Middle East Press On: Gazan, Emigration, Humanitarian, Israel: New Age Islam's Selection, 5 June 2025
By New Age Islam Edit Desk
5 June 2025
Everyone Is Paying The Price For Netanyahu's Obsession With Power
Israel Should Provide Gazans With The Freedom To Choose Emigration
Israeli Lies And Western Complicity: How Deceit Became A Weapon Of War
Gaza’s ‘Humanitarian’ Façade: A Deceptive Ploy Unraveled
Gaza’s ‘Humanitarian’ Façade: A Deceptive Ploy Unravels
Israeli Lies And Western Complicity: How Deceit Became A Weapon Of War
Trump And Israel: Is The Administration Really Purging Pro-Israel Officials?
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Everyone Is Paying The Price For Netanyahu's Obsession With Power
By Yossi Beilin
June 5, 2025
This is the package that could end the war in Gaza and bring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an end:
• Hamas will release the Israeli hostages, and Israel will end the war and withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
• Hamas will end its rule in Gaza, and its leadership will move to another place where Israel will grant it immunity from assassination.
• The entity that will take over the management of the Gaza Strip will be the Palestinian Authority, in cooperation with countries in the region and beyond, who will be willing to put “boots on the ground,” finance the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, and participate in its temporary administration.
• Israel and the PLO will resume their negotiations on the permanent agreement, which can be based on both Trump’s “Deal of the Century” from January 2020 and the “Saudi Initiative” from 2002.
There is no way that the current Netanyahu government will be willing to support such a move, as long as it depends for its existence on a group of extremist politicians, whom no government in Israel’s history has ever thought of sharing in running the country.
The Center-Left parties, which currently have 35 seats in the Knesset, have refused to join Netanyahu’s government since he was indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.
Personally, I thought that Benjamin Netanyahu could not be elected prime minister when he was accused of such serious offenses, especially since his testimony in court, several times a week, would impair his ability to handle Israel’s day-to-day affairs, and even more so stay in office after the massacre by Hamas on October 7, 2023, in the wake of which Israel entered a state of emergency at its highest level.
I had hoped that if these parties did not join Netanyahu, he would get the hint and give up the bid to be elected prime minister, but apparently, he thought that when he came to court as prime minister, the panel of judges would treat him with more consideration. He made one of the most terrible decisions of his life: to include in his government, in very senior positions, people found guilty of incitement to racism and support for a terrorist organization.
Netanyahu's paranoid approach to power
Netanyahu's conduct at a certain stage in the war seems to be derived directly from the ultimatum of the extreme right-wing parties to continue the war at all costs and to prevent humanitarian aid from the residents of Gaza.
These people speak in biblical terms, believe that Israel can shut itself in, that power is the only component of international relations, that all international institutions are cynical, hypocritical, and antisemitic, and therefore there is no need to take their decisions seriously, or take into account the global media.
They are always convinced that military operations ended too soon, and that a little more effort was enough to eliminate the enemy. They do not downplay the fact that the continuation of the war is more important than the effort to rescue Israelis kidnapped by Hamas.
Netanyahu’s adherence to power exceeds all imagination. The young prime minister, who was first elected almost 30 years ago, the brilliant orator, the one who reminded many of the image of a Republican senator, who managed to charm many world leaders despite his hawkish positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and who defended the court and Israel’s democratic norms, has become a disgruntled elder.
He is paranoid, believes in the existence of a “deep state,” and is convinced that the entire judicial, military, media, and academic system conspired against him. He is also convinced that only he, with his many years of experience, with the knowledge he has accumulated, and with the international connections he has acquired, knows exactly what is the right thing to do from a political, economic, legal, and diplomatic point of view.
He refuses to understand that he “lost it” a long time ago and has been ignoring the polls for almost two years in a row, because, according to them, he has no chance of becoming the next prime minister. He is not willing to set up a state commission of inquiry to understand what led to the horrific massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, what happened that same day, and what mistakes were made later.
He believes that he was right in his chilling policy of preferring Hamas over the Palestinian Authority, in order to avoid the need to divide the country and achieve peace, but he fears that an investigative committee will see this as a dramatic mistake.
I assume that I was not the only Israeli who thought that the commission of inquiry would be established soon, that Netanyahu would apologize to the public and resign from his position, as Golda Meir did after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. I also thought that he would be replaced by a joint government of the Likud and the Center, without the extreme right-wing parties, in order to begin the necessary process of rebuilding Israel after the worst disaster that has befallen the Jewish people since World War II.
