• Arab Regimes and the Betrayal of Palestine (w/ Farah El-Sharif) | The Chris Hedges Report
    Farah El-Sharif examines the forces that lead Muslim leaders to stand by and witness the slaughter of their own people in exchange for “petty crumbs” from Western powers and the Zionist state.

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    Farah El-Sharif, writer, academic and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, is uncompromisingly blunt in her assessment of the Middle East. The decades of repression faced by an entire people have produced a fragmented society—culturally and through colonially imposed borders. To help understand why the Muslim world is so broken, corrupt and full of contradictions, El Sherif joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report.

    “The systemic repression that Muslim communities worldwide experience is inextricably linked to the interventionist, expansionist, supremacist American-Israeli Western project,” El Sharif says. Though the region has grown to have perceived independence from its former colonial states, El Sharif explains that the imperial agenda and the manufacturing of a Muslim menace continues.

    The psychological and physical damage runs so deep that many give in to their oppressors in hope of selfish prosperity, while others look at themselves as less than deserving of a dignified existence. The genocide in Gaza proves to be the most crucial litmus test, as the leaders of fellow Muslim countries stand by and witness the slaughter of their own people in exchange for “petty crumbs” from Western powers and the Zionist state.

    “A lot of Muslims even internalize this war on terror rhetoric and they themselves start being apologetic and say, Islam is peaceful, Islam is this, Islam is compatible with democracy, Islam is compatible with civility,” El Sharif explains. “I see that as a sign of decimated consciousness, not just double consciousness. They don't know their own faith, they don't know their own history, and so they start being apologetic about it, and that is a position of weakness.”

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    “The Muslim world has been tested with the weakest, most corrupt, and most hypocritical scholars and rulers because, as a community, our priorities have long been in the wrong place,” writes the Islamic scholar Farah El Sherif. “After being ravaged by colonialism, we no longer rallied behind the core characteristics of true leadership: Prophetic knowledge, principle, and integrity. We no longer valued what is just and true. We chased after the fickle mirages of autocratic power, wealth, charisma, and status. Thus was our downfall. As a result, we today see tightlipped, impotent Muslim rulers idly watch the river of blood as it flows from Gaza. We see compromised scholars betray the Qur’anic command for justice and bend their heads in humiliation and fear of worldly powers. Save for a few, most Muslim rulers and scholarly elites have chosen self-preservation and silence. The river of blood in Gaza is also a river of treachery and collusion. With leaders like these, it is no wonder the Muslim world is in the sorry state that it is in today.”

    “Palestinians could see from the very beginning that there is nothing ‘post’ about the postcolonial world order,” she continues. “They have ever since got less and less of their rights, lands, and dignity with each passing day. In the same era, the opium of nationalism spread like wildfire as the Muslim world was carved into colonially constructed nation states. The rest of the Muslim world enjoyed its false sense of ‘sovereignty’ and accepted its bridle, divorced from the lonesome plight of the Palestinian people, fooled into believing that the same system that gave birth to their ‘sovereign’ states could guarantee their safety and protection.”

    “What,” she asks, “is the Muslim body today if not diseased, aching, and wounded?”

    Joining me to discuss the state of the Muslim world , the connection between repressive Arab regimes and the so-called war on terror, how the genocide in Gaza exposes the moral rot within Arab ruling elites and the efforts by the west to manufacture a complaint form of Islam is Farah El Sherif. Farah received her PhD from Harvard University’s Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations with a research focus on Islam in Africa and the Levant, the modern nation state and Muslim political movements. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford. You can find her work at sermonsatcourt.substack.com

    Farah, let's begin with the state of the Muslim world, the Arab world, which from the quotes that I pulled from the introduction, is you call it a diseased body, but it's also a created body by Western powers, propped up by Western powers. You grew up in Jordan. The Hashemite rulers of Jordan were imposed on the Jordanian people. Jordan didn't exist, of course, at the beginning, Transjordan, whatever you want to call it. They are from Saudi Arabia. The oil interests created the rulers of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And this has just been a kind of legacy, whether it's [Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-] Sisi in Egypt or any other kind of pliant ruler. So let's talk about the state of the Arab world and let's talk about—and we were together in Jordan this summer—the failure on the part of Arab rulers to push back in any, with the exception of Yemen of course, push back in any meaningful way against the genocide of the Palestinian people and then in many cases actually collaborate with the Zionists to overcome the maritime blockade imposed by Yemen.

    Farah El-Sharif

    Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much, Chris, for having me and the generous introduction. Really, if you ask any person in Gaza, they will tell you that the thing that hurt them the most was not the American, German and Israeli bombs. It was the cowardice of kin. It was the collusion. It was the abandonment with this kind of Zionist campaign to exterminate them. That is what is the source of their true emotional and psychological scar. So to say that the Muslim community worldwide is stuck between a rock and a hard place is probably the understatement of the century. So if it isn't these bombs, quadcopters, drones that are shredding our bodies and burning our children alive, it's these colonially installed puppets that look towards this model of empire and salivate over it, competing in who gets to please it the most and who gets to bend over to be compliant towards it. So these security states have our people strangulated, whether it is through surveillance, repression or intimidation. And if it isn't the horrific Sednaya Prison that we've seen footage of and other sadistic torture dungeons under Assadist Syria, it is the hundreds of other unknown torture cells still operating in the West Bank, Egypt, Saudi, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Jordan, East Turkestan, and India, Kashmir, where political prisoners are detained by the hundreds and held under gruesome conditions, often without charge.

    So if it isn't that, it's the Israeli soldiers that relish in breaking the bones of Palestinian children prisoners. It's the [inaudible] concentration camp where Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was abducted over a week ago with no word from him and where Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh of Al-Shifa Hospital was brutally raped and killed before him. It is the crude and sadistic Israeli parliamentarian urge to protect the so-called right to rape. If not that, it is the moral stain of Abu Ghraib. It is the Patriot Act that detains people like Dr. Aafia Siddiqui the rest of the Holy Land Five, and men like Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo's so-called forever prisoner, or America's tortured guinea pig, who still resides in Guantanamo [Bay] since 2002, and who we forget is of Palestinian descent himself. So this, like you rightly pointed out, Chris, the systemic repression that Muslim communities worldwide experience is inextricably linked to the interventionist, expansionist, supremacist American Israeli Western project. In a twisted way, they kind of all work together like this Pharaoh behemoth protected by Orwellian buzzwords like liberal democracy or state sovereignty or the so-called rules-based order, which Gaza has exposed as nothing but a ruse-based order. So it is as if this entire ecosystem of repression feeds on injustice.

    And we've reached the abyss of the abyss of repression. And this world order is this Frankenstein-like world whose horrors have been unleashed primarily on innocents. So what the great African-American theologian James Cone called structural sin, we've reached an alarming level of that, of desensitization to atrocious mass violence. And what does all of this do? It kills and strangulates all of us, not just Muslims. It produces this endemic spiritual death which affects not only Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians, but humanity as a whole. So this pernicious web of carceral cancer is sustained by the politics of compliance to an empire which sees Muslims like me, Palestinians and Arabs as mere fodder for this monstrous system. Nowhere is this collusion more evident than things like basic human rights and civil liberties being eroded in the West. Look at the state of Muslims in Germany. Just last week, I think a senator from Florida, Randy Fine, tweeted essentially a final solution, a call for a final solution, saying that it's high time we dealt with this fundamentally dangerous culture, i.e. Islam, what I would say to that is what is fundamentally dangerous and broken of a culture is one that has normalized genocide, one that is okay with watching images of people being burned alive and moving on with their day. That is what is fundamentally broken and that is what is dangerous. So this manufacturing, decades of manufacturing the Muslim menace, this idea of the war on terror, or let's change that proposition and call it a war of terror, a war of state terror that has Muslim political prisoners locked up and exterminated. This same campaign also sustains and funds the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the ongoing land grab annexation and colonization of land in Syria and Lebanon.

    And so all of this is part of a campaign to dominate and redraw the Middle East straight out of a 21st century crusader-cum-Zionist colonial playbook. Except this campaign is more militarized, it's more advanced, it's more funded and supremacist than ever before. So I don't think that this is a controversial point, Chris, but I wrote this in my Substack that we are currently living in an age of Muslim internment, but we don't call it as such. We've reached a point where we have normalized the genocide and extermination of a people deemed to be bad wholesale according to the logic of the Judeo-Western Christian civilization. So, yes?

    Chris Hedges

    No, go ahead.

    Farah El-Sharif

    I was just gonna say that since World War II, we've primarily normalized seeing images of torture basically on Muslim bodies from Bosnia, Abu Ghraib, the Rab'a massacre at West Bank, and now in Gaza, the Rohingya, the Uighurs. So it's definitely a time where, a time of harrowing, sort of desensitization and dehumanization on a global systemic level.

    Chris Hedges

    Well, as you are well aware, the United States acted no differently from Israel, as Israel is, of course, the genocide is more pronounced, but the kinds of the torture, the tactics, the indiscriminate killing, the racist language, this was all part of the project, the imperial project in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya, in Syria. We have a kind of historical amnesia here in the United States. But certainly within the Muslim world, especially those people that have borne the brunt, mean, how many, what is it, one million Iraqis were killed because of our occupation of the country? They don't forget. They know.

    Farah El-Sharif

    No, absolutely, Chris, you're right. And I think that you talked about, with Dr. Gabor Maté, you talked about fragmented morality, but what we're seeing now in a lot of this knee-jerk geopolitical reactions to what's going on in the region, in the Middle East, is a kind of fragmented vision. And what you were saying about amnesia is absolutely true. So I'm trained as an intellectual historian where my job is to look at the long durée of ideas and look at the kind of the macro arc of where we're going as a human whole. And so I don't say this to be an alarmist. I'm probably the most anti-dogmatic person that you could talk to, but I say this not to kind of play the victim card that, we Muslims, we need help, we're so helpless, and then turn that victimization into furthering another kind of oppression or another kind of injustice. And we've seen that happen to many people who are oppressed or repressed, suddenly they become the tyrant. And I think that for Muslims and Islam, we're at a kind of a turning point, a testing kind of, Gaza has been kind of the litmus test for Western leadership to basically see if there truly are about the highest ideals of Western civilization protecting the right to liberty, the right to life, the right to freedom.

    And it is clear, it is exceedingly clear that these freedoms only extend to the in-kind group. They're only seen as worthy to Westerners, to white people. Whereas when it comes to these barbarians abroad, let's just decimate them, let's just destroy them. And this arrogant expansionist program is very reminiscent of the 18th and 19th century colonial brutal campaigns that I read about when it comes to the French in West Africa or the Dutch in Indonesia. And it's exactly all from the same colonial playbook, except now it is fattened up with this, like I said, this Orwellian cover of civility and democracy. And we should not forget that this campaign that we are seeing now is exactly out of [Benjamin] Netanyahu's kind of wet dream for the Middle East to take all of it, essentially. And in 1996, you know better than me about the Clean Break Policy that was designed to take out seven countries in five years—Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and then swallow the region whole. And for anybody to look at one regime change and to say that that's not part and parcel of this campaign.

    Even the War on Terror was cooked up in Tel Aviv in 1982 or even before in 1979 through the Jonathan Institute that Netanyahu himself founded. He said, we're done with the red threat now. Now is the green threat, that of Islamic terror. And so a lot of Muslims even internalize this war on terror rhetoric and they themselves start being apologetic and say, Islam is peaceful, Islam is this, Islam is compatible with democracy, if Islam is compatible with civility. And I see that as a sign of decimated consciousness, not just double consciousness. They don't know their own faith, they don't know their own history, and so they start being apologetic about it, and that is a position of weakness.

    Chris Hedges

    Well, that is, and you've written about this, there's a huge push to create this kind of quizzling form of Islam. That's what the Abraham Accords are. So, you know, we divide, and this is classic colonial rule, we divide, let's put it in commas, the natives into the “good natives” and the “bad natives.” Those who are willing to serve in our colonial police force, like the Palestinian Authority, which is currently attacking Jenin and has thrown Al Jazeera out of the West Bank, imagine, following of course Israel's example within Israel proper. Let's talk about that, the attempt to create divisions within the Muslim world and this insidious project—and the Abraham Accords I think epitomize that—to create quote unquote the good Muslim.

    Farah El-Sharif

    Yeah, I mean, it's a very archetypal story in a sense that in every struggle for liberation, there will always be the collaborators, the native informants, if you will, who kind of throw their people under the bus and scurry the favor of the powers that be and try to kind of gain favor in exchange for petty crumbs. But ultimately, history, scripture have shown us that it is a Faustian bargain. At the end of the day, these people who think that by cozying up with repressive forces of empire like Israel and the United States at the expense of the actual lives of the people they govern, they do that thinking that they're securing their reign or that they are getting political expediency or perhaps their son might become king next or some kind of delusional worldly fantasy like that. But the funny thing that you mentioned about the Abraham Accords and how they are singularly pernicious, Chris, is that they use this language of a kind of this prophetic authority. They invoke Abraham as the father of all three religions and hence give this kind of treacherous collusion, a kind of a prophetic theological tinge. And this is again, part and parcel of this Orwellian doublespeak where this time they have Muslim scholars, even here in America, Muslim scholars who defend that, who are in cahoots with the UAE and Saudi, who are mum about the genocide in Gaza. And so historically we've had Muslim scholars in the lead of anti-colonial resistance movements, today you see they're fully co-opted or they're in dungeon prisons like in Saudi.

    Right now, I read yesterday that every 25 hours, one person is executed under MBS in Saudi Arabia. The other day, just somebody I know was detained for around three months, a woman for wearing a kufiya, a Palestinian kufiya in the holy mosque of Mecca. So this is the kind of cancerous kind of relationship that I was referring to earlier. And the funny thing is, Chris, the irony about the Abraham Accords is that in the Islamic intellectual tradition, the Prophet Muhammad was asked about the Prophet Abraham and what he stood for. So one of his companions asked the Prophet, tell us about the Abrahamic scrolls. And you know what the Prophet said about that? He said, the prophet Abraham used to speak like this:

    “Oh you wretched, insolent, conceited king, I did not send you to this world to collect worldly benefits, rather I sent you to respond to the supplication of the oppressed on my behalf. To respond to the supplication of the oppressed on my behalf.”

    And this is the exact opposite of what the Abraham Accords, backed by the UAE and Saudi, Bahrain, Morocco, do. They actually strangulate the oppressed. They are actually all the people living under the rubble or starving or dying from the cold in Gaza were only able to get to that point because of the collusion and collaboration of Arab and Muslim normalizers.

    Chris Hedges

    Let's, for people who don't know what the Abraham Accords are, this is Jared Kushner's project under the Trump administration, explain what it's—I mean, in its rough description, it essentially normalizes relationships, diplomatic relationships between Israel and Saudi Arabia, at the expense of the Palestinians, of course. But talk about the Abraham Accords and why they are so pernicious.

    Farah El-Sharif

    Yeah, it was signed in 2020, like you correctly said, under the Trump administration. It was, you could say, Kushner's kind of vision, alongside Netanyahu, of course. And it was signed between the US, and people don't even realize that Palestine is not even part of this accord. They arrogantly cut out the people whose lives are affected primarily. This is about them, this is about Palestinians, and yet they weren't consulted, they weren't even present. And so this is part of this kind of effort to kind of enact this cultural change, to promote a kind of Islam that is a quietist Islam, that is just cultural, that is just cosmetic. Women in hijabs, great. Men who go to the mosque, great. This rote ritual type of Islam that is devoid of its true spiritual core, its prophetic calling, which is what? To speak a just word in the face of a tyrant. That is the greatest jihad we're taught in our tradition. It's only later, actually Saudi itself never signed this. There's an article, if you look it up, maybe one week before October 7th, MBS said, we're very close to signing peace with Israel. And so even now, after the Gaza genocide, that has not been a disqualifier for any of these Arab regimes to stop or take back those treaties. They still have kept their word on these accords, on these peace treaties, these trade routes.

    And so when we say that these Arab armies, these militaristic behemoths, they've only been fighting their own people. They haven't been defending the oppressed that need them in places like Gaza. And now because of these Gulf states coming into the picture, we are seeing a more cancerous kind of form of normalization on the state level where you see even ordinary journalists, Muslims going online say, you know, we need to coexist. We need to do that. We need to do this. But then how can you coexist with an entity that is essentially trying to basically decimate your entire religious character, your identity, your beliefs, your core scriptural commitments, let alone, your brethren's bodies and the right to exist.

    Chris Hedges

    Before we talk about, I think you would agree, kind of, to me, inexplicable silence on the part of most Muslim, many Muslim leaders over the genocide, let's talk about what these Arab regimes are actually doing in Jordan, in Egypt, in Saudi Arabia, the land bridge that was set up, the fleecing of Palestinians by Hala, the shooting down of the active assistance by the Jordanian, well, they say it was Jordanian, it was probably heavily American. When I was in Jordan, I was a little surprised to see so many American contractors and soldiers, not in uniform of course, in the hotel where I was at. But let's talk about what they're actively doing. They're not just passive, but the active support for the Zionist state in the midst of the genocide.

    Farah El-Sharif

    Yes, I mean, again, if we want to move away from having a fragmented vision and looking at specific states and how they approach Palestine, Palestine has been kind of a revealer and it's pointing us to the longer arc of history. I remind your listeners that these nation states were basically concocted out of a colonial kind of divide and conquer classic strategy after World War I, things like the McMahon policy or the Sykes-Picot [Agreement]. And so these states are cut from this kind of smelly leftovers of the French and the British empires. And people think that just when you declare independence or you're now you're sovereign, it doesn't actually mean that we are free or sovereign. On the contrary, it means that the level of control and coercion and repression has gone underground. It's more ambiguous. It's harder to locate. So that is why, for example, if you go to a protest in a place like a Jordanian university and you say something, you could get snatched up. Or in Egypt, you express solidarity with the Palestinians. People are afraid to do that because they think that that could be cause for them to basically disappear and go underground. So again, this ecosystem of fear not only surveils and kind of mutes people who are so-called not in, who are kind of not in the genocidal atmosphere, but I like what, there was an Egyptian taxi driver in the video that went kind of viral, he was, he rode with a gentleman from Gaza and when he found out that he was from Gaza, he started crying and he said, no, no, no, I won't take your money. And this is the least I could do not to take your money. Forgive us, forgive us for we are occupied too, he said.

