Arab Lives Matter
CAUTIOUS ANTICIPATION ABOUT SECOND CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA

U.S. intervention in Venezuela and Iran
echoes reminders of long history of U.S.
removing foreign leaders.


"We Came, We Saw, He died"
Secretary of State Clinton
laughs about her removal of Arab
President of Libya
(October 2011 interview)





Sept. 2, 2025: US strike against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean—
Hypocrisy clearly exposed and Arabs strongly linked to "terrorist" label

After years of innocent Arabs and Muslims bombed by Obama-sanctioned drones in the Middle East, the media suddenly questions U.S. military strikes with great scrutiny, proving the racism and hypocrisy of the reporting on Arabs and Muslims; ignoring decades of Middle East warcrimes and proving that Arab lives do not matter because they are all "terrorists" according to this new "liberal" narrative sanctioning the murder of Muslims and Arabs:


Racism of Democrat Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut unchallenged on NPR: "When the U.S. takes lethal strikes, usually you're talking about somebody who is clearly an avowed enemy of the United States, usually a terrorist, or in the case I cited, an Iranian military commander.... So you start with the context, which is that killing unindicted criminals - because these people [those who are not Arabs or Muslim] are criminals, not terrorists. Terrorism - terrorist has a distinct meaning. Killing them [those who are not Arabs or Muslim] without due process, without an arrest, that context is problematic....And the United States took the decision to kill them, which, as you point out, in the Pentagon manual is the very definition of a war crime.... But, you know, these are criminals. They are not terrorists. Terrorists have a political and a strategic objective."



FLASHBACK: A LOOK BACK AT THE FIRST 2025 CEASE-FIRE

NPR
MARCH 19, 2025 5:48 PM ET
HEARD ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
By Aya Batrawy, Anas Baba

"AYA BATRAWY, BYLINE: It's the middle of the night in Gaza, the ninth week of a ceasefire many hoped would last."
NPR
MARCH 21, 2025 4:15 AM ET
HEARD ON MORNING EDITION
By Aya Batrawy, Anas Baba

"AYA BATRAWY, BYLINE: A temporary ceasefire had been holding for two months, with many Palestinians in Gaza believing war was over."
HAARETZ
Trump's Mideast Envoy Forced Netanyahu to Accept a Gaza Plan
January 13, 2025; Chaim Levinson

Last Friday evening, Steven Witkoff, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, called from Qatar to tell Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aides that he would be coming to Israel the following afternoon. The aides politely explained that was in the middle of the Sabbath but that the prime minister would gladly meet him Saturday night.

Witkoff's blunt reaction took them by surprise. He explained to them in salty English that Shabbat was of no interest to him. His message was loud and clear. Thus in an unusual departure from official practice, the prime minister showed up at his office for an official meeting with Witkoff, who then returned to Qatar to seal the deal.

A week before Trump's inauguration, Jerusalem already sees a change in the rules of the game that has broken the deadlock in the hostage negotiations. Unusually, the outgoing Biden administration has let Witkoff lead the process, on the grounds that any obligations the United States undertakes will be incumbent on Trump, not on Biden.
NPR
Why did Israel resume the war in Gaza?
MARCH 19, 2025 4:29 AM ET
HEARD ON MORNING EDITION
Daniel Estrin

"You have to understand, A, that in recent months, aid supplies were surging back to Gaza under the ceasefire, and Hamas was beginning to recover."
NPR
Israel ends ceasefire with Hamas with airstrikes in Gaza
MARCH 18, 2025 5:29 PM ET
HEARD ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
By Kat Lonsdorf

"KELLY: So Israel announcing the end of the ceasefire, which - the ceasefire had been fragile, but it also had allowed for what passes for relative quiet over these last couple of months in Gaza."
NPR
Israel resumes deadly airstrikes in Gaza, killing 600 since Tuesday
MARCH 22, 2025 8:05 AM ET
HEARD ON WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY
By Hadeel Al-Shalchi, Sarah McCammon

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the resumption of the war in Gaza this week after a relatively quiet 42 days during a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas."
NPR
Hamas fires first rockets since Israel broke recent ceasefire
UPDATED MARCH 20, 2025 2:06 PM ET
HEARD ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
By Anas Baba, Kat Lonsdorf, Daniel Estrin

"...Palestinian families who had returned to live among the ruins of the devastated neighborhood during the ceasefire once again fled, piling mattresses and belongings on donkey carts and escaping on muddy roads....Troops also returned to areas where they had retreated in the ceasefire, like the Netzarim corridor, a large strip of land the military had previously taken over dividing Gaza's north and south."










