You should probably look in the mirror and really reflect on when you became such a huge piece of shit. Just because the world is full of them doesn’t mean you have to be one too.
for a few reasons. First the about of aid they have is minuscule and even if they got through they have no mechanism to distribute the aid they do have. Second know they’re going to be stopped. Several aid agencies have said give the aid to us and we’ll get it there but they have refused because it’s a performance it’s not about getting aid into Gaza. Third they know they’re not in any real danger which is why they’re doing the flotilla again and not trying to go through Egypt. The people who made the caravan got the shit beat out of them and were robbed, they were in actual danger which is why there hasn’t been another attempt like it.
Sounds like a smart way to deliver aid, to me. Also, if they hand it off to another party, said party probably gets stopped/aid destroyed.
Tommy/Quentin Quarentino is a good follow and seems like a really good dude. Hope him and his team are safe.
Take it or leave it sums it up nicely How Hamas Is Navigating Trump’s Gaza Ultimatum In an exclusive interview, veteran Hamas official Mohammad Nazzal discusses strategy, red lines, and Israel’s attempt to assassinate Palestinian negotiators. Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad Spoiler Oct 2 Senior Hamas official Mohammad Nazzal in an interview with Drop Site News on October 1, 2025. Hamas officials are conducting an intense series of meetings with Palestinian factions and regional mediators to formulate the Palestinian response to the 20-point Gaza plan announced by President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday. On Tuesday, Trump gave Hamas “three or four days” to respond to what is effectively an ultimatum, threatening the U.S. would empower Israel to indefinitely continue its war of annihilation on Gaza if Hamas did not agree to the plan wholesale. When asked if there is room for Hamas to negotiate the terms, Trump replied, “not much.” “Trump is dealing with us as if we have to accept this plan based on the well-known English phrase: Take it or leave it. This is unacceptable in political practice. It cannot be a matter of either accepting or rejecting an agreement outright,” said Mohammad Nazzal, a veteran Hamas official and longtime member of its political bureau, in an interview with Drop Site. “This plan was formulated without the participation of Hamas or any Palestinian party, including the Palestinian Authority. So how can the U.S. administration reach an agreement with one side of the conflict while excluding the Palestinian side?” “This plan is not Trump’s plan; it is an Israeli plan,” he added. “I say this with deep regret: the United States of America has come to act as an agent of the Zionist entity.” Nonetheless, Nazzal—who has been a member of Hamas since 1989 and has served in its political bureau since 1996—said Hamas is carefully reviewing the document and would soon offer its official response. “We are approaching the plan with a high degree of responsibility,” he said. “We began studying it and holding consultations as soon as we received it.” While Nazzal said some aspects of the proposal may be acceptable to Hamas and closely align with principles the group had previously agreed to, he described most of the terms as Israeli edicts. “Public opinion within the Palestinian factions is uncomfortable with the plan that was presented. There are some positives in the plan, but the negatives outweigh them,” he said. “Unless the plan is changed or significant modifications are made to certain points, I believe it will be difficult to accept it as it stands.” As in previous “ceasefire” talks, Hamas negotiators plan to draft a series of proposed amendments and requests for more details on various terms outlined in the proposal. “It is clear that the plan is a broad and vague outline that, by its nature, requires negotiation. Every point mentioned in the plan needs a negotiation process. We do not want to proceed on the basis that what is presented in the plan represents a final, non-negotiable position,” Nazzal said. “Trump wants to impose what he wants through this plan. He was clear on the issues related to Israeli demands, but vague on the positions related to Palestinian demands.” Within 72 hours of an agreement, the plan says, Hamas must release all Israeli captives held in Gaza. There are believed to be 20 living Israelis and the bodies of 28 deceased remaining in the Strip. Only after all captives are freed would Israel then release 250 Palestinians sentenced to life and 1,700 Palestinians from Gaza taken captive after October 7, 2023, including all women and children. In exchange for the remains of each deceased Israeli held in Gaza, Israel would return the bodies of 15 Palestinians, according to the plan. Read Drop Site’s full breakdown of the 20-point plan, released by the U.S. on Monday, here. Hamas is well aware that