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    And I think that is the sentiment that all Arabs feel, but that they cannot say that we are also occupied. We are also under this thumb of this brutal repressive system, whereas Palestinians have had the courage to break free from that. So in a sense, Gaza, sometimes the Arabs say that it represents the most free place on earth because it broke out of that prison. And so a lot of these prisons that Arabs, Muslims have in these Muslim majority Arab countries are mental colonization. If you see a policeman on the street, perhaps they shrink and cower more. Even I, I grew up in Jordan, it's a police state. I remember my dad, God rest his soul, he was a veteran journalist like you, Chris, and he was the editor-in-chief of Jordan's oldest daily. I remember it very well that when we started talking about something slightly taboo or slightly dangerous, they would say, the walls can hear everything, or he would crack a joke and he'd say, you're the neighbor's daughter, you're not my daughter just to kind of joke like that. But these were the kinds of jokes that we... Not funny. You know, this is the kind of climate that we grew up in. And now to see it become in this form, where it's a form of insanity, where you have your own people, your next of blood and kin being kind of exterminated right next door. And not only that, you see the trade routes that goes and funds the occupation boxes and boxes of tomatoes and cucumbers and lettuce and produce that go to feed and sustain the settlers and the soldiers while Gaza starves.

    Chris Hedges

    Let me just make clear that this comes in this pipeline—UAE, Saudi Arabia through Jordan over the King Hussein Bridge.

    Farah El-Sharif

    Correct, correct, Chris. And so we should probably shed light on the plight of3, the journalist who merely conducted an investigative report about this trade route, this land lifeline for the occupation. And she is currently doing five years in jail and is paying very hefty penalties for so-called cybercrime. And it's kind of a warning for others that don't you dare expose complicity or collusion or collaboration because you'll end up in a cell or a ditch like her. So it's just, the nice thing about it, Chris, it's like there's no ambiguity anymore, that people can no longer say that we should give them the benefit of the doubt. They're doing their best. It's a tough neighborhood. I hate this cliche. I hear it all the time. And they're always kind of invoking that, it's a tough neighborhood. Politics are dirty. But it's being blown off with crystal clear clarity that this is one occupation. It's one system. The enemy is one. And so it's up to people and their moral clarity and moral courage to everyday shed a little bit of that fear because once they partake in it and once they accept it, they say, oh, generations of people who live in fear and I accept this. I think my generation and hopefully my children's generation will no longer accept that kind of degradation, denigration and fear-based rule.

    Chris Hedges

    Yeah, I'm glad you raised the plight of Hiba, who, as you know, I tried to visit. I filled out all the paperwork and then sat outside the prison, the women's prison in Amman all day and wasn't finally allowed in. How fragile are these regimes? Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, I sense they're very fragile.

    Farah El-Sharif

    Yeah, I mean, we forget that this nation state structure that was cooked up in the kitchen of people like [British army officer and archaeologist] T.E. Lawrence and Sykes-Picot, basically are constructs. They're recent constructs. And we think of them as something that is the status quo since time immemorial, but they're really not. They stand on very fickle ground as we saw that things can change overnight. And so it reminds me of the story of Pharaoh who in the Quranic scripture that we share with our Jewish and Christian brethren is that right before, when he got to the zenith of his power, right before he got to Moses, the sea split and swallowed him whole. He became kind of, until this day, a sign and a kind of a lesson and a symbol for what happens to people who think that they are invincible, for people think that they will live forever. And so God knows what the future brings, but this level of foundational rot, I don't think can hold much longer.

    Chris Hedges

    Let's talk about, you and I were in an event, it was a year ago in Toronto, we were talking about Palestine. And what struck me after we spoke is the number of young people who came up and asked me and probably you why the Muslim leaders, Muslim leadership didn't say what, what was not unequivocal in the condemnation of the genocide. And unequivocal in the condemnation of the apartheid state of Israel. And I want to ask you that question. How do you characterize the response of the Muslim leadership in the United States?

    Farah El-Sharif

    Yeah, I remember that Chris, and it was heartbreaking and it still is. And I thought about this a lot. And I think it's largely due to the fact that this war on terror rhetoric that kind of weeds out the bad from the so-called good Muslims, the good Muslims who are compliant, who don't support so-called radical, brutal acts of terror. So it's almost as if this colonial rhetoric has been internalized in the consciousness of Muslim scholars and leaders. And so that they say that when perhaps that if we stand with the oppressed, if we speak up for Gaza, the powers that be might think that I support Hamas or that I support this and that. So again, it's like this, not just decimated consciousness, like I said, it's more than that. It's kind of capitulating completely because you're saying that the vernacular of justice has to be removed from Islam for me to have a seat at the table, for me to gain proximity to power, maybe get the ear of Biden or get the ear of Trump. And I see this happening a lot that some Muslims are scurrying the favor of the right-wing kind of platform and thinking that, at least we meet on certain points regarding families and family values and whatnot. So to me, this just signals a huge crisis in our priorities. It signals a terrible misunderstanding of the true aim and kind of point of being a Muslim and that is standing firm in your own principles and ethics and higher morality that is tethered to the throne of God, that is tethered to the oneness, the true oneness of God.

    So other than oneness, what do we have? Multiplicity. And multiplicity signals, I'm afraid, I'm afraid of this commitment. What if I do this? What if I say that? And so that is in a sense, a kind of a hidden polytheism. And so when someone who has a position of authority and scholarship and people look up to them and then they lapse in that responsibility, the whole community is hurt. And the young people are like, where do I locate my Islam? Who am I? What does it mean? And so that is why I think, you know, we are in this place where it's too comfortable with our salaries, upgrading to our SUV and our nice respectable suburban life while our brethren overseas get killed, it's a complete lapse of leadership and collective morality.

    Chris Hedges

    Explain to me this conundrum of Muslims for Trump.

    Farah El-Sharif

    I think I get it.

    Chris Hedges

    It's kind of like it's kind of like Jews for Hitler. I mean, maybe not that extreme, but I mean.

    Farah El-Sharif

    Yeah. No, but I mean, that's where, you know, that gives you a window and how this destroyed kind of consciousness, this severe inferiority complex where you are willing to basically, you know, shut up and accept racist rhetoric about you and your people. And it's this amnesiac kind of just, you know, the Muslim ban, it's still ongoing. It's not like it ended under Biden. And so it saddens me that Muslims for Trump is even a thing because what you're buying into, you're buying into the very campaign that's going to probably deal the final blow. And already you can see how very vitriolic and toxic X [formerly known as Twitter] and platforms like that are and full-blown Islamophobia, xenophobia. And there's this like maybe a strong man appeal to people who think that, well, this is a leader and maybe these are remnants from autocratic nostalgia that I see bumper stickers in Amman for Saddam Hussein. I guess this idea that, okay, if this leader is strong and tells it like it is, and he doesn't mince his words, then he must have something charismatic or strong.

    Chris Hedges

    Well, but at least Saddam Hussein was an enemy to the Zionist state. I mean, I was in Ramallah this summer with Atef Abu Saif, and he said, if you go in these houses, you won't see a picture of [Former President of the Palestinian National Authority] Yasser Arafat, you'll see a picture of Saddam. But Trump has never done anything positive for Muslims.

    Farah El-Sharif

    No, it's baffling and it signals a dangerous level of kind of maybe collective insanity, but there are pockets of hope. I think that, I guess by and large, this election cycle was manic for everybody. And I think we've reached a point where this lesser of two evils conundrum has reached a point where it can no longer be replicated in future election cycles. People are sick of lesser of two evils. They just want no more evil, no more. They just want the good, the true, something other than an orange fascist in charge or a Black woman whose funded genocide. So this conundrum, really this strangulation, this choke hold that we're in, for me is a good thing because it signals that, okay, at least this Leviathan is probably taking its last breaths and that more sane, conscientious people with a moral conscience, with a real pulse, with a real concern for humanity, hopefully, will be the ones to come next and inherit this ailing world.

    Chris Hedges

    So where do you see us going in the months and years ahead and then to close, what do you tell young people, in particular young Muslims? I don't, for the foreseeable future, for me, it looks pretty dark.

    Farah El-Sharif

    Yeah, it's a hard question, but also it keeps me up at night. I think about this a lot. I've always been this intense girl that my family makes fun of me, that even as a younger kid, I was always brooding and thinking about the Muslim world, our affairs, our conditions. So I'd like to refer to a lecture that I was at when I was a student at Georgetown in 2008, my favorite Catholic theologian, gave the nostra aetate annual lecture at the time. He said something that really blew my mind. He said that in his comparing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, he said that Judaism rests on kind of tribal, hierarchical commitments. And so its natural culmination, its natural telos is this—the ethno-religious state of Israel. And that is its final conclusion. And then he went on to say that Christianity is beheld by the papacy and the institutionalization of the church. And that's its logical conclusion. When he talked about Islam, he said, Islam is in its essence universalist. And it is, it's tethered by this idea of oneness of man and Muhammad as a mercy to all of humankind, not just Muslims, but their final arc or their final culmination has not been decided yet.

    So I call on my fellow Muslims to take this opportunity of rampant moral rot, of decay and destruction in the systemic world order that we live in that has exposed itself as hypocritical, essentially anti-Muslim, brutal and completely inhumane to kind of lean in to their agency as Muslims that can perhaps bring about a brighter future, that can perhaps fulfill this untold role, a positive role collectively that Islam can offer the world. Because unless and until we remain shackled in our mental and spiritual colonized mentality, whether it is about how we know ourselves, how we know religion, how we conduct ourselves politically, we will never break free. And so we have the potential to do that. We have the potential to be like Malcolm. For me, he's the greatest American Muslim exemplar and courageous leader. We call him the great American Shaheed, the martyr of America, who he himself visited Gaza in 1964 and he said the spirit of Allah was strong in Gaza. So look to these people instead of trying to wait for your average Imam or your charismatic Sheikh to grow a backbone, you have plenty of exemplars within our tradition living and dead, including the people of Gaza themselves. There is a Quranic kind of pointer there that the oppressed shall become the teachers. They shall become the role models of faith, similarly to how in Christianity the meek shall inherit the earth. So the kind of fortitude that the people of Gaza have, let that not go in vain.

    The other day I saw a video, Chris, that I can't get out of my mind of a father holding the shroud of his child in the ambulance. And he was speaking so clairvoyantly, so prophetically that it gave me goosebumps all over. He's saying, Ya Netanyahu, Ya Arab, O Netanyahu, O you Arabs, O you colluders, everybody who failed us, Allah is only raising you so that he can tear you down. So don't think that this, what you see, all of this supremacy, this militarization, this ironclad power, this supremacy is going to be the name of the game forever. It's only this shocking in its dehumanization, this shocking in its genocidal bloodlust for it to, hopefully, wither away and usher in a different world, a better world.

    Chris Hedges

    Great, thank you Farah. I want to thank Diego [Ramos], Sofia [Menemenlis], Thomas [Hedges], and Max [Jones], who produced the show. You can find me at ChrisHedges.Substack.com.

