Has the Israeli army cut down on the sexual abuse and torture of captives?
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A shift is under way, one that scholars have been tracking for years and that has become startlingly visible with the rise of Trumpism. At this point, tens of millions of believers—about 40 percent of American Christians, including Catholics, according to a recent Denison University survey—are embracing an alluring, charismatic movement that has little use for religious pluralism, individual rights, or constitutional democracy. It is mystical, emotional, and, in its way, wildly utopian. It is transnational, multiracial, and unapologetically political. Early leaders called it the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR, although some of those same leaders are now engaged in a rebranding effort as the antidemocratic character of the movement has come to light. And people who have never heard the name are nonetheless adopting the movement’s central ideas. These include the belief that God speaks through modern-day apostles and prophets. That demonic forces can control not only individuals, but entire territories and institutions. That the Church is not so much a place as an active “army of God,” one with a holy mission to claim the Earth for the Kingdom as humanity barrels ever deeper into the End Times.
If you were curious why Tucker Carlson, who was raised Episcopalian, recently spoke of being mauled in his sleep by a demon, it may be because he is absorbing the language and beliefs of this movement. If you were questioning why Elon Musk would bother speaking at an NAR church called Life Center in Harrisburg, it is because Musk surely knows that a movement that wants less government and more God works well with his libertarian vision. If you wanted to know why there were news stories about House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Southern Baptist, displaying a white flag with a green pine tree and the words An Appeal to Heaven outside his office, or the same flag being flown outside the vacation home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a Catholic, the reason is that the Revolutionary War–era banner has become the battle flag for a movement with ideological allies across the Christian right. The NAR is supplying the ground troops to dismantle the secular state.
The Atlantic
The NAR vision was not technically conservative but radical: Constructing the Kingdom meant destroying the secular state with equal rights for all, and replacing it with a system in which Christianity is supreme. As a practical matter, the movement put the full force of God on the side of free-market capitalism...The ideas have seeped into Trumpworld, influencing the agenda known as Project 2025, as well as proposals set forth by the America First Policy Institute. A new book called Unhumans, co-authored by the far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and endorsed by J. D. Vance, describes political opponents as “unhumans” who want to “undo civilization itself” and who currently “run operations in media, government, education, economy, family, religion, and arts and entertainment”—the seven mountains. The book argues that these “unhumans” must be “crushed.”
If you were curious why Tucker Carlson, who was raised Episcopalian, recently spoke of being mauled in his sleep by a demon, it may be because he is absorbing the language and beliefs of this movement. If you were questioning why Elon Musk would bother speaking at an NAR church called Life Center in Harrisburg, it is because Musk surely knows that a movement that wants less government and more God works well with his libertarian vision. If you wanted to know why there were news stories about House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Southern Baptist, displaying a white flag with a green pine tree and the words An Appeal to Heaven outside his office, or the same flag being flown outside the vacation home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a Catholic, the reason is that the Revolutionary War–era banner has become the battle flag for a movement with ideological allies across the Christian right. The NAR is supplying the ground troops to dismantle the secular state.
The Atlantic
The NAR vision was not technically conservative but radical: Constructing the Kingdom meant destroying the secular state with equal rights for all, and replacing it with a system in which Christianity is supreme. As a practical matter, the movement put the full force of God on the side of free-market capitalism...The ideas have seeped into Trumpworld, influencing the agenda known as Project 2025, as well as proposals set forth by the America First Policy Institute. A new book called Unhumans, co-authored by the far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and endorsed by J. D. Vance, describes political opponents as “unhumans” who want to “undo civilization itself” and who currently “run operations in media, government, education, economy, family, religion, and arts and entertainment”—the seven mountains. The book argues that these “unhumans” must be “crushed.”
I see that the orange one has suggested has...
"Vowed that US would “take over” war ravaged Gaza and “own it”, effectively endorsing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, in an announcement shocking even by the standards of his norm-shattering presidency"
"President’s plan, which is low on detail, would involve the permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries"
In other words, ethnic cleansing!
“If it’s necessary, we’ll do that, we’re going to take over that piece, we’re going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it’ll be something that the entire Middle East can be very proud of.”
Funny that, given the orange one is a corrupt 'property developer'!
"Pressed on who would live in a redeveloped Gaza, Trump said it could become a home to “the world’s people”, adding: “I don’t want to be cute, I don’t want to be a wise guy – but the Riviera of the Middle East … This could be something that could be so valuable, this could be so magnificent.”
Netanyahu, who praised Trump as “the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House”, said “it’s worth paying attention to this” idea and added that it’s “something that could change history”.
bibi the war criminal was licking his lips, since to him the 'world's people' means jewish settlers...
And no doubt thinking of turning the West Bank similarly into more of a demolition site than it already is in order to suggest the same happens there!