NEW YORK TIMES
In Shift in Relationship With Netanyahu, Trump Says ‘I Will Decide’ What Is Right for Israel
Since an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal came into effect, the U.S. effort to sustain it appears to have constrained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
By David M. Halbfinger, Reporting from Jerusalem
Oct. 27, 2025


"...After Israel’s botched airstrike on Hamas negotiators in Qatar last month, Mr. Trump, meeting with Mr. Netanyahu in the Oval Office, [Trump] forced [Netanyahu] to call the Qatari prime minister and apologize.... Mr. Trump went on to push Mr. Netanyahu into agreeing to his Gaza peace plan — including an acknowledgment of Palestinian aspirations to statehood, which the Israeli leader adamantly opposes. A day later, Mr. Trump told Axios: “He’s got to be fine with it. He has no choice. With me, you got to be fine.”... The president hasn’t just asserted his dominance over Mr. Netanyahu in relation to Gaza. .... Mr. Trump has also rejected, in increasingly emphatic terms, the idea that Israel would annex parts of the occupied West Bank. This is a longstanding goal of Mr. Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition partners and one that has gained support since a host of countries recognized Palestinian statehood last month. “It will not happen,” Mr. Trump said in the Time interview.....The U.S. effort to sustain the truce in Gaza appears to have constrained Mr. Netanyahu as well. ... The United States has even begun operating drones over Gaza, suggesting that officials want to have their own understanding, independent of Israel’s, of what is happening.




In 2022, the Republican party ran Muslim physician and politician Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania Senator race — for Dr. Oz to potentially be the first Muslim Senator in United States history. In order to counter this historic moment, the Democrats put all their resources into the White, Islamophobic candidate John Fetterman, and defeated this historic moment.






Are Arab Lives worth more than
a partisan political football?



SNOPES Fact Checks the
value of Arab Lives





Will there be accountability
for supporting a genocide?










  




In final major Middle East operation
before leaving office, President Biden
ousts Syrian President Assad





Why is National Public Radio (NPR)
trying to re-write Iraq War history to
rehabilitate George W. Bush?


"He says he doesn't have weapons of mass destruction."
President George W. Bush (December 3, 2002)
Why did NPR let this racist hate-monger go unchallenged?
Iraq had no WMDs — and declared it publicly:


NY TIMES: Iraq publicly declared it had no WMDs;
NPR is re-writing history,
to vindicate Bush, asking:
"why didn't Saddam set the record straight"
(which he did repeatedly):


There is a long history of racism over the airwaves on NPR





31 of the 32 NATO member nations are majority White.
After NATO aiding in the racist Iraq War,
and the racist bombing of Libya and Afghanistan —
Is it time to reconsider NATO?
Since its founding in 1949, NATO has invoked its
Article 5 defense response only once:
Against Arabs and Muslims —
during the so-called U.S. "War on Terror"





Did the White House purposely lie to Michigan Arabs
for votes during the February 27, 2024 primaries?








The following day, during his recent trip to Scotland, Trump pushed back, saying that he had seen pictures of children in Gaza who “look very hungry,” adding that the area is suffering from “real starvation” and “you can’t fake that.”






  
  


Michigan's Democratic presidential
primary was held on February 27, 2024


On the evening of February 26, 2024,
President Biden lied to
Michigan Arabs to get their vote:
Ceasefire deal "by Monday"





  


Jill Stein at the White House (June 8, 2024)
We say no to U.S. Empire; as Martin Luther King said, "my country is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." We pay an incredible price for that all over the world, and people are murdered by [the] millions all across the world by the U.S. empire and its many wars. In fact, according to the Brown University, "Cost of War Project," the U.S. currently has so-called anti-terror, special operations, in 85 countries around the world. This costs us half of our budget, half of our tax resources, are used for this "Endless War Machine" that makes the world a more dangerous place; and which destroys our health care, our housing, our need for jobs and education here at home. The last thing I want to leave you with Alice Walker said, "that the biggest way people give up power is not knowing we have it to start with." Remember; 68% of the American public, according to a Reuters poll, oppose this Genocide and want an immediate ceasefire and diplomatic solution; that is 68%; Add that, to the 44 million young people in unpayable student debt who are locked into debt servitude for their lives because of the lousy economy, and the lousy jobs provided by the economy of empire. 63% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck; half of all people who [pay] rent [for] their housing cannot afford it; and are one paycheck away from being evicted from their homes; we have the highest rates of eviction [and addiction] and homelessness, ever, in this country. You put us together, we are an unstoppable coalition. Together, we are Joe Biden's red line. We will stop genocide, and empire, and oligarchy, and fascism, together. Free Palestine !





























ARAB, IRANIAN AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER

5 crucial documentaries for Islamophobia education


Dirty Wars
(Jeremy Scahill)


Drone Wars


BBC: The Power of Nightmares and the Rise of the Politics of Fear


Uncovered:
War on Iraq


Iran CIA Coup


A Short Course in Genocide





Adoration, public support, positive media,
image rehabilitation and vocal defense
are enormous symbolic statues in our culture
and our collective psychology.

When can we tear down these statues?


"We Came, We Saw, He died"
Secretary of State Clinton
laughs about killing Arabs
in Libya (October 2011)
DO ARAB AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?

NATO wars in the Middle East



DO ARAB AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?
DO ARAB, IRANIAN,
AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?
WAR PROFITEERING:
After Senator Joe Biden became one of the
loudest voices for supporting the 2003
Iraq war, Vice President Joe Biden
was tasked by President Barack Obama to
oversee Iraq government contracts.
The White House handed the firm
HillStone International LLC a lucrative
contract to rebuild homes in war-torn Iraq,
which would have awarded James Biden
(Joe's brother) almost a billion dollars.
DO ARAB, PERSIAN AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?
DO ARAB AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?
DO ARAB AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?
Bob Crawford of The Avett Brothers
to Host ‘Concerts of Change’
Exclusively on SiriusXM
March 17, 2022

Musician and historian launches new
audio docu-series examining artists and
their music, activists and their leadership,
and the benefit concerts from the 1970s
through the 1990s, that defined a new era
focused on human rights
Featuring conversations with Bono,
President George W. Bush, Joan Baez,
Steven Van Zandt, Bob Geldof and dozens of
artists, politicians and journalists
DO ARAB, PERSIAN AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?


President Biden's October 20, 2023 speech
connected the U.S. support for Israel to
the U.S. support for Ukraine.
But on July 12, over three months earlier,
days after receiving a warning of
the future Hamas October 7 attack,
and months after divising how to connect
corporate America to Gaza Marine gas fields,
President Biden started to express this new
geopolitical policy dynamic already —
connecting Ukraine and Israeli support.
Did the White House already have foreknowledge
of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack
on July 12, 2023 — and then plan for
the death, destruction, and Islamophobia
ahead of time?

Records say yes.
DO ARAB AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?

NATO F15 drops 2000 pound
munitions on Afghanistan
(2009)
DO ARAB AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?
DO ARAB AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?
DO ARAB AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?
DO ARAB AND AFGHAN LIVES MATTER?
When can we tear down these statues?
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President Biden's October 20, 2023 speech
connected the U.S. support for Israel to
the U.S. support for Ukraine.
But on July 12, over three months earlier,
days after receiving a warning of
the future Hamas October 7 attack,
and months after divising how to connect
corporate America to Gaza Marine gas fields,
President Biden started to express this new
geopolitical policy dynamic already —
connecting Ukraine and Israeli support.
Did the White House already have foreknowledge
of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack
on July 12, 2023 — and then plan for
the death, destruction, and Islamophobia
ahead of time?
Records say yes.