April 2026, German Chancellor Merz: "We all want the Middle East to return to peace & stability as quickly as possible. We all have a great interest in that"
Sept 2026: Merz quadruples financing for Israel's wars on Gaza, Lebanon & Iran.
Germany has interest. But not in peace.
On 1 September 1923 an earthquake destroyed Tokyo.
In the three weeks that followed, the military, the police and armed militias killed around 6,000 Koreans, Chinese and socialists.
Japan has never investigated this massacre.
Juries now have refused to send Palestine Action astivists to jail as well as Tony Greenstein. His speech to the Jury that refused to send him to jail for ‘terrorism’ worth reading in whole, but here is an excerpt:
‘In the second world war, the Nazis walled the Jews of Warsaw, half a million of them into a ghetto — a sealed district, starved and diseased, from which the trains left for the Treblinka death camp. And in 1943 the young Jews who remained did something nobody expected. With a handful of smuggled pistols, against tanks and the SS, they rose. They knew they could not win. They rose because it was better to die resisting than to be led away quietly. It is one of the proudest moments in Jewish history.
The last surviving commander of that uprising was a man named Marek Edelman. And in his old age, Edelman wrote to the Palestinian resistance and addressed them as fellow fighters — much to Israel’s annoyance. When he died, Poland gave him a state funeral, a fifteen-gun salute, the President gave the oration. Israel did not send the lowliest clerk at the Israeli Embassy. Edelman wasn’t a Zionist.
Edelman, who led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, described Gaza as a ghetto. I have used his comparison for years before October 2023. Two million people, most of them refugees or the children of refugees, sealed into a strip of land under blockade for 16 years, where the majority are children who have never once been allowed out. When I wrote “ghetto,” I meant a ghetto. My blog supported the Uprising just as I would have supported the slave uprisings of the 19th century. That is a political opinion. It was a political opinion on 7 October 2023, and it is a political opinion now.
And here is the crazy thing. Read section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and ask what it would have made of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters. If this Act had existed in 1944, they could have been classified as terrorists. So could the French Resistance.’
https://t.co/vgjThBrQfv
German journalist Michael Martens (@faznet) just asked:
"What can we Europeans do specifically to kill even more Russians – Russian soldiers, of course?"
This is not journalism. This is open advocacy for killing disguised as journalism.
This is where German media is in 2026.
Israel can't ensure law and order in the land it unlawfully occupies. States must intervene. HOW?
UNSG: flag threat to peace (art 99)
UNSC: sanctions, deploy peacekeeping. If vetoed ->
UNGA: Pass a Uniting for Peace resolution.
Meanwhile NO TRADE and NO WEAPONS to Apartheid
Marco Rubio named Cuba the capital of 21st century communism.
73 years ago today Fidel Castro attacked the Moncada Barracks with 135 men of M-26-7. Dozens were executed after capture. Five years later he took Havana.
Asked if armed struggle was the only path, he didn't hesitate
BREAKING!
Armed Israelis are escalating DEADLY assaults against defenseless Palestinians in the West Bank!
They have reportedly just shot in cold blood five men in Tal village and Far'ata/Qalqilya.
Their leaders openly talk of #Gazification
THESE CRIMINALS MUST BE STOPPED!
Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese Red Army fighter who joined the PFLP, died on 23 July in Beirut at 78.
Known as "Ahmad the Japanese," he was Lebanon's only recognized political refugee.
Japan demanded his extradition until the end. Beirut never gave him up.
On 23 July 1921, thirteen delegates gathered in a house in Shanghai's French Concession and founded the Communist Party of China. Two others in the room weren't Chinese — they had been sent from Moscow. A thread on how the party was built, and who built it. 🧵
Mamdani, "the most pro-Palestinian mayor in New York history," says he can't arrest Netanyahu because that's Trump's job—the most pro-Israel US president in history.
This guy has a really good marketing and campaign manager.
Today is the anniversary of the revolution in Nicaragua.
But did you know the CIA's war against the Sandinista revolution was bankrolled by Saudi Arabia and armed with Palestinian weapons routed through Israel?
Happy birthday, Madiba 🇿🇦
A reporter tried to corner Mandela for standing by "America's enemies" like Castro & Gaddafi.
He answered with one line 👇
"One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies."
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio effectively branded opposition to fascism "a revolt of the weak and cowardly against the strong and good."
This is a declaration of war on antifascism & communism — and it will set the international tone against anything progressive.
The man who said Palestine was "a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is."
They killed a communist who armed the struggle with ideas.
Read the full article on my Substack
https://t.co/dxFRx5azha
The Pen That Outlived the Bomb - Ghassan Kanafani and the Politics of Palestinian Liberation
On this day, in 1972, communist Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Israel. Who was he and what does he represent to the Palestinian struggle?
BREAKING 🇨🇺 Despite a maximum pressure campaign by Marco Rubio, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly votes to carry out its debate on the "necessity of putting an end to the economic, commercial, and financial Blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba."