The Compass Report 🧭

Geopolitics, power, and the messy reality of it all.
Independent analysis with occasional raw and emotional takes. 🧭

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"OUR LIFE, OUR SOCIETY WAS SHATTERED IN ORDER THAT ISRAEL BE ESTABLISHED"

Edward Said, in an archival interview. He died in 2003.

"1948, we lost everything. Every single member of my family was made a refugee in 1948. Not a single member of my family remained in Palestine. My birthplace is now inaccessible to me."

"For many hundreds of thousands of my fellow Palestinians, their native towns, villages, farms are inaccessible to them."

Then the line that explains why he spent his life writing:

"The one thing that is still missing, in my opinion, is that there's a Palestinian story. We're not just the people who happen now to be in exile. Our life, our society was shattered in order that Israel be established."

And his own accounting:

"As a Palestinian born in Jerusalem, my national history and the society of my forebears were shattered in 1948 when Israel was established. Since that time, the better part of my own life, I have participated in the struggle not just to bring justice and restitution to my people, but also to keep the hope for self-determination alive."

He kept that hope alive until 2003. The Nakba he described in 1948 is still being carried out.

Twenty-three years after his death, the camps are still there. The villages are still gone. And the story he said was missing is finally being told. 🧭

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The whole list rests on institutionalizing the IHRA definition, which explicitly conflates legitimate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

Then Rule 8 weaponizes the counter-terrorism framework (Prevent) by linking that definition to "radicalisation risk."

This builds a security pipeline where pro-Palestinian advocacy gets routed through counter-terrorism protocols.

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Context and sources for the 2002 siege:

• April 2, 2002: Israeli forces entered Bethlehem under Ariel Sharon.
• The siege of the Church of the Nativity lasted 39 days.
• 8 killed inside the church, including Samir Ibrahim Salman (a Christian church worker).
• 46 killed in the Bethlehem district in 2002.

Sources: UN Report of the Secretary General on Jenin and other Palestinian Cities (2002), Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Annual Report (2002); The Washington Post (April/May 2002).

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"THEY KNEW HE WAS THE DIRECTOR OF A HOSPITAL... BUT HE WAS SHOT BY A HIGH VELOCITY BULLET."

April 2002. Israeli forces enter Bethlehem. A local resident describes the military occupation of his city.

During the assault, Palestinian fighters and civilians took refuge in the Church of the Nativity. The siege lasted 39 days.

Eight Palestinians were killed inside the church, including a Christian church worker shot by Israeli soldiers. By the end of the year, 46 Palestinians were killed in the Bethlehem district.

A city sacred to Christians around the world, turned into a military zone. 🧭

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Wolff points out the media's denial.

"The Russians did nothing about NATO moving close to their border in all those countries. And yet you portray them as putting all of Europe at risk... They're the ones who have been suffering your invasion since 1990."

When you push a military alliance right up to a country's border, break your promises, and then act shocked when they finally push back, that's not diplomacy. Only gaslighting.

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Europe is deliberately destroying its own economy to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. Why? Because they lost their colonies and this is their last desperate grab at carving up the world's largest country. Richard Wolff doesn't hold back.

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@clashreport He bombed a US ally and the host of the largest American military base in the region just to prove he isn't "pro-Qatar."

This is the level of foreign policy we are dealing with right now. The Middle East is a playground for his domestic political survival.

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@atrupar "Unfortunately" implies this wasn't a choice.

It was a choice, one sold as a quick, decisive operation just weeks ago. Now the timeline is open-ended, the munitions are running out, and the exit strategy has completely vanished.

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$700 million in transfers and secret negotiations, uncovered via a hacked phone.

Remember: Kushner is doing this as a private citizen with no official government title, which means no disclosure requirements and no Senate oversight.

If this is how foreign policy is actually being run, who exactly is holding the pen?

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"DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. IT'S NOT AN ISSUE."

In 1973, Richard Nixon told congressional leaders the quiet part out loud: "No American President will let Israel go down that tube."

Fifty years later, the names change, the wars change, and the Oval Office changes hands. But the blank check never bounces.

Here is how they pulled it off in 3 steps. They did it all on camera.

STEP 1: PROMISE SOMEONE ELSE'S LAND.

1917. Britain never owned Palestine. But Balfour gave it away anyway. At the time, Jews were 3% of the population. 13,942 vs 386,320 Muslims. In their own home, they were referred to as the "non-Jewish communities."

STEP 2: SEND THE SALESMAN.

1978. Enter 28-year-old Netanyahu on American TV. Articulate. MIT graduate. Selling the exact same script you hear today: "The core is Arab refusal, not occupation."

Then Nixon admits the economic reality in 1992: "Israel is not a strategic interest of the US." It's a moral commitment. Translation: American taxpayers fund it.

