Palestinians walk from Gaza’s south into the north, on 27 January 2025
David Hearst – Middle East Eye May 16, 2025
In the latest episode of the TV game show, “The White House on Uber: How to pre-purchase a US President”, it appeared, fleetingly, as if the host was reading from the right script.
US President Donald Trump said in Saudi Arabia that liberal interventionism was a disaster. That’s true. He said you can’t break and remake nations. Post-Soviet Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen are each testimony to that.
He stopped bombing Yemen and reversed decades of sanctions on Syria, blocking in the process two of Israel’s key routes to regional dominance: dividing Syria and starting a war with Iran.
I say fleetingly because – as Iran has been through this script many times before in negotiations over its nuclear programme – what a US president promises and what he delivers are two different things.
Not least of those to be blindsided by Trump’s announcement halting Syria sanctions were his own officials in the US Treasury. It turns out that the cessation of the multi-layered sanctions piled on Syria since the US first put the country on its list of state sponsors of terrorism in 1979 is not so easy, nor will it be rapid or comprehensive.
There is the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, which requires Congress to overturn it, although Trump could suspend parts of it for national security reasons. The sanctions themselves, a mix of executive orders and statutes, could take months to unwind. There is scope for more handbrake turns.
This particular episode of the show cost its sponsors, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, staggering sums of money, more than $3 trillion and counting, which is high even by the standards of the Gulf.
Deadly mission
There was $600bn from Saudi Arabia, $1.2 trillion worth of deals with Qatar, a personal 747 for use as president, a tower for Trump’s son Eric in Dubai, and much more to come, including cryptocurrency deals with the Trump family firm World Liberty Financial.
The richest Arabs were competing with each other to lay tribute at the feet of Washington’s latest emperor.
While this orgiastic display of wealth was taking place in Riyadh and Doha, Israel was marking the anniversary of the 1948 Nakba by killing as many Palestinians as it could in Gaza.
Wednesday was one of the bloodiest days in Gaza since Israel’s unilateral abandonment of the ceasefire. Nearly 100 people were killed. Bunker-busting bombs were dropped near the European hospital in Khan Younis, a strike aimed at Muhammad Sinwar, the de facto leader of Hamas in Gaza. His death has not been confirmed.
Like the assassination of the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Israel was targeting a key negotiator at a time when it was purporting to negotiate.
My sources tell me that just before Israel resumed its attacks on 18 March, the political leadership of Hamas abroad had accepted a deal with the Americans that would have led to more hostages being released in return for an extension of the ceasefire – but with no guarantee of an end to the war. But Sinwar rejected it, and accordingly, it did not go ahead.
If indeed Sinwar is dead, it will take time to re-establish secure communications within Hamas with one of several men who could now step into his shoes.
His attempted or actual killing is proof, if any more is needed, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of bringing the remaining hostages home alive. A hostage deal needs Hamas forces to retain command and control. A guerrilla fight needs none.
Netanyahu’s mission in Gaza, which is to starve and bomb as many of the 2.1 million Palestinians out of the enclave as he can, has become so clear, so obvious, that not even the misnamed international community can now ignore it.
Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the Security Council: “For those killed and those whose voices are silenced: what more evidence do you need now? Will you act, decisively, to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?”
French President Emmanuel Macron called Israel’s policy in Gaza “shameful”. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called Israel a “genocidal state” while speaking in parliament, noting that Madrid “does not do business” with such a country.
Massive betrayal
But not one public word of condemnation about Israel’s behaviour in Gaza was spoken to Trump from the lips of Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, nor from UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed or Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani.
The charade in the Gulf was a massive betrayal for Palestinians, but as they know only too well, Arab rulers have a track record of abandoning them.
In the past, they waited a few decent months or years after a military defeat to do so. It took a while after the 1967 war for Arab leaders to talk about a peaceful solution for the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Today, they are abandoning the true heroes of the Arab world as they are being starved and bombed to death.
Hamas and Hezbollah have both been severely weakened, although I question whether the blows they have received are terminal. But Hamas is still fighting on the ground, as the underreported Israeli military death toll in Gaza continues to show. No single guard has given up their hostage to save their own life.
