Good news

 Good news

1) The largest country in South America (Brazil) has rejected the Zionist and ecocidal crazy right wing Bolsonaro and voted for Lula Di Silva who will protect the Amazon from Zionist and corporate takeover.  Trump and Zionists thus lost big time.
2) The student-led movement succeeded in defeating Vucic and other right wing corrupt politicians who had pushed to give Zionist Kushner prime Serbian lands for foreign "development." The student led movement is pro-human rights and against Zionism.  Again Trump and Zionist lost big time
3) Netanyahu is slated to lose in the Israeli elections per all the polls. But this may not all be good news since a majority of Israeli Jews will vote for parties that support ethnic cleansing and genocide.
4) Polls show that a tectonic shift is coming in US elections unless Trump and Musk do their dirty tricks to ensure the people's will is not respected (as they have done before).  But a revolution is coming and isolation of the genocidal and apartheid Israeli regime is coming regardless. Please help and donate to progressive candidates (people like Ilhan Omar and Abdul El-Sayed) and organizations who watch for US public interests (and not the corrupt politicians). And do insist that they release all and unredacted Epstein (Israeli Mossad linked) files and dig-up other 'Epsteins' working below the radar to destroy the US for the benefit of global Zionism.
5) Iran's response to the US/Israeli aggression (and let us be clear US foreign policy is dictated in Tel Aviv and is contrary to US interests, even US imperial interests) is WORKING.  A high level meeting in Tehran recently included Saudi, Turkish, and Pakistani leaders. Oil prices are $100-110 per barrel (doubled since the aggression started) and are slated to double again despite the illegal takeover of Venezuela. People around the world are waking up to the links between Zionist greed and their own pocketbooks (e.g. demonstrations in Italy and France against inflation and lack of basic services).

Obviously much more work is needed to end the rule of the oligarchs, the rich bankers, and billionaires (and the trillionaire Musk who put in $366 million in this election cycle).

Gaza: before/after

On bad news:
1) Another Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem is demolished https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/we-have-lost-hope-world-looks-away-palestines-history-crushed
2) Lana Nusseibah, UAE envoy of Palestinian heritage (but clearly follows UAE Zionist policies) was nominated to the UN Top. The UAE is also comp[licit in teh genocides in Sudan, Gaza, Yemen and more. See also how wanted war criminal Netanyahu views the regional landscape: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanyahu-map-shows-rsf-friendly-israel-and-uae-backing-separatist-movements
3) Greece becomes bigger partner in Israel's crimes
https://electronicintifada.net/content/greece-becomes-bigger-partner-israels-crimes/51705
4) (collective punishment): Thousands of Palestinians in Hebron ethnically cleansed
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-forces-begin-days-long-hebron-operation-force-families-from-their-homes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/collective-punishment-palestinians-displaced-israeli-forces-take-over-hebron-homes

5) Apartheid regime "elections" give choices of fascists and ultra fascists. All are apartheid and genocide supporters. 

So the struggle continues (A luta continua)

Olive harvest

 Dear all

First I need to explain that most of you have not been getting my emails due to issues related to content and marking them as spam by corporate outlets like google. We tink we have fixed some of the poblems but just in case, please go to my blog every week especially if you do not hear from me. The blog is posted here regularly.

Second: I implore you to volunteer with us. Some 12 volunteers did so this week on site and at lease 8 online volunteers helped this week with tasks ranging from garden work to research to networking. See palestinenature.org/volunteer and if you cannot afford the time, do donate money to allow us to open the news museum (see palestinenature.org/donations)

We are still in the midst of the most "eventful" olive harvest season ever here in the Fertile Crescent where olives were first domesticated some six millennia ago. Attacks on farmers picking their olives, preventing many from getting to their groves (almost half the groves are attacked, bulldozed or harvest stolen by settlers/soldiers). For the importance of teh olive tree, see this old article of mine.

A group of foreign settlers claiming God gave them the land are still engaged in ethnic cleansing of indigenous people off their lands, attacking them, uprooting olive trees, destroying the ancient landscape and still heavily engaged in the worst holocaust since World War 2.

Let me explain as medical geneticist: Judaism is like any other religion also spread by conversion and admixture of population. The local Palestinians (88% Muslim,10% Christian, and 2% Jewish) are genetically closest to Canaanitic Levantine ancestors. Jews from other countries are very distant with the European Ashkenazi Jews most unrelated to Levantine stock (most are European by discent from the Khazar empire by conversion  in the 8th and 9th century AD)[1]. Those are the European founders of Zionism, an ideology that a imed to transform a pluralistic peaceful and largely peasant society to an apartheid state with monoculture and language. The outcome of this settler colonialism has been catastrophic: ethnic cleansing (8.5 million Palestinian refugees or displaced people), genocide (half a million), ecocide, scholasticide, medicide, and veriticide. Now the apartheid regime is having elections between rightwing fascists and ultra fascists for the next government.  That and the destabilization of global economy led by US wars to serve Zionism (Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Iran etc) explains why Israel is the most hated regime globally.

Mohammad Bin Zayed, an Epstein "customer" subject to blackmail by the Mossad transferred not only hundreds of billions of dollars to Israel and the US officially as donations and "investments" but also it was just revealed that through Jared Kushner (son in Law of Trump) transferred hundreds of millions (likely billions) to nefarious enterprises and people profiting while reshaping Western Asia to be more Zio-dominated. Shocking (even for me) report in Vanity Fair.

