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donderdag 16 juli 2026

Het Parool, een krant die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog altijd fout is geweest

Het Parool is een krant die na de Tweede Wereldoorlog altijd fout is geweest, fel anti-communistisch, anti-Provo, anti-kraakbeweging en nu anti-Putin, en anti-Palestijnen, maar tot voor kort altijd Pro-Israelische Terreur. De hoofdredactie van Het Parool heeft weinig geleerd van de fouten die de krant de afgelopen driekwart eeuw heeft gemaakt. Weliswaar moest Het Parool zijn zionistische propaganda de afgelopen drie jaar intomen omdat het grote publiek voor het eerst dagelijks getuige kon zijn van de langdurige wreedheden van de Joodse-zionistische terreur. Wat vroeger verzwegen werd kon niet langer meer genegeerd blijven. De pro-Israel lobby bij de krant had niet langer het rijk alleen. Desondanks probeert de Joodse Lobby nu  opnieuw haar stempel te drukken op de berichtgeving. Woensdag 15 juli 2026 verscheen in Het Parool het volgende bericht:

Onderzoek naar falen op 7 oktober, geen bezetting Gaza, wél nederzettingen: oud-legerleider Gadi Eisenkot gaat aan kop in peilingen Israël

In de peilingen gaan Gadi Eisenkot (foto) en premier Benjamin Netanyahu gelijk op.foto Amir Cohen/Reuters

Gadi Eisenkot (66) is de rijzende ster in de Israëlische politiek. De oud-legerleider lijkt bij de verkiezingen in oktober de grootste concurrent van zittend premier Benjamin Netanyahu te worden. Wie is hij?

Met een serieuze blik schudt Benjamin Netanyahu generaal Gadi Eisenkot de hand, terwijl die met een lach van oor tot oor de felicitaties in ontvangst neemt. Het is februari 2015 als Eisenkot door de premier wordt beëdigd als hoogste militair in het Israëlische leger.

Meer dan tien jaar later strijden dezelfde twee mannen voor het premierschap van Israël. Op 27 oktober van dit jaar gaat het land naar de stembus. De laatste peilingen tonen een nek-aan-nekrace tussen de partijen van Eisenkot en Netanyahu.

Disclaimer: beide heren lijken nog geen meerderheidscoalities te kunnen vormen, en ook oud-premier Naftali Bennett hoopt op een tweede termijn.

Immigranten uit Marokko

In Nederland is Eisenkot niet erg bekend, maar ook in Israël heeft hij bij lange na niet de politieke status van Netanyahu. Pas na de verkiezingen van 2022 kwam hij in het Israëlische parlement, als lid van de centristische Nationale Eenheidspartij onder leiding van zijn voorganger bij het leger, Benny Gantz.

Gadi Eisenkot werd geboren in de noordelijke stad Tiberias en groeide op in het uiterste zuiden van Israël. Zijn ouders waren Joodse immigranten uit Marokko, die begin jaren vijftig naar Israël emigreerden. Deze achtergrond kan Eisenkot de eerste Marokkaans-Joodse premier van Israël maken.

Dat Eisenkots jeugd zich niet afspeelde in een welvarende stad als Tel Aviv, levert hem krediet op. En zijn indrukwekkende carrière in het Israëlische leger, van tiener in dienstplicht tot vijftiger als legerchef, doet het ook goed bij veel Israëlische kiezers.

Bovendien krijgt Eisenkot veel steun vanwege het verlies van zijn 25-jarige zoon, die in 2023 omkwam tijdens de oorlog in Gaza.

Zelf diende Eisenkot tijdens de oorlog als minister zonder portefeuille in Netanyahu’s zogeheten oorlogskabinet, maar stapte daar in 2024 uit. Hij had kritiek op de strategieloze koers die de premier volgens hem in Gaza volgde.

Ook orthodoxen in dienst

In zijn partijprogramma pleit Eisenkot voor een onafhankelijk onderzoek naar het falen op 7 oktober 2023 – de bloedige aanslag van Hamas en het uitbreken van de oorlog in Gaza – en wil hij dat iedereen in dienst gaat, dus ook de ultraorthodoxe en Arabische bevolking.

