com/i/status/1982448011113382074
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Why is she constantly attacking the greens when half or her party are transphobic landlords?
Even when theyve left labour they can’t drop the factionalism
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PoliticsJOE@PoliticsJOE_UK
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“The Greens believe that we can have diplomatic relations with Israel, and we think that is not okay.”
(…)
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Will the UAE, Egypt and India block Palestine’s entry into BRICS.
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Gaza strip 8 July 2023 vs September 1, 2025
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982661411701395632
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What a beautiful tribute to a wonderful man, a hero to humanity. The ultimate sacrifice.
Saleh Aljafara
Bidepa. https://x.com/i/status/1982501374421258309
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The founder of ICAHD confirms: A “Jewish state” requires ethnic cleansing. The only moral future is one democratic state from the river to the sea. Israel was founded on a lie, and its only legacy is genocide.
Bideoa. https://x.com/i/status/1982575738868916281
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A U.S. colonel was at the scene of Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder within hours and was able to conclude quickly the shooting had obviously been intentional. His boss then covered it up so as not to “displease” the Israelis, the Times reports.
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Laila Al-Arian@LailaAlarian
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A US colonel who investigated Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s 2022 killing by an Israeli soldier concluded it was intentional but his boss undermined that conclusion for political reasons. https://nytimes.com/2025/10/27/wor
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil@ivan_8848
WARMONGER BUSH IN KIEV
NATO DID NOT PROMOTE PEACE, NATO PROMOTED WARS
In 2001, Putin Wanted Russia to Join NATO.
Two Times That We Were Ready to Join NATO.
Both times we were turned down.
Ukraine is the only NON-NATO nation supporting every NATO mission.
In Afghanistan and Iraq Ukrainian troops are helping to support democracies.
Putin says the current crisis in Ukraine is a direct result of years of aggressive NATO policies.
The biggest threat in the world is NATO.
NATO has been encircling Russia since the nineties.
NATO exists to solve the problems created by NATO’s existence.
NATO has never defended anyone, but only attacked.
NATO is a military Alliance that feeds on war.
To justify its existence, NATO constantly needs an external enemies and conflicts.
The purpose of the NATO alliance is “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: The Casus Belli of the Ukraine War is NATO Enlargement, US Coup, CIA Operations All Over Ukraine
Jeffrey Sachs on Trump: Until President Trump Says Publicly, “NATO Will NOT Enlarge,” This War Will Continue. That’s his JOB. The way to end this war is to say publicly, “NATO enlargement was a mistake, it was a provocation, it was a threat to Russia’s security.” Jeffrey Sachs: Russia is not going to stop fighting as long as NATO enlargement is on the table. This is the basic reason why we are at war.
Prof. John Mearsheimer: NATO Expansion Was Really the Key. Ukraine was becoming a de facto member of NATO.
Larry C. Johnson A former CIA Officer: 30 Years of Provocation by the West, 30 Years of Western Efforts to Bring Ukraine INTO NATO, 30 Years of Using, Making, Ukraine a de FACTO Member of NATO by Virtue of the FACT That, They’ve Conducted More NATO Military Exercises in Ukraine, Than 24 Other NATO Countries Over the Last 30 years, so That’s Remarkable for a Country That’s NOT
Not dissolving NATO in 1990 was a big mistake, and it’s time to fix that mistake
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982587748709007525
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Israel has killed nearly 500 Palestinians in Gaza since the so-called “ceasefire.”
Despite international headlines announcing an end to the war, Israel has continued its attacks — bombing homes, aid convoys, and shelters across Gaza.
Health authorities report nearly 500 Palestinians killed and thousands more injured since the ceasefire took effect, exposing what many describe as a “ceasefire in name only.”
The United States maintains that Israel has not violated the ceasefire.
Meanwhile, Israel maintains its siege, blocking reconstruction materials, fuel, and essential aid — leaving Gaza in ruins and survivors trapped under occupation.
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China has become the world’s largest car exporter.
