(2025-12-12). "Not the Warm Embrace" : Trump-Netanyahu summit poised to redraw Israel's role in Gaza. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – On December 29, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. This meeting is seen as very important for deciding whether Israel will still have a lot of say in Gaza policy or whether it will become a secondary player in an international process that is increasingly shaped by Washington, Doha, and Ankara. Israeli commentators say that Netanyahu is very worried about the meeting because they think Trump will try to get him to make concessions that would make him look like the person standing in the way of what the White House calls a "historic peace.
(2025-12-12). Israel is Sinking into the Abyss of Netanyahu's Dictatorship. juancole.com Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) — It appears unlikely that the
(2025-12-12). No confession, no retirement: Why is president even considering pardon request? haaretz.com There can no longer be any doubt: the conduct of Israel's president is a national disgrace ‚ñ Does anyone really believe that after the pardon, Netanyahu will roll back his assault on democracy? ‚ñ Galit Distel Atbaryan a modern-day McCarthy…
(2025-12-12). Just one thing is stalling Stage Two of Gaza plan: reality. haaretz.com Hamas controls the enclave with an iron fist, no one has volunteered to disarm it and Netanyahu is in no hurry to press on — but the U.S. president wants a win ‚ñ On the northern front, Hezbollah's new motto has become 'Survival is victory'…
(2025-12-12). Israel's aggressive blueprint: A rebuttal to Lebanon's pro-Israel propaganda. tehrantimes.com BEIRUT—In early December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again peeled back the last veneer of diplomatic pretence.
(2025-12-12). U.S. Aid Cuts Leave Kenya's Children Vulnerable to Starvation. moderndiplomacy.eu Severe drought, conflict, and economic hardship have left Kenya's Turkana county among the world's most food-insecure regions. In 2025, the sudden suspension of U.S. foreign aid, including funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), disrupted the supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), a peanut-based nutrient paste critical for treating severe acute malnutrition in …
(2025-12-12). Journalist Files Defense In Anti-Semitism Test Case. popularresistance.org Embattled Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis has filed her formal defense against the charge by the Zionist Federation of Australia that she is an anti-semite, telling a federal judge the allegation of racial vilification is really intended to smear legitimate criticism of Israel and stifle free speech. | In her 29-page filing, Kostakidis argues that her reporting on Israel's actions in Gaza did not target Jewish people but the Israeli government. Her posts on X had nothing to do with the "race or national or ethnic origin of Jewish Australians and/or Israeli Australians," she says.
(2025-12-12). Réquiem por el comandante Raúl Díaz-Argàºelles García. cubadebate.cu Raúl Díaz-Argàºelles García, es símbolo de los cubanos que combatieron en àÅfrica, de manera particular en Angola. En vida contó con el respeto y la admiración de todos con los que compartió trincheras en las guerras contra el colonialismo y el apartheid.
(2025-12-12). Ex-apartheid police to remain behind bars pending bail decision. sanews.gov.za Ex-apartheid police to remain behind bars pending bail decision | Two former apartheid-era police officers, who were convicted of the premeditated murder of Congress of South African Students (COSAS) member Caiphus Nyoka, will remain in custody pending judgment in their bail application. ⚪ Former Sergeant, Abraham Hercules Engelbrecht and former Sergeant Pieter Stander (60) were convicted of the 1987 murder of Nyoka earlier this month while a third accused, Major Leon Louis Van Den Berg, was acquitted. ⚪ "Following their conviction, the two applied for bail pending sentencing. In affidavits before the court, t…
(2025-12-12). Tucker Carlson visits wounded Palestinian refugees in Qatar. newarab.com 
American journalist Tucker Carlson released footage of himself visiting Palestinian refugees in Qatar on Thursday, alongside stinging criticism of Israel and the United States' support for it. | The conservative political commentator showed clips of his visit in the latest episode of the The Tucker Carlson Show titled "Why Are We Defending Mass Murder in Gaza? Because Our Greatest Ally Demands It". | "Among so-called 'civilised governments'. No one has behaved like Israel has behaved in Gaza in a very long time – 80 years at least," Carlson said. | "It's almost unbelievable. Tens of thousands of children killed,…
(2025-12-12). Tucker Carlson condemns 'abominable' human cost in Gaza after visiting maimed children. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — In a landmark episode of The Tucker Carlson Show released Thursday, prominent media personality and political commentator Tucker Carlson issued his most blistering condemnation to date of the ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
(2025-12-12). Defend Israel's existence as refuge against Jew-hatred. themilitant.com Hamas leaders make it clear they have no intention of disarming, nor of giving up their brutal stranglehold on Gaza or abandoning their goal of destroying Israel and eliminating the Jews. As the weeks go by with no moves to disarm Hamas, the pro-Nazi thugs are growing emboldened. | If Israel is to survive as a refuge for Jews, sooner or later it will have to go on the offensive to destroy Hamas and incorporate more of Gaza into Israel. No other force is capable of doing this. | With Israel controlling 53% of Gaza and Hamas the rest, the "yellow line" that separates the two has become "a new border line," Israel D…
(2025-12-12). If Gaza Resistance Ends: What History Tells Us About the Palestinian Fate. counterpunch.org 
US President Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace' is reportedly set to be announced before the year's end. This news coincides with increasing reports that the US administration is serious about pushing forward the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire. However, many critical questions remain unanswered. How can a governing council be superimposed on Gaza when
(2025-12-12). US government brands DACA recipient Yaa'kub Vijandre a "terrorist" for opposing genocide in Gaza. wsws.org The US government has held Vijandre, a Dallas resident, in immigration detention for over nine weeks despite admitting in court filings that he has committed no crimes and that the only "evidence" of his alleged "terrorism" consists of social media posts protected under the First Amendment.