its only real leverage is the fact that it continues to hold Israelis in Gaza. “It is possible that this agreement will last only 72 hours, meaning they would take the Israeli captives and then not follow through with the rest of the agreement. There are no guarantees,” Nazzal said. “That’s why I believe that when we delve into the details of the plan, we must include guarantees that ensure the agreement is fully implemented and not cut short. There must be guarantees that the release of all captives in those initial hours will not allow the Americans and Israelis to walk away from fulfilling the rest of the deal.” These concerns are well founded. Israel has repeatedly violated the terms of previous ceasefire agreements, including the January 2025 deal that was endorsed by both Trump and his predecessor Joe Biden. Israel conducted regular strikes inside Gaza during the first phase of the deal and then unilaterally abandoned the agreement entirely in March, imposed a sweeping blockade, and resumed its scorched earth bombing of Gaza. The new Trump plan requires the “demilitarization of Gaza” and links the delivery of humanitarian aid and life essentials to a vague certification that areas of Gaza are demilitarized. “All military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities, will be destroyed and not rebuilt,” it states. “There will be a process of demilitarization of Gaza under the supervision of independent monitors, which will include placing weapons permanently beyond use through an agreed process of decommissioning.” Hamas has long maintained that it will not sign an agreement that would strip Palestinians of their right of armed resistance against Israeli occupation. “The weapons that Hamas has are light weapons compared to what the Israelis have. The Zionist entity has a nuclear reactor and possesses a nuclear bomb. No one talks about disarming this Zionist entity, while there is talk about disarming the Palestinian resistance,” Nazzal said. “The discussion about disarming the resistance should come after the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.” Hamas officials have previously told Drop Site that armed resistance factions would only disband as part of a process of integrating their fighters into a Palestinian national army capable of defending an independent state. A fact that is seldom mentioned in the Western media around Trump’s Gaza plan is that on August 18 Hamas formally accepted the previous U.S.-Israeli ceasefire framework. In doing so, Hamas made major concessions on a range of issues. That deal would have included a 60-day initial ceasefire and the release of half of the remaining Israeli captives. Israel never responded to Hamas’s acceptance and instead launched a massive ground invasion of Gaza City and announced its intent to force a million Palestinians from their homes and shelters. The last time Hamas negotiators convened to discuss a response to a U.S. offer was on September 9. Trump sent Hamas a 100-word summary of a purported ceasefire plan via regional mediators. As lead negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya and other senior officials gathered in Hamas’s offices in Doha to discuss it, Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes intended to assassinate them. While Al-Hayya and the other leaders survived, Al-Hayya’s son and four Hamas office workers were killed and Al-Hayya’s wife, daughter-in-law and grandchildren were all wounded. A Qatari security officer was also killed. Multiple Hamas sources told Drop Site that, following the attack, several senior Hamas leaders in Qatar, including Al-Hayya, were moved to secure locations and restrictions were placed on their use of phones and other electronic devices. Qatar, the sources said, told Hamas officials the measures were necessary because there was still an active threat against them. This severely impaired the ability of the movement’s leaders to communicate with each other and with resistance commanders on the ground in Gaza. “In the first three weeks following the assassination operation, there were exceptional security measures for the leaders who were targeted or expected to be targeted,” Nazzal said, adding that since Trump’s proposal was delivered to Hamas on Monday, its leaders have been able to more freely congregate. “Movement and communications began with Qatari, Egyptian, and Turkish officials after we received Trump’s plan. That is why contacts have now resumed.” In order for any ceasefire agreement Hamas signs to be valid, it would require the assent of the ground commanders from Qassam Brigades and Saraya al Quds, the armed wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in Gaza. Nazzal said that shortly before the attempted assassination strike in Qatar, Hamas’s leadership inside Gaza authorized its external negotiators to make decisions on the terms of a deal. “I don’t believe there is any issue in stances between the military and political leadership,” Nazzal said. “I believe