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Our comments as Israeli election results roll in: no matter who forms government, Australia must increase pressure on Israel to end the genocide and apartheid it is inflicting on Palestinians.
jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/10…
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"EXCLUSIVE: She Raised £35,000 for Gaza – Then GoFundMe Withheld the Money"
Molly Furnival-Doran cycled 3,000 miles for charity, but the crowdfunding platform kept the money for months pending an obscure review process. Does GFM have a problem with Palestine fundraisers?
zeteo.uk/p/exclusive-she-rai…
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A clear majority of Jewish Israelis voted for Netanyahu’s coalition.
The man has been indicted on corruption charges in Israel and indicted for war crimes by the ICC.
His coalition has waged an assault on Israel’s legal system and he waged a genocidal war on Gaza and a quieter war on the West Bank the past three years.
Let that sink in …
David Robie retweeted
Wow!
Canadian journalist asks Moshe Feiglin, a former Likud Member of Knesset, if he is concerned about Israel's plummeting global standing.
Feiglin's response is chilling, as it reveals the fundamental supremacist view he and many in Israel hold.
He says that the real moral supreme court is in Israel, ie with the people of Israel.
The Bible says, he explains, that those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. As a result, it's we - Israelis - who get to judge you, rather than you judging us.
And then he adds?
"Are you with the children of God or not?"
David Robie retweeted
Yes Mr Blair:
Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere need an end to genocide, Israel's militarised colonisation and apartheid.
They need respect for Intl Law and justice.
They also need no more advice from those who have profited from their misery for too long.
Be kind. Step aside
Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel #asiapacificreport #rnzpacific #PacificEldersVoice #IsraelInPacific #diplomacy @palestine
asiapacificreport.nz/2026/10…
ALT Ocean Partnership Roundtable at Ngarachamayong Cultural Center in Koror, Palau, in August . . . the Israel move by the Pacific Islands Forum "conflicts with the region's commitments to human rights, self-determination and international law". Image: Ohanna Rabo Galo/TMC Palau/Pasifika TV
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NEW REPORT! “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide”
In Palestine, the destruction of the truth has become integral to the destruction of the Palestinian people.
The new report examines:
1) Israel’s systematic elimination of Palestinian journalists and media infrastructure.
2) Censorship, propaganda, dehumanisation and genocidal incitement against Palestinians, in Israel.
3) The role of influential media and digital platforms in marginalising Palestinian voices and reproducing Israeli narratives.
💬 “Perpetrators and enablers of genocide often seek to shape how genocidal destruction is perceived and remembered. [...] The current genocidal phase has intensified the war both on and through the media.”
READ THE REPORT🔗 docs.un.org/A/81/249. Available in all official UN Languages.
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So you don't view Arab citizens as Israelis? Thanks for clarifying, Mr. Ambassador.
Today is election day in Israel, which is a national holiday. All voting is in person, ID required. No mail-in or absentee ballots. Arabs vote same as Israelis. Contentious process, but it's a democracy-not many of those in this region!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Arab voters are Israeli citizens. Listing them in contrast to Israelis is misconstruing the facts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citi…
cfr.org/backgrounders/…
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🇴🇲 Oman says excluding Iran from Gulf security has been a fundamental mistake:
🔸Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi criticized decades of Gulf security arrangements built around excluding Iran and relying on foreign military powers, calling for a new regional security framework that includes Tehran.
🔸“Perhaps the most damaging of the priorities imposed on the region from the outside has been the requirement that Iran be excluded,” he said during a lecture at Cambridge University.
🔸This, he said, created an unstable system based on the “entirely false perception” of fundamental antagonism between Iran and Arab Gulf states. “There is no such fundamental antagonism,” he said, adding that any security architecture excluding Iran is “inherently unstable” and “structurally unsound.”
🔸He also said that Oman and Iran had developed the outline of a temporary arrangement to restore navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, but said implementation would require compromises by both Tehran and Washington.
More in post linked below.
🇴🇲 Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi called for a non-aggression pact among the six Gulf Arab states, alongside Iran and Iraq, that would end the US role as the region’s primary security provider, speaking at Cambridge University on Monday.
Gulf security has “relied for too long on the involvement of external powers,” Albusaidi told an audience of over 100 diplomats and foreign policy specialists, making issues like the Strait of Hormuz “impossible to resolve.” He said “perhaps the most damaging” priority imposed on the region from outside was the exclusion of Iran for nearly 50 years: “Not just excluded. Worse. Positioned as the threat against which regional security had to be organized.”
In what The Guardian described as an indirect challenge to President Trump’s case for renewed strikes on Iran, amid reports that the US and Israel are considering another round of attacks, Albusaidi reiterated that the US-Iran talks Oman mediated in February were “making significant progress” and that “an agreement was within reach” when the war was launched. “We still stand by that judgement today,” he said.
The speech came the same day Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran.
