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betrayed the hostages, tbh
from the Haaretz article
Bibi calls the Haaretz piece a "wicked fabrication with clear political timing" and threatens to sue
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/w...as-attack.htmlRecently, Mr. Netanyahu asserted that Israeli security officials had chosen not to wake him up in the early hours of Oct. 7, despite worrying signs from Gaza, because they had feared he would respond aggressively and set off a war with Hamas.
“If they had woken me up, everything would have looked different,” he said in a campaign video clip last month.
But when Mr. Netanyahu’s office releaseda schedule of his actions immediately after he was awakened at 6:29 a.m. that day, when the Hamas assault began, it appeared that he had not ordered an immediate counterattack and that hours had passed before he spoke to the military chief of staff.
betrayed the hostages, tbh
from the Haaretz article
B'Tselem is an Israeli human rights org
https://www.btselem.org/the_elimination_project/Since the current Israeli government took office at the end of 2022, and even more so since October 2023, Israel has dramatically escalated its assault on all aspects of Palestinian life in the West Bank. At any moment, Palestinians may be exposed to violence by soldiers or armed settler militias, arrested and imprisoned, subjected to abuse and humiliation, and sometimes even killed.
The Elimination Project draws on more than 2,000 testimonies B’Tselem collected from Palestinians since October 2023 and over three decades of do enting the Israeli apartheid regime’s human rights abuses in the West Bank. The report looks at the current reality not as a collection of isolated incidents or specific harms, but as part of a comprehensive mechanism of elimination that works to dismantle the conditions for continued Palestinian existence in the West Bank, while deepening Jewish control and supremacy in an irreversible manner. An examination of the current reality in the West Bank reveals that the project of elimination is now being implemented more openly, directly and violently than before, and increasingly relies on cooperation between official state authorities and settler militias operating in the West Bank with state backing and support.
The current escalation in the West Bank is unfolding in parallel with the genocide Israel is committing against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In Gaza, the logic of elimination has taken its most extreme form; in the West Bank, it is realized in other forms, through the five domains of action described in the report. The two arenas are not detached. The normalization of the mass killing and colossal destruction Israel is inflicting on the Gaza Strip has dramatically expanded the boundaries of violence perceived as legitimate and deployed by the Israeli regime against Palestinians. Since October 2023, previously rarer practices associated with the assault on Gaza have become more common in the West Bank, including airstrikes, large-scale destruction of residential areas and infrastructure, mass displacement, and a relaxation of the open-fire policy.
NAZA is a Hebrew acronym that means "collateral damage"
Israel's Interior minister wants to revoke the citizenship of the filmmakers
https://www.972mag.com/naza-exposing...chine-in-gaza/Over the past three years, we conducted night-time interviews on the rooftops of Tel Aviv with 24 Israeli soldiers who played an active role in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza. Most of them were intelligence officers, working behind screens and participating remotely in the mass killing of Palestinians.
Their testimonies form the basis of “NAZA,” a new do entarywe directed — produced by The Guardian and James Wilson and executive produced by Jonathan Glazer — that premieres this evening at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
We interviewed these soldiers not because this was the only way to know what Israel has done in Gaza. Anyone who has seen the devastation in the Strip, listened to Gaza’s residents, or simply took Israeli leaders at their word should have recognized this truth years ago.
We made this film for one simple reason: We understood that testimonies from officers and soldiers in the army that annihilated Gaza — those who conducted the surveillance, who calculated how many innocent people were likely to be killed in each house, and who repeatedly gave the green light to bomb entire families — would make it even harder to deny the crimes. And that denial is part of what allows these crimes to continue until today.
This is a film about a system. It focuses on orders, policies, and patterns of operation, not deviations from them. The conclusion that we draw from the testimonies is clear: The mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza was not a “tragic byproduct” of a war against Hamas, as it is commonly portrayed in Israel, but a premeditated, calculated, and intentional act. This is why a UN commission, the world’s leading human rights groups, and Palestinian, Israeli, and international scholars have described it as a genocide.
One of the officers we interviewed describes how he was fully aware in real time of hundreds of cases in which families were going about their normal lives — a man talking to his wife, the sound of a TV show, prayer, a crying baby — and then he gave the clearance to bomb them. When asked why, he explained: “You understand that the objective is to destroy.”
Seen in this light, the presence of a person Israel deems an assassination target in a certain house becomes the “collateral” matter; indeed, in many cases, the target turned out not to have been present at all. The killing itself was the point.
Most of the soldiers we interviewed belong to what is commonly referred to as Israel’s socioeconomic elite, and served mainly in prestigious intelligence units. Some were clear that they had participated in serious crimes, and hoped that speaking out would help to penetrate the walls of denial and justification and force the Israeli public to reckon with what the army was sent to do on their behalf. Others agreed to speak only after months of deliberation — whether out of guilt, shame, or even pride in what they regarded as their professional accomplishments.
Our film does not dwell on their motivations, which was a deliberate choice. It is concerned principally with the killing itself and what makes that killing possible.
Air Force pilots might claim that they were simply following orders — that they received a set of coordinates, dropped the bomb, and returned home without knowing what they struck. Infantry soldiers will defend themselves by saying that they did not always know whom they were hitting, partly because of the fog of war. As questionable as these defenses may be, there can be no denying what intelligence personnel knew.
They witnessed with their own eyes and ears that the homes they were “incriminating” were filled with families. They knew that the vast “NAZA approvals” were not connected to targets of any significant military value. And yet they played their part in the machinery of death with virtually no acts of refusal or resistance.
Israel did this
https://www.ft.com/content/25bc2df2-...f-2fe4d47806ceAn extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.