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    Arab Regimes and the Betrayal of Palestine (w/ Farah El-Sharif) | The Chris Hedges Report Farah El-Sharif examines the forces that lead Muslim leaders to stand by and witness the slaughter of their own people in exchange for “petty crumbs” from Western powers and the Zionist state. Chris Hedges This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Farah El-Sharif, writer, academic and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, is uncompromisingly blunt in her assessment of the Middle East. The decades of repression faced by an entire people have produced a fragmented society—culturally and through colonially imposed borders. To help understand why the Muslim world is so broken, corrupt and full of contradictions, El Sherif joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. “The systemic repression that Muslim communities worldwide experience is inextricably linked to the interventionist, expansionist, supremacist American-Israeli Western project,” El Sharif says. Though the region has grown to have perceived independence from its former colonial states, El Sharif explains that the imperial agenda and the manufacturing of a Muslim menace continues. The psychological and physical damage runs so deep that many give in to their oppressors in hope of selfish prosperity, while others look at themselves as less than deserving of a dignified existence. The genocide in Gaza proves to be the most crucial litmus test, as the leaders of fellow Muslim countries stand by and witness the slaughter of their own people in exchange for “petty crumbs” from Western powers and the Zionist state. “A lot of Muslims even internalize this war on terror rhetoric and they themselves start being apologetic and say, Islam is peaceful, Islam is this, Islam is compatible with democracy, Islam is compatible with civility,” El Sharif explains. “I see that as a sign of decimated consciousness, not just double consciousness. They don't know their own faith, they don't know their own history, and so they start being apologetic about it, and that is a position of weakness.” Chris Hedges Producer: Max Jones Intro: Diego Ramos Crew: Diego Ramos, Sofia Menemenlis and Thomas Hedges Transcript: Diego Ramos Thanks for reading The Chris Hedges Report! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share Transcript Chris Hedges “The Muslim world has been tested with the weakest, most corrupt, and most hypocritical scholars and rulers because, as a community, our priorities have long been in the wrong place,” writes the Islamic scholar Farah El Sherif. “After being ravaged by colonialism, we no longer rallied behind the core characteristics of true leadership: Prophetic knowledge, principle, and integrity. We no longer valued what is just and true. We chased after the fickle mirages of autocratic power, wealth, charisma, and status. Thus was our downfall. As a result, we today see tightlipped, impotent Muslim rulers idly watch the river of blood as it flows from Gaza. We see compromised scholars betray the Qur’anic command for justice and bend their heads in humiliation and fear of worldly powers. Save for a few, most Muslim rulers and scholarly elites have chosen self-preservation and silence. The river of blood in Gaza is also a river of treachery and collusion. With leaders like these, it is no wonder the Muslim world is in the sorry state that it is in today.” “Palestinians could see from the very beginning that there is nothing ‘post’ about the postcolonial world order,” she continues. “They have ever since got less and less of their rights, lands, and dignity with each passing day. In the same era, the opium of nationalism spread like wildfire as the Muslim world was carved into colonially constructed nation states. The rest of the Muslim world enjoyed its false sense of ‘sovereignty’ and accepted its bridle, divorced from the lonesome plight of the Palestinian people, fooled into believing that the same system that gave birth to their ‘sovereign’ states could guarantee their safety and protection.” “What,” she asks, “is the Muslim body today if not diseased, aching, and wounded?” Joining me to discuss the state of the Muslim world , the connection between repressive Arab regimes and the so-called war on terror, how the genocide in Gaza exposes the moral rot within Arab ruling elites and the efforts by the west to manufacture a complaint form of Islam is Farah El Sherif. Farah received her PhD from Harvard University’s Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations with a research focus on Islam in Africa and the Levant, the modern nation state and Muslim political movements. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford. You can find her work at sermonsatcourt.substack.com Farah, let's begin with the state of the Muslim world, the Arab world, which from the quotes that I pulled from the introduction, is you call it a diseased body, but it's also a created body by Western powers, propped up by Western powers. You grew up in Jordan. The Hashemite rulers of Jordan were imposed on the Jordanian people. Jordan didn't exist, of course, at the beginning, Transjordan, whatever you want to call it. They are from Saudi Arabia. The oil interests created the rulers of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And this has just been a kind of legacy, whether it's [Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-] Sisi in Egypt or any other kind of pliant ruler. So let's talk about the state of the Arab world and let's talk about—and we were together in Jordan this summer—the failure on the part of Arab rulers to push back in any, with the exception of Yemen of course, push back in any meaningful way against the genocide of the Palestinian people and then in many cases actually collaborate with the Zionists to overcome the maritime blockade imposed by Yemen. Farah El-Sharif Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much, Chris, for having me and the generous introduction. Really, if you ask any person in Gaza, they will tell you that the thing that hurt them the most was not the American, German and Israeli bombs. It was the cowardice of kin. It was the collusion. It was the abandonment with this kind of Zionist campaign to exterminate them. That is what is the source of their true emotional and psychological scar. So to say that the Muslim community worldwide is stuck between a rock and a hard place is probably the understatement of the century. So if it isn't these bombs, quadcopters, drones that are shredding our bodies and burning our children alive, it's these colonially installed puppets that look towards this model of empire and salivate over it, competing in who gets to please it the most and who gets to bend over to be compliant towards it. So these security states have our people strangulated, whether it is through surveillance, repression or intimidation. And if it isn't the horrific Sednaya Prison that we've seen footage of and other sadistic torture dungeons under Assadist Syria, it is the hundreds of other unknown torture cells still operating in the West Bank, Egypt, Saudi, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Jordan, East Turkestan, and India, Kashmir, where political prisoners are detained by the hundreds and held under gruesome conditions, often without charge. So if it isn't that, it's the Israeli soldiers that relish in breaking the bones of Palestinian children prisoners. It's the [inaudible] concentration camp where Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was abducted over a week ago with no word from him and where Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh of Al-Shifa Hospital was brutally raped and killed before him. It is the crude and sadistic Israeli parliamentarian urge to protect the so-called right to rape. If not that, it is the moral stain of Abu Ghraib. It is the Patriot Act that detains people like Dr. Aafia Siddiqui the rest of the Holy Land Five, and men like Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo's so-called forever prisoner, or America's tortured guinea pig, who still resides in Guantanamo [Bay] since 2002, and who we forget is of Palestinian descent himself. So this, like you rightly pointed out, Chris, the systemic repression that Muslim communities worldwide experience is inextricably linked to the interventionist, expansionist, supremacist American Israeli Western project. In a twisted way, they kind of all work together like this Pharaoh behemoth protected by Orwellian buzzwords like liberal democracy or state sovereignty or the so-called rules-based order, which Gaza has exposed as nothing but a ruse-based order. So it is as if this entire ecosystem of repression feeds on injustice. And we've reached the abyss of the abyss of repression. And this world order is this Frankenstein-like world whose horrors have been unleashed primarily on innocents. So what the great African-American theologian James Cone called structural sin, we've reached an alarming level of that, of desensitization to atrocious mass violence. And what does all of this do? It kills and strangulates all of us, not just Muslims. It produces this endemic spiritual death which affects not only Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians, but humanity as a whole. So this pernicious web of carceral cancer is sustained by the politics of compliance to an empire which sees Muslims like me, Palestinians and Arabs as mere fodder for this monstrous system. Nowhere is this collusion more evident than things like basic human rights and civil liberties being eroded in the West. Look at the state of Muslims in Germany. Just last week, I think a senator from Florida, Randy Fine, tweeted essentially a final solution, a call for a final solution, saying that it's high time we dealt with this fundamentally dangerous culture, i.e. Islam, what I would say to that is what is fundamentally dangerous and broken of a culture is one that has normalized genocide, one that is okay with watching images of people being burned alive and moving on with their day. That is what is fundamentally broken and that is what is dangerous. So this manufacturing, decades of manufacturing the Muslim menace, this idea of the war on terror, or let's change that proposition and call it a war of terror, a war of state terror that has Muslim political prisoners locked up and exterminated. This same campaign also sustains and funds the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the ongoing land grab annexation and colonization of land in Syria and Lebanon. And so all of this is part of a campaign to dominate and redraw the Middle East straight out of a 21st century crusader-cum-Zionist colonial playbook. Except this campaign is more militarized, it's more advanced, it's more funded and supremacist than ever before. So I don't think that this is a controversial point, Chris, but I wrote this in my Substack that we are currently living in an age of Muslim internment, but we don't call it as such. We've reached a point where we have normalized the genocide and extermination of a people deemed to be bad wholesale according to the logic of the Judeo-Western Christian civilization. So, yes? Chris Hedges No, go ahead. Farah El-Sharif I was just gonna say that since World War II, we've primarily normalized seeing images of torture basically on Muslim bodies from Bosnia, Abu Ghraib, the Rab'a massacre at West Bank, and now in Gaza, the Rohingya, the Uighurs. So it's definitely a time where, a time of harrowing, sort of desensitization and dehumanization on a global systemic level. Chris Hedges Well, as you are well aware, the United States acted no differently from Israel, as Israel is, of course, the genocide is more pronounced, but the kinds of the torture, the tactics, the indiscriminate killing, the racist language, this was all part of the project, the imperial project in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya, in Syria. We have a kind of historical amnesia here in the United States. But certainly within the Muslim world, especially those people that have borne the brunt, mean, how many, what is it, one million Iraqis were killed because of our occupation of the country? They don't forget. They know. Farah El-Sharif No, absolutely, Chris, you're right. And I think that you talked about, with Dr. Gabor Maté, you talked about fragmented morality, but what we're seeing now in a lot of this knee-jerk geopolitical reactions to what's going on in the region, in the Middle East, is a kind of fragmented vision. And what you were saying about amnesia is absolutely true. So I'm trained as an intellectual historian where my job is to look at the long durée of ideas and look at the kind of the macro arc of where we're going as a human whole. And so I don't say this to be an alarmist. I'm probably the most anti-dogmatic person that you could talk to, but I say this not to kind of play the victim card that, we Muslims, we need help, we're so helpless, and then turn that victimization into furthering another kind of oppression or another kind of injustice. And we've seen that happen to many people who are oppressed or repressed, suddenly they become the tyrant. And I think that for Muslims and Islam, we're at a kind of a turning point, a testing kind of, Gaza has been kind of the litmus test for Western leadership to basically see if there truly are about the highest ideals of Western civilization protecting the right to liberty, the right to life, the right to freedom. And it is clear, it is exceedingly clear that these freedoms only extend to the in-kind group. They're only seen as worthy to Westerners, to white people. Whereas when it comes to these barbarians abroad, let's just decimate them, let's just destroy them. And this arrogant expansionist program is very reminiscent of the 18th and 19th century colonial brutal campaigns that I read about when it comes to the French in West Africa or the Dutch in Indonesia. And it's exactly all from the same colonial playbook, except now it is fattened up with this, like I said, this Orwellian cover of civility and democracy. And we should not forget that this campaign that we are seeing now is exactly out of [Benjamin] Netanyahu's kind of wet dream for the Middle East to take all of it, essentially. And in 1996, you know better than me about the Clean Break Policy that was designed to take out seven countries in five years—Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and then swallow the region whole. And for anybody to look at one regime change and to say that that's not part and parcel of this campaign. Even the War on Terror was cooked up in Tel Aviv in 1982 or even before in 1979 through the Jonathan Institute that Netanyahu himself founded. He said, we're done with the red threat now. Now is the green threat, that of Islamic terror. And so a lot of Muslims even internalize this war on terror rhetoric and they themselves start being apologetic and say, Islam is peaceful, Islam is this, Islam is compatible with democracy, if Islam is compatible with civility. And I see that as a sign of decimated consciousness, not just double consciousness. They don't know their own faith, they don't know their own history, and so they start being apologetic about it, and that is a position of weakness. Chris Hedges Well, that is, and you've written about this, there's a huge push to create this kind of quizzling form of Islam. That's what the Abraham Accords are. So, you know, we divide, and this is classic colonial rule, we divide, let's put it in commas, the natives into the “good natives” and the “bad natives.” Those who are willing to serve in our colonial police force, like the Palestinian Authority, which is currently attacking Jenin and has thrown Al Jazeera out of the West Bank, imagine, following of course Israel's example within Israel proper. Let's talk about that, the attempt to create divisions within the Muslim world and this insidious project—and the Abraham Accords I think epitomize that—to create quote unquote the good Muslim. Farah El-Sharif Yeah, I mean, it's a very archetypal story in a sense that in every struggle for liberation, there will always be the collaborators, the native informants, if you will, who kind of throw their people under the bus and scurry the favor of the powers that be and try to kind of gain favor in exchange for petty crumbs. But ultimately, history, scripture have shown us that it is a Faustian bargain. At the end of the day, these people who think that by cozying up with repressive forces of empire like Israel and the United States at the expense of the actual lives of the people they govern, they do that thinking that they're securing their reign or that they are getting political expediency or perhaps their son might become king next or some kind of delusional worldly fantasy like that. But the funny thing that you mentioned about the Abraham Accords and how they are singularly pernicious, Chris, is that they use this language of a kind of this prophetic authority. They invoke Abraham as the father of all three religions and hence give this kind of treacherous collusion, a kind of a prophetic theological tinge. And this is again, part and parcel of this Orwellian doublespeak where this time they have Muslim scholars, even here in America, Muslim scholars who defend that, who are in cahoots with the UAE and Saudi, who are mum about the genocide in Gaza. And so historically we've had Muslim scholars in the lead of anti-colonial resistance movements, today you see they're fully co-opted or they're in dungeon prisons like in Saudi. Right now, I read yesterday that every 25 hours, one person is executed under MBS in Saudi Arabia. The other day, just somebody I know was detained for around three months, a woman for wearing a kufiya, a Palestinian kufiya in the holy mosque of Mecca. So this is the kind of cancerous kind of relationship that I was referring to earlier. And the funny thing is, Chris, the irony about the Abraham Accords is that in the Islamic intellectual tradition, the Prophet Muhammad was asked about the Prophet Abraham and what he stood for. So one of his companions asked the Prophet, tell us about the Abrahamic scrolls. And you know what the Prophet said about that? He said, the prophet Abraham used to speak like this: “Oh you wretched, insolent, conceited king, I did not send you to this world to collect worldly benefits, rather I sent you to respond to the supplication of the oppressed on my behalf. To respond to the supplication of the oppressed on my behalf.” And this is the exact opposite of what the Abraham Accords, backed by the UAE and Saudi, Bahrain, Morocco, do. They actually strangulate the oppressed. They are actually all the people living under the rubble or starving or dying from the cold in Gaza were only able to get to that point because of the collusion and collaboration of Arab and Muslim normalizers. Chris Hedges Let's, for people who don't know what the Abraham Accords are, this is Jared Kushner's project under the Trump administration, explain what it's—I mean, in its rough description, it essentially normalizes relationships, diplomatic relationships between Israel and Saudi Arabia, at the expense of the Palestinians, of course. But talk about the Abraham Accords and why they are so pernicious. Farah El-Sharif Yeah, it was signed in 2020, like you correctly said, under the Trump administration. It was, you could say, Kushner's kind of vision, alongside Netanyahu, of course. And it was signed between the US, and people don't even realize that Palestine is not even part of this accord. They arrogantly cut out the people whose lives are affected primarily. This is about them, this is about Palestinians, and yet they weren't consulted, they weren't even present. And so this is part of this kind of effort to kind of enact this cultural change, to promote a kind of Islam that is a quietist Islam, that is just cultural, that is just cosmetic. Women in hijabs, great. Men who go to the mosque, great. This rote ritual type of Islam that is devoid of its true spiritual core, its prophetic calling, which is what? To speak a just word in the face of a tyrant. That is the greatest jihad we're taught in our tradition. It's only later, actually Saudi itself never signed this. There's an article, if you look it up, maybe one week before October 7th, MBS said, we're very close to signing peace with Israel. And so even now, after the Gaza genocide, that has not been a disqualifier for any of these Arab regimes to stop or take back those treaties. They still have kept their word on these accords, on these peace treaties, these trade routes. And so when we say that these Arab armies, these militaristic behemoths, they've only been fighting their own people. They haven't been defending the oppressed that need them in places like Gaza. And now because of these Gulf states coming into the picture, we are seeing a more cancerous kind of form of normalization on the state level where you see even ordinary journalists, Muslims going online say, you know, we need to coexist. We need to do that. We need to do this. But then how can you coexist with an entity that is essentially trying to basically decimate your entire religious character, your identity, your beliefs, your core scriptural commitments, let alone, your brethren's bodies and the right to exist. Chris Hedges Before we talk about, I think you would agree, kind of, to me, inexplicable silence on the part of most Muslim, many Muslim leaders over the genocide, let's talk about what these Arab regimes are actually doing in Jordan, in Egypt, in Saudi Arabia, the land bridge that was set up, the fleecing of Palestinians by Hala, the shooting down of the active assistance by the Jordanian, well, they say it was Jordanian, it was probably heavily American. When I was in Jordan, I was a little surprised to see so many American contractors and soldiers, not in uniform of course, in the hotel where I was at. But let's talk about what they're actively doing. They're not just passive, but the active support for the Zionist state in the midst of the genocide. Farah El-Sharif Yes, I mean, again, if we want to move away from having a fragmented vision and looking at specific states and how they approach Palestine, Palestine has been kind of a revealer and it's pointing us to the longer arc of history. I remind your listeners that these nation states were basically concocted out of a colonial kind of divide and conquer classic strategy after World War I, things like the McMahon policy or the Sykes-Picot [Agreement]. And so these states are cut from this kind of smelly leftovers of the French and the British empires. And people think that just when you declare independence or you're now you're sovereign, it doesn't actually mean that we are free or sovereign. On the contrary, it means that the level of control and coercion and repression has gone underground. It's more ambiguous. It's harder to locate. So that is why, for example, if you go to a protest in a place like a Jordanian university and you say something, you could get snatched up. Or in Egypt, you express solidarity with the Palestinians. People are afraid to do that because they think that that could be cause for them to basically disappear and go underground. So again, this ecosystem of fear not only surveils and kind of mutes people who are so-called not in, who are kind of not in the genocidal atmosphere, but I like what, there was an Egyptian taxi driver in the video that went kind of viral, he was, he rode with a gentleman from Gaza and when he found out that he was from Gaza, he started crying and he said, no, no, no, I won't take your money. And this is the least I could do not to take your money. Forgive us, forgive us for we are occupied too, he said. [POTENTIALLY PUT VIDEO HERE] https://www.instagram.com/doamuslims/reel/DCY5x7Uo3lS/ And I think that is the sentiment that all Arabs feel, but that they cannot say that we are also occupied. We are also under this thumb of this brutal repressive system, whereas Palestinians have had the courage to break free from that. So in a sense, Gaza, sometimes the Arabs say that it represents the most free place on earth because it broke out of that prison. And so a lot of these prisons that Arabs, Muslims have in these Muslim majority Arab countries are mental colonization. If you see a policeman on the street, perhaps they shrink and cower more. Even I, I grew up in Jordan, it's a police state. I remember my dad, God rest his soul, he was a veteran journalist like you, Chris, and he was the editor-in-chief of Jordan's oldest daily. I remember it very well that when we started talking about something slightly taboo or slightly dangerous, they would say, the walls can hear everything, or he would crack a joke and he'd say, you're the neighbor's daughter, you're not my daughter just to kind of joke like that. But these were the kinds of jokes that we... Not funny. You know, this is the kind of climate that we grew up in. And now to see it become in this form, where it's a form of insanity, where you have your own people, your next of blood and kin being kind of exterminated right next door. And not only that, you see the trade routes that goes and funds the occupation boxes and boxes of tomatoes and cucumbers and lettuce and produce that go to feed and sustain the settlers and the soldiers while Gaza starves. Chris Hedges Let me just make clear that this comes in this pipeline—UAE, Saudi Arabia through Jordan over the King Hussein Bridge. Farah El-Sharif Correct, correct, Chris. And so we should probably shed light on the plight of3, the journalist who merely conducted an investigative report about this trade route, this land lifeline for the occupation. And she is currently doing five years in jail and is paying very hefty penalties for so-called cybercrime. And it's kind of a warning for others that don't you dare expose complicity or collusion or collaboration because you'll end up in a cell or a ditch like her. So it's just, the nice thing about it, Chris, it's like there's no ambiguity anymore, that people can no longer say that we should give them the benefit of the doubt. They're doing their best. It's a tough neighborhood. I hate this cliche. I hear it all the time. And they're always kind of invoking that, it's a tough neighborhood. Politics are dirty. But it's being blown off with crystal clear clarity that this is one occupation. It's one system. The enemy is one. And so it's up to people and their moral clarity and moral courage to everyday shed a little bit of that fear because once they partake in it and once they accept it, they say, oh, generations of people who live in fear and I accept this. I think my generation and hopefully my children's generation will no longer accept that kind of degradation, denigration and fear-based rule. Chris Hedges Yeah, I'm glad you raised the plight of Hiba, who, as you know, I tried to visit. I filled out all the paperwork and then sat outside the prison, the women's prison in Amman all day and wasn't finally allowed in. How fragile are these regimes? Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, I sense they're very fragile. Farah El-Sharif Yeah, I mean, we forget that this nation state structure that was cooked up in the kitchen of people like [British army officer and archaeologist] T.E. Lawrence and Sykes-Picot, basically are constructs. They're recent constructs. And we think of them as something that is the status quo since time immemorial, but they're really not. They stand on very fickle ground as we saw that things can change overnight. And so it reminds me of the story of Pharaoh who in the Quranic scripture that we share with our Jewish and Christian brethren is that right before, when he got to the zenith of his power, right before he got to Moses, the sea split and swallowed him whole. He became kind of, until this day, a sign and a kind of a lesson and a symbol for what happens to people who think that they are invincible, for people think that they will live forever. And so God knows what the future brings, but this level of foundational rot, I don't think can hold much longer. Chris Hedges Let's talk about, you and I were in an event, it was a year ago in Toronto, we were talking about Palestine. And what struck me after we spoke is the number of young people who came up and asked me and probably you why the Muslim leaders, Muslim leadership didn't say what, what was not unequivocal in the condemnation of the genocide. And unequivocal in the condemnation of the apartheid state of Israel. And I want to ask you that question. How do you characterize the response of the Muslim leadership in the United States? Farah El-Sharif Yeah, I remember that Chris, and it was heartbreaking and it still is. And I thought about this a lot. And I think it's largely due to the fact that this war on terror rhetoric that kind of weeds out the bad from the so-called good Muslims, the good Muslims who are compliant, who don't support so-called radical, brutal acts of terror. So it's almost as if this colonial rhetoric has been internalized in the consciousness of Muslim scholars and leaders. And so that they say that when perhaps that if we stand with the oppressed, if we speak up for Gaza, the powers that be might think that I support Hamas or that I support this and that. So again, it's like this, not just decimated consciousness, like I said, it's more than that. It's kind of capitulating completely because you're saying that the vernacular of justice has to be removed from Islam for me to have a seat at the table, for me to gain proximity to power, maybe get the ear of Biden or get the ear of Trump. And I see this happening a lot that some Muslims are scurrying the favor of the right-wing kind of platform and thinking that, at least we meet on certain points regarding families and family values and whatnot. So to me, this just signals a huge crisis in our priorities. It signals a terrible misunderstanding of the true aim and kind of point of being a Muslim and that is standing firm in your own principles and ethics and higher morality that is tethered to the throne of God, that is tethered to the oneness, the true oneness of God. So other than oneness, what do we have? Multiplicity. And multiplicity signals, I'm afraid, I'm afraid of this commitment. What if I do this? What if I say that? And so that is in a sense, a kind of a hidden polytheism. And so when someone who has a position of authority and scholarship and people look up to them and then they lapse in that responsibility, the whole community is hurt. And the young people are like, where do I locate my Islam? Who am I? What does it mean? And so that is why I think, you know, we are in this place where it's too comfortable with our salaries, upgrading to our SUV and our nice respectable suburban life while our brethren overseas get killed, it's a complete lapse of leadership and collective morality. Chris Hedges Explain to me this conundrum of Muslims for Trump. Farah El-Sharif I think I get it. Chris Hedges It's kind of like it's kind of like Jews for Hitler. I mean, maybe not that extreme, but I mean. Farah El-Sharif Yeah. No, but I mean, that's where, you know, that gives you a window and how this destroyed kind of consciousness, this severe inferiority complex where you are willing to basically, you know, shut up and accept racist rhetoric about you and your people. And it's this amnesiac kind of just, you know, the Muslim ban, it's still ongoing. It's not like it ended under Biden. And so it saddens me that Muslims for Trump is even a thing because what you're buying into, you're buying into the very campaign that's going to probably deal the final blow. And already you can see how very vitriolic and toxic X [formerly known as Twitter] and platforms like that are and full-blown Islamophobia, xenophobia. And there's this like maybe a strong man appeal to people who think that, well, this is a leader and maybe these are remnants from autocratic nostalgia that I see bumper stickers in Amman for Saddam Hussein. I guess this idea that, okay, if this leader is strong and tells it like it is, and he doesn't mince his words, then he must have something charismatic or strong. Chris Hedges Well, but at least Saddam Hussein was an enemy to the Zionist state. I mean, I was in Ramallah this summer with Atef Abu Saif, and he said, if you go in these houses, you won't see a picture of [Former President of the Palestinian National Authority] Yasser Arafat, you'll see a picture of Saddam. But Trump has never done anything positive for Muslims. Farah El-Sharif No, it's baffling and it signals a dangerous level of kind of maybe collective insanity, but there are pockets of hope. I think that, I guess by and large, this election cycle was manic for everybody. And I think we've reached a point where this lesser of two evils conundrum has reached a point where it can no longer be replicated in future election cycles. People are sick of lesser of two evils. They just want no more evil, no more. They just want the good, the true, something other than an orange fascist in charge or a Black woman whose funded genocide. So this conundrum, really this strangulation, this choke hold that we're in, for me is a good thing because it signals that, okay, at least this Leviathan is probably taking its last breaths and that more sane, conscientious people with a moral conscience, with a real pulse, with a real concern for humanity, hopefully, will be the ones to come next and inherit this ailing world. Chris Hedges So where do you see us going in the months and years ahead and then to close, what do you tell young people, in particular young Muslims? I don't, for the foreseeable future, for me, it looks pretty dark. Farah El-Sharif Yeah, it's a hard question, but also it keeps me up at night. I think about this a lot. I've always been this intense girl that my family makes fun of me, that even as a younger kid, I was always brooding and thinking about the Muslim world, our affairs, our conditions. So I'd like to refer to a lecture that I was at when I was a student at Georgetown in 2008, my favorite Catholic theologian, gave the nostra aetate annual lecture at the time. He said something that really blew my mind. He said that in his comparing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, he said that Judaism rests on kind of tribal, hierarchical commitments. And so its natural culmination, its natural telos is this—the ethno-religious state of Israel. And that is its final conclusion. And then he went on to say that Christianity is beheld by the papacy and the institutionalization of the church. And that's its logical conclusion. When he talked about Islam, he said, Islam is in its essence universalist. And it is, it's tethered by this idea of oneness of man and Muhammad as a mercy to all of humankind, not just Muslims, but their final arc or their final culmination has not been decided yet. So I call on my fellow Muslims to take this opportunity of rampant moral rot, of decay and destruction in the systemic world order that we live in that has exposed itself as hypocritical, essentially anti-Muslim, brutal and completely inhumane to kind of lean in to their agency as Muslims that can perhaps bring about a brighter future, that can perhaps fulfill this untold role, a positive role collectively that Islam can offer the world. Because unless and until we remain shackled in our mental and spiritual colonized mentality, whether it is about how we know ourselves, how we know religion, how we conduct ourselves politically, we will never break free. And so we have the potential to do that. We have the potential to be like Malcolm. For me, he's the greatest American Muslim exemplar and courageous leader. We call him the great American Shaheed, the martyr of America, who he himself visited Gaza in 1964 and he said the spirit of Allah was strong in Gaza. So look to these people instead of trying to wait for your average Imam or your charismatic Sheikh to grow a backbone, you have plenty of exemplars within our tradition living and dead, including the people of Gaza themselves. There is a Quranic kind of pointer there that the oppressed shall become the teachers. They shall become the role models of faith, similarly to how in Christianity the meek shall inherit the earth. So the kind of fortitude that the people of Gaza have, let that not go in vain. The other day I saw a video, Chris, that I can't get out of my mind of a father holding the shroud of his child in the ambulance. And he was speaking so clairvoyantly, so prophetically that it gave me goosebumps all over. He's saying, Ya Netanyahu, Ya Arab, O Netanyahu, O you Arabs, O you colluders, everybody who failed us, Allah is only raising you so that he can tear you down. So don't think that this, what you see, all of this supremacy, this militarization, this ironclad power, this supremacy is going to be the name of the game forever. It's only this shocking in its dehumanization, this shocking in its genocidal bloodlust for it to, hopefully, wither away and usher in a different world, a better world. Chris Hedges Great, thank you Farah. I want to thank Diego [Ramos], Sofia [Menemenlis], Thomas [Hedges], and Max [Jones], who produced the show. You can find me at ChrisHedges.Substack.com. Photos Swarm of Insects in Front of Door (photo in thumbnail) (Original Caption) Locusts cover the doorstep of an Iranian home here, as the worst locust plague in 81 years brings threat of hunger and death to Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. 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  • Notice of Private Bladder & Cervix Assault and Battery with Through-Wall Radio Weapons, Notice of Crime: Assault, Battery, Radio Molesting, Trafficking, Procurement, Intended-Murder, Murder | Jan 25, 2025
    Notice | Ramola D | January 25, 2025, 12:27 pm, January 27, 2025, 5:55 pm

