April 1, 2026

LIST of Articles DWF NEWS 4/1/26

 Subject line: Iran War Due to Zionists' Manipulation of U.S.?

Are Israeli/US leaders sadistic psychopaths using lawless violence against Iran to erode international law?

The Iran War Is About Palestine

Jonathan Shamir      Jewish Currents

The "Anointed" push for a Biblical Armageddon

Will Trump Break the Nuclear Taboo? Peter Kuznick & Ivana Nikolic   Al Jazeera Arabic

Recognize how the "Antisemitism Shield" hides Israel's world crimes

The More Murderous Israel Gets, The More We Hear About "Antisemitism"

Caitlin Johnstone  caitlinjohnstone.com.au

Should religions re-examine possible "bad" passages found in their holy books which may lead to violence?

Religion and Violence*

Valerie Tarico

Will the US-Israeli War on Iran Open the Road to Palestinian Freedom?

Ramzy Baroud      antiwar.com

United Nations Puppets: Black, White and Female

Fritz Pointer    DWF NEWS

WORLD PUBLIC INTEREST JOURNALISM April 1, 2026

DWF NEWS takes a look at parts of the Earth Constitution to establish a "new UN" by replacing the obsolete UN Charter. Peace activists have launched a Provisonal World Parliament which will have a House of Peoples and a House of Nations. -- RK, editor



Article 1 - Broad Functions of the Earth Federation

 1.1 To prevent war, secure disarmament, and resolve territorial and other disputes which endanger peace and human rights.

Article 4 - Grant of Specific Powers to the Earth Federation

 4.1 Prevent wars and armed conflicts among the nations, regions, districts, parts and peoples of Earth.

4.11 Guarantee and enforce the civil liberties and the basic human rights which are defined in the Bill of Rights for the Citizens of Earth which is made a part of this World Constitution under Article 12.

4.34 Intervene under procedures to be defined by the World Parliament in cases of either intra-state violence and intra-state problems which seriously affect world peace or universal human rights.

4.41 Serve the needs of humanity in any and all ways which are now. or may prove in the future to be, beyond the capacity of national and local governments.

Article 12 - Bill of Rights for the Citizens of Earth

 12.6 Freedom to profess, practice and promote religious or religious beliefs or no religion or religious belief.

[The UN, due to its flawed Charter, has been unable to cope with Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, the US illegal attack on Iran, and other world crimes (such as in Africa and Latin America) by rogue nations. - R. Kotila, Editor]

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Are Israeli/US leaders sadistic psychopaths using lawless violence against Iran to erode international law?

The Iran War Is About Palestine

Jonathan Shamir      Jewish Currents   

EXCERPTS

By helping Israel demolish what’s left of international legal constraint, the Iran war is hastening the dissolution of the Palestinian question.

Today, three decades after he first cast Iran as the engine behind anti-Israel sentiment, Netanyahu has finally gotten his war. Israel posits the war as defense against an existential threat, but as ever, what is driving it is the impulse to suppress and displace the Palestine question. Seen this way, the Iran war once again reveals Israel’s most fundamental interest, which has remained unchanged for decades: to prosecute the question of Palestine on its own terms, whether through the continued system of apartheid or outright genocide. ...

Israel’s war on Iran is an excellent vessel for advancing the erosion of international law, which had recently begun to show its potential as a mechanism for constraining Israel. While international law has traditionally served rather hindered Israel, the horrors inflicted on Gaza since October 7th, 2023, reopened it as an arena of contestation. In December 2023, South Africa initiated a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and in January 2024 the ICJ issued binding orders requiring Israel to prevent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. ... The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in November 2024, and grassroots organizations have since mobilized international law to prevent state and corporate complicity and prosecute individual soldiers for involvement in war crimes.

... American military lawyers are positioning Israel’s war on Gaza as a legal precedent for the US’s own future wars, including its attacks on Iran. ...

Both in the legal domain and on the ground, US and Israeli intransigence has garnered little more than a shrug from complicit European allies—in large part thanks to Israel’s success in manufacturing the Iran bogeyman. When the UN Security Council finally passed a resolution on the Iran war, it was an overwhelming condemnation of Iran’s response against America’s allies in the Gulf. Israel has taken this acquiescence to try to usher in a world of de facto lawlessness—where it can operate freely across the region as the dominant military power, and where it finally has the leeway it desires to settle the question of Palestine without challenge or compromise.

Indeed, in the chaos of a collapsing legal order, Israel has accelerated its campaigns of cruelty against the Palestinians. In the Gaza Strip, it has re-imposed the near total siege that previously raised international alarm bells, exacerbating the already dire shortage of food, shelter, fuel and gas, and medical supplies. ... The humanitarian situation is exacerbated by the fact that Israel has banned 37 humanitarian organizations from operating in Gaza starting March 1st. ...

