The True Story of Israel's Creation: Debunking Israel's Foundational Lies from Their Leaders' Mouths

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"US military commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical “end times” to justify involvement in the Iran war to troops, according to complaints made to a watchdog group..."

US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges

Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

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... The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) says it has received more than 200 complaints from service members across all branches of the armed forces, including the marines, air force and space force.

One complainant, identified as a noncommissioned officer (NCO) in a unit that could be deployed “at any moment to join” operations against Iran, told MRFF in a complaint viewed by the Guardian that their commander had “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ”.

“He said that ‘President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth’”, the NCO added.

The NCO’s complaint was filed on behalf of 15 troops, including 11 Christians, one Muslim person and one Jewish person. The complaint was first shared by MRFF with Jonathan Larsen ... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric

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Mike Huckabee lifts the veil on US backing for Israeli expansionism: His interview with Tucker Carlson did not merely expose a diplomat's worldview. It illuminated a dangerous regional project

Soumaya Ghannoushi

26 February 2026 

 

When Tucker Carlson recently interviewed the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, their exchange did more than expose policy differences. 

It revealed something more consequential: not merely an ambassador misrepresenting history, but a vision of Israel’s place in the Middle East, and of Washington’s role in enabling it.

A pattern emerged quickly. When confronted with inconvenient historical facts or legal complexities, Huckabee professed uncertainty. But when repeating familiar Israeli government positions, his confidence was unwavering. Precision disappeared only when it complicated the narrative.

Consider his claim that Christians are “thriving” in the Holy Land. He cited 34,000 Christians in Israel in 1948 and 184,000 today, figures intended to suggest steady growth and protection.

But numbers without context are a distortion. In December 1946, the United Nations estimated that there were approximately 145,000 Christians in Palestine, representing around eight percent of the country’s total population. 

During the 1948 Nakba, Jewish militias expelled or drove out hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, including roughly 90,000 Christians. Only around 39,000 remained in their homes within 1948 borders, the nucleus of today’s Palestinian Christian minority inside Israel.

Jerusalem’s demographic trajectory is equally stark. Christians constituted around 20 percent of the city’s population in 1946. Since then, their numbers have declined significantly; by 2006, they accounted for roughly two percent of the city’s population, according to demographic data published by the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research.

To describe this as “thriving” obscures the increasingly precarious position of Palestinian Christians within a state that defines itself in explicitly Jewish national terms, and where ultra-nationalist currents have grown more assertive.

Defining moments

The evasiveness extended beyond demography. Huckabee claimed that Britain controlled Palestine at the time of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. It did not. The declaration preceded the mandate system and carried no binding force in international law; it was an imperial pledge, not a legal instrument.

He further implied that Arabs initiated the 1956 Suez War. The record is unequivocal: Israel invaded Egypt in coordination with Britain and France. Former US President Dwight D Eisenhower publicly opposed the invasion and forced their withdrawal, contributing to the resignation of his British counterpart, Anthony Eden.

In 1982, during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and the bombardment of Beirut, former US President Ronald Reagan deliberately used the word “holocaust” in a call with Israeli leader Menachem Begin, warning that the assault endangered the future of relations between Washington and Tel Aviv.

These are not marginal details. They are defining moments in American foreign policy. Misrepresenting them does not merely obscure history; it reshapes political memory.

It was equally striking to watch Huckabee cite Gaza health ministry figures - numbers he elsewhere disputes - to argue that... READ MORE   https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/mike-huckabee-lifts-veil-us-backing-israeli-expansionism

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US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza: Reports say PR teams are busy rewriting history in real time – not that the American media needs the help.

‘It’s not just media outlets working overtime to help rehabilitate Israel’s image.’ Photograph: APAImages/Shutterstock

by Arwa Mahdawi   in The Guardian  Fri 26 Sep 2025

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

You’ve heard that one before, but here’s a new version of the thought experiment: if a genocide takes place but you prevent foreign journalists from observing it, kill the key witnesses and spend hundreds of millions of dollars on propaganda, then will anyone care?

Israel’s far-right government, and its many allies in the US, are betting the answer to that question is “no”. As I write this, Israel is razing Gaza City to the ground in the latest stage of what many respected international human rights organizations and scholars have called a genocide. There aren’t as many images coming out of Gaza City as there should be because the Israeli military is still not allowing foreign reporters free access to Gaza and has murdered many of the journalists in the ground. In August, Al Jazeera’s team in Gaza City were deliberately targeted by Israel.

