How great that an Argentine court has returned to the heirs of its rightful owner an artwork stolen in Netherlands in 1940 by a highranking Nazi... So, next up, the Zionists' return of *all* the art, property, homes, farms, etc, that they stole from Palestinians from 1947 on??

No @haaretz, if this person was trying to attack “forces” in a city under military occupation, that is the opposite of “terrorism.” That is legitimate resistance to foreign military occupation

Six months & counting into the US-Israeli war on Iran... I searched the lengthy schedule for the Socialism 2026 conference and not a mention of this war... Hmmm. Perhaps a connection to the super-sketchy "Two blades of the scissors" letter that several supporters of this org sign…Mostrar mais

I wrote this: helenacobban.substack.com/p/september-2026.... A big month in world history that we're in!

I wrote this: helenacobban.substack.com/p/genocide-and-w... >

Iran's leaders have now spelled out that Palestine, as well as Lebanon, is a front on which it seeks a permanent ceasefire as an essential part of implementing the June MOU. I described this key shift in this essay, ydy: helenacobban.substack.com/p/irans-leaders-...Mostrar mais

My latest: helenacobban.substack.com/p/how-far-will-i...

Really @wapo?

My latest newsletter fopr @JustWorldEd: open.substack.com/pub/justworlded/p/iran-s...

I wrote this on yet another (and world-historically significant) own goal in Trump's decision to attack Iran: open.substack.com/pub/helenacobban/p/yet-a...

My thoughts on the most dangerous “proxy” in West Asia, & a lot more… substack.com/@helenacobban/note/p-208335098

How many hours have the Swiss police now held the great journalist & freedom fighter @AliAbunimah-- and WHY?? #FreeAliAbunimah now. @YousefAljamal @itranslate123 @JustWorldEd.

My current hypothesis on the Turkish-US-Israeli attack on Syrian govt is (a) Erdogan's been itching to do this for a while, (b) for Washington, the strong punch against Syrian govt is a diversion from the looming loss in Ukraine (think *Grenada 1983* as a diversion/morale-booster…Mostrar mais

Hey people! I'm v much looking forward to our @justworldbooks webinar Friday in honor of @itranslate123's enduring legacy... With @AliAbunimah, @Saritah_91, @YousefAljamal @gazasubaltern... Register for it here:

The anniversary of @itranslate123's killing by the Israelis is coming up Dec 6. I am so moved to be working with @aliabunimah, @YousefAljamal, @saritah_91, Mohammed Suleiman, and Rawan Yaghi to present this webinar to mark his legacy, at 4pm US-Eastern time on Dec 6. @Justworldbooks.…Mostrar mais

Also: Next week Tues and Thurs I'm giving two talks about our book 'Understanding Hamas & Why That Matters'. Tues 4 pm ET it's a hybrid event at Georgetown U. Register here: georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JrX... >

But the movement has always laid stress on lifting up & preparing successor generations. Read our book, people! @orbooks @ramikhouri @MouinRabbani

I’m old enough to remember the Israelis’ killing spree of 2003-04 when they murdered Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, Ismail Abushanab & numerous other top leaders of #Hamas… & they imagined they had thereby “solved” the problem of Palestinian resistance to their brutal c…Mostrar mais

Our book! It arrived! Order yours at bit.ly/HamasMatters. ⁦@orbooks⁩ ⁦@RamiKhouri⁩ ⁦@JustWorldEd⁩ ⁦@agent_of_change⁩ ⁦@vijayprashad⁩ ⁦@medeabenjamin⁩ ⁦@MouinRabbani⁩

So Pres #Biden is asking for my support. Here’s what I’m telling him:

THREAD: #Algeria, this month's Chair of the UN Security Council, is calling a special UNSC mtg on Wed to give "binding effect to the pronouncement of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the provisional measures imposed on the Israeli occupation": > www.rfi.fr/en/international/20240128-alger...Mostrar mais

What the heck Instagram??? Even after the Israelis killed @itranslate123, 40 days ago, Meta/IG still feels obliged to suppress his powerful continuing legacy??