This did not happen. Israel began a just war that became the longest war in our history after it achieved its main goals, and even after it realized that the release of the hostages who remained alive would be possible only through an indirect arrangement with Hamas and not through a heroic military operation.
The price paid by Israelis and Palestinians
More and more Israelis understand that the continuation of the war is the result of Netanyahu’s desire not to face a broad demand to establish a state commission of inquiry and advance the elections.
Israelis and Palestinians have been paying a heavy price in the past year and a half, since Hamas continues to hold the abductees as its insurance policy, while Israel is a regional military power, whose counterattack, naturally, is very severe, harming terrorists, but also innocent people, many of whom, unfortunately, are children.
Gaza is, in fact, a huge and crowded kindergarten. Some 47% of its residents have not yet reached the age of 18. The “collateral damage” of the bombings in Gaza is children.
Israel is paying a very heavy price in terms of its political isolation in the world, in the enormous economic burden of long-term reserve mobilization, in double and triple security spending, and in the fact that its ongoing response has awakened dormant or semi-dormant antisemitic sentiments around the world.
Most importantly, the abductees, who constitute the main explanation for the continuation of the fighting, are languishing to death in places where they are scattered in the Gaza Strip.
A situation may arise in which there will no longer be anyone to save, God forbid. If we add to this the fallen IDF soldiers; the legislation that imitates, to a large extent, the Hungarian approach of “illiberal democracy” (which is, of course, an oxymoron); the conclusion is that the current situation must change immediately, because the key to ending it is the end of the war versus the release of the hostages. The end of the war will only happen by a political change in Israel.
Politically, this is a kind of Queen’s Gambit: the Center-Left parties will have to renege on a very central principle in their election promises, but no one predicted what would happen in Israel and how we would become a country whose days of mourning have no expiration date, whose best friends are distancing themselves from it, and whose airport is almost empty of non-Israeli planes.
If there is a state of emergency, it is the state of emergency in which the 35 relevant Knesset members must offer Netanyahu a safe continuation of his term until October 27, 2026, in exchange for restoring Israel to sanity. The alternative to this is to continue serving in the opposition, to lose seats in the polls to Naftali Bennett, who is more hawkish and right-wing than Netanyahu, and to pray for Bennett’s victory in the next elections.
Should political talks with the PLO begin, I would strongly recommend that the parties thoroughly examine the establishment of a confederation between the two countries, in the spirit of the European Union, which would allow, among other things, to solve the most difficult impediment to peace – the large number of settlers in the West Bank.
The proposal of the authors of the document on the Holy Land Confederation is that all settlers who find themselves within the agreed borders of the future Palestinian state will be able to choose to remain there as Israeli citizens and permanent residents of Palestine. The same number of Palestinian citizens will be able to move to Israel as permanent residents. Resolving the settlement issue will be the key to resolving the conflict.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-856523
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Israel Should Provide Gazans With The Freedom To Choose Emigration
By Moshe Fuzaylov
June 5, 2025
The world has witnessed the horrors that can unfold when poverty, oppression, and terrorism converge in a closed and hopeless environment. Indeed, the people of Gaza have lived for years in unrelenting misery, devoid of any real prospect for a better future.
Out of this abyss, a rare and historic opportunity has emerged, perhaps the most consequential since the founding of the State of Israel. This is a humanitarian, strategic, and diplomatic initiative to enable the voluntary emigration of up to one million Palestinians from Gaza to countries across the globe.
This initiative is neither naive nor detached from reality. It is grounded in empirical data. According to public opinion surveys conducted by Palestinian pollster Dr. Khalil Shikaki, approximately 49% of Gazans wish to emigrate. Among educated youth, this exceeds 54%. Many are even willing to leave without official documents, driven by profound despair and a genuine yearning for a better future.
Creating the framework
Israel’s role is to provide the practical framework that enables these individuals to exercise their right to choose – to choose a life beyond endless conflict and stagnation, to exit the status of perpetual refugees, and to enter a future of dignity and opportunity. The plan rests on five core pillars: freedom, rehabilitation, partnership, legitimacy, and discretion.
This is not just a humanitarian gesture; it is a strategic maneuver with far-reaching implications. The departure of hundreds of thousands from Gaza will significantly ease overpopulation, diminish the recruitment base for terror organizations, strip the Arab world of its long-standing “refugee card” against Israel, and challenge the two-state solution, which long has rested on an unviable status quo.
