Trump offers Gaza plan that will please no one but Trump

The White House again gives Netanyahu the red-carpet treatment, abandoning real leverage for optics

Annelle Sheline

Sep 29, 2025

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-gaza-plan-netanyahu/

During his joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, President Donald Trump announced a new plan that he said is “getting everything solved in the Middle East.”

Unfortunately, the plan appears designed to once again portray Palestinians as opposing an end to the violence, as Americans involved in the Israel-Palestine conflict have done for decades.

If Trump wanted Hamas to agree to the deal, he would have sent it to them before presenting it as a fait accompli. Yet as of Saturday, Hamas leaders said they had not received the proposal. Yet Trump proceeded with announcing the plan publicly anyway. During the press conference, he said that if Hamas rejects the deal, “as you know, Bibi, you have our full backing to do what you would."

The plan includes the following points:

• A permanent ceasefire in Gaza
• The release of all Israeli hostages and many Palestinian hostages, including all women and children detained since October 7
• Gradual Israeli withdrawal from most of the Gaza Strip, although a security perimeter would remain, further shrinking the already tiny enclave
• Hamas members that agree to give up their weapons would be given amnesty and permitted to leave Gaza for receiving countries
• Gaza would be governed by a temporary mechanism that includes both Trump and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair
• Palestinians would not be forced to leave, and anyone who leaves would have the right of return

In point #19, the plan provides a provisional mention of Palestinian self-determination, stating, “while Gaza redevelopment advances and when the PA reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.” Essentially, Palestinians are asked to accept foreign occupation and full disarmament, with no guarantee that Israel’s campaign of indiscriminate bombing will not resume, nor that their right to self-determination will be respected.

On Friday, Trump sounded optimistic, declaring that “[i]t's looking like we have a deal,” after a meeting with nine Arab and Muslim-majority countries on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly resulted in support for the plan. The Arab states insisted on several points, including that “full aid will be sent immediately into the Gaza Strip,” to be distributed by the U.N. and the Red Crescent, rather than the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has been involved in the deaths of more than 2500 Palestinians since beginning operations in May.

The Arab states also demanded the plan state that Israel would not annex Gaza or the West Bank, but the 20-point plan makes no mention of the West Bank. While buy-in from regional states is important, even more important is buy-in from Palestinians, who were not present at the meeting.

Trump’s Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner drafted the plan, discussions of which have included a proposal to have Blair oversee the Gaza International Transitional Authority. Critics have described the former British prime minister as seeking to become a colonial viceroy: when asked about the possibility of Blair serving as the interim political leader in Gaza, Husam Badran, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, told Al-Jazeera, “The Palestinian people have the right to self-determination, as recognized by international law. We are not minors needing guardianship…[Blair’s] bloody record, especially his role in the Iraq War, is infamous. He has brought nothing good to Palestine, the Arabs, or the Muslims.”

While many supporters of Palestinian self-determination decry the Witkoff-Kushner plan as intended to yet again sideline Palestinian demands for a viable state, many inside Gaza are desperate for an end to the violence. The Israeli military continues to force its way into Gaza City, leveling residential buildings and killing countless innocent civilians who were unable to flee. Although Israel has allowed limited food to enter Gaza, it continues to block crucial supplies, including high protein peanut butter paste desperately needed to save starving children, as U.N. Relief Chief Tom Fletcher told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on the sidelines of UNGA High Level Week.

Netanyahu’s willingness to agree to even a nominal ceasefire plan generated speculation about whether Trump was finally pressuring him to accept, as he did to secure the January ceasefire. According to a recent poll, a majority of Israelis want the war to end in order to finally achieve the release of the Israeli hostages. Israel’s own security establishment has concluded that there is no military solution in Gaza, and last month, Israel’s Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, opposed the security cabinet’s demand that the IDF fully occupy Gaza, and questioned the plan to take control of Gaza City.

Yet Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners oppose any ceasefire plan, maintaining that Israel must achieve “total victory” over Hamas. An Israeli newspaper reported that Netanyahu’s “challenge is to convince ministers that this [plan] is nothing more than rhetoric.” Similar to when he agreed to the January ceasefire, Netanyahu has no intention of ending Israel’s war on Gaza.