The spirit of resistance in Gaza has not been defeated. In fact, the parallels with another historic defeat of colonial forces, the French and the Americans, have only grown stronger.
In one sense, there is no comparison between Gaza and the Vietnam War. The force Israel uses today in Gaza dwarfs that used by John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson and Richard Nixon, the three US presidents whose terms were doomed by Vietnam.
In a span of eight years, the US dropped more than five million tonnes of bombs on Vietnam, making it the most bombed place on earth. By January of this year, Israel had dropped at least 100,000 tonnes of bombs on Gaza.
Put another way, the US dropped around 15 tonnes of explosives per square kilometre of Vietnam, while Israel has dropped 275 tonnes per square kilometre of Gaza – a figure that is higher by a factor of 18.
That being said, other points of comparison hit you between the eyes about a war that scars the US to this day and the current war in Gaza, which Netanyahu is set to deepen by attempting to reoccupy the territory permanently.
Crushing deja vu
The current generation of war watchers can only experience a crushing sense of deja vu when they watch the painstakingly complete account of the conflict in the new miniseries, Turning Point: The Vietnam War.
The since-acknowledged futility of the US military campaign against the Viet Cong is mirrored and amplified by the Israeli military’s attempts to wipe Hamas off the map.
As US involvement in the Vietnam War expanded and Washington had to drop the pretence that more than 16,000 troops and pilots were “advising” the South Vietnamese Army, it became clear to both Washington and Saigon that they were going to have to push the Viet Cong out of the countryside and regain government control of around 12,000 hamlets.
Probably nothing turned villagers in South Vietnam against the US and their own government in Saigon faster than the “Strategic Hamlet Program” .
These were fortified settlements where villagers who had been turned out of their ancestral lands by US troops would be forced to resettle. In the jargon of the newsreel at the time, the villagers could start a new life purged of the communists.
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As Thomas Bass, author of Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home, put it: “You have these entire regions that would be declared a zone that was open for attack.”
Closely allied to this was another assumption of the US “pacification” programme, the father of today’s counterinsurgency. This was born out of the problems US soldiers had in distinguishing civilians from combatants. The solution lay in treating any Vietnamese encountered in a declared “free-fire zone” as the enemy, and opening fire without referring up the chain of command.
One former US Marine said: “We were taught that all the Vietnamese were free to leave and all the Vietnamese that stayed were part of the infrastructure of the Viet Cong. You just hunt for people and you kill them, and you can kill them however you want.”
Commanders were expected to come back with a high body count. All of those killed, women and children included, were treated as dead communists: “I was told that if we killed 10 Vietnamese for every American, we would win,” another Vietnam vet said.
Villagers starved in their Viet-Cong-free encampments because they lost access to their paddy fields. The main aim, however, was not to feed them, but to clear the countryside. The result was that the villagers fled, and the Viet Cong came ever closer to the cities.
At one point, up to 70 percent of the villagers who volunteered to join the Viet Cong were women. Tran Thi Yen Ngoc from the National Liberation Front said: “They called us the Viet Cong, but we were the liberation army. We were all comrades and considered ourselves one family. When one person fell, five to seven others stepped forward.”
‘Terrible chaos’
There are two other similarities between today and 1968: the protests and vicious levels of repression on US campuses, and the extent to which the American and Israeli militaries felt they had to dehumanise their enemy before committing atrocities.
After the 1968 My Lai massacre, in which around 500 unarmed and innocent civilians were killed in the span of just a few hours, American commander General William Westmoreland said that life is cheap to the Vietnamese: “The Oriental doesn’t put the same high price on life as does a westerner.”
Israeli leaders go much further than Westmoreland did. They call Palestinians human animals.
Indeed, all this history from decades ago sounds eerily pertinent to the present day in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
In an interview on 29 October 2023, only weeks into the war, Giora Eiland, a retired major general reserve, said Israel should not allow aid into the territory: “The fact that we are breaking down in the face of humanitarian aid to Gaza is a serious mistake … Gaza must be completely destroyed: terrible chaos, severe humanitarian crisis, cries to heaven.”
He later reasoned: “All of Gaza will starve, and when Gaza starves, then hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will be angry and annoyed. And hungry people, they are the ones who will bring about a coup against [Yahya] Sinwar, and that is the only thing that bothers him.”