The role of international cooperation
International cooperation will be critical to success. Destination countries may include nations in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Canada, and even the Middle East. Families must be offered comprehensive support: departure grants, housing assistance, vocational training, and community integration services.
International organizations such as the UN, the International Organization for Migration, and countries like the UAE, Egypt, the US, Cyprus, and Saudi Arabia can serve as essential partners. Washington should play a key diplomatic role in advancing the plan.
The goal is not merely to transform Gaza but to spark hope across the Arab world and redefine regional thinking. The enclave must be released from its function as a “black pawn” in the diplomatic chessboard and transformed into a living example of what is possible when moral courage meets strategic vision, especially after a brutal conflict.
Again, the solution here is not forced “transfer” or “expulsion” but rather a moral, legal, and diplomatic plan that will allow Gazans to attain what has been denied to them all their lives: the freedom to choose, the freedom to build a future outside the cycles of statelessness, violence, and despair.
In the end, history will remember the leaders who recognized this moment and chose liberty over another war, dignity over hatred, and civilian empowerment over the containment of enemies. This is not only Israel’s moral responsibility. It is also its strategic prerogative – to reshape reality for itself and the entire region.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-856509
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Israeli Lies And Western Complicity: How Deceit Became A Weapon Of War
By Jamal Kanj
June 4, 2025
Throughout its long history of ethnic cleansing and occupation, Israel has remained consistent in its tactics: lie, deny, and distort the truth—often with the backing, or at least the indulgence, of Western powers. Lying has become an Israeli art form, refined over decades, practiced with impunity, and amplified by a complicit global media that not only tolerates but actively legitimises these falsehoods.
The latest massacre at the food distribution in Gaza offers yet another stark and sickening reminder of this pattern. At dawn on Sunday, 1st June, more than 30 Palestinians were murdered while waiting for food aid in Rafah. As usual, Israel swiftly denied responsibility, claiming its army was unaware of any shooting near the American-led distribution center. But eyewitnesses, survivors, humanitarian organisations, and hospitals told a contradictory story.
Israel’s denial was immediately echoed—and defended by American officials. The U.S. ambassador—better described as Israel’s emissary within the State Department—dismissed reports of the massacre as “fake news.” This grotesque inversion of truth is a familiar maneuver, reminiscent of the Flour Massacre on 29 February, 2024, when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians collecting flour, killing 112 and injuring over 760.
Again, Israel denied responsibility, claiming the deaths resulted from “stampedes” and civilians being run over by aid trucks. Yet even after the United Nations and media outlets like Al Jazeera challenged the Israeli disinformation and presented video footage clearly showing Israeli forces firing on unarmed civilians, no accountability followed.
In Gaza, it is not just food aid sites have become death traps. Ambulances are targets. First responders, doctors, and even their children have become “legitimate” military objectives.
Last week, Israel targeted the home of Dr Alaa al-Najjar, killing nine of her ten children—Yahya (12), Eve (9), Rival (5), Sadeen (3), Rakan (10), Ruslan (7), Jibran (8), Luqman (2), and Sedar, not yet one year old. Her husband, Dr Hamdi al-Najjar, succumbed to his injuries days later. Their tenth child, 11-year-old Adam, sustained a critical head injury and is unlikely to survive due to Gaza’s medical blockade.
Israel’s standard, callous response followed, explaining that its aircraft had struck “a number of suspects” in Khan Younis.
In March, the Israeli army murdered eight medics, six civil defense workers, and a United Nations employee—then buried them in the sand. The military later blamed the “suspicious behavior” of an ambulance for the attack. When confronted with video evidence disproving the claim, the army reverted to its usual script: “a mistake,” “a wrong decision,” “disciplinary action taken.” Fifteen lives erased with a bureaucratic shrug.
When Israel murdered seven humanitarian workers from the World Central Kitchen in April 2024, the Biden administration initially expressed outrage. Twenty-four hours later, that outrage was mollified by Israeli firsters in Washington. White House spokesperson John Kirby reversed course, claiming there was no evidence of deliberate targeting—absolving Israel in the same breath that had condemned it. A mass killing became a footnote.
This is nothing new.
In October 2023, nearly 500 civilians were killed in a blast at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Israel immediately blamed a misfired Palestinian rocket. Just hours after landing in Tel Aviv, President Joe Biden publicly parroted the Israeli narrative—despite overwhelming eyewitness accounts, growing evidence, and skepticism from independent observers.
And then there is the case of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian-American journalist gunned down in 2022. Israel initially claimed she was killed by Palestinian crossfire and released a video that was quickly discredited. Yet Western media gave more airtime to Israeli claims than to eyewitness testimony. Months later, under the weight of irrefutable evidence, Israel admitted responsibility—calling it, once again, a “mistake.”
