Feb 12, 2025 | Former First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, joins Global News Today with Tom Burges Watson for an exclusive interview to discuss the Gaza ceasefire and the recent threats made by US President Donald Trump and supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hamas, demanding the immediate release of the rest of the hostages by Saturday, otherwise "all hell will break out." President Trump had also wanted to turn Gaza into a "Riviera of the Middle East" and says that all Palestinians should move to neighboring countries.
Yousaf slams these ideas put forward by the US president and says its simply "ethnic cleansing," stating many countries are being cowardly in not labeling Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza as such.
Yousaf also attacks Keir Starmer and the UK government for being "complicit" in Israel's "ethnic cleansing," suggesting that the language they use to describe Israel's actions is limited and the fact they continue to send weapons to Israel which are used against the Palestinians.
Feb 12, 2025 | Acclaimed scholar and activist Tariq Ali joins us for a wide-ranging conversation. In Part 1, he responds to Trump's support of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the U.S.'s capitulation to Israeli aggression in the Middle East and the rise in right-wing authoritarianism around the world. Ali says Donald Trump is "the most right-wing president in recent years" and exposes "in public what his predecessors used to say in private."
American political commentator Cenk Uygur reacts to Trump’s plan to ‘take over’ Gaza, saying the proposal is the ‘definition of ethnic cleansing’ and urging Americans to ‘unite against it’.
Feb 7, 2025 | President Trump is facing backlash for his proposal for the U.S. to “take over” the Gaza strip and “own” it. Diana Buttu, former Advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, joins José Díaz-Balart to share her reaction to Trump’s comments and to discuss what she thinks would be a better outcome for the Middle East.
Feb 7, 2025 | Just a day after US President Trump suggested that the US should take over the Gaza Strip, Israel says it is already preparing for large numbers of Palestinians to leave the territory. On Thursday, members of the Trump administration have tried to walk back some of the president's shocking proposal--a proposal that is drawing condemnation from around the world, with the head of the United Nations warning against ethnic cleansing.
THE GUARDIAN: Though heavily dependent on US aid, Amman and Cairo face political calamity at home should they comply
International outrage in recent days has focused on Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take “ownership” of Gaza, and that more than two million Palestinians be displaced to allow the territory to be transformed from “a demolition site” into a “riviera” in the Middle East.
In Jordan and Egypt, the demand that both countries accept huge numbers of Palestinians from Gaza – potentially on a permanent basis – has prompted equal concern. Leaders of both countries immediately rejected the proposal, and the Jordanian king, Abdullah II, and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, are heading to Washington in an attempt to convince Trump to change course.
“They are terrified that an Israeli policy of population transfer will actually become real,” said Neil Quilliam, an associate fellow of the Middle East programme at the Chatham House thinktank in London.
Abdullah and Sisi know that they are vulnerable to Trump’s trademark transactional style of geopolitics as their countries’ economies and security depend heavily on huge levels of US aid and trade.
Jordan accepted large numbers of displaced Palestinians in 1948 during the wars surrounding the foundation of Israel, and in 1967 when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza. A large proportion of Jordan’s population – probably more than half – is of Palestinian origin, with many still classed as refugees. » | Jason Burke, International security correspondent | Thursday, February 6, 2025
Feb 6, 2025 | We speak to Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart about his new book, _Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning_, which is "addressed to my fellow Jews" and criticizes what he characterizes as the increasing privileging of Zionism as a part of Jewish identity. "The Jewish community is structured to basically make the existence of a Jewish state, a state that privileges Jews over Palestinians, sacred, … elevat[ing] ethnonationalism — a Jewish state — over Judaism itself," Beinart says. In response, he challenges the erasure of Zionism's explicitly colonial roots and political myths about majoritarian rule, arguing for the acceptance of more critical stances toward the state of Israel within Jewish communities.
Feb 5, 2025 | US President Donald Trump has announced that his country will 'take over' the Gaza Strip and that Palestinians living there could be resettled elsewhere. He made the comments at a White House press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. US allies across Europe and the Middle East have condemned Trump's plans.
Iraq is facing an unprecedented influx of refugees - almost thirty thousand people have crossed its border with Syria since Thursday. The lion's share of those displaced are Kurds - who have found themselves caught in the middle of the war. And as RT's Paula Slier reports - this is yet another sign that the conflict can't be contained within Syria.
Protests in Croatia over Jailing of 'War Hero' for 'Ethnic Cleansing' Campaign
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Veterans protested on the streets of Zagreb after a popular Croatian general regarded as a national hero was jailed for "ethnic cleansing" war crimes as the price Croatia will pay for joining the EU later this year.
The Croatian government reacted with fury to the UN judgment finding Ante Gotovina guilty of war crimes for commanding "Operation Storm", a 1995 campaign still defended as "a legitimate military operation with the objective of liberating Croatian territory from occupation".
But Gotovina was convicted on nine counts of war crimes, including murder, deportation, persecution and inhuman acts. Mladen Markac, another Croat general in charge of "special" police forces was jailed for 18 years.
Jadranka Kosor, Croatia's Prime Minister, was especially angered by the UN's ruling which named President Franjo Tudjman, independent Croatia's founding father, who died in 1999, as a war crime conspirator along with Gotovina.
"The verdict is unacceptable to the government and we will do everything in our power to change it," said Mrs Kosor.
Gen. Gotovina, 55, a former parachute commando in the French Foreign Legion, commanded the lightning paced Operation Storm campaign that took back the Krajina region, Serbian communities along Croatia's eastern border that was held by Serb rebels early in the Balkan wars. » | Bruno Waterfield, The Hague | Friday, April 15, 2011
Ante Gotovina und seine beiden Mitangeklagten Ivan Cermak und Mladen Markac sind die verantwortlichen Offiziere bei der Rückeroberung der Krajna gewesen, eines der ärmsten Gebiete Kroatiens
