Rula Jebreal
@rulajebreal · High-reach critics & hostile narrative — US/West
Rula Jebreal is an Arab-born Italian writer and activist of Palestinian and Nigerian descent.
Former CIA chief William Burns: “The fundamental problem was that Hamas was seeking a ‘definitive end to the conflict,’ and Biden’s team pretended that Hamas was the obstacle, in order to help Israel definitively end Gaza as a society and the Palestinians as a people. In October 2023, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed al-Thani stated that Hamas had agreed to release the hostages unconditionally. A senior Israeli military official has now told *Haaretz* that, when Hamas’s offer reached the army, it was ignored: “To be honest, the issue of the hostages was not yet on the agenda at that stage, and no one, either at the military or political level, was willing to discuss the proposal.” Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was informed directly of Hamas’s offer and rejected it as well. “Israel is still under attack and there is no one to talk to,” he told the Qatari prime minister. This is the same Blinken who would shortly afterward have stated that, if Hamas had released the hostages, “all this could end tomorrow.”
Translated from ItalianThe United Kingdom, France, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden announce that they will ban in their countries imports of products originating from the illegal settlements of Israeli settlers in the West Bank. While the Meloni government provides an escort for Israeli soldiers vacationing in Italy so they can rest from the extermination of children in Gaza, Italy continues to sell weapons to Israel, and Germany and Italy – co-authors of the European genocide– continue to prevent the EU from complying with the Genocide Convention in Palestine. Meloni’s Italy and Germany are just as complicit as Israel in the first genocide broadcast to the world.
Translated from Italian“‘The emir [MBZ] hoped that despite his reserved response, Netanyahu would take the message seriously and take action,’ the adviser says. None of them imagined that the PM would hear the message but would NOT brief the heads of the defense establishment. The head of the Shin Bet, the head of the Mossad, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff—none of them knew about bin Zayed's warning.” Netanyahu to his Likud party; “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.”
Shocking accusations: “Netanyahu was warned by the Emirates before October 7. But he did NOT inform the intelligence services.” Two weeks before October 7, 2023, the president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed, called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu from Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes. During that conversation, Bin Zayed warned the Israeli PM that Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a large-scale operation against Israel. Bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to take the situation seriously. To his great surprise, however, the PM reacted with relative calm. Netanyahu stated that, in his assessment, Hamas intended to operate in the occupied West Bank area and reassured bin Zayed that Israel was ready to face any scenario… The October 7 attack was the biggest failure of Israeli security; two military units were removed from Gaza and moved to the occupied West Bank to protect the settlers and the illegal settlements. For years Netanyahu facilitated funding for Hamas, and considered it a strategic asset… to weaken the Palestinian National Authority and prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. To this day, the Israeli government refuses to open a commission of inquiry to investigate what happened; they have preferred to exploit the crimes in Gaza to commit a colonial genocide.
Translated from ItalianOmer Bartov in the @BostonReview: "But the time when Israel had a blank check to kill in the name of the Holocaust is over. One genocide cannot be used to legitimize another. The Zionism that still exists today is a RACIST IDEOLOGY TO JEWISH SUPREMACY, and that ideology, like the ideologies of the twentieth century, must end up in the dustbin of history.”
The Financial Times FT openly calls for boycotting products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement. “Western states should adopt a common position on banning exports from illegal settlements [both in Palestine and Ukraine].” I urge everyone to read the extraordinary book by @luigidaniele10, The Law of the Strongest: The Destruction of the International Order. A fierce and unprecedented attack by the USA + Israel against international justice. The West has made a disastrous choice in favor of this destructive violence that now threatens the fundamental structures of liberal democracies everywhere.
Translated from ItalianI am disgusted and horrified that Hakeem Jeffries is taking money from AIPAC amidst Israel's genocide in Palestine. That said, a term that I used to describe him was inappropriate and offensive and should never have been used. I apologize unconditionally.
Amid the colonial genocide in Palestine, while Israeli ministers openly speak of ethnic cleansing and ethnic replacement… On behalf of the Board of Peace of Gaza, former British PM Blair, resurrected by Trump, asked the Palestinian Authority to remove the word "PALESTINE" from school textbooks, replacing it with "Samaria," which is the biblical Hebrew definition of the occupied West Bank. Palestinians must also be erased from history books, while they are being exterminated by Israel with the complicity of the democratic West.