Americans’ support for Israel has plummeted in the past two years, with a majority now opposed to sending additional economic and military aid to Israel, according to a newly released Times/Siena poll.

Trump is aware that his party’s unconditional support for Israel is splintering his base. By announcing this plan in a manner that appears largely intended to portray Israel as ready for peace and Hamas as obstructing the deal, he seems determined to reinforce the long-standing Israeli/American narrative that there is “no partner for peace” on the Palestinian side, meaning that Israel must reluctantly continue fighting. When in fact, Hamas has offered multiple deals to end the war which Israel has rejected. With the recent sale of TikTok to pro-Israel billionaire Larry Ellison, Trump seems to think he can wrestle back control of the narrative.

Israel wins TikTok

Larry Ellison and a constellation of billionaires will finally get their way, buying the very app they wanted to kill a year ago for being too 'pro-Palestinian'

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

Sep 27, 2025

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tiktok-larry-ellison-israel/

A year ago, powerful critics in Congress and the tech world were complaining that TikTok was promoting anti-Israel messaging and were suggesting it needed to be shut down.

Turns out it didn't need to be eliminated. TikTok is a message force multiplier after all, and only requires, apparently, the right people to own it. Like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the second richest man in the world and the single biggest private donor of the Israeli Defense Forces, who has referred to the state of Israel as his own. He has direct stakes in a head spinning galaxy of news, television and Hollywood media companies, mainly through the recent Paramount Skydance Corporation takeover, a mega conglomerate now run by his son David Ellison (who is reportedly on the cusp of making vigilantly pro-Israel journalist Bari Weiss a top exec at newly-acquired CBS). Ellison the elder also is a major stakeholder in X and Tesla.

Add Rupert Murdoch, head of media conglomerate NewsCorp (Fox News), a perennial critic of "anti-Israel bias" in the media who in 2024 said Israel is "alone on the front line of Western democratic civilization." Also Ellison's right-hand at Oracle, Israeli-American Safra Catz, great friend of President Trump, who has traveled to Israel several times since Oct. 7, 2023 in support of its war and continued Oracle partnerships there, and in a July appearance in Israel told an audience that "we (Oracle) are on the side of freedom. We are on the side of democracy." She followed that with "some of the best people in the world are here in Israel, and there's no question about that. And everyone knows it. Some of the big winners will be here. Mark my words.”

Throw into this mix billionaire Jeff Yass, a top GOP donor and current TikTok investor whose philanthropy is connected to a carousel of pro-Israel outfits that have funding ties to the IDF and AIPAC, plus explicitly anti-Muslim campaigns that among their issues, advocate for U.S. confrontation with Iran.

All of these individuals and more are reportedly part of a mega deal to buy TikTok for $14 billion. The details are here. Trump says the full roster of private U.S. investors (China's Bytedance can only own a 20% stake) will be announced in a "matter of days." But Forbes says Ellison's "Oracle, private equity firm Silver Lake and MGX, an AI-focused investment firm established by the government of Abu Dhabi" will have a whopping 40% stake in the new TikTok. Oracle is reportedly to get 15% and be named the app’s “security provider.”

The $14 billion deal is being called a "fire sale" by some observers who point out that Elon Musk paid triple that for Twitter in 2022. This highly suggests that this transaction is more about geopolitics and ideology rather than financial gain for investors. Aside from its more than 1.5 billion regular users world-wide, TikTok has now become where 30% of Americans get their news. Now, not only will American companies like Oracle, which has numerous government tech contracts spanning defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies, have access to TikTok's user data, it will also have control of the algorithms that manage the kind of news, the messaging and images, that all of those users see.

“This was not a fair-market transaction,” said Milton Mueller, a professor at Georgia Tech specializing in digital governance, in Newsweek. “It’s a politically determined restructuring." Some might say, with the constellation of GOP and MAGA supporters in the reported investor mix, this has the makings of a new Trump-friendly megaphone. But it is so much more. In essence, like Safra Catz says, the big "winners" will be in Israel.

Why China's Belt and Road leaves Turkiye in the sidelines

Despite its early support and strategic geography, Ankara has failed to secure a meaningful place in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, exposing deeper rifts between political rhetoric and economic reality.