Under the cover of war, as Maya Rosen has reported, Israel has also sped up its seizure of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and tightened its lockdown there, introducing new roadblocks and closing checkpoints. [Israeli Zionist] settlers, on the other hand, remain free to exploit their own freedom of movement to attack dozens of communities, either with the tacit approval or active support of the army. Consequently, in the early weeks of the war, settlers killed an average of one Palestinian every other day, and the attacks have not relented since. In this atmosphere of terror, the residents of the Palestinian villages of Duma, al-Shqarah, al-Khirbe, and al-Aqaba have mostly packed their bags and left, with top-down orders also initiating and consolidating displacements elsewhere.  READ MORE

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-iran-war-is-about-palestine

The "Anointed" push for a Biblical Armageddon

Will Trump Break the Nuclear Taboo?

Peter Kuznick & Ivana Nikolic   Al Jazeera Arabic

In addition to the widening of the war on Iran to the whole Middle East and beyond, this conflict risks deliberate use of nuclear weapons, write Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolic Hughes.

EXCERPTS

President Donald Trump has been on quite a roll.

Since just the beginning of the year, he has kidnapped the Venezuela president, threatened to invade Greenland and Colombia and has dragged the U.S. – and seemingly much of the Middle East — into a new war by joining with Israel to attack Iran, something that even the biggest hawks among recent U.S. presidents have managed to avoid.

That’s on top of bombing seven countries in 2025. 

He rejected President Vlaqdimir Putin’s invitation to extend the New START Treaty for another year, making possible an unconstrained nuclear arms race alongside an ongoing modernization race. He has also announced that the U.S. will resume nuclear testing.

Even without the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and tensions with China, these actions and threats would be destabilizing and dangerous. 

Trump is the mean and out-of-control bully on the global playground. Except that this bully has the sole authority to launch thousands of nuclear warheads.

This may in fact be part of the reason why Presidents Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping have muted their response to the attacks on Iran. They know how dangerous Trump is and they don’t want to provoke him. 

There are reports from U.S. Air Force veteran Mikey Weinstein, the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, that his organization has received calls from more than 200 soldiers on over 50 military bases, that “have one damn thing in freaking common …the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new ‘biblically-sanctioned’ war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian ‘end times’ as vividly described in the New Testament book of Revelation.”

The commander of one combat unit told non-commissioned officers “that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that President Donald Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.’”

READ MORE

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/19/will-trump-break-the-nuclear-taboo/

Recognize how the "Antisemitism Shield" hides Israel's world crimes

 The More Murderous Israel Gets, The More We Hear About "Antisemitism"

Caitlin Johnstone  caitlinjohnstone.com.au

Whenever Israel is killing tons of civilians the western media always start churning out articles about “antisemitism” and Jewish feelings.

“Jews Begin to Wonder: Is Anywhere Safe?” blares a recent headline from The Wall Street Journal, subtitled “‘It feels like the 1930s again.’ Hostility against Jews surges in Western countries where they felt safe in recent decades.”

War Criminal Tony Blair writes an article for The Free Press titled “Why the West Fails to Stop Antisemitism”.

Meanwhile, in real life, people are being mercilessly butchered in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by Israel and its allies. The uglier it gets, the more aggressive the concern-trolling about “antisemitism” becomes.

The Jewish Chronicle has published an article by Maureen Lipman titled “Does the world have any idea of how tired the people of Israel are?”, subtitled “A dear friend told me that his grandchildren have needed to enter their safe room more than 200 times since the current battle began.” ...

Absolutely incredible! She writes as though Israelis are the only people on earth whose country is being bombed. Only Zionists could drop bombs on neighboring populations every single day for years and then go “NOBODY IN THE WORLD CAN IMAGINE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN FEAR OF AIR STRIKES!”  READ MORE

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/30/the-more-murderous-israel-gets-the-more-we-hear-about-antisemitism/

Should religions re-examine possible "bad" passages found in their holy books which may lead to violence?

Religion and Violence*                                                   

Valerie Tarico

EXCERPTS

Terrorism (and war) can't be blamed on religion alone, but murder and brutality are elemental to almost every major faith. The year 2015 opened with slaughter in the name of gods. In Paris, two Islamist brothers executed Charlie Hebdo cartoonists “in defense of the Prophet,” while one of their associates killed shoppers in a kosher grocery. In Nigeria, Islamist members of Boko Haram massacred a town to cries of Allahu Akbar—“Allah is the greatest!” 

