2025-12-16: Netanyahu Roundup

So far today: 2025-12-16 4:27pm GMT

Staff (2025-12-16). Report: Top Trump officials with Netanyahu amid Gaza cease-fire violation. haaretz.com A U.S. official told Axios, 'Netanyahu has turned over the last two years into a global pariah. He should ask himself why Egypt's al-Sisi refuses to meet him and why, five years after the Abraham Accords, he still hasn't been invited to visit the UAE'…

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2025-12-16). Exploiting A Massacre To Cover Up A Genocide. popularresistance.org The 15 innocent victims killed in Sunday's terrorist attack on a Hanukkah party at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia are being exploited by extreme Zionists in a bid to distract from Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. | Their memories are being used by the likes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli as well as Australian officials, sections of the media and members of the public. | Instead of putting the blame on the only known perpetrators police have identified so far — the father and son shooters Sajid and Naveed Akram — Zionist extremists are implicating innocent citizens w…

newarab (2025-12-16). Israeli forces raid West Bank as Gaza grapples with winter. newarab.com Israeli forces carried out a wave of raids across According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli troops raided multiple locations, including the city of Tubas and the nearby town of Tammun. Forces also stormed the town of Tuqu, southeast of

Connor Echols (2025-12-16). Israel's all-seeing eye is the stealthiest cruelty of all in Gaza. responsiblestatecraft.org Discussions of the war in Gaza tend to focus on what's visible. The instinct is understandable: Over two years of brutal conflict, the Israel Defense Forces have all but destroyed the diminutive strip on the Mediterranean coast, with the scale of the carnage illustrated by images of emaciated children, shrapnel-ridden bodies, and flattened buildings.But underlying all of this destruction is a hidden force — a carefully constructed infrastructure of Israeli surveillance that powers the war effort and keeps tabs on the smallest facets of Palestinians' lives. Few people understand this system more deeply t…

newarab (2025-12-16). Gaza's orphaned girls shoulder family burdens amid Israel's war. newarab.com

en.mehrnews (2025-12-16). Iran condemns continued killing of Palestinians in Gaza. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (MNA) — Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei strongly condemned the continued killing and the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, citing ongoing bombardments and the obstruction of humanitarian aid.

en.mehrnews (2025-12-16). Iran dismisses Rafael Grossi as unfit for UN chief role. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (MNA) — Iran has called for a fair process to select the next UN secretary-general, warning that candidates who remained silent on unlawful military attacks against Iran's peaceful nuclear program are unfit, referring to Grossi.

Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. (2025-12-16). Lifting The Veil On International Human Rights Day. popularresistance.org The notion that the "West," responsible for the most horrific crimes in the annals of human history, could somehow be associated with the defense of something they called human rights was always an obscene proposition. But with the assistance of the human rights industry, which is infused with Eurocentrism and white saviorism, the collective West was given ideological cover to continue its project of racist plunder and colonial fascism after fascist forces were partially defeated in Europe with the end of the second imperialist war in 1945. | Outside of Europe, in the colonized world where fascism was originally…

Martha Rios (2025-12-16). Presidente Maduro agradece a pueblo de Venezuela por respuesta ante agresión de EEUU. radiohc.cu El presidente Nicolás Maduro agradeció este lunes al pueblo de Venezuela por su respuesta contundente y certera ante la agresión imperialista y manipulación de la ultraderecha fascista, que llamó a invadir su país. | Durante la edición 99 de su programa Con Maduro +, el gobernante comentó sobre las 300 marchas nocturnas que se desarrollaron esta jornada en igual número de territorios, a lo largo y ancho de la República Bolivariana.Esa derecha fascista de Leopoldo López, Juan Guaidó, Julio Borges, La Sayona (María Corina Machado) y David Smolansky pidieron se invadiera militarmente este país", subrayó. | Recordó l…

newarab (2025-12-15). Gulf states reconsider their reliance on US' security umbrella. newarab.com Perhaps only the naive would have believed the American narrative that President Trump had no prior knowledge of the premeditated It would have totally been possible to request directly from the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, not to carry out the st…

Yael Freidson (2025-12-15). trial hearing cut short as Paraguayan parliament president visits court. haaretz.com At the start of the hearing, Netanyahu said he had requested a full cancellation, citing 'something big in South America.' Before adjourning, he asked to shorten the session by an hour to prepare for a meeting with Trump's special envoy to Syria…

Yotam Koren (2025-12-15). Jerusalem fans wave Jewish supremacist Kahane flag; Tel Aviv anti-Ben-Gvir shirts seized. haaretz.com Beitar Jerusalem fans waved the flag of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane's far-right Kach movement at a match against an Arab-Israeli team on Monday. A day earlier, a security official confiscated a shirt reading 'FCK BNGVR,' a reference to far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, from Hapoel Tel Aviv fans…

Liza Rozovsky (2025-12-15). Turkey excluded from U.S. military postwar Gaza summit in Doha as officials cite Israeli veto. haaretz.com Representatives from more than 45 countries have been invited to participate in what is described as an 'interim meeting,' where no final decisions are slated to take place. An Arab source close to the Turkish government said that Doha and Ankara are currently exerting pressure on Washington to invite Turkey to the conference…

Ariel David (2025-12-15). Unusual bedfellows: The Israelis and Palestinians working together to dig up the Nakba. haaretz.com Even as the war in Gaza raged, a group of Israeli researchers forged quiet bonds with Palestinian refugees to bring to light the history of a village depopulated in Israel's 1948 War of Independence…

newarab (2025-12-15). Hollywood actor Iyad Hajjaj unveils new film on Gaza. newarab.com The film, "

UMMID (2025-12-15). Israel leads as 2025 ends as deadliest year for Journalists: RSF. ummid.com Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in its latest report said the year 2025 is ending as the deadliest year for journalists with majority of them killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IDF) in Gaza.

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-12-15). Australians Being Massacred Shouldn't Bother Us More Than Palestinians Being Massacred. caitlinjohnstone.com.au Palestinians don't love their families any less than Australians do. Australian lives aren't any more significant or valuable than Palestinian lives. There is no valid reason for the world to have focused any less on the 15 people who were killed in Gaza on March 16 than on the 15 people who were murdered on Bondi Beach. But it did.

Editor (2025-12-15). Surprising Lessons for the U.S. Resistance to Trump: In Sudan's Recent History. scheerpost.com By Rebecca Gordon for Tom Dispatch Follow a line south and west from the Gaza Strip, continue through Egypt, and you'll end up in another place where a genocide is in progress. It's one we don't hear much about in the United States, probably because it's happening in an African nation, one of those places …

aljazeera (2025-12-15). Palestinians in Gaza fear rain as war-damaged buildings collapse. aljazeera.com Storms in Gaza have caused war-damaged buildings to collapse, killing civilians and leaving many Palestinians afraid.

Charlie Jaay (2025-12-15). Israel continues to obstruct aid into Gaza. thecanary.co The UN has reported that Israel has rejected more than 130 aid cargo entry requests in October alone. The majority of these rejections affect small organisations that distribute aid. This follows a pattern. Israeli occupation authorities reject life-saving commodities, such as food, shelter, health and building supplies. They also reject equipment required to deliver vital […] | By

en.mehrnews (2025-12-15). IAEA has no right to ask for inspections of attacked sites. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) — Iran's nuclear chief has criticized the IAEA's call for renewed inspections of attacked nuclear sites, insisting that the Agency lacks clear protocols to inspect sites that have been attacked by the Israeli regime and the US.

Jack Khoury (2025-12-15). outlook for its Arab citizens in the year ahead: fewer prospects, more suspicion. haaretz.com The Israeli government cuts $68 million from Arab social programs to fund security forces, while arrests, racist attacks, and political delegitimization signal a shrinking space for equality and civic life…

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