Shocking

 Sorry my last message copied an incorrect line from the British individual who shared it with me. Teaches me not to rush with copy-paste, I corrected on the previous blog

Settlers and soldiers are still destroying lives, livelihood, and ecosystem of indigenous Palestinians here in the West Bank and in Gaza. They also enforced closure on us preventing even movement from happening between the isolated Palestinian ghettos. Our field team cannot do environmental work now much of our land. But we collected data both in West Bank and Gaza sometimes risking lives to get the data and do publish on this (contact us for publications in different areas). But the most destructive damage is in the Gaza strip for nature and for people (so far, although Israeli forces are doing similar tactics in the north of the West Bank). Here are some photos from Gaza Strip

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BHLewgJBX/

Released Four Israeli soldiers/prisoners of war (western/zionist media calls them hostages but do not dare to mention let alone call tens of thousands of Palestinian prisoners hostages)

here is what they said  https://youtu.be/isCKMzM1PKY

And ofcourse western media does not cover the thousands of Palestinins kidnapped (2% released in the prisoner exchange).  Here is a handful of thousands of video evidence of torture of Palestinians kidnapped by Israeli regime forces. Who is the terrorist, colonizer or victim

https://youtu.be/wvmiXrRnkLc

https://youtu.be/ic247PhEqow

https://youtu.be/2Ver8-aky-w

https://youtu.be/rZgkoXCkmE8

https://www.voanews.com/a/palestinian-prisoners-report-of-torture-in-israeli-jails-/7677418.html

https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1881597600086003852

https://youtu.be/K1PBSeN-o00

Our friend Ali Abunimah (executive director of Electronic Intifada) was detained in Switzerland! Shocking that the Swiss act on behalf of colonizers to suppress free speech. 

https://electronicintifada.net/content/eis-ali-abunimah-arrested-switzerland/50333

Here is Abunimah explaining logically how the bishop who scolded Trump enabled Gaza genocide https://youtu.be/j7Uj2tcz9_8

The systematic destruction of Gaza healthcare system

https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2025/01/23/destruction-of-gaza-healthcare-system-one-page-view-1737653644.pdf

From Gaza to California: the flames that connect us all. The fires burning in Palestine and Los Angeles today are symptoms of the same disease: a system that values conquest over conservation, profit over people, and expansion over existence.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/the-flames-that-connect-us-all/

Facts, alternative facts and Edward Said: Narrating a genocide
https://johnmenadue.com/facts-alternative-facts-and-edward-said-narrating-a-genocide/

Old story- new twist

 

Will history repeat itself but now with a very different outcome especially in the era of global environmental catastrophe powered by greed and militarism? To review reality locally and globally helps us find answers. Locally, Israeli apartheid forces are now doing in our parts of the West Bank what they did to Gaza. Ethnic cleansing, destruction of property, and massive violations of human rights ranging from right to move right to worship, right to simple dignified life.  People here are scared that this is merely the beginning of accelerated genocide and ethnic cleansing  as oerpetrated in Gaza.  We have repeatedly warned of the consequences of Western collusion with genocide and ecocide.  The fate of Gaza will be the fate of humanity if not enough people wake up in time to the global reality of simply unsustainability of "might makes right" colonial policies.  

At Trump's inauguration, the billionnairs were in the front row while his picks for secretaries were behind them. This image sums the momentous transformations gripping our planet. It used to be argued that the deep state consist of moneyed interests, largey hidden. Now we reached a point that murderous moneyed interests no longer work behind the scenes. The ultraright and afscists and neoNazis and Zionists are front and centre and openly cause millions to suffer with impunity. They even brag about their "common interests". For example, let us take the spectacle of the "World Economic Forum"  this past week (for a run-in I had with this forum in 2006, see http://qumsiyeh.org/theworldeconomicsforumcontroversy/). The right wing CEOs and government officials like the President of Argentina openly declared building an alliance of leaders around the world who believe and practice policies of "money trumps people". At the same forum convicted felon Donald Trump delivered a belligerent, triumphalist, and (textbook) colonialist speech touting a vision of the world where elite business interests trump human rights.
 
