By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 October 2025
HAMAS Planned for the Massacre, Torture, and Hostage-Taking on October 7 More Than a Year in Advance
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Israel’s War With its Enemies Has Only Ever Been About the October 7 Massacre
What the Gaza War Reveals About the United Nations and HAMAS
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2025
In mid-November 2023, just six weeks after the Iran/HAMAS pogrom in Israel on 7 October 2023, Gianni Vernetti wrote a brief article for the Italian publication La Repubblica reflecting on the corruption of the entire United Nations system that had been revealed by the organisation’s reaction. A rough translation of the article is given below.
A Note on HAMAS’s Systematic Rape of Israelis on 7 October
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 September 2025
The United Nations has been ostentatiously uncaring about Israeli rape victims, and this is to be expected since the anti-Israel disinformation network, of which the U.N. is such a crucial node, has engaged in a vast campaign of denialism about the sexual violence perpetrated on 7 October 2023 by HAMAS and the other units of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The same explanation applies to the silence of the women’s and “human rights” activist groups.
Israel Has Lost the Information War
The New York Times and Gaza: Omissions, Mistakes, and Inadequate Corrections
Advocacy Journalism Has Been a Problem for Ages: Looking Back at Bosnia
“International Law” is a Dangerous Illusion
Dehumanization and Murder in Assad’s Prisons
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on August 19, 2016
The picture above “went viral” on Thursday. The boy, five-year-old Omran Daqnees, was pulled from a building in rebel-held eastern Aleppo City after an airstrike either by the regime of Bashar al-Assad or Russia.
Like Alan Kurdi last September, Omran’s is hardly a unique case—twelve children were treated at just that one medical centre in Aleppo on Wednesday. But it seemed to capture something of the indiscriminate brutality that has been visited on the Syrian population, which rose against Assad five-and-a-half long years ago.
On the same day this shocking image came to global attention, Amnesty International released a report documenting in greater detail the monstrous scale of the cruelty and murder inflicted on Syrians who fall into the regime’s grasp. Continue reading
The Horrors for Women of Islamic State Rule
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on October 12, 2015
Published at Verily
I have always been interested in the Middle East, specifically the Syrian conflict. In early summer 2014, as part of my master’s dissertation, I went to Lebanon to work with the United Nations. I was still there when the Islamic State group, commonly known as ISIS, struck Iraq. Continue reading
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