"Vowed that US would “take over” war ravaged Gaza and “own it”, effectively endorsing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, in an announcement shocking even by the standards of his norm-shattering presidency"
"President’s plan, which is low on detail, would involve the permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries"
In other words, ethnic cleansing!
“If it’s necessary, we’ll do that, we’re going to take over that piece, we’re going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it’ll be something that the entire Middle East can be very proud of.”
Funny that, given the orange one is a corrupt 'property developer'!
"Pressed on who would live in a redeveloped Gaza, Trump said it could become a home to “the world’s people”, adding: “I don’t want to be cute, I don’t want to be a wise guy – but the Riviera of the Middle East … This could be something that could be so valuable, this could be so magnificent.”
Netanyahu, who praised Trump as “the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House”, said “it’s worth paying attention to this” idea and added that it’s “something that could change history”.
bibi the war criminal was licking his lips, since to him the 'world's people' means jewish settlers...
And no doubt thinking of turning the West Bank similarly into more of a demolition site than it already is in order to suggest the same happens there!
While Trump whines about the ICC unfairly targeting America and Israel for their war crimes in Gaza, they conveniently ignore the continuing military operations throughout the west Bank...
Thousands of Palestinians have been displaced and dozens of homes have been demolished after more than two weeks of deadly Israeli siege and raids in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, including Jenin refugee camp. “The Israeli army says they have launched a ‘counterterrorism’ operation to combat armed Palestinian fighters. But if you look at what is going on, you have 26,000 Palestinians who have been forcibly displaced, forced to leave their homes,” said Al Jazeera's Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Amman, Jordan.
Thousands of Palestinians have been displaced and dozens of homes have been demolished after more than two weeks of deadly Israeli siege and raids in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, including Jenin refugee camp. “The Israeli army says they have launched a ‘counterterrorism’ operation to combat armed Palestinian fighters. But if you look at what is going on, you have 26,000 Palestinians who have been forcibly displaced, forced to leave their homes,” said Al Jazeera's Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Amman, Jordan.
Do you see people in Weatherspoons looking like that all the time who simply want to meet up again with their family?
Unaware (according to reports) that his wife and daughters were murdered!
Dunno but the palistinian lynch mobs have sort of been kept at bay for now
By the dis organised terrorist gun men
Everything is relative (not in the genetic sense) old Bibi was shocked that a released hostage had the appearance of a Wetherspoons regular but 1000's buried under rubble in Gaza is just someone else's fault.
What family are we talking about?
"The British family of an Israeli hostage freed from Gaza on Saturday have described a "pendulum of emotions" as he was released 16 months after his capture.
Eli Sharabi's brother-in-law Steve Brisley, who lives in Bridgend, south Wales, expressed joy at his release, but voiced concerns over Mr Sharabi's gaunt appearance and whether he knew his wife and daughters had been killed in the 7 October attack"
"Sharabi was notified of his wife and daughters’ deaths after his return from the Gaza Strip. He was initially reunited with his mother Hannah and sister Osnat, and subsequently with other members of his family, including his brother Sharon. His family was reportedly given advice on how to break the terrible news"
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Netanyahu says Gaza ceasefire will end if Hamas does not return hostages by Saturday - live updates
The Israeli prime minister says the military will "return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated" if the hostages are not freed.
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Netanyahu says Gaza ceasefire will end if Hamas does not return hostages by Saturday - live updates
The Israeli prime minister says the military will "return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated" if the hostages are not freed.
US President Donald Trump must remember that the only way to bring home Israeli captives is to respect the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri has told the Reuters news agency. “Trump must remember that there is an agreement that must be respected by both parties, and this is the only way to bring back the prisoners. The language of threats has no value and only complicates matters,” he said.
Trump’s unpredictability is adding to the deep sense of uncertainty over Gaza, especially after the US president said the ceasefire deal should be cancelled unless all captives are released on Saturday, according to Akiva Eldar, an Israeli political analyst and author from Tel Aviv. “A week ago, before Netanyahu went to Washington, the common wisdom was that Trump is looking at [winning] the Nobel Peace Prize. Today, he’s looking at the death certificate of many innocent people in Gaza and in the tunnels of Gaza,” Eldar told Al Jazeera.
Eldar said that according to most recent polls, more than 60 percent of Israelis want the war to end, but he said Netanyahu could still use Trump’s comments as a justification for returning to war. “But we see that Netanyahu’s base supports him and does not want to see phase two of the ceasefire agreement and wants Israel to stay in Gaza,” he said.
Israeli settlers are pushing ahead with a largely unnoticed de facto annexation of large areas of rural land in the occupied West Bank that has already seen the almost total displacement of Bedouin in large areas. While settler activity, including violence, has long been well-documented in the section of the West Bank designated by the 1993 Oslo accords as under Israeli security and administrative control – the so-called Area C of the occupied territory, including the south Hebron Hills – settlers have switched their focus to mostly rural Area B, which was designated to be under Palestinian civil control initially.
