(2025-10-22). Juan Cole on Gaza, U.S. Policy, and the Future of the Middle East. juancole.com I was welcomed onto David Lin's Podcast, "The David Lin Report" to talk about Gaza, the Middle East and the US-China rivalry. Embedded video and transcript below. He describes it this way: The David Lin Report! I'll be reporting on the most impactful market-moving events, as well as interviewing experts in finance, economics, science, and …
(2025-10-22). Trump shocks Israel: After claiming credit for Gaza 'peace', US won't punish Hamas. hindustantimes.com U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Hamas, declaring that if the group fails to honor the Gaza ceasefire agreement, it will be "taken care of really quickly" and face "swift, furious, and brutal" consequences. Trump claimed that several unnamed allies in the Middle East have offered to deploy "heavy force" to Gaza on his request if violations continue. The president praised his administration's peace deal, asserting "total peace in the Middle East."
(2025-10-22). After dispute over capture of Gaza City, Netanyahu fires long-time ally as National Security Adviser. haaretz.com Move comes after months of reports of bitter disagreements between the two. In a statement, Hanegbi took responsibility for his part in the failing that led to the October 7 attack and called for thorough investigations…
(2025-10-22). Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC facilitates transfer of remains to Israel and Gaza. icrc.org
(2025-10-22). With one eye on reconstruction, U.S. let fragile Gaza cease-fire go up in smoke. haaretz.com The Americans see the Trump-brokered cease-fire as a great achievement and don't intend to let it disappear. But plans to begin rebuilding in areas still under Israeli controlcould complicate the issue…
(2025-10-22). U.S. striving for stability in Gaza – but still lacks a clear plan of action. haaretz.com Comments from the three senior American officials who visited Israel on Tuesday prove that Washington did not bother to do any groundwork and is only now trying to shape it…
(2025-10-22). Bodies of Israeli hostages Arye Zalmanovich and Tamir Adar returned from Gaza. haaretz.com Zalmanovich, the oldest of the Israeli hostages taken on October 7, died in captivity; Adar was killed while defending Kibbutz Nir Oz and his body taken by the PFLP…
(2025-10-22). Bodies of slain Israeli hostages Arye Zalmanovich and Tamir Adar returned from Gaza. haaretz.com
(2025-10-22). Vance voices 'great optimism' for Gaza truce despite violations. newarab.com 
"What we've seen the past week gives me great optimism the ceasefire is going to hold," Vance said during a press conference in Kiryat Gat, a city in southern Israel where a US-led mission is monitoring the Gaza ceasefire. | "I think that everybody should be proud of where we are today. It's going to require consta…
(2025-10-22). Repression on protests in solidarity with Flotilla and Palestinian people: NGOs demand EU Council action. fidh.org The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), together with six other human rights organisations, condemns the alarming repression of peaceful protests across European Union (EU) countries in solidarity with the Palestinian people and the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF). Following the illegal interception and arbitrary detention of activists aboard the GSF, millions of people have gathered across Europe to express their support. In several countries, demonstrations were met with (…) | – | / | <...
(2025-10-22). Two years on from 7 October: The hostages must come home. icrc.org Below is a statement by Yuval Arie Nevo, head of ICRC sub-delegation in Tel-Aviv…
(2025-10-22). Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC begins operation to facilitate return of hostages, detainees as part of ceasefire agreement. icrc.org
(2025-10-22). Friday 10/24: Protest at israeli consulate in SF. indybay.org 456 Montgomery St, | San Francisco…
(2025-10-21). Reversing the Truth: The Gaza "Ceasefire" and British Complicity in Genocide. dissidentvoice.org We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Black is declared white, and white is declared purple with pink polka dots. Immunity appears to be assumed on the basis that a sufficient proportion of the screen-addled population are too gullible or distracted to notice. Thus, continuing the Nobel Committee's ignoble tradition …
(2025-10-21). "There is no peace and no plan" for Gaza, health workers warn. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinian health workers and members of flotilla missions condemn Israel's ongoing crimes in Gaza and the false promises of Donald Trump's so-called peace plan.