Na het verlies van zijn zoon richtte Eisenkot in 2025 zijn eigen partij op. Met de naam Yashar!, wat rechtdoor of eerlijk betekent, neemt de oud-legerleider een middenpositie in. Hij vindt discussies over de oprichting van een Palestijnse staat na de terreuraanslag van Hamas op 7 oktober 2023 irrelevant.

Aan de andere kant is Eisenkot een fel tegenstander van de herbezetting van de Gazastrook en lijkt hij kritisch te zijn op de volledige annexatie van de Westelijke Jordaanoever. Toch vindt ook hij, zoals velen in Israël, Joodse nederzettingen van zo’n groot veiligheidsbelang dat die onderdeel van Israël moeten blijven.

In de verkiezingscampagne, die nu officieel is begonnen, drijft Netanyahu’s Likoedpartij de spot met het Engels van Eisenkot. In een video op het X-account van Netanyahu’s adviseur spreekt Eisenkot met haperend Engels tijdens een internationale bijeenkomst, terwijl Netanyahu’s vloeiende Engels er strategisch naast is geplakt.

Eisenkot reageert er gevat op: “Waar was Netanyahu’s uitstekende Engels op 7 oktober?”

vrijdag 10 juli 2026

Itai Bar: "Toen genocide nog heel gewoon was."

Profiel van Itai Bar weergeven

Gids, schrijver, expert inzake Amsterdam Noord en het Midden-Oosten.

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Toen genocide nog heel gewoon was.

In het licht van nieuw Duits onderzoek naar de invloed van de Israëllobby, is het nuttig nog eens een oude column uit de sloot te halen. Zodat we niet vergeten dat ook NRC meedeed aan de campagne om de hulpverlening aan Palestijnen af te breken op het moment dat deze het het meest nodig was.

In '24 woedde er in Europa een campagne van propaganda tegen de organisatie die het beste gepositioneerd was om de Palestijnse bevolking van Gaza -belegerd, onder vuur en op de vlucht - te helpen: de UNRWA.

Het kaltstellen van de UNRWA - de organisatie die in Gaza onontbeerlijk was voor voedselvoorziening, medische zorg en onderwijs - was een integraal onderdeel van de genocidale aanval op de Palestijnse bevolking van Gaza door het Israëlische leger.

De lastercampagne die de Israëlische lobby voerde - in Nederland vooral via het CIDI - sloeg aan alsof genocide de gewoonste zaak van de wereld is.

Haaretz berichtte deze week over een rapport van de Rosa Luxemburg stichting. Deze onderzocht hoe het mechanisme van het bevorderen van beleid dat de Palestijnse bevolking in gevaar brengt in Duitsland werkte, en nog steeds werkt.

In Nederland verwacht ik zo een kritische blik op de Israëlische lobby niet. De Nederlandse pers deed destijds volop mee aan de lastercampagne tegen UNRWA. Niet alleen CIDI-bodes zoals de Telegraaf en EW magazine, ook de zogenaamde kwaliteitspers.

NRC Handelsblad publiceerde in die periode een column van Aylin Bilic, een columniste die door het CIDI gevoed wordt. En die ooit - zoals ook bijvoorbeeld Duitse backbenchers en de jonge Mark Rutte- door het CIDI meegeschleppt werd op indoctrinatie-reis naar Israël. Bilic pleitte op basis van ongefundeerde aannames voor afschaffing van de UNRWA. Ik heb zowel haar als NRC destijds gemaild.

NRC noch Bilic lieten (of laten?) blijken zich van enig kwaad bewust te zijn. Terwijl deze column zich toch echt niet anders lezen laat dan als genocidale propaganda.

Als we over 10, 20, 30 jaar bij de opening van het Gaza-monument excuses aanbieden en terugkijken hoe dit heeft kunnen gebeuren. Heel simpel. Als je genocidale propagaganda niet als genocidale propagaganda kan of wil herkennen, dan is nooit meer ver weg.

