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Setback for Netanyahu, Trump; gymnasts banned from World Championships over Gaza
In a huge blow to Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, the global court of arbitration for sports has rejected the appeal of Israeli gymnasts seeking to be allowed to take part in this year’s world artistic gymnastics championships being hosted in Indonesia from 19 October. This was after Indonesia denied visa to Israeli team citing the situation in Gaza. Rifat Jawaid looks at the consistent stand taken by Indonesia on Gaza.
Mehdi Connects the Dots Between ICE and Gaza
Mehdi Hasan sits down to talk about the latest news with Zeteo subscribers on Substack and Youtube. Watch Mehdi Hasan take YOUR questions, and give his unfiltered takes on ICE, the Gaza ceasefire deal, the connections between ICE and Israeli occupation, Donald Trump's fascistic policies, and much more.
Israel Didn’t Free Hostages — It Deported Them. And the Media Said Nothing
Israel called it a ceasefire. But many of the 'prisoners' they ‘freed’ were secretly deported — and the media won’t say a word.
There’s a certain audacity in calling it peace while the shells are still falling. Israel’s ceasefire is still being sold to the world as a turning point, but in Gaza, the only thing that turned was the camera, fixed on those hostage exchanges. Going unreported by comparison is the fact that the drones are still there, people are still being k*lled by Israel and many of the hostages Israel were releasing were being exiled instead of freed, all whilst Israeli ministers are already promising the next phase of destruction. Even Donald Trump flew in to deliver a sermon at the Knesset, congratulating Israel for a genocide it still hasn’t actually stopped fighting.
The word ceasefire has rarely been so abused. What is being presented as closure is turning out to be a bureaucratic rebranding of genocide for Western audiences desperate to believe the nightmare was over. Gaza is still burning; the only thing that has ceased was what passed for Western scrutiny.
Israel called it a ceasefire. Western governments called it a breakthrough. But in Gaza, the genocide still hasn’t actually stopped. The guns slowed sure, but are still being used. The cameras moved on, but the k*lling has continued. The truce signed was marketed as the end of a two-year campaign, yet it hasn’t actually ended yet, still, supposedly 4 days into the ceasefire period now.
By the time Israel’s cabinet ratified the ceasefire deal, Gaza’s human toll had already surpassed sixty-six thousand d*ad, likely many more than that with so many people unaccounted for. More than twenty thousand were children. The UN’s humanitarian office confirmed that roughly four-fifths of all homes in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed. Every essential service—water, electricity, sanitation—had collapsed. These numbers were not disputed. They appeared in official UN situation reports and form the factual baseline for any discussion of what Israel now calls peace.