the issue now centers on deciding a position regarding the plan proposed by Trump.” Nazzal joined Hamas soon after the group’s founding in 1987 and has held various positions over the ensuing decades, including representing the movement in Jordan and Syria and serving on its international council. In October 1997, he was among the senior Hamas officials who appeared publicly in Amman with the group’s founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin after he was freed from an Israeli prison. Nazzal is an influential member of Hamas’s political bureau and was placed under sanctions by the U.S. government in 2024. Whatever response Hamas submits to Trump would carry with it the endorsement of a range of Palestinian groups, Nazzal emphasized—not just those with armed resistance forces fighting in Gaza. “We believe this is a national issue that concerns the Palestinian people. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and some other factions are leading the military resistance against the occupation. However, there are many Palestinian parties that must be consulted,” he said. “We do not treat what is happening in the Gaza Strip as solely Hamas’s issue—rather, it concerns the entire Palestinian people. That is why we consult with all Palestinian factions to ensure that the position is a comprehensive and unified national stance.” While most Palestinian parties and prominent political leaders have participated in these “national unity” consultations throughout the genocide, Fatah, the ruling political party of Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, has refused to participate. “We have continuously tried to extend a hand of cooperation and relationship,” said Nazzal. “Unfortunately, the position of the Palestinian Authority, specifically Abbas, has always been negative.” Mohammad Nazzal, right, speaks to journalists in Amman, Jordan on October 6, 1997. To his left is Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin who was assassinated by Israel in 2004. Behind them are senior Hamas leaders Mousa Abu Marzouk, Khaled Meshaal, and Ibrahim Ghosheh. Photo by JAMAL NASRALLAH/AFP via Getty Images. The Deception Game In the initial meetings Tuesday in Doha, regional mediators from Qatar and Egypt, as well as officials from Turkey, told Hamas that the Palestinian side should state its positions and objections to the Trump outline, Nazzal said. “It is our right to express these observations. Therefore, regardless of the American position on our stance, we cannot give a blank check or sign off blindly on an agreement we were not part of—whether the United States accepts that or not,” Nazzal said. The mediators “expressed an understanding that Hamas has the right to voice its observations, especially since it was not involved in the dialogue between the Americans and the Israelis.” The framework was drafted in coordination with Netanyahu’s top adviser, Ron Dermer, and spearheaded by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. Kushner, who reportedly took the lead in shoring up Arab support, is often touted by Trump as the mastermind of the so-called Abraham Accord “normalization” agreements with Israel. Kushner has extensive business dealings in Gulf countries and Israel and his investment firm, Affinity Partners, is backed by billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. The Trump proposal includes plans for “investment proposals and exciting development ideas” in Gaza to be managed by an “international transitional body” that would effectively take control of the Strip. During his appearance alongside Netanyahu on Monday, Trump called Gaza “the most magnificent piece of land in many ways in the Middle East.” Asked about whether Kushner’s business interests represent a conflict of interest, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt denounced the suggestion as “frankly despicable.” Since Trump unveiled his plan on Monday, officials from several Arab and other Muslim states implied they were blindsided by Trump when he stepped to the podium with Netanyahu and claimed the plan he outlined had their full support. Publicly, these nations offered words of praise for Trump’s “sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza” but did not explicitly endorse his 20-point plan. Some of them have claimed that the final text distributed by the White House was markedly different from drafts those countries were shown and to which they offered their feedback and ultimate endorsement. Pakistan’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar said, “This is not our document,” adding that the outline released by Trump and Netanyahu should be viewed as “an announcement from their side.” After Arab and Muslim countries had indicated last week that they would support Trump’s plan, Trump allowed Netanyahu and Dermer to make significant changes to the terms, in some cases removing or substantively altering items that those nations had understood would be in the document. “Netanyahu