    : 7:00 am, Jan 25 2025

    Woken by extreme attack on my bladder–Mazzeos–around 6 am. Was also blast hit on knees, particularly from the Mazzeo side, before I rose, and just as I tried to get out of bed. Have gone to the bathroom, reshielded, gone down, got a glass of cider, come back up. Brushed my teeth. Used a shield front and back as well as large stones: Intense high frequency hits at my cervix vagina bladder from both sides: Mazzeos and LiMings. They are going to be Notice’d. These two parties are MURDERERS and RADIO MOLESTERS, using high frequency energy weapons to attack THROUGH-WALL, pointing their weapons at the BLADDER and PRIVATE PARTS of this WOMAN AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST. Hits have previously also been measured from the direction of the Starsiak Tenant house–153 Pine and 151 Pine. This is the Third day in a row that this writer has been woken early in the morning with BLADDER WEAPONS used on her bladder: extreme high frequency overstimulating the skin to create urinary urgency, obviously a highly sophisticated weapon which has been tested on other women, has been developed through testing on women, and probably also primates, female. This denotes both profound CORRUPTION VENALITY and BESTIALITY from the ones WIELDING THESE WEAPONS and the ones DEVELOPING THESE WEAPONS. All 3 parties here — the LiMings, the Mazzeos, and the Starsiak tenants have shown close affiliation with QUINCY POLICE through frequent baseless calls, CRIMINAL because FALSE, to Police to LIE, and PROCURE HARASSIVE POLICE ACTION against THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST. All three parties have also shown themselves to be FUSION CENTER CONTRACTORS who get to stay at home 24/7, interchangeably with other look-alikes or clones or stand-ins, and ATTACK HARASSIVELY, “MONITOR” HARASSIVELY, ORCHESTRATE ATTACKS, AND ENGAGE IN LOUD SOUND AND SOCIAL HARASSMENT each time THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST steps out; ATTACKS have been RADIO FREQUENCY WEAPON ATTACKS, measured and recorded, sounded audibly on sound shields and registering on Electromagnetic Field detectors. The extent, scope, and repetition of these attacks has been recorded and will continue to be recorded. THE ORCHESTRATED ACTIONS OF RADIO FREQUENCY, NOISE, AND SOCIAL ATTACKS, IN TANDEM WITH EXOTIC WEAPON USE ON THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST IS HEREBY NOTICED AS CRIMINAL, CRIMINALLY OFFENSIVE, MURDEROUS, AND INDICATIVE OF INTENDED MURDER OF THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST.

    A few minutes ago, while downstairs, opening the fridge, close to the dining-room, the Chen LiMIngs projected Machine Intel or their own voices into the dining-room, saying “BATHROOM.” They have started this action of issuing WORDS now and then as if in intended provocation, to BEHAVIORALLY NUDGE–a CRIME OF CIA-ORIGINATED SKINNERIST BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION HUBRIS, or to provoke REACTION of some sort with implicit intent to MEASURE and RECORD REACTION, also ACTS OF HUBRISTIC HARASSMENT: NOTE, these are SOUND FREQUENCY ATTACKS for they are VOICED WORDS, using sophisticated DARPA-CIA-originated SOUND and AUDIO Technology to project THEIR NASTY VOICES into MY DINING ROOM and MY KITCHEN: Holosound Projecting-Voice Tech, not “hearing voices”.

    Involved in these crimes against THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST this day of 2025, January 25 therefore are the following parties, who have previously been apprised of the CRIMES of these three parties against THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST and chosen 1) to do nothing and 2) to attack this author and journalist instead, as evidenced for several months of 2024 in repeat visits of Quincy Police on FALSE CLAIM from these three parties to the home of this writer, and on FALSE ACTIONS of same.

    NOTICE’d here therefore are the following CRIMINAL PARTIES and CRIMINALLY-ACTING PARTIES using BLADDER WEAPONS, RADIO FREQUENCY MOLESTATION WEAPONS THROUGH-WALL, and HUBRISTICALLY OFFENSIVE, BEHAVIORIST SOUND AND AUDIO WEAPONS against THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST this day, January 25, 2025:

    1. Chen LiMing and family of 156 Pine Street, Quincy, Massachusetts;

    2. Joseph and Samantha Mazzeo and family/company, of 150 Pine Street, Quincy, Massachusetts;

    3. “Kimberly Johnson”, Breanne Higson-Starsiak and Stanley Starsiak and Tenants and Company/Families, of 153 AND 151 Pine Street, Quincy Massachusetts;

    4. Quincy Police Department, Quincy, Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes; protecting prime criminals Nos 1, 2, 3, protecting City of Quincy departments in attacking this author and journalist, and procuring this Author’s body for vile False Psych Labeling at local Boston area hospitals;

    5. The City of Quincy, Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, who has permitted and continues to permit these crimes using numerous departments of the City to do so, including Quincy EMS;

    6. Massachusetts State Police as connected with the Commonwealth Fusion Center which contracts with Nos 1, 2, 3;

    7.The Central Intelligence Agency-CIA, specifically William Burns, CIA, John Ratcliffe, CIA, Avril Haines, ODNI, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body to Terminal Brain and Body Experimentation and Attack with Radio Weapons and Neuroweapons, as well as to numerous obscene and criminal “Behaviorist” “Maternal Separation” “Enforced and Prolonged Isolation” “Removal of Family” “Gaslighting with Clones of Child and Spouse” “Memory Grabbing” “Brain Grabbing” “Intellectual Property Theft” projects;

    8. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-DARPA, specifically Stephanie Tompkins, and predecessors Arati Prabhakar, Paul Eremenko, Regina Dugan, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body to terminal Brain and Body Experimentation and Attack with Radio Weapons and Neuroweapons;

    9. The Department of Defense-DOD, specifically Lloyd Austin and successor Pete Hegseth;

    10. The Department of Justice-DOJ, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes;

    11. The Boston FBI-prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, specifically Joseph Bonavolonta and Jodi Cohen, Harold Shaw, and predecessors from 2013, Richard DesLauriers and Vincent Lisi;

    12. The Massachusetts Attorney-General, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, who permits and continues to permit these crimes, Andrea Joy Campbell, previously Maura Healey;

    13. The Governor of Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, who has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, Maura Healey, Charles Baker;

    14. The Mayor of Quincy Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, who has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, Thomas Koch;

    15. The City Council of Quincy, Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, who has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, David McCarthy, Ian Cain, Daniel Minton, Richard Ash, James Devine, William Harris, Scott Campbell, Nina Liang, Noel DiBona, and predecessors, since 2013, when this author and journalist was first attacked in Quincy and informed all members of the City Council and the Mayor, with no reprieve;

    16. The Directors, FBI, past and present, since 2013, James Comey, Christopher Wray, Brian Driscoll;

    17. The Attorney-General, DOJ, past and present since 2013, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Jeff Sessions, William Barr, Merrick Garland, James McHenry; prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes,

    18. The Inspector-General, Michael Horowitz; prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes;

    19. The Head of the Commonwealth Fusion Center, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Noble, and predecessor Colonel Christopher Mason;

    20. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, Vice-President Mike Pence, Vice-President J.D. Vance, President Joe Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris, and past Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr., George Bush Sr., prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist, who have all permitted and permit these crimes, despite direct notice to several of them to stop;

    21. Rosine Afshar, Sinead Walsh, Ashley Crittenden, and Alexander Steffan, Board and Staff at Adams Montessori School in Quincy, Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, involved in unlawfully trafficking this author and journalist’s body and brain to criminal entities criminally permitted to use radio weapons to attack bladders and private parts–as many other body parts, essentially for Intended Murder, Murder, and Terminal Brain and Body Experiments, without consent or recourse to Law, for 11 years;

    22. Boston and Quincy DHS, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, along with Boston FBI, City Council, Mayor of Quincy, and Adams Montessori Board and Staff as named above, who have permitted and continue to permit these crimes;

    23. Brewster Ambulance, Quincy EMS, prime party in twice trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body on False Claim for no medical reason whatsoever, engaging in False Report on Section 12 forms, the second time knocking the author unconscious, both times unlawfully binding her, transporting her and admitting her into a hospital on false grounds and lies on their patient report and Section 12 forms, contriving a false Section 12 capture with false information noted on those forms, procuring False Psych Label placement on this Author on False Claim for then and future repeat procurement by themselves and others and for Murderous and Terminal Body and Brain Experimentation and the operation of so-called Public Safety deleterious remote-access radio technologies on her body and brain;

    24. Steward Carney Hospital, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, attacking this writer physically, incarcerating her unlawfully, implanting and “medically gassing” her unlawfully, and False Psych Labeling her unlawfully, permitting further crime to be enacted on her physical body;

    25. South Shore Hospital, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, attacking this writer physically, incarcerating her unlawfully, numerously implanting and “medically gassing” her unlawfully, knocking her unconscious several times, falsely labeling her “Unable to Consent”, False Psych Labeling her unlawfully, permitting further crime to be enacted on her physical body, running an unconsented-to Forced-EKG on her unlawfully after knocking her out, touching her body unlawfully without consent, changing her clothes unlawfully without consent, sticking RFID tags near her heart at various spots on her chest and breast unlawfully and without consent, RFID tags being used continuously now to track, stalk and locate her from neighboring houses, the street, parked cars, drones, planes, satellites, sticking quantum nano dot tech tags on her spine for similar painful tracking as also remote-access vibration to remove her Brain Processing Powers, implanting a suspected Klein-Walker implant on her back, and self-assembling micro devices in her left arm, shooting her up at three parts in her body with horse syringes for blood, unconsented-to, unlawfully, shooting all sorts of nano needle-like elements into her left upper arm for maximum pain creation, and transporting her unlawfully (after knocking her out and strapping her into an unmarked white van) to another hospital without communication for further incarceration without reprieve, all unlawfully, without consent, trafficking her unlawfully it appears into “Public Safety” remote-access programs in Quincy which are also criminal, death and disability-causing and need termination;

    25. Bournewood Hospital, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, attacking this writer physically, incarcerating her and for an extended period of 8 and a half days over Christmas 2022 under various conditions of deceit and mal intent unlawfully, implanting and “medically gassing” her with unknown neuro-tunneling drugs unlawfully, False Psych Labeling her unlawfully, defaming and smearing her unlawfully by admitting her in the first place despite being informed by her she had been brought there under duress in a case of mistaken identity and needed to be released, defaming and smearing her by making false notations, unconsented-to on a health record affiliated with her name and thereby permitting future crime to be enacted on her physical body;

    26. Virginia Hospital, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, implanting her unlawfully, falsely holding her, falsely diagnosing, and permitting later crime to be enacted on her body;

    27. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Atrius Health and Dr. Constantine Kralios, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, implanting her unlawfully, without consent, permitting further crime to be enacted on her physical body;

    28. The following physicians and psychiatrists and certified nurse practitioners, all complicit in unlawfully holding her in their hospitals, unlawfully incarcerating her and subjecting her to hospital torments and deliberate stresses of extreme cold, no food, no water, with much psych drugging in stealth, permitting her body to be unlawfully handled, knocking her unconscious, numerously and harmfully implanting her, false-psych-labeling her further for further defamation and further bodily attack, essentially becoming criminals, intending-murderers, procurers for Radio Weaponry and Neuroweaponry crime, and murderers themselves: Dr. Michael Reily, Dr. Steve McElroy, Dr. Ryan O’ Hara, Melissa Pasquale, LSW, Diana King, PA, Dr. Rebecca Read, CNP, Dr. Elizabeth Davis, CNP, Dr. Dany Dumas, CNP, Dr. Mahmood Sharfi/Sharif, Dr. Jared Trout as well as Dr. Suprav Mishra (alleged) and Dr. Alexandra Accardi (alleged) of Steward Carney Hospital; Dr. Chen and Dr. Wen and Laura Comeau RN of South Shore Hospital, Dr. Wayne Andrew Chin (Alleged), Dr. Olga Novikov-King (Alleged), Daniel Krahn, RN, Thomas Satkevich, RN, Michael Perry, NA, of South Shore Hospital, Dr. Richard Spiro, Dr. Raphael Weinstein, Michelle Prophet RN, Chris Napolitano RN, Madison Allred, LSW, Samantha Bayuk, LSW of Bournewood Hospital, many others, being named here and elsewhere in time.

    29. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, ignoring her reports of crime from many years ago including directly to staff at their offices, refusing to address these crimes, thereby permitting further crime to be enacted on her physical body and participant in the Procurement Activities indulged in by local Police, EMS, physicians for Nonstop Assault and Battery with Through-Wall Weaponry;

    30. The Quincy District Court, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, falsely and unlawfully ambush-procuring her body while physically sick with RF HPM-induced Radiation Sickness and Sinus Infections for ambush-kidnap, abduction, trafficking and transport by Quincy Police, incarceration on their foreign Maritime premises, ignoring her verbal Notices: of privacy, of living factual being in Land and Soil jurisdiction, and of being brought there as a matter of mistaken identity; clearly affiliated with criminal Black Ops Intel agencies such as the CIA, shackling and incarcerating her unlawfully for over five hours, attempting further kidnap into false-claim hearings through supposed “representation” by a strange man labeling himself an attorney, knocking her unconscious apparently several times then calling Brewster Ambulance to further traffick and transport her to a CIA-run Black Ops Hospital in Boston, South Shore Hospital where she was further knocked unconscious, implanted, force-EKG’d and falsely-Spych-labeled, so that apparently she could be further RF stalked, tracked, assaulted, tortured to the greatest extent possible: engaging in Stealth Operations of Extreme Crime therefore against this Author and Journalist, while pretending to be a “Court” engaged with Law and Justice.

    Several parties named above have been apprised of the crimes committed in Quincy, Massachusetts since 2013 on the living being, body and brain of this author and journalist and have not ceased their criminal and murderous attacks and harassment of her living being, body, brain, and life, which she struggles to shield from and recover from, every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every week, every month, every year of her unlawfully and criminally assaulted and attenuated life.

    All parties are complicit. All parties are corrupt. All parties are criminal. All parties are party, witness and accomplice to Intended Murder, Murder, and Trafficking for Terminal Brain and Body Experiments with Through-Wall Radio and Acoustic Neuro Weapons, unto disability, vegetabilization, and death–for these crimes have not ceased, and great physical harm has been sustained and continues to be executed on the living being, body, and brain of this Author and Journalist; any disability caused to her, and the action of Death if accomplished on her being can be directly attributed to them.This author and journalist has children, has a family, many families in fact, and is right in the midst of major journalistic reportage as also several fiction, poetry, and editorial projects, and will never and can never be accused of taking her own life, which she has always found precious and continues to find as such. If her body is found insensate, dead, unconscious, it is these parties and their affiliates who have attacked, tortured, and murdered her–while pretending they don’t know what Radio Weapons are publicly–despite DOD, NIJ, US Air Force, Navy, Army and partial Police disclosure, and her own extensive journalism to bring such disclosure to the public’s attention–and using a false-construct of “Mental Healh” issues to hide their Through-Wall Crimes.