Yet Norway is about to support genocide financially (unless people there stop this)

AIPAC is acting at the request of Israel; should Register as a Foreign Agent

A new report by the Palestinian Feminist Collective, supported by the Progressive International, documents Israel’s systematic use of sexualized and gendered violence against Palestinians, across detention centers, homes, military operations, and systems of surveillance, from the Nakba of 1948 to the present https://predatorystate.org/

[1] Richards, M. B., et al. (2013). “A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages.” Nature Communications, 4, 2543.
Elhaik, E. (2013). “The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses.” Genome Biology and Evolution, 5(1), 61–74

Three years that changed the world

On 3 October 2026, Israeli forces bombed one of the few remaining buildings in Gaza instantly killing two mothers and two daughters: Maysaa Khader Ibrahim Abu Daoud and her daughter, Maria (both Christian) and Dr. Yasmin Al-Boubo (Khamis) and her daughter Halloum (both Muslim). Three years of accelerated genocide will be marked 7 October. The murderous campaign to ethnically cleanse our country still goes on. The satellite images alone prove the this. We must now reflect on our changing world and act.

On the eve of 7 October 2023, Palestine appeared to many observers to be a problem that the Israel and its western “partners” had learned to manage rather than resolve. The occupation had become deeply institutionalized; settlement expansion and fragmentation of Palestinian territory continued; Gaza was under a suffocating blockade; and the political horizon for addressing the root cause of global instability was receding. The latter was evidenced by Israel’s drive to normalize its hegemonic power via Abrahamic accords with compliant puppet dictatorships in the Arab world from Morocco to Egypt to the Gulf states, Meanwhile, the United States had dozens of military bases in the region and was extorting hundreds of billions from the oil monarchies.  Israel enjoyed strong military, diplomatic and economic advantages.

Three years later, the landscape looks markedly different. The human and environmental destruction in Gaza has reached catastrophic proportions (worse than the Nakba of 1948), while the occupation, settlement expansion, displacement and pogroms in the West Bank (including occupied Jerusalem) have also reached unprecedented proportions (62,000 settler attacks in the West Bank in three years). Yet the consequences extend well beyond Palestine. The war has exposed the limits of military power as a means of “managing” Palestine to keep an apartheid system in place. This has placed unprecedented international attention on the relationship between occupation, human rights and international law. South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice, repeated Global South initiatives at the United Nations, and growing public criticism of Israel in parts of Europe and North America have demonstrated that the diplomatic landscape is no longer what it was in 2023. Analysis published in 2026 finds that public opinion in the United States and Europe has shifted considerably toward greater sympathy for Palestinians, even while many Western governments have continued to support Israel. But the changes are far more dramatic globally where a vast majority of the earth’s population now holds negative view of Israel and Zionism. This public sentiment has begun to trickle up to governments. It was unprecedented in UN history to have delegates from 77 countries leave the UN General Assembly hall when war criminal Netanyahu was about to speak.

At the same time, the wider international system is changing. The United States remains powerful, but its relative ability to determine the international agenda has declined from the unipolar era of the 1990s. China, Russia, India, the Global South and new political and economic groupings have acquired greater influence, contributing to a more multipolar international system. The global economy is also experiencing greater fragmentation, trade tensions, geopolitical uncertainty and inflationary pressures. The US has an unmanageable $40 trillion in federal debt and trillions more in state, corporate and household debt. All of this is in great part due to the Zionist lobby efforts to have more wars to benefit the billionaires (at least half the national debt is due to wars for Israel).

Enormous asymmetries of power remain but the political and moral context in which that power operates has dramatically shifted in these three years. The central question, therefore, is not simply what happened to Palestine during these three years, but what Palestine has revealed about the changing world. We moved
1) from normalization without justice to renewed centrality of Palestinian rights to return and self-determination
2) from assumed U.S. primacy to contested multipolarity (including destruction of many US bases in our region)
3) from military dominance to questions of legitimacy of the colonial entity known as the state of Israel.
4) from the facade of International law to questioning the credibility of the post WWII order
5) from geopolitical fake stability based on rich getting richer to systemic turbulence and rise of mass movement.

I wrote an article in 2024 titled "The Gaza Strip lights the way globally as colonizer masks all fall" and this is worth (re)reading: https://www.palestinenature.org/research/Qumsiyeh-on-Gaza.pdf 

US  military, financial and technological weight remains strong but is weakening. Israel's regional military position remains strong. Some governments have deepened ties with Israel despite public pressure, and Palestinian political fragmentation remains a major obstacle. So how should we navigate a world characterized by military might (increasingly challenged by drones and missiles), economic fragmentation, competing powers and weakening consensus around the post-Cold War order? Palestine certainly revealed that the world order built after 1945 is coming to an end. So now Palestine must shed a light towards a path of sustainable human coexistence based on justice. The destruction of agricultural land, water systems, ecosystems, homes and cultural landscapes raises a broader question: can reconstruction mean simply rebuilding structures, or must it restore the ecological foundations? If the world order is genuinely changing, what kind of Palestinian future should be built within that emerging order? We at the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability believe there are only two paths left for humanity: 1) the continued charade of might makes right (and the poor getting poorer, more oppression, more war, more anthropogenic destruction of our environment for profit) leading to destruction of our planet, OR 2) dismantling the structures that lead to this (rampant capitalism, imperialism, Zionism, etc) and building a future of sustainable human and natural communities. We work for option 2!  Meantime we must also redouble our effort to end the ongoing genocide and ecocide

relevant databases
http://ochaopt.org
https://data.techforpalestine.org
https://intent.alhaq.org/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-historian-produces-vast-database-war-crimes-gaza