Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
@academic_la · Think tanks & analysts — US/UK
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim is an international-relations analyst and commentator on Israeli foreign and security policy.
This happens in the West Bank every day. Settlers empty out the wells of Palestinian families and pour them on the floor to force them into deathly thirst in the heat so they have to leave their homes. Every action like this is part of an endless process of ethnic cleansing.
Israel talked endlessly about getting the hostages back, but it was just an excuse to kill Palestinians. When they came back, if they dared call for a ceasefire they were called whores and told that it was a shame they were returned. Here is hostage Adina Moshe, who was taken from Nir Oz on 7 October, sobbing at how Israelis treat her.
Notice that this is the former spokesperson for the IDF admitting that the Israel considers all of Islam to the enemy. The purpose of the IDF is not to defend Israel but to kill Muslims. Ask this guy.
I was on Ed Demarche's show and he asked me about the Hannibal Directive and whether that killed a large number of the victims on October 7. This is what I answered. https://t.co/o8vG42z4gW
If anyone thought the revelations about Netanyahu being warned about October 7 by the UAE would shift the polls, they haven’t. Netanyahu is still set to bloc a new government and lead to a hung Knesset which would leave him in charge until another election is held.
The best thing you could do for the Palestinian economy is take your boot off their fucking neck, you monsters.
Haaretz published the testimony of a reserve major and UAV operator in the Israeli Air Force who commanded a strike cell attached to maneuvering brigades inside Gaza. This is what he had to say: 1) He was involved in the March 23, 2025 paramedic killings in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah and said, "You could clearly tell these were rescue vehicles even as fire was opened on them from the ground. For no apparent reason, the force on the ground charged the convoy. They shot the first vehicle, the medical personnel got out, hid behind the ambulances and begged for their lives, and the soldiers shot them one after another." 2) On how the yellow line was used as an excuse to kill innocent people: "The Palestinians didn't know it existed, and the Air Force wasn't always updated either. From the perspective of a farmer walking onto his own land — he has no idea he's stepping into an area the IDF suddenly decided is a fire zone. And then all kinds of retroactive justifications started coming up. 'He came for an arms deal.' 'He touched the ground, maybe he's planting an explosive.' To me it looked like they were trying to incriminate people with no intelligence and no proof." 3) On how all morals were lost in Gaza: ""The feeling was that something tore, everyone had already become cynical about death, you can't understand it from the outside. It's not just fatigue, it's an erosion of morality, of responsibility, of the sense that someone is still managing the event. Very quickly this whole business of 'collateral damage' disappeared from the considerations. They fire on anyone they see. The atmosphere started to be like the stands at a soccer match. The way you shout at a player, 'Yalla, score,' that's how they shout at a soldier, 'Kill him, strike him.'" This is what genocide looks like from the perspective of the perpetrator.
What is the point of levying partial and pathetic sanctions like this? The Zionists cry antisemitism and the end of the world anyway. Might as well give them real sanctions to complain about.
As always when a story really hits home, Netanyahu threatens to sue. This time he wants to sue Ha'aretz for revealing that he was warned about October 7 by the UAE. This will likely end up just like the time he threatened to sue the New York Times over the Kristoff story and didn't because every word was true.
They only boycotted the settlements. Do these people ever stop lying?
There is a lot of controversy over the sanctions that the UK and several other countries are levying on Israel. But for no reason. They are useless and will only encourage Israel to keep buildign settlements, ethnically cleanse the West Bank and finish the genocide in Gaza. Don't give these people any credit. They don't deserve it. Read my article on it for free.
Can all of us Eastern European Jews stop pretending that we are "indigenous" to the Levant? It is the most ridiculous claim imaginable. Indignity is based on continuity and culture, not DNA. And as Emily's skin and my skin make clear, our DNA isn't so indigenous either.
Zionist accounts posted these comments beneath footage of a Palestinian woman and her baby made homeless. Words cannot describe how awful these people are. I’m ashamed to have come from the same society as them. https://t.co/H64vKf5siV
The IDF has destroyed yet another Palestinian village in the West Bank, leaving mothers and babies without shelter in the sweltering heat. Whatever sanctions are being levied against Israel, they are nowhere near enough.
As you might expect, the UK sanctions on Israel are absolute bullshit. Israel will never stop the genocide and its war crimes everywhere as long as it faces no real consequences for any of it.
The new reports on a warning from the UAE President complete a damning picture of endless warnings which Netanyahu and the IDF received of October 7. Here is a list just of what we know publicly: 1) 2017 : Netanyahu presented the Knesset State Control Committee with the threat of a Hamas invasion along the lines of October 7 2) 2018: etanyahu received intelligence on a Hamas plan for an "initiated offensive maneuver with a broad order of battle." 3) April 2022: Israeli intelligence obtained a roughly 40-page Hamas attack plan more than a year before, including the opening rocket barrage, drones disabling border cameras and automated weapons, and gunmen crossing by paraglider, foot and motorcycle. 4) 2022–2023: Over the year before, female observers in Nahal Oz reported suspicious Hamas activity near the fence including efforts to knock out cameras, use of drones, vans and motorcycles, and tank-shelling practice. It fit perfectly with plans Israel knew Hamas had. 5) 2023: A Shin Bet probe credited its analysts with multiple warnings in 2023 that deterrence was crashing, stated it "did not define Hamas as being in a state of being deterred." 6) March 20, 2023: Defense minister Gallant met Netanyahu and warned that Hezbollah and Hamas had identified weakness because of the judicial overhaul rift and an attack was more likely as a result. 7) March–July 2023: Four Military Intelligence letters: the IDF confirmed via a Hatzlacha FOI request that Netanyahu received four warning letters cautioning that deterrence was weakening due to internal division; the July letter warned of "grave new security implications" and adversaries seeing a "historic opportunity to change the strategic balance." 8) July 2023; A unit 8200 NCO warned that a recent Hamas exercise "closely followed the Jericho Wall plan," issued further warnings over the following weeks, and the Gaza Division subsequently prepared a document warning Hamas planned a large-scale invasion with up to 250 hostages. She sent another warning days before October 7 urging preparations. 9) July 23–24, 2023; Shin Bet head Bar called Netanyahu at Sheba on a secure line and said "I am giving you a strategic warning of war," urging him to stop the legislation of judicial overhaul; Halevi sent a letter that IDF readiness "is being rapidly hurt and recovering slowly. This is dangerous." Bar said "I can't give you a day or an hour, but this is the alert." 10) August 21, 2023: Opposition head Yair Lapid cited a joint briefing in which military secretary Avi Gil told Netanyahu and Lapid that Iran and groups in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza "all identified weakness, an internal divide, tensions, and a loss of preparedness in the army, alongside an emerging crisis with the Americans" all making an attack more likely. 11) Early September 2023: Sinwar cut off all contact with the Shin Bet back-channel that Netanyahu had approved and stalled; a senior Shin Bet official described him as vanishing from the radar. 12) September 15, 2023: Bar phoned Netanyahu with Sinwar's earthquake threat relayed via the Fatah intermediary and MBZ's adviser 13) September 17, 2023: security discussion with Gallant and Military Intelligence, then a PMO meeting with Mossad and NSC; Bar recommended a preemptive strike or reinforced defenses since an attack was imminent; no decisions made. 14) Mid-to-late September 2023: The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee were exposed to material that was "unequivocal: Israeli deterrence has eroded dramatically; our enemies think they have a rare opportunity to harm us." 15) September 19, 2023: The Gaza Division circulated a document from Unit 8200 setting out plans to attack bases and communities and take up to 250 hostages, apparently ignored by senior officers 16) Late September 2023: The head of Military Intelligence's "Ipcha Mistabra" unit (devils advocate unit) issued four warnings in the three weeks before October 7 that Hamas would soon launch a confrontation, and claimed two of his written assessments were widely distributed among decision-makers. 17) Late September 2023: Abbas Kamel, head of Egyptian intelligence, called Netanyahu ten days before the attack warning of "something unusual, a terrible operation," and Netanyahu said the military was "submerged" in the West Bank. 18) Late September 2023: MBZ, leader of UAE held a the 45-minute call from Abu Dhabi, and told Netanyahu that Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major move against Israel. He said he feared the event would bring not only bloodshed but would shake the entire region and damage the Abraham Accords. 19) October 1, 2023: Lapid says Bar recommended preparing for escalation scenarios in Gaza, Halevi advised an operational plan, urgent intelligence warnings existed on Hamas combat preparations, and Netanyahu told them not to strike. Eldar and Yuval add Bar again recommended targeted killings including Sinwar and Netanyahu said "prepare plans and I'll consider" 20) Night of October 6–7: the IDF probe found five anomalous signs including activation of Israeli SIM cards held by Nukhba operatives; not one officer read them as imminent 21) Pre-dawn October 7: The NSC and police were told of unusual Hamas activity and took no action, allowing Nova dance festival to proceed 22) Roughly 5:50 AM: Harel's "6:29" reports warning signs appearing in observation systems and radar about 40 minutes before the attack. Please explain to me, how did it take 8 hours for the IDF to respond properly to the October 7th attack? That would be far too long even without warning. But with this kind of intense warning of an imminent attack? This was intentional.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that Netanyahu wanted October 7 to happen.
The complete ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is coming. It’s already started in area C, B and sone refugee camps in area A.
The Shvilim school in Pardes Hanna-Karkur in Israel was vandalized and filled with swastikas, while the N-word was also sprayed on a board. The attack may have been aimed at Ethiopian students at the school. Nazism is big in Israel. https://t.co/N4GFhIIqk3
Moshe Feiglin former Likud Knesset member who will now return as part of his Zehut Party has made the building of a Jewish Temple on top of the Dome of the Rock and the destruction of the Al Aqsa Mosque a primary part of his electoral campaign. So far he has released two ads on that topic and I have translated them both for you. This idea is moving from the Israeli fringes to the mainstream, and the day when they try to do it is close.
The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan has released a report showing how the RSF is funded, supplied and reinforced. This is how it works: 1) Colombian mercenaries make up much of the core of the fighters. The recruitment goes from Colombia to Abu Dhabi, to Sudan. The report identifies Col. Álvaro Andrés Quijano Becerra, a retired Colombian officer based in Abu Dhabi, as founder of the principal recruitment entity. 2) Training occurs in two places. A two-month military-style course at Ghayathi, UAE, covering drone operations, indirect fire and air-defence systems . Separately, camps at Benghazi, Kufra and Jufra in Libya, with Colombian trainers running instruction on AK-47s, RPG launchers and DShK heavy machine guns. 3) Recruits are flown in through the Bosaso–Libya–Chad corridor. Ilyushin-76 cargo flights linking Bosaso (Puntland, Somalia), Kufra and Benghazi, and remote Chadian border areas. At Bosaso, the report finds UAE-based individuals and entities maintained facilities including a military base. 4) The weapons are Chinese. CH-95 reconnaissance/strike drones with electronic-warfare capability and FH-95 drones; NORINCO AH-4 155mm howitzers. But they are provided by the UAE. 5) They mostly enter through Nyala Airport, South Darfur. The contractors were embedded into a named RSF unit, known as the "Desert Wolves" Battalion, rather than operating as a parallel force. This link is how the RSF has drone capabilities and this has been responsible for most of the recent deaths in Sudan. More than 1,000 civilians killed by drone strikes between January and 11 May 2026 when matched with OHCHR's earlier finding that at least 880 civilian drone deaths from January to April represented over 80% of all conflict-related civilian deaths in that period. This chain of death must be stopped.
There isn’t enough antisemitism to justify the genocide in Gaza and the support of diaspora Judaism for it. So we have to invent it.
A horrific expose on the murder of Palestinian prisoner Tha'er Abu Assab, a Palestinian prisoner at Ketziot prison by guards in November 2023 appeared in Haaretz today. Among the most damning evidence in the case are the texts of one warden, Oshrit Aliga, who as you can see in the video inlcuded here was literally the poster child for the Israeli Prison Services. Here are the texts verbatim: On the night Tha'er Abu Assab, was murdered, she texted a friend: "Sweetie, here is an update for you, he's dead now." She added that she was "very happy and satisfied, but it's a mess right now. There was a lot of blood and they broke them." Follow-up clarification to her friend: "It'll be fine, I'm glad it happened. I'm ready to put my career on the line for this, I'm at peace with it, all of us are. The commander knew something like this would happen. he told us in the briefing and also asked, whoever feels they can't handle it should say so, because he really wanted to break them. I'm really fine, but you know how it is, investigations and all that mess." WhatsApp exchange with her friend, December 2023 (re: new detainees arriving): "They brought some Amalek-son whores down in the middle of the street, sitting there on the ground with just underwear and blindfolds on. I'm already getting myself and the shift ready to receive them for Shabbat, we will give them a proper Shabbat reception." Responding to her friend's joke about her baton: "My club is fine, after a fair number of disinfections." "Imagine me and you in a cell with two prisoners cuffed hand to hand, and the shift commander tells us 'go ahead, cut loose', sweetie, I swear you'd have enjoyed it here with me." When her friend asked if she physically hits them: "I wish I had a way to prove it to you, to show you something, I swear to you, sis, I break them apart. You've never known me like this. [This is] routine. [When the] next round comes, if I haven't cracked one of his kidneys, as far as I'm concerned I'm not going into the wing." WhatsApp exchange with her domestic partner, corrections officer Tamer Trudi, same month: "We got another 70 whores from October 7th. Each one of course got a personal welcome, and some got a joint one because of the [limited] supply of handcuffs." After Trudi replied "Haha, how nice that there's always a welcome": "And since we were already tired from hitting them, the commander took off his belt and undid it on them. And the screaming , like females — at minimum they're a punching bag." Watch the video to see her enthusiastic physical training that allows her to murder and torture inmates. She has not been charged for her crimes despite the overwhelming evidence, though others have for that murder.
This is the advisor to Ben-Gvir and spokesperson for the Hebron settlers cheering for the AfD. The Zionist conversion to Nazism is complete.
There is some sort of crazy psyop to divide Jews-Muslims-Blacks from each other. Don’t fall for it. The only winners from that will be Trump and Netanyahu. We all share the same goals of creating a more egalitarian and less racist future where white supremacists lose power.
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