The soldier who murdered a “lesser” U.S. citizen, like other killers of journalists, never faced justice. In fact, he was promoted to Captain and went on killing with impunity—until reports emerged of his death during a battle in Jenin.
Just like the murdered children of Gaza, truth itself has become another collateral damage in Israel’s war of disinformation. And those tasked with defending it—the media and democratic institutions—have too often served instead as marketers and conveyors of Israeli lies and propaganda.
The people of Gaza are not only being starved, bombed, and murdered. They are being erased from global consciousness by a wall of deception. And until the world begins to value Palestinian lives as much as it values Israeli (proven false) narratives, the Israeli theater of blood and deceit will continue.
Israel is not only getting away with war crimes—it’s getting away with lying about them. The impunity is not only military; it is moral, political, and informational. Israel has long mastered the art of the lie, dating back to the creation of political Zionism. The West, and its managed media, has normalised these falsehoods—just as it has normalized the starvation and siege of Gaza.
Israel lies with impunity because the world—especially the United States and much of the West—not only permits it, but promotes it. Western governments and media have built an echo chamber where Israeli narratives always take precedence—not due to credibility, but to avoid the reckoning that truth would demand. In choosing falsehood over fact, they evade moral accountability and sidestep the need to reconcile their professed values with the genocide they enable.
This is no longer just about Israeli lies. It’s about a global system complicit in sustaining Israel’s habitual lies and systematic deceit to cover up a starvation and a livestreamed genocide.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250604-israeli-lies-and-western-complicity-how-deceit-became-a-weapon-of-war/
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Gaza’s ‘Humanitarian’ Façade: A Deceptive Ploy Unravelled
By Dr Ramzy Baroud
June 4, 2025
Just one day before the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operating officially inside the Gaza Strip, its executive director, Jake Wood, resigned.
The text of his resignation statement underscored what many had already suspected: GHF is not a humanitarian endeavour, but the latest scam by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to control the Gaza Strip, after 600 days of war and genocide.
“It is clear that it is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence,” Wood said in the statement, which was cited by CNN and other media.
This begs the question: why had that realisation become ‘clear’ to Wood, even though the aid operation was not yet in effect? The rest of the statement offers some explanation, suggesting that the American contractor may not have known the extent of the Israeli ploy until later, but knew that a disaster was unfolding – the kind that would surely require investigating and, possibly, accountability.
In fact, an investigation by Swiss authorities had already begun. The US news network, CBS, looked into the matter, reporting on 29 May that GHF originally applied for registration in Geneva on January 31 and was officially registered on February 12. However, in no time, Swiss authorities began noticing repeated violations, including that the Swiss branch of GHF is “currently not fulfilling various legal obligations”.
In its original application, GHF “pursues exclusively charitable philanthropic objectives for the benefit of the people.” Strangely, the entity that promised to provide “material, psychological or health” services to famine-stricken Gazans, found it necessary to employ 300 “heavily armed” American contractors, with “as much ammunition as they can carry,” CBS reported.
The ‘psychological’ support in particular was the most ironic, as desperate Gazans were corralled, on 27 May, into cages under extremely high temperatures, only to be given tiny amounts of food that, according to Rami Abdu, head of the Geneva-based Euro-Med Monitor, were in fact stolen from a US-based charitable organization known as Rahma Worldwide.
Following the CBS news report, among others, and following several days of chaos and violence in Gaza, where at least 49 Palestinians were killed and over 300 wounded by those who promised to give aid and comfort, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that the funding for the operation is coming directly from Israel.
Prominent Israeli politician and Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman went even further, claiming that the money, estimated by The Washington Post to be $100 million, “is coming from the Mossad and the Defence Ministry.”
But why would Israel go through all of this trouble while it can, at no financial cost, simply allow the massive shipments of aid, reportedly rotting on the Egyptian side of the border, to enter Gaza and to stave off the famine?
In Netanyahu’s mind, the aid mechanism is part of the war. In a video message, reported by The Jerusalem Post on May 19, he described the new aid distributing points, manned jointly by GHF and the Israeli army, as “parallel to the enormous pressure” Israel is putting on the Palestinians – exemplified in Israel’s “massive (military) entrance (into Gaza)” – with the aim of “taking control of all of the Gaza” Strip.
In Netanyahu’s own words, all of this, the military-arranged aid and ongoing genocide, is “the war and victory plan.”