(2025-10-21). tight control over his ambiguous Gaza deal has Netanyahu spiraling. haaretz.com Witkoff and Kushner are in Israel to ensure it stays aligned with Washington. They sided with Hamas on key cease-fire disputes, and their own deal's paradox — negotiating with Hamas now only to erase it later — will also soon test Netanyahu's ties with his far-right allies…
(2025-10-21). Qatar's Emir condemns 'continued violation' of Gaza ceasefire. aljazeera.com Speaking at the opening session of Qatar's Shura Council, the country's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani condemned a…
(2025-10-21). 'I hope the war ends': Gazans yearn for peace as Israel breaks ceasefire. greenleft.org.au 'I hope the war ends': Gazans yearn for peace as Israel breaks ceasefire | Pip Hinman |
(2025-10-21). Trump publicly dumps own Gaza peace deal? 'We'll go in and…' declaration | Hamas,Israel,US,Arab,Iran. hindustantimes.com During a White House meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Hamas, declaring the group would be "eradicated" if it violates the fragile Gaza ceasefire his administration brokered earlier this month. Trump remarks follow Israeli airstrikes that killed dozens in Gaza after Hamas was accused of attacking Israeli troops, further endangering the U.S.-led peace deal signed in Sharm El Sheikh last month.
(2025-10-21). From Mediator to Power Broker: Erdogan's Gaza Gamble Pays Off. moderndiplomacy.eu Turkey's long-standing relationship with Hamas, once viewed as a diplomatic liability, has become a strategic advantage. By persuading the militant group to accept U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release deal, President Tayyip Erdogan has placed Ankara back at the heart of Middle Eastern diplomacy. The move marks a major geopolitical reversal for a …
(2025-10-21). New Zealand government denounces looming strike by 110,000 workers for being pro-Palestine. wsws.org The right-wing government is deeply concerned about widespread opposition to the Gaza genocide as well as its assault on living standards and public services.
(2025-10-21). 'You Cannot Fight the World': The Hidden Meaning behind Trump's Warning to Israel. counterpunch.org A single, candid statement by US President Donald Trump during a Fox News interview on October 9 may illuminate the true calculus behind Israel's decision for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a relentless, two-year genocidal campaign that has tragically killed and wounded nearly a quarter of a million Palestinians. "Israel cannot fight the world, Bibi,"
(2025-10-21). Can J.D. Vance's visit to Israel cement Gaza's fragile ceasefire? scmp.com US Vice-President J.D. Vance and other envoys projected optimism on Tuesday about Gaza's fragile ceasefire agreement, calling progress better than anticipated as they visited a new centre in Israel for civilian and military cooperation. | Vance noted flare-ups of violence in recent days but said the ceasefire that began on October 10 is going "better than I expected" after two years of war between Israel and Hamas. The Trump administration's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, added that "we are…
(2025-10-21). Children Carrying Heaviest Burden of Israel's Genocide in Gaza. ummid.com From amputations to starvation and fetal deformities, Gaza's children carry the heaviest burden of Israel's genocide.
(2025-10-21). No peace in Palestine without destroying Israel's carceral state. newarab.com 
Almost sixty years since Israel started its illegal occupation and colonisation of the West Bank and Gaza, two years after the beginning of Israel's genocidal war, the mass arrests and systematic torture of Palestinians has reached unprecedented levels. Yet, the question of Palestinians detained by Israel, and the crimes committed against them, continue to go largely ignored. | While Israel was committing a live-streamed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, ongoing violations happening in Israeli prisons and military camps have remained mostly hidden and very rarely covered in Western media. | With the announcement…
(2025-10-21). Evidence of systematic torture of Palestinians is horrific. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — The discovery of 135 mutilated Palestinian bodies returned to Gaza has shed light on a disturbing pattern of torture within the Israeli occupation regime's prison system.
(2025-10-21). Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance. juancole.com By Mehmet Rakipoƒülu and ƒ∞brahim àñzco≈üar | — Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) — In the aftermath of 7 October 2023 — when Hamas's surprise "Al-Aqsa Flood" attack and Israel's devastating genocidal war on Gaza shook global politics — Western academia has entered its own crisis. From the United States …
(2025-10-21). Robert Scheer on Gaza, Free Speech, and the Fate of the Left. scheerpost.com In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible By Len Goodman & Patrick Sullivan / Peace rarely arrives with a parade. We invited Robert Scheer—journalist, editor, and stubbornly independent voice for six decades—to help us make sense of the Ga…
(2025-10-21). Israel's war on Palestinians in the West Bank intensifies after Gaza ceasefire. mondoweiss.net 
Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank, conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting olive groves.
