It takes a special kind of moral gymnastics to look at a flattened, starving, traumatized population of genocide survivors amid the rubble of their homes and decide they’re the ones who need to be monitored. Yet here we are.

As today’s news broke of a ceasefire in Gaza after two years of Israel’s genocidal war, the Political Director of the UK’s Foreign Office, Dr. Christian Turner, arrived in Beirut to present the Lebanese foreign minister with “historic maps” of Lebanon’s borders with occupied Palestine — the very borders which Britain and France carved into existence a century ago before Israel existed, and which Israel still refuses to recognize. It’s a touching gesture: the empire that divided the Middle East now offering souvenirs of the mess it left behind, one photocopy at a time.

On October 27, Edy Cohen, Israeli journalist and super-hasbara, will host what's being billed as the Middle East’s 'first minorities conference' in Tel Aviv — a jamboree of noble rhetoric about protecting vulnerable communities primarily in Syria.

Policy analysts, inspired by the visionary international post-conflict peace plan model proposed for Gaza, have begun to outline a similar framework to address the growing instability in the United States. Drawing directly on lessons from President Trump’s Gaza peace plan, they propose the establishment of a Peace Board USA: a multinational authority tasked with helping President Trump to restore security, deradicalize extremist insurgents, and rebuild dangerous cities scarred by years of unrest.

The Need for a Multinational Authority

The Jerusalem Post has just given Britain’s most notorious far-right grifter a platform, adding to the one already gifted to him by Elon Musk. In an interview published on Thursday, Tommy Robinson — convicted fraudster, prominent racist, virulent Islamophobe, pro-Putin demagogue — is posing again as Israel’s champion. It’s a typically grotesque spectacle: a white-supremacist conman who has spent years vilifying Muslims as a “civilisational threat” using Israel’s ongoing genocide as a backdrop to depict himself and Israel as the real victims.

While Israel rains bombs and tank shells on Gaza in preparation for yet another round of ethnic cleansing, the Trump administration is busy presenting itself as a peace-broker. Outside the far-right, the UN and most of the world now openly acknowledges that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Yet no power with the military capability to make Israel stand down — least of all those claiming to support Palestinian freedom — is moving to stop it. Instead, Washington is doubling down on protecting Israel and ensuring what it calls “stability” on its terms.

Israel today launched airstrikes in Qatar, with Israeli military officials bragging about their attempted assassination of Hamas leadership officials, who were in Doha to discuss a US-drafted ceasefire proposal for Gaza. According to reports, Washington was notified in advance of the Israeli attack and gave its approval.

A senior Russian delegation landed in Damascus today to discuss “strategic files” with Syria’s new authorities — the same Syrians Moscow was bombing and denouncing as “terrorists” less than a year ago.

Israel today issued fresh ‘evacuation orders’ for the residents of what remains of Gaza City, nearly two years into its relentless bombardment of the strip. Planes have dropped leaflets telling residents to 'evacuate' immediately, disregarding the fact that years of Israeli bombardment have left the people with nowhere to 'evacuate' to.

Elon Musk keeps saying the quiet part out loud. On his platform X today, the world’s richest man declared: “If AfD doesn’t win, Germany is kaput.” Reposting another far-right account celebrating the German far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party’s rise in the polls, Musk, who's previously appeared via satellite at AfD conferences to lavish praise on the party, doubled down on his own earlier line: “Only AfD can save Germany.”