Anti-War

So Israel, which has killed hundreds of Gazans, many of them children, since the so-called Ceasefire was declared on October 11th, has now stated that it is currently intending to maintain its “yellow line” occupation of more than half of the Gaza Strip. That will likely eventually make most of Gaza de facto part of Israel and the Palestinians who once upon a time lived there are shit out of luck, as the old saying goes. And as for those benighted creatures who actually believe that ceasing fire means one must stop shooting it is perhaps past time to ask the man behind the “Peace Plan” which bears the name “Trump” what is going on. Does peace means you disarm the Palestinians so they cannot defend themselves while giving Israel both freedom to occupy their land and to use it as a shooting gallery for killing kids out looking for something to eat?

Lately I’ve been on shows with other guests who’ve expressed outrage and amazement that the U.S. government would blow up people on boats, exclaiming that they never could have imagined such a thing until this moment. A U.S. senator has said he finds video of one particular missile-murder the most disturbing thing he’s ever seen.

A couple of months into these boat killings, could anyone have imagined that corporate media outlets and Congress Members and boatloads of lawyers would be discovering the double-tap as something novel, and declaring their outrage? I think part of the provenance of this phenomenon lies in the conversation in the corporate agora about illegal orders, which was clearly created to object to the use of the so-called National Guard in U.S. cities but ended up being understood as relevant to murdering boaters. And part of it has to do with the personalities, statements, and general obnoxiousness of Trump, Hegseth, et alia.

Last month, some House members publicly acknowledged that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive destruction, and the expansion of Israeli violence to the West Bank and elsewhere in the Middle East.

 The resolution, passed on November 14, 2025, was a consolation prize to Israel after failing to achieve its ultimate objective from the two-year Gaza genocide: the ethnic cleansing of the population and the complete takeover of the Gaza Strip.

“Syrians are nasty people.”

This ancient Roman graffiti was found during World War II etched on a rock in Syria by a friend’s father who was soldiering in the British Army. Not much has changed since the 1st Century AD.

Syria continues to be a danger and headache to its own people and neighbours. Its only time of relative peace - if one discounts the murderous Mongols and Crusaders - was during the centuries of Ottoman rule when the Turks allowed Syria’s 20-odd different peoples to do their own thing and worship their preferred gods.

Modern Syria used to be the beating heart of the Arab world. A centre of deep cultures, dazzling architecture, bizarre cults, strange religions and rich farmlands. Damascus rivalled Cairo as the capital of the Mideast. Created by French imperialists after World War I, the modern state of Syria became very important due to its vital geographic importance. Syria bordered on newly created Iraq, Jordan and Palestine - which would later become, in part, the Jewish state of Israel. Syria and Egypt were historic rivals who have warred over Syria across the centuries. Napoleon saw Syria as the key to the Mideast.

Israel launched an airstrike on a densely populated Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilweh in southern Lebanon late Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding nearly 70 more, according to Lebanese Health Ministry.

Paramedics and people rushed to the site of an Israeli strike located in a crowded area between mosque and football pitch in the refugee camp, for a search and rescue efforts.

The Israeli military said, without providing any evidence, that the strike targeted a Hamas "military compound" allegedly used for training fighters.

Names of the martyrs of the Ain al-Hilweh massacre. Date, November 18, 2025:

1- Martyr Muhammad Khalil

2- Martyr Ahmad Othman

3- Martyr Jihad al-Sidawi

4- Martyr Amjad Khashan

5- Martyr Bilal al-Natour

6-Martyr Youssef Shamma

7- Martyr Ali Ibrahim

8- Martyr Hussein al-Shouli

9- Martyr Obaida Ghoutani

10- Martyr Mustafa Ghoutani

11- Martyr Daniel Ghoutani

12- Martyr Mahmoud Muhammad

12- Martyr Ali Hamad

Canada has launched a criminal investigation into Israeli-Canadian IDF veterans for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Gaza conflict according to report by ynetnews.com last June. The story said, "The RCMP began the investigation in early 2024 and confirmed it in June 2025.

"The probe targets Canadian citizens with dual Israeli-Canadian citizenship who served in the IDF as well as lone soldiers and Israeli citizens residing in Canada who traveled to Israel to enlist."  The RCMP described the investigation as a "structural investigation" under Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program, which aims to prevent Canada from becoming a haven for individuals accused of committing atrocities abroad. The investigation has caused concern and controversy within Canada's Jewish and Israeli communities, with many fearing a wave of arrests or summons. 

A couple of recent stories relating to the utter bestiality of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians have exposed the criminality of successive US governments in supporting the Jewish state no matter what it does. Observers of the lopsided relationship understand very clearly that Israel’s lobby in the United States, backed up by Jewish billionaires who are willing to spend whatever it takes to corrupt the political system and buy up the media, has succeeded in making Washington a totally controlled client state manipulated by extreme war criminals like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is rewarded by the near complete loyalty of Congress and the White House. The one sided relationship dominates both Republicans and Democrats and has been most evident in the Presidencies of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who have chosen to ignore the reality of the Israeli slaughter of some hundreds of thousands of Palestinians using US weapons and Washington’s political protection in international fora. For what it is worth, neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump has spoken out effectively on the murder and torture of the Palestinians by Israel.

Somewhere between New York’s Studio 54 disco and the White House, Donald Trump became infused by militant Christianity. At the same time, he also seems to have been imbued by the most extreme, far-right Zionism.

Politics do odd things. Trump may espouse a lot of oddball causes, but he’s no fool. He lives and breathes politics.

This week’s political rabbit out of the hat is, of all places, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nations, with 232 million rambunctious people. As with many of today’s world problems, Nigeria was a creation of British imperialism. The British took a very large swathe of West Africa comprising all sorts of peoples, religions and tribes, drew a line around its borders, and called it Nigeria.

Northern Nigeria, which abuts the Sahara, was predominantly Muslim. Southern Nigeria, where vast stores of oil were eventually discovered, became largely Christian thanks to intense British missionary activity. The two huge communities occasionally squabble or fight, most often over land disputes, cattle rusting and kidnapping of women.

Has Donald Trump's sharp rebuke of Israel in his October 23 Time Magazine interview fundamentally changed the calculus in the Middle East? His comments immediately sparked two opposing views: for some, his position represents the clear demarcation of a genuine shift in US foreign policy; for others, it is nothing more than a political ploy designed to claw back credibility lost by the US during two years of Israeli genocide in Gaza.