STEP 3: TAKE 78% BY FORCE.

1947. The UN proposes giving 56% of the land to people who own 7% and are 33% of the population. Palestinians say no. Who would say yes?
1948. Deir Yassin. Tantura. Lydda. Over 500 villages wiped off the map. The official British report on Deir Yassin: "Women and children were stripped, lined up, photographed, and slaughtered."

750,000 expelled. Never allowed back. Their houses taken. The orders are in the documents: "expelled outside the borders of the state."

They call it independence. Palestinians call it what it is: AL-NAKBA. The Catastrophe.

And they tell you this started on October 7th?

This documentary shows every receipt from 1878 to 1949. Watch it before they claim this one is "complicated" too. 🧭

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@memeAverse99 The 1984 comparison is spot on.
When you can't deny the footage of a French mayor on the ground or a journalist with a broken rib, the only move left is to claim the cameras are lying.

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"EVERYTHING IS DONE WITH BOTS."

Netanyahu's explanation for the global backlash against Israel.

Asked directly if the documented settler violence is also a lie, his answer: "Yes, yes, everything is done with bots... trying to poison young minds."

He calls it the "eighth front" and says he needs to deploy AI to fight it.

But a French mayor beaten into the dirt isn't a bot.
A Washington Post photographer kicked 50 times isn't an algorithm.
Burned Palestinian olive groves aren't an information war.

He's trying to automate a defense for the reality on the ground. 🧭

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"ISRAEL IS IN MORE DANGER OF DISAPPEARING NOW THAN IT EVER WAS."

Prof. Richard Wolff on the failure of Israel's strategy.

For the first time, Israel has been massively bombed by Iran and Hezbollah. Global public opinion has flipped against it, despite all the AIPAC money. And the UN and international courts are calling its actions war crimes.

Wolff's question is simple: "Was it really smart to be out there doing something the world considers war crimes? Has that enhanced your security?" 🧭

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Exactly. If it were all just foreign "bots," he wouldn't need to pass a law to strip citizenship from Israeli citizens who say it out loud.

You don't need a twenty-fold increase in defamation damages to fight a bot farm. You need it to silence the human beings who blew the whistle.

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@cenkuygur Dropping the pretense of defense to go on the offensive.

He says he doesn't need American approval, but he will absolutely need American resupply when the wider war starts. Dragging the region into a larger conflict is a choice, but the bill for it will be written in Washington.

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@KenRoth Sanctioning the judges is exactly the kind of retaliation Article 70 was written to prevent.

Washington tried to destroy the court to shield an ally, and may have just handed the prosecutor a new case against its own officials. The trap was built into the rulebook.

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@HatsOffff "The lost continent," says the man entirely dependent on US bombs, US vetoes, and an open letter from Trump to stay in power.

Europe isn't lost. It's just finally running out of patience.

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@RT_com Churchill didn't need Roosevelt to publish an open letter to the British public, threatening them if they voted for the opposition.

The comparison works perfectly, just not in the way he thinks.

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@clashreport A terrifying security threat revealed by the Mossad right on the eve of elections.

Funny how the only confirmed foreign attempt to influence this election is Trump's open letter telling Israelis who to vote for.

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"Everything is done with bots." Projection is a hell of a drug.

While Netanyahu complains about automated narratives poisoning young minds, his own allies were caught paying $46.5 million to Brad Parscale to flood the open web with pro-Israel content just so AI models would scrape it and repeat it back.

Meanwhile, the ADL is working directly with OpenAI, Google, and Meta to bake their definitions into the models "right in the source code."

They aren't losing the information war because of bots. They're losing it because anyone with a phone can film a 64-year-old journalist getting kicked in the dirt.

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Wolff goes deeper on the root cause: "If you look at their maps, Greater Israel is the old Israel plus what they got in '67, plus Gaza, plus the West Bank, plus southern Lebanon. This is settler colonialism."

"This is what the United States was. It worked in the 16th and 17th century. It doesn't work now, because the mass of people are now in a consciousness against colonialism."

And why won't the Palestinians leave? "They think they have history on their side. And they do. They're not gonna go. They're gonna look at their oppressors and say: when this is over, we'll be in charge."

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"ISRAEL IS IN MORE DANGER OF DISAPPEARING NOW THAN IT EVER WAS."

Prof. Richard Wolff on the failure of Israel's strategy.

For the first time, Israel has been massively bombed by Iran and Hezbollah. Global public opinion has flipped against it, despite all the AIPAC money. And the UN and international courts are calling its actions war crimes.

Wolff's question is simple: "Was it really smart to be out there doing something the world considers war crimes? Has that enhanced your security?" 🧭