Tag: Palestine

AMERICA & ISRAEL Part 5 (of a 5 Part Series)

Hamas: open Rafah and allow shelter materials in Against this backdrop, Hamas called on mediators and guarantors to pressure Israel to allow the entry of shelter materials into Gaza and to reopen the Rafah crossing in both directions. The movement held the enemy fully responsible for the worsening humanitarian disaster, saying that the blockade on […]

AMERICA & ISRAEL Part 3 (of a 5 Part Series)

The story continues from Part 2 ‘Israel greater danger than Iran,’ Oxford debate forum concludes Founded in 1823 at Oxford University in England, the Oxford Union brings together world leaders, thinkers, and students from Oxford colleges to debate issues of politics, religion, science, the arts, and literature. Debates are held in the same format, with […]

America & Israel Part 2 (of a 5 Part Series)

The story continues from https://behindthenews.co.za/america-israel-part-1-of-a-5-part-series/ Weaponizing Social Media for War In late 2024, the Knesset passed a $150 million budget for propaganda, targeting the West. The funding boosts the hundreds of millions contributed by Zionist foundations in the US. On 26 September 2025, Netanyahu met   with 18 US-based social media influencers. The directive was to flood TikTok, […]

America and Israel Part 1 (of a 5 Part Series)

1. America When Israel was formed in 1948, the Rockefeller family were lukewarm, if not hostile to it. This state of affairs went on until the 1967 June war between Egypt and Egypt/Syria. Nasser was the leader of Egypt, and he was stating that – – – “why must oil policy be decided in New […]

How Zionism Weaponised Anti-Semitism

Since the 5th century, the Jewish race was reviled amongst the other groups in the Middle East, and later in Europe itself. There were many reasons for this-which we have covered in previous articles. The main reason is their treatment of non-Jews.  It was only until the late 19th and early 20th century that Jews […]

Palestine – From Antiquity to 1948

Historical Background It is a paradox of the Arab-Israeli conflict that the central issue, the plight of the Palestinians, was long regarded by much of the world as peripheral. In 1948, the UN considered the outcome irreversible and made no attempt to enforce the creation of a Palestinian state. UN resolutions 242 and 338 refers […]

Trump: The Jerusalem Decision & Russiagate

Almost every week it seems the US administration contrives to highlight the sheer unreality of its policies, rarely more so and more often than in the Middle East. What are these policies? Leave to one side the loose talk about a peace between Israel and Sunni Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia, which will supposedly […]

Weaponising Islam – “Roots of Islamic Rage” Part 2 (of a 6 series)

The Turkish Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful and successful empires in the world for more than 6 centuries. Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the spiritual and political head of the Ottoman Empire, and head of the Islamic Caliphate, had been maneuvered in 1881 by the British and French creditor banks and governments […]

The Rise of the House of Rothschild Part 5 (of a 6 Part Series): 1880 – 1905

Palestine Exploration Fund Not long after the death of the youngest brother, James, in Paris, the British house formed an entity to begin work on mapping out Palestine. Founded in 1865, the Palestine Exploration Fund was, for its first 25 years, both the principal British exploration society in the Holy Land and a surveying body […]

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