Robert Inlakesh

Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the occupied Palestinian territories and hosts the show ‘Palestine Files’. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’. Follow him on Twitter @falasteen47

Suitcases of Qatari Cash: Unpacking Israel’s Role in ‘Funding Hamas’

Robert Inlalkesh takes a deep dive into Israel’s role in facilitating aid to Gaza and whether it served to bolster Hamas’s power.

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You might have heard that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been propping up Hamas in Gaza… but is there more to the story? Some argue that Netanyahu has an 'alliance' or at least an interdependency with Hamas to serve his own goals, but is that really true? In the first two parts of this series, we explored whether Israel helped

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Staged Again? CNN’s Syrian Prisoner Story Adds to Its History of Fabrications

A fact-check exposes the latest in a series of misleading CNN reports, revealing how the netwrok’s dramatic inaccuracies repeatedly align with US government narratives.

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A CNN report claiming to show one of its journalists freeing a Syrian detainee from a secret prison has been debunked as false. Far from an isolated incident, this report aligns with a broader pattern of fabricated news stories crafted to serve as cinematic propaganda in support of regime change. On December 12, CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward

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The Fenzel Plan: How the US Engineered the PA’s West Bank Crackdown

The Palestinian Authority’s military assault in Jenin, backed by the American Fenzel Plan, is paving the way for Israeli control while crushing grassroots resistance.

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The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has initiated an armed crackdown against its own people in the occupied West Bank, a campaign reportedly backed and orchestrated by the United States. While corporate media narratives attempt to distance Washington from the operation, its roots trace back years. On Saturday, PA President Mahmoud

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Regime Change as a Weapon: How the US Is Remaking Syria

As Assad falls, Washington exploits Syria’s fractured state to enforce free-market reforms, normalize ties with Israel, and cement its grip on the region.

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On the heels of the toppling of the Bashar al-Assad government in Damascus, the United States has directed the emerging transitional order toward a neoliberal economic framework, coupled with efforts to normalize relations with Israel. Through a combination of sanctions, terrorist designations, and strategic foreign aid, U.S. policymakers and think

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Inside Israel’s Brazen Syria Land Grab: A Decades-Old Plan Comes to Life

Taking advantage of Syria’s instability, Israel pushes its borders into the Golan Heights and beyond, fulfilling long-held ambitions to redraw the map of the region.

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Within hours of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s deposition, the Israeli military launched an unprecedented offensive that seized more land in the Golan Heights. Israel now openly seeks to implement a buffer zone plan that will seize more of Syria’s territory, a plot that has been over a decade in the making. In February 2013, it was

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How Private Israeli Security Firms Are Killing Free Speech on College Campuses

Amid unprecedented anti-war protests, universities like CUNY and Concordia are turning to private security firms with Israeli military backgrounds to monitor and suppress dissent.

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Following the unprecedented proliferation of student-led protests against Israel's war on Gaza across U.S. and international college campuses, educational institutions have found themselves under immense pressure to crush the movement from private Israeli security firms. Following a surge of demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience in

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How the US and Israel Quietly Revived Al-Qaeda Allies in Syria’s Idlib Offensive

The recent fall of Aleppo to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham highlights a troubling truth: Washington and Tel Aviv’s shadowy support for extremist groups continues.

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As Syrian opposition forces, spearheaded by the Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, intensify their offensive to seize more territory after capturing Aleppo, Washington has distanced itself from the attack—a remarkable reversal, considering its longstanding support for weaponizing so-called “moderate rebel” groups based in Idlib. Under

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