Translated from Italian"Today 70% of Gaza territory is deserted thanks to what the Israeli army has done; there are no longer any inhabitants or houses there. In Lebanon we have razed dozens of villages to the ground and expelled 200,000 Lebanese. We have also reoccupied the refugee camps in the West Bank and expelled 40,000 Palestinians.” Israel Katz, the Israeli Defense Minister, publicly boasts of having razed Gaza to the ground and of committing colonial genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, Lebanon, and the occupied West Bank. The Nazis sought to hide corpses in concentration camps; these criminals, by contrast, gloat—proud—and publicly boast about their barbarity, the carnage, and the ongoing massacre in Palestine.
Translated from ItalianHere is the next Orwellian chapter on the rape of Palestinian detainees at the military torture center, Sde Teiman: The Israeli soldiers who raped Palestinian hostages in front of cameras remained unpunished after the Israeli prosecution closed the case, and after the dismissal of the Israeli magistrate who was investigating the rapists. Today the Israeli rapists have decided to sue the Israeli judiciary and seek damages for “defamation.” Some Israeli lawmakers have invoked the right to rape Palestinian detainees, and now the rapists themselves invoke the right to be financially compensated…. Israeli rapist soldiers filing a lawsuit to obtain the right to rape Palestinians… we are facing a radicalized society that has completely lost any morality and humanity.
Translated from ItalianAn Israeli government minister openly confirms that Israel’s main objective is the ethnic cleansing of 2 million Palestinians from Gaza. Israel’s colonial genocide was always in the service of ethnic cleansing. https://t.co/piLqHMK40J
Even the Financial Times is urging the European Union to suspend the EU–Israel Association Agreement and ban trade with all illegal settlements. It is shameful that Germany under @_FriedrichMerz and Italy under @GiorgiaMeloni continue to obstruct and block such measures and violate both international law and the order of the Court of Justice.
Translated from ItalianAmidst its ongoing genocide, Israel’s government commissioned research on how to improve its image in the US. The study found: Israel’s best tactic to combat its negative image is to foment fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism” in the US. Propagandist Bari Weiss' CBS is deliberately insinuating that Abdul El-Sayed is connecting to 9/11 attacks. This is the kind of propaganda that led to a 6 year old Palestinian child, Wadee Alfayoumi, being stabbed to death in Illinois.
The son of a Holocaust survivor, Mark Etkin, says that “the main cause of antisemitism in the world today is the fact that Israel claims to represent all Jews and is committing a GENOCIDE in Gaza in the name of all Jews.” #ddlantisemitismo does NOT combat antisemitism; it criminalizes those who criticize Israel’s barbaric genocidal policies.
Translated from ItalianFor those who read the international press. Today, some important statements appeared in *The New York Times* about the criminal and genocidal conduct of the Israeli army and government. Israeli generals compare Israel’s actions to Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust; such statements will surely be picked up by the Italian press and condemned by defenders of the Israeli genocide. I would like to stress once again that these statements come from Jewish Israeli generals and former prime ministers.
Translated from ItalianNetanyahu openly can brag publicly about dragging the US into a war with Iran on behalf of Israel, and boast about his skills at influencing US politicians and media: He roughly had 100s of hours of free airtime on U.S. networks. Yet, US citizens who suggest that Israel influences US politicians are smeared as anti-semites, censored and literally criminalized.
Palestinians journalists and experts have been documenting and telling the world that Israeli settlers, armed and financed by the government, are carrying out ethnic cleansing. Now, Israeli generals and ex-PM are confirming what we’ve been warning about for years. “A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with 🇮🇱 government support." “Once a society behaves this way,” one said, “that society is doomed.”
This Israeli war criminal is Adi Karni, the same one who had himself filmed blowing up mosques and other civilian infrastructure in Gaza. After committing atrocities in Gaza, he was allowed to roam freely in Rome, Milan, London, and New York. Adi Karmi was invited to give lectures at Jewish schools in Rome and Milan, despite criminal investigations against him in Peru, following the war-crimes complaint initiated by the Hind Rajab Foundation. Last week, he disguised himself as a Palestinian to infiltrate demonstrations by university students at Columbia University in New York City. Why do Jewish schools in Italy invite war criminals from the Israeli army to preach at Jewish schools? What could they teach Italian Jewish students?
Translated from ItalianIsrael has lost worldwide support because of its own war crimes, the genocide in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank and in Lebanon, and the illegal bombings directed at 5 sovereign countries… now it is launching a hybrid war made up of propaganda, lies, and disinformation to destabilize Western democracies. First and foremost, the European countries critical of the ongoing colonial genocide in Palestine. The assault on Ceuta was facilitated and incited by propaganda generated by Israel. How many more crimes will Israel have to commit before sanctions are imposed on this rogue state?
Translated from ItalianThe Israeli minister Ben-Gvir is conducting an election campaign, with campaign ads, promising to continue torturing and starving Palestinian detainees. I am not aware of a historical precedent in which a genocidal regime made campaign ads or bragged about committing crimes against humanity and war crimes. This sadism and barbarity are the direct result of the complicity and support of the democratic West. Under the rubble of Gaza, international law and the credibility of the European Union have also been buried.
Translated from ItalianA survey conducted by Brandeis University in the USA among American university students shows that opinion of the criminal Israeli government is slightly worse than opinion of Hamas and far worse than opinion of the Palestinian National Authority, while opinion of the Palestinian people is far better than opinion of the Israeli people. The overwhelming majority of American citizens are against the genocide in Palestine and in favor of suspending all military and financial aid to Israel.
Translated from ItalianFrench authorities have exposed the Israeli company BlackCore, linked to the Mossad, while it was interfering in elections in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. Fake accounts, artificial-intelligence-based bots, and smear campaigns: a tried-and-tested strategy to push voters toward pro-Israel right-wing candidates. In addition, an American journalist exposed an IDF soldier who was posing as Palestinians outside Columbia University. An IDF soldier, accompanied by a Mossad agent, resort to deceptive tactics: they pretend to be Palestinians, wear the Palestinian keffiyeh, wave the Palestinian flag, said they were Hamas fighters, showed footage of October 7, and asked students whether they supported armed resistance in Palestine. The objective in both cases: to spread Israeli propaganda, dehumanize and criminalize solidarity with Palestinians, and subvert liberal democracies. What we know is only the tip of the iceberg of the blackmail tactics (Epstein), threats, corruption, and direct and indirect murders of pro-Palestinian activists and politicians.
Translated from ItalianA Haaretz investigation denounces Israel’s use of armed militias linked to radical elements of ISIS in the Gaza Strip, which add their war crimes to those of the Israeli army, despite the so-called “ceasefire.” The militias are clans that Netanyahu has publicly admitted hiring to “counter” Hamas, which Netanyahu himself funded for years before October 7 as part of an effort against a Palestinian state. Europe refuses to sanction and arrest this fugitive for war crimes.
Translated from ItalianZelensky is undermining international solidarity with Ukraine. In this post on X, he cites Israel as an example, when it is a state that chronically violates international law, has stained itself with war crimes and crimes against humanity, and has illegally occupied the Palestinian Territories for 59 years… the same principle that Ukraine is invoking against illegal Russian aggression. The International Criminal Court (ICC), which Ukraine joined a year ago, has issued arrest warrants for Putin and his associates. The same international court has issued an international arrest warrant for Netanyahu for the war crimes committed in Palestine. Both leaders/countries are under investigation and fugitives for war crimes before the ICC. International justice is not à la carte. Zelensky is not only shortsighted but also self-destructive.
Translated from ItalianThe Israeli commander, Colonel Mendel, spoke to the Australian broadcaster ABC about the attack he ordered against the humanitarian organization that was providing food to Gaza, World Central Kitchen: the bombing that killed six international humanitarian workers. The commander says he feels no remorse for the crime he committed, claiming that WCK had ties to Hamas and was not exactly an organization that could be described as innocent… “We came here to win, to eradicate this absolute evil.” The IDF declared that it would not open a criminal investigation or take any further disciplinary action against the commander responsible for the massacre of humanitarian workers in Gaza. Israel continues to shelve cases concerning war crimes, massacres, and barbarity systematically committed by its army. The Israeli commander who ordered the massacre of Australian, American, and British humanitarian workers, Nochi Mendel, has been promoted to head of the National Settlements and Infrastructure Unit at Israel’s Ministry of Defense. He himself is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition supporting the use of hunger and famine as a weapon of extermination in Gaza.
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