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“My findings were beyond reasonable doubt that this was an intentional killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.”
Retired Army Colonel Steve Gabavics tells @mehdirhasan that the killing of Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, was intentional according to his findings.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982820097451303265
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Dr Nidal Simrin, a medical doctor who treated 100s of israeli bomb victims in Gaza during the genocide, is jailed by Jordan without charge
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A retired U.S. colonel revealed that Washington downplayed its investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to appease Israel.
The original report indicated that the Israeli soldier knew the target was a journalist, but these details were removed. U.S. officials softened the language, labeling it a “tragic mistake,” despite evidence showing the shots came from an Israeli military position.
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In 2022, the IDF murdered American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by shooting her in the head in the West Bank.
The Biden State Dept said it was “unintentional” even though US military investigators compiled mountains of evidence that it was deliberate.
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U.S. Assessment of Israeli Shooting of Journalist Divided American Officials
A U.S. colonel has gone public with his concern that official findings about the 2022 killing of a Palestinian American reporter were soft-pedaled to appease Israel
A memorial at the site of Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing in Jenin, in the West Bank. Ms. Abu Akleh, a reporter for Al Jazeera, was fatally shot during a confrontation between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in 2022.Credit…Samar Hazboun for The New York Time
By Vivian Yee
Reporting from Cairo
Oct. 27, 2025
After Shireen Abu Akleh, a celebrated Palestinian American journalist, was fatally shot in the West Bank in 2022, the State Department delivered an equivocal assessment.
While shots fired from Israeli military positions were “likely responsible,” it said, American officials “found no reason to believe that this was intentional.” The shooting, it said, was “the result of tragic circumstances.”
That statement outraged Palestinians and many others, who saw it as the latest instance of the Israeli military dodging accountability for Palestinian deaths. The United States never again publicly weighed in on Ms. Abu Akleh’s killing.
But the U.S. officials who closely examined the shooting were deeply divided over the Biden administration’s public conclusions, with some officials convinced that the shooting was intentional, according to five current and former U.S. officials who worked on the case.
There has been no conclusive evidence that the shooter knew he was targeting a journalist. Still, based on the circumstances of the shooting and the available evidence, these officials believed that the Israeli soldier must have been aware he was doing so. Other officials assigned to review the case, however, supported the U.S. government’s far more cautious assessment, the officials said.
One of those who opposed the Biden administration’s conclusion was Col. Steve Gabavics, a career military policeman with 30 years’ experience, including as the commandant of the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. At the time of the shooting, he was an official at the Office of the United States Security Coordinator. That office, which facilitates cooperation between the Israeli and Palestinian security services, conducted the U.S. review of the shooting.
An undated photo of Ms. Abu Akleh reporting from Jerusalem. She was a household name across the Middle East.Credit…Al Jazeera, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
After Colonel Gabavics retired from the military in January, he went public — first in a documentary, and now in an interview with The New York Times — with his concerns that the U.S. government had soft-pedaled the office’s findings to appease the Israeli government.
He aired his views in a documentary released in May by Zeteo News, a left-leaning online news outlet, that publicly identified for the first time the Israeli soldier who shot Ms. Abu Akleh. But Colonel Gabavics was not named in the documentary; he is now speaking out openly for the first time.
Though the question of whether the shooting was intentional ignited disagreement within the office as a whole, the two officials who clashed most sharply over the shooting were Colonel Gabavics and his then-boss, Lt. Gen. Michael R. Fenzel, according to Colonel Gabavics and several other former officials involved in the examination.
That conflict culminated in Colonel Gabavics being sidelined from the U.S. review, the officials said. Colonel Gabavics said General Fenzel also threatened to dismiss him.
The four officials who spoke to The New York Times about the case — besides Colonel Gabavics — did so on the condition of anonymity because they remain employed by the government or military and are not permitted to speak publicly.
Colonel Gabavics was chief of staff to General Fenzel, who led the U.S. Security Coordinator liaison office at the time and helped draft the July 4, 2022, State Department statement attributing the shooting to “tragic circumstances.”