Het CIDI zat vorige week nog met Rob Jetten aan tafel, Ayan Bilic spuit nog steeds CIDI-propaganda via NRC. Ze dronken nog een glas, deden nog een plas en zagen dat alles precies hetzelfde was.

De genocide gaat gewoon door. Patricia Veldhuis.

https://lnkd.in/eV5p6DQx

https://archive.md/jVHBm

Inside the German pro-Israel Lobby's Campaign to Defund UNRWA - Europe

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dinsdag 7 juli 2026

Israel Is Not Invincible

Israel Is Not Invincible

A photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump, but the hands meeting are a needlepoint and the threads are unraveling.
Han Cao

By Mairav Zonszein

Ms. Zonszein, a contributing Opinion writer, wrote from Tel Aviv.

After the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, when Israel was at its most vulnerable and became consumed with trying to reassert its power, its leaders set the bar for success impossibly high: invincibility.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked about “total victory” and proceeded to unleash a campaign that destroyed Gaza. He then moved on to Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, parts of Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The ability to continue fighting without constraints, both internal and external, became his administration’s goal in and of itself. And as war became the new default state of the nation, being pro-Israel has come to mean supporting — or at least not questioning — this security doctrine.

So it is understandable that Israelis have observed with shock and indignation the daylight that now shines between the Trump administration and the Israeli government. We have heard it everywhere, from President Trump’s leaked comments to Mr. Netanyahu in early June over Israel’s escalation in Lebanon — reportedly calling him “crazy” and saying that “everyone hates you now” — to Vice President JD Vance’s recent efforts to put Israel in its place.

Though Mr. Netanyahu has so far been careful not to show any dismay, his champions in the Israeli media have not held back. A far-right TV talk show host, Yinon Magal, called Mr. Vance “scum” and used a pejorative word for Jews to describe Mr. Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Another prominent Israeli personality and Netanyahu ally told The New Yorker he was “in shock” over the deal Mr. Trump made with Iran, and that Mr. Netanyahu was most likely shocked as well. A poll conducted in Israel after the U.S.-Iranian memorandum of understanding was signed shows a huge drop in Mr. Trump’s popularity among Israelis.

It’s premature to declare a full rupture in the U.S.-Israeli alliance or the relationship between the country’s two leaders. But they are, no doubt, at a crucial point. Israel’s outsize role in U.S. politics, its military and economic dominance in the region, buttressed and enabled by the United States for so long, and the success of the pro-Israel lobby are all now in flux. Israel put all its capital on the table in this last round of war on Iran and has come up short.

The crack in the relationship is most visible in Mr. Vance’s statements. He recently said to the Times Opinion columnist Ross Douthat that he would tell Israel’s far-right ministers who have criticized the deal with Iran, “You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.” Then at a White House press briefing, the vice president continued on the same tack, saying, “If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.”

zondag 5 juli 2026

Is America Truly Becoming a “Zionocracy?”

 Is America Truly Becoming a “Zionocracy?”

New legislation could kill the freedom to criticize the Jewish state

The country that once was the United States of America is now, in its 250th year, led by a president whose ignorance of history and policy is so profound that almost anything goes, including the initiation of wars fought for a foreign nation that is widely regarded as manifestly evil. I am of course speaking of the power that Israel has over US foreign policy in particular, though that leverage has been increasingly also impacting on the running of the economy and the elimination of fundamental liberties like freedom of speech. One has to ask, what kind of independence does America actually have when it allows another country, supported by domestic Jewish and Christian Zionists, to drain resources stolen from taxpayers through endless wars and a managed foreign policy that doesn’t benefit American citizens in any significant way. Above all, it is a “policy” driven by false religious beliefs that the former Palestine should become a wholly Jewish state that is “chosen” to expand and become “Greater” through wars initiated throughout the Middle East.