(2025-12-12). Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting Mintpress. popularresistance.org A prolific writer who has penned 28 pro-Israel articles in the past two months alone, Sawer asked the British Palestinian journalist to respond to pro-Israel pressure group Stop The Hate U.K.'s campaign for him to be prosecuted for "anti-Semitic hate crimes." | Abul-Essad's "crime" was attending an October 2024 demonstration in London protesting an event featuring former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaking on the future of Gaza — a case that the Metropolitan Police have already looked into and dismissed. | Sawer has previous connections to Stop The Hate U.K.
(2025-12-12). A path forward for Palestinian resistance. workers.org 
The following remarks were delivered by internationally renowned and award-winning Palestinian author and poet Susan Abulhawa to the Muwatin's 30th Annual Conference, "The Impact of the Genocide in Gaza on the Future of the World and the Reading of the Palestinian Question" on Dec. 3, 2025. I want to talk . . . |
(2025-12-12). UN warns displaced Gazans at risk of deadly floods as shelter supplies blocked. moderndiplomacy.eu After two years of war, Gaza's infrastructure has been shattered, leaving hundreds of thousands of displaced people living in makeshift tents across rubble-filled areas. A tentative ceasefire has held since October, but conditions on the ground remain extremely harsh. Heavy rains this week swept through Gaza, flooding tents and temporary shelters, and exposing the severe …
(2025-12-12). Gaza's Displaced Battle Floods Amid Shelter Shortages. devdiscourse.com Hundreds of thousands of Gazans are grappling with serious flooding as torrential rains swamp the region, severely affecting makeshift shelters. The UN International Organization for Migration revealed on Friday that essential materials like sandbags and timber are unable to reach the enclave.
(2025-12-12). Freezing temperatures and floods kill infants and children in storm-battered Gaza. tehrantimes.com At least 11 Palestinians have died in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings within the last 24 hours, Middle East Eye reported Friday.
(2025-12-12). Gaza: At least 11 killed in 24 hours amid Storm Byron. newarab.com 
At least 11 people, including children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip by heavy rain and cold conditions caused by On Friday, at least two children died from freezing temperatures. Infant Taim Al-Khawaja, who was living with his family in the ruins of their home damaged by a previous Israeli bombing in the
(2025-12-12). Flooding destroys few remaining possessions of Palestinians in Gaza. aljazeera.com Palestinians in Gaza fled bombardment with what little they could carry. Those items are now destroyed by flooding.
(2025-12-12). Iranian Baluch separatist factions establish Popular Fighters Front coalition. longwarjournal.org Iranian Baluch separatist factions have formed a new coalition known as the Popular Fighters Front (JMM), presenting themselves as a unified movement against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The coalition's manifesto outlines its constituent groups, including PADA Baluch, Harakat-e Nasr, Jaish al Adl, the Mohammad Rasulullah network, and independent fighters, and frames its mission as defending the "dignity, culture, and political identity" of the Baluch people while appealing to broader Iranian opposition forces. JMM has already claimed responsibility for a December 2025 attack in Zahedan that left four of Iran's I…
(2025-12-12). Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague. counterpunch.org 
What is at stake is far more than a rejection of gangster capitalism and the global misery it produces. The deeper danger lies in recognizing that education has become the primary battlefield in the cultural and ideological wars waged by authoritarianism. Neoliberal capitalism, in its fascist mutation, does not simply impoverish; it seeks to colonize consciousness, to erode the capacity for critical thought, and to replace democratic imagination with the deadening certainties of hierarchy and fear. Universities now sit at a dangerous crossroad where truth is contested, civic memory is either erased or preserved,…