    There is no consent from this author and journalist to permit ANY CRIME WHATSOEVER OF REMOTE RADIO ACCESS OF HER BODY AND BRAIN. There is no consent whatsoever from this author and journalist to permit ANY KIND OF SOUND AND AUDIO HARASSMENT PURPORTING TO BE COMMUNICATIONS from these criminals.

    All parties are advised to STOP IMMEDIATELY their actions and programs of RADIO ASSAULT and SOUND ASSAULT on her body, brain, home, and life.

    –Ramola D, 7:37 am, January 25, 2025, 11:35 am, January 25, 2025; January 27, 2025, 5:55 pm.


    https://everydayconcerned.net/notices/notice-of-private-bladder-cervix-assault-and-battery-with-through-wall-radio-weapons-notice-of-crime-assault-battery-radio-molesting-trafficking-procurement-intended-murder-murder-jan/
    Notice of Private Bladder & Cervix Assault and Battery with Through-Wall Radio Weapons, Notice of Crime: Assault, Battery, Radio Molesting, Trafficking, Procurement, Intended-Murder, Murder | Jan 25, 2025 Notice | Ramola D | January 25, 2025, 12:27 pm, January 27, 2025, 5:55 pm : 7:00 am, Jan 25 2025 Woken by extreme attack on my bladder–Mazzeos–around 6 am. Was also blast hit on knees, particularly from the Mazzeo side, before I rose, and just as I tried to get out of bed. Have gone to the bathroom, reshielded, gone down, got a glass of cider, come back up. Brushed my teeth. Used a shield front and back as well as large stones: Intense high frequency hits at my cervix vagina bladder from both sides: Mazzeos and LiMings. They are going to be Notice’d. These two parties are MURDERERS and RADIO MOLESTERS, using high frequency energy weapons to attack THROUGH-WALL, pointing their weapons at the BLADDER and PRIVATE PARTS of this WOMAN AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST. Hits have previously also been measured from the direction of the Starsiak Tenant house–153 Pine and 151 Pine. This is the Third day in a row that this writer has been woken early in the morning with BLADDER WEAPONS used on her bladder: extreme high frequency overstimulating the skin to create urinary urgency, obviously a highly sophisticated weapon which has been tested on other women, has been developed through testing on women, and probably also primates, female. This denotes both profound CORRUPTION VENALITY and BESTIALITY from the ones WIELDING THESE WEAPONS and the ones DEVELOPING THESE WEAPONS. All 3 parties here — the LiMings, the Mazzeos, and the Starsiak tenants have shown close affiliation with QUINCY POLICE through frequent baseless calls, CRIMINAL because FALSE, to Police to LIE, and PROCURE HARASSIVE POLICE ACTION against THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST. All three parties have also shown themselves to be FUSION CENTER CONTRACTORS who get to stay at home 24/7, interchangeably with other look-alikes or clones or stand-ins, and ATTACK HARASSIVELY, “MONITOR” HARASSIVELY, ORCHESTRATE ATTACKS, AND ENGAGE IN LOUD SOUND AND SOCIAL HARASSMENT each time THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST steps out; ATTACKS have been RADIO FREQUENCY WEAPON ATTACKS, measured and recorded, sounded audibly on sound shields and registering on Electromagnetic Field detectors. The extent, scope, and repetition of these attacks has been recorded and will continue to be recorded. THE ORCHESTRATED ACTIONS OF RADIO FREQUENCY, NOISE, AND SOCIAL ATTACKS, IN TANDEM WITH EXOTIC WEAPON USE ON THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST IS HEREBY NOTICED AS CRIMINAL, CRIMINALLY OFFENSIVE, MURDEROUS, AND INDICATIVE OF INTENDED MURDER OF THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST. A few minutes ago, while downstairs, opening the fridge, close to the dining-room, the Chen LiMIngs projected Machine Intel or their own voices into the dining-room, saying “BATHROOM.” They have started this action of issuing WORDS now and then as if in intended provocation, to BEHAVIORALLY NUDGE–a CRIME OF CIA-ORIGINATED SKINNERIST BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION HUBRIS, or to provoke REACTION of some sort with implicit intent to MEASURE and RECORD REACTION, also ACTS OF HUBRISTIC HARASSMENT: NOTE, these are SOUND FREQUENCY ATTACKS for they are VOICED WORDS, using sophisticated DARPA-CIA-originated SOUND and AUDIO Technology to project THEIR NASTY VOICES into MY DINING ROOM and MY KITCHEN: Holosound Projecting-Voice Tech, not “hearing voices”. Involved in these crimes against THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST this day of 2025, January 25 therefore are the following parties, who have previously been apprised of the CRIMES of these three parties against THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST and chosen 1) to do nothing and 2) to attack this author and journalist instead, as evidenced for several months of 2024 in repeat visits of Quincy Police on FALSE CLAIM from these three parties to the home of this writer, and on FALSE ACTIONS of same. NOTICE’d here therefore are the following CRIMINAL PARTIES and CRIMINALLY-ACTING PARTIES using BLADDER WEAPONS, RADIO FREQUENCY MOLESTATION WEAPONS THROUGH-WALL, and HUBRISTICALLY OFFENSIVE, BEHAVIORIST SOUND AND AUDIO WEAPONS against THIS AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST this day, January 25, 2025: 1. Chen LiMing and family of 156 Pine Street, Quincy, Massachusetts; 2. Joseph and Samantha Mazzeo and family/company, of 150 Pine Street, Quincy, Massachusetts; 3. “Kimberly Johnson”, Breanne Higson-Starsiak and Stanley Starsiak and Tenants and Company/Families, of 153 AND 151 Pine Street, Quincy Massachusetts; 4. Quincy Police Department, Quincy, Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes; protecting prime criminals Nos 1, 2, 3, protecting City of Quincy departments in attacking this author and journalist, and procuring this Author’s body for vile False Psych Labeling at local Boston area hospitals; 5. The City of Quincy, Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, who has permitted and continues to permit these crimes using numerous departments of the City to do so, including Quincy EMS; 6. Massachusetts State Police as connected with the Commonwealth Fusion Center which contracts with Nos 1, 2, 3; 7.The Central Intelligence Agency-CIA, specifically William Burns, CIA, John Ratcliffe, CIA, Avril Haines, ODNI, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body to Terminal Brain and Body Experimentation and Attack with Radio Weapons and Neuroweapons, as well as to numerous obscene and criminal “Behaviorist” “Maternal Separation” “Enforced and Prolonged Isolation” “Removal of Family” “Gaslighting with Clones of Child and Spouse” “Memory Grabbing” “Brain Grabbing” “Intellectual Property Theft” projects; 8. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-DARPA, specifically Stephanie Tompkins, and predecessors Arati Prabhakar, Paul Eremenko, Regina Dugan, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body to terminal Brain and Body Experimentation and Attack with Radio Weapons and Neuroweapons; 9. The Department of Defense-DOD, specifically Lloyd Austin and successor Pete Hegseth; 10. The Department of Justice-DOJ, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes; 11. The Boston FBI-prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, specifically Joseph Bonavolonta and Jodi Cohen, Harold Shaw, and predecessors from 2013, Richard DesLauriers and Vincent Lisi; 12. The Massachusetts Attorney-General, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, who permits and continues to permit these crimes, Andrea Joy Campbell, previously Maura Healey; 13. The Governor of Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, who has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, Maura Healey, Charles Baker; 14. The Mayor of Quincy Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, who has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, Thomas Koch; 15. The City Council of Quincy, Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, who has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, David McCarthy, Ian Cain, Daniel Minton, Richard Ash, James Devine, William Harris, Scott Campbell, Nina Liang, Noel DiBona, and predecessors, since 2013, when this author and journalist was first attacked in Quincy and informed all members of the City Council and the Mayor, with no reprieve; 16. The Directors, FBI, past and present, since 2013, James Comey, Christopher Wray, Brian Driscoll; 17. The Attorney-General, DOJ, past and present since 2013, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Jeff Sessions, William Barr, Merrick Garland, James McHenry; prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, 18. The Inspector-General, Michael Horowitz; prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes; 19. The Head of the Commonwealth Fusion Center, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, which has permitted and continues to permit these crimes, Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Noble, and predecessor Colonel Christopher Mason; 20. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, Vice-President Mike Pence, Vice-President J.D. Vance, President Joe Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris, and past Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr., George Bush Sr., prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist, who have all permitted and permit these crimes, despite direct notice to several of them to stop; 21. Rosine Afshar, Sinead Walsh, Ashley Crittenden, and Alexander Steffan, Board and Staff at Adams Montessori School in Quincy, Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, involved in unlawfully trafficking this author and journalist’s body and brain to criminal entities criminally permitted to use radio weapons to attack bladders and private parts–as many other body parts, essentially for Intended Murder, Murder, and Terminal Brain and Body Experiments, without consent or recourse to Law, for 11 years; 22. Boston and Quincy DHS, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, along with Boston FBI, City Council, Mayor of Quincy, and Adams Montessori Board and Staff as named above, who have permitted and continue to permit these crimes; 23. Brewster Ambulance, Quincy EMS, prime party in twice trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body on False Claim for no medical reason whatsoever, engaging in False Report on Section 12 forms, the second time knocking the author unconscious, both times unlawfully binding her, transporting her and admitting her into a hospital on false grounds and lies on their patient report and Section 12 forms, contriving a false Section 12 capture with false information noted on those forms, procuring False Psych Label placement on this Author on False Claim for then and future repeat procurement by themselves and others and for Murderous and Terminal Body and Brain Experimentation and the operation of so-called Public Safety deleterious remote-access radio technologies on her body and brain; 24. Steward Carney Hospital, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, attacking this writer physically, incarcerating her unlawfully, implanting and “medically gassing” her unlawfully, and False Psych Labeling her unlawfully, permitting further crime to be enacted on her physical body; 25. South Shore Hospital, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, attacking this writer physically, incarcerating her unlawfully, numerously implanting and “medically gassing” her unlawfully, knocking her unconscious several times, falsely labeling her “Unable to Consent”, False Psych Labeling her unlawfully, permitting further crime to be enacted on her physical body, running an unconsented-to Forced-EKG on her unlawfully after knocking her out, touching her body unlawfully without consent, changing her clothes unlawfully without consent, sticking RFID tags near her heart at various spots on her chest and breast unlawfully and without consent, RFID tags being used continuously now to track, stalk and locate her from neighboring houses, the street, parked cars, drones, planes, satellites, sticking quantum nano dot tech tags on her spine for similar painful tracking as also remote-access vibration to remove her Brain Processing Powers, implanting a suspected Klein-Walker implant on her back, and self-assembling micro devices in her left arm, shooting her up at three parts in her body with horse syringes for blood, unconsented-to, unlawfully, shooting all sorts of nano needle-like elements into her left upper arm for maximum pain creation, and transporting her unlawfully (after knocking her out and strapping her into an unmarked white van) to another hospital without communication for further incarceration without reprieve, all unlawfully, without consent, trafficking her unlawfully it appears into “Public Safety” remote-access programs in Quincy which are also criminal, death and disability-causing and need termination; 25. Bournewood Hospital, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, attacking this writer physically, incarcerating her and for an extended period of 8 and a half days over Christmas 2022 under various conditions of deceit and mal intent unlawfully, implanting and “medically gassing” her with unknown neuro-tunneling drugs unlawfully, False Psych Labeling her unlawfully, defaming and smearing her unlawfully by admitting her in the first place despite being informed by her she had been brought there under duress in a case of mistaken identity and needed to be released, defaming and smearing her by making false notations, unconsented-to on a health record affiliated with her name and thereby permitting future crime to be enacted on her physical body; 26. Virginia Hospital, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, implanting her unlawfully, falsely holding her, falsely diagnosing, and permitting later crime to be enacted on her body; 27. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Atrius Health and Dr. Constantine Kralios, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, implanting her unlawfully, without consent, permitting further crime to be enacted on her physical body; 28. The following physicians and psychiatrists and certified nurse practitioners, all complicit in unlawfully holding her in their hospitals, unlawfully incarcerating her and subjecting her to hospital torments and deliberate stresses of extreme cold, no food, no water, with much psych drugging in stealth, permitting her body to be unlawfully handled, knocking her unconscious, numerously and harmfully implanting her, false-psych-labeling her further for further defamation and further bodily attack, essentially becoming criminals, intending-murderers, procurers for Radio Weaponry and Neuroweaponry crime, and murderers themselves: Dr. Michael Reily, Dr. Steve McElroy, Dr. Ryan O’ Hara, Melissa Pasquale, LSW, Diana King, PA, Dr. Rebecca Read, CNP, Dr. Elizabeth Davis, CNP, Dr. Dany Dumas, CNP, Dr. Mahmood Sharfi/Sharif, Dr. Jared Trout as well as Dr. Suprav Mishra (alleged) and Dr. Alexandra Accardi (alleged) of Steward Carney Hospital; Dr. Chen and Dr. Wen and Laura Comeau RN of South Shore Hospital, Dr. Wayne Andrew Chin (Alleged), Dr. Olga Novikov-King (Alleged), Daniel Krahn, RN, Thomas Satkevich, RN, Michael Perry, NA, of South Shore Hospital, Dr. Richard Spiro, Dr. Raphael Weinstein, Michelle Prophet RN, Chris Napolitano RN, Madison Allred, LSW, Samantha Bayuk, LSW of Bournewood Hospital, many others, being named here and elsewhere in time. 29. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, ignoring her reports of crime from many years ago including directly to staff at their offices, refusing to address these crimes, thereby permitting further crime to be enacted on her physical body and participant in the Procurement Activities indulged in by local Police, EMS, physicians for Nonstop Assault and Battery with Through-Wall Weaponry; 30. The Quincy District Court, prime party in trafficking this Author and Journalist’s body, falsely and unlawfully ambush-procuring her body while physically sick with RF HPM-induced Radiation Sickness and Sinus Infections for ambush-kidnap, abduction, trafficking and transport by Quincy Police, incarceration on their foreign Maritime premises, ignoring her verbal Notices: of privacy, of living factual being in Land and Soil jurisdiction, and of being brought there as a matter of mistaken identity; clearly affiliated with criminal Black Ops Intel agencies such as the CIA, shackling and incarcerating her unlawfully for over five hours, attempting further kidnap into false-claim hearings through supposed “representation” by a strange man labeling himself an attorney, knocking her unconscious apparently several times then calling Brewster Ambulance to further traffick and transport her to a CIA-run Black Ops Hospital in Boston, South Shore Hospital where she was further knocked unconscious, implanted, force-EKG’d and falsely-Spych-labeled, so that apparently she could be further RF stalked, tracked, assaulted, tortured to the greatest extent possible: engaging in Stealth Operations of Extreme Crime therefore against this Author and Journalist, while pretending to be a “Court” engaged with Law and Justice. Several parties named above have been apprised of the crimes committed in Quincy, Massachusetts since 2013 on the living being, body and brain of this author and journalist and have not ceased their criminal and murderous attacks and harassment of her living being, body, brain, and life, which she struggles to shield from and recover from, every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every week, every month, every year of her unlawfully and criminally assaulted and attenuated life. All parties are complicit. All parties are corrupt. All parties are criminal. All parties are party, witness and accomplice to Intended Murder, Murder, and Trafficking for Terminal Brain and Body Experiments with Through-Wall Radio and Acoustic Neuro Weapons, unto disability, vegetabilization, and death–for these crimes have not ceased, and great physical harm has been sustained and continues to be executed on the living being, body, and brain of this Author and Journalist; any disability caused to her, and the action of Death if accomplished on her being can be directly attributed to them.This author and journalist has children, has a family, many families in fact, and is right in the midst of major journalistic reportage as also several fiction, poetry, and editorial projects, and will never and can never be accused of taking her own life, which she has always found precious and continues to find as such. If her body is found insensate, dead, unconscious, it is these parties and their affiliates who have attacked, tortured, and murdered her–while pretending they don’t know what Radio Weapons are publicly–despite DOD, NIJ, US Air Force, Navy, Army and partial Police disclosure, and her own extensive journalism to bring such disclosure to the public’s attention–and using a false-construct of “Mental Healh” issues to hide their Through-Wall Crimes. There is no consent from this author and journalist to permit ANY CRIME WHATSOEVER OF REMOTE RADIO ACCESS OF HER BODY AND BRAIN. There is no consent whatsoever from this author and journalist to permit ANY KIND OF SOUND AND AUDIO HARASSMENT PURPORTING TO BE COMMUNICATIONS from these criminals. All parties are advised to STOP IMMEDIATELY their actions and programs of RADIO ASSAULT and SOUND ASSAULT on her body, brain, home, and life. –Ramola D, 7:37 am, January 25, 2025, 11:35 am, January 25, 2025; January 27, 2025, 5:55 pm. https://everydayconcerned.net/notices/notice-of-private-bladder-cervix-assault-and-battery-with-through-wall-radio-weapons-notice-of-crime-assault-battery-radio-molesting-trafficking-procurement-intended-murder-murder-jan/
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    Notice | Ramola D | January 25, 2025, 12:27 pm, January 27, 2025, 5:55 pm : 7:00 am, Jan 25 2025 Woken by extreme attack on my bladder–Mazzeos–around 6 am. Was also blast hit on knees, …
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    Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

    More than 376,000 Palestinians displaced by the war between Israel and Hamas have returned to northern Gaza since Monday, the UN’s humanitarian body OCHA has said.

    Hospitals in Gaza have received 48 bodies in the last 48 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

    Journey home to north Gaza adds to Palestinians’ ‘long history of misery’

    Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Gaza: I have just come back from the military inspection point at the Netzarim Corridor. I saw really devastating scenes.

    Families in the line [to pass through to northern Gaza] are struggling without food, water and sanitation. The inspection process is incredibly slow.

    Thousands of cars are still waiting to make the journey back to the north. It will take days.

