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SOTT Focus: Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza's Dead

Richard Hil and Gideon Polya
Arena
Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:22 UTC

'It is forbidden to kill: therefore, all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.'

Voltaire

'I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.'

Benjamin Netanyahu

'The right number of civilian casualties is zero.'

John Kirby, former US National Security Council spokesperson

TRUTH UNDER SIEGE - 'DEBATING' GAZA'S BODY COUNT

In a recent interview with the former Israeli government minister and now ambassador to the United Kingdom, Tzipora 'Tzipi' Hotovely, combative British journalist Piers Morgan asked repeatedly whether she knew the number of children that had been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023. Morgan pointed out that the ambassador's firm estimate of 30,000 'Hamas terrorists' killed during the conflict contrasted starkly with her apparent ignorance of the number of dead and injured Palestinian children. Clearly frustrated, Morgan kept repeating the same question, but to no avail. Towards the end of what was a protracted and often terse exchange, a clearly discomforted ambassador (at one stage accusing Morgan of 'blood libel'), dismissed the figures of civilian casualties produced by Gaza's Ministry of Health — figures which over many years have been regarded as reliable by numerous media and aid organisations.

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Peacemaker Trump Ends 3,000 Years of War in the Mid-East!

Sott.net
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:24 UTC

Or so he'd like you to believe. Trump's bullsh*t reached unprecedented heights last week with his theatrical 'Mid-East Peace Deal' in Egypt, which was really just a declaration of intent signed by the leaders of parties other than Israel and Hamas, and in which they expressed their desire to see the conflict ended. That's it.

Hamas has released all remaining Israeli hostages, while Israel has released a couple thousands Palestinian ones. But the fundamentally barbaric and illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands continues. In the meantime, Trump's also been publicly bragging in Israel's Knesset (!) about Israeli money buying US foreign policy...

Far from being 'resolved', Israel's 'Palestinian problem' is likely being shifted into the next phase: bloody civil war instigated by 'militias' funded and/or fully supported by the US and Israel.

Running Time: 02:02:24

Download: MP3 — 112 MB

Flashback SOTT Focus: The Not-so-Secret History of Netanyahu's Support For Hamas

Ghousoon Bisharat
+972 Magazine
Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:46 UTC

From sabotaging Oslo to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict. Even after Oct. 7, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy.

When Israeli historian and human rights activist Adam Raz set out to write "The Road to October 7: Benjamin Netanyahu, the Production of the Endless Conflict and Israel's Moral Degradation," he knew he was tackling a blind spot in Israeli public discourse. The vast majority of Israelis, Raz believes, fail to grasp the full extent of Netanyahu's involvement in bolstering Hamas before the current war, and in perpetuating an unending state of conflict.

Raz's book, released in May of this year, sheds light on a controversial policy whereby Netanyahu's governments for years routinely approved and encouraged the transfer of Qatari funds into Gaza to prop up Hamas. While noting that the Israeli media has devoted more attention to this policy in the aftermath of October 7, Raz told +972 that this is "just a sliver of the bigger picture," which is rooted in Netanyahu's broader opposition to a just resolution to the conflict. "People need to understand the full scope of Netanyahu's strategy," he said.

According to Raz, who also works as a researcher at the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, Netanyahu's priority is not maintaining Israel's security but rather preventing any real chance of resolving the conflict through the division of land, ending the occupation, or a two-state solution. Keeping the cash flowing to Hamas served this objective by ensuring the Palestinian national movement remained splintered between Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank, thus allowing Israel to maintain its dominance over the whole of the land. Even after the devastating events of October 7, Raz warns that Netanyahu's playbook remains unchanged.

SOTT Focus: Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Younis Tirawi and Yaniv Cogan
Drop Site News
Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:57 UTC

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Israeli soldiers burn a home in Gaza City on the night of October 9. Source: social media. Faces obscured by Drop Site.

In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's announcement on Thursday that both Hamas and Israel had signed off on an agreement to stop the fighting, the Israeli military launched an arson spree, setting fire to civilian infrastructure, including the destruction of an essential sanitation plant in Gaza City.

The destruction of Palestinian structures following the departure of soldiers who had used them as temporary bases has been a hallmark of Israel's approach to Gaza for two years. In July, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham collected testimonies from soldiers describing a myriad of arson methods. "Every Arab house we entered had olive oil [...] We poured the oil on the sofas, on anything flammable in the apartment, and then we ignited [it] or threw in a smoke grenade. This was a common practice," one of them described.

The agreement came after months of a concerted effort to render Gaza uninhabitable by destroying residences and civilian infrastructure, culminating in the ground invasion of Gaza City and the leveling of several high rises in Gaza City. In September, Israeli government minister Gila Gamliel told Channel 7 News, "We have already completely annihilated 75% of the entire [Gaza] Strip. There remains 25%, which, as you know, it too...we are now taking over [the city of] Gaza — there will be nothing left there that would really [have] the potential to be habitable."

SOTT Focus: Israel's Coordinated Campaign to Propagandize Conservatives in America

GenXGirl
X
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:40 UTC

This is a timeline of a sophisticated, well-funded and deliberately opaque influence operation conducted by Israel and its allies within the US to target conservatives. Polling data shows Israel has permanently lost the American left and they are losing the American right, particularly young conservatives. Israel's campaign seeks to recast criticism of a foreign nation's policy as a form of bigotry, weaponize faith, and co-opt American institutions, all while systematically evading the laws designed to protect the American public from such foreign propaganda.

