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Palestinians of Gaza are Starving: Don’t Cut Aid

Israel’s Minister For National Security demands All Aid to Gaza be cut.  Ex- Terrorists have always advocated politics before Religion. He’s a Zionist and a Jew. However, all Jews around for 3000yrs aren’t Zionists around for less than 200yrs and the two shouldn’t be conflated. Zionists wish to change Judaism into an idolatrous cult. If you’re anti-Zionist you’re not antisemitic the two aren’t equivalent.

To feed children, treat the wounded, and save innocent lives, the U.S. must restore UNRWA’s funding.

Source: Palestinians of Gaza are Starving: Don’t Cut Aid

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‘The Child Deaths We Feared Are Here,’ Says UNICEF

Palestinian child receives treatment

Zionists Celebrate Jews don’t

The United Nations Children’s Fund said at least 10 kids in a northern Gaza hospital have died of malnutrition and dehydration—and many more are “fighting for their lives.”

Source: ‘The Child Deaths We Feared Are Here,’ Says UNICEF

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Israel denies the flour massacre was in any way their fault. Aid shouldn’t be provided in any form
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Zionism ≠ Judaism – Pearls and Irritations

Multiple blue and white Israeli flags

The collapsing of the two categories, Judaism and Zionism to become synonymous seems to me to be a very dangerous, even foolish thing to do. Yet, to my amazement it seems many Jews are doing precisely that. It would be fair to say that such is representative of the deeply conservative Jewish establishment in Australia.

Zionism and Judaism are they claim, one and the same, with an attack, even a critical response to the former, meaning that one necessarily opposes, indeed even despises the latter. The charge of antisemitism is then hurled, usually with great vehemence.

Zionism ≠ Judaism

 

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US Vetoes UN Resolution Condemning Israel for Flour Massacre – ScheerPost

World Peace Foundation executive director Alex de Waal explained the starvation inflicted on the Palestinians is uniquely horrific in recent history. “Nothing is comparable in terms of the speed and the concentrated effort at destroying what is essential to sustain the life of people – nothing compares to Gaza over the last 75 years. The speed of deterioration of humanitarian conditions is absolutely terrifying,” he said.

Source: US Vetoes UN Resolution Condemning Israel for Flour Massacre – ScheerPost

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Horror in Gaza and the shallowness of Western civilisation – Pearls and Irritations

Palestinian mother Asmaa Naser, mourns the bodies of her twin children, Ahmed and Jihan Naser Palestinian mother Asmaa Naser, mourns the bodies of her twin children, Ahmed and Jihan Naser, who were killed as a result of an Israeli air strike on Nuseirat camp, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on December 29, 2023. Image:Alamy / Ali Hamad apaimages Dair El-Balah Gaza Strip Palestinian Territory 291223_Dair_El-Balah_AH_009 Copyright: xapaimagesxAlixHamadxapaimagesx

Modern Israel has existed for 860 months, yet the past 5 will define its culture, its values, and the very basis of its religious inspiration before the bar of history for generations to come.

Either way, without a “change of heart” in the most Biblical sense of the phrase, Israel will remain an armed fortress, a failed pariah state, and a liability to Western civilisation.

Source: Horror in Gaza and the shallowness of Western civilisation – Pearls and Irritations

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How Israel Crushed Early American Jewish Dissent on Palestine

Israel spends and invests hundreds of millions of $$ in the Media and influences Western narrative as if they have something to hide. The Video “The Lobby” in the USA was banned all at the hands of the Israeli government to hide their clandestine activities. Today they are Elon Musks best clients on X

The Israeli government covertly meddled into American Jewish politics from the 1950s to 1970s, and they did so to quash Jewish criticisms of the 1948 Nakba — the mass dispossession and expulsions of Palestinians during Israel’s founding — and Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. Israeli diplomats who oversaw the furtive campaign were at one point assisted by Wolf Blitzer — today the host of CNN’s primetime show “The Situation Room.”

Source: How Israel Crushed Early American Jewish Dissent on Palestine

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Wolf Blitzer Worked for Two Outlets Run by AIPAC Founder

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer presents documentary

Some conspiracy theories are more than enlightening

Blitzer edited two magazines run by AIPAC’s founder that took hard-line pro-Israel stances like supporting Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.