    People are absolutely exhausted. Now their return to [northern Gaza], rather than being a time of relief and joy, has turned into another struggle, adding to a long history of misery.

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    Tens of thousands of Palestinians forcibly displaced by the Israeli offensive continue to return to their lands from the south to the north via Salah al-Din Street
    Tens of thousands of Palestinians forcibly displaced by the Israeli offensive continue to return to their lands from the south to the north via Salah al-Din Street (Hassan Jedi/Anadolu)
    Gaza: No Safe Pregnancies During Israeli Assault

    The Israeli government’s blockade of Gaza and attacks on healthcare facilities have created serious and sometimes life-threatening danger for women and girls during and after pregnancy and delivery since hostilities began in October 2023, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

    The 50-page report, “‘Five Babies in One Incubator’: Violations of Pregnant Women’s Rights Amid Israel’s Assault on Gaza,” finds that Israeli forces’ unlawful blockade of the Gaza Strip, its severe restrictions on humanitarian aid, and attacks on medical facilities and healthcare personnel have directly harmed women and girls during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.

    The Israeli government, as the occupying power in Gaza, has violated the right to the highest attainable standard of health and other rights of pregnant women and girls, including the right to dignified, respectful health care throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, as well as the right to newborn care (continue reading here).

    Destruction at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital exceeds 95%: Health official


    Destruction at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip, has exceeded 95% due to the Israeli genocide, a Palestinian health official said Tuesday.

    The complex continues to provide partial services to residents in the 5% of its buildings that have been rehabilitated, said Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

    Palestinians inspect the damage at Gaza's al-Shifa hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital on April 1, 2024.
    Palestinians inspect the damage at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital on April 1, 2024. (AFP/Getty)
    Israeli gunfire hits ambulance near Rafah: Red Crescent

    The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says one of its ambulances has been hit by Israeli sniper fire in the Tal as-Sultan area, west of Rafah in southern Gaza.

    US stands alone in favor of UNRWA ban at UN Security Council


    The US was left isolated Tuesday in support of Israel’s decision to ban UNRWA at the UN Security Council, while many member states voiced strong backing for the agency’s continued operations.

    Dorothy Shea, US charge d’affairs ad interim for UN, told the Council that the US “supports the implementation” of Israeli Knesset’s decision to ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees’ operations in areas under Israeli occupation.

    While UNRWA was mandated by the UN General Assembly, Shea claimed that “it is Israel’s sovereign decision to close UNRWA offices in Jerusalem on January 30.”

    “UNRWA exaggerating the effects of the laws and suggesting that they will force the entire humanitarian response to halt is irresponsible and dangerous. What is needed is a nuanced discussion about how we can ensure that there is no interruption in the delivery of humanitarian aid and essential services,” she said.

    West Bank: Israeli Soldiers Kill a Palestinian

    On Tuesday, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man in the Irtah suburb, south of Tulkarem, and injured three others, including a child during their military incursion into Tulkarem city and the Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.

    Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man, on Tuesday night, after shooting and detaining him in the Irtah suburb, south of Tulkarem.

    Media sources said that occupation forces shot the young man, Ayman Fadi Qasem Naji, 23, with live ammunition, and proceeded to abduct him, before he succumbed to his injuries in Israeli custody.

    West Bank: Israeli troops leave a path of terror and destruction

    Israeli troops continued military operations in Tulkarm and Jenin in the occupied West Bank for the eighth day. Already the Israeli assault has killed at least 16 Palestinians.

    “Israeli forces forced several families to leave their homes in the Al-Mattar and Murabba’at Hannoun neighborhoods at gunpoint, notifying them that they would not be permitted to return for a period of one week,” WAFA news agency reported overnight.

    Israeli troops also took over several buildings and homes in the camp and transformed them into military outposts; they reportedly also demolished the Hamza Mosque.

    In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said, “These crimes and violations reflect the Israeli government’s systematic and deliberate replication of its crimes against Palestinians in Gaza, extending its brutal assaults to the West Bank in blatant violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions.”

    Israeli raids and attacks on Jenin city and its refugee camp continue in Jenin, West Bank on January 28, 2025.
    Israeli raids and attacks on Jenin city and its refugee camp continue in Jenin, West Bank on January 28, 2025. (Issam Rimawi – Anadolu Agency)
    IDF to remain in Jenin refugee camp even after current operation , Defense Minister Katz says

    Israeli Defense Minister Katz visited the refugee camp in Jenin and said that the IDF will remain in the camp even after the operation is complete “to make sure that terrorism does not return.”

    Katz held a discussion to assess the situation on the ground, and said that the operation, dubbed Iron Wall, will expand to additional “terrorist camps”.

    West Bank: Israel shoots at Palestinian journalists covering Tulkarm raid

    Journalist Nagham Al-Zayt sustained injuries from Israeli gunfire yesterday while reporting on the ongoing Israeli occupation army raid on the eastern neighborhood of Tulkarm, northwestern part of the West Bank.

    Journalist Sohaib Abu Dayyak, who was with Al-Zayt and other reporters at the time, said Israeli occupation soldiers fired live rounds directly at them. As a result, Al-Zayt was injured in her right hand by shrapnel and received treatment at the Red Crescent medical centre in Tulkarm.

    The Israeli occupation forces also obstructed journalists from covering the military assault on the city and its refugee camp. They chased reporters and fired sound grenades at them.

    Netanyahu says Trump invited him to the White House

    The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that US President Donald Trump has invited Netanyahu to visit the White House on February 4.

    Israeli Contractor Working in Gaza Accidentally Shot Dead by IDF Troops

    An Israeli contractor working for the Defense Ministry who was conducting engineering work for the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza was mistakenly killed by IDF soldiers on Tuesday.

    The IDF said that it has opened an investigation into the circumstances of the death of the contractor, who was named as Yaakov (Kobi) Avitan, 38 years old.

    According to the IDF, Avitan, who approached Israeli troops and did not respond to calls to stop, was unarmed and dressed in civilian clothing, making it unclear why he was shot.

    The Military Police have launched an investigation into the incident at the instruction of the IDF’s Advocate General. Avitan is the first Israeli fatality in the Gaza Strip in the past two weeks.

    NOTE: While the Israeli public may be confused about why Yaakov Avitan was killed, Palestinians can fully understand. Palestinians are shot on a nearly daily basis, even if they are wearing civilian clothes and doing nothing threatening. Israeli soldiers do not seem inclined toward de-escalation, and often shoot to kill.

    New Zealand requires Israelis to disclose military service when applying for visas: Report

    New Zealand will now require Israelis applying for a visa to report details about their military service, and at least one person has been denied entry after doing so, according to the Times of Israel newspaper.

    Israelis applying for a tourist visa will have to disclose whether they served in the military – as most Israelis do – or are active reservists, the outlet reported.

    One of the questionnaires asks applicants if they “used or promoted violence or human rights abuses to further their aims”. Another question probes if the applicant has “been involved in war crimes, crimes against humanity, or human rights abuses”.

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    STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JANUARY 28, 2025 (ongoing count):

    At least 48,292 Palestinians killed, 118,571 injured – including:

    at least 47,417 killed in Gaza (~20,600 children)
    at least 875 killed in the West Bank (~177 children)
    at least 111,571 injured in Gaza
    at least 7,000 injured in the West Bank
    WAR STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 (Hamas attack) – JANUARY 19, 2025 (Ceasefire):

    Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: at least 48,143 – including at least 47,283 in Gaza (~20,600 children), and 860 in the West Bank (~177 children). Palestinian injuries: at least 118,472 – including at least 111,472 in Gaza, and 7,000 in the West Bank.

    Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 11,000 more are still buried under rubble.

    Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: ~1,616 (or 1,590) – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 436 (or 405) military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.

    NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.

    Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org
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    Return to northern Gaza fraught with delay and struggle – Ceasefire Day 10 Kathryn Shihadah January 29, 2025 gaza return, Jenin, Netanyahu, UN Security Council, unrwa, West Bank Forcibly displaced Palestinians head back north via Salah al-Din Street (Doaa Albaz/Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff More than 376,000 Palestinians displaced by the war between Israel and Hamas have returned to northern Gaza since Monday, the UN’s humanitarian body OCHA has said. Hospitals in Gaza have received 48 bodies in the last 48 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Journey home to north Gaza adds to Palestinians’ ‘long history of misery’ Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Gaza: I have just come back from the military inspection point at the Netzarim Corridor. I saw really devastating scenes. Families in the line [to pass through to northern Gaza] are struggling without food, water and sanitation. The inspection process is incredibly slow. Thousands of cars are still waiting to make the journey back to the north. It will take days. People are absolutely exhausted. Now their return to [northern Gaza], rather than being a time of relief and joy, has turned into another struggle, adding to a long history of misery. RELATED: Reclaiming the invisible lives of Palestinian men amid genocide Tens of thousands of Palestinians forcibly displaced by the Israeli offensive continue to return to their lands from the south to the north via Salah al-Din Street Tens of thousands of Palestinians forcibly displaced by the Israeli offensive continue to return to their lands from the south to the north via Salah al-Din Street (Hassan Jedi/Anadolu) Gaza: No Safe Pregnancies During Israeli Assault The Israeli government’s blockade of Gaza and attacks on healthcare facilities have created serious and sometimes life-threatening danger for women and girls during and after pregnancy and delivery since hostilities began in October 2023, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 50-page report, “‘Five Babies in One Incubator’: Violations of Pregnant Women’s Rights Amid Israel’s Assault on Gaza,” finds that Israeli forces’ unlawful blockade of the Gaza Strip, its severe restrictions on humanitarian aid, and attacks on medical facilities and healthcare personnel have directly harmed women and girls during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. The Israeli government, as the occupying power in Gaza, has violated the right to the highest attainable standard of health and other rights of pregnant women and girls, including the right to dignified, respectful health care throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, as well as the right to newborn care (continue reading here). Destruction at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital exceeds 95%: Health official Destruction at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip, has exceeded 95% due to the Israeli genocide, a Palestinian health official said Tuesday. The complex continues to provide partial services to residents in the 5% of its buildings that have been rehabilitated, said Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Palestinians inspect the damage at Gaza's al-Shifa hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital on April 1, 2024. Palestinians inspect the damage at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital on April 1, 2024. (AFP/Getty) Israeli gunfire hits ambulance near Rafah: Red Crescent The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says one of its ambulances has been hit by Israeli sniper fire in the Tal as-Sultan area, west of Rafah in southern Gaza. US stands alone in favor of UNRWA ban at UN Security Council The US was left isolated Tuesday in support of Israel’s decision to ban UNRWA at the UN Security Council, while many member states voiced strong backing for the agency’s continued operations. Dorothy Shea, US charge d’affairs ad interim for UN, told the Council that the US “supports the implementation” of Israeli Knesset’s decision to ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees’ operations in areas under Israeli occupation. While UNRWA was mandated by the UN General Assembly, Shea claimed that “it is Israel’s sovereign decision to close UNRWA offices in Jerusalem on January 30.” “UNRWA exaggerating the effects of the laws and suggesting that they will force the entire humanitarian response to halt is irresponsible and dangerous. What is needed is a nuanced discussion about how we can ensure that there is no interruption in the delivery of humanitarian aid and essential services,” she said. West Bank: Israeli Soldiers Kill a Palestinian On Tuesday, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man in the Irtah suburb, south of Tulkarem, and injured three others, including a child during their military incursion into Tulkarem city and the Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man, on Tuesday night, after shooting and detaining him in the Irtah suburb, south of Tulkarem. Media sources said that occupation forces shot the young man, Ayman Fadi Qasem Naji, 23, with live ammunition, and proceeded to abduct him, before he succumbed to his injuries in Israeli custody. West Bank: Israeli troops leave a path of terror and destruction Israeli troops continued military operations in Tulkarm and Jenin in the occupied West Bank for the eighth day. Already the Israeli assault has killed at least 16 Palestinians. “Israeli forces forced several families to leave their homes in the Al-Mattar and Murabba’at Hannoun neighborhoods at gunpoint, notifying them that they would not be permitted to return for a period of one week,” WAFA news agency reported overnight. Israeli troops also took over several buildings and homes in the camp and transformed them into military outposts; they reportedly also demolished the Hamza Mosque. In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said, “These crimes and violations reflect the Israeli government’s systematic and deliberate replication of its crimes against Palestinians in Gaza, extending its brutal assaults to the West Bank in blatant violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions.” Israeli raids and attacks on Jenin city and its refugee camp continue in Jenin, West Bank on January 28, 2025. Israeli raids and attacks on Jenin city and its refugee camp continue in Jenin, West Bank on January 28, 2025. (Issam Rimawi – Anadolu Agency) IDF to remain in Jenin refugee camp even after current operation , Defense Minister Katz says Israeli Defense Minister Katz visited the refugee camp in Jenin and said that the IDF will remain in the camp even after the operation is complete “to make sure that terrorism does not return.” Katz held a discussion to assess the situation on the ground, and said that the operation, dubbed Iron Wall, will expand to additional “terrorist camps”. West Bank: Israel shoots at Palestinian journalists covering Tulkarm raid Journalist Nagham Al-Zayt sustained injuries from Israeli gunfire yesterday while reporting on the ongoing Israeli occupation army raid on the eastern neighborhood of Tulkarm, northwestern part of the West Bank. Journalist Sohaib Abu Dayyak, who was with Al-Zayt and other reporters at the time, said Israeli occupation soldiers fired live rounds directly at them. As a result, Al-Zayt was injured in her right hand by shrapnel and received treatment at the Red Crescent medical centre in Tulkarm. The Israeli occupation forces also obstructed journalists from covering the military assault on the city and its refugee camp. They chased reporters and fired sound grenades at them. Netanyahu says Trump invited him to the White House The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that US President Donald Trump has invited Netanyahu to visit the White House on February 4. Israeli Contractor Working in Gaza Accidentally Shot Dead by IDF Troops An Israeli contractor working for the Defense Ministry who was conducting engineering work for the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza was mistakenly killed by IDF soldiers on Tuesday. The IDF said that it has opened an investigation into the circumstances of the death of the contractor, who was named as Yaakov (Kobi) Avitan, 38 years old. According to the IDF, Avitan, who approached Israeli troops and did not respond to calls to stop, was unarmed and dressed in civilian clothing, making it unclear why he was shot. The Military Police have launched an investigation into the incident at the instruction of the IDF’s Advocate General. Avitan is the first Israeli fatality in the Gaza Strip in the past two weeks. NOTE: While the Israeli public may be confused about why Yaakov Avitan was killed, Palestinians can fully understand. Palestinians are shot on a nearly daily basis, even if they are wearing civilian clothes and doing nothing threatening. Israeli soldiers do not seem inclined toward de-escalation, and often shoot to kill. 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MORE NEWS: IMEMC Daily Reports Jonathan Cook: Israel’s ‘genocide general’ welcomed in London – and the media yawns Common Dreams: Gaza Aid Survey Details Israel’s ‘Disregard of International Law’ The Cradle: New Israeli airstrikes hit south Lebanon in violation of ceasefire extension The Cradle: US Senate blocks bill to sanction ICC over Israel arrest warrants Looking for a way to help get the word out about Palestine? Go here. STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JANUARY 28, 2025 (ongoing count): At least 48,292 Palestinians killed, 118,571 injured – including: at least 47,417 killed in Gaza (~20,600 children) at least 875 killed in the West Bank (~177 children) at least 111,571 injured in Gaza at least 7,000 injured in the West Bank WAR STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 (Hamas attack) – JANUARY 19, 2025 (Ceasefire): Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: at least 48,143 – including at least 47,283 in Gaza (~20,600 children), and 860 in the West Bank (~177 children). Palestinian injuries: at least 118,472 – including at least 111,472 in Gaza, and 7,000 in the West Bank. Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 11,000 more are still buried under rubble. Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: ~1,616 (or 1,590) – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 436 (or 405) military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. 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  • Video: The Mysterious Death of the Inventor of the PCR Test, Nobel Laureate Dr. Kary Mullis
    Dr. Fauci’s Most Notable Critic


    “The PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick.” –Dr. Kary Mullis, (image right) Nobel Laureate and Inventor of the RT-PCR, passed away in August 2019.

    “…All or a substantial part of these positives could be due to what’s called false positives tests.” –Dr. Michael Yeadon, distinguished scientist, former Vice President and Chief Science Officer of Pfizer

    “This misuse of the RT-PCR technique is applied as a relentless and intentional strategy by some governments to justify excessive measures such as the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, … under the pretext of a pandemic based on a number of positive RT-PCR tests, and not on a real number of patients.” –Dr. Pascal Sacré, Belgian physician specialized in critical care and renowned public health analyst.

    “I have seen massive efforts made to deliberately inflate Covid death numbers by relabelling cancer patients and stroke victims and all manner of normal regular deaths as Covid, in fact virtually anyone getting into an ambulance. The methods used to do so were totally flawed, PCR tests for example being run on 45 cycles we all know to be worthless, yet people are being euthanised on this basis and sometimes only on the basis of a chest x-ray alone.” –John O’Looney, Funeral Director, Milton Keynes, U.K.

    From the outset of this crisis in January 2020, all far-reaching policy decisions upheld and presented to the public as a “means to saving lives” were based on flawed and invalid RT-PCR positive cases.

    These invalid COVID-19 “estimates” have been used to justify confinement, social distancing, wearing of the face mask, the prohibition of social gatherings, cultural and sports events, the closure of economic activity, as well as the enforcement of the mRNA “vaccine” launched in November 2020. There is no such thing as a “COVID-19 confirmed case”.– Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics (emeritus), University of Ottawa.

    ***

    The late Dr. Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test, has been blowing the whistle on Fauci and big pharma for 30 years.

    Outstanding video production and analysis by Greg Reese

    VIDEO. The Polymerase Chain Reaction Test

    by Greg Reese

    May the Late Dr. Kary Mullis’ Legacy Live.

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    The slanted methodology applied under WHO guidance for detecting the alleged spread of the virus is the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test, which has been routinely applied all over the world since February 2020. (This Text below is an excerpt from Michel Chossudovsky’s book, August 2022)

    The Reverse Transcription Polymerase

    Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test

    by Michel Chossudovsky

    The RT-PCR test has been used worldwide to generate millions of erroneous “COVID-19 confirmed cases”, which are then used to sustain the illusion that the alleged pandemic is real.

    This assessment based on erroneous numbers has been used in the course of three and and a half years to spearhead and sustain the fear campaign.

