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Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza

Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza

History & Context

Hamas has agreed to release all hostages and end the war. Israel refused.

Hamas negotiators worked with Qatari and Egyptian mediators to respond to all issues in the last U.S./Israeli ceasefire draft, focusing on food aid to Gazans and a permanent end to the war. Western media has reported verbatim claims from Netanyahu and U.S. envoy Witkoff that Hamas “is the obstacle to a hostage release deal."
Internal Israeli politics

The political and legal survival of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is dependent on continued war and yielding to the demands from far-right ministers to annex Gaza and the West Bank. Their intention is to erase Palestine.
Palestinian oil and gas reserves

Oil and gas resources in the West Bank and offshore Gaza, and control of Gaza’s maritime zone, could provide Palestinians with economic independence and strategic strength. Israel sees this as a threat to its own strategic and economic ambitions.
Israel continues to arrest large numbers of Palestinians, most without charge

Palestinians held in Israeli prisons now number over 10,000, subjected to systematic torture and extra-judicial killing. Israel’s targeting of attorneys, activists and doctors in Gaza is evidence of the intention to destroy medical infrastructure and civil society in Palestine.
Israeli hegemony = U.S. regional influence

Despite growing international support for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and recognition of the State of Palestine, unconditional U.S. support for Israel has been an effective block on meaningful political or economic steps to hold Israel accountable for its crimes in Gaza.
An aggressive Israeli lobby in the U.S. and a powerful pro-Israel evangelical voting bloc

The Israeli lobby in the U.S. finances much of the Congress and helps drive U.S. policy on Israel. As do the 80 million evangelicals who make up 25% of the nation’s adult population, 80% of whom voted for Trump in 2024. Many U.S. evangelicals believe Israel’s occupation of all the Holy Land will usher in the “second coming of Jesus.”

Toward Geopolitical Control of the Middle East

Israel’s assault on Gaza and the West Bank is one piece of a bigger push for U.S. influence and Israeli hegemony in the region.

World In Brief

In advance of the Trump-Putin summit on Friday in Alaska, German Chancellor Merz has organized a video call for other European leaders and Trump with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, who will attend in person in Berlin.

U.S. National Guard troops have started arriving in Washington DC, one day after Donald Trump took control of the city's police force. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke of the troop deployment as an "authoritarian push."

In Spain, thousands have been evacuated as wildfires rage, as temperatures in some areas surged above 40C.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine will not agree to cede the Donbas to Russia as part of any agreement, because Moscow would simply use it from which to start a future invasion.

Israel has intensified its bombing of Gaza, killing at least 89 Palestinians in the last 24 hours. Fifteen of those were waiting for food. Five more Palestinians have died from starvation.

BREAKING Claiming the city is "lawless," Donald Trump has invoked section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, federalizing Washington DC’s Metropolitan police department for the first time in its history. Trump has taken control of the city police, ordered 800 national guard troops to Washington, and said he may send in the military “if needed.” The federal takeover is expected to be in effect for 30 days.

Over the weekend, Israelis took to the streets in cities across the country to protest their government's plan to occupy Gaza City and escalate the violence. Protestors in Tel Aviv numbered more than 100,000, demanding an end to the military campaign and release of the hostages.

At least 63 people have died from malnutrition in the last week in the Sudanese city of Al Fasher, as fighting between the army and paramilitary RSF intensifies. The death toll is said to include only those who came into hospitals, so the death toll is thought to be much higher.

The Trump administration has reached an agreement for chipmakers Nvidia and AMD to pay the U.S. government 15% of their revenues from semiconductor sales to China in exchange for export licenses. The unprecedented arrangement may violate the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits export tariffs. China may also decide not to buy the AI chips out of concern they could have backdoors creating security risks.

Iran announced that it will block the corridor through Armenia to be part of a U.S.-brokered peace accord between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as it undermines Armenia’s territorial integrity. The deal would give the U.S. exclusive development rights to the corridor linking Azerbaijan to its enclave bordering Turkiye, which would pass close to the border with Iran and be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.

Posting on his Truth Social platform on Sunday after driving from the White House to his golf club in Virginia, Donald Trump demanded that homeless residents of Washington, DC leave the city or face eviction.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Monday that Australia will join France, Canada and the UK in formally recognizing the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September.

BREAKING Israel has admitted that it deliberately targeted and killed 5 Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza City, including the prominent reporter, Anas al-Sharif. Al-Sharif's targeting by Israel comes just one week after Israel ran a campaign of incitement against Al Jazeera, accusing al-Sharif of involvement with Hamas. The Committee to Protect Journalists said: “Israel’s pattern of labelling journalists as militants without providing credible evidence raises serious questions about its intent and respect for press freedom.” Israel has killed 237 journalists since 7 October 2023.

The Trump administration announced last week that U.S. cities and states that boycott Israeli companies will not receive natural disaster funding from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

More than 60,000 Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest their government's decision to seize the densely populated Gaza City, despite the military saying it would put the captives at risk, endanger troops, and deepen the humanitarian crisis. A general strike is being called for next week.

The Week the World Woke Up to the Genocide in Gaza

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The Week the World Woke Up to the Genocide in Gaza

A statement on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Nuclear

A statement on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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OpenAI’s Pitch To Trump: Rank The World On U.S. Tech Interests

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“Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Israel’s War on Gaza

Human Rights

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Mearsheimer with Tucker Carlson: The Palestinian Genocide, and How the West Has Been Deceived

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Mearsheimer with Tucker Carlson: The Palestinian Genocide, and How the West Has Been Deceived

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Jeffrey Epstein Is a Policy Issue

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Iran-Israel ‘threshold war’ has rewritten nuclear escalation rules

Nuclear

Iran-Israel ‘threshold war’ has rewritten nuclear escalation rules

The Conversation

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