One of the jobs, during the 1970s, was as Washington correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, an independent newspaper in Israel. The other was editing publications that were joined at the hip with AIPAC. The Israeli government reportedly used Blitzer’s two hats to launch a stealth attack on Breira, an American Jewish group that had recently gained fame for criticizing Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians; Breira folded soon after. One historian has linked its demise to AIPAC’s subsequent pressure to quash critical American discussion about Israeli policy. Blitzer’s dual roles suggest that he helped to stifle the conversation.

Source: Wolf Blitzer Worked for Two Outlets Run by AIPAC Founder

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Palestinians in Gaza massacred, starved and raped – Pearls and Irritations

A woman wears a mask with Palestine flag. Save gaza concept Image:iStock/ ninitta

The Australian government remains silent, continues to call Israel “our friend”, and rewards Israel’s war machine in a new contract with the Israeli arms firm Elbit. The Federal Government sends more troops to the Middle East while starving Palestinians in northern Gaza are massacred as they desperately seek food for their families, babies in Gaza are dying of starvation and dehydration and the IDF sexually abuses and rapes Palestinian women prisoners.

Source: Palestinians in Gaza massacred, starved and raped – Pearls and Irritations

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International Pressure To Investigate Israeli Massacre Grows – ScheerPost

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There is growing international pressure for an investigation into the massacre by Israeli forces of at least 112 Palestinians killed in an open area of Gaza City while waiting among thousands for food and other humanitarian aid on Thursday. More than 750 people wounded, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health on Thursday.

Source: International Pressure To Investigate Israeli Massacre Grows – ScheerPost

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Opinion | The US Backs Israel Because of a Perceived Strategic Interest—How Can That Be? | Common Dreams

Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu

Opposition to U.S. support for the Israeli government has reached an unprecedented level. While neither the Biden Administration nor the leadership of either party on Capitol Hill appear to be listening at this point, the majority of Americans now clearly want a change in U.S. policy. If U.S. policy was simply the fault of a powerful lobby, it would be easier to change. Unfortunately, it is far more complicated than that, and understanding the dynamics of U.S. policy is critically important if we are going to change it.

Source: Opinion | The US Backs Israel Because of a Perceived Strategic Interest—How Can That Be? | Common Dreams

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The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7 | Democracy Now!

We speak with Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim of The Intercept about their exposé of a major New York Times piece into alleged mass rapes committed by Hamas militants on October 7 that raises serious questions about the accuracy of the story. The Times article was headlined “’Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7,” and its release in late December helped the Israeli government to justify the ongoing war on Gaza and to paint pro-Palestine supporters abroad as not caring about sexual violence. One of the reporters of the Times piece, Israeli freelancer Anat Schwartz, is being investigated by the Times for her social media activity, which included dehumanizing language and endorsements of violence against Palestinians in Gaza. ”The New York Times has grave, grave mischaracterizations, sins of omission, reliance on people who have no forensic or criminology credentials to be asserting that there was a systematic rape campaign put in place here,” says Scahill, who criticizes the newspaper for not issuing any corrections for their flawed reporting. We also hear from Ryan Grim about how the flawed Times article touched off “extremely intense debate” inside the newsroom. “They’re used to external criticism, but the amount of internal criticism they’re getting has them on the back foot,” he says.

Source: The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7 | Democracy Now!

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NY Times found no 7 October rape victims, reporter admits | The Electronic Intifada

Source: NY Times found no 7 October rape victims, reporter admits | The Electronic Intifada

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Black Thursday: Israel’s Great Flour Massacre in Gaza kills over 100 Civilians, wounds Hundreds

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports on the Great Flour Massacre committed by the Israeli army on Black Thursday, February 29, 2024 in the south of Occupied Gaza City at Dawar al-Nabulsi, Rasheed Street. OCHA says that the Gaza Ministry of Health ‘reported that 104 Palestinians have been killed and 760 were injured in the early morning hours of 29 February on Al Rashid Road southwest of Gaza city, warning that the actual death toll is likely to be higher as medical teams are struggling to handle the situation with limited

Source: Black Thursday: Israel’s Great Flour Massacre in Gaza kills over 100 Civilians, wounds Hundreds

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Israel’s Flour Massacre in Gaza Is a Horrific War Crime

The very denial by Israel saying it wasn’t us to each and every incident in this war is a denial that there even is a war going on. Israel’s whole propaganda campaign has been to treat every event as a single issue and decontextualize the very reason there is a war in the first place. They don’t want the History of Israel and its existence at the cost of Palestinians brought into relief.