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump's Gaza Peace Plan: Doomed to Fail?

Sott.net
Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:21 UTC

Here we go again. 2 years on from "Israel's 9/11," public and international pressure has once again brought pressure to bear on an immediate settlement of Israel's 'war against Hamas'. Netanyahu, on his 4th visit to Washington DC this year, has sort-of agreed to Trump's peace plan, which would see all remaining Israeli hostages released by Hamas, the IDF withdraw from what remains of Gaza's cities and settlements, and the Strip's functional management temporarily taken over by an 'international executive'.

Sounds great, and sounds like it would end the mayhem for good. The problem, however, is that we've already been at this point on multiple occasions during the last 2 years - and, each time, Israel has cited one reason or another for why it disregarded its apparent commitment to 'solving the crisis' in favor of continuing to 'cleanse' Gaza... leaving skeptics with the impression that Israel doesn't want the war to end, and that its real goal is the removal of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

How close are they to achieving their (real) goal? By our estimate, about half-way, so... 2 more years to go?

Running Time: 02:12:17

Download: MP3 — 121 MB

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Kirk Assassination Solved? Lapel Mic 'Explosion' Explains Neck Wound, Reveals Conspiracy

Sott.net
Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:35 UTC

It's gotta be the mic he was wearing on his shirt. This week we examine new, clearer footage of Charlie Kirk the moment he was assassinated at Utah Valley University on September 10th. His 'billowing t-shirt', the 'lack of an exit wound', and the unusual characteristics found in the gunfire sound's 'crack-bang' acoustics are all accounted for by something that's been right under our noses the whole time.

Also on this NewsReal: the farcical 'Russian drone war' in Europe, Netanyahu's antics at the UN General Assembly, the wholesale buy-up of mainstream and social media platforms 'by Israel', Trump's apparent u-turn on supporting Ukraine 'to the last Ukrainian', and the revelation that there were in fact hundreds of feds among the crowd at the Capitol on January 6th 2021.

Running Time: 02:07:35

Download: MP3 — 117 MB

SOTT Focus: TPUSA Insider: Ultra-Zionist Billionaire Robert Shillman Ended Financial Support For Kirk in Days Before Assassination

Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone
Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:22 UTC

Comment: Shillman, really?!

Ultra-Zionist billionaire Robert Shillman was one of Charlie Kirk's most committed donors. But as Kirk fell under attack for his increasingly critical Israel views during his final weeks, sources say Shillman ended funding for TPUSA. As his campus tour approached, Kirk was subjected to an "almost daily" lobbying campaign from Netanyahu's allies.

The Turning Point USA campus in Phoenix, Arizona is the house that Charlie Kirk built. Consisting of six sterile, two-floor office buildings, the campus is itself a tribute to the ultra-wealthy donors who placed the 31-year-old Kirk at the helm of a political empire whose combined annual assets exceeded the municipal budget of a typical small American city.

Comment: Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

As always, follow the money...

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Kirk Assassination 'Miracle': Martyr of The American Church of Latter Day Judeo-Christians

Sott.net
Sun, 21 Sep 2025 20:00 UTC

charlie kirk assassination israel newsreal

Behold, a miracle! Charlie Kirk, they say, presented no exit wound because the large, high-velocity round that pierced his neck on 9/10 was 'absorbed by his supernatural body', thereby protecting others behind the great man from being killed, Kirk's last selfless act as an all-American Judeo-Christian.

As the 'investigation' into Kirk's assassination continues, mostly taking place among a few million kooky conspiracy theorists online, officialdom has concluded that he was killed by a queer lone gunman who 'hated Kirk for things he said'. Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, has comprehensively extinguished all suspicion of Israeli involvement in Kirk's brutal murder, and welcomed 250 American state legislators to tour "America's Greatest Ally."

Hanging in the air, however, is The Unspeakable. Though widely - and, for the most part, anonymously - expressed online, and darkly muttered in public from time to time, the undertone to this entire affair is unmistakable: the creeping large-scale realization that something extremely dark is in total control of American government and society.

Running Time: 02:17:18

Download: MP3 — 126 MB

SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - August 2025: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

Sott.net
Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:23 UTC

August, saw a stark decrease in sunspots (133) compared to July (210), yet this decline is not unusual as solar cycles can exhibit fluctuations even during the peak phase. The decrease may indicate a transition phase within the solar maximum, where activity can vary significantly.

Yet, this month's solar activity set the stage for increased geomagnetic activity in early September, including a G3-level geomagnetic storm that resulted in stunning auroras across various regions, including the United States.

Considering the erratic solar activity and significant geomagnetic storms we can expect more extreme weather in the upcoming months.

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SOTT Focus: Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza's Dead

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Peacemaker Trump Ends 3,000 Years of War in the Mid-East!

Flashback SOTT Focus: The Not-so-Secret History of Netanyahu's Support For Hamas

SOTT Focus: Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

SOTT Focus: Israel's Coordinated Campaign to Propagandize Conservatives in America

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump's Gaza Peace Plan: Doomed to Fail?

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Kirk Assassination Solved? Lapel Mic 'Explosion' Explains Neck Wound, Reveals Conspiracy

SOTT Focus: TPUSA Insider: Ultra-Zionist Billionaire Robert Shillman Ended Financial Support For Kirk in Days Before Assassination

SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Kirk Assassination 'Miracle': Martyr of The American Church of Latter Day Judeo-Christians

SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - August 2025: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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