The temporary truce between Israel and Hamas has slowed the Israeli army’s assault on Gaza and begun to free civilians held captive by both sides. The Biden administration has made clear that it will support Israel’s continued military operations when the pause officially expires – at this point, as early as Tuesday. Israel’s stated goal of “attempting to eliminate Hamas,” President Biden said on Friday, “is the legitimate objective... and I don’t know how long it will take.” In endorsing the next phase of Israel’s military operations, the White House recognizes that the brief lull poses a new challenge. According to…

Jessica Buxbaum breaks down Israel's official plans to ethnically cleanse Palestine which were revealed by newly leaked documents. ON this episode of Journalists for Sale, co-hosts Max Jones and Diego Ramos talk to Jessica Buxbaum, the American-Israeli journalist who covers Israel and Palestine for MintPress News and has also been featured in a number of other outlets including the Middle East Eye, The New Arab, The National, Al Jazeera and Mondoweiss. Based in Jerusalem, Jessica tells Jones and Ramos about her experience living in the region for the past month and dives into her recent pieces which focus on the…

  Journalist, author and USC professor Sandy Tolan shares his unique reporting perspective in Gaza and explores the need to keep humanity front and center of the issue. Amidst the carnage and political debacle surrounding Gaza and Israel, it can be easy to discuss the conflict with a macro view, where families, hospital workers, UN workers and journalists become statistics and political perspectives dominate. On this episode of the Scheer Intelligence, host Robert Scheer talks to the author of what Scheer claims are “arguably the two most important books that deal with the humanity of the Palestinian people.” Sandy Tolan,…

Paris – The great Voltaire wrote ‘show me whom you cannot criticize, and I will show you who rules you.’So true. Anyone who dares criticize Israel’s Biblical punishment of Palestinians in the Gaza outdoor prison is immediately subject to a storm of calumny and threats.No matter that this mass punishment violates the 4th Geneva Convention and other international law, nor that it violates the US’s own arms export act, and has bred deep disgust around the globe for the United States and engendered rising anti-Semitism, terrible retribution is falling on Gaza’s Palestinians – who are now being bombed and shelled out…

Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries. CAIRO, Egypt: The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military, intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel’s drones, surveillance technology — including spyware, facial recognition software and biometric gathering infrastructure — along with smart fences, experimental bombs and AI-controlled machine guns, are tried out on the captive population in Gaza, often with lethal results. These weapons and technologies are then certified as “battle tested” and sold around the world.  Israel is the 10th biggest arms dealer on the planet and sells its technology and weapons to an estimated…