Eisenhauer warned US citizens in his farewell speech: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."

Eisenhauer did not anticipate how horrific it would be in the 21st century nor did not anticipate an alliance of neocolonial powers reinvigorated and working towards the same  goals: makin the rich richer, the poor poorer, and wrecking the global environment whie unleashing militarism and wars in unprecedented cruely like we see in Palestine (genocide and ecocide). Our species is at a pivotal moment in history never experienced before. We are then many, they are the few. If more of the many mobilize quickly we may still have a chance to save ourselves and our planet.

Remarkable exchange between Genocide Joe and Genocide Netanyahu admitting genocide
https://youtu.be/8-_8wvEDmYs
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE9sIu6A3bW/

Role of Google in Genocide
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/21/google-ai-israel-war-hamas-attack-gaza/

Role of Microsoft in Genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/23/israeli-military-gaza-war-microsoft
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php

What do the California fires have to do with Palestine and Jewish Zionists in California? Here’s Katie Halper exposing the biggest Zionist power couple, how they’ve been stealing California’s water for decades to support the largest pistachio farm in the country, how they support the IDF directly with MILLIONS of dollars, and how they influence the government to continue sanctions against Iran (because Iran makes the best pistachios in the world).
https://youtu.be/iFRpZflohBE?si=D_IGiq6xw3pibim7  
Here is Doug from Doug and Stacy, linking the practice of cloud seeding and severe weather across the country. The low pressure water is probably because the pistachio farm, just north of LA, has been draining all the city’s water.
https://youtu.be/YtRG9LN5p8A?si=bBd9qnv5Yc4yE7_w

They are now jailing Climate and Palestine activists in England. Some are receiving outrageous sentences. One woman, who hung a sign from a bridge, “just stop oil” in a poster WAS JAILED FOR FOUR YEARS!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/18/climate/just-stop-oil-prison-sentence-intl-latam/index.html
see also
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-ties-palestinian-rights-to-climate-justice-221489733726

How will Gaza redefine Global resistance
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/unbeatable-how-will-the-gaza-war-redefine-global-resistance/

Why the west is wrong about Hamas
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-west-wrong-about-hamas/50294

Stay Humane and keep hope alive

Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director
Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability
Bethlehem University
Occupied Palestine
http://qumsiyeh.org
http://palestinenature.org
facebook pages
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The choice is ours?

Both Netanyahu and Trump have visions of building empires and discarding the remnants of international law and the UN. Will they succeed to lead us to a World War or will we have peace? Trump immediately acted with executive orders to dismantle the US's connection to the world with a triumphalist inaugural speech full of classic colonialist language of manifest destiny, frontiers, pioneers and so on. But this is only more open empire building that was happening under his predecessors. His fascist billionnaire supporters are pardoned or even give Nazi Salute (lie Elon Musk) while common people (inluding Jews) who speak for Palestinian human rights are dubbed "anti-semitic" by Zionist groups like the ADL. The US is completing its second largest so-called "embassy" (in Beirut, the first in Baghdad). Each accommodates tens of thousands of personnel and the world is bullied to submission. See 

https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1880757780958924938 The neoconservative zionist plan of toppling seven countries in the Arab world has materialized albeit was delayed a bit because of the resistance. Trump is only verbally more crude as than other "presidents" so he insulted people around the world from Alaskan natives to the Danish (over Greenland) to Panamanians (wants to take Panama Canal) etc. Even his nearest neighbors (Canada and Mexico) and closest allies in Europe all are in his crosshairs. 