Cansu Yigit

SEP 26, 2025

https://thecradle.co/articles/why-chinas-belt-and-road-leaves-turkiye-in-the-sidelines

Debates around Turkiye’s foreign policy alignment were reignited in September when Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli floated the idea of a “TRC alliance” – a tripartite bloc between Turkiye, Russia, and China. 

Intended as an alternative to Ankara’s established west-centric trajectory, the proposal was quickly dismissed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was in the US for the UN summit and a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the Oval Office. Responding to a reporter’s question about the TRC alliance proposal, Erdogan appeared to have no knowledge of Bahceli's comments about the so-called TR-RU-CH alliance, and he said, “let’s hope for the best,” in a sneering tone.

Though widely dismissed as utopian given Turkiye’s NATO membership, such outbursts are part of a pattern. Periodic flirtations with joining BRICS or pivoting to Eurasia routinely appear on the domestic agenda, only to fade without institutional follow-through. The same pattern is evident in Ankara’s engagement with Beijing’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

A strategic corridor left underutilized

Turkiye occupies a vital geographic position on China’s proposed Middle Corridor, and was among the earliest backers of the BRI. In 2010, the two countries signed a Strategic Cooperation agreement, followed by high-level visits in 2012 and 2019.

In 2015, Turkiye formally joined the BRI and aligned its own Middle Corridor infrastructure vision with Beijing’s. Key logistics projects like the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway and the freight train corridor connecting Istanbul and Xi'an soon followed. Chinese capital also flowed into the Ankara–Istanbul high-speed train, Istanbul Airport metro, and Kumport port.

Yet that initial momentum quickly tapered off. By 2023, Chinese investment in Turkiye had practically ground to a halt, with the country recording zero BRI-related engagement, according to the Global Development Policy Center (GFDC). While Beijing expanded across West Asia and Africa, Turkiye’s share of global BRI investments languished at just 1.3 percent.

A trillion-dollar project, without Ankara

From 2013 to 2023, BRI investments and construction contracts worldwide exceeded $1.05 trillion. In the first half of 2025 alone, the figure surged to $1.3 trillion, surpassing all of 2024. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, and Indonesia have emerged as major beneficiaries. Kazakhstan alone attracted $23 billion in new investment in early 2025. By contrast, Turkiye – despite its infrastructural potential and connectivity ambitions – remains a conspicuous absentee from this wave of capital.

Economic instability is the primary deterrent. High inflation, currency devaluation, and persistent macroeconomic volatility have drained investor confidence. The OECD's 2025 economic review bluntly notes that “Inflation above 50 percent and a strongly depreciating currency have undermined investor confidence. Without macroeconomic stability, long-term direct investment will remain limited.”

No tech, no trust

Ankara has also failed to attract high-value BRI projects. Most Chinese capital has gone into low-tech sectors like retail, mining, and light manufacturing. Hopes for tech transfer and industrial development have yet to materialize.

An article titled ‘Chinese Investment in Turkey: The Belt and Road Initiative, Rising Expectations and Ground Realities,’ published in the European Review magazine in 2022, which examines China's investments in Turkiye, reveals that Ankara does not fully meet expectations in terms of the BRI's investments.

Speaking to The Cradle, Hasan Capan, head of the Turkiye–China Friendship Foundation, recalls that Turkiye was promised the largest BRI budget allocation at a 2017 summit in China. The proposed Edirne–Kars rail project, intended to overhaul Turkiye's Middle Corridor, never advanced.

“Turkiye attended that meeting, it was also included in the records, but it did not participate in the signature. There was no clear explanation as to why it was not signed. In the following period, I was authorized from time to time to sign this project again, and I acted as an intermediary. We met with the Chinese side and got very positive results. There has been progress on the middle part of the project, that is, on the Kosekoy–Edirne line. China offered a loan, but the process never came to an end. The reason for this was not political, but rather economic. There was no problem politically. I even doubt whether the administrators of that period conveyed the issue to our president.”

Still, political trust remains elusive. Yang Chen, director at Shanghai University’s Center for Turkish Studies, tells The Cradle, “Separatist East Turkestan organizations operate freely in Turkiye. The Turkish government has made promises to us on this issue. Fulfilling these promises is a very important issue for China. I think if we can solve this issue of political trust, we can solve many other issues.”