West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed in Kimbe #asiapacificreport #rnzpacific #PNGnews #PNGpolice #armedrobbery @PNGNEWSTODAY @pngfacts
asiapacificreport.nz/2026/10…
ALT Firearms and ammunition seized in a counter-terrorism operation by PNG police in Southern Highlands province last month. Image: PNG Police
David Robie retweeted
The ICJ found Israel's occupation unlawful. It must end.
Until then, under int'l law, Palestinians have the right to resist it through lawful means.
Israel shall protect its youth by ending the colonial project that traps many of them in committing atrocity crimes.
A war is coming to the West Bank
Yesterday Palestinian resistance fighters conducted a surgical strike against Israeli occupation soldiers, fully in accordance with international law.
In response, Israeli government immediately announced that they will do war crimes and started doing war crimes.
All the Palestinian villages in the West Bank are under siege, the city of Hebron is under siege. IDF is demolishing house after house, raiding family after family. They said they want to turn Hebron into Rafah.
More than 250 families were kicked out into the streets with nothing. People slept on the street last night.
The Israeli election is in 3 days, and the Netanyahu-Smotrich government is going to use this to start a war in the West Bank.
The only way to stop this is pressure from all directions. We know it works. International pressure worked for the besieged house in Qusra, which still belongs to the Palestinians because of the all-around attention. It can work for Hebron too.
But it will require EVERYONE reading this doing everything they can to stop this. Call your representative, hold a demonstration, organise direct action against the occupation’s assets abroad. Keep attention on the West Bank.
ACT NOW.
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Indonesia’s protest ‘queens’ are a viral sensation. Here’s why their message on haze, climate and cost of living hit the spot👇
David Robie retweeted
Perhaps the UAE's candidate for UN Secretary-General Lana Nusseibeh "could begin by explaining why her own government has been repeatedly implicated in helping fuel the genocidal catastrophe in Sudan."
My latest piece for Zeteo on a big scandal at the UN:
zeteo.com/p/the-uae-helped-f…
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The UN Human Rights Council confirmed that the US blockade against Cuba violates human rights and international law, citing Article 33 of Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits collective punishment.
Your administration is starving and killing babies in Cuba just like Israel is starving and killing babies in Gaza.
The U.S. sanctions against Cuba must be lifted immediately. This’s a crime against humanity.
The Castro regime has profited at the expense of the Cuban people with luxury cars, expensive watches and a private island resort. As I shared this with the world, regime thugs rushed the stage to interrupt my speech.
They can intimidate their own people in Cuba but think again about trying that nonsense in the United States of America.
David Robie retweeted
🇷🇸 “We owe our viewers an apology.”
A day after Serbia’s student-led movement defeated Aleksandar Vučić’s ruling party in a historic election, regional public broadcaster Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) opened Monday’s evening news with an extraordinary admission.
“For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly and failed to ask necessary questions. We owe our viewers an apology,” anchor Goran Eror said, reading a statement from RTV employees.
The broadcaster acknowledged years of one-sided, uncritical reporting. The editor-in-chief of its main television channel resigned the same day.
David Robie retweeted
Fleeing justice, Flávio Bolsonaro, the far-right presidential candidate defeated in Sunday’s election in Brazil, has left for the United States (and Trump's protection), a day after Brazilian police asked him to hand over his passports because he was being investigated in a money-laundering case. nytimes.com/2026/10/27/world…
David Robie retweeted
wow!
Flávio Bolsonaro has fled to Argentina. Suspicion: he may continue on to the US...
#Brazil
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Again & again a UN independent report concludes genocidal acts in #Gaza & crimes against humanity in the West Bank.
This is again & again made possible due to impunity.
When will the international community draw a red line?
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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‘Netanyahu ORCHESTRATED October 7th attack.’
—Former US Treasury Official Prof. Paul Craig Roberts
‘I don’t see any other explanation. There have been so many Israeli intelligence and military officials who have said you can’t get close to the wall without the alarm going off…
And you can’t possibly penetrate it without the alarm going off, and there are constant patrols as well, and so there’s no other explanation than it was stood down.
So I think that the Israeli intelligence infiltrated Hamas, convinced them that they could turn the the wall off and have a successful attack, and I think it was orchestrated because it led directly to the genocide in Gaza. So I don’t know any other explanation.
You know, it’s goofy to have the position that that wall is that vulnerable and it’s been there that long, and that the Palestinians never took advantage of it.’
Watch the full interview in the quoted post 👇
🚨 NEW EPISODE OF GOING UNDERGROUND ⚡️
Iran War: Trump is too EGOTISTICAL & in Netanyahu’s Pocket to Save Himself — Prof. Paul Craig Roberts
How likely is it that Trump strikes Iran again at the behest of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu?
Why is Ukraine's Zelensky's time in the sun over?
Why did Trump reject Iran's proposal, which would have handed him a midterm victory on a silver platter?
All this and more on this episode of Going Underground with Prof. Paul Craig Roberts, former US Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy under Ronald Reagan.