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Best Prescription for Wooing Voters in Israel: Spill More Palestinian Blood

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It is well-known in Israel that the popularity of any candidate for Prime Minister is measured in proportion to the number of Palestinians he has killed and the amount of blood he has shed.

Thus was the case with many big names in the history of the apartheid entity who reached the helm of power and became Prime Ministers. We all remember big names in Israel’s history, who had been genocidal murderers and child-killers, only to assume the leadership of the Zionist regime, people like Menachem Begin, Isaac Rabin, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak. Each of these celebrated and decorated figures actually had a huge amount of innocent blood on their hands and are likely to languish in hellfire for thousands or millions of years.

We all remember how Ehud Barak, for example,  sought to woo Jewish voters to vote for him by gasconading about killing three PLO leaders in Beirut and describing to them in graphic details the moment of murdering them. The “election advertisement” was very effective, leaving strong and instantaneous impressions on viewers who subsequently elected him Prime Minister.

  In short, the more Arab blood you shed in Israel, the more votes you will receive from  Jewish voters.  You shouldn’t expect to read this in the New York Times, Washington Post, or find it on CNN, ABC, CBS or even BBC. But it is a deniable fact.

 Election time is bloodshed season

Israel, a criminal state par excellence, murders and maims mostly innocent Palestinians 365 days per year. Murdering Palestinians has always been Israel’s modus operandi and ultimate policy.

Hence, it is safe to say that the bloody repression of Palestinians, including murdering children and demolishing Arab homes and businesses for a variety of concocted reasons, is the best and most effective method of gaining popularity and boosting an incumbent Prime Minister’s chances for getting re-elected. Otherwise, no “normal”  country would elect and re-elect a certified war criminal several times, as was the case with Netanyahu, Sharon and Barak.  Interestingly, this ghoulish and evil anomaly tells us much about the collective psychosis haunting most Zionist Jews.

Truman called as it was

Talking publicly about this particular matter, namely the sadistic propensity of Zionist Jews to murder Palestinians is a serious taboo in the West, especially in the media.

None the less, we must call the spade a spade, especially when we see the proverbial implement in the hands of our grave-diggers, and I am not speaking metaphorically.

The genocidal crimes of the Hagana, Irgun and other Zionist paramilitary gangs against Palestinian villagers in 1948, which forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee their ancestral homeland, caught the attention of President Harry Truman. In a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, Truman wrote that “Jews are like all underdogs. When they get on top they are just as intolerant and as cruel as the people were to them when they were underneath.” These are Truman’s words, not mine.  

Now, I have a question for honest people around the world. Can any politician or governmental official in the US, Britain or France echo Truman’s iconic words and get away with impunity? I think we all know the answer rather too well.

But the evil treatment meted out to the Palestinians has, more or less,   remained unchanged ever since the Truman era. Hence, his description of the Zionists should be as relevant today as it was when he wrote his famous letter to Eleanor Roosevelt.

Since murdering Palestinian journalist Sherine Abu Akleh, , apparently with malice aforethought a few weeks ago, the Israel occupation army stepped up its erstwhile shoot-to-kill policy against mainly unprotected Palestinian civilians

More bloodshed expected as Israeli elections near

 Observers in occupied Palestine expected the genocidal Israeli army to murder more Palestinians, especially children and youngsters. In fact, it seems the spate of murderous killings has already started in earnest. On Friday, Mohammed Hamad, 16, was shot and wounded near the town of Silwad, near Ramallah in the central  West Bank. Eyewitnesses described the crime as “cold-blooded murder.” The Israeli occupation refused to elaborate on the latest murder. The Israeli army normally doesn’t investigate its murderous crimes unless a given victim’s death raised an international outcry like  Sherin Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli occupation troops in Jenin several weeks ago.  So far, the Israeli army has refused to admit killing Akleh.

Last week, a murderous settler stabbed to death Hasan Harb, 28, in full view of Israeli army who were looking on passively, refusing to stop the settler or even arrest him. According to the Israeli media, the army has not opened an investigation into “the incident.”

Less than 24 hours later. Trigger-happy Israeli soldiers shot and killed another Palestinian youngster for allegedly hurling stones on them. I am sure that when this article is posted, more innocent Palestinians will have been killed by the Gestapo-like soldiers. 

Meanwhile, the Israeli military spokesman continues to twist the truth by referring the occupation army’s murderous episodes in the West Bank as “clashes,” giving the impression that Palestinian victims of Israel’s daily atrocities were using fire-arms against the heavily-armed crack soldiers.  Predictably, the usually unsuspecting western news agencies, especially AP, would take the twisted Zionist narrative at face value, swallowing it, hook, line and sinker, thus promoting Zionist mendacity and disinformation.