managed to secure noteworthy changes following a pair of hours-long meetings” with Kushner and Witkoff last week, according to the Times of Israel. These “significant 11th-hour changes” included making Israeli troop withdrawals contingent upon Hamas’s disarmament. Some changes were reportedly made inside the White House moments before Trump and Netanyahu took the stage to announce the plan. “Officials from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey were furious over the changes,” reported Axios. “The Qataris even tried to convince the Trump administration not to release the detailed plan on Monday due to those objections.” “These [Muslim] countries have fallen into a deception, and some of them have informed us of this,” Nazzal said. “The deception lies in the fact that what was agreed upon is not the same as what was announced. This is a major political scandal,” he added. “As the world’s greatest superpower, it is disgraceful for [the United States] to engage in deceiving countries that are considered its allies.” A growing number of Muslim nations are now suggesting that the terms, as published, need to be revisited, though they are choosing their words carefully. Egyptian foreign minister Badr Abdel Aaty said Trump’s plan “contains many positive elements,” but added, “there are also elements that require extensive discussion and, as the saying goes, the devil is in the details. Therefore, these issues must be discussed in depth in order to reach a consensus on them, especially with regard to implementation on the ground.” On Tuesday, Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani praised aspects of Trump’s plan, saying it addressed the most urgent issues, namely a ceasefire, but added that there were “practical and implementation challenges” to be worked out through negotiations. This, he said, “is primarily the work of the Palestinian side with the Israeli side, but also as a broader supporting international community, there must be a clear and legal framework for this matter, which of course will be at the UN Security Council.” Whether Trump would now entertain new language or amendments proposed by Qatar, Egypt and other nations involved with the negotiations, let alone Hamas, is an open question. Since Monday, officials from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian groups have universally denounced the plan as a naked ploy by Israel to attempt to achieve through this proposal what it has failed to win on the battlefield. Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the secretary general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second largest armed resistance group in Gaza, called the proposal “a recipe for continued aggression against the Palestinian people,” saying, “we consider the American-Israeli announcement a recipe for igniting the region.” The Trump plan, if accepted by Hamas as written, would have far reaching ramifications for the cause of Palestinian self-determination, not just in Gaza. Mohammed Al-Hindi, the chief political negotiator for PIJ, said Wednesday evening that within Trump’s proposal there are two different tracks that Palestinian negotiators need to separate. The first addresses the active war on the ground and terms for a ceasefire, exchange of captives, and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip. These terms, he said, Hamas and PIJ have the authority to negotiate because they are fighting the war. “The Palestinian resistance needs to introduce some amendments on this point that concerns the resistance, because from the beginning we said there is no objection from the resistance to a comprehensive deal that includes the release of all prisoners in the hands of the resistance in exchange for stopping the aggression and withdrawal,” Al-Hindi said in an interview with Al-Araby television. Among the issues he said must be negotiated are guarantees that Israel would fully withdraw its forces and not resume the genocide, as well as the formulas for the freeing of Palestinians held captive by Israel. The second track of Trump’s proposal, he said, introduces sweeping concepts that would forever alter the course of the fight for Palestinian statehood and self-determination. Al-Hindi said that Hamas and PIJ do not have the exclusive mandate to make agreements on behalf of all Palestinians. “As for the general national issues, they concern the entire Palestinian homeland. There is no resistance, no Hamas, no Jihad, no one authorized to speak alone about the Palestinian national project,” Al-Hindi said. “For example, the day after, the future of governance in Gaza and the future of the West Bank—these concern every Palestinian and we are not authorized to decide them alone. They require broader consultations. What is in the paper is an assault on the Palestinian national liberation project: It amounts to an American mandate in favor of Israel.” Regarding Gaza specifically, Trump’s plan would permit Israeli forces to remain entrenched inside the Strip indefinitely and link the delivery of food, medicine and life essentials to a nebulous system of verifying the disarmament of Palestinian resistance groups. It would also impose a foreign authority to oversee the running of Gaza, backed by the deployment of an international armed force. The plan would also require that Hamas release all Israeli captives held in Gaza before any Palestinians would be freed. The proposal offers no mechanism to ensure Israel complies with the agreement and Netanyahu said Monday that Israel has no intention of entirely withdrawing from Gaza. While officials from Hamas and other groups have made clear their opposition to the terms within the plan, none of these sentiments yet represent an official response. Hamas is under tremendous pressure from inside Gaza to negotiate an end to the genocide, relentless bombings, forced displacements and the mass starvation campaign. Several Hamas officials have told Drop Site over the past several months that the group understands that whatever decisions are made in an effort to end the genocide will impact not just Hamas, but the very future of the broader Palestinian cause. Nazzal said that Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and its attacks against nations across the region over the past two years should also serve as an ominous warning to all Arab nations. “We, as the Palestinian people, part of the Arab and Islamic region, must coexist with the Arab and Islamic reality. We must deepen our ties with the Arab regimes, maintain communication with them, and work to convince them that the Zionist project poses a danger to them,” he said. Nazzal cited comments made by Netanyahu in an Israeli TV interview in August where Netanyahu said he was on a “historic and spiritual mission” and felt “very much” connected to the concept of a Greater Israel and the Promised Land. “Netanyahu proposed the Greater Israel project, and this project is dangerous. By Greater Israel, he means Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Look at the ongoing aggression against Syria, despite the fact that Syria has done nothing since the new regime came to power. Look at the aggression against Lebanon,” Nazzal added. “The Zionist project is a danger not only to the Palestinians but to the entire region. This requires the Arab regimes to change their policies, to view the Zionist project with suspicion and concern, and to take practical measures to confront this project.”
With all due respect, god damn you’re a boot licker. Hopefully you never find yourself pondering how Nazi Germany happened, because you would’ve been right in the thick of downplaying atrocities if not pitching in directly.
I know your brain is truly rotted because this was such a layup question on an anonymous message board that you could've just placated an answer to move the discussion along. Instead, you said that.
So they'll hand over hostages, and agree to meet for negotiations, based on Palestinian national consensus and based on Arab and Islamic support. so in reality, the fighting will continue but some hostages will hopefully be returned.
it seems like a good ceasefire point but that last line about Hamas being a part of a national conversation might scuttle it
Hamas has agreed to release all hostages. Poor Israel. Now they have to come up with some new lie to replace this all being about caring about the hostages they didn't want to ACTUALLY come back.
Gotta do a Reverse Hannibal and blow up the Damien Lewis character ridiculous Jihadist double agents that were brainwashed by Hamas. We’ve all watched Season 1 of that literal Zionist Propaganda content Homeland right?
Basically sacrificing its value as a prestigious prize everyone wants by giving it to one of the least deserving people to ever exist to end a genocide would be noble of The Nobel.
If he can end the genocide, give it to him. If that’s what motivates him to finally hold Israel accountable to and stop.
hamas killing Palestinians again. there’s so many of these videos that I never post because it doesn’t add much to the discourse other than Hamas are not freedom fighters.
I believe this was the incident that Illini-types on Twitter were saying was just a flare misfired by one of the other flotilla ships.
Abdolute collapse of the Syrian Army is still fascinating. Syrian Army Aleppo offensive in 2016 basically took half the year mixed with counteroffensives, etc and just crazy it took a few days for the rebels in 2024.
Oh and let’s not forget Israel leaders have plainly said this is not going to happen and they will only be happy with the erasure of the Palenstian people. And while this is going on they are actively expanding settlements in the West Bank.
Illinihockey thoughts on Israel’s government taking American hostages who were trying to deliver aid to a group of people who are being genocided?
they tried to run a blockade, were taken into custody and will be released just like all the others, just like last time.