    “Confirmed” is a misnomer. A “confirmed RT-PCR positive case” does not imply a “COVID-19 confirmed case”.

    “Positive RT-PCR is not synonymous with the COVID-19 disease! PCR specialists make it clear that a test must always be compared with the clinical record of the patient being tested, with the patient’s state of health to confirm its value [reliability]. (Dr. Pascal Sacré)

    The procedure used by the national health authorities is to categorize all RT-PCR positive cases as “COVID-19 confirmed cases” (with or without a medical diagnosis). Ironically, this routine process of identifying “confirmed cases” is in derogation of the CDC’s own guidelines:

    “Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms. The performance of this test has not been established for monitoring treatment of 2019-nCoV infection. This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.” (emphasis added)

    The methodology used to detect and estimate the spread of the virus is flawed and invalid.

    False Positives

    The earlier debate at the outset of the crisis focused on the issue of “false positives.”

    Acknowledged by the WHO and the CDC, the RT-PCR test was known to produce a high percentage of false positives. According to Dr. Pascal Sacré:

    “Today, as authorities test more people, there are bound to be more positive RT-PCR tests. This does not mean that COVID-19 is coming back, or that the epidemic is moving in waves. There are more people being tested, that’s all.”

    The debate on false positives (acknowledged by health authorities) points to so-called errors without necessarily questioning the overall validity of the RT-PCR test as a means to detecting the alleged spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

    The PCR Test Does Not Detect the Identity of the Virus

    The RT-PCR test does not identify/detect the virus. What the PCR test identifies are genetic fragments of numerous viruses (including influenza viruses types A and B and coronaviruses which trigger common colds).

    The results of the RT-PCR test cannot “confirm” whether an individual who undertakes the test is infected with SARS-CoV-2.

    Failures of the PCR Test, Ridiculously Low Numbers

    Even if the 2019 nCoV had been detected and duly identified, the numbers of PCR-RT confirmed (cumulative) positive cases in the period leading up to to March 11, 2020 used as a justification to enforce the Lockdown of more than 190 countries were ridiculously low. The 80,981 cases for China also pertains to confirmed (cumulative) PCR positive cases. Note the new cases in China (PCR positive) on March 12, 2020 are of the order of “321 new”

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    Image: Total cumulative cases on March 12, 2020 (Source: WHO)

    For Further Details see:

    The WHO Confirms that the Covid-19 PCR Test is Flawed: Estimates of “Positive Cases” are Meaningless. The Lockdown Has No Scientific Basis

    By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 10, 2023

    There Never Was a “New Corona Virus”, There Never Was a Pandemic,

    By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 03, 2024

    The WHO on January 13, 2021, acknowledged that the PCR test was invalid. The official text of the WHO entitled “Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) Technologies that Use Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for Detection of SARS-CoV-2″ is featured in the Annex below.

    The WHO’s Mea Culpa

    by Michel Chossudovsky

    WHO guidance Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology. (emphasis added)

    WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2). This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity.”

    “Invalid Positives” is the Underlying Concept

    This is not an issue of “Weak Positives” and “Risk of False Positive Increases”. What is at stake is a “Flawed Methodology” which leads to invalid estimates.

    What this admission of the WHO confirms is that the estimate of covid positive from a PCR test (with an amplification threshold of 35 cycles or higher) is invalid. In which case, the WHO recommends retesting: “a new specimen should be taken and retested…”.

    The WHO calls for “Retesting”, which is tantamount to “We Screwed Up”.

    That recommendation is pro-forma. It won’t happen. Millions of people Worldwide have already been tested, starting in early February 2020. Nonetheless, we must conclude that unless retested, those estimates (according to the WHO) are invalid.

    From the outset, the PCR test has routinely been applied at a Ct amplification threshold of 35 or higher, following the January 2020 recommendations of the WHO. What this means is that the PCR methodology as applied Worldwide has led to the compilation of faulty and misleading Covid statistics.

    And these are the statistics which are used to measure the progression of the so-called “pandemic”. Above an amplification cycle of 35 or higher, the test will not detect fragments of the virus. Therefore, the official “covid numbers” are meaningless.

    It follows that there is no scientific basis for confirming the existence of a pandemic.

    Which in turn means that the lockdown / economic measures which have resulted in social panic, mass poverty and unemployment (allegedly to curtail the spread of the virus) have no justification whatsoever.

    According to scientific opinion:

    “if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used (as is the case in most laboratories in Europe & the US), the probability that said person is actually infected is less than 3%, the probability that said result is a false positive is 97% (Pieter Borger, Bobby Rajesh Malhotra, Michael Yeadon, Clare Craig, Kevin McKernan, et al, Critique of Drosten Study)



    As outlined above, “the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%”: It follows that using the >35 cycles detection will indelibly contribute to “hiking up” the number of “fake positives”.

    At the time of writing (mid-March 2021), despite the WHO retraction, the PCR test is being used extensively to hike up the numbers with a view to sustaining the fear campaign, justifying the ongoing lockdown policies as well as the implementation of the Covid vaccine.

    Ironically, the flawed numbers based on “invalid positives” are in turn being manipulated to ensure an upward trend in so-called “Confirmed Covid -19 Cases”.

    Moreover, those PCR tests are not routinely accompanied by a medical diagnosis of the patients who are being tested.

    And now, national health authorities have issued (fake) warnings of a “Third Wave” as part of their propaganda campaign in support of the Covid-19 Vaccine.

    The WHO confirms that the Covid PCR test procedure as applied is invalid. There is absolutely no scientific basis for implementing the Covid Vaccine.

    Both the WHO and the scientific assessment of Pieter Borger, et al (quoted above) confirm unequivocally that the tests adopted by governments to justify the lockdown and the destabilization of national economies are INVALID.

    Invalid Data and the Numbers’ Game

    It should be understood that these “invalid estimates” are the “numbers” quoted relentlessly 24/7 by the media which have been used to feed the fear campaign and “justify” ALL the policies put forth by the governments:

    lockdown,
    closure of economic activity,
    poverty and mass unemployment,
    bankruptcies
    social distancing,
    face mask,
    curfew,
    the vaccine.
    the health passport
    Invalid Data. Think Twice Before Getting Vaccinated

    Michel Chossudovsky, November 9, 2024

    For the complete text by the WHO dated, January 13, 2021 (Mea Culpa) see blow

    Below is the WHO’s carefully formulated “Retraction”. (in Annex)

    ANNEX

    Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) Technologies

    that Use Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

    for Detection of SARS-CoV-2

    Link to the original WHO Document



    Product type: Nucleic acid testing (NAT) technologies that use polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of SARS-CoV-2

    Date: 13 January 2021

    WHO-identifier: 2020/5, version 2

    Target audience: laboratory professionals and users of IVDs.

    Purpose of this notice: clarify information previously provided by WHO. This notice supersedes WHO Information Notice for In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Device (IVD) Users 2020/05 version 1, issued 14 December 2020.

    Description of the problem: WHO requests users to follow the instructions for use (IFU) when interpreting results for specimens tested using PCR methodology.

    Users of IVDs must read and follow the IFU carefully to determine if manual adjustment of the PCR positivity threshold is recommended by the manufacturer.

    WHO guidance Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology.

    WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2). This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity.

    Most PCR assays are indicated as an aid for diagnosis, therefore, health care providers must consider any result in combination with timing of sampling, specimen type, assay specifics, clinical observations, patient history, confirmed status of any contacts, and epidemiological information.

    Actions to be taken by IVD users:

    Please read carefully the IFU in its entirety.
    Contact your local representative if there is any aspect of the IFU that is unclear to you.
    Check the IFU for each incoming consignment to detect any changes to the IFU.
    Provide the Ct value in the report to the requesting health care provider.
    Notes

    1. Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020, WHO reference number WHO/2019-nCoV/laboratory/2020.6.

    2. Altman DG, Bland JM. Diagnostic tests 2: Predictive values. BMJ. 1994 Jul 9;309(6947):102. doi: 10.1136/bmj.309.6947.102.

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    Birds Not Bombs: Let’s Fight for a World of Peace, Not War

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    Video: The Mysterious Death of the Inventor of the PCR Test, Nobel Laureate Dr. Kary Mullis Dr. Fauci’s Most Notable Critic “The PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick.” –Dr. Kary Mullis, (image right) Nobel Laureate and Inventor of the RT-PCR, passed away in August 2019. “…All or a substantial part of these positives could be due to what’s called false positives tests.” –Dr. Michael Yeadon, distinguished scientist, former Vice President and Chief Science Officer of Pfizer “This misuse of the RT-PCR technique is applied as a relentless and intentional strategy by some governments to justify excessive measures such as the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, … under the pretext of a pandemic based on a number of positive RT-PCR tests, and not on a real number of patients.” –Dr. Pascal Sacré, Belgian physician specialized in critical care and renowned public health analyst. “I have seen massive efforts made to deliberately inflate Covid death numbers by relabelling cancer patients and stroke victims and all manner of normal regular deaths as Covid, in fact virtually anyone getting into an ambulance. The methods used to do so were totally flawed, PCR tests for example being run on 45 cycles we all know to be worthless, yet people are being euthanised on this basis and sometimes only on the basis of a chest x-ray alone.” –John O’Looney, Funeral Director, Milton Keynes, U.K. From the outset of this crisis in January 2020, all far-reaching policy decisions upheld and presented to the public as a “means to saving lives” were based on flawed and invalid RT-PCR positive cases. These invalid COVID-19 “estimates” have been used to justify confinement, social distancing, wearing of the face mask, the prohibition of social gatherings, cultural and sports events, the closure of economic activity, as well as the enforcement of the mRNA “vaccine” launched in November 2020. There is no such thing as a “COVID-19 confirmed case”.– Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics (emeritus), University of Ottawa. *** The late Dr. Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test, has been blowing the whistle on Fauci and big pharma for 30 years. Outstanding video production and analysis by Greg Reese VIDEO. The Polymerase Chain Reaction Test by Greg Reese May the Late Dr. Kary Mullis’ Legacy Live. * The slanted methodology applied under WHO guidance for detecting the alleged spread of the virus is the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test, which has been routinely applied all over the world since February 2020. (This Text below is an excerpt from Michel Chossudovsky’s book, August 2022) The Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test by Michel Chossudovsky The RT-PCR test has been used worldwide to generate millions of erroneous “COVID-19 confirmed cases”, which are then used to sustain the illusion that the alleged pandemic is real. This assessment based on erroneous numbers has been used in the course of three and and a half years to spearhead and sustain the fear campaign. “Confirmed” is a misnomer. A “confirmed RT-PCR positive case” does not imply a “COVID-19 confirmed case”. “Positive RT-PCR is not synonymous with the COVID-19 disease! PCR specialists make it clear that a test must always be compared with the clinical record of the patient being tested, with the patient’s state of health to confirm its value [reliability]. (Dr. Pascal Sacré) The procedure used by the national health authorities is to categorize all RT-PCR positive cases as “COVID-19 confirmed cases” (with or without a medical diagnosis). Ironically, this routine process of identifying “confirmed cases” is in derogation of the CDC’s own guidelines: “Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms. The performance of this test has not been established for monitoring treatment of 2019-nCoV infection. This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.” (emphasis added) The methodology used to detect and estimate the spread of the virus is flawed and invalid. False Positives The earlier debate at the outset of the crisis focused on the issue of “false positives.” Acknowledged by the WHO and the CDC, the RT-PCR test was known to produce a high percentage of false positives. According to Dr. Pascal Sacré: “Today, as authorities test more people, there are bound to be more positive RT-PCR tests. This does not mean that COVID-19 is coming back, or that the epidemic is moving in waves. There are more people being tested, that’s all.” The debate on false positives (acknowledged by health authorities) points to so-called errors without necessarily questioning the overall validity of the RT-PCR test as a means to detecting the alleged spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The PCR Test Does Not Detect the Identity of the Virus The RT-PCR test does not identify/detect the virus. What the PCR test identifies are genetic fragments of numerous viruses (including influenza viruses types A and B and coronaviruses which trigger common colds). The results of the RT-PCR test cannot “confirm” whether an individual who undertakes the test is infected with SARS-CoV-2. Failures of the PCR Test, Ridiculously Low Numbers Even if the 2019 nCoV had been detected and duly identified, the numbers of PCR-RT confirmed (cumulative) positive cases in the period leading up to to March 11, 2020 used as a justification to enforce the Lockdown of more than 190 countries were ridiculously low. The 80,981 cases for China also pertains to confirmed (cumulative) PCR positive cases. Note the new cases in China (PCR positive) on March 12, 2020 are of the order of “321 new” page30image710502480 Image: Total cumulative cases on March 12, 2020 (Source: WHO) For Further Details see: The WHO Confirms that the Covid-19 PCR Test is Flawed: Estimates of “Positive Cases” are Meaningless. The Lockdown Has No Scientific Basis By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 10, 2023 There Never Was a “New Corona Virus”, There Never Was a Pandemic, By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 03, 2024 The WHO on January 13, 2021, acknowledged that the PCR test was invalid. The official text of the WHO entitled “Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) Technologies that Use Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for Detection of SARS-CoV-2″ is featured in the Annex below. The WHO’s Mea Culpa by Michel Chossudovsky WHO guidance Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology. (emphasis added) WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2). This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity.” “Invalid Positives” is the Underlying Concept This is not an issue of “Weak Positives” and “Risk of False Positive Increases”. What is at stake is a “Flawed Methodology” which leads to invalid estimates. What this admission of the WHO confirms is that the estimate of covid positive from a PCR test (with an amplification threshold of 35 cycles or higher) is invalid. In which case, the WHO recommends retesting: “a new specimen should be taken and retested…”. The WHO calls for “Retesting”, which is tantamount to “We Screwed Up”. That recommendation is pro-forma. It won’t happen. Millions of people Worldwide have already been tested, starting in early February 2020. Nonetheless, we must conclude that unless retested, those estimates (according to the WHO) are invalid. From the outset, the PCR test has routinely been applied at a Ct amplification threshold of 35 or higher, following the January 2020 recommendations of the WHO. What this means is that the PCR methodology as applied Worldwide has led to the compilation of faulty and misleading Covid statistics. And these are the statistics which are used to measure the progression of the so-called “pandemic”. Above an amplification cycle of 35 or higher, the test will not detect fragments of the virus. Therefore, the official “covid numbers” are meaningless. It follows that there is no scientific basis for confirming the existence of a pandemic. Which in turn means that the lockdown / economic measures which have resulted in social panic, mass poverty and unemployment (allegedly to curtail the spread of the virus) have no justification whatsoever. According to scientific opinion: “if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used (as is the case in most laboratories in Europe & the US), the probability that said person is actually infected is less than 3%, the probability that said result is a false positive is 97% (Pieter Borger, Bobby Rajesh Malhotra, Michael Yeadon, Clare Craig, Kevin McKernan, et al, Critique of Drosten Study) As outlined above, “the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%”: It follows that using the >35 cycles detection will indelibly contribute to “hiking up” the number of “fake positives”. At the time of writing (mid-March 2021), despite the WHO retraction, the PCR test is being used extensively to hike up the numbers with a view to sustaining the fear campaign, justifying the ongoing lockdown policies as well as the implementation of the Covid vaccine. Ironically, the flawed numbers based on “invalid positives” are in turn being manipulated to ensure an upward trend in so-called “Confirmed Covid -19 Cases”. Moreover, those PCR tests are not routinely accompanied by a medical diagnosis of the patients who are being tested. And now, national health authorities have issued (fake) warnings of a “Third Wave” as part of their propaganda campaign in support of the Covid-19 Vaccine. The WHO confirms that the Covid PCR test procedure as applied is invalid. There is absolutely no scientific basis for implementing the Covid Vaccine. Both the WHO and the scientific assessment of Pieter Borger, et al (quoted above) confirm unequivocally that the tests adopted by governments to justify the lockdown and the destabilization of national economies are INVALID. Invalid Data and the Numbers’ Game It should be understood that these “invalid estimates” are the “numbers” quoted relentlessly 24/7 by the media which have been used to feed the fear campaign and “justify” ALL the policies put forth by the governments: lockdown, closure of economic activity, poverty and mass unemployment, bankruptcies social distancing, face mask, curfew, the vaccine. the health passport Invalid Data. Think Twice Before Getting Vaccinated Michel Chossudovsky, November 9, 2024 For the complete text by the WHO dated, January 13, 2021 (Mea Culpa) see blow Below is the WHO’s carefully formulated “Retraction”. (in Annex) ANNEX Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) Technologies that Use Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Link to the original WHO Document Product type: Nucleic acid testing (NAT) technologies that use polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of SARS-CoV-2 Date: 13 January 2021 WHO-identifier: 2020/5, version 2 Target audience: laboratory professionals and users of IVDs. Purpose of this notice: clarify information previously provided by WHO. This notice supersedes WHO Information Notice for In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Device (IVD) Users 2020/05 version 1, issued 14 December 2020. Description of the problem: WHO requests users to follow the instructions for use (IFU) when interpreting results for specimens tested using PCR methodology. Users of IVDs must read and follow the IFU carefully to determine if manual adjustment of the PCR positivity threshold is recommended by the manufacturer. WHO guidance Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology. WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2). This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity. Most PCR assays are indicated as an aid for diagnosis, therefore, health care providers must consider any result in combination with timing of sampling, specimen type, assay specifics, clinical observations, patient history, confirmed status of any contacts, and epidemiological information. Actions to be taken by IVD users: Please read carefully the IFU in its entirety. Contact your local representative if there is any aspect of the IFU that is unclear to you. Check the IFU for each incoming consignment to detect any changes to the IFU. Provide the Ct value in the report to the requesting health care provider. Notes 1. Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020, WHO reference number WHO/2019-nCoV/laboratory/2020.6. 2. Altman DG, Bland JM. Diagnostic tests 2: Predictive values. BMJ. 1994 Jul 9;309(6947):102. doi: 10.1136/bmj.309.6947.102. Click the share button below to email/forward this article to your friends and colleagues. 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  • ‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza
    [email protected] December 3, 2024 atrocity story, Gaza health care system, israeli airstrike, Palestinian doctors
    Dr. Soma Baroud, a medical doctor and sister of the author, was killed by Israeli bombs in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on or about October 9, 2024. ((Photo: Supplied by Palestine Chronicle))


    Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s powerfully touching story of his older sister, Dr. Soma Baroud, a trailblazing physician whose life ended when Israel bombed the taxi she was in: “For us, Soma was a larger-than-life figure. This is precisely why her sudden absence has shocked us to the point of disbelief…” Israel has killed 986 medical workers, including 165 doctors, in the past year.

    by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Reposted from The Palestine Chronicle

    “Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.”