According to Chen, Ankara's promises are as follows:

“The government promised us to stop the activities of East Turkestan organizations operating in Turkiye, which China considers terrorist organizations. Now, although he has made harsh statements against them, we see that these organizations continue to carry out activities and actions.”

Beijing views Ankara's tolerance for Uyghur organizations – which China considers terrorist groups – as a critical breach. Statements by Turkish politicians sympathetic to Uyghur separatism, coupled with NATO membership, cast doubt on Turkiye’s strategic autonomy.

“China does not believe that a NATO member country can conduct a fully independent decision-making process in international relations,” says Dr Serdar Yurtcicek, a research assistant in Shanghai. He also flags China's concerns over the Organization of Turkic States, spearheaded by Ankara: 

“The question on China's mind is: Will Turkiye become a competitor in Central Asia? Can this organization take on an anti-China identity over time? Can the coming together of Turkic-speaking peoples lead to the patronage of the Uyghurs? Because Turkiye is the most dominant and powerful actor of this structure. Therefore, every move of Ankara in Central Asia is carefully watched and viewed with suspicion in China.”

Despite the official “strategic partnership,” trust remains thin, and the political relationship has not translated into economic cooperation.

The trap of western dependence

For Capan, Turkiye’s enduring subordination to the west remains the core problem. As he puts it: 

“Today, although we are a NATO member, a foreign policy dependent on the west is being pursued because of the goal of joining the EU. This trajectory largely continues. This situation prevents Turkiye from fully turning to Asia.”

He argues that joining BRICS or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is not merely symbolic. “Turkiye's future alliances with Asian and West Asian nations will counterbalance the west’s plunder of resources and silence over mass civilian deaths.” He also says that "The west’s rival initiatives, its creation of instability in different regions, and developments such as the Ukraine–Russia war are seriously complicating the progress of this initiative. Nearby developments – especially the occupation state’s aggressive stance and the west’s unconditional support – also carry the potential to directly impact the BRI.” Capan adds: 

“For this reason, it seems inevitable that China must develop a strategy in line with the multipolar era. Otherwise, geopolitical transformations in the region will make the project’s implementation even more difficult.”

Unpredictability chases away capital

In the multipolar era taking shape, Turkiye’s unwillingness, or inability, to break from its western tether will keep it sidelined from the very real shifts reshaping global power and investment. Bahceli’s rhetoric may resonate with parts of Turkiye’s nationalist base, but in Beijing and other Global South capitals, such remarks reinforce Ankara’s image as an unpredictable partner. Without resolving the trust gap with China, Turkiye will continue to be passed over in favor of more stable, more predictable investment destinations.

Over 30 states meet during Netanyahu's UN speech to weigh action against Israel

The Hague Group convenes 34 states on the sidelines of the General Assembly to gather support for eight concrete measures to stop the Gaza genocide

By Sondos Asem

Published date: 26 September 2025

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/states-meet-netanyahu-un-speech-weigh-action-israel

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday, 34 states convened under the banner of The Hague Group to coordinate legal, diplomatic and economic measures aimed at halting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Scores of diplomats also walked out of Netanyahu's speech in protest against his government's conduct in occupied Palestine and multiple attacks on countries in the Middle East and North Africa over the past two years.

The ministerial meeting, co-chaired by Colombia and South Africa, brought together governments spanning Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. 

In addition to the co-chairs, states attending were: Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Comoros, Cuba, Djibouti, Guyana, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Namibia, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The Hague Group is a bloc of eight states - Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa - launched on 31 January in the eponymous Dutch city with the stated goal of holding Israel accountable under international law.

But on Friday, it was the first time several states, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iceland, attended an event by the group, in a sign of mounting international pressure on Israel. 

In their closing remarks at the meeting, Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio and South Africa’s Minister of International Relations Ronald Lamola warned: “The choice before every government is clear: complicity or compliance. History will judge us not by the speeches we delivered, but by the actions we took.”

The group pledged to share enforcement tools and legal mechanisms to help governments adopt measures designed to sever Israel’s access to arms, finance and energy. 

The measures include pledges to:

• Prevent military and dual-use exports to Israel 
• Refuse Israeli weapons shipments at ports 
• Prevent vessels carrying weapons to Israel under their national flags 
• Review all public contracts to prevent public institutions and funds from supporting Israel’s illegal occupation 
• Pursue justice for international crimes and support universal jurisdiction to hold perpetrators accountable 
• Halt military procurement from Israel 
• Divest public institutions from complicit companies 
• Institute an energy embargo 

The meeting coincided with the expiration of a 12-month deadline set by a UN resolution demanding that Israel comply with an International Court of Justice ruling to end its occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and that other states refrain from supporting or recognising the occupation.