With the possible exception of Buddhism, the world’s most powerful religions give wildly contradictory messages about violence. The Christian Bible is full of exhortations to kindness, compassion, humility, mercy, and justice. It is also full of exhortations to stoning, burning, slavery, torture, and slaughter. If the Bible were law, most people you know would qualify for the death penalty. The same can be said of the Quran. The same can be said of the Torah. Believers who claim that Islam or Christianity or Judaism is a religion of peace are speaking a half-truth—and a naive falsehood.

Each person’s individual violence risk is shaped by a host of factors—genetics, early learning, health, culture, social networks, life circumstances, and acute triggers. To blame any act of violence on religion alone is as silly as blaming an act of violence on guns or alcohol. But to deny that religion plays a role is as silly as denying that alcohol or guns alone play a role. It is to pretend that religions are inert, that our deepest values and our beliefs about reality and morality have no impact on our behavior

Even though violence is repeatedly endorsed in sacred texts, most Christians, Muslims, and Jews never commit acts of violence in the service of their religion. Similarly, millions of people consume alcohol without insulting, hitting, kicking, stabbing, or shooting anyone. Most of us are peaceful drinkers and peaceful believers. Yet, statistically, we know that without alcohol assaults would be less common. So too, we all know that when suicide bombings happen, or blasphemers and apostates are condemned to die, or a rape victim is stoned to death, Islam is likely to be involved. And when we hear that an obstetrics doctor has been shot or a gay teen beaten and left for dead or a US president has announced a “crusade,” we know that Christianity was likely a part of the mix.

In general, as the gospel writer said, it is far easier to see the mote in our brother’s eye than the log in our own. American culture is bathed in Christianity, and even for most secular Americans, it is easy to see Islam’s role in violence while missing the times when Christianity plays the same role. But the rest of the world doesn’t see us through our own rose-colored glasses and, under a bare light bulb, American Christianity retains shadows of the inquisitor’s hood and implements of torture.

In recent years, the European and Australian press have repeatedly called attention to horrors being perpetrated in Africa thanks to American missionary dollars, a story that has been slow to get mainstream American press coverage. As Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity spread across Nigeria and Congo, thousands of children are being beaten or burned or disfigured with acid after being condemned by Christian ministers as “witches.”  After all, the American missionaries teach that the Bible is the literally perfect word of God, and the Bible says, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18). When children are condemned by pastors and priests, exposed in the name of Jesus by the Holy Spirit himself, parents abandon them and their villages drive them out. The lucky ones find refuge in shelters. 

Meanwhile, in Uganda, American Evangelicals have helped to advance prison terms and death penalties for African gays. An American Christian organization cleverly called “The Family,” with members in congress, helped to convert Uganda’s president to their form of politicized Christianity. American activists attended a conference in Uganda aimed at “wiping out" homosexuality. Within months, a bill had been introduced that would allow the death penalty for gays with AIDS and institute jail time for parents who fail to turn in their homosexual teens. Unrelated? No. But horrors such as these don’t seem to have abated the flow of salvific dollars, Bibles, and earnest missionaries eager for converts any more than suicide bombings have dried up support for madrassas.

Were the Fort Hood and Charlie Hebdo murder sprees or Boko Haram massacres caused by Islam? Are the Central African murder sprees caused by Christianity? A yes answer is far too simple. But violence, tribalism, and mutually exclusive truth claims are built in our sacred texts and traditions. As a consequence, religion around the world continues to disinhibit lethal violence at a horrendous rate. For us to collectively vilify Muslims or Christians or Jews, or any group of believers, is to engage in the familiar act of cowardice we call scapegoating. It means, ever and always, that we end up sacrificing innocents to appease our own fear, anger, and thirst for vengeance. But for us to ignore the complicated role of religion in violence is a different kind of cowardice, one that has been indulged in by peace-lovers among the faithful for far too long. In 2024, this applies specifically and unequivocally to Evangelical/Zionist Americans, Zionist/Israeli Jews, and Muslim Jihadists (Author’s note; see Salon, 17, 2015).

*Because of space limitations this article was moderately edited yet presenting the main points. Dr. Valarie Tarico is a clinical psychologist, and the author of: "Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light" and "The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth." 

Will the US-Israeli War on Iran Open the Road to Palestinian Freedom?

Ramzy Baroud      antiwar.com 

EXCERPTS

 Some are expressing frustration that Iran’s conditions to end the war have not explicitly and unequivocally included a demand to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and dismantle the apartheid regime.

Among the conditions circulated in Iranian and sympathetic media – though not formally confirmed by Tehran – is the proposition that any resolution must include an end to Israel’s war across all fronts: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond. However, these conditions did not specifically prioritize the freedom of Palestine as a precondition to ending the war.