Sometimes I wished i believed in god just so i could know that folks like Illini will have to answer to him/her/
Illinihockey you simp fuck — U.S. Federal Department of Propaganda (@usfdop.bsky.social) 2025-10-07T19:49:54.403Z
no clue Dropsite seems to have several following Gaza pretty closely This one I think is new to me. Sharif Abdel Kouddous Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War” Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor. Sharif Abdel Kouddous Oct 08, 2025 When Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, following Hamas’s military offensive, Los Angeles-based journalist Jacki Karsh felt she had to do something. “October 7th happened and everything changed for me because I knew this was going to be a war of information the second it happened,” Karsh said in a December 2024 interview with Los Angeles Mom Magazine. She went on to quote an October 2023 post on X by Aviva Klompas, the former head of speechwriting at the Israeli mission to the UN, that said: “The IDF is going to attack our enemies by land, sea, and air. And the rest of us are going to fight on the battlegrounds of academia, law, business, media, and every other damn front we can think of.” Commenting on the post, Karsh said, “So this is my front. Journalism is my front. And I am doing what I can.” Spoiler Karsh, who describes herself as “a six-time Emmy-nominated multimedia journalist,” said among the many incidents that convinced her to try and “shift some of the narrative” on Israel was when Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City was bombed on October 17, 2023. The attack quickly became a topic of dispute in the U.S. media after the Israeli military denied responsibility and blamed it on an errant rocket fired by Palestinian militants. “The story was reported incorrectly and then the correction was so muted, it was not like, ‘Wow! We just completely messed up this story,’” Karsh told eJewishPhilanthropy this past August. “They were getting more information from the terrorists who were responsible for Oct. 7.” In November 2023, Karsh first presented the idea of starting a journalism fellowship to the Jewish Federation, a pro-Israel group that says part of its mission is to “support a secure State of Israel” and where Karsh has served as a board member in Los Angeles for several years. Founded with her husband in 2025, the Jacki and Jeff Karsh Journalism Fellowship describes itself as “the world’s only journalism fellowship solely dedicated to Jewish topics” and bills itself as “resolutely nonpartisan.” The fellowship began accepting applications in July and its inaugural class of fellows will begin the program in January 2026. It centers around three retreats, held in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and New York, where up to ten fellows will engage with “leading journalists, scholars, policymakers, and innovators,” holding sessions on topics including “Middle East Misinformation” and “How to Cover Antisemitism.” In response to an inquiry from Drop Site about how the Karsh fellowship can be “resolutely nonpartisan” when the founder claims it was created to help Israel win an “information war,” the director of the fellowship, Rob Eshmen, responded in an emailed statement: “The Karsh Journalism Fellowship trains and supports journalists committed to fairness and accuracy on Israel and Jewish issues. Jacki Karsh’s guiding principle is simple: the best response to misinformation and disinformation on these issues is excellent journalism grounded in evidence, integrity, and independence.” He added, “Our mentors and fellows will represent a wide range of political and cultural perspectives, and we encourage open, nuanced dialogue on complex issues.” The fellowship has attracted 16 scholars and journalists from several mainstream publications to serve as mentors, including The Atlantic, Spectrum News, The Spectator, Ynet, Times of Israel, and two journalists at The New York Times: Jodi Rudoren, the former Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, who now oversees newsletters for the paper, including The Morning and DealBook; and Sharon Otterman, who covers education, health, and religion in the New York City area for the Times and who has closely covered the Palestine solidarity campus protests at Columbia and other universities. The New York Times handbook of “values and practices” for its journalists states they “should take care to ensure” any public engagements—including giving speeches, participating on panels, teaching classes and presenting at conferences—do not “create an actual or apparent conflict of interest, or undermine public trust in The Times’s independence.” In response to an inquiry from Drop Site about whether having staffed reporters mentoring for a program whose founder has said it exists to help Israel win an “information war” represented a conflict with the Times’ standards, spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander said in a statement: “It’s ridiculous to suggest participation as a mentor in this fellowship is anything other than helping to build the reporting skills necessary for the next generation of independent journalists.” Other fellowship mentors include CNN’s Van Jones, who recently issued an apology after drawing intense criticism for comments he made on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday making light of images of dead Palestinian children and saying they were part of an Iran and Qatar disinformation campaign; and Michael Powell, a staff writer at the Atlantic and a former national reporter at The New York Times, whose recent articles include “The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World,” that criticizes groups like Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders for becoming “stridently critical of Israel.” As the founder of the fellowship, Karsh has been an open and die-hard supporter of Israel in both her articles and public comments. “The Israel story is on the facts side, so you’re already starting from a good place because the truth is at the end of the day—the IDF is the most moral army in the world,” she said in an interview with StandWithUs Campus in March. “The Israeli population is made up of Christians, Druze and Arabs and Israelis, Jews—it runs the gamut—and so there’s no apartheid there and I think if you just go through each of those things systematically, the facts are on the Israeli side.” Karsh has described Hamas as “real life monsters” and compared Hamas to Nazis. She has also questioned the Gaza health ministry’s casualty numbers, which have been found to be accurate by the United Nations and even the Israeli military. “When numbers come from a Ministry of Health run by Hamas, whether that’s done deliberately or not, it influences how people perceive the story—and it can even shape policies,” she told eJewishPhilanthropy. Karsh has also been highly critical of the Palestine solidarity protests and encampments on university campuses and the media coverage of them. In a December 2024 article in Jewish Journal titled, “Editorial Bias: Campus Newspapers Must Stop Marginalizing Jews,” she writes: “Student journalism at some of the most elite universities had already become a breeding ground for rhetoric that marginalizes Jewish voices and vilifies Israel.” Citing Columbia University’s student newspaper, she writes: “The Columbia Spectator has demonstrated systemic editorial bias against Jewish students by downplaying concerns about antisemitism and portraying pro-Israel positions as inherently problematic.” The Columbia Spectator received the Society of Professional Journalists award for “Best All-Around Student Newspaper” in 2024. Commenting on the same topic in an interview, Karsh later said, “nobody is writing government policy based on a Tik Tok video but you read an investigative piece that’s produced by The New York Times, I’m going to bet you that some congressperson is going to quote that and is going to write policy based on it. That’s the problem, [students newspapers are] a feeder to all these mainstream news outlets that they’re carrying that bias with them into these spaces.” She added, “My focus is how Jews are being portrayed in the media, as well as Israel.” To the best of our searching, Karsh has never publicly expressed any concern or sympathy for the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, including over 20,000 children, the displacement of 95% of the population, the widening famine, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including homes, schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, and universities, among other acts that human rights groups, leading genocide scholars, and the United Nations have found to be a genocide.
This is the one I was thinking about: Drop Site daily. It starts with Gaza everyday https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop...e&r=8xd5r&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Texas National Guard troops arrive in Chicago; Sudanese army repels RSF assault on Al-Fashir; Top officials join Gaza ceasefire talks Drop Site Daily: October 8, 2025 Drop Site News Oct 8 Spoiler Israel has killed 10 Palestinians over the past 24 hours as ceasefire talks are underway in Egypt. Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk tells Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill the group wants a deal to end the war but will not “raise the white flag.” President Trump’s special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are set to arrive in Sharm El-Sheikh today along with Qatar’s prime minister. Texas National Guard troops arrive in Chicago as Trump escalates a crackdown on the city; Trump has threatened to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act to bypass restrictions on domestic military use. Attorney General Pam Bondi clashes with lawmakers over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and other political cases. Pfizer is being sued by women alleging it failed to disclose a link between a birth control injection and certain brain cancers. The Sudanese army repels a major assault by the Rapid Support Forces, while Myanmar’s junta continues its attacks on its rebels. Meanwhile, insurgent jihadists’ blockade and attacks in Bamako, Mali, are deepening the city’s fuel and humanitarian crisis. This is Drop Site Daily, our new, free daily news recap. We send it Monday through Friday. Corrected link: Yesterday’s newsletter contained a bad link to Ryan Grim’s story on Rep. Wesley Bell using campaign cash to buy his associate’s Dodge Durango. That story is actually here. Upgrade to paid Members of the Texas National Guard carry rifles and riot shields at an army reserve training facility on October 7, 2025 in Elwood, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images.) The Genocide in Gaza Over the past 24 hours, 10 dead and 61 injured Palestinians arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s health ministry, while 11 Palestinians were injured while seeking aid. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 67,183 killed, with 169,841 injured. To mark two years of Israel’s genocidal war, the health ministry on Tuesday released an infographic with details on Palestinians killed and wounded in Gaza, including: 20,179 children killed (30% of the total) 44,143 children wounded (26% of the total) 4,900 children with amputations or disabilities (22.5% of the total) 51,196 children under five years old suffering from malnutrition The document includes additional data on maternal mortality rates, Israel’s destruction of the healthcare system, famine and malnutrition, and more. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said an interview with state television company RAI on Tuesday that she was accused of “complicity in genocide” in a complaint filed with the International Criminal Court last week over Italy’s military support for Israel. Defense Minister Guido Crosetto and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani are also named, Meloni said, as well as Roberto Cingolani, the head of Italian weapons and aerospace company Leonardo. The complaint, dated October 1, was signed by around 50 people, including law professors, lawyers, and several public figures, who accused Meloni and others of complicity by supplying arms to Israel. Ceasefire Negotiations In an exclusive interview with Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill, senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk said Hamas wants a deal to end the war but will not “raise the white flag,” insisting any ceasefire must include a full Israeli withdrawal and guarantees from Trump and Arab states. He rejected calls for unilateral disarmament as a surrender, demanded top Palestinian leaders be included in any prisoner-exchange, and stressed Hamas cannot decide the larger question of Palestinian self-determination alone. Abu Marzouk warned that Hamas is now a broad political force and said its red lines are clear: a permanent ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal, and unrestricted aid to Gaza. Read or watch the full interview here. The chief political negotiator for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is officially joining the Gaza negotiations in Egypt, according to Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill. PIJ’s armed wing Saraya al Quds is the second largest armed faction in Gaza & also holds Israeli captives. Senior Hamas official Taher al-Nounou told Reuters on Wednesday that Hamas and Israel have exchanged lists of captives who would be released should a deal be reached. Qatar says ongoing ceasefire talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, must include guarantees preventing Israel from restarting the war, while ensuring maximum aid delivery to Gaza. Spokesperson Dr. Majed bin Mohammed Al-Ansari emphasized key issues under discussion, including Israeli withdrawal, prisoner exchanges, an international presence, and Palestinian-led post-war governance. Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani is expected to arrive in Egypt today to take part in the talks. The Al-Quds Brigades in Gaza says it will only free Israeli captives as part of a prisoner exchange in which Israel agrees to end the war in Gaza. The group vowed that all Palestinian factions will work to stop the fighting and relieve Palestinian suffering, and insisted resistance weapons will remain until the land is liberated and the war ends. President Trump met Tuesday with his national security team ahead of envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s departure to Sharm el-Sheikh for the Gaza ceasefire talks, Axios reports. Sources say Trump pushed for a deal within days to free captives and end the two-year war, while Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and others were briefed on messages from Egyptian, Qatari, and Turkish mediators. U.S. officials signaled they will not leave Egypt without an agreement, and Trump sent a letter to Israeli hostage families pledging he is “personally committed” to ending the war. At a press conference, President Donald Trump was asked how the U.S. could ensure Israel would not resume its war on Gaza after releasing captives. He pledged that the U.S. would use “everything possible” to make sure all parties adhere to the deal, but stopped short of explicitly guaranteeing that Israel could be barred from restarting military operations. Turkish intelligence chief İbrahim Kalın will lead a delegation to Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday for Gaza ceasefire talks, focusing on ending the fighting, arranging prisoner exchanges, and delivering humanitarian aid, Anadolu Agency reports. Kalın held consultations with U.S., Egyptian, Qatari, and Hamas officials ahead of the visit, following last week’s Doha, Qatar, discussions that set the stage for Türkiye’s active role in the indirect negotiations in Egypt. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to attend a ministerial meeting in Paris on Thursday with European and Arab states to discuss Gaza’s postwar transition, according to Reuters. West Bank and Israel Twenty-two-year-old Ahmad Khdeirat, detained without charge since May 2024, died in Israeli custody—the 78th Palestinian to die in prison since October 7. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Khdeirat, who had diabetes, was denied medical care and endured extreme hunger and infection in Israel’s Negev camp, losing 40 kilograms before his death. He was one of more than 3,500 Palestinians held indefinitely under administrative detention. Israeli army and settlers attacked the home of Issa Amro, the prominent Palestinian human rights defender in Hebron.