“The people of Palestine cannot wait, and The Hague Group will not rest until it has rallied the world to defend the international laws that protect them,” the co-chairs declared.

Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, the group’s executive secretary, said Gaza had become “the litmus test of our lifetime”, insisting that condemnation alone was insufficient.

“The proposed measures are not optional, not radical, not novel. They are legal obligations, binding under the Genocide Convention, ICJ advisory opinions and UN resolutions,” she said.

Varsen Aghabekian, Palestine’s foreign minister, argued that the real substance of this year’s General Assembly summit lay not in speeches but in concrete action.

“It will be found in the actions that states will take to halt the genocide of our people and the illegal occupation of our land,” she said.

Palestine’s UN ambassador, Riyad Mansour, described The Hague Group as an “inflection point” in the pursuit of accountability.

He highlighted the Bogota Declaration, an earlier policy framework endorsed by the group in July, as the most coordinated enforcement effort yet seen at the national and international levels.

Israel 'must be stopped'

Brazil’s Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira accused Israel of maintaining an unlawful blockade on humanitarian aid, warning that states failing to act could themselves face responsibility for complicity in genocide.

Turkey’s Deputy Foreign Minister Nuh Yilmaz said Israel’s military actions against Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran and Qatar demonstrated that the crisis was now destabilising the wider region.

“Israel, as the exporter of war, must be stopped. Its privilege of impunity must be lifted,” he said.

Qatar’s Minister of State Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi also delivered remarks, denouncing Israeli attacks on his country as a violation of sovereignty and international law.

The UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, said Israel was conducting “the fastest and most vicious starvation campaign in modern history”. He called for broad-based sanctions, arguing that Israel’s economy had profited by an estimated $628bn from the occupation of Palestine between 2000 and 2020.

Gandikota-Nellutla argued that unilateral measures had left governments exposed to retaliation. “The only antidote to unilateral punishment from powerful states… is collective action,” she said.

The Hague Group sponsored a two-day emergency summit in Bogota in July, culminating in a joint declaration by states demanding international sanctions against Israel and legal accountability for what participants described as "grave violations of international law" in Gaza. 

Since then, many states have expressed support for the group's goals, without formally becoming members. These include Turkey, Spain and Ireland, which have declared their own sanctions against Israel in line with The Hague Group's pledges. 

The ongoing 80th session of the UN General Assembly has been dominated by damning speeches by world leaders criticising Israel for its genocide in Gaza and the relentless expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank in defiance of international law. 

Netanyahu's flight en route to the US on Thursday avoided most EU airspace for the first time, reportedly over fears that EU member states may arrest and surrender him to the International Criminal Court.

As Israel Becomes a Global Pariah Trump Ramps Up Support

Zionist billionaires allowed to expand their control of the media

Philip Giraldi • September 25, 2025

https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/as-israel-becomes-a-global-pariah-trump-ramps-up-support/ 

It is interesting how President Donald Trump keeps whining about the 20 alleged Israeli hostages that are reportedly still held by Hamas in Gaza, demanding that they be released immediately, while ignoring the hundreds of unarmed Palestinians that are being murdered daily by Israeli military and armed contractors as well as by deliberate starvation. Also, the thousands of Palestinians who had nothing to do with Hamas or Gaza and are nevertheless being held without charge in Israeli prisons under horrific conditions including torture are of no interest to the US president and his team. Trump is of course profoundly ignorant, demonstrated most recently during his 55 minute rambling speech to the United Nations General Assembly in which he attacked both the UN institutionally as well as nearly every delegate and nation represented in the room, minus the Palestinians, of course, for whom he had blocked the issuance of visas guaranteeing that they would have no voice or presence in New York. Trump’s recent performances have also reflected an increase in his demands to harden sanctions and isolate Russia economically, something which is in no one’s interest but the odious President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and the powerful Jewish lobby in the US and Europe.

Never satisfied with anything that he encounters where he is not kowtowed to or flattered, Trump is now having the US Secret Service investigate alleged United Nations sabotage behind three alleged personal insults experienced by him during his UN visit, including a non-functioning escalator stairway, a failure of the auditorium sound system, and a misfunction of the teleprompter (which was apparently being operated by a White House staffer). An always low-class Trump characteristically threatened the teleprompter operator personally by stopping his speech and announcing to the entire assembly “Whoever is operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.”

And Trump also goes well beyond that habitual mouthing off the first thoughts to appear in his large but dysfunctional head in that he lacks any real moral code and/or compassion apart from his cardinal rule, which appears to be “Give Israel whatever it wants!” Indeed, beyond that ongoing foreign policy disaster vis-à-vis Gaza, Trump has a viciousness that rises to the surface on a regular basis, including during his speech at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, where he made clear that Kirk’s path of dialogue with critics was not his way, that he “hated” all his “opponents.”

And Trump’s team also makes sure that everyone understands that America is carrying the flag for the Jewish state. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, during his recent visit to Israel, said that a diplomatic solution to the Gaza war may not be possible because “Hamas is a terrorist group, a barbaric group, whose stated mission is the destruction of the Jewish State.” He thus confirmed, first of all, that he fails to understand that it is Israel that has been the terrorist state targeting all its neighbors for the past 80 years. He also confirmed the Trump administration’s full political and military support for the genocide and ethnic cleansing that Israel is engaged in while also providing money and weapons that enable the actual killing to implement “the final solution” for Palestine. Presumably the removal of Palestinians will permit the construction of the Trump Gaza Resort to begin while Jews from Brooklyn can settle an Arab-free West bank, eliminating the possibility of some kind of Palestinian state forever, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised while listing his accomplishments last week.

And there was more action in compliance with Israeli demands apart from the appalling Trump speech. On Friday September 19^th, the United States vetoed a crucial United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, even as Israel was expanding its final ground offensive on Gaza City. The resolution, had been approved by 14 of the 15 members of the council on the day before, calling for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza respected by all parties”, as well as the release of all captives held by Hamas and the end of restrictions on food, medicine and other humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Drafted by the council’s 10 elected rather than its 5 permanent members, the resolution cited the “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in Gaza after nearly two years of unrelenting war, which has killed at least 65,141 people, according to Palestinian health officials, though the “official” number is disputed and the true total of deaths undoubtedly numbers in the hundreds of thousands, with most of the bodies still buried under the rubble or incinerated or torn about by the heavy US-provided ordnance being employed by Israel.

The United States predictably vetoed the effort, the sixth time it has done so to protect the Jewish state from the war crimes it is carrying out. Morgan Ortagus, US deputy special envoy to the Middle East, who is predictably Jewish, raised her arm to vote in something like a Nazi salute and announced that “US opposition to this resolution will come as no surprise. It fails to condemn Hamas or recognize Israel’s right to defend itself, and it wrongly legitimizes the false narratives benefitting Hamas, which have sadly found currency in this council.”

Ortagus also claimed that the starvation narrative is a fabrication, that the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification’s official declaration of famine in Gaza last month had employed “flawed methodology.” She instead chose to praise the work of the heavily militarized US and Israel backed GHF hubs, where, it has been demonstrated, hundreds of Palestinians have been deliberately targeted and killed while seeking food for their families.

How do the Jews and more particularly the Israeli Jews get away with it? Well, the Jewish billionaires who have corrupted the US political system and media have been able to control the narrative almost completely, though that advantage is beginning to fade as more ordinary Americans have come realize how completely awful the Gaza genocide is. Opinion polls reveal that disapproval of Israel is running at 60% among the American public. There is also a growing sense among the public that Israel and its Lobby in the United States have been manipulating and using the US ever since the founding of the Jewish state. Under Genocide Joe Biden and the feckless Donald Trump that manipulation has been wide out in the open and Israel is now in a position where it is even able to compel America to go to war on its behalf, admittedly a feat that it accomplished initially by way of a Jewish controlled Pentagon under George W Bush when Iraq was destroyed, killing as least half a million Iraqis based on lies generated to demonstrate how Baghdad was a threat potentially armed with “weapons of mass destruction.” Many observers now believe that Iran will be attacked by Israel before the end of the year and Donald Trump will jump right in under pressure from Netanyahu, another extreme case of the “tail wagging the dog!”

To be sure, the Israel Lobby is aware that public opinion is running heavily against the Jewish state and they have now stepped-up efforts to obtain even greater control over the message that is coming out from the media. Their latest success has related to TikTok which has been under attack by groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and its hideous leader Jonathan Greenblatt during the past year for its allowing stories to appear critical of Israeli behavior.

Falling in line with Jewish demands, the White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will soon be finalized. To no one’s surprise, the new ownership is led by ultra-Zionist Jewish billionaire Larry Ellison – the largest individual donor to the Israel Defense Force – who will reportedly take full control of the US user data and the site algorithms which the White House says will be “retrained”. That means it will only include material that is positive on Israel.

Ellison, who made his fortune developing Oracle – a database system he originally built for the CIA – already controls CBS, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon (which makes kids shows) as well as Channel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Ellison is also expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery (including CNN, HBO and the Discovery channel) before the end of 2025.

Even before the forced sale is finalized, censorship of TikTok content critical of Israel has already begun. Fox – a Rupert Murdoch pro-Israel asset – is also seeking to join the Ellison consortium, a move that could further extend and solidify the Israeli-aligned information bubble.

The United States still has over three years of the Trump adventure left so more surprises are likely in store. Beyond the national and international news and entertainment media, Israeli-aligned Jewish billionaires already either own or control OpenAI, Google, Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Palantir, CBS, HBO, and most of Conde Nast (Reddit, Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair) as well as numerous Hollywood studios, regional papers and radio stations. The expansion into all these areas has been deliberate with the intention of using the control to support Israel and also keep the United States in the tight grip of the Jewish state and its domestic US lobby.

At this point my fellow Americans it is time to begin to fight back or surrender to the forces that will strip us of our free speech just for starters and which will create a United States which is controlled by a tiny little murderous fascist state in the Middle East that is willing to bribe and threaten its way to power and which does not in any way share the values upon which our nation was founded. Which way will we go?

UEFA members 'favor' suspending Israel from European football

Calls have been growing in the footballing world to kick the Israeli team out of the sport over the genocide in Gaza

By MEE staff

Published date: 25 September 2025 

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uefa-members-favour-suspending-israel-european-football

Most of the members of Uefa's executive committee are in favour of suspending Israel from European football, the Times reports, as pressure mounts on sporting bodies to take action over the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. 

A meeting of Europe's governing football federation, which consists of the national football associations of 55 countries, will be held next week to decide on the matter.

On Tuesday, UN experts called for the suspension of the Israeli team from international football after a panel found it to be committing genocide in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

“Sports must reject the perception that it is business as usual,” the UN experts said.

“Sporting bodies must not turn a blind eye to grave human rights violations, especially when their platforms are used to normalise injustices.”

Critics have also noted that Russia has been suspended from Fifa, world football's governing body, and Uefa tournaments since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Uefa previously made a seeming protest against Israel during the European Super Cup final in August between Paris Saint-Germain and Tottenham Hotspur.

“Stop Killing Children, Stop Killing Civilians," a banner displayed before the match read, an apparent condemnation of Israel's targeting of children.

US support for Israel

Possible action by Uefa against Israel will increase pressure on Fifa to act but the world football governing body faces pressure from the US, which has backed Israel during its genocide, to not implement sanctions.

Earlier, the US said it will intervene to prevent Israel from being sanctioned by Fifa ahead of the World Cup due to be held in the US, Mexico and Canada in 2026.

A US State Department spokesperson told Sky News that the US would "absolutely work to fully stop any effort to attempt to ban Israel's national soccer team from the World Cup."

Israel's national team is still in the running to qualify for the tournament but faces a threat of being barred over the state's ongoing genocide.

Since its war in Gaza began, Israel has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians, including hundreds of athletes, including prominent Palestinian footballers.

In August it killed former Palestinian international footballer Suleiman al-Obeid while he was trying to secure aid.

Obeid played 24 times for the national team and earned the accolade the “Palestinian Pele” for a style that resembled the Brazilian legend.

Israeli soldiers and foreign security contractors have killed more than 1,400 Palestinians at aid distribution points run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial US-backed food distribution operation that replaced aid distribution networks run by the UN and humanitarian groups.