And pretty much the same elite Zionists that control the White House and Congress largely manage the other elements in the federal government while also controlling central banking through the Federal Reserve, which is privately operated and has less than 5% of money in “Reserve.” Most Americans are unaware that this financial runaway train will soon bring bankruptcy to the nation by way of a current $39.4 trillion in Federal government debt (122.1% of GDP), which amounts to $356,620 per taxpayer.

And there is more bad news! President Donald J Trump might rightly be regarded as the most pro-Israeli in the history of our nation, which is saying quite a lot, and it comes as no surprise that when one of his most ardent Jewish supporters Mark Levin recently described him as the “First Jewish president!” Trump responded “That’s true!” Whether that was confirmation of the reality of the assertion or merely agreement that Levin had said that can perhaps be in dispute, but it does reflect a certain reality. In a speech at Mount Rushmore on July 3rd Trump went on and on about purging the country of its “communists” but what he was really talking about was its liberals who are critics of Israel such as the New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Congressman Ilhan Omar!

Trump has been fighting a totally pointless and extremely unpopular war with a non-threatening Iran due to Israel convincing him to do so and he has tolerated a horrific genocide in what was once Palestine while also making the US complicit in the slaughter by providing the weapons, money and the political cover to permit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get away with the war crimes. And now there are reports that Trump has ordered the US military to begin preparations to engage in Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah, which is no threat to American though an enemy of Israel.

That is the current reality. Our America, a victim of the powerful domestic Israel Lobby which has corrupted Congress with money and which controls most of the mainstream media, is truly a slave of what Israel regards as its national security policy. This has led some American critics of what is taking place to begin to refer to the USA as the “Zionization of America to create a Zionocracy” a name that has a certain resonance as it reflects a certain reality in that maintaining Jewish/Israeli dominance of the United States has stripped the nation of what once were basic constitutional rights.

Consider for example what already exists to favor Israel and what is impending that will make the US a virtual client state of the ruthless apartheid entity that has taken control of both the White House and Congress. It is often noted how the US Congress gave war criminal Netanyahu 58 standing ovations when he addressed that body in 2024. And there is already in the State Department a Bureau that exists to counter what it describes as antisemitism worldwide. It is called the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism (SEAS), which was created to advance US efforts in addressing antisemitism globally. It was established by the Global Antisemitism Review Act of 2004 and is led by a special envoy with ambassador status who reports directly to the Secretary of State. It is currently headed by a Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun. It accepts the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)definition of antisemitism to include verbal or written criticism of the behavior of Jewish groups or of Israel as ipso facto evidence of antisemitism, which it regards as a crime. By way of comparison, no other country except Israel has an office that goes around the world with a mission to root out what it chooses to regard as antisemites.

So all right, let us accept that it is really bad, but there are some new initiatives that have surfaced that are about to make things worse at a time when we have a president who is prepared to give the Israelis and the Jewish domestic lobby anything they ask for. Some of the legislation coming out of Congress will dramatically strengthen Israel’s ability to interfere directly with the policies that might be supported by the US government. There is in fact serious discussion going on concerning several billspassing through the House of Representatives and Senate that will dramatically reshape the relationship with “best friend and greatest ally” Israel. The debate relates to section 224 of the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA) for 2027, and section 622 of the National Intelligence Act for the same year. There is also a proposed re-configuration and granting of American military veteran benefits to citizens who choose to fight for the Israel Defense Force, requiring amendment of title 38 of the United States Code as well as of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. All the relevant bills are currently circulating in Congress including the questionable sections and, though there is growing resistance to them, they are at this time expected to pass.

NDAA Section 224, entitled the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” reads in part: “The Secretary of Defense shall designate an executive agent, as such term is defined in Department of Defense Directive 5101.01 (relating to 6 DoD Executive Agent, issued February 7, 2022), responsible for synchronizing cooperative efforts between the United States and Israel, to expand and accelerate bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation, by… identifying jointly developed or Israeli-origin technologies with operational utility for potential integration into United States systems and programs of record.”

As one can easily discern, the arrangement is very broadly conceived and exists to greatly benefit Israel. It is already being mooted that the “executive agent” of the program will be an Israeli. If all of the legislation passes into law, which is almost certain, and is signed on by Trump, who has been seeking a “new security cooperation framework” with Israel, it would bind Israel to the United States in a way that is unique. Its broad commitment is not one shared even by NATO allies, and is well-nigh irreversible, something that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clearly has been seeking to accomplish. When he is speaking in Hebrew to a Jewish audience, Netanyahu even grins and takes credit for having covertly manipulated an acquiescent White House and Congress to incorporate the sections of the bills on Defense and Intelligence. Netanyahu has said he wants America’s elected officials, whom he largely owns and has even thanked for their subjugation, to ram the broad new “partnership” arrangement through over the next two years before Trump leaves office.

And even worse is being contemplated! In May and June, a bipartisan coalition of 15 House Republicans and 14 Democrats led by Congressman Dan Goldman of New York formally sponsored the Jewish American Security Act (JASA), a piece of legislation that if passed would possible constitute one of the most devastating attacks on the First Amendment in American history. It would also, uniquely, make Jews as a group and the state of Israel deserving of special treatment and protection by the federal government. The bill is supported by nearly all Jewish non-profits and Zionist activist groups and is headed “To strengthen Federal efforts to counter antisemitism in the United States and protect the Jewish community.”

The bill includes the appointment of an Anti-Semitism commissar to run the Department of Education’s already existing program to eliminate pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses, a $1 billion dollar cash fund to “secure” Zionist and Jewish properties, mandatory government monitoring of online social media to compel the censorship of “anti-Semitic” political speech or writing on their platforms, and recasting the law enforcement missions of the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and National Counterintelligence and Security Center to prioritize the targeting of critics of Jews and Israel as “foreign enemy actors and domestic terrorists.” Ironically, in addition to the $1 billion proposed in the bill to protect Jewish properties, those properties already get more than 90% of the discretionary security spending by the Department of Homeland, amounting to more than $300 million per year!

The act will also reinforce and make permanent Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14188 (“Additional Measures to Combat Antisemitism”), which included making Israelis a “protected class above criticism” under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Eric Striker observes how “Under executive orders signed by Joe Biden and Donald Trump, this interpretation of the law has been used to weaponize access to federal subsidies to American higher learning institutions in order to shut down pro-Palestinian and anti-war activism among students. In addition to having an ‘Antisemitism Coordinator’ micro-manage this ongoing war on dissent, JASA calls for a ‘public awareness campaign’ that will plaster propaganda posters in ‘high-traffic public places, such as a cafeteria, gymnasium, or student center, and digital posting on 1 or more high-traffic institution web pages, such as a web page for a student services department’ warning students and professors about the consequences of partaking in speech and activism that offends Jews or singles out Israel.”

Interestingly, 37 states already have laws or rules that deny jobs or services to anyone who supports boycotts or otherwise seeks to damage Israeli interests, so the concept of punishing presumed “antisemites” is already on the table. But a federal mandate takes it to a new and much higher level. Striker comments how “Such a law, if passed, would treat figures as prominent as Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Megyn Kelly, Thomas Massie, Ana Kasparian, Ilhan Omar and Candace Owens, as well as many smaller critics that have arisen in recent years, as terrorists and enemies of the state.” The move to criminalize any criticism of Israel or the collective behavior of Jewish groups, if pursued aggressively at a national level, would have a devastating impact on the freedom of Americans to speak openly and honestly on issues like war and peace, for example. And of course that it what it is intended to do and you can count on the Jewish billionaires who have corrupted congress and bought the media to do what is wanted by monsters like Netanyahu to bring about that result. And it is all also just one part of the deliberate murder of American democracy. It is a major step to arrive at the “Zionocracy.”

Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is https://councilforthenationalinterest.org address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.

https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/is-america-truly-becoming-a-zionocracy/

https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/is-america-truly-becoming-a-zionocracy/

Truthout Sunday 20/11/2026

  SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2026 Walking September 11’s Other Crime Scenes Millions had fled along the highway I had taken. Behind them Iraq was...