Of course, Palestinians and international aid groups operating in Gaza, including UN-linked aid apparatuses, were fully aware that the secretive Israel-US scheme was predicated on bad intentions. This is why they wanted to have nothing to do with it.
In Israel’s thinking, any aid mechanism that would sustain the status quo that existed prior to the war and genocide starting on 7 October, 2023, would be equivalent to an admission of defeat. This is precisely why Israel laboured to associate the UN Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, with Hamas.
This included the launching of a virulent campaign against the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres himself, and other top officials and rapporteurs. On July 22, the Israeli Knesset went as far as to designate UNRWA a “terrorist organisation”.
Still, it may seem to be a contradiction that the likes of extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich would agree to such an ‘aid’ scheme just days after declaring that Israel’s intention is to “entirely destroy” Gaza.
However, there is no contradiction. Having failed to conquer Gaza through military force, Israel is trying to use its latest aid scheme to capitalise on the famine it has purposely engineered over the course of months.
Luring people to ‘distribution points’, the Israeli army is trying to concentrate the population of Gaza in areas that can be easily controlled through leveraging food, with the ultimate aim of pushing Palestinians out, in the words of Smotrich, “in great numbers to third countries.”
The latest scheme is likely to fail, of course, like other such stratagems in the last 600 days. However, the inhumane and degrading treatment of Palestinians further illustrates Israel’s rejection of the growing international push to end the genocide.
For Israel to stop scheming, the international community must translate its strong words into strong action and hold, not just Israel, but its own citizens involved in the GHF and other ploys, accountable for being part of the ongoing war crimes in Gaza.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250604-gazas-humanitarian-facade-a-deceptive-ploy-unraveled/
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Gaza’s ‘Humanitarian’ Façade: A Deceptive Ploy Unravels
June 4, 2025
The decision resonated as shocking for all sides. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose entire war strategy hinges on the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, unilaterally decided on May 19 to allow “immediate” food entry to the famine-stricken Strip.
Of course, Netanyahu still maneuvered. Instead of permitting at least 1,000 trucks of aid to enter the utterly destroyed and devastated Gaza per day, he initially allowed a mere nine trucks, a number that nominally increased in the following days.
Even Netanyahu’s staunch supporters, who fiercely criticized the decision, found themselves confounded by it. The prior understanding among Netanyahu’s coalition partners regarding their ultimate plan in Gaza had been unequivocally clear: the total occupation of the Strip and the forced displacement of its population.
The latter was articulated as a matter of explicit policy by Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich. “Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to… third countries,” he declared on May 6.
For food to enter Gaza, however minuscule its quantity, directly violates the established understanding between the government and the military, under the leadership of Netanyahu’s ally, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.
These two significant additions to Netanyahu’s war cabinet replaced Yoav Gallant and Herzi Halevi. With these new appointments, Netanyahu stood poised for his master plan.
When the war commenced on October 7, 2023, the Israeli leader promised that he would take control of the Gaza Strip. This position evolved, or rather was clarified, to signify permanent occupation, though without the Palestinians themselves.
To achieve such a lofty objective–lofty, given Israel’s consistent failure to subdue the Palestinians over the course of nearly 600 days–Netanyahu and his men meticulously devised the “Gideon’s Chariots” plan. The propaganda that accompanied this new strategy transcended all the hasbara that had accompanied previous plans, including the failed “Generals’ Plan” of October 2024.
The rationale behind this psychological warfare is to imprint upon the Palestinians in Gaza the indelible impression that their fate has been sealed, and that the future of Gaza can only be determined by Israel itself.
The plan, however, a rehash of what is historically known as “Sharon’s Fingers,” is fundamentally predicated on sectionalizing Gaza into several distinct zones, and leveraging food as a tool for displacement into these camps, and ultimately, outside of Gaza.
However, why would Netanyahu agree to allow food access outside his sinister scheme? The reason behind this relates profoundly to the explosion of global anger directed at Israel, particularly from its most staunch allies: Britain, France, Canada, Australia, among others.
Unlike Spain, Norway, Ireland and others that have sharply criticized the Israeli genocide, a few Western capitals have remained committed to Israel throughout the war. Their commitment manifested in supportive political discourse, blaming Palestinians and absolving Israel; unhindered military support; and resolute shielding of Israel from legal accountability and political fallout on the global stage.
Things began to change when US President Donald Trump slowly grasped that Netanyahu’s war in Gaza was destined to become a permanent war and occupation, which would inevitably translate to the perpetual destabilization of the Middle East – hardly a pressing American priority at the moment.
