José S. Vericat

The Holocaust is over Gaza is the very end of The Holocaust as Israel's moral legitimacy

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Egypt mobilises 40,000 troops in Sinai amid Gaza displacement fears, source says Military official tells MEE Egyptian army is on ‘the highest state of alert we’ve seen in years’ as Israel prepares to occupy Gaza 

Egypt mobilises 40,000 troops in Sinai amid Gaza displacement fears, source says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-mobilises-40000-troops-sinai-amid-gaza-displacement-fears-source-says

The extraordinary opposition by Israel (and U.S.) to something as tepid and symbolic as recognizing Palestine is due to the fact that Israel’s objective is complete disappearance of Palestinian nationalism and identity

Las grandes tecnológicas se lanzan al negocio de la guerra: así se militariza Silicon Valley Gigantes como Google, Microsoft, Meta o Amazon han pasado de evitar ser relacionados con la industria militar a firmar grandes contratos con el Pentágono o Israel

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Indispensable:

"In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier."

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"The question of Palestine now figures almost as prominently in American politics as the Jewish question did when European democracies faced the threat of fascism" [...] "‘The Gaza war offered a chance for clarity, honesty and introspection,’ [...] ‘because it was when everything got out of hand.’"

"No word, in the last few years, has made such an outsized contribution to the attack on academic and intellectual freedom, or to acts of repression, arrests and deportation" [...] "Anti-antisemitism now serves the purpose antisemitism (and anticommunism) once did."

"‘If the US had attacked Iran first, we would have condemned it,’ one told him. ‘But because it’s Israel, it’s much harder’"

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"the inability of Western powers to condemn Israel’s conduct – much less bring it to an end – has made a mockery of the rules-based order that they claim to uphold"

Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...

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"Most of the Democrats who criticised Trump for launching a war without congressional approval were noticeably reticent when it came to Israel’s unilateral assault" [...]

🔴 Oferta de #empleo:

En el Centro de Estudios Árabes Contemporáneos #CEARC buscamos:

“Coordinador/a de comunicación”

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Fecha límite candidaturas: 15 de julio.

¡Gracias por darle difusión!

The heavily damaged Al-Rafei Elementary School A & B for Boys and the destroyed Al-Omari Mosque are also visible.
Previous geolocation of the destroyed mosque by @chrisosieck.bsky.social: x.com/ChrisOsieck/...

Detained Gaza doctor Abu Safiya in critical condition, lawyer says <article data-history-node-id="425700" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lawyer-says-detained-gaza-doctor-hussam-abu-safia-critical-condition" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lawyer-says-detained-gaza-doctor-hussam-abu-safia-critical-condition" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Detained Gaza doctor Abu Safiya in critical condition, lawyer says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="342" data-start="111">The health of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, has severely deteriorated in Israeli detention in Israel's infamous Ofer prison, his lawyer said in a statement on social media.</p> <p>Israeli forces arrested Abu Safia on 27 December from the hospital in Beit Lahia in north Gaza, which was left out of service following Israeli attacks.</p> <p>All medical staff, patients, and their relatives were taken out of the hospital at gunpoint, forced to strip down to their underwear.</p> <p data-end="897" data-start="564">Remaining&nbsp;in solitary confinement,&nbsp;Abu Safiya&nbsp;has lost more than 40kg (88 pounds) since his arrest and was reportedly beaten on 24 June, his lawyer said. He was denied medical care despite requesting treatment for injuries to his ribs, face and back, as well as for irregular cardiology test results.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been detained since 27 December, tells his lawyer of brutal torture and abuse in Israel-run detention centres (Instagram/dr.hussam73)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="ed4bce98-8237-4f76-8272-f0750ea74b7c" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/hussam-abu-safiya-israel-detention-prison-jail-torture-instagram.jpeg" width="1400" height="787" alt="Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been detained since 27 December, tells his lawyer of brutal torture and abuse in Israel-run detention centres (Instagram/dr.hussam73)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Abu Safiya has been categorised as an "unlawful combatant" under Israel - despite him being a civilian doctor, which means there is no formal indictment against him. (Instagram/dr.hussam73)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background:rgba(220,220,220,0.5);background-image:url(https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png);display:none;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

Detained Gaza doctor Abu Safiya in critical condition, lawyer says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lawyer-says-detained-gaza-doctor-hussam-abu-safia-critical-condition

I don’t like to throw around the word evil, I avoid using it. But there are layers to the evil in this prohibition, depths of cruelty, pointless, gratuitous cruelty, and blatant sadism that simply make it impossible to describe it any other way

In yet another act of collective punishment, Israel has now banned all access to the sea across the entire Gaza Strip—prohibiting both swimming and fishing for Palestinians.