In one section of Area B in the arid desert hills between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea near the Israeli settlement of Tko’a all evidence of Bedouin who once lived there appears to have been erased, while in a second area those that remain are being harassed by settler violence. Cisterns used by the Bedouin for generations are now under settler control, while new settler cultivation, largely of olive trees fed by the water pipes, is replacing grazing for sheep.
According to Yoni Mizrachi, a researcher for the settlement monitoring group Peace Now: “In 2024 I counted 59 new illegal outposts,” referring to all of the West Bank. “It was a record year. A new one every week. Before, you might see between zero and 10 to a dozen in an average year.” The Guardian is shown a video of recent attacks: settlers attempting to frighten the Bedouin flocks, setting fire to a building, stealing equipment and setting a dog on the Bedouin children.
“Three and a half years ago there were around 240,000 dunums Palestinians could not access because of settler violence. Today that figure is close to 800,000. That’s 12% of the West Bank.”
In one section of Area B in the arid desert hills between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea near the Israeli settlement of Tko’a all evidence of Bedouin who once lived there appears to have been erased, while in a second area those that remain are being harassed by settler violence. Cisterns used by the Bedouin for generations are now under settler control, while new settler cultivation, largely of olive trees fed by the water pipes, is replacing grazing for sheep.
According to Yoni Mizrachi, a researcher for the settlement monitoring group Peace Now: “In 2024 I counted 59 new illegal outposts,” referring to all of the West Bank. “It was a record year. A new one every week. Before, you might see between zero and 10 to a dozen in an average year.” The Guardian is shown a video of recent attacks: settlers attempting to frighten the Bedouin flocks, setting fire to a building, stealing equipment and setting a dog on the Bedouin children.
“Three and a half years ago there were around 240,000 dunums Palestinians could not access because of settler violence. Today that figure is close to 800,000. That’s 12% of the West Bank.”
Hamas’s latest proposal says that they will release all of the remaining Israeli captives, including male soldiers who were abducted on October 7, in exchange for an end to the war. What’s different about this proposal is that we wouldn’t see releases over several weeks like we are now seeing in phase one. It would be a one-time release of all of the captives in exchange for the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops and an end to the war.
There’s been no official Israeli response to this, but within the Israeli political realm, especially among the right wing, it’s not a popular idea to end the war and leave Hamas in power, militarily and politically in Gaza. Netanyahu says that Israel is going to achieve the absolute destruction of Hamas in both of those aspects. After weeks of delay, the Israeli PM finally agreed to dispatch a negotiating team for phase two of the talks, but it’s still unclear what Israel is looking for out of phase two.
Netanyahu says he wants to extend phase one, according to reports within Israeli media, to release more captives, but Hamas is adamant about being committed to the deal and wanting to see it through. Yair Lapid has told broadcaster Kan that Hamas will not agree to a second phase of the ceasefire deal if the Israeli government demands that it leave the Palestinian enclave. Lapid said such a demand is not a condition for a deal “but a means to obstruct it”. The comments come after Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said indirect negotiations for a second stage of the truce deal will begin this week and that Israel “will not accept the continued presence of Hamas or any other terrorist organisation in Gaza”. Hamas has rejected that demand, calling it “ridiculous” and saying “any arrangements for the future of the Gaza Strip will be through national consensus”.
A letter from Gaza tells Trump exactly what he can do with his offer to "rebuild the region".
There’s been no official Israeli response to this, but within the Israeli political realm, especially among the right wing, it’s not a popular idea to end the war and leave Hamas in power, militarily and politically in Gaza. Netanyahu says that Israel is going to achieve the absolute destruction of Hamas in both of those aspects. After weeks of delay, the Israeli PM finally agreed to dispatch a negotiating team for phase two of the talks, but it’s still unclear what Israel is looking for out of phase two.
Netanyahu says he wants to extend phase one, according to reports within Israeli media, to release more captives, but Hamas is adamant about being committed to the deal and wanting to see it through. Yair Lapid has told broadcaster Kan that Hamas will not agree to a second phase of the ceasefire deal if the Israeli government demands that it leave the Palestinian enclave. Lapid said such a demand is not a condition for a deal “but a means to obstruct it”. The comments come after Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said indirect negotiations for a second stage of the truce deal will begin this week and that Israel “will not accept the continued presence of Hamas or any other terrorist organisation in Gaza”. Hamas has rejected that demand, calling it “ridiculous” and saying “any arrangements for the future of the Gaza Strip will be through national consensus”.
A letter from Gaza tells Trump exactly what he can do with his offer to "rebuild the region".
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