Leaked reports in US mainstream media, coupled with the noticeable lack of communication between Trump and Netanyahu, among other indicators, strongly suggested that the rift between Washington and Tel Aviv was not a mere ploy but a genuine policy shift.
Though Washington had indicated that the “US has not abandoned Israel,” the writing was clearly on the wall: Netanyahu’s long-term strategy and the US’ current strategy are hardly convergent.
Despite the formidable political power of the pro-Israel lobby in the US, and its robust support on both sides of the Congressional aisle, Trump’s position was strengthened by the fact that some pro-Israeli circles, also from both political parties, are fully aware that Netanyahu poses a danger not only to the US, but to Israel itself.
A series of decisive actions taken by Trump further accentuated this shift, which received surprisingly little protest from the pro-Israel element in US power circles: continued talks with Iran, the truce with Ansarallah in Yemen, talks with Hamas, etc.
Though refraining from openly criticizing Trump, Netanyahu intensified his killings of Palestinians, who fell in tragically large numbers. Many of the victims were already on the brink of starvation before they were mercilessly blown up by Israeli bombs.
On May 19, Britain, Canada, and France jointly issued a strong statement threatening Israel with sanctions. This unfamiliar language was swiftly followed by action just a day later when Britain suspended trade talks with Israel.
Netanyahu retaliated with furious language, unleashing his rage at Western capitals, which he accused of “offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities.”
The decision to allow some food into Gaza, though patently insufficient to stave off the deepening famine, was meant as a distraction, as the Israeli war machine relentlessly continued to harvest the lives of countless Palestinians on a daily basis.
While one welcomes the significant shifts in the West’s position against Israel, it must remain abundantly clear that Netanyahu has no genuine interest in abandoning his plan of starving and ethnically cleansing Gaza.
Though any action now will not fully reverse the impact of the genocide, there are still two million lives that can yet be saved.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gazas-humanitarian-facade-a-deceptive-ploy-unravels/
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Israeli Lies And Western Complicity: How Deceit Became A Weapon Of War
June 4, 2025
Throughout its long history of ethnic cleansing and occupation, Israel has remained consistent in its tactics: lie, deny, and distort the truth—often with the backing, or at least the indulgence, of Western powers. Lying has become an Israeli art form, refined over decades, practiced with impunity, and amplified by a complicit global media that not only tolerates but actively legitimizes these falsehoods.
The latest massacre at the food distribution in Gaza offers yet another stark and sickening reminder of this pattern. At dawn on Sunday, June 1st, more than 30 Palestinians were murdered while waiting for food aid in Rafah. As usual, Israel swiftly denied responsibility, claiming its army was unaware of any shooting near the American-led distribution center. But eyewitnesses, survivors, humanitarian organizations, and hospitals told a contradictory story.
Israel’s denial was immediately echoed—and defended by American officials. The US ambassador—better described as Israel’s emissary within the State Department—dismissed reports of the massacre as “fake news.” This grotesque inversion of truth is a familiar maneuver, reminiscent of the Flour Massacre on February 29, 2024, when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians collecting flour, killing 112 and injuring over 760.
Again, Israel denied responsibility, claiming the deaths resulted from “stampedes” and civilians being run over by aid trucks. Yet even after the United Nations and media outlets like Al Jazeera challenged the Israeli disinformation and presented video footage clearly showing Israeli forces firing on unarmed civilians, no accountability followed.
In Gaza, it is not just food aid sites that have become death traps. Ambulances are targets. First responders, doctors, and even their children have become “legitimate” military objectives.
Last week, Israel targeted the home of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, killing nine of her ten children—Yahya (12), Eve (9), Rival (5), Sadeen (3), Rakan (10), Ruslan (7), Jibran (8), Luqman (2), and Sedar, not yet one year old. Her husband, Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar, succumbed to his injuries days later. Their tenth child, 11-year-old Adma, sustained a critical head injury and is unlikely to survive due to Gaza’s medical blockade.
Israel’s standard, callous response followed, explaining that its aircraft had struck “a number of suspects” in Khan Younis.
In March, the Israeli army murdered eight medics, six civil defense workers, and a United Nations employee—then buried them in the sand. The military later blamed the “suspicious behavior” of an ambulance for the attack. When confronted with video evidence disproving the claim, the army reverted to its usual script: “a mistake,” “a wrong decision,” “disciplinary action taken.” Fifteen lives erased with a bureaucratic shrug.