The world all looks at this stronger push to expand the big genocidal empire (USA) and the small genocidal empire (Israel) with trepidations. But theb reaction has been an expansion of the BRICS group of nations and the lineup for a global war is becoming clearer. We in the global South were never in doubt that imperialism is deep state and that the only difference between Genocide Joe and lunatic tRump is style of bluster of character. But since the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy, the transfer power in the USA was from one Zionist puppet to another Zionist puppet. The US system of federal elections has slowly and methodically been consumed by moneyed interests of the billionaires. The democrats and republicans become two sides of the same coin which is a Public Relations campaign to give the illusion of democracy while dragging the world to the abyss in service of moneys interests. Different faces but the essence is the same: making the rich richer and the poor poorer and pardoning criminals wearing different masks. Money flows whether from Edelson and Musk to republicans or Saban, Soros and Streyer to democrats (https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-leading-jewish-political-donors-in-this-us-election-cycle/). In all cases indigenous people and people of color are sacrificed on the altar the new Golden calves (and the chief being the Zionist sacred cow). Here in the occupied Palestinian territories, pogroms by Jewish colonial settlers and soldiers accelerated after the "ceasefire" agreements in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. (see https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-wave-israeli-settler-attacks-injure-palestinians-destroy-property-west-bank-villages) The apartheid regime only intensified: lockdown of the cantons/bantustans that we are restricted in. Home demolitions and confiscation of more Palestinian lands, and increase in Jewish colonial settler buildings (squatters on our land).Torching vehicles and homes is now almost a daily occurence supported by the fascist Netanyahu government (a government of settlers). Without going into a detailed analysis, the trends are clear and could lead to catastrophic outcomes (global war combined with climate change). To reverse this direction requires a global uprising, a global unity of all affected people. What the global imperialist elites want us to think is that our interests and causes are separate or even contradictory. But the struggles of immigrants in the US, ofAlaskans, of Californians, of Panamanians, of Syrians, of Palestinians of hundreds of other people are all one struggle against those elites profiting from their hegemony whether they are called Biden, Trump, Modi, or Neneyahu. By realizing the unity of our struggle can we defeat the greed that causes millions misery and that leads us to mass extinction. For all with eyes to see and brains to examine, the data is now available and the choice is clear. We either allow them to destroy humanity and the environement or we reclaim our humanity and our earth. The choice is ours. 

Religious Rights of Christians and Muslims violated in Jerusalem https://youtu.be/P0Af8WqlCtE 

The corporate (Zionized) media focused on Israeli prisoners released. Hardly any of them talked about the Palestinian (indigenous) prisoners released as part of the exchange. Here is more on this https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/18/israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal-which-palestinian-prisoners-will-be-released 

Message from Ramzy Baroud, editor of the Palestine Chronicle:Thank you to those who stood by us, fought for us, and died for us unconditionally. Palestine will remember its true comrades and never forgive those who danced on the graves of its children. #Palestine #Solidarity #Lebanon #Yemen #Gaza 

Qassem Muaddi writes well. You can see his most recent here including on "How Gaza taught us hope" https://mondoweiss.net/author/qassam-muaddi 

How to engage with Israelis who don’t fully support Palestinian rights https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-engage-israelis-who-dont-fully-support-palestinian-rights/50306 on the "ceasefire"

https://youtu.be/sJ4SMY2UNW4 

https://www.youtube.com/live/Ok8CPccPeBM

Empire

صرح وزير الداخلية الإسرائيلي المسؤول عن الشرطة والضفة الغربية (سموتريخ) أنه لديه خطة من شأنها أن تجعل المدن الفلسطينية "بما في ذلك الفندق ونابلس وجنين تبدو مثل جباليا". كان لدينا مشروع في منطقة الفندق لحماية نظام بيئي نادر للأراضي الرطبة ولكن هذا مهدد بخطط التوسع الاستعماري الإسرائيلي (انظر

https://www.palestinenature.org/research/first-vernal-pool.pdf ). التطهير العرقي حصل ويحصل في الضفة الغربية كما هو الحال في قطاع غزة وتسارع بعد معاهدات أوسلو كما حدث في عامي 1948 و 1967 في خدمة مشروع استعماري استيطاني توسعي مدعوم من الغرب. المشروع الوطني الفلسطيني كان ناجحا قبل تغييرات فرضت على صانع قرار مثل النقاط العشرة وقرار القمة العربية سنة 1974 ومعاهدات أوسلو. والآن يمتد الاستعمار ليشمل معظم جنوب سوريا بما في ذلك ستة مصادر رئيسية للمياه!!! هذا هو توسع الإمبراطورية الأصغر (إسرائيل) وراعيها (الإمبراطورية الأمريكية) حيث يتحدث إمبراطورها الجديد (ترامب) الآن عن ضم كندا وجرينلاند (الدنمارك). ولكن هل صحيح أن: "الأقوياء يفعلون ما في وسعهم والضعفاء يعانون مما يجب عليهم أن يتحملوه"؟ (منسوب إلى ثوسيديدس). الملايين من الناس الذين يقاومون الإمبراطورية في جميع أنحاء العالم يقولون لا. علاوة على ذلك، طلبت من الذكاء الاصطناعي أن يخبرني عن الإمبراطوريات التي توسعت وفعلت أشياء مروعة قبل انهيارها مباشرة بسبب الإفراط في استنزاف الموارد والغطرسة. أعطاني الذكاء الاصطناعي العديد من الأمثلة؛ في الواقع ربما تقريبًا كل إمبراطورية اندثرت في الألفي عام الماضية.

ولكن السبب الرئيسي وراء التراجع هو الغطرسة والعجز عن استيعاب الواقع. وهو العجز عن قبول فكرة أن الولايات المتحدة بنيت على أنقاض السكان الأصليين. أو أن "إسرائيل" بنيت على تدمير فلسطين، مما أدى إلى نزوح الملايين من اللاجئين ومئات الآلاف من القتلى (النكبة المستمرة). فيكثر الثأر ويقل الدعم حتى من أصحاب البشرة البيضاء أو الصهاينة المستنفعين. 

 لكن الآن المخاطر أعلى بكثير. يمكن للصراعات وتغير المناخ المدفوعين بالجشع أن يدمرا البشرية. علامات واضحة على حرب عالمية كارثية قادمة وستكون حروب نووية واستعمال الليزر من الأقمار الصناعية لتدمير مدن. وطبعا التغير المناخي (انظر الحرائق في كاليفورنيا المشتعلة الآن كدليل لاحظ انخفاض الأمطار وارتفاع درجات الحرارة عندنا والحرائق والإعصارات عالميا). ولذا يتناقص الإنتاج الزراعي وترتفع الأسعار.

ولكن أنا متفائل من انتشار الوعي والحراك العالمي وتطور التكنولوجيا . قبل 1200 عام، كتبت نبوءة شامبالا التي تتحدث عن وقت تكون فيه الأرض في وضع خطير جدا وسيكون القادة مهتمين بالدمار ولكن الناس العاديين سيكون لديهم إمكانية الوصول إلى تقنيات جديدة مذهلة ويجتمعون لإنقاذ العالم وبعضهم البعض: https://people.umass.edu/jgerber/ShambhalaWorker.htm

Shambhala prophecy fulfilled?

My family is Greek Orthodox and Christmas falls on 7 January but we do not celebrate. Only religious observances. After all as a recipient of these messages (Paul) summed it well: "Every day, Israel is killing 50 to 100 or more Palestinians in Gaza, who are already enduring unbearable suffering. 70% of those killed are women and children, which reflects the composition of the population. This gives the lie to any claims that Israel tries to minimize harm to civilians." But it is not just in Gaza. Two children were murdered in the West Bank Tuesday (our Eastern Christmas). The Israeli interior minister who is in charge of police and of the West Bank (Smotrich) stated that he has a plan that would make the Palestinian cities " including Al-Funduq, Nablus and Jenin LOOK LIKE Jabalya [devastated area in northern Gaza]". We had a project in the area of Al-Funduq to protect a rare wetland ecosystem but this is threatened by the Israeli plans of colonial expansion (see https://www.palestinenature.org/research/first-vernal-pool.pdf). The army and settlers (is there a difference?) are already engaged in pogroms and infrastructure destruction in the North West Bank while letting the Palestinian Authority try to root out resistance in Jenin Refugee Camp. This is ethnic cleansing in the West Bank as in Gaza Strip as in what happened in 1948 and 1967 is in service of an expansionist and western supported displacement settler colonial project (that is all it is!). This project's military juggernaut has now taken control of most of Southern Syria including six major water sources!!!