Nature abhors a vacuum, but propagandists love it. As Gaza burns and information coming out of the strip is deliberately limited, highly paid marketers and PR people in multinational firms are busy rewriting history in real time. Earlier this month, Drop Site News, which has done essential work on Gaza, reported that an American polling firm called Stagwell Global, founded by Mark Penn, was commissioned by Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs to rehabilitate Israel’s global image. Penn, for the uninitiated, is a pollster who facilitated Bill Clinton’s re-election in 1996 and then helped Hillary Clinton lose to Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries with a combination of hubris and racist stereotyping. “The right knows Obama is unelectable except perhaps against Attila the Hun,” Penn wrote in a Clinton campaign memo. He also proposed characterizing Obama as un-American. (Stagwell told Adweek the work in Israel was run by a “small team” and that its agencies work “across the political and issue spectrum”. Last week, a spokesperson told PRWeek the work was a “defined project with a specific brief” that had now concluded.)

Per Drop Site, the report from Penn’s firm apparently assessed that Israel has a good chance of making people forget about that nasty little genocide business if they stoke fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism”... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/26/gaza-us-marketing-companies

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Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it. The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime

 by Jodie Ginsberg  CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists

in The Guardian

‘If Israel can wipe out an entire news crew without the international community so much as batting an eye, what will stop further attacks on reporters.’ Photograph: Mohammed Badra/EPA

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Israel always boasted that it was the only country in the region to support press freedom. That boast rang hollow even before the current war. Now, it’s not even pretending. On Sunday, Israel openly and brazenly killed six journalists as they were sheltering in a tent that housed reporters and media workers.

Israel accuses one of those journalists – Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif – of being a terrorist. It has not said what crime it believes the others have committed that would justify killing them. The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime.

It is hardly surprising that Israel believes it can get away with murder. In the two decades preceding 7 October, Israeli forces killed 20 journalists. No one has ever been held accountable for any of those deaths, including that of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, whose killing in 2022 sent shock waves through the region. Abu Akleh, a dual US-Palestinian citizen, was a household name in the Middle East, just as al-Sharif became a familiar face for audiences for his coverage of Israel’s assault on Gaza.

Israel first began making threats against al-Sharif shortly after the start of the war. The journalist reported receiving multiple phone calls from officers in the Israeli army instructing him to cease coverage and leave northern Gaza, as well as voice notes on WhatsApp disclosing his location. In December 2023, an Israeli airstrike hit his family home, killing the journalist’s 90-year-old father.

A year later, the Israeli army alleged publicly that Anas al-Sharif was a terrorist – claims it repeated last month shortly after Anas al-Sharif exposed the rampant levels of starvation throughout Gaza as a result of Israel’s refusal to allow in sufficient food aid. An Israeli spokesperson accused al-Sharif of lying about the famine – despite corroboration of widespread starvation by independent and international groups.

The Committee to Protect Journalists had seen this playbook from Israel before: a pattern in which journalists are accused by Israel of being terrorists with no credible evidence. Indeed, we were so concerned that al-Sharif was being targeted that we issued a public statement urging his protection.

To date, Israel has provided no independently verifiable evidence that any of the journalists whom it has admitted deliberately targeting were terrorists

Instead, al-Sharif was killed alongside his colleagues in an attack that Israel has openly admitted was aimed at killing the journalist...  READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/israel-killing-gaza-journalists-anas-al-sharif

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 The Guardian view on Anas al-Sharif and Gaza’s journalists: Israel is wiping out the witnesses

"Western leaders call this self-defense, the media says it was all on accident." Assal Rad ... "Gaza is: -Hungriest place on earth -Most dangerous place for children -Most dangerous for journalists -Most dangerous for aid workers -Most pediatric amputees -Largest proportion of displaced people

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Gaza is: 

 -Hungriest place on earth 

-Most dangerous place for children 

-Most dangerous for journalists -Most dangerous for aid workers 

-Most pediatric amputees 

-Largest proportion of displaced people 

 

Western leaders call this self-defense, the media says it was all on accident.