Nothing of the sort happened, but Eiland’s reasoning became known as the Generals’ Plan, which was at first applied to northern Gaza, where 400,000 Palestinians remained.
The plan to empty northern Gaza failed, as hundreds of thousands of people streamed back to their homes during the recent ceasefire, even though there was nothing left of them.
One-way ticket
But the tactic of starving and clearing has found new life in Israel’s current military operation, called “Gideon’s Chariots”. In what Netanyahu has repeatedly called the “final stage” of the war, the plan is to force more than two million Palestinians into a new “sterile area” around Rafah.
Palestinians will only be allowed entry after being checked by security forces. And it’s a one-way ticket: they would never be able to return to their homes, which would be completely demolished.
“The [Israeli army], in cooperation with the Shin Bet [Israel’s domestic security agency], will set up checkpoints on the main roads that will lead to the areas where the Gazan civilians will be housed in the Rafah area,” Ynet said.
Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he might accept a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, but would not commit to ending the war on the Palestinian enclave.
What Vietnam did for LBJ and Nixon, Gaza will do for Netanyahu and his successor as prime minister, probably Naftali Bennett. For Netanyahu is much more ill from cancer than he is publicly acknowledged to be, according to sources in Britain who see him regularly.
Two factors ended the Vietnam War, and with it more than a century of struggle to rid the country of a colonial master: the determination of the Vietnamese and public opinion in the US.
The same two factors will lead the Palestinian people to their own state: the determination of Palestinians to stay and die on their land, and public opinion in the West, which is already turning rapidly against Israel. Watch it carefully. It is seeping into the right and is firmly established on the left. Labelling legitimate criticism of the genocide as antisemitic won’t work anymore. That bolt has already been fired.
It is both in Palestine and in the hearts and minds of the West – from which the Zionist project grew, and on which it is so dependent – that this war is being fought.
Israel may win each battle, as the Americans did in Vietnam, but it will lose the war.
David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and analyst on Saudi Arabia. He was the Guardian’s foreign leader writer, and was correspondent in Russia, Europe, and Belfast. He joined the Guardian from The Scotsman, where he was education correspondent.
A black gang member who murdered a woman in front of her three-year-old daughter during Notting Hill Carnival’s family day has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 29 years.
Shakeil Thibou, 20, stabbed Cher Maximen, 32, in the groin as her young daughter was close by on August 25 last year.
Judge Philip Katz KC said Thibou’s “brazen” attack had been carried out in broad daylight in front of families and the police.
Thibou, who wore a medical face mask blue beanie hat with straggly hair in the dock, looked like a total pillock
Moments before he stabbed Miss Maximen, he had carried out an “equally horrifying attack” on a man who was backing away from him, his Old Bailey trial heard. hibou was found guilty of murder and also convicted of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm to 20-year-old Adjei Isaac with intent, and having an offensive weapon. third brother, Shaeim Thibou, 22, was cleared of violent disorder but convicted of assaulting Pc Mort.
Judge Katz said it was “not possible to overstate the impact” of Miss Maximen’s death on her family and friends.
“Cher Maximen took her three-year-old daughter to the Notting Hill Carnival,” he said.
“Instead of them both just enjoying a fun day together, that child witnessed her mother being murdered in front of her.
“The police were totally outnumbered as the gang violence spun out of control.
“Just watching the bodyworn footage was terrifying.
“When violence broke out, you were quick to move to join in.
“You were so brazen that it the stabbings were carried out in front of police officers.”
Before the judge delivered his sentence, Thibou shook hands with and spoke to his brother Shaeim through the glass panels of the dock.
The trial heard how a disturbance broke out at about 5.48pm between the defendants and at least two other males close to where Miss Maximen was standing with her group.
The crowd parted as Sheldon Thibou got into a physical confrontation with the males, prompting Pc Mort to step in to break it up, jurors had heard.
Sheldon Thibou was holding a stun gun as he and
Thibou thrust a “huge” knife repeatedly towards Mr Isaac’s stomach, only missing him because the victim drew back.