    These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters.

    Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on October 9, 2024 when Israeli warplanes bombed a taxi that carried her and other tired Gazans somewhere near the Bani Suhaila roundabout near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

    I am still unable to understand whether she was on her way to the hospital, where she worked, or leaving the hospital to go home. Does it even matter?

    The news of her murder – or, more accurately assassination, as Israel has deliberately targeted and killed 986 medical workers, including 165 doctors – arrived through a screenshot copied from a Facebook page.

    “Update: these are the names of the martyrs of the latest Israeli bombing of two taxis in the Khan Younis area ..,” the post read.

    It was followed by a list of names. “Soma Mohammed Mohammed Baroud” was the fifth name on the list, and the 42,010th on Gaza’s ever-growing list of martyrs.

    I refused to believe the news, even when more posts began popping up everywhere on social media, listing her as number five, and sometimes six in the list of martyrs of the Khan Yunis strike.

    I kept calling her, over and over again, hoping that the line would crackle a bit, followed by a brief silence, and then her kind, motherly voice would say, “Marhaba Abu Sammy. How are you, brother?” But she never picked up.

    I had told her repeatedly that she does not need to bother with elaborate text or audio messages due to the unreliable internet connection and electricity. “Every morning,” I said, “just type: ‘we are fine’.” That’s all I asked of her.

    But she would skip several days without writing, often due to the lack of an internet connection. Then, a message would arrive, though never brief. She wrote with a torrent of thoughts, linking up her daily struggle to survive, to her fears for her children, to poetry, to a Qur’anic verse, to one of her favorite novels, and so on.

    “You know, what you said last time reminds me of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude,” she said on more than one occasion, before she would take the conversation into the most complex philosophical spins. I would listen, and just repeat, “Yes .. totally .. I agree .. one hundred percent.”

    For us, Soma was a larger-than-life figure. This is precisely why her sudden absence has shocked us to the point of disbelief. Her children, though grown up, felt orphaned. But her brothers, me included, felt the same way.

    I wrote about Soma as a central character in my book “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter”, because she was indeed central to our lives, and to our very survival in a Gaza refugee camp.

    The first born, and only daughter, she had to carry a much greater share of work and expectations than the rest of us.

    She was just a child, when my eldest brother Anwar, still a toddler, died in a UNRWA clinic at the Nuseirat refugee camp due to the lack of medicine. Then, she was introduced to pain, the kind of pain that with time turned into a permanent state of grief that would never abandon her until her murder by a US-supplied Israeli bomb in Khan Younis.

    Two years after the death of the first Anwar, another boy was born. They also called him Anwar, so that the legacy of the first boy may carry on. Soma cherished the newcomer, maintaining a special friendship with him for decades to come.

    My father began his life as a child laborer, then a fighter in the Palestine Liberation Army, then a police officer during the Egyptian administration of Gaza, then, once again a laborer; that’s because he refused to join the Israeli-funded Gaza police force after the war of 1967, known as the Naksa.

    A clever, principled man, and a self-taught intellectual, my Dad did everything he could to provide a measure of dignity for his small family; and Soma, a child, often barefoot, stood by him every step of the way.

    When he decided to become a merchant, as in buying discarded and odd items in Israel and repackaging them to sell in the refugee camp, Soma was his main helper. Though her skin healed, cuts on her fingers, due to individually wrapping thousands of razors, remained a testament to the difficult life she lived.

    “Soma’s little finger is worth more than a thousand men,” my father would often repeat, to remind us, ultimately five boys, that our sister will always be the main heroine in the family’s story. Now that she is a martyr, that legacy has been secured for eternity.

    Years later, my parents would send her to Aleppo to obtain a medical degree. She returned to Gaza, where she spent over three decades healing the pain of others, though never her own.

    She worked at Al-Shifa Hospital, at Nasser Hospital among other medical centers. Later, she obtained another certificate in family medicine, opening a clinic of her own. She did not charge the poor, and did all she could to heal those victimized by war.

    Soma was a member of a generation of female doctors in Gaza that truly changed the face of medicine, collectively putting great emphasis on the rights of women to medical care and expanding the understanding of family medicine to include psychological trauma with particular emphasis on the centrality, but also the vulnerability of women in a war-torn society.

    When my daughter Zarefah managed to visit her in Gaza shortly before the war, she told me that “when aunt Soma walked into the hospital, an entourage of women – doctors, nurses, and other medical staff – would surround her in total adoration.”

    At one point, it felt that all of Soma’s suffering was finally paying off: a nice family home in Khan Younis, with a small olive orchard, and a few palm trees; a loving husband, himself a professor of law, and eventually the dean of law school at a reputable Gaza university; three daughters and two sons, whose educational specialties ranged from dentistry to pharmacy, to law to engineering.

    Life, even under siege, at least for Soma and her family, seemed manageable. True, she was not allowed to leave the Strip for many years due to the blockade, and thus we were denied the chance to see her for years on end. True, she was tormented by loneliness and seclusion, thus her love affair and constant citation from García Márquez’s seminal novel. But at least her husband was not killed or went missing. Her beautiful house and clinic were still standing. And she was living and breathing, communicating her philosophical nuggets about life, death, memories and hope.

    “If I could only find the remains of Hamdi, so that we can give him a proper burial,” she wrote to me last January, when the news circulated that her husband was executed by an Israeli quadcopter in Khan Yunis.

    But since the body remained missing, she held on to some faint hope that he was still alive. Her boys, on the other hand, kept digging in the wreckage and debris of the area where Hamdi was shot, hoping to find him and to give him a proper burial. They would often be attacked by Israeli drones in the process of trying to unearth their father’s body. They would run away, and return with their shovels to carry on with the grim task.

    To maximize their chances of survival, my sister’s family decided to split up between displacement camps and other family homes in southern Gaza.

    This meant that Soma had to be in a constant state of moving, traveling, often long distances on foot, between towns, villages, and refugee camps, just to check on her children, following every incursion, and every massacre.

    “I am exhausted,” she kept telling me. “All I want from life is for this war to end, for new cozy pajamas, my favorite book, and a comfortable bed.”

    These simple and reasonable expectations looked like a mirage, especially when her home in the Qarara area, in Khan Younis, was demolished by the Israeli army last month.

    “My heart aches. Everything is gone. Three decades of life, of memories, of achievement, all turned into rubble,” she wrote.

    “This is not a story about stones and concrete. It is much bigger. It is a story that cannot be fully told, however long I wrote or spoke. Seven souls had lived here. We ate, drank, laughed, quarreled, and despite all the challenges of living in Gaza, we managed to carve out a happy life for our family,” she continued.

    A few days before she was killed, she told me that she had been sleeping in a half-destroyed building belonging to her neighbors in Qarara. She sent me a photo taken by her son, as she sat on a makeshift chair, on which she also slept amidst the ruins. She looked tired, so very tired.

    There was nothing I could say or do to convince her to leave. She insisted that she wanted to keep an eye on the rubble of what remained of her home. Her logic made no sense to me. I pleaded with her to leave. She ignored me, and instead kept sending me photos of what she had salvaged from the rubble, an old photo, a small olive tree, a birth certificate ..

    My last message to her, hours before she was killed, was a promise that when the war is over, I will do everything in my power to compensate her for all of this. That the whole family would meet in Egypt, or Türkiye, and that we will shower her with gifts, and boundless family love. I finished with, “let’s start planning now. Whatever you want. You just say it. Awaiting your instructions…” She never saw the message.

    Even when her name, as yet another casualty of the Israeli genocide in Gaza was mentioned in local Palestinian news, I refused to believe it. I continued to call. “Please pick up, Soma, please pick up,” I pleaded with her.

    Only when a video emerged of white body bags arriving at Nasser Hospital in the back of an ambulance, I thought maybe my sister was indeed gone.

    Some of the bags had the names of the others mentioned in the social media posts. Each bag was pulled out separately and placed on the ground. A group of mourners, bereaved men, women and children would rush to hug the body, screaming the same shouts of agony and despair that accompanied this ongoing genocide from the first day.

    Then, another bag, with the name ‘Soma Mohammed Mohammed Baroud’ written across the thick white plastic. Her colleagues carried her body and gently laid it on the ground. They were about to zip the bag open to verify her identity. I looked the other way.

    I refuse to see her but in the way that she wanted to be seen, a strong person, a manifestation of love, kindness and wisdom, whose “little finger is worth more than a thousand men.”

    But why do I continue to check my messages with the hope that she will text me to tell me that the whole thing was a major, cruel misunderstanding and that she is okay?

    My sister Soma was buried under a small mound of dirt, somewhere in Khan Yunis.

    No more messages from her.

    Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Find more of his works here.

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    https://israelpalestinenews.org/my-sister-was-the-166th-doctor-to-be-murdered-in-gaza/
    ‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza [email protected] December 3, 2024 atrocity story, Gaza health care system, israeli airstrike, Palestinian doctors Dr. Soma Baroud, a medical doctor and sister of the author, was killed by Israeli bombs in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on or about October 9, 2024. ((Photo: Supplied by Palestine Chronicle)) Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s powerfully touching story of his older sister, Dr. Soma Baroud, a trailblazing physician whose life ended when Israel bombed the taxi she was in: “For us, Soma was a larger-than-life figure. This is precisely why her sudden absence has shocked us to the point of disbelief…” Israel has killed 986 medical workers, including 165 doctors, in the past year. by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Reposted from The Palestine Chronicle “Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.” These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters. Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on October 9, 2024 when Israeli warplanes bombed a taxi that carried her and other tired Gazans somewhere near the Bani Suhaila roundabout near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. I am still unable to understand whether she was on her way to the hospital, where she worked, or leaving the hospital to go home. Does it even matter? The news of her murder – or, more accurately assassination, as Israel has deliberately targeted and killed 986 medical workers, including 165 doctors – arrived through a screenshot copied from a Facebook page. “Update: these are the names of the martyrs of the latest Israeli bombing of two taxis in the Khan Younis area ..,” the post read. It was followed by a list of names. “Soma Mohammed Mohammed Baroud” was the fifth name on the list, and the 42,010th on Gaza’s ever-growing list of martyrs. I refused to believe the news, even when more posts began popping up everywhere on social media, listing her as number five, and sometimes six in the list of martyrs of the Khan Yunis strike. I kept calling her, over and over again, hoping that the line would crackle a bit, followed by a brief silence, and then her kind, motherly voice would say, “Marhaba Abu Sammy. How are you, brother?” But she never picked up. I had told her repeatedly that she does not need to bother with elaborate text or audio messages due to the unreliable internet connection and electricity. “Every morning,” I said, “just type: ‘we are fine’.” That’s all I asked of her. But she would skip several days without writing, often due to the lack of an internet connection. Then, a message would arrive, though never brief. She wrote with a torrent of thoughts, linking up her daily struggle to survive, to her fears for her children, to poetry, to a Qur’anic verse, to one of her favorite novels, and so on. “You know, what you said last time reminds me of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude,” she said on more than one occasion, before she would take the conversation into the most complex philosophical spins. I would listen, and just repeat, “Yes .. totally .. I agree .. one hundred percent.” For us, Soma was a larger-than-life figure. This is precisely why her sudden absence has shocked us to the point of disbelief. Her children, though grown up, felt orphaned. But her brothers, me included, felt the same way. I wrote about Soma as a central character in my book “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter”, because she was indeed central to our lives, and to our very survival in a Gaza refugee camp. The first born, and only daughter, she had to carry a much greater share of work and expectations than the rest of us. She was just a child, when my eldest brother Anwar, still a toddler, died in a UNRWA clinic at the Nuseirat refugee camp due to the lack of medicine. Then, she was introduced to pain, the kind of pain that with time turned into a permanent state of grief that would never abandon her until her murder by a US-supplied Israeli bomb in Khan Younis. Two years after the death of the first Anwar, another boy was born. They also called him Anwar, so that the legacy of the first boy may carry on. Soma cherished the newcomer, maintaining a special friendship with him for decades to come. My father began his life as a child laborer, then a fighter in the Palestine Liberation Army, then a police officer during the Egyptian administration of Gaza, then, once again a laborer; that’s because he refused to join the Israeli-funded Gaza police force after the war of 1967, known as the Naksa. A clever, principled man, and a self-taught intellectual, my Dad did everything he could to provide a measure of dignity for his small family; and Soma, a child, often barefoot, stood by him every step of the way. When he decided to become a merchant, as in buying discarded and odd items in Israel and repackaging them to sell in the refugee camp, Soma was his main helper. Though her skin healed, cuts on her fingers, due to individually wrapping thousands of razors, remained a testament to the difficult life she lived. “Soma’s little finger is worth more than a thousand men,” my father would often repeat, to remind us, ultimately five boys, that our sister will always be the main heroine in the family’s story. Now that she is a martyr, that legacy has been secured for eternity. Years later, my parents would send her to Aleppo to obtain a medical degree. She returned to Gaza, where she spent over three decades healing the pain of others, though never her own. She worked at Al-Shifa Hospital, at Nasser Hospital among other medical centers. Later, she obtained another certificate in family medicine, opening a clinic of her own. She did not charge the poor, and did all she could to heal those victimized by war. Soma was a member of a generation of female doctors in Gaza that truly changed the face of medicine, collectively putting great emphasis on the rights of women to medical care and expanding the understanding of family medicine to include psychological trauma with particular emphasis on the centrality, but also the vulnerability of women in a war-torn society. When my daughter Zarefah managed to visit her in Gaza shortly before the war, she told me that “when aunt Soma walked into the hospital, an entourage of women – doctors, nurses, and other medical staff – would surround her in total adoration.” At one point, it felt that all of Soma’s suffering was finally paying off: a nice family home in Khan Younis, with a small olive orchard, and a few palm trees; a loving husband, himself a professor of law, and eventually the dean of law school at a reputable Gaza university; three daughters and two sons, whose educational specialties ranged from dentistry to pharmacy, to law to engineering. Life, even under siege, at least for Soma and her family, seemed manageable. True, she was not allowed to leave the Strip for many years due to the blockade, and thus we were denied the chance to see her for years on end. True, she was tormented by loneliness and seclusion, thus her love affair and constant citation from García Márquez’s seminal novel. But at least her husband was not killed or went missing. Her beautiful house and clinic were still standing. And she was living and breathing, communicating her philosophical nuggets about life, death, memories and hope. “If I could only find the remains of Hamdi, so that we can give him a proper burial,” she wrote to me last January, when the news circulated that her husband was executed by an Israeli quadcopter in Khan Yunis. But since the body remained missing, she held on to some faint hope that he was still alive. Her boys, on the other hand, kept digging in the wreckage and debris of the area where Hamdi was shot, hoping to find him and to give him a proper burial. They would often be attacked by Israeli drones in the process of trying to unearth their father’s body. They would run away, and return with their shovels to carry on with the grim task. To maximize their chances of survival, my sister’s family decided to split up between displacement camps and other family homes in southern Gaza. This meant that Soma had to be in a constant state of moving, traveling, often long distances on foot, between towns, villages, and refugee camps, just to check on her children, following every incursion, and every massacre. “I am exhausted,” she kept telling me. “All I want from life is for this war to end, for new cozy pajamas, my favorite book, and a comfortable bed.” These simple and reasonable expectations looked like a mirage, especially when her home in the Qarara area, in Khan Younis, was demolished by the Israeli army last month. “My heart aches. Everything is gone. Three decades of life, of memories, of achievement, all turned into rubble,” she wrote. “This is not a story about stones and concrete. It is much bigger. It is a story that cannot be fully told, however long I wrote or spoke. Seven souls had lived here. We ate, drank, laughed, quarreled, and despite all the challenges of living in Gaza, we managed to carve out a happy life for our family,” she continued. A few days before she was killed, she told me that she had been sleeping in a half-destroyed building belonging to her neighbors in Qarara. She sent me a photo taken by her son, as she sat on a makeshift chair, on which she also slept amidst the ruins. She looked tired, so very tired. There was nothing I could say or do to convince her to leave. She insisted that she wanted to keep an eye on the rubble of what remained of her home. Her logic made no sense to me. I pleaded with her to leave. She ignored me, and instead kept sending me photos of what she had salvaged from the rubble, an old photo, a small olive tree, a birth certificate .. My last message to her, hours before she was killed, was a promise that when the war is over, I will do everything in my power to compensate her for all of this. That the whole family would meet in Egypt, or Türkiye, and that we will shower her with gifts, and boundless family love. I finished with, “let’s start planning now. Whatever you want. You just say it. Awaiting your instructions…” She never saw the message. Even when her name, as yet another casualty of the Israeli genocide in Gaza was mentioned in local Palestinian news, I refused to believe it. I continued to call. “Please pick up, Soma, please pick up,” I pleaded with her. Only when a video emerged of white body bags arriving at Nasser Hospital in the back of an ambulance, I thought maybe my sister was indeed gone. Some of the bags had the names of the others mentioned in the social media posts. Each bag was pulled out separately and placed on the ground. A group of mourners, bereaved men, women and children would rush to hug the body, screaming the same shouts of agony and despair that accompanied this ongoing genocide from the first day. Then, another bag, with the name ‘Soma Mohammed Mohammed Baroud’ written across the thick white plastic. Her colleagues carried her body and gently laid it on the ground. They were about to zip the bag open to verify her identity. I looked the other way. I refuse to see her but in the way that she wanted to be seen, a strong person, a manifestation of love, kindness and wisdom, whose “little finger is worth more than a thousand men.” But why do I continue to check my messages with the hope that she will text me to tell me that the whole thing was a major, cruel misunderstanding and that she is okay? My sister Soma was buried under a small mound of dirt, somewhere in Khan Yunis. No more messages from her. Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Find more of his works here. RELATED: Gaza’s chronically ill patients are out of medicine, doctors, and hope Gaza’s Stolen Healers: Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention US Identified 500 Cases Where Its Weapons Harmed Gazan Civilians, But Hasn’t Taken Action https://israelpalestinenews.org/my-sister-was-the-166th-doctor-to-be-murdered-in-gaza/
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    ‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza
    Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s touching story of his sister, Dr. Soma Baroud, a trailblazing physician whose life ended violently with an Israeli bomb.
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