When Israel murdered seven humanitarian workers from the World Central Kitchen in April 2024, the Biden administration initially expressed outrage. Twenty-four hours later, that outrage was mollified by Israeli firsters in Washington. White House spokesperson John Kirby reversed course, claiming there was no evidence of deliberate targeting—absolving Israel in the same breath that had condemned it. A mass killing became a footnote.
This is nothing new.
In October 2023, nearly 500 civilians were killed in a blast at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Israel immediately blamed a misfired Palestinian rocket. Just hours after landing in Tel Aviv, President Joe Biden publicly parroted the Israeli narrative—despite overwhelming eyewitness accounts, growing evidence, and skepticism from independent observers.
And then there is the case of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian-American journalist gunned down in 2022. Israel initially claimed she was killed by Palestinian crossfire and released a video that was quickly discredited. Yet Western media gave more airtime to Israeli claims than to eyewitness testimony. Months later, under the weight of irrefutable evidence, Israel admitted responsibility—calling it, once again, a “mistake.”
The soldier who murdered a “lesser” US citizen, like other killers of journalists, never faced justice. In fact he was promoted to Captain and went on killing with impunity—until reports emerged of his death during a battle in Jenin.
Just like the murdered children of Gaza, truth itself has become another collateral damage in Israel’s war of disinformation. And those tasked with defending it—the media and democratic institutions—have too often served instead as marketers and conveyors of Israeli lies and propaganda.
The people of Gaza are not only being starved, bombed, and murdered. They are being erased from global consciousness by a wall of deception. And until the world begins to value Palestinian lives as much as it values Israeli (proven false) narratives, the Israeli theater of blood and deceit will continue.
Israel is not only getting away with war crimes—it’s getting away with lying about them. The impunity is not only military; it is moral, political, and informational. Israel has long mastered the art of the lie, dating back to the creation of political Zionism. The West, and its managed media, has normalized these falsehoods—just as it has normalized the starvation and siege of Gaza.
Israel lies with impunity because the world—especially the United States and much of the West—not only permits it, but promotes it. Western governments and media have built an echo chamber where Israeli narratives always take precedence—not due to credibility, but to avoid the reckoning that truth would demand. In choosing falsehood over fact, they evade moral accountability and sidestep the need to reconcile their professed values with the genocide they enable.
This is no longer just about Israeli lies. It’s about a global system complicit in sustaining Israel’s habitual lies and systematic deceit to cover up a starvation and a livestreamed genocide.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-lies-and-western-complicity-how-deceit-became-a-weapon-of-war/
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Trump And Israel: Is The Administration Really Purging Pro-Israel Officials?
June 4, 2025
Three senior US officials were recently dismissed from their roles, which Israeli media reports say is connected to their hardline pro-Israel stances. While no official confirmation of such motives exists, the prospect of this making a difference has been deemed questionable.
US President Donald Trump has allegedly sacked two National Security Council (NSC) officials.
One is Israeli-American, Merav Ceren, who headed the Iran and Israel portfolio. Eric Trager, who oversaw Middle East and North Africa policy for the NSC, was reported in the Israeli Press to have been let go, despite contradictory reports emanating from the US.
What is significant about the reported sacking of the two above-mentioned officials is that they were both hired by Mike Waltz while he was still Director of the NSC. Waltz was originally reported to have been fired by Donald Trump, following alleged coordination on the issue of Iran with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At the time, the American President was said to have been furious with Waltz for going behind his back to deal with Netanyahu. This led to a series of feature articles and opinion pieces, along with social media commentary, which alleged that Trump was purging pro-Israel elements and that this would lead to a policy shift.
Waltz was indeed removed from his position as NSC Director, but contrary to reports about his total ousting, he was instead granted the new position as US ambassador to the United Nations. After he was forced out of his top position, American policy did not seem to dramatically shift as many had hoped for.
The third official that is set to be replaced is Morgan Ortagus, who handled the US’s Lebanon file and served as a deputy Special Middle East Envoy. Ortagus instantly began stirring internal tensions inside Lebanon after adopting hardline and aggressive stances vis-à-vis Hezbollah. She has been dubbed the most pro-Israel US official to handle the US’ Lebanon file and caused continuous backlash that even impacted the standing of Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.
All three are hardened pro-Israel Zionists who advocate positions pretty much identical to those of Israeli government officials under the current Netanyahu-led coalition. Their dismissals have also come at a particularly important time, as the US appears to be at a make-or-break point with both its Iran and Hamas negotiations.
More Evidence that Trump is Turning on Israel?
