Month: September 2024
For years, Israeli expert Ori Goldberg has tried to challenge commonly-held assumptions about the Islamic Republic and its allies. Will anyone listen?
What Israelis don’t want to hear about Iran and Hezbollah
Jessica Peake of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, is mercifully free of quibbles in offering her assessment: “detonating pagers in people’s pockets without any knowledge of where those are, in that moment, is a pretty evident indiscriminate attack” and also a violation of the rule of proportionality.
The calculus of such killings and targeting enriches rather than drains the pool of blood and massacre. Its logic is not one of cessation but replication. No longer can Israel’s military prowess alone be seen as a reassurance against any retaliation and whatever form it takes. October 7 continues to cast its dispelling shadow. Deterrence through sheer technological power, far from being asserted, has been further weakened.
The only solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict is the end of the occupation and apartheid and the establishment of a truly democratic state for both the Palestinians and Jews.
Israel’s Pager Bombings Are Blatant Effort to Stoke Regional War
Taking Israeli citizenship in 2016, they attracted some attention the following year when numerous 20th century artworks they had collected were auctioned at Sotheby’s in Paris.
The collection – which included paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jean Dubuffet and sculptures by César – fetched a cool $18 million.
Part of the couple’s wealth is now being used to assist Israel’s propaganda activities.
Guests at their gala dinner heard a presentation from Zohar Palti, a former bigwig in Mossad, the infamous spying and assassination agency. He reportedly offered some thoughts on healing, though it is safe to assume that ending the torment of Palestinians was not what he had in mind.
So with all the fear generated, the commitment we have made to AUKUS and the trade we have with both America and China, how is China a threat not just to Australia but to America and the rest of the world?
Experts say blasts potentially violate international humanitarian law, including ban on indiscriminate attacks.
Palestinian human rights lawyer Munir Nuseibah explains what this summer’s International Court of Justice ruling against Israel over its occupation of Palestine means for the future of Palestinians.
How Israel’s Legal System Sustains Apartheid in Palestine
You think Antisemitism is a global problem
The movement counts among its ranks many disillusioned Arab and Muslim voters in the key swing state of Michigan.
In his first tilt at the presidency he had some control of his faculties and was driven by the grift and privilege and celebrity. For this round he has the self-awareness, bowel control and temperament of a toddler and a panicked desire to avoid bunking in with Bubba. Not so much alpha male as scared, insecure, whiney bitch. His verbal discharges are a drone of self-pity from an otherwise vainglorious blowhard, the sibilance of a deflating cognition lisping from a puckered sphincter pout. His gibbering idiocies are part-formed in what’s left of the mind of a life-long reflexive liar and braggart.
Here’s what happened today
We’ll be closing this live page soon. Here’s a recap of the day’s main developments:
- Multiple blasts detonated in different parts of Lebanon killed at least 20 people and injured more than 450 others – just a day after simultaneous explosions of pagers used by Hezbollah members killed 12 people and wounded nearly 3,000.
- Israel’s defence minister declared the start of a “new phase” in the Gaza war, saying after months of fighting against Hamas, “the centre of gravity is shifting to the north by diverting resources and forces”.
- The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling on Israel to end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories within a year.
- Dozens of Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, the civil defence agency said, including on another school in the Shujayea neighbourhood east of Gaza City.
- Israeli soldiers shot and killed 16-year-old Hani Majdi al-Kari in the Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem, when special forces raided the camp.
Israel war on Gaza live: 20 killed, 450 hurt in new Lebanon blasts
For thousands of Palestinian parents, the joy of giving birth rapidly turned to grief when their newborn babies were killed by Israel’s bombardment.
The Gazan infants who never saw their first birthday
“Probably” Has anyone noticed any admission from Israel is always qualified in some way. In this case “Probably” and the “Uncertainty principle” always is forever present. However, any accusation about Hamas is delivered with absolute certainty. Even if Israeli witnesses present call out their accusation of “bullshit” Witnesses from Kibbutz Be’eri ,The Adbush Family, Noa Argamani have all been silenced. Add to them the hostages exchanged in Nov 23 and not only the media manipulation but the neutralisation of truth becomes self-evident.
Israel Admits It Probably Killed Israeli Hostages in Gaza Airstrike in November
The United States voted against a U.N. resolution that sets a 12-month timeframe to end Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It.
The article addresses a draft UN resolution advanced by the Palestinian Authority to be voted on in the General Assembly on Thursday (AEST). In essence the resolution demands immediate Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank in compliance with the 19 July ruling by the International Court of Justice. The US is reported to be urging its allies to reject the draft resolution or abstain from voting on it.
Whilst the article reported that the Albanese Government declined to comment on Australia’s intentions, it was more than prepared to publish the views of Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham. He called upon the government to oppose the draft resolution “without hesitation or ambiguity”. Such reasons as Birmingham gave do him and his shadow government no credit. Let us consider them.
UN vote: Newspaper raises irrelevant questions about an ICJ decision
The past two months of strong polls and good vibes for the Democrats likely won’t last if Israel starts a regional war and drags in the US. The only solution is for Joe Biden to stop sending Israel weapons.
If Democrats Don’t Cut Israel Off, They’ll Lose in November
prominent Israelis, in recent months, have also called on the military to carry out mass extermination in northern Gaza. “Remove the entire civilian population from the north, and whoever remains there will be lawfully sentenced as a terrorist and subjected to a process of starvation or extermination,” Prof. Uzi Rabi, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University, elaborated in a radio interview on Sept. 15. And in August, according to a report in Ynet, government ministers had already started pressuring Netanyahu to “cleanse” northern Gaza of its inhabitants.
“No act of rebellion, however futile it appears in the moment, is wasted” — a talk by Hedges with an audio introduction by Just Stop Oil’s imprisoned Roger Hallam.
Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance
September 17, 2024
Like Rats Deserting a Sinking Ship, Freedland, Aaronovitch, Baddiel & Freeman Took Their 30 Pieces of Silver Whilst the JC Celebrated the Slaughter of Gaza’s Children– But when Scandal Broke They Fled
It is no surprise that Jonathan Freedland, David Aaronovitch, David Baddiel and Hadley Freeman have, at last, said goodbye to the JC. Like rats deserting a sinking ship they left the captain Jake Wallis-Simons to drown in his own disgrace.
Wallis-Simons has faithfully defended the murder of Palestinian civilians, children included, in Gaza whilst denying that what was happening was genocide. This is the Zionist version of holocaust denial.
The Jewish Chronicle has been on Life-Support for Years – Will They Now Turn It Off & Allow it to Die?
Hostages were abducted on the 10/7. However, Israel has abducted and killed Palestinians daily before and since 10/7 and we don’t hear the media wail on their behalf. If West Bank protested like Israel they knew they’d be shot by a greater military force.
Unlike Israeli hostages, like Noa who feared Israel more than her captors, those taken by Israel, we never hear are conflicted. They fear, and rightly so Israel.
On November 23 during the hostage exchange, we witnessed the expressions on the faces of those released by both sides. The smileless, and pained expressions on the faces of the Palestinians against the cheerful exchanges between the Israelis and their captors. Netanyahu and Israel were so shamed that was the last of further exchanges. Since then we’ve witnessed the Hannibal Directive in play along with Israelis freed but being silenced because if they had anything to say that was contradictory to the Israeli Government propaganda output
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