That frustration is neither misplaced nor marginal. For many, Palestine is not one issue among others, but the defining axis of the conflict itself. Precisely for that reason, however, it cannot be approached in isolation. To treat the current war solely through what has or has not been explicitly stated risks narrowing a profoundly complex confrontation into a single dimension, when in fact it is through this broader, interconnected struggle that the question of Palestine is ultimately being shaped, contested, and potentially resolved.

A third line of analysis, closer to the mainstream, continues to operate within the declared framework of Washington and Tel Aviv. Even when it introduces criticism, it remains anchored in the language of Iran’s nuclear program, Israeli “security,” and the familiar architecture of justification.

This framework is not neutral. It systematically evades assigning responsibility to Israel for the war, just as it has persistently refused to confront the genocide in Gaza. Even its criticisms of US President Donald Trump remain procedural – focused on the White House’s unclear objectives, poor coordination, and contradictory messaging – rather than on the political and moral logic driving the war itself.

The Axis of Resistance

Yet Iran’s powerful response, the sustained role of Hezbollah, the involvement of Ansarallah, and the broader consolidation of the Axis of Resistance suggest that Israel may not achieve its strategic objectives after all.

For the Axis of Resistance, victory does not require a decisive military triumph. It requires endurance. Not losing, in this context, is itself a strategic victory.

Such an outcome would not simply interrupt the existing trajectory; it would begin to reverse it. The strategic arc that followed the Iraq war – reinforced by the ‘pivot to Asia’, the collapse of the Arab uprisings, and the normalization process – would be fundamentally unsettled. Israel’s role as a regional ‘security’ guarantor would be weakened, compelling Arab regimes to reassess their alignments and, potentially, to explore new forms of regional coexistence – not with Israel, but with Iran.    READ MORE

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/03/29/will-the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-open-the-road-to-palestinian-freedom/

A "new UN" is possible. Tell the UN General Assembly to join forces with the Earth Constitution Movement whose Provisional World Parliament is an initial step to a democratic World Parliament and Earth Federation government (ie, "new UN"). -- Editor, DWF NEWS

United Nations Puppets: Black, White and Female

Fritz Pointer    DWF NEWS

While the presence of a black or white or female Ambassador to the United Nations may appear progressive, the objections are obvious: be it Susan Rice, (2009-2013) Linda Thomas-Greenfield (2021-2025) or Dorothy Shea, (2025 -) I suspect that it might be useful to state these objections since black and white “leaders” seem not to have considered them.

In the first place, the Ambassador to the UN is a puppet. She/He mouths American policy whether of not she agrees with it. Secondly, the foreign policy of the United States has traditionally been marked by war, murder, intrigue, lies, racism, and stupidity. Thirdly, the major international issue confronting the world over the next few years will be that of Israeli genocide in Palestine and the Greater Israel Project.

Since none of our leaders, Black or White, saw fit to press the President elect on his views concerning the policy of the United States toward West Asia (Middle East) during the campaign, we have no idea what his policies are toward that part of the world. We do know, however, that during the entire campaign Mr. Trump said nothing to indicate any substantial disagreement with current policies toward West Asia – except repeating that he would end the perpetual wars. Finally, a black or white female puppet in the United Nations represents the implementation of an important element of the policy of the United States: the alienation of the Global South from America. 

What position does a black or white female Ambassador take on a majority General Assembly and Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s on-going genocide in historic Palestine? Or the United States for supplying weapons and militarily significant computer technology, dual purpose aircraft and massive financial aid to abet the on-going Israeli genocide.   

The last thing Americans need is a high level, black or white, female puppet supporting bankrupt, illegal, racists American policies in an international forum. The embarrassment to black people (and all women) occasioned by Ms. Thomas-Greenfield’s presence ought to have taught us a lesson. One would hope that, at least, sensible blacks will be content to let others justify American foreign policy. Our role in that area, if we are to have one at all, must be that of informed criticism and, when necessary, articulate and militant dissent.

Mr. Trump must be put on notice that symbolic appointments will not suffice in 2026. Is it too much to expect that blacks or women should be appointed Attorney General, Solicitor General, FBI Director, CIA Director, Secretary of the Interior, or Secretary of Labor? Must we be confined to HEW and HUD?

Fritz Pointer, a retired professor of African and English Studies, has been a strong advocate for world peace and justice. He co-wrote "Fairytale, The Pointer Sisters' Family Story." His latest book "A New World Is Coming" is a collection of penetrating articles such as "The enemy is at the gate -- the big hoax," "The rapture meets reality," and "The pitfalls of nationalism and sovereignty."