(2025-10-21). 'You cannot fight the world': Hidden meaning behind Trump's warning to Israel. peoplesworld.org 
A single, candid statement by U.S. President Donald Trump during a Fox News interview on October 9 may illuminate the true calculus behind Israel's decision for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a relentless, two-year genocidal campaign that has tragically killed and wounded nearly a quarter of a million Palestinians. "Israel cannot fight the world, Bibi," …
(2025-10-21). Counting the dead in Israel's genocide in Gaza. newarab.com 
A As of Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has recorded over 68,000 people killed, the majority of them women, children, and the elderly, with around 170,200 wounded since the w…
(2025-10-21). Headlines for October 21, 2025. democracynow.org Top U.S. Officials Travel to Israel for Talks as Netanyahu Threatens to Collapse Gaza Ceasefire, Palestinian Woman Beaten Unconscious as Israeli Settlers Attack West Bank Olive Farmers, Federal Court Gives Trump Green Light to Deploy Troops to Portland, "Blatantly Immoral": DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Draws Fire for $170M Purchase of Luxury Private Jets, Colombia Recalls Ambassador to U.S. over Strikes in Caribbean as Trump Issues Threats, Sanae Takaichi, Opponent of Gender Equality, Becomes Japan's First Female Prime Minister, Trump Admin Fires Two Prosecutors Who Opposed Criminal Case Against Le…
(2025-10-21). What 'Remains' in Gaza's Bone Temple. newarab.com 
The New Arab/Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Cartoon of the Day by Palestinian-Jordanian editorial cartoonist Emad Hajjaj.
(2025-10-21). Funerals held for two Israeli soldiers killed by anti-tank missile in southern Gaza. haaretz.com Maj. Yaniv Kula and Staff Sgt. Itay Yavetz were killed when militants emerged from a tunnel and fired at IDF bulldozers near a humanitarian aid route…
(2025-10-21). Exclusive: New Hamas crackdown on Gaza militias will be 'largest yet,' security source says. mondoweiss.net 
Hamas plans to expand its ongoing crackdown on gangs backed and funded by the Israeli army. The renewed effort "will be on multiple fronts" where these groups operate, a security source from the movement tells Mondoweiss.
(2025-10-21). Israeli regime must pay cost of rebuilding Gaza Strip. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — A senior Hamas member has held the Israeli occupiers responsible for the destruction of the Gaza Strip and said they must pay the costs of rebuilding it.
(2025-10-21). Vance's Israel Visit Tests Fragile Gaza Truce and U.S. Mediation Strategy. moderndiplomacy.eu U.S. Vice President JD Vance's arrival in Israel marks Washington's latest effort to stabilise a fragile ceasefire in Gaza and advance President Donald Trump's 20-point peace framework. The truce, only eight days old, has been marred by mutual accusations of violations, sporadic violence, and disputes over the return of hostage bodies, aid delivery, and border …
(2025-10-21). Israel could fiddle election rules to keep far-right in power. newarab.com 
Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu is particularly concerned that his far-right
(2025-10-21). What drove conciliatory remarks at a fiery Knesset session. haaretz.com Netanyahu, turning 76 after 18 years as prime minister, may one day seek Israelis' forgiveness. His show of softening could reflect the election year or his hope for a presidential pardon, as Herzog finally signals a shift in his lenient stance towards the government…
(2025-10-21). The animalistic behavior of US envoy towards Lebanon intensifies. tehrantimes.com BEIRUT—In a dangerous escalation that highlights American intimidation against Lebanon, U.S. envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack has unleashed a series of inflammatory statements through his X account, threatening Lebanon with civil war and Israeli aggression if it refuses to normalize relations with Israel under the so-called Abraham Accords.
(2025-10-21). Hezbollah not afraid of Israeli threats and drills: Qassem. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem stressed that his movement is not scared of the Israeli regime's military threats and drills, deploring the US intervention in the region.
(2025-10-21). Foreign Office refuses to disclose notes of 'secret meeting' between Lammy and Israeli foreign minister. thecanary.co The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has refused to disclose notes concerning a 'secret meeting' in April between David Lammy, at the time Keir Starmer's Foreign Secretary, and his Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa'ar — because they could be "open to misinterpretation" and might harm the UK's relationship with (genocidal) Israel, Scottish paper The National […] | By
(2025-10-21). Islamic unity to thwart US-Israeli conspiracies: Pezeshkian. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeskian says if Islamic countries are united, the conspiracies designed by the United States and the Zionist regime against the nations of the region will yield no results.
(2025-10-21). Israeli settlers hospitalise Palestinian woman picking olives. newarab.com 
A local Palestinian official told reporters that they have documented 158 assaults on Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank, whi…
(2025-10-21). Nestlé to sack thousands of staff over anti-Israel boycotts. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — The world's largest food and beverage company, Nestlé, has reportedly announced its plan to lay off 16,000 employees globally, as the firm is facing a growing wave of boycotts over its ties with the Israeli regime.