Colonel Gabavics said in an interview that he and his colleagues “were just flabbergasted that this is what they put out.”
Col. Steve Gabavics in Guantánamo Bay in 2016.Credit…Bryan Denton for The New York Times
That the U.S. government avoided calling it intentional, he said, “continued to be on my conscience nonstop.”
“The favoritism is always toward the Israelis. Very little of that goes to the Palestinians,” he said of his experience working in the office.
But General Fenzel was adamant that there was not enough evidence to rule out the possibility that the fog of war had led to an accidental killing, according to two of the officials.
“Ultimately, I had to make judgments based on the full set of facts and information available to me,” General Fenzel said in a statement to The New York Times. “I stand by the integrity of our work and remain confident that we reached the right conclusions.”
The four officials said they believed Colonel Gabavics was acting out of concern for what he saw as the truth.
For General Fenzel’s part, some officials said one factor that may have played into his thinking was a desire to preserve his office’s working relationship with the Israeli military, which had previously stopped cooperating when displeased.
Two of the officials, including one who served at the liaison office at the time of the shooting and a second who was working on Palestinian issues, said General Fenzel had sought to maintain the relationship while also pushing the Israeli military for reforms.
Examining the Shooting
The office where both General Fenzel and Colonel Gabavics worked, now known as the Office of the Security Coordinator, found itself examining the shooting after Israeli and Palestinian officials, who carried out their own independent investigations, refused to cooperate on a joint inquiry.
The F.B.I. initially declined to investigate because, according to Colonel Gabavics, it said it had not been requested to do so by Israel. With the Biden administration under pressure from lawmakers, the F.B.I. eventually opened its own investigation in November 2022. Nearly three years later, however, it has not released any findings, nor said when it might do so.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the Biden administration assigned General Fenzel’s team — which is not an investigative agency — to assess the case and write a report on the evidence.
To analyze the trajectory of the bullets, Colonel Gabavics and other colleagues were sent to examine the scene on the day Ms. Abu Akleh was killed, the colonel and other officials who worked on the review said.
A key part that the U.S. office played in the investigations was to take custody of the bullet that killed Ms. Abu Akleh and hand it to Israeli government ballistics experts for testing in the presence of the American officials, including General Fenzel. The Israeli experts also examined an Israeli Army rifle that the Israelis said a soldier had used to fire in Ms. Abu Akleh’s direction.
The 2022 State Department statement said that extensive damage to the bullet made it hard to draw a definitive conclusion about which gun it was fired from.
The U.S. team also reviewed the separate Israeli and Palestinian investigations into the killing, but it did not conduct interviews with witnesses or perform its own tests.
Demonstrators protesting the killing of Ms. Abu Akleh, in Haifa, Israel, in 2022. Many Palestinians were outraged by her death, and by the conclusion that it was accidental.Credit…Ilia Yefimovich/Picture Alliance, via Getty Images
Colonel Gabavics described himself as the lead U.S. investigator on the case. Three others who worked on it, however, said that while he played a key role, he was not assigned to come up with a final judgment. That responsibility fell to General Fenzel.
Colonel Gabavics said he and others on the team agreed that the Israeli soldier who shot Ms. Abu Akleh must have known that he was shooting at a journalist, though they did not believe that the shooter was targeting Ms. Abu Akleh specifically.
Colonel Gabavics said he concluded the shooting was deliberate based on several factors:
- Records of Israeli military radio traffic on the morning before the shooting showed that soldiers were aware of journalists in the area, he said. And there had been no gunfire coming from the journalists’ direction that might make the Israeli soldiers likely to shoot toward them in self-defense, he said.
- There was an Israeli military vehicle down the road from Ms. Abu Akleh that morning. A sniper watching the road from inside the vehicle would have been able to see the journalists clearly, Colonel Gabavics said.
- When he visited the scene of the shooting hours after it occurred, he said, his colleagues, wearing blue vests similar to Ms. Abu Akleh’s navy-blue protective vest marked “Press,” positioned themselves where she had fallen. They were visible to him from where the shooter’s vehicle had been, he said.
Colonel Gabavics said that the precision of the shots, hitting Ms. Abu Akleh’s head and a carob tree near her, did not suggest an uncontrolled spray of gunfire. That, together with the fact that the shooter fired first at Ms. Abu Akleh’s producer, then at her, then at a passerby who tried to help, indicated to him the shooting was deliberate, he said.
An investigation into the shooting by The New York Times in 2022 found that 16 shots were fired from the approximate location of the Israeli military convoy, most likely by a soldier from an elite unit.
Yellow police tape marking the bullet holes in a tree next to where Ms. Abu Akleh was killed.Credit…Samar Hazboun for The New York Times
For the shooting to be accidental, “the most absurd thing in the world” would have had to happen, he said. “The individual popped out of the truck, just was randomly shooting, and happened to have really well-aimed shots and never looked down the scope. Which wouldn’t have happened,” he said.
His assessment matched that of Palestinian officials. Israel, for its part, said that Ms. Abu Akleh was hit by either an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian gunman firing indiscriminately during clashes with Israeli soldiers, and insisted its soldiers would not intentionally hurt a journalist. Evidence reviewed by The Times for its investigation, however, showed that there were no armed Palestinians near Ms. Abu Akleh when she and her colleagues came under fire.
Colonel Gabavics said he shared his findings orally with General Fenzel and also wrote them into a draft of the office’s report on the shooting.
But General Fenzel disagreed, and shared his assessment with the State Department, which publicly deemed the shooting unintentional.
The office still had to finish its report on the shooting, however, and that became the focus of the internal tug of war.
Colonel Gabavics and three of the former officials at the office said he repeatedly inserted stronger language into the draft, which General Fenzel repeatedly deleted. Eventually, the general ordered his chief of staff off the case, the colonel said.
General Fenzel declined to comment on Colonel Gabavics’s assertions.
Colonel Gabavics continues to believe there had been a miscarriage of justice.
“This was the one that probably bothered me the most” of any case in his career, he said. “Because we had everything there.”
Susan C. Beachy contributed research.
Vivian Yee is a Times reporter covering North Africa and the broader Middle East. She is based in Cairo.
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How did the war in Ukraine start? It was the US spending $5bn on toppling the Ukraine government (Nuland said so).
A new government and power structure was implemented by the US.
What came then? 1/3
Bideoa:https://x.com/i/status/1982732992318501344
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erabiltzaileari erantzuten
The intercepted phone call between the US ambassador to Ukraine and Victoria Nuland (the frontline general) reveals how it worked.
There were daily calls like this, not only one. The overthrow in Kiev was closely managed by the US.
F&uck the EU. 2/3
Bideoa:https://x.com/i/status/1982732995024019738
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NATO expansion plans by the new government caused the war and the attack of Ukrainian forces against “rebels” in Donbass started it.
The war did not stop between 2014 and 2022. It was a pause to give the Minsk agreement a chance.
That agreement was trampled on by all but Russia. None of the promises for Donbass limited independence was implemented.
As Sarkosy and Merkel declared, lip service to ‘Minsk’ was just to win time to strengthen the Ukraine military.
When the Western trick became too obvious, Russia resumed the war.
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Netanyahu has just announced no Israeli will set foot in Ireland following the election of Catherine Connolly:
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Suppressed News.@SuppressedNws1
JUST IN: Journalist Hind Khoudary reports that despite the ceasefire and conditions of aid entry, the amount of aid entering Gaza is still extremely insufficient.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982844230281408632
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The israelis are blocking farmers from accessing their own land to harvest their olives near Mazra’a Al-Sharqiya village, near Ramallah
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1982787358543007993
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ONLY ONE SIDE TARGETS BABIES
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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, being a BRICS partner…
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.)
