The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) found itself last week in the center of the Trump administration’s massive effort to protect Israel from criticism when it posted “terms and conditions” for federal grants that included language that would ban emergency funds for states of cities that limit “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies.”
Bezalel Smotrich, the powerful finance minister in Israel, said in a video posted on social media on Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “made a U-turn” after their discussions on how to crush Hamas and said he “lost faith” in his motivation to achieve success.
Police in London arrested 522 people on Saturday for demonstrating against the British government’s decision to label Palestine Action, a protest group banned under the U.K.’s Terrorism Act 2000 after members damaged planes inside a British military base for the country’s role in supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeted at least 20 Republican House members in Israel last week during a trip that was organized by AIPAC and updated them on the “war” in Gaza and the “mendacious campaign being waged by Hamas against the State of Israel.”
A newly released poll conducted in Israel found that 79 percent of Israeli Jews say they are “not so troubled” or “not troubled at all” by the conditions that the IDF has inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza, showing further evidence that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his messianic Knesset represent the Israeli people.
The Israeli military has been using Microsoft software to help determine targets to hit in airstrikes across Gaza, which was called by WSWS an “unprecedented integration” of the company “with the war crimes” committed by the IDF.
Despite Egypt calling Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide, the country last week inked a record-breaking deal with an Israeli energy company called NewMed to provide Cairo with more gas than ever, which the company called a “win-win.”
The IDF killed five Al Jazeera staffers in a “targeted” strike on a media tent in Gaza City near Al-Shifa Hospital, a major escalation just as Israel is preparing a major new offensive in the city.
Maj. Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed forces, said last week that Tehran is not interested in starting a new war, but if attacked, it will deliver a blow “more crushing and unlike anything seen before.”
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s top diplomat, said in an interview last week that the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Tehran’s nuclear sites were the “gravest” violation of international law and “absolutely unforgivable.”