It’s a criminal offense for teachers in Israel to stray off the official line at any level in an Israeli’s education. This event will be sold as “Hamas and the UNRWA did this we only shot in the air to disperse the trucks and they prevented COGAT from doing the generous job they have always done”

Continuing the relentless assault on civilians in Gaza, Israeli troops killed more than 100 starving Palestinians waiting for flour from aid trucks yesterday. Emboldened by US complicity, Israel persists in acting with impunity in Gaza.

Source: Israel’s Flour Massacre in Gaza Is a Horrific War Crime

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Israeli settlers cross into Gaza, build ‘symbolic’ outpost

Israeli settlers and right-wing activists seen building an 'outpost' inside Erez Crossing, February 29, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Over 100 Israelis stormed Erez Crossing at the northern tip of Gaza yesterday afternoon in the most significant attempt to re-establish Jewish settlements in the Strip since the war began. A small number managed to cross several hundred meters into Gaza before being intercepted by Israeli soldiers, while around 20 others entered the area between the two walls comprising the barrier that encages the Strip. There, they established an “outpost” in the style seen commonly in the West Bank, building for several hours without the army or police interfering.

Source: Israeli settlers cross into Gaza, build ‘symbolic’ outpost

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US Blocks Security Council Statement Condemning IDF Killing of Gazans Seeking Aid

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the U.S. was alone among the Security Council’s 15 members in opposing the statement, which Algeria put forth during an emergency session called after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd gathered near a convoy of aid trucks in Gaza City.

Robert Wood, deputy U.S. ambassador to the U.N., indicated that the U.S. objected to the statement’s assignment of blame to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). A draft of the statement pointed to reports that “over 100 individuals have lost their lives, with approximately 750 others sustaining injuries due to opening fire by Israeli forces at a large gathering awaiting food aid.”

Source: US Blocks Security Council Statement Condemning IDF Killing of Gazans Seeking Aid

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Caitlin Johnstone: How the Imperial Media Report on an Israeli Massacre

One wonders if this war will continue in time for Israel to ceasefire at Trump’s request?

The only good thing about what’s happening in Gaza is that it’s waking westerners up to the fact that everything they’ve been told about their society, their media and their world is a lie. Cracks are appearing in the illusion, and those of us who care about truth, peace and justice need to help draw attention to them. From there, real change becomes a genuine possibility.

Source: Caitlin Johnstone: How the Imperial Media Report on an Israeli Massacre

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Defunding UNRWA Makes US Complicit in Genocide

Israel will ceasefire on Trump’s request leaving Biden naked and gone

Creating conditions that threaten the survival of all or part of a given population is part of the very definition of genocide under international law. To feed children, treat the wounded, and save innocent lives — and avoid being complicit in genocide — the U.S. must restore UNRWA’s funding and use its leverage to compel an immediate cease-fire in the conflict.

Source: Defunding UNRWA Makes US Complicit in Genocide

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Conscious and Unconscionable: The Starving of Gaza – » The Australian Independent Media Network

If Israel’s intention had been to demonstrate some good will in averting any insinuation that genocide was taking place, let alone a systematic policy of collective punishment against the Palestinian population, little evidence of it has been shown. If anything, the suspicions voiced by South Africa and other critics aghast at the sheer ferocity of the campaign are starting to seem utter plausible in their horror.

Source: Conscious and Unconscionable: The Starving of Gaza – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Biden Is Bankrolling Israel’s War Amid Growing Financial Hardship at Home

Martha Rodriguez comforts her 14-month-old granddaughter MD on

Israel gets more WELFARE

The president has prioritized military spending over helping American families cover the rising costs of child care.

Source: Biden Is Bankrolling Israel’s War Amid Growing Financial Hardship at Home

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Amanpour Confronts CNN Brass About “Double Standards” on Israel Coverage

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Amanpour expressed “real distress” over Israel stories being changed, while other staffers described a climate that is hostile to Arab journalists

Source: Amanpour Confronts CNN Brass About “Double Standards” on Israel Coverage

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Britain Wants to Ban Boycotts of Israel. Does That Mean They’re Working? – ScheerPost

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It is tough to measure the effect of BDS on company ledgers or Israel’s economy: the movement is largely decentralised, with activities happening locally and nationally run by different groups and individuals.

But companies are cutting ties with Israel – most recently the German sportswear brand Puma, a BDS target since 2018, which announced in December that it would not renew its contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA).

