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Renewing the war will certainly not bring the hostages home. What will the massive aerial assault, further devastation and the elimination of a few more low-ranking Hamas leaders achieve? Is it unconnected to Trump's dreams of a Gaza Riviera?

The following is a press statement from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife. Khalil was unconstitutionally arrested by ICE agents over the weekend. "I am pleading with the world to continue to speak up against his unjust and horrific detention ....."

The White House has been abundantly clear: the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was pursued on behalf of Jews. It's part of a wider strategy to obfuscate MAGA antisemitism and an increasingly fascist regime.

It is the Palestinian’s people’s refusal to disappear, to hang on to their land, that has led so many Israelis to deploy the racist imagery of “human animals.”

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented an imperialist horror show. An American and an Israeli, each with his own criminal indictments, decided to determine the future of the Palestinian people.

Over a century after Rosa Luxemburg was assassinated for opposing German militarism, her spirit lives on through those disrupting Israel’s war machine.

Trump's plan to relocate two million Palestinians ensnares the leaders of all Middle Eastern countries, not just Egypt and Jordan, in a dilemma fraught with threats. In doing so, he fostered a new sense of Arab unity

The only war that resembled this was the 1948 war that caused the Nakba, the motivations behind that war were different. That was a war to establish a Jewish state; this is a war to establish a fascist state. The State of Kahane has risen in Israel.

Yesterday, a ceasefire and peace agreement was reached between Hamas and the Israeli government, which has been supported and armed by the United States. Today Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not send the peace agreement to a vote in the Cabinet,