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Items by Jamal Kanj
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Trump and Netanyahu: The odd couple
“He’ll do whatever I want him to do,” Donald Trump declared recently about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This may be one of the most revealing statements Trump has ever made—not for what it says about Netanyahu, but for what it reveals about Trump’s psychology. It was intended as a…
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Stop blaming Netanyahu, stupid . . .
Benjamin Netanyahu and his partners in the Israeli government, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich among others, did not descend from Mars. They are the product of the same earthly Zionist ideology. By blaming Netanyahu et al., the Zionist-managed Western media and liberals in the US and Europe want you…
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The surcharge tax Americans pay to finance Israel-first wars
The next time you pull into a gas station, watch the number on the pump as you squeeze the handle. That rapidly spinning dollar amount is not just the price of gasoline. Included in it is an Israeli added tax you did not consent to pay. Since early March 2026,…
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The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza — A cry at sea to the world’s dormant conscience
While the world’s attention has been hijacked by the new American, made-for-Israel war against Iran, a quieter act of resistance is gathering on the deep blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. An act of defiance determined to remind the international community that there is no pause in Gaza’s genocide, and…
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Confusion, delusion, and how Israel drives the Iran War
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the temporary ceasefire is the culmination of an American policy defined by strategic incoherence. At the center stands Donald Trump, whose shifting positions, confused war objectives, and conflicting actions have not only failed to ease regional tensions but have actively deepened them.…
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Ceasefire or pause? The Gulf held hostage by Netanyahu’s war
The ceasefire offered a much-needed breather for the Arab Gulf states. Donald Trump’s threat to attack Iranian civilian infrastructure could have unleashed a human catastrophe across the region with the potential to spiral into an uncontrollable conflagration. Trump’s shift from threat to ceasefire appears deliberate. In my view, it was…
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Rethinking America’s greatest threat: Iran vs. Israel-Firsters
I filled my car tank this week and paid 40% more than I did just a month ago. That isn’t just an economic abstraction, but another indirect Israeli “surcharge” on American consumers. Meanwhile, Donald Trump spends another getaway weekend at his Mar-a-Lago golf course, a trip subsidized by the same…
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America’s proxy war expands: The Strait of Hormuz and Israel’s hidden agenda
The recent Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field was a calculated move to deepen American entanglement, and provoke a direct confrontation between Iran and the Gulf Arab states. Announcing the raid, Israeli officials claimed the strike was coordinated with, and approved by the U. S., implicitly tying Washington…
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When Tel Aviv decides, Washington fights
American taxpayers are still hemorrhaging from the made-for-Israel war in Iraq, a war audaciously offered as one that would “pay for itself.” Instead, it was paid in Iraqi and American blood, ruins and financed by American debt. The promised democracy was a broken state, regional chaos, and the afterbirth of…
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India–Israel: An Unholy Alliance and Iran as Act One in the Greater Israel Scheme
An earlier version of this article was completed a day before the joint Israeli-American war against Iran. The gist of it examined the likely scenarios surrounding the effort to neutralize Iran, and Israel’s incessant obsession to draw the U.S. into yet another Israeli-designed foreign war. Since 1948, Israel has proven…
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Trump’s “Board of Peace”: Aggrandizing theatre and the impunity of genocide
More than 75,000 Palestinians have been murdered in Gaza, with tens of thousands more still missing beneath the rubble. They did not die to “build a home,” or privatize their beaches. They had homes and free beaches. Gaza was a living city—albeit under decades of Israeli siege—before it was leveled…
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Oslo’s legacy: De facto annexation and an international mandate for subjugation
The Oslo Accords were never a peace process. They were distractions, a scam to neutralise the Palestinian movement and give reactionary Arab dictators a fig leaf to normalise with Israel. They were a political deception, aimed at ending the Palestinian civil uprising (Intifada), dismantle the armed struggle and grant Israel…
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Made-for-Israel Wars: America’s Dangerous Habit of Forgetting