Source: Britain Wants to Ban Boycotts of Israel. Does That Mean They’re Working? – ScheerPost

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Lessons on genocide from Xinjiang and Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City on October 9, 2023.

There will be no election in Israel only a forever war

When governments clearly fail to uphold international law, and instead selectively invoke it when it suits their interests, how should concerned citizens respond? We should not despair. Instead, these governments should be publicly exposed, vociferously challenged and voted out, for the sake of a better world, including a “rules-based international order,” where the rules apply to all.

Source: Lessons on genocide from Xinjiang and Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

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Collective Guilt – CounterPunch.org

There are two criminal organizations involved in Oct 7th, The Militant arm of Hamas and the current Israeli Government. No resolution is possible until both are removed

In Palestine, however, the era of collective punishment endures. For decades, Israel has demolished the homes of Palestinians accused of terrorism, even before any judicial conviction, leaving their families homeless for the sole purpose of vengeance, humiliation and intimidation. This also affects residents of East Jerusalem, who can lose their residency rights because of a relative’s actions. Like many states at war, the IDF also targets neighborhoods, shelling whole buildings to reach a suspect and, since the attacks of 7 October, turning its fire on an entire city: every resident of the Gaza Strip is having to pay for Hamas’s massacres.

Source: Collective Guilt – CounterPunch.org

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World Court Hearing on Legality of Israeli Occupation Ends Following Week of Testimony – ScheerPost

Israel and its allies moved heaven and Earth to prevent a legal debate over its military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem from happening. This past week in The Hague, the debate finally took place.

Source: World Court Hearing on Legality of Israeli Occupation Ends Following Week of Testimony – ScheerPost

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More than 100 in Gaza killed trying to get aid – Vox

A girl holds a pot of food while being jostled by a crowd.

What we do notice is Israel when cornered by witness to their actions doesn’t respond too quickly but when they have their narrative in place everything else is drowned out. October 7th there’s no mention of the number of Israelis killed. The three hostages they shot have been all forgotten. The journalists killed are never talked about. While Hamas issues official Statements that aren’t a flood of propaganda and tend to be more measured than anything that comes out of Israel. This leads one to believe what’s being said is less based on fact than it is propaganda and Israel Hasbara Batallion.  This was a COGAT-supervised operation. Israel Run

 

Hagari said during the press conference that a private contractor was coordinating the aid distribution, although he did not name the contractor. Vox reached out to the IDF and to Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) for more information but did not receive a response by press time.

Source: More than 100 in Gaza killed trying to get aid – Vox

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‘Enough Is Enough’: Former Top Sanders Aide Urges Israel Arms Embargo

An Israeli army soldier

“The heinous crimes carried out by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups since October 7 are the abhorrent legacy of decadeslong impunity for unlawful attacks by all parties and Israel’s crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians,” the group said. “The international community’s long-standing unwillingness to act to hold perpetrators to account has fueled grave abuses.”

Source: ‘Enough Is Enough’: Former Top Sanders Aide Urges Israel Arms Embargo

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These words are penned in hunger from northern Gaza

Palestinians walk through rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the Jabalia area, northern Gaza Strip, October 11, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

My life in northern Gaza since October 7 has been one unending nightmare. Fear, anxiety, hunger, thirst, and cold have become my daily companions. I am unable to comprehend the gravity of our situation, nor come to terms with the losses. Our lives here cannot be understood or explained in any rational way.

Source: These words are penned in hunger from northern Gaza

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Truth or Lies? The facts on Australia’s weapons exports to Israel … and the risk – Michael West

F-35 Australia

For over three months, members of the Labor Government, including Defence Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, have held the line that “Australia is not sending weapons to Israel and has not done so for the past five years”. This claim by Labor MPs has also been proliferating through a social media campaign allegedly combatting ‘disinformation’.

Source: Truth or Lies? The facts on Australia’s weapons exports to Israel … and the risk – Michael West

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The Australian Parliament besmirches us all by refusing Gaza ceasefire – Pearls and Irritations
Canberra is Australia's capital city where the government works. It has important buildings, museums, and a big lake. People visit to learn about politics and history.

Did the loss of the Yes campaign scare the shit out of the ALP?

It must be regarded as one of the most despicable and morally repugnant actions ever taken by an Australian parliament since 1901 when, in the first week of February this year, it refused by a huge majority to demand a ceasefire in Gaza as Israel prepared for a military assault on Rafah, where they had forcibly massed an estimated 1.5 million Palestinians in what can only be described as a massive concentration camp.