The three wise monkeys

As to the Palestinian Authority (PA), it is behaving very much like the three wise monkeys, not hearing,  seeing or speaking. The PA controlled media normally tersely announce the daily toll of Israel’s unrelenting crimes, but nothing else. Which suggests that the authoritarian Palestinian leadership, too, views the sanctity of Palestinian very lightly.

Despite the daily  Israeli atrocities of innocent Palestinians, the PA is maintaining a strong security coordination regime with the occupation army, which obliges the Palestinian security apparatus to collaborate with Israel in “combating terror,” a vague term interpreted by Israel “providing information that would commit the PA security apparatus, which would lead to the arrest, neutralization or liquidation” of anti-occupation activists.

According to security understandings between the PA and Israel, the main function and raison detre of the PA security agencies is to fight Palestinian resistance groups, particularly Hamas.

In this context, the PA has been waging an open war on pro-Hamas activism in the West Bank, including in universities, professional associations and the media.

PA leader, 86, has not held presidential and legislative elections since he was elected PLO president in 2005, following the death of Yasser Arafat a  few months earlier. (end)

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Where Is Gaza’s International Stabilization Force and What Happened to the Ceasefire

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When Gaza’s ceasefire was announced, it was presented as more than a triumph. As a result, it was supposed to usher in a new phase of peace, prosperity, and stability. However, nothing like that happened. The Board of Peace and the International Stabilization Force remained unmaterialized ideas. Even months later, those promises look thin on the ground.

A Ceasefire That Still Leaves People Dead

What about a ceasefire that remains unable to stop brutality and killings? A ceasefire means safer movement, sufficient aid, and complete elimination of fear. Unfortunately, the people of Gaza haven’t seen that even after the announcement of a so-called “20-point plan” and the “ceasefire”.

Recently, Israeli strikes killed three Palestinians on June 11 while Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey were trying to advance the fragile truce. Days earlier, another Israeli airstrike on a large tent encampment in Gaza City killed at least seven innocent Palestinians, including two women, and injured 15 others, some of them children.

Moreover, more than 950 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire began. These numbers show why the word “ceasefire” sounds hollow to many families. A truce that cannot stop repeated deaths is not functioning as protection.

The Force That Has Not Protected Gaza

The International Stabilization Force was supposed to be a central part of Gaza’s next phase. The ceasefire plan, later tied to a UN mandate, imagined an international force that could support security, help stabilize the territory, assist transitional arrangements, and give the ceasefire practical weight.

Unfortunately, the force has not become a meaningful presence yet.

Numerous credible reports state that plans for the Gaza International Stabilization Force were in question because troop pledges had stalled. Countries expected to contribute had not made the commitments needed to turn a political idea into an operational force.

This delay matters a lot as Gaza now needs a mechanism that can protect displacement sites, secure aid routes, support safe movement, and help prevent violations. Without that, the stabilization force becomes another promise Palestinians hear about but do not feel.

Why Governments Are Hesitating

The hesitation is partly political and partly practical. Sending troops into Gaza would mean entering one of the most obliterated and contested places in the world. Foreign soldiers could be caught between Israel, armed factions, displaced civilians, and a population deeply suspicious of outside arrangements.

There are also unresolved questions about the mandate. Would the force protect civilians from all attacks, or mainly focus on disarmament? Would it monitor Israeli actions as well as Palestinian armed groups? Would Palestinians have a real voice in how it operates?

A force without legitimacy could fail quickly. But delay also has a huge cost. While governments hesitate, civilians live without a credible protection system against the genocidal acts of Israel.

Monitoring Without Enforcement

The United States was expected to close its Civil-Military Coordination Centre near Gaza as the broader Gaza plan stalled. The Centre was designed to monitor the ceasefire and help improve aid flows. This is because most people observed that it failed to deliver meaningful results.

That failure exposes the problem with symbolic mechanisms. A coordination Centre can collect information, but it cannot protect civilians unless it has authority, access, and consequences behind it. Monitoring may record violations only, but it cannot stop them adequately.

Aid Crossings Reveal the Truth

Humanitarian access is the clearest test of the ceasefire. If food, medicine, fuel, water, and shelter materials cannot enter Gaza reliably, then the truce is failing at the most basic level.

OCHA reported on June 5 that Israel had kept Zikim Crossing in northern Gaza closed for two weeks. Aid convoys were being rerouted to Kerem Shalom, as the last remaining cargo crossing. That rerouting created congestion and slowed the collection of critical supplies.

In genocide-affected Gaza, a delayed truck can mean empty kitchens, untreated wounds, missing medicine, and another night in unsafe shelter. UN Secretary-General António Guterres also urged Israel to reopen closed crossings so aid could move rapidly, safely and at scale.

How can a ceasefire that leaves aid trapped at crossings restore civilian life?