Twelve white women were assaulted over the carnival period, leading for calls to ban the event
The problem is not knife crime
but migrants
I may as well point something else out too, not that you’ll listen. chabad’s main goal for a very long time now is the destruction of the slavs. The war on the jewkraine is all about that. I don’t fully understand what the message in the top right of this site is saying, so maybe this’ll get me banned, because I think that was what that nico x guy was telling you (I didn’t really read his posts). The jewkraine, as well as large parts of the surrounding countries are khazaria, which is actually where the jews come from. They’re clearing it out with their war so they can occupy it again, just like gaza. Gaza is, to all intents and purposes, a distraction. Killing and “displacing” the people in khazaria is the real goal. Putin is chabad too by the way, if you didn’t know. chabad “lives” in (ie. its centre of operations is in) the crimea, which is protected by putin. Hell, they tell you all of this themselves and have been telling you for decades now. The “globalists” are the exact opposite of nationalism, which is being destroyed by “migration” and all the other things that destroy your sense of “country”. Gaza and the jewkraine war are just very real and in your face extreme examples of the destruction of a nation. Your nation is being destroyed too, just in multifarious other ways (“immigration”, perversion, destruction of religion, destruction of education, destruction of your health through numerous means, destroying you financially to turn you into “cattle” as chabad puts it, and so on, and so on, and so on). If your reaction this is “nonsense” or “racist” or “antisemitist” then you’re already lost, or a jew.
So many twats are now on the ‘dark-side’
THE DIRTY JEWS
Congressman Tim Moore (R-NC) has pulled back the curtain on what he claims is a hidden network of underground tunnels beneath the U.S. Capitol — secret passageways that, until now, remained largely unknown to the American public.
In a video posted to X, Moore lifts a floor panel to reveal a shadowy staircase descending beneath the building — its walls and steps marked with strange graffiti. The discovery comes as hundreds of thousands of children go missing every year in the United States, fueling speculation about what — or who — these tunnels are really used for.
“This is one of the neat things about the U.S. Capitol, of course. This building—construction started in the 1700s—has all sorts of little hidden passageways. You saw I just pulled this cover up. You can see, if we get the camera to come over, but you can see there’s a passageway to the Synagogue.
These are long stairs that used to be here but were closed off. We’re just off of what’s called Statuary Hall, which at one time was the actual House chamber, and it’s right outside there. But this is just an example of some of the little hidden secrets in the Capitol.
One of the things we do when we bring tour groups in—if it’s a small enough group, i—we’ll actually take them down this hall.
Believe it or not, my big self has actually gotten down, and more importantly, out of this hall. I’m not going to debut that again today, but suffice to say, I’ve been able to live, tell about it, and get out of there.
It goes all the way down to an old staircase, and I’m told—I can’t verify this—but I’m told that this staircase, which opens to the outside if you go down, was one of the places small children were brought for sacrifices
The kids seem to love to see it. A lot of older folks—not so much. But it’s just one of the neat things about the Synagogue Tunnels, as well as the other day-to-day things that folks see all the time. Thought I might share that with you.”
These occupiers and importers zionists should be obliterated from the face of the earth.
Whites better start focusing on their own demographic decline & impending Whiteocide within their own nations, instead of on these Semitic Arabs & Israeli mongrels all the time.
Trump could stop the Gaza genocide but will not. Trump is therefor guilty as hell. Without USA money Israel would collapse in weeks, without USA weapons the war could not be prosecuted. Trump tweeted a cartoon of himself as the new pope, but Trump is immoral, a slavish Zionist whore who is taking the world into perdition.
The Real Death Camps And Holocaust
The PHONY “six-million” holoco$t further serves as a distraction from and a cover for the REAL crimes against humanity committed under Jewish communism. Nearly everyone has heard of “Auschwitz,” but how many have heard of the atrocities committed against Gentiles at Kolyma, the most notorious Gulag slave labor camp, run and operated by Jews in extreme northeastern Siberia? Or the systematic genocide of the people of the Ukraine perpetrated by Jewish communism? The Holodomor [Ukrainian Famine/Genocide of the 1932-33] perpetrated by the Jew controlled USSR.