Source: The Australian Parliament besmirches us all by refusing Gaza ceasefire – Pearls and Irritations

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We Are American Jewish Educators, and We Demand a Cease-Fire

Children are being killed by the thousands in Gaza. Both our role as educators and the Jewish values we were raised with demand that we support a cease-fire.

Source: We Are American Jewish Educators, and We Demand a Cease-Fire

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Intercepted: Mustafa Barghouti on Struggle for Future Amid Gaza Genocide

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The Israeli government is on the brink of a long-feared military offensive against the town of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinian civilians have taken shelter from the Israeli campaign in Gaza. An attack on Rafah could trigger the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the war so far, including a potential ethnic cleansing of Gaza as Palestinians are pushed into Egypt. This week on Intercepted, hosts Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain discuss the current state of the war as well as the ongoing Palestinian campaign for political unity with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a physician and general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative. Barghouti speaks about the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the role of the U.S. in facilitating the war, and his own political future and that of the Palestinian national movement in the wake of this crisis.

Source: Intercepted: Mustafa Barghouti on Struggle for Future Amid Gaza Genocide

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Israel’s Cruelty by Design
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Israeli Genocide Is a Bad Investment

Norway’s recent divestment from Israel Bonds is the latest piece of bad news for an Israeli economy that has nosedived during the war on Gaza — creating a huge opening for other divestment campaigns to hit Israel where it hurts and bring the war to an end.

Source: Israeli Genocide Is a Bad Investment

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Australian Civil Society submits statement on Gaza genocide to the International Court of Justice – Pearls and Irritations

Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) - Reading of the Order of the Court on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa

As a signatory to the Genocide Convention, Australia is obliged to prevent any action that further risks the survival of the Palestinian people and failure to do so risks complicity in genocide. In the absence of a response from the Australian government to the ICJ ruling, at least 81 groups representing civil society are observing with concern Australia’s failure to act to prevent genocide in Gaza, and have made the following submission to the International Court of Justice.

Source: Australian Civil Society submits statement on Gaza genocide to the International Court of Justice – Pearls and Irritations

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US, UK, Fiji, and Hungary Only Nations to Defend Israeli Occupation at ICJ

Richard C. Visek, acting legal adviser for the United States Department of State

One analyst argued that opponents of Israel’s occupation “demolished” the arguments of its few supporters.

Source: US, UK, Fiji, and Hungary Only Nations to Defend Israeli Occupation at ICJ

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Israelis Debunked Zaka October 7 Stories, but U.S. Press Ignored

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Propaganda is real and one side is dominant

Israeli media has debunked the ultra-Orthodox group’s stories, but the New York Times won’t say so.

Source: Israelis Debunked Zaka October 7 Stories, but U.S. Press Ignored

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Israel’s Universities Are a Key Part of Its Apartheid Regime

There is no such thing as freedom of thought in Israeli Academia or it’s Tertiary Institutions. They are Operating as a mirror of German Institutions in WW2

Not one Israeli university administration has called on the Israeli government to cease the bombing of Palestinian universities.

Source: Israel’s Universities Are a Key Part of Its Apartheid Regime

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Heartbroken by Israel – CounterPunch.org

Long ago, I came to believe that being a Jew, even a secular one like me, entailed certain responsibilities. A people who had suffered so much yet survived were obligated, if not honored, to serve as witnesses and supporters of other oppressed people and to live in the public interest, to model ethical lives. Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk, and Sandy Koufax all made me proud, while I felt ashamed of Roy Cohn, Alan Dershowitz, and Henry Kissinger.

I accepted his offer to meet and talk. We became friends. Over more than 40 years he’s joined Rabbi Landman as my spiritual advisor, officiating at my wedding, while offering rational possibilities in chaotic times. Of course, given the world we’re in, we’ve been talking far more urgently of late. Yes, Hamas are thugs and vandals, but how is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu any different in his behavior?

The truth is we shouldn’t have to choose between them. It’s important to get rid of them both, while, at least in our thinking, separating two power-mad and murderous ruling bodies from their people, most of whom just want peace. How can we use the “ethical monotheism” of Judaism to find common ground and a country for each? We don’t have that answer and don’t even know if it’s possible, but at least we should know what the only true goal is: to end the present horror. And that would be good for the Jