U.S. Backing Has Given Israel License to Kill & Maim

[admin]

Zionists Are Freaking Out About Losing Control Of The Narrative
Caitlin Johnstone
Nov 18, 2025

JOHNSTONE radio

Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz made some very revealing remarks during an appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly on Sunday, expressing frustration with the way younger Jews are dismissing pro-Israel arguments because of the carnage they've seen in Gaza.

Tim Foley.

[admin]

Nick Fuentes RAISES ALARM Over Netanyahu SECRET PLOT to TAKE HIM OUT
Openminded Reporter
Nov 27, 2025 #NickFuentes #AmericaFirst #RumbleExclusive

In this explosive new video, Nick Fuentes delivers one of his most direct and uncompromising commentaries yet, arguing that Organized Jewry and its media allies are scrambling to silence him, replace him, and erase his influence from American political discourse. Fuentes breaks down the escalating pressure campaigns, censorship efforts, coordinated smears, and behind-the-scenes operations designed to shut down his movement at the very moment it continues to grow. He explains why the establishment is terrified of independent voices, why political dissidents are facing unprecedented suppression, and how the battle for free speech has never been more urgent or more real.

Nick also exposes the networks working overtime to manufacture replacements and controlled-opposition figures meant to distract from the America First message. This video dives into the stakes of the cultural war, the future of dissident politics, and the determination of elites to maintain control of the narrative. Whether you agree with him or not, Fuentes lays out a perspective that forces viewers to confront the truth about media power, political engineering, and the real motives shaping public opinion today.
If you want uncensored analysis, raw commentary, and insights you won’t hear anywhere else, this is the video to watch. Join the conversation, share your thoughts, and stay locked in for more deep dives into the battles defining America’s political future.



Transcript

[Nick Fuentes] For one reason and one reason only. It's because
people are waking up about our Jewish
oligarchy. That's it. And we all know
why. All of them are Jewish. All of them
have a special affinity for Israel. And
by all of them, I mean all these people
that have spoken out in the past few
weeks.
When these Jewish people get together at
the North American Jewish Federation, at
the Republican Jewish Coalition, at the
World Jewish Congress, at the Conference
for Major American Jewish organizations,
and they get up on stage and right, left
and center, they get up and they decry
the anti-semites on the left and on the
right, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes,
Assan [ __ ] and Zelron Mani.
The only reason they're saying these
things is because they are here as a
foreign entity to lobby and manipulate
the American public to support their
country. For over three days, I have
kept um watching Nick Fuentes, you know,
probing his um his styles and most of
the things he say to know whether they
are compatible with the values of this
channel and I can tell you that what he
has been doing so far is completely
compatible with what we do here in the
channel because he's hitting the enemies
of America. and enemies of humanity,
especially those who have kept a Gaza
and the Palestinians in this situation
where they are right now. So he released
a video that a organized jury is
scrambling to replace me. Well, I agree
with this statement in the first place
because immediately Charlie Kirk died.
Ben Shapiro
said he was going to start his own
online tour,
campus tour. the campus tour he's going
to start is to strengthen what
was it Charlie Kirk has done so far and
that was a red flag for those who were
mourning Charlie Cook. This is the guy
that interviewed Charlie Kirk 48 hours
before he was murdered and the way his
faces were were at that day was telling.
It was obvious he wasn't comfortable
with Charlie Kirk trying to probe,
trying to look deeper into what the
Israeli lobby is doing in America.
I wouldn't play that clip. Let's just
listen to Nick Fus and see really what
what he has to say. I'll be right back.
Last week I did an extended show talking
about all these Jewish conferences. It's
I I know how that sounds, but it's what
it is. It's so weird because
you talk to normal people and you feel
like a crazy person,
but you look at these things and what
else are you supposed to say? I did a
whole show about it last week. I go on
Tucker Carlson's show. It's really an
uneventful interview. It's not even the
best interview I've ever given. It's
pretty boring, honestly. And it causes
an international crisis. It's another
holocaust. The anti-semites are at the
gates, you know,
and it's in the New York Times five days
a week. It's in the Washington Post. And
the president is talking about it.
People are making a personal appeal to
the vice president. The speaker of the
house is getting involved. And then on
the sideline of all that, the organized
Jewish community is freaking out and
they hold their meetings.
You know, that's just how it works. They
go to Las Vegas for the Republican
Jewish Coalition Summit.
The Republican Jewish Coalition is what
it is. And Mark Leavvin gets up and
says, "I'm tired of hearing about Gaza.
Well, we'll tell you when we're done
with Gaza. We're sick of hear we we the
Jews." Uh, you know, this is what goes
on. Week after that, you get the World
Jewish Congress. Go ahead and Google
that. That's a real thing. It's run by
the Rothschilds and Ronald Lauder. Not
making that up. That's real. And they
get together and they talk about how
Jews around the world are going to help
Jewish people. And then they do the
conference of major Jewish
organizations. They do the North
American Jewish Federation. They do the
Tigva Jewish Leadership Summit. Okay. So
they they these are five different
meetings that all happened in the past
few weeks and they all get together and
they basically say the same thing which
is we need to shut it down.
They say people are noticing that we
have all the power and they notice that
we're using the power to help Israel
and Americans are sick of it. So they're
saying we need to shut that conversation
down. We need to cancel Tucker. We need
to blacklist Nick. We need to censor the
internet. We need anti-semitism laws. We
need gatekeeping. Like this is
explicitly the message. And anyway, I
did a whole show about this last week.
If you watch the videos, that's exactly
what they're saying.
And we finally actually got the live
footage from one of them at the Tikva
Leadership Summit last week. I covered
it on the show, but we we only had the
transcript or we had a a summary of
events from a reporter, but we didn't
actually have the video. We finally got
the video from a panel with Ben Shapiro
and Barry Weiss. And oh my gosh, it's
just like beyond parody.
And so, for those that don't know,
recently Larry Ellison became the second
richest man in the world. Who is Larry
Ellison? Good question. So, he is now
worth north of $300 billion dollars.
He's the founder of Oracle. It's a
software company. They handle data
hosting and uh I don't even really know
what that means. I'm not a tech guy, so
if you don't know, that's fine. But it's
a back-end service. So, they're a
they're a provider. They provide data
hosting services for all the major
websites. It's called Oracle. and they
get contracts from the government and
they have partnerships with all the
major tech companies. It's one of the
most valuable tech companies in the
world and Larry Ellison is its founder
and its owner and the head of the
company
and that's where he deres his fortune.
Larry Ellison is Jewish.
Larry Ellison is an atheist but he feels
very strongly about being Jewish. Well,
u I don't know whether he's going to say
anything about this part, but Larry
Ellison also served in the IDF.
That's ironovian. He's going to talk
about um the part where he obviously
joined um you know
engineer the buying of Tik Tok and the
creation of a department in Tik Tok
right now that sees to
you know anti-semitism. So whether he's
he's going to say something about that,
I don't know. But let's just keep
listening to it because Larry Ellison
went viral for his views, for being part
of, you know, the IDF and many other
things. And I agree with Enik on this
account because that's it.
So strongly that he is a huge supporter
of Israel.
How much does he support Israel? Well,
he's the number one private benefactor
of the Israeli Defense Forces. He has
made private donations to the Israeli
military to the tune of tens of millions
of dollars. How much does he support
Israel? He's personal friends with
Benjamin Netanyahu.
And when Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted
by his own government, Larry Ellison
helped get Netanyahu a lawyer to defend
himself. How did Ellison get Netanyahu a
lawyer? Well, Larry Ellison went down to
Hollywood and he went to the famous
Jewish pro-Israel movie producer Arnon
Milchan and asked him to drop his
Israelite Jewish lawyer, his Israeli
Jewish lawyer, so that Netanyahu could
hire him. Okay. So, the second richest
man in the world, an American
billionaire running one of the most
important tech companies, went to one of
the richest and most famous and powerful
Jewish movie producers
and said, "Hey, Arnon, can you can you
dismiss your lawyer? Netanyahu is in
trouble." So, he gets Milchan to drop
his lawyer so that Netanyahu could hire
him to defend him from corruption
charges. Netanyahu has vacationed on
Larry Ellison's private island that he
owns in Hawaii with his family. This is
Larry Ellison. Now, after October 7th,
the US Congress banned Tik Tok because
there was too much criticism of Israel
on Tik Tok. How do we know this?
Listen is really a very powerful person
and who knows who propped him and now he
manages. I mean data for websites, how
are we sure he doesn't have, you know,
he's not compromised? If he's so
pro-Israel, how are we sure that data
that go through his companies has
oversight enough to ensure that it
doesn't pass to people? Because come to
think of it, recently uh phones,
gadgets, scooters, laptops are blowing
up in Gaza.
So how does that it means the idea for
Israel has infiltrated
almost every facet of people's lives. So
those gers that are making their way
into Gaza are compromised. So how do we
explain that? People like Larry Ellison
has answers to it. I keep watching
because the ADL told us that the more
people the more time that people spend
on Tik Tok the more anti-semitic they
become. So, the North American Jewish
Federation started lobbying Congress to
ban Tik Tok
and major pro-Israel Republicans like
Nikki Haley led the charge on this. She
said, "We have to ban Tik Tok because
it's anti-Semitic."
So, they did. Another Jewish donor,
Jeffrey Yas, donated millions of dollars
to Trump because he wanted Trump to buy
Tik Tok on behalf of the United States.
As you know, recently Trump completed
that deal as part of a wider trade deal
with China. And the United States
purchased Tik Tok from its Chinese
parent company, Bite Dance. And the US
consortium that bought it was Larry
Ellison's company, Oracle. Larry Ellison
will direct the board that is running
Tik Tok. And his Oracle will host
America's Tik Tok data. So, go figure.
The Jewish lobby bans Tik Tok. The
Jewish lobby gets Trump to buy Tik Tok.
The Jewish lobby now owns Tik Tok. And
what do you think they're going to do
with it? They're going to ban
anti-semitism.
What else does Larry Ellison do? Well,
his son David Ellison has a production
company called Sky Dance. Larry Ellison
underwrites the acquisition of Paramount
by Skyance. So his son now owns
Paramount, the Hollywood media
conglomerate, which includes CBS, one of
the major broadcasting networks. As part
of the deal, they're going to get Barry
Weiss to run CBS.
CBS will buy her website, The Free
Press, for $150 million, and she will
now be the editor-inchief of CBS. Barry
Weiss, of course, is an Israeli spy.
She went to Columbia University where
she tried to get pro Palestine
professors fired as part of the David
Project, a Jewish group. Then when she
finished college, she studied under Yora
Mason in Israel at the Shalam Center.
Then she came back to the United States
and was mentored by Brett Stevens, the
Jewish columnist at the New York Times
where she was an editorialist over
there. Then she got money to do the Free
Press. Now she's at CBS. And the new
editorial line there is we are not going
to tolerate the progressive left that's
anti-Israel and the radical right that's
anti-Israel. Okay, this is what is going
on. This is this is who Barry Weiss is.
This is what she's a part of
now. Barry Weiss goes to the Tikvah fund
and Tikva is funded by a number of
Jewish billionaires. They come up with
grants for young Jewish students and
Jewish lawyers. The Tigva Fund has given
money to the Benet Brit to the ADL. They
they've given money to a lot of these
types. JD Vance's Jewish chief of staff
was a Tikva Fund fellow as are many of
them in Conservative Inc.
So she's there with Ben Shapiro at the
panel talking about the crisis of
anti-semitism and she says what we need
are gatekeepers.
We need censorship.
She says, "How do we get people to stop
listening to Hassan [ __ ] Andrew Tate,
Tucker, and Nick Fuentes?"
She says, "Well, we're never going to go
back to Walter Kankite where 30 million
people are watching the same TV show,
and it's it's centralized.
It's gatekept. It's moderate." She said,
"We have to find centrist conservatives
and centrist liberals." She says, "And
we need to curate who is allowed to
participate in the discourse. That means
gatekeeping.
That means the Jews are going to decide
who gets to talk, who gets to
participate in the debate and what the
topics will be." She says, "We're not
going back to Walter Kronhite, but we
can curate the discourse. We can choose
who is going to debate." She says, "So
we should find charismatic centrist
liberals and centrist conservatives and
have them debate." She says to Ben
Shapiro, she goes, "Yeah, I was just in
Chicago last week and we had this debate
between Alan Dersuitz and Dana Lash
about gun control." She goes, "Two
really charismatic
centrists from the left and right,
Alan Dersowitz
and Dana Lash."
For those that don't know, Alan
Dersowitz was Jeffrey Epstein's Jewish
lawyer who is 86 years old.
And Dana Lash, I think she's in her 50s.
She was the former head of the NRA. You
might have seen her recently because she
is the one that interrogated Kevin
Roberts, the president of the Heritage
Foundation, after he interviewed or
after he defended Tucker Carlson for
interviewing me. Dana Lash led the
Inquisition on her show that gets no
views.
That's the That's going to be the
discourse. Jeffrey Epstein's Jewish
lawyer
and Israel's number one defender, the
head of the NRA, Dana Lash, debating
about gun control. That that's going to
be the discussion. That's going to be
the new discourse. Got it? Let's not
talk about Gaza. Let's not talk about
Epstein. Let's not talk about the Pard
affair and how Mike Huckabe sat with
him. Let's not talk about the pedophile
from the Israeli government that fled
our own attorney general from Vegas.
Let's not talk about the war in Iran.
Let's not talk about Mike Waltz being
controlled by Netanyahu. Let's not talk
about Marjorie Green being forced out of
Congress by death threats for exposing
the Epstein. Like, yeah, let's not talk
about any of that.
Let's not talk about the 20-year
or anything concerning all of that,
which is fanatical, radical. According
to Tucker Carlson, my new best friend,
that's anti-semitism.
According to Tucker Carlson, that's Jew
hatred. Everything that I just said up
until this point, Tucker characterizes
that as Jew hatred. He says, "Nick is a
100% right that Israel influences
Congress." He said, "But I don't agree
with the Jew hate."
Well, you know, Tucker, my friend, it's
a little bit bigger than Israel
influencing Congress. There's a little
more to the story and it doesn't make me
a Jew hater for saying
I'm surprised at what he said. Ter
obviously say I disagree with him right
now because Tucker released a video
recently that obviously destroyed
whatever anybody thought he was thinking
about you know the Israeli influence in
America. He obviously said that
Netanyahu
with his behavior and actions is a
threat to Western civilization. Whatever
he means by that, I don't know. But I
believe Nick uh needs to go watch that
video because I mean he's rising up and
many conservatives are also joining him
to also say that time is up for
Netanyahu in America.
Amen.
Anyway, they want us to talk about
everything other than that. Gun control,
healthc care, even immigration.
They'll even allow you to talk about
immigration. They'll even let you talk
about cultural differences between
Somali and Americans.
Did you see that? Matt Walsh went on a
little tear today. It was so cute.
Daring today, aren't we? Go get them.
Matt Walsh did a little segment on his
show where he said, "You import the
third world, you become the third
world."
Daring today, aren't we? We're 50 years.
We're 50 years into the brownification
of America and finally someone has the
balls to say we shouldn't import the
third world. Bravo.
And Elon Musk retweeted it and said,
"Wow, right on."
So Elon just finished telling us that if
we don't want infinite Indian
immigrants, you know, we're racist and
we need to [ __ ] ourselves in the face.
But Matt Walsh said Somali have bad
culture. Amazing,
amazing, awesome.
And this is where we are.
It could not be more clear. And by the
way, let me tell you something else.
Okay, it is so obvious what's going on
here. So obvious.
Mark Levin, Barry Weiss, Ben Shapiro,
Randy Fine, Joel Barry, all these
people, they are the biggest liars in
America. That's all they do. They lie
like they breathe
and they come on the air and they
pretend to care about our religion and
they pretend to care about our country
and about our children and about our
young men and our people. But we all
know the only reason they are
scrambling, panicking, one reason and
one reason only. It's because people are
waking up about our Jewish oligarchy.
That's it. And we all know why all of
them are Jewish. All of them have a
special affinity for Israel. And by all
of them, I mean all these people that
have spoken out in the past few weeks.
When these Jewish people get together at
the North American Jewish Federation, at
the Republican Jewish Coalition, at the
World Jewish Congress, at the Conference
for Major American Jewish organizations,
and they get up on stage and right, left
and center, they get up and they decry
the anti-semites on the left and on the
right. Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes,
Assan [ __ ] and Zoran Mdani.
The only reason they're saying these
things is because they are here as a
foreign entity to lobby and manipulate
the American public to support their
country and their well-being at our
expense. That's it.
These people are Jewish. That's why they
care about Israel. And they are here to
make sure that all of us Americans never
stop supporting Israel.
I'm here to tell Americans we don't have
to listen to them. As a matter of fact,
you shouldn't listen to them. Americans
should tune out people that care about
other countries. You care about Israel,
we put the volume to zero. We're not
listening. I don't care what your take
is on gun control. I don't care what
your take is on healthcare. You are a
Jew that only cares about Israel.
There's no we here. You they are not
part of this conversation. This is a
conversation between Americans about
what America will do. America is a
country of, by and for the American
people, a republic comprised of American
citizens. Americans are going to speak
to other Americans about what is best
for Americans. Americans are going to
make their decision about who we are
going to vote for for the leader of
America and what America will do with
regard to Israel. We're not going to
listen to pro-Israel Jews that are here
to tell us that we don't have a
decision, that there's one decision, and
that is to support Israel. How much are
we going to support Israel? Are we going
to give them all our money or most of
our money? Are we going to fight all
their wars or some of their wars? Are we
going to fight in an offensive or
defensive capacity?
If you are here as a foreign
propagandist, as a foreign lobbyist, as
a foreign spy, if you have another
allegiance, you are not in this
conversation.
We're telling Barry Weiss and Ben
Shapiro, but out. You are not invited.
You are not one of us. You are one of
them. Ben Shapiro, you have an Israeli
wife and Israeli kids. You live in an
all Jewish neighborhood. You've been to
Israel more times than I can count on
two hands.
You are not American. You are not one of
us. Barry Weiss, you finished college
and got trained in Israel to advocate
for Israel. You're a foreign spy. You
should be deported. You and you speak to
an audience of Jews about what is best
for Jews.
What Nick Fant is is saying is quite
simple. Go back to respect in America
and it values. If you are in America and
you claim to be an American citizen and
you are not committed to helping
America, you know, get greater height
like what the forefathers did, you have
no business being in America or have no
business staying in America and telling
us to be loyal to other countries. And
most importantly from what he said,
people are beginning to see things
differently. The truth is coming out.
People are beginning to know who is in
control of the politicians in America
who is preventing America to get into
the height of freedom where people would
everate. Remember Netanyahu once said
that the new Rome will be conquered.
Nobody will be allowed to conquer Israel
again. I don't know what he means by
that, but I believe that he believes
that it America is the new road. And
with people realizing that things are
going overboard, that he's overstepping
its boundaries, I think America would
turn against those who prioritize a
foreign country over the interest of
America and at the end of the day win
and take back their country. My advice
for Israel is is that they should focus
on making peace in the Middle East.
Ensuring that lands or greater Israel
projects or idea or killing more people
to occupy their lands shouldn't be what
should be the foreign policy of their
country. They should go in take the
peace that they have manage it and make
the place a habitable place and live
peacefully with the neighbor. Anything
outside of this can be regarded as
playing the Russian ruler. All right,
thank you so much for being part of the
show today. Really appreciate your time.
I know definitely we're going to see in
another video, but this my first on Nick
Fuentes and I really enjoying it. Thank
you. Please like, share, and subscribe
if you haven't yet. Until I see you in
the next one.

[admin]

‘LIKE GIVING A DROWNING PERSON A BREATH OF AIR’. An eyewitness account of the ongoing devastation in Gaza
by Seymour Hersh
Jan 14, 2026

[x]
Displaced Palestinians struggle carrying on with daily life amid the rubble left by Israeli attacks in Jabalia, Gaza on January 12. Lacking basic necessities, families are clinging to survival in makeshift tents set up near their destroyed homes, while enduring harsh cold weather conditions. / Photo by Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images.

The world remains on fire in many places, but it is easy to forget that things are still burning in Gaza, and the worst is not over for the Palestinians.

The Israelis are in the process of deciding whether once again to bomb what they fear is a rebuilt Hezbollah command in Lebanon. I’ve been told by an informed official that the Iranian Army, more than a million strong, may hold the fate of Iran. President Donald Trump, after attacking Venezuela and apprehending President Nicolás Maduro, now claims control of more oil in reserve than Saudi Arabia and Russia put together, and of course far more than China. Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone missing from the peace talks with Ukraine.

The Israel military, under the command of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is continuing to drop bombs on Gaza as yet another ceasefire is broken. Now squeezed into one half of Gaza, the Palestinians are staying put and doing all they can to stay alive. Some are even preparing to plant their crops for the coming season.

It is a miracle of endurance despite the fact that, as the New York Times reported this week, the Israeli Air Force and Army have destroyed more than 2,500 buildings in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement with Israel was signed last October. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian survivors are now living in tents that are flooded in heavy rain. It is a zone that is very cold.

As has been widely reported, there is now more food coming into Gaza, but much of it does not reach those in need but instead those most able to pay.

I recently had a long talk with a veteran observer of Gaza, who has been visiting the territory for years, long before and many times after the murderous Hamas attacks on Israel of October 7, 2023.

The official tolls for Gazans after the reprisals for those attacks began now stand at more than 71,000 deaths and more 171,000 injuries. There is no reliable estimate of the number of young children whose physical development and mental well-being have been stunted by the lack of food, safe housing, and sanitation during the ongoing Israeli war and occupation.

The veteran observer described to me the state of Gaza today:

“There were phases when there was a lot of food coming in, but now is not one of those phases. It’s not hard to find food, but it is very expensive, and some parts of Gaza will have more food than others. It’s winter, and it’s freezing, and people are recovering from a famine which is still there even though it’s no longer officially declared.” Famine was officially declared in Gaza in August, but the designation was withdrawn after the October ceasefire.

She continued: “So great. You get a few trucks of flour. A doctor told me that when you’re suffering from severe malnutrition, giving one a meal or two days of meals is like giving a drowning person a breath of air. But the machine has already started rotting where the body is eating itself, and that takes a lot longer to stop.

“In terms of denial, we are in a different place as well. We are now in a Universal Declaration of Human Rights era where things are framed using the liberal language of Human Rights. . . . The other thing that is different now is we are seeing in real time . . . bodies burning, people hungry, homes bombed . . . seeing it without knowing or understanding what to do.

“‘I can see it’s a baby, but it happens to be a Palestinian baby. But Palestinians are terrorists, and terrorists are not babies.’ So people are like—how do you say?—malfunctioning. Their racism makes them numb.

“State denial also has changed” after October 7. Of course, she said: “Israel plays the usual role. They disrupt evidence. They misrepresent. They bomb. And then they say: ‘We didn’t do it.’

“And because the world’s tolerance for genocide increased after October 7, they give Israel this space: ‘Okay, you can kill, but kill within these lines.’ Israel declares it’s raiding a hospital, but that’s not really a hospital. It’s a terror cell. ‘Yes, we’re bombing a tent, but that’s not a tent. It was a place where operatives were living. There are six journalists [from Al Jazeera] we’re going after. They’re not really journalists. They’re spokespersons for Hamas.’

“Of course, it is a result of Israeli impunity, It is also a result of the Western tolerance and appetite for it. Israel is doing what the West has done for hundreds of years and isn’t doing now but Israel could not do this by itself. It needs the Emirates to feed it. It needs the British to surveil. It needs the American to veto and arm. It needs the Canadians to help train.

“Israel has broken every ceasefire it has ever had. I think Hamas always knew they were going to break the ceasefire. I have colleagues monitoring every day the so-called ‘yellow line,’ separating the areas inside Gaza declared today to be in control of the Israeli Defense Forces from areas in Palestinian hands.

“The yellow line is serving today as an evacuation order,” the Gaza veteran told me. “The Israeli military sometimes puts yellow concrete blocks in the middle of the street, which means to everybody: ‘You need to leave.’ The purpose of the yellow line is to smash the Palestinian social fabric. It’s to smash life. That’s what it is. It’s not about security.”

The observer said that many “hungry, cold, and miserable” Gazans would flee if the Gaza crossing to Egypt is opened, as promised by the ceasefire agreement. It has not been opened because “Egypt does not want the bedraggled Palestinians.”

Far more important, she said, is the fact that many Palestinians “are not going to leave. I have footage friends sent me about how they’re rebuilding their homes with mud and clay by the sea. When a child is born, they’re born with generational knowledge. And very early on it’s a connection to the land. Even if the young person isn’t working on the land, it’s that this is ours and this is what makes you.”

Her predictions were dark: “I don’t see an endgame that bodes well for Palestinians in the West Bank. I think Israel is the one that is not going to survive this genocide. Israel’s enemy is not Hamas, and it’s not Iran. The enemy is Palestinian life, and as long as there are Palestinians on that land, that is a problem. They don’t have a solution for that. They haven’t had a Holocaust yet. What they will do in the West Bank will be much worse than in Gaza.”

She went on to give me her personal view regarding Gaza today: “Israel is already losing because it hasn’t managed in two years of dropping the equivalent of many nuclear bombs in Gaza to achieve anything militarily, really. It has killed, and it has slaughtered, and it has bombed, but it hasn’t gotten people [Israelis] back in Gaza yet. It hasn’t gained international support. It’s alienated [many its of its supporters].

“These are the behaviors of someone who is losing—this kind of unhinged colonialism. At the end, it’s the most brutal and the most bloody . . . this is how they go out. But the community fabrics in Gaza are different. When people see a hungry orphan on the street, they take care of him as if he were their child. They have learned to be like refugees, so it is different.

“This is not optimism. This is a reading that doesn’t put Israel as all-knowing, almighty, all-professional, all-capable. I think from what we are seeing on the ground, they are scared and very good at video games from a distance, but they can’t do hand-to-hand battle and are coming back traumatized after a few months. Their relationships to the land are different, and their stakes are different. But right now it is agitation and effective agitation. Strategic agitation is when an Israeli soldier is no longer able to go to a festival in the Netherlands.”