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Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza

Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza

History & Context

Hamas is agreeing to release all hostages and end the war. Israel refuses.

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 drive U.S. policy on Israel

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.”

Fight for Geopolitical Superiority in the Middle East

The U.S. support for Israel’s assaults on Gaza and the West Bank are part of the drive for U.S. regional influence through Israeli hegemony.

World In Brief

The U.S. Department of Justice has released transcripts and audio recording of deputy attorney general Todd Blanche's July 24/25 interview with the Jeffrey Epstein associate and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell claimed she never saw Donald Trump in "any inappropriate setting," and that she was not aware of any "client list" of Epstein’s. After that interview, Maxwell was moved to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.

On Friday, FBI agents searched the Bethesda, Maryland home and office of John Bolton, Donald Trump's ex-national security adviser. Bolton has been a vocal Trump critic since quitting Trump's first administration in 2019.

In a dramatic expansion of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, the U.S. administration has announced that the more than 55 million valid U.S. visa-holders will be subject to “continuous vetting” of their records and their social media. "Anti-American views" could constitute deportable violations.

The EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas has warned that pushing Ukraine to make land concessions is a "trap that Putin wants us to walk into." She said: "We are forgetting that Russia has not made one single concession."

A ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine appears to be receding, as Russia’s foreign minister Lavrov said Russia would not accept western security guarantees for Ukraine after a settlement. Donald Trump vented his frustration on social media.

BREAKING A joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian +972 Magazine, and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found that as of May, classified IDF database figures listed only 8,900 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters as dead or probably dead, while the overall death toll from Israel's assault on Gaza reached 53,000—an extreme rate of civilian slaughter.

BREAKING The Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has raised its classification of famine conditions in the Gaza Governorate to Phase 5, the highest and worst level of its acute food insecurity scale. The organization also projects for the Phase 5 thresholds to be crossed in the Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis Governorates in the coming weeks, and that "deaths will increase exponentially."

As Israel begins its massive assault on Gaza City, Israel's far-right defense minister Israel Katz says Gaza's main city will be destroyed if Hamas does not agree to the release of all remaining hostages and other terms "acceptable to Israel." Hamas has already agreed to the ceasefire proposal from Qatari and Egyptian mediators, which Israel rejected.

Twenty-seven countries — including Germany, Australia, the UK and Ukraine —have signed a joint statement demanding that Israel give international media immediate access to Gaza. They also demanded protection for journalists working there.

In Brazil, former President Jair Bolsonaro and his son Eduardo have been accused of obstruction of justice. Police say Jair Bolsonaro planned to evade prosecution by seeking asylum in Argentina, and that Eduardo lobbied the Trump administration, which led to punishing U.S. tariffs on Brazil's imports.

Senior Belarusian politicians and defense officials told state media that it's considering increasing domestic production of missiles and equipping its Polonez rocket launcher systems with nuclear warheads. Belarus borders Ukraine and NATO members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, and it hosts tactical nuclear warheads of its close ally Russia.

For a third time, a federal judge has denied a U.S. Justice Department motion to unseal grand jury records tied to the case against convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Judge Richard Berman, who presided over Epstein’s 2019 sex crimes trial, said in his decision that the government motion "appears to be a 'diversion' from the breadth and scope of the Epstein files in the government’s possession."

More than 762 prominent UK business leaders have penned a letter to the government, demanding that it take action against Israel for its assault on Gaza — including stopping all arms trade with Israel, sanctioning those who violate international law, stopping its financing of complicit companies, and enforcing UN principles on business and human rights.

The UK and other western and Arab countries are condemning Israel's approval of the illegal Israeli E1 settlement that would divide the West Bank. Israel is also expanding its attack on Gaza City, calling up 60,000 reservists. Meanwhile, no country has yet taken meaningful action to bring food into starving Gazans.

BREAKING On Wednesday, Israel approved construction of the long-disputed E1Israeli settlement that would divide the Palestinian West Bank and greatly reduce the prospect for a contiguous Palestinian state. The far-right settler minister Smotrich said that it's "erasing a Palestinian State." The decision is subject to appeal by the courts.

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians

Israel

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians

Senior Hamas Official to Trump: We Are Ready to Make a Fair Deal

MENA

Senior Hamas Official to Trump: We Are Ready to Make a Fair Deal

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

Tech/Sci

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

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

Human Rights

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

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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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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