Until such time as the rules are applied to all parties in an even-handed way, I personally can’t condemn people like Ismail Haniyeh or Yahya Sinwar. Their lives have been book-ended by massive crimes against humanity committed by the very people and regimes that have acted as their judges, their juries and their executioners. In case anyone forgets: legal scholars tell us that genocide is the crime of crimes. The leaders of Israel, the US and the West should face justice – and consequences – for that crime. Until such time as they do let Yahya Sinwar rest in peace.
It’s interesting how our politicians can talk so loftily about the rule of law, the rules-based order, and promote tough law and order measures. Yet when confronted by the most gut-wrenching and egregious example of cruelty and lawlessness in the Middle East, they remain silent.
And it’s this silence that enables the killing to continue.
The brave young men with their killing machines the IDF heroes kill for the thrill and experience to take back home and brag about
The killing of a 59-year-old woman who eyewitnesses said was shot in the back by a member of the Israel Defense Forces while she was harvesting olives on her land in the West Bank on Thursday highlighted what one United Nations official called a “war-like” assault by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the illegally occupied Palestinian territory.
Nothing is guaranteed to arouse passions and stir consciences more than a great film dramatization that shines a light on the truth of an issue in ways that earnest documentaries and studious literature often do not.
worst atrocity in British Mandate Palestine, the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in July 1946. The Irgun Tzva’i Le’umi, an underground Jewish organisation opposed to the British presence in the region, had planted a massive bomb in the basement of the hotel, which doubled as the headquarters of the British colonial government in Palestine. Ninety-one people were killed and 46 injured, most senior government officials. It was an attack from which, some claim, the British will to govern the region never fully recovered and yet it remains, essentially, a footnote in the story of Britain’s tortuous retreat from Empire.
Israel has gone way way ahead of the “worst” atrocity since 1946
This television series was released in 2011 and resulted in extreme reaction of Zionist Jews in Australia then almost as extreme as today. Should anyone reveal the historic truths about Zionist Terrori in the takeover of Palestine by the Jews in the reality of the birth of Israel not according to Zionists it needs to be censored. We stand witness in 23/24 to the continuance of a historical context & truth that Israel & their Lobby continue to deny and don’t want told today. Australia’s Jewery as far back as 2011 were able to threaten SBS funding at government levels for showing this film then and those attitudes are even more amplified today. Their objections have been echoed here have been seemingly reduced to little more than trope claiming the true story of Israel remains untold. That the Ashkenazis were only defending themselves in 1945 and the Israelis are still defending themselves today.
Israel’s relationship with the UN and the rest of the world is at a breaking point, and U.S. obstruction offers no solution to this crisis—it only fuels it
Israeli authorities should withdraw proposed legislation in parliament aimed at preventing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and halt their campaign to destroy the UN’s most important aid agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere.
“Will it ever be possible for Israel to discard the violent, exclusionary, militant, and increasingly racist aspects of its vision as it is embraced there by so many of its Jewish citizens?”
A historian who exposed the New England Journal of Medicine’s silence on Nazi atrocities confronted the journal’s treatment of Gaza during a Harvard symposium.
“Journalism is not a crime” But the Israeli Lobby in the UK is
As far as The Electronic Intifada is concerned, it will have only the opposite effect. Our colleague Asa Winstanley can count on our full support and solidarity, and as a publication we will continue to pursue with vigor any stories documenting British complicity in Israel’s crimes.
This television series was released in 2011 and resulted in an extreme reaction by Zionist Jews in Australia, almost as extreme as today. Dare anyone reveal the historical truths about Zionist Terror in the takeover of Palestine by the Ashkenazi Jews and show the reality of the birth of Israel it needs to be censored. We stand witness in 23/24 to the continuance of that historical context & truth. Israel & their Lobby continue today to deny that truth and don’t want it told or in any way examined.
Australia’s Jewery as far back as 2011 were able to threaten the ABC & SBS’s funding at government levels for showing this film then reveals attitudes and influences that are even more amplified today. While their objections echoed here have been reduced to little more than trope the true story of Israel’s birth and development remains untold. That the Ashkenazis were only defending themselves in 1945 and the Israelis are still defending themselves today amounts to what has always been Zionist propaganda
How seriously should the ECAJ’s complaint – or feeling in the Jewish community that the series is anti-Semitic and grossly insulting to Holocaust survivors – be taken?
They also object that SBS marketed a fictional account as a historical truth.
The principal objection from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry to the series – as explained in a strongly worded and detailed complaint to SBS – is that the “insidious” series involves a collective group libel that:
“Unrelentingly portrays the entire Jewish presence throughout the country, including modern-day Israel, as an act of usurpation by Jews who, without exception, are aliens, predators and thieves and who enforce their usurpation by brutal, racist policies akin to those inflicted by the Nazis upon the Jewish people.”
This is an extraordinary charge. In addition the ECAJ’s concerns are going to be raised via political allies at Senate Estimates hearings in mid-February, to which SBS director Michael Ebeid has been summoned. There is an implied threat to SBS funding.
General Mark Milley, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Trump administration, describes the corrupt ex-president in the following way: “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country…. A fascist to the core.”
In an almost disdainful manner, the IDF suggested in a statement that the peacekeepers had entirely misunderstood the brutal encroachment. The actions had been motivated by goodwill to evacuate soldiers wounded by an anti-tank missile. “For the sake of evacuating the wounded, two tanks drove backwards, in a place where they could not advance otherwise in light of the threat of shooting, a few metres towards the UNIFIL position.” The smokescreen had been created to aid the evacuation, while the entire operation was conducted throughout with continuous contact with the UN peacekeepers. After a time, the dressing of lies becomes tatty and banal.
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