As argued in last week’s article, economic coercion is never an end in itself, it is the prelude. When sanctions fail, when financial pressure cannot bend reality to the satisfaction of Washington’s Israel-first demands, the next instrument is always the same: war. The US has fallen into this trap repeatedly,…
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Weaponising America’s economy in the service of Israel
Empires rarely fall on the battlefield; they implode under the weight of their own arrogance and corruption. The hubris radiating from the White House suggests that this old imperial truth is once again asserting itself. Unable to compete in the global economy it once championed, Washington now weaponizes its economy…
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Gaza’s “Board of Peace”: A circus to normalise a new phase of mass dispossession and genocide
The so-called ceasefire in Gaza was a cynical ruse to secure Israeli captives while giving Israel free rein to starve, murder and assassinate at will. The world was duped into swallowing yet another Zionist deception, orchestrated by Israel-first Americans, financed with U.S. taxpayer dollars, and drenched in Palestinian blood. Since…
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“All that’s left of you”: The film that arrived too late and just in time
All That’s Left of You is a film missing from American screens until now. A moving production directed by Cherien Dabis, with Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo as executive producers, leaving the viewers in a state of trance long after the final credit has faded into darkness. My first introduction to this…
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Epstein: When the life of an asset becomes expendable (Part 3)
This is the third and final article in a series examining Jeffery Epstein’s impunity and eventual demise. In the first, I argued that Epstein was not a rogue predator, but an operative within a larger system. In the second, I exposed how Israel-first American Sayanim enabled and protected Epstein. The…
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How did the American Israel-First sayanim enable and protect Epstein? (Part 2)
In the first article last week, I argued that Jeffrey Epstein was not a lone rogue predator. This week, I turn to the more troubling question: how did Epstein, a man with no credible résumé, no transparent wealth, or a conventional career path, manage such an unconventional ascent into America’s…
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America, Israel’s saber: A trail of foreign wars from Iraq to Venezuela
President Donald Trump is once again surrounded by a cast of political lightweights and constitutionally hollow obedient courtiers on one end, and Israel-first operatives on the other. They run US foreign policy where constitutional restraints are subverted, and American power is used as a blunt instrument to advance agendas that…
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Jeffrey Epstein was not a lone rogue predator; he was an asset… (Part 1)
I must confess that when I first heard of Jeffrey Epstein and his salacious lifestyle, I disregarded it as the familiar excesses of an arrogant, misogynistic tycoon. A wealthy man who believed himself entitled to indulge his pedophilia. Initially, I rejected the political conspiracy theories surrounding his activities until I…
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Genocide by other means: Palestinian babies murdered by exposure, not bombs
The bombs may have eased, but Palestinian children are still dying. This time, not by Israeli airstrikes, but from cold, and collapsing damaged structures. Israel have violated the ceasefire agreement by obstructing entry of vital services for children, and essential shelters to protect civilians whose homes were destroyed by two…
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Big tech and the architecture of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians: From execution to media whitewashing
History is filled with examples of corporations fueling war machines and global colonisation. IBM supplied technology used in Nazi death camps; shipping and trading companies played central roles in the Transatlantic trafficking of Africans; and multinational firms helped bankroll South Africa’s apartheid regime. The companies that once profited from South…
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Ceasefire is “holding”: So long as only non-Israeli-Jews are murdered
Amnesty International warned on 27 November, that “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal…. the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.” Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire almost 600 times, killed and injured over 1350, including murdering 136…
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Dissecting the UN’s “Comprehensive Plan” for Gaza and the inevitable dead-end
US policy documents on the Middle East do not reach the daylight before Israel is given the chance to filter them, and gut them. The latest UN Security Council (UNSC) 2803, Comprehensive Plan, is no exception. The Resolution perpetuates the same failed logic that has governed international diplomacy for decades.…