The packing of Gentiles for use of slave labor in cattle cars, so tightly packed, few could even move. This was also done to the Black African slaves on the slave ships that were all owned and operated by Jews. To read the full account, you can access the link below. Though we are very much against Islam, this is a detailed and an excellent article:
Who Brought the Slaves to America? By Walter White Jr., 1968
This is also a fact today that can easily be seen with industrial farming. The Jews own the major corporations that engage in this most heinous abuse of animals. They are all packed in tiny cages and crates, living in their own filth and waste, unable to even turn or barely move, and if you do the research, you will see a pattern here. All of this is a Jewish concept, packing living beings into extremely small spaces to be used for Jewish profits and exploitation in the most brutal of ways.
The victims of the Jew controlled communist slave labor death camps have received nothing. No reparations, no help, and the surviving families have gotten nothing. What is even worse it the fact that NONE of the Jewish criminals has ever been brought to justice. While the Jewish controlled media is buzzing away with story after story of so-called “Nazi war criminals” being “brought to justice,” there has been no justice whatsoever for the gulag victims which totaled in the many millions around the world from the communist countries. In addition, the ignorant public is focused on Nazi this and Nazi that and does not even know of the real victims. This kind of Jew indoctrination is also forced in the schools where communism is taught as something good and favorable by Jewish college professors and their Gentile stooges. Communism, like Christianity is another Jewish brotherhood program which preaches equality, a decent standard of living and worker benefits…ALL LIES! Both are programs of slavery and death. Both programs like anything else Jewish create the problem and then push the solution.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=East+of+the+Sun%2C+The+Epic+Conquest+and+Tragic+History+of+Siberia%E2%80%9D+by+Benson+Bobrick+%C2%A9+&source=android&summary=1&conversation=e28e327578d4176c6801b8
The turning against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians is “seeping into the right”…. When it “seeps into” “Christian” Zionism, let me know… Because “Christian” Zionism needs to go! Get that, Hagee? Get that, Gov. Abbott (and Costello)?
Jerry Springer said in a rare interview that “The Jews ALWAYS GET WHAT THEY WANT.” Maybe this world can change that outcome this time around. Enough people are awake, but what we need is a true CALL TO ACTION, and frankly, I don’t see it happening ; too much fear mixed with apathy, the great Jewish psyop, HOLLYWEIRD. I truly believe the Jews WANT TO BE STOPPED, but since no one can or will do it, for one reason or another, they will just continue to destroy this entire world. Everyone is just waiting for someone else to do the job. They don’t realize that WE THE PEOPLE are the answer. It is us that have to take up arms against these motherfucking sons of bitches, these thieving lying rats and pedophiles. If we don’t act, WE ALL DIE.
despite even Satanjahu dont puts the hostages on
a prioritylist most hostages probably are dead by
israhells indiscriminately bombing in their tunnels .
zionazis give a dam about their own people already
Hitler learned this by the nonresponding USjewish
worldcongress to his peaceoffers .
dan–I could not listen without making you a liar, but I made you a liar by listening to “not that you’ll listen”, and it’s your own fault
Phil Q is Nico X
@DAN
what you say I know since jewess Mehrkill following
B´naiB´rit + Rothschilds orders . but I can do nothing
about since my renters neighbours live in their dreamworld
and punish me if I disturbe their dream .
The statements from these Satanic Khazarian Mafia (KM) puppets are very telling.
Sheba and Dedan [Saudis, etc.], and the merchants of Tarshish [UK,NL,etc.], with all the magnates thereof [Commonwealth including US], shall say unto thee: Comest thou to take the spoil? hast thou assembled thy company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil? Ezekiel 38:13 (Jewish Publication Society)
Both Macron and Sanchez give empty statements, because they do not follow through with their words. Yet they have no problem with arresting citizens of their country for speaking out against the genocides.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=306070 Breaking news out of France: Deep state strikes again, taking out prime-time conservative leader who was poised to win election in 2027 by Leo Hohmann | Apr 1, 2025
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/04/17/the-spanish-government-like-all-western-governments-
hates-its-own-people/
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter! … That justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Isaiah 5:20,23 (Jewish Publication Society)
I agree with the author! And he’s right comparing ‘them’ to the ‘nam! Trump hasn’t stopped ‘them’ YET, but no one in the world is in a better position…that’s HOPE, and here’s hoping…