Just a little ethnic cleansing for their future lebensraum.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-israel-2677865638/On Tuesday, The Washington Post revealed that the Trump administration was actively preparing to sell $2.8 billion worth of weapons to Israel, including 40,000 “controversial” 2,000-pound bombs, citing an anonymous U.S. official. While described as a sale, the Post noted that the “transaction is financed through a mechanism known as Foreign Military Financing,” in which American taxpayer dollars are transferred to Israel to fund the purchase.
https:/www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/opinion/israel-naza-movie-do entary.html
14 Dems voted yea in a previous 2024 resolution, 46 Dems plus Rand Paul voted yea this time
Israel did this
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us...israel/4073195The US Senate rejected a motion to bring forward a resolution introduced by Sen. Chris Van Hollen concerning human rights practices in Israel and the occupied West Bank from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The motion to discharge S. Res. 852 from the Foreign Relations Committee failed to receive the required votes, with 47 senators supporting it and 51 opposing it.
Among individual senators, Sen. John Fetterman voted against the motion, while Republican Sen. Rand Paul voted in favor.
Republican Senators Bill Cassidy and Dan Sullivan did not vote.
The resolution, led the “Israel Human Rights Practices” resolution, calls for the State Department to provide Congress with information concerning human rights conditions in the West Bank, including the cir stances surrounding the deaths and detention of American citizens.
what Milstein did is arguably treason
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...-huckabee.html
Netanyahu military aide says official records were altered after Oct 7, 2023
https://archive.is/uPClX#selection-1105.0-1139.363In the excerpt published on Thursday, Gil revealed new details about the alleged altering of the record of conversations between Netanyahu and top officials. According to Gil, two weeks into the war, he began noticing that people in Netanyahu's inner circle were "disproportionately" collecting material.
"I decided to reach out to the attorney general," Gil recalled. "I told her that we're at war, and that I'm not looking to blame anybody and I don't want this to be personal. I asked her to clarify the guidelines about what's allowed and what's forbidden regarding stenograms, and that's what happened," he said.
After Gil reached out to the attorney general, Israel Police began investigating whether senior officials in the Prime Minister's Office attempted to change the protocols of cabinet meetings held during the war, as well as transcripts of phone calls made by decision-makers – including Netanyahu – during the first days of the war. One of the suspects investigated by police was Netanyahu's chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman.
"This involves a pattern of criminal behavior by people who believe they can do whatever they please, and the chief of staff acted like someone who felt he could do anything he wanted," Gil said.
"It could be that even back then they were working on the narrative that we see today, that the prime minister was the only one who functioned when [the October 7 attacks] started," Gil said. "This is a grave scenario, but it's plausible. There's another very grave scenario," he added.
"Every commission of inquiry that's established should insist on receiving the full tapes and not the transcripts, because I don't know what's been altered," Gil said, reiterating his concern that the transcripts do not accurately reflect reality. "I would expect the comptroller to do the same, and not rely on partial stenograms provided by the prime minister."
Israel's torture gulag exposed in Haaretz
https://archive.ph/LdVXQ#selection-963.0-989.417For three years now, Israel's prisons for Palestinian inmates have operated as torture camps. Hunger, severe violence, scabies and brutal living conditions are part of everyday life for thousands of prisoners. None of this happens in the shadows. It is declared policy, now central to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's election campaign. The facts have been laid bare in investigations by the world's leading news outlets, reports by human rights organizations and pe ions to the High Court of Justice. The Israeli public has largely remained indifferent.
The High Court justices, too, have struggled to muster much concern. After repeated postponements and much foot-dragging, the Supreme Court ruled twice against this policy. In September 2025, the justices ordered that prisoners receive adequate nutrition. In June this year, they ordered the Israel Prison Service to resume Red Cross visits to prisons. Neither ruling appears to have changed anything in practice. Apart from minor changes to the menu, deliberate starvation continues, and Red Cross representatives still have no access to the prisons. Motions for contempt of court have been filed in both cases. A pe ion concerning treatment for scabies was dismissed. Violence and abuse continue unchecked in every aspect of prisoners' lives.
In September, Israel was holding 9,329 security prisoners, but only 16 percent had been charged and convicted in court. The rest were detainees (34 percent), administrative detainees (34 percent) and "unlawful combatants" (16 percent), a status not recognized under international law that Israel uses to imprison Gazans, Syrians and Lebanese without granting them the rights of prisoners of war or criminal detainees.
"vote for me, I'm losing the war we started"
preparing for pariah state status is certainly a choice
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/...d-west-bank-unA United Nations commission of inquiry has accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity in the occupied West Bank, including extermination, torture and rape, while also continuing “to commit genocide in Gaza” despite a ceasefire brokered by the United States.
an obviously politically-timed sop to antisemitic Republicans, but Republicans backing away from US military aid to Israel is newsworthy all by itself, and bad news for Israel
https://apnews.com/article/trump-isr...9665d5eccb2ab2The United States will stop providing $4 billion in aid each year to Israel in 2027 but will sell arms to its closest ally in the Middle East, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.
The Republican president told Fox News Channel during a phone call on Election Day for the midterms that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had approached him about the idea and that they have been talking about it for a couple of years.
Trump said Israel doesn’t need the aid and it’s a lot of money for the U.S. to spend. But Trump also said that U.S. aid to Israel has become a Democratic talking point for candidates such as Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
“You can consider it barter. You can consider military aid or cash,” Trump said. “Look, we give them $4 billion of things and money, and they don’t need it. And I was approached by Bibi Netanyahu, and we’ve been talking about it for a couple of years because it’s a lot of money.”
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