Trump and Netanyahu Meet Amid Gaza Cease-Fire Negotiations

On PM Netanyahu's nomination of Pres Trump for Nobel Peace Prize: According to UN voting patterns, Israel is the U.S.'s closest ally, no other country votes as closely to U.S. interests, while, Israel is one of the world's most isolated countries

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Three Crew Killed in Attack on M/V Eternity C as Houthis Renew Red Sea Assaults Two crew members of the Liberian-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier Eternity C were killed in a drone and speedboat attack off Yemen on Monday evening, Liberia's shipping delegation told a meeting o...

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La fuga de deportistas de Marruecos en busca de futuro en Europa refleja el malestar juvenil Siete jugadores de balonmano desaparecen en Polonia e Italia durante el Mundial sub-21 y ‘junior’ para emigrar de forma irregular

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Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’ Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza

Israeli Defense Minister Katz said on Monday he'd ordered preparations for a plan to force Gaza's population into a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah. Holocaust historian Amos Goldberg calls it a "concentration camp"

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Opinion | Trump’s Work in Iran Has Only Begun

Amb. John Bolton describes the path ahead, in this cryptic line that reveals enough: AIRWAR

'Moreover, “no boots on the ground” need be involved. The short answer is that Iran is not Iraq, which Jerusalem and Washington have already partly demonstrated.'
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🔴 ENTREVISTA | @josevericat.bsky.social, investigador del @rielcano.bsky.social, sobre la propuesta de alto el fuego en Gaza

🗣️ "Parecen maniobras de distracción [...] Trump intenta crear la impresión de que está llegando a un alto el fuego, pero no son propuestas serias"

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[...] "Israeli achievements in technical intelligence, cyberattacks, pager detonations, precision killings, mass civilian carnage, and more, may point the way to methods that will be employed by all and sundry. Signs are visible already."

"...will not fail to remember the horrors that befell Gaza, the bombings of their cities, the massacres, the shame, the killings of their leaders, the West’s duplicity, hypocrisy, and moral desolation."

The Perils of Middle East Triumphalism Iran, Israel, and the ghosts of history.

"Jews did not forget their attachment to the Holy Land after 2,000 years of exile. Palestinians, Lebanese, and Iranians—those who still recall the seventh-century Battle of Karbala, which led to the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein—..."
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SG Guterres should rename the position to, "Envoy to the occupied Palestinian territories".

It would send an important signal, that there is no political process and the international community needs to act if it wants one. Right now it is just a fig leaf that feeds into international inaction

Sigrid Kaag steps down as UN envoy for Israel-Palestinian peace - DutchNews.nl Former D66 leader and finance minister Sigrid Kaag will step down this week as the United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process, saying the post should be reshaped or even abolished. “If the...

Kaag believes the role no longer has a purpose because there is no political process and there is no horizon for one. There is no international pressure for Israel to concede to Palestinians' most basic rights. She even questions the whole peace and security edifice
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"This figure marks a return to the huge amounts raised by the Israeli tech industry in 2021"

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"Israeli startups raised over $1.5 billion in June 2025... The figure may be more as some companies prefer to remain in stealth and sometimes do not publicize the investments they have received"
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¿Qué demuestra el bombardeo estadounidense contra Irán? La ofensiva israelí-estadounidense sobre Irán impulsa una reordenación regional con consecuencias estratégicas a nivel internacional.

Las informaciones de que las instalaciones centrales del programa nuclear iraní no han sido destruidas por completo ofrecen a Israel y a Estados Unidos una excusa para continuar esta guerra hasta el colapso del régimen.
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"«Un gran error sería intentar por medios militares provocar un cambio de régimen en Irán. Solo hay que mirar lo que pasó en Irak contra Sadam Husein o en Libia con el derrocamiento de Muamar el Gadafi en 2011, mire todo lo que vino después», apunta Vericat."

Gracias Carlota Perez!

...y el cuestionamiento al liderazgo de Jamenei tanto dentro como fuera del país podrían significar una renovación a su liderazgo». Vericat recuerda el caso de Abbas Musawi, líder de Hizbolá en [1992] y asesinado por Israel al año siguiente. Después de Al Musawi llegó el férreo liderazgo de Nasralá"