Mick Hall analyzes an Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s story — 11 months into a genocide — on the Israeli military’s use of the Hannibal Directive to kill its own citizens
Belated Reporting on Oct 7 Helps Justify Genocide
September 12, 2024
Month: September 2024
Rosenberg adeptly summarises how Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has sold his soul (if he has one) to a coterie of extreme right wing, Arab-loathing powerbrokers (and their parties) in order to retain office. And to stave off the active prosecution of a set of serious corruption charges he faces.
A decision by the UK Government to curb arms exports to Israel has brought into question Australia’s reluctance to do the same.
UK arms curb exposes Australia’s role in Israeli war crimes
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+ With Harris, it sounds like we will get Cheney’s foreign policy, AIPAC’s Middle East policy, Goldman Sachs’ economic policy, and Exxon’s climate policy.
+ The one thing Harris could have done was use the debate to condemn the killing of Americans (if she can’t bring herself to condemn the killing of Palestinians) by Israeli forces and announce her support for an arms embargo. This is, of course, the one thing she would never risk doing (and didn’t).
Reuters and the market research firm Ipsos found that 53 percent of voters who had at least some knowledge of the debate felt that Harris won. Just 24 percent said the same of Trump.
A CNN flash poll released shortly after the debate also showed a majority of viewers felt Harris outperformed Trump, and a YouGov poll showed 54 percent of those surveyed said Harris won compared with 31 percent for Trump.
Fifty-four percent felt one debate was enough. Meanwhile, 46 percent said they wanted a second debate.
Trump says there will be no more debates after first Harris face-off
Lumpy isn’t taking his debate loss very well, you guys.
The fake news-propagating former President is wrong. Shocking, I know. Even a Republican-sponsored poll shows that Harris curb-stomped Trump during the debate by a wide margin.
All States are under an obligation not to recognise as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. They are also under an obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. It is for all States, while respecting the Charter of the United Nations and international law, to ensure that any impediment resulting from the illegal presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the exercise of the Palestinian people of its right to self-determination is brought to an end. In addition, all the States parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention have the obligation, while respecting the Charter of the United Nations and international law, to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law as embodied in that Convention.
Changing the current dynamic, however, cannot be done by the Histadrut alone. It will require a significant political realignment, and more significant collaboration between the union and political forces that are committed not only to replacing Netanyahu and the extreme right-wing agenda his coalition has been leading for the past years, but to rebuilding the welfare state, empowering unions, and advancing a more progressive alternative to the neoliberalism that has only increased support for occupation and war.
The reality is that within Israel, much of the power to stop the war lies in the hands of groups that do not have a primary interest in Palestinian lives. Nevertheless, concern for the hostages held in Gaza has exposed deep fault lines within Israeli society. Factions committed to indefinite war, regardless of its costs, now stand against others that see pursuing such a path as unsustainable.
Israel’s army suspects fabrications published in the Jewish Chronicle were part of a pro-Bibi influence campaign, while the article’s author is not as he claims.
Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?
The winners and losers of Israel’s ideological and political war are most likely to emerge following the end of the Gaza war, the outcomes of which will determine other factors, including the very future of the state of Israel,
“Everyone came to congratulate us,” said his cousin Sheikh Habis al-Jazi at the funeral of the Jordanian truck driver who fatally shot three Israelis at the Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank on 8 September, and was himself killed by Israeli guards.
Shooting at Allenby
Maher Thiab Hussein al-Jazi arrived by truck at the goods inspection area on the occupied West Bank side of the Allenby Bridge on Sunday morning and opened fire with a handgun at Israelis operating the crossing.
Yohanan Schuri, Yuri Birenbaum and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer died of their wounds. All three lived in illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The three settlers were employed as forklift operators by the Israel Airports Authority, a department under the Israeli ministry of transport that manages land crossings.
Israel considers them to be civilians, although they were part and parcel of a military occupation that the International Court of Justice recently declared to be inherently illegal.
Israeli security guards shot and killed al-Jazi on the scene.
Footage circulated on social media, taken by someone from a nearby vehicle behind a fence, shows the lifeless body of al-Jazi. A man with a pistol then approaches the body and shoots al-Jazi in the head at point-blank range, even though he is already incapacitated.
Jordanians hail as hero man who killed settlers at Allenby crossing
Eyewitnesses recount the killing of Turkish-American Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest in Beita, decrying Israel’s efforts to scare off international activists.
‘She came here out of love’: Palestinians, allies honor activist slain by Israeli army
I leave you to consider this as you cast an eye over the history of the current Israelites who have been occupying Palestine for the last 76 years. Do they actually live up to this covenant? Do they act mercifully? Do they welcome the stranger in their midst, do they love justice and mercy and tend the sick?
Or do they do the exact opposite? And, as such, do they deserve the sobriquet God’s Chosen People?
Ben-Gvir’s rush to achieve the religious Zionist agenda contradicts the traditional form of Israeli colonialism, predicated on the ‘incremental genocide’ of Palestinians and the slow ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities from East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Zionism vs Zionism – Ben-Gvir and the Acceleration of the Collapse of Israel
Those who can’t connect barbaric abuses of Palestinians by Israelis — generation after generation — and the crimes of Oct. 7, have little understanding of human nature, writes Jonathan Cook.
The horrors of Israel’s prison system aren’t new. They have been going on for decades. What’s new is that Israel has intensified the abuse. It now relishes atrocities it previously hid away like a dark secret.
Israel is lost. It is deep in a black, genocidal hole. The question is, are you going to allow yourself to be sucked into the same void? Are you going to keep covering your eyes? Does the torture end just because you prefer not to see it?
Ecocide in the West Bank is exactly the same strategy as it was in Gaza. Cutting water power and fuel as well.
As residents trickled back into the destroyed West Bank village following a court ruling, fear of further attacks was outweighed by the joy of being home.
After expulsion by settlers, Palestinians embrace precarious return to Zanuta
Facts to be investigated by the IDF. They already know who the sniper is!!
The US on Monday also appeared to reject calls for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel declined to acknowledge that Eygi was killed by an Israeli soldier, but he called for the process to “play out and for the facts to be gathered”.
US not probing killing of its citizen Aysenur Eygi in West Bank
Published On 9 Sep 20249 Sep 202
“A healthy conscience can’t simply ignore the mutilated bodies of tens of thousands of dead Palestinian children,” said one human rights activist.
How Long Can US Lawmakers Ignore These Images of Child Carnage in Gaza?
Volker Türk on Monday called on countries to hold Tel Aviv accountable for violating international law in its war on Gaza and escalating violence in the illegally occupied West Bank.
UN Rights Chief: Hold Israel Accountable
September 9, 2024
We took a five-minute scroll through X this morning and this is what we saw in relation to issues impacting the world today, in Gaza…
5 minutes unearthed very little News but a far greater pro-Israel partisan flood of social media-organized noise than that of pro-Palestinian and an increasing amount from Elon Musk himself.
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