THREAD: The application that South Africa made to the World Court (ICJ) on Dec 29 to get an order to Israel to stop #CommittingGenocide is lengthy but very well-compiled. Here's my quick guide to its contents >

@MouinRabbani But I'm not holding my breath. The UN Security Council hasn't yet come to a vote on the current draft resolution (which is only for a 'suspension" of hostilities, not a full ceasefire.) Get updates, texts, etc here: news.un.org/en/story/2023/12/1144937 (END…Mostrar mais

@MouinRabbani So let us hope that these extra costs that companies and consumers worldwide will have to bear will add a lot to the pressure on Washington to (finally!) allow a serious #GazaCeasefire resolution to proceed. >

>I think that mainly @mouinrabbani was right: The geopolitical/geoeconomic effects of their feistiness are really the key thing to look at. And at that level, we can see huge effects: gcaptain.com/shipping-industry-braces-for-... >

Larry Johnson's analysis is pretty intriguing. But I don't see the US military as eager *at all* to get into a shooting war with the #Houthis. So while the military/operational aspects of any potential shooting war between the sides are intriguing, still... >

And concludes with this: >

He continues, thusly: >

Johnson's technical/operational explanation seems persuasive to me. He writes that the US Navy's real vulnerability is that it "is configured currently as a 'Forward-Based Navy' and is not an 'Expeditionary Navy'.” >

Meantime, US veteran Larry Johnson has written: "On paper it would appear that Yemen is outnumbered and seriously outgunned. A sure loser? Not so fast. The U.S. Navy, which constitutes the majority of the fleet sailing against Yemen, has some real vulnerabilities that will limit…Mostrar mais

Houthi official Mohammed Abdulsalam yesterday responded to Austin's announcement of OPG by saying: ""Our position will not change in the direction of the Palestinian issue, whether a naval alliance is established or not...Our position in support of Palestine and the Gaza Strip wi…Mostrar mais

Is that neither Saudi Arabia nor UAE (earlier, v. bitter & violent foes of the Houthis) are listed as part of OPG. Seems they don't want to be seen as supporting the "Western" attack on the Houthis' brave act of solidarity with #Palestine... >

#Seychelles is actually *south* of the Equator, has a populatn of c. 100,000. #Bahrain is a small island, highly controlled by the US/UK, and HQ of the US Fifth Fleet. Also v. significant: >

What I see are 8 "Western" nations along with two (very tiny) others, neither located close to the Bab el-Mandeb or Red Sea: >

I was interested in the list of countries that Lloyd Austin has in his new, anti-Houthi coalition. It is: the U.S., United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain. Do you notice anything? >

... & also to counter "piracy" from Somalia (a failed state that has been chaotically dismantled by US military action over the past 25 years.) But anyway >

OPG is meshed with a number of pre-existing, US-led "Combined Naval Task Forces" that have been operating all around the Arabian Peninsula for some years now, as part of the broader campaign to encircle & intimidate Iran >

So on Monday, after a spate of Houthi attacks last week, US Sec of defense Lloyd Austin announced the launch of a US-led naval op called "Operation Prosperity Guardian" to defend against Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping: gcaptain.com/us-launches-operation-prosper...…Mostrar mais

This is one of the most notable (& noticeable!) acts of pro-Palestinian solidarity from anywhere in the Arab world. >

The #Houthi leaders have vowed since late October that they will attack shipping heading to or from, or owned by, Israel so long as Israel maintains its megalethal siege of Gaza. >

& in Sept 2019 they launched v. smart drone attacks against key Saudi oil facilities: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khura... >

The #Houthis, of course (real name Ansar Alllah), are well known as feisty, mountain-based fighters who have fended off vicious (US-supported) assaults from Saudi Arabia and UAE since 2015... >

That post on their blog had other good info, too: gcaptain.com/global-trade-faces-turmoil-as... >

I find gCaptain a good source of shipping news. Monday, they reported this: >

That map I used was of the ship-threatening incidents Nov. 18 thru Dec 18. Source: gcaptain.com/navy-operation-prosperity-gua... >

THREAD: around 10 days ago, @mouinrabbani commented that the #Houthis in #Yemen didn't even really need to *hit* any of the ships passing thru the Bab El Mandeb in order to have a huge effect on global trade...>

THREAD: 1956, 2023, and End-of-Empire Derangement Syndrome. I've been writing since Oct 17 that since Oct 7 Israel's political and military leaders have been acting in a seemingly deranged manner, as evidenced primarily by their use of extreme amounts of violence against #Gaza wi…Mostrar mais

> #3 is that this practice of "screening" out all men from a community was widely used by the British in Palestine, Kenya, Malaya, & everywhere else where the fading #BritishEmpire was desperately trying to hold on. Same colonial practices, same immense harm... but hopefully a co…Mostrar mais

@MosabAbuToha @nytimes @NewYorker > #2 is that this large-scale roundup of Palestinian men by IDF is like what happened in 1982 in West Beirut & what IDF did to Lebanese men during their long occupation of South Lebanon. >