The Deadlock Behind the Crisis

Talks on Gaza’s next phase remain stuck on the issue of Hamas disarmament and complete Israeli military withdrawal. Palestinian factions had agreed to most points in the peace blueprint, but Israel is reluctant to keep its military in Palestine.

Israel is trying to hide their heinous plan of genocide advancement in the name of Hamas disarmament. While Hamas completely denies the allegations of Israel and links their efforts to a political process toward Palestinian statehood and an end to illegal occupation.

Gaza needs fewer promises and more enforceable guarantees from the international community now. Civilian shelters must be protected, aid crossings must remain open, medical evacuations must move quickly, and ceasefire violations must be reported quickly. Any stabilization force must have a clear civilian-protection mandate. Israeli withdrawal lines must be transparent, and reconstruction must be tied to Palestinian governance.

Above all, there must be consequences when civilians are killed after a ceasefire has supposedly begun.

Final Thought

Gaza’s crisis shows the danger of genocidal diplomacy without delivery. A ceasefire without enforcement is not peace. Monitoring without consequences cannot protect innocent civilians. Aid promises mean little when crossings remain highly restricted.

Palestinians were promised stability and peace. What they received is continued death, delayed protection, and a plan stronger on paper than in Gaza.

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Gaza’s Cancer Patients Waiting for a Way Out

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Cancer is undoubtedly a race against time. In Gaza, that race is being lost not only inside hospital rooms but at closed crossings and stalled evacuation lists. Innocent patients who need chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, or specialist scans are being left to wait in a genocidal system that no longer has the tools to treat them adequately.

Rather than asking for comfort, they are unfortunately asking for access to treatment that exists elsewhere but remains out of reach. For all of them, survival now depends on something painfully simple: permission to leave the genocidal trap.

More Than 16500 Patients Blocked From Treatment

Gaza’s Health Ministry has revealed that Israel is preventing more than 16,500 Palestinians who need urgent medical treatment abroad from leaving the besieged enclave. These figures include patients with cancer and other serious health conditions that cannot be treated properly inside Gaza.

It is a deliberate health crisis made by Israel that is not limited to a few exceptional cases. Thousands of people have referrals, diagnoses, or urgent needs, yet remain trapped between a collapsed health sector and a completely restricted evacuation process.

For cancer patients, a missed chemotherapy cycle can weaken the chance of recovery. Likewise, a delayed surgery can allow the heinous disease to spread, and a postponed scan can leave doctors unable to know whether treatment is working. In normal circumstances, cancer care depends on timing, but in Gaza, it has become another casualty.

Why Cancer Patients Are Especially Vulnerable

Since cancer treatment is not a single injection or one hospital visit, it is a long process of extensive care. Patients need laboratory tests, biopsies, CT or MRI scans, blood transfusions, pain medicine, infection control, and repeated follow-up.

So, if one part of this chain breaks, the whole treatment plan can fail abruptly. This is why these patients are facing a severe life danger. They are intentionally dragged towards death by Israel’s hostilities.

More specifically, the World Health Organization highlighted that around 18,500 patients still urgently need medical treatment that is not available in Gaza. Unfortunately, most of the hospitals in Gaza are completely obliterated by Israeli airstrikes. The hospitals that are left are overwhelmed by trauma injuries, amputations, burns, infections, childbirth, chronic illness, and emergency surgery.

Gaza Patients Are Becoming Public Appeals

This is the case of human survival, as the crisis is now forcing patients and families to make public appeals. For example, the case of Amal al-Yazji, a school director and novelist in Gaza, who needs urgent life-saving cancer surgery that she cannot access inside the Strip after chemotherapy stopped working.

Her case is a powerful reflection of what many patients are facing. Roads and transportation systems have also collapsed in Gaza. Resultantly, the chances of treatment inside Gaza have reached near zero.

Recently, the United States’ lawmakers also pressed the Trump administration to help facilitate medical evacuations for cancer patients from Gaza. Their June 11 official letter warned of cancer patients being severely trapped without appropriate treatment and urged a medical pathway to at least East Jerusalem or the West Bank.

Waiting Has Become a Life Threat

For many patients, hospitals in Egypt, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, or other countries are not a preference but only a possible route to survival. This is why medical evacuations should not be treated as a favour but a humanitarian necessity.

There are other patients as well in Gaza whose waiting could lead to death. Several patients are suffering from Tuberculosis, heart, and kidney diseases. It can mean a child becoming too weak for treatment, a family watching a loved one decline while knowing care exists somewhere beyond the border.

What Must Change

Gaza’s patients, especially cancer patients, need urgent and predictable medical evacuation routes. Crossings must function for all the people who want to study or treat themselves, not only for political announcements. Referral approvals must move quickly. Eventually, hospitals in other countries must be accessible to those who need specialist care.

Moreover, inside Gaza, cancer services need medicines, diagnostic equipment, fuel, electricity, surgical supplies, and protection for health workers. But all of this comes under the banner of “peace”, which is not permissible by Israel at any cost. Rebuilding specialist care might take time, but these critical cancer patients do not have that anymore.

They are desperately waiting for a way out because they want their life to be protected. In an environment where even aid and water are stopped from entering the Strip, allowing patients to leave the besieged area seems impossible.

However, the international community must stand against this insanity and cruelty. Innocent people are dying every single day while those in power are not even paying any attention to them. In a nutshell, it’s time to stand against one of the greatest genocides of the century.

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Gaza’s Broken Daily Life: Weddings, Tents and Hospitals Under Fire and Siege

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Gaza’s heinous genocide is no longer confined to moments of direct attack. It is now visible in the complete breakdown of daily life itself. Families are still being butchered vehemently in places where they had sought shelter. To worsen these matters, shortages of fuel, engine oil, gas, and spare parts are crippling hospitals, bakeries, rescue vehicles, water systems, and ordinary transport.

A Tent Camp Hit in Gaza City

On June 6, despite the so-called “ceasefire,” an Israeli air attack hit a tent camp in Gaza City where displaced Palestinians were sheltering. Resultantly, at least seven people were killed, while at least 15 others were injured, many of them treated in intensive care. Women and children were believed to be among the casualties. The strike hit a United Nations school compound that had become a shelter for displaced families.

These were displaced people already living with the consequences of bombardment, evacuation, and loss. A tent camp is meant to be a temporary refuge for families with nowhere else to go. When such a place is hit, it deepens the fear that no civilian space is beyond danger.

A Wedding Turned Into Mourning

Moreover, the Gaza City strike by Israel targeted a tent next to another tent where a wedding appeared to be taking place. Unfortunately, earlier the same day, a strike in Khan Younis killed a man who was scheduled to be married later that day. His cousin said the family had prepared for the wedding but was instead attending his funeral.

This detail shows how deeply the genocide has entered private life. A wedding in Gaza is not just a celebration but an attempt to preserve social life despite displacement, hunger, and fear. When a groom is killed on the day of his wedding, even brief moments of normality remain exposed to violence.

The Ceasefire Gap

The attacks came amid discussions over the Gaza ceasefire process. Specifically, Hamas was preparing for meetings in Egypt on the implementation of the ceasefire agreement, while several Israeli attacks across Gaza that day killed at least nine people. Gaza remains under Israeli military control, and the second phase of the agreement has been stalled for months.

For people, the real meaning of a ceasefire depends on whether people can sleep safely, gather without fear, reach hospitals, and rebuild some predictable rhythm of life. If strikes continue and basic services keep failing, the gap between imaginative political claims and reality remains painfully wide.

The Shortages Freezing Daily Life

Alongside these unprovoked attacks, Gaza is facing another severe pressure due to a shortage of gas, engine oil, and spare parts. Undoubtedly, these shortages are affecting emergency services, bakeries, water supplies, and hospitals. Items that may sound technical outside Gaza now decide whether a generator runs, a vehicle moves, bread is baked, and whether water can be pumped.

These shortages are damaging daily life in connected ways:

  • Hospitals need generators and spare parts to keep operating rooms functioning
  • Bakeries need power and maintenance materials to continue producing bread
  • Water systems need energy supplies, chemicals and parts to keep desalination and pumping services running.

Hospitals and Rescue Services Under Pressure

Hospitals have been among the most vulnerable since October 2023. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza warned of an imminent health disaster after extreme power failures affected surgical operating rooms. Moreover, all of its generators have stopped working while summer heat is expected to place more pressure on the remaining equipment.

This is not a minor operational issue as Gaza’s remaining hospitals are already treating genocidal injuries, malnutrition, infections and chronic illness in overcrowded conditions. If generators fail, surgical care, emergency treatment, refrigeration, lighting, and essential equipment are all affected. Gaza’s authorities have also warned that fire and rescue operations risk coming to a halt as vehicles break down due to shortages of spare parts, fuel and engine oil.

Bread, Water and Survival

Food and water systems are also largely affected. Bakeries depend on fuel, generators, and maintenance materials, while water systems need energy supplies, chemicals, and spare parts. UNICEF data showed that seawater desalination output had fallen to about 16,000 cubic metres per day, compared with 20,000 in March, due to the restrictions on essential supplies. In a densely displaced population, any reduction in water production quickly becomes a public health concern.

This is why Gaza’s broken daily life must be understood as a connected genocidal crisis. The strike on a tent camp, the killing of a groom, the failure of hospital generators, the collapse of rescue vehicles and the shortage of water-production supplies are not separate stories. Together, they show how civilian life is being attacked directly and indirectly at the same time.

In a nutshell, until these conditions change, daily life in Gaza will remain trapped between immediate violence and the gradual destruction of everything needed to survive.

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