I’m zany like that but I feel maybe we shouldn’t let convicted criminals sanction criminal courts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/trump-sanction-icc
"This is not just another foreign policy proposal. This is a US president calling for his country to steal the land of another people 6,000 miles away by means of ethnic cleansing, and to do it for the sake of a lucrative real estate opportunity."
"Lethal fantasies of driving people from their land haunt the Middle East. Trump is fuelling them. Rarely has a US president proposed an idea more repugnant than this Gaza plan, with its appeal to old enmities."
Analyses like the proposal to regard Trump's words as a distraction "miss the big, ugly point. In rushing to assess the impact, they skip over the great wrong."
~ Jonathan Freedland
#Trump #Gaza #Palestinians #Netanyahu #EthnicCleansing
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/07/middle-east-land-people-donald-trump-gaza
Michael Tomasky also warns us not to dismss Trump's Gaza talk as a distraction:
"[It's] a potential war crime. A plan to forcibly move a people out of a place where they have been living for decades (centuries, actually) amounts to a pretty clear violation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1998 Rome Statutes, which established the International Criminal Court. It’s ethnic cleansing, plain and simple."
"Many who worked in Trump’s first administration have warned, we should take Trump at his word. He might very well try to drive two million Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt’s Sinai Desert, or to Jordan, to 'clean out' Gaza to build the 'magnificent' 'Riviera' he imagines (and that he, no doubt, would personally profit from as well)."
~ Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
#Trump #Gaza #Palestinians #Netanyahu #EthnicCleansing
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https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/trump_proposes_ethnic_cleansing_of_gaza
"Donald Trump has restated his proposal to take over Gaza amid widespread opposition – even from his own supporters – saying the territory would be 'turned over' to the US by Israel after it concludes its military offensive against Hamas."
~ Robert Tait
#Trump #Gaza #Palestinians #Netanyahu #EthnicCleansing
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/donald-trump-gaza-takeover-opposition
Emily Tamkin on why we should resist the glib rhetoric about Trump "only" trying to distract us with his Gaza talk:
"I hope that, when we strip away the attention-drawing theatrics of this announcement, we remember that the cruelest and most ridiculous part of it is an idea Trump floated last month to far less fanfare: forced displacement of Gaza’s entire Palestinian population."
#Trump #Gaza #Netanyahu #EthnicCleansing
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https://forward.com/opinion/694663/trump-gaza-proposal-palestinian-displacement/
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"and his evil whims are now backed by the biggest treasury and the largest army in the history of the world."
"Musk’s depredations are nightmarish, and deserve attention. But Trump signaling willingness to exile or kill 1.8 million people is also news which deserves attention. Trump doing awful thing x is not a distraction from awful thing y; it is an additional awful thing which we unfortunately have to pay attention to because the American people elected this fascist sociopath to the presidency,"
Noah Berlatsky engages the "Trump's just playing us with his Gaza talk" refrain:
"Many people—including some senators—believe that Trump’s horrific threat to eliminate/exterminate the population of Gaza is a distraction. The argument goes that Trump will not actually do this (we hope!) and that he only floated it in order to shift the news cycle away from Elon Musk’s destruction of the welfare state, and just of the state."
#Trump #Gaza #Netanyahu #EthnicCleansing
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/no-we-shouldnt-be-paying-attention-e63
"And that’s where this insane pronouncement actually comes from. And the fact that Netanyahu is sitting there with glee in his face, you could see it. ...
And judging by the glee on Netanyahu’s face, it seems clear that Netanyahu is about to be given a free hand to continue the slaughter in Gaza in order to, quote-unquote, 'complete and achieve the aims of the war.'”
So Trump's just playing us with his ethnic-cleansing talk about Gaza, trying to distract us from Musk's rampage through the government — right? Some people (looking at you, NYT) are proposing this.
But Omar Baddar reminds us of why we have to take what Trump has said about Gaza deadly seriously:
"Trump does not see Palestinians as human beings. He thinks they can be moved around like cattle."
#Trump #Gaza #Palestinians #Netanyahu #EthnicCleansing
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https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/omar_baddar_trump_gaza_israel_palestine
What do you get the fascist that has everything?
(Present from fugitive war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to convicted felon Donald Trump.)
(Yes, it’s real.)
#ZOHA editorial
Dangerous imperialist illusion
Trump's words express a return of the U.S. to the concept of colonial imperialism of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Alongside Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal, Trump now seeks to also take control of the Gaza Strip. Particularly worrying is the proposal to station American soldiers in Gaza. It is true that there are American bases in #Israel, but this is not an American military occupation. The question arises: are the American mercenaries currently stationed in #Gaza the vanguard of the occupying force that President Trump spoke about?
The illusion that it is possible to reach agreements with additional Arab countries – and especially with Saudi Arabia – without providing a solution to the Palestinian national issue and while carrying out a transfer of millions of Gaza residents – is a dangerous illusion that will quickly backfire. Even America's close allies in the region, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, have clearly stated their refusal of this plan. Immediately after the Trump and #Netanyahu press conference, the Foreign Ministry in Riyadh published a statement saying that no normalization is possible without the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Netanyahu can continue to promote his outdated claims that it is possible in the current situation to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia, but the facts are stubborn. Netanyahu's desire to serve U.S. interests in the region and the world is limitless. "A victory for Israel is a victory for the U.S.," declared the American citizen Nithai, as he is known in his second homeland, after the press conference. Contrary to what significant portions of the protest against the judicial overhaul and for the release of the hostages believed, Trump is not the solution – Trump is the problem.
He’s waiting for January 20th.
“ #Netanyahu’s office says ceasefire deal with Hamas has still not been reached and that the final details were still being sorted out. That comes after multiple mediators had said Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and the release dozens of hostages after more than 15 months of war”
Activists in Mexico City destroy a wax statue of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with hammers
@wmd Gaza is gone. All that remains are the innocent people subject to famine, disease, and eventual death because of #netanyahu
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Recently indicted New York City mayor Eric Adams has lot of friends in low places.
Places like the Israeli and Turkish governments, the Trump administration, and Chinese crypto exchanges beloved by fentanyl traffickers.
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/eric-adams-yet-another-crypto-success
WHAT IS YOUR VISION?
full speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZg31APIfJk
Ayman Odeh, a Palestinian member of Israel’s Knesset, accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being a "serial killer of peace" during a heated speech, citing Gaza casualties and criticizing Israeli policies.
Odeh was forcibly removed from the platform, sharing his speech online. Protests against Netanyahu's leadership persist across Israel.