At first glimpse, it could well appear as if President Trump is purging elements of his administration who are staunch pro-Israel advocates, and that this is indicative of an internal shift. However, this conclusion is flawed.
To begin with, you would be hard stretched to find a single member of the Trump administration that isn’t a hardline Zionist; every one of importance supports Israel to the hilt. Where there is a split is in the way different figures within Trump’s leadership team see the best way to support Israel. While some have come off as extremely dogmatic and seek an all-out war with Iran, while the war on Gaza rages on, others have expressed an interest in concluding deals instead.
If there is any major schism inside the White House and Pentagon, which will impact policy, it is over the approach to the war in Gaza and the goal of eliminating Iran’s nuclear program. It does appear that such a split even exists within the pro-Israel Lobby in Washington itself.
Yet, other than some minor policy adjustments, there is no evidence to suggest that Donald Trump is pursuing a policy that is somehow excluding Israel. So far, all these indications appear to have come almost solely from Israeli media sources.
The narrative about the Trump-Netanyahu feud that both sides have now denied was a major story only weeks ago, as political commentators from just about every perspective broke it down in a way that considered the split to be true.
The Jerusalem Post, which has all but ruined its reputation completely and become a tabloid-style outlet in recent years, even published a piece citing sources who claimed Trump was about to recognize a Palestinian State.
Although it is impossible to separate fact from fiction in regard to stories surrounding the Trump-Netanyahu relationship, it suffices to say that we’ve seen this exact same playbook before. Former US President Joe Biden, we heard, would have these allegedly dramatic blow-ups with Netanyahu.
In fact, the US and Israeli media fiction began all the way back in December of 2023, when we heard about Joe Biden hanging up a phone call with the Israeli PM. Every month or so from that point, we were fed new stories from anonymous sources, claiming that Biden had set red lines with Israel or even sworn at Netanyahu. None of this translated into any meaningful change to US policy towards Israel. It was precisely the opposite; Israel was only emboldened to escalate the pace and scale of its daily war crimes.
If we take the example of former US President Barack Obama, there is actual evidence that the American leader did hold disdain for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. In 2011, then French President Nicolas Sarkozy said, about Netanyahu, to Obama: “I can’t stand him. He’s a liar”. To which Obama replied: “You’re tired of him; what about me? I have to deal with him every day”.
Evidently, even though Barack Obama personally expressed his displeasure with the Israeli PM, he still granted Tel Aviv what was the largest recorded US aid pledge. There were no significant breakthroughs that changed US policy towards Israel either.
The Obama example is important because it demonstrates that even in the event that Trump does actually dislike Netanyahu, it doesn’t necessarily mean anything for Washington’s policy direction.
Donald Trump’s campaign was almost entirely bankrolled by ultra-Zionist billionaires, the most notable of which was Miriam Adelson, who is known to have close ties to Benjamin Netanyahu. The Trump administration is still staffed entirely by Zionists and would not even allow a single voice critical of Israel to assume any position.
Ultimately, the Israel Lobby also appears to be winning in terms of dictating the course of the indirect Iran nuclear deal negotiations. Steve Witkoff spent just as long meeting with Netanyahu’s closest aide, Ron Dermer, and Mossad Chief David Barnea, as he did attending the Iran negotiations in Rome, during the last round of talks.
Also, the US President’s rhetoric on Iran is quite literally prone to change every twenty-four hours. While the most influential think-tank over the Trump administration, the Heritage Foundation, recently published a policy brief arguing in favour of a limited series of strikes against Iran, intended to take out its nuclear program.
As for the reality on the ground in Gaza, the Trump administration gave the green light for Israel to starve the civilian population for 80 days, before endorsing the catastrophic privatised aid scheme we now see luring in helpless Palestinians so that they can be massacred by Israeli soldiers. There is no ceasefire that is being put on the table that offers an end to the war, either, only a brief pause that will allow Israel to get more of its imprisoned soldiers out.
During Donald Trump’s first term in office, he fired John Bolton as his National Security Advisor. When that happened, it encouraged analysts to speculate on whether the US President was finally going to stand up to the pro-war hawks in his administration. Evidently, that didn’t happen at all.
The real question that everyone needs to ask themselves here is this: Why were these people chosen to lead the Trump administration in the first place? If we are going to see some kind of dramatic shift in US-Israel relations, it will manifest itself in clear results on the ground. So far, we have theater and internal disputes that nobody can actually verify.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/trump-and-israel-is-the-administration-really-purging-pro-israel-officials/
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