This is expansion of the smaller empire (Israel, "mini-me") and its sponsor (the US empire) where the new emperor (Trump) is now talking about annexing Canada and Greenland (Denmark area). But is it true that: "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"? (attributed to Thucydides). Millions of people resisting empire around the world say NO. Further, I asked AI to tell me about empires that expanded and did horrific things just before their collapse due to overstretching resources and hubris. AI gave me MANY examples; in fact maybe just about every empire in the past 2000 years. But the stakes are much higher now. Conflicts and climate change both driven by greed can destroy humanity. From 1200 years, there is the Shambhala prophecy that talks of a time when the earth is in a perilous position (climate change - see fires in California raging now as evidence and signs of global catastrophic war) the leaders will be interested destruction but the people will then have access to amazing new technologies and come together to save the world and each other:

https://people.umass.edu/jgerber/ShambhalaWorker.htm

Well. Read on (open links as you see interesting)

More on Hospitals and kidnapped medical staff from WHO
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/deeply-concerned-who-reiterates-call-for-israel-to-release-dr-hussam-abu-safiya/

Palestinians are once again being burned alive in their tents.
https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/1876735430806183971

What Zionists really think and how they brag about killing and torturing indigenous people
https://t.me/mizavit/1622
https://www.facebook.com/khaled.r.almalfouh/videos/1250578116159126/?rdid=qnc80Cux3Hh14Fsy

ANALYSIS

Review of film from ground zero
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/from-ground-zero-film-review-2025

Jimmy Carter who recently died at age 100 had this interview with Amy Goodman focused on Palestine https://youtu.be/s_CpFC_tXho (note while in office did much to damage the Palestinian cause including pressuring Egypt to a shameful surrender agreement isolating Palestine)

First AI assisted genocide
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
https://www.rt.com/news/610182-israel-gaza-collateral-killing/
Exposing Big Tech’s Complicity in Genocide | The Chris Hedges Report
https://youtu.be/JHcY6HHSEeo

Role of energy issues in empire calculations
https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2022-08-12/israels-mediterranean-gas-potential-gas-export-to-europe-and

UPLIFTING ITEMS

Daughters of Jerusalem song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk9llWw4ijc
Salute to Gaza Song https://youtu.be/uYSc2b1cZi0

Palestinian-American explains why he is suing the State Department over U.S. support for Israel https://youtu.be/xi46LuZPGEs

Unprecedented lawsuit filed against N. Calif. Congresspersons for funding genocide (press conference here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QacU

BDS Victory in California
https://truthout.org/articles/palestine-solidarity-coalition-wins-major-local-bds-victory-in-california/

Judge rules anti-Zionism is not hate
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/oct/14/anti-zionist-beliefs-worthy-respect-uk-tribunal-finds-israel

ACTIONS
ACT: http://qumsiyeh.org/whatyoucando/
Statement signed by 200 organizations
https://crisisaction.cmail20.com/t/j-l-ghjvkt-duhkdkkkdl-y/

Finally, here are some images of Palestine that show it was a fertile populated land with indigenous people before colonialism. Despite all odds, collusion of politicians and governments around the world (even some Palestinian leaders) we Palestinians will NEVER give-up our homeland (we are willing to share it but will never give it up even after genocide).
https://youtu.be/e_VXcOAZxdw
https://youtu.be/vjEBQ_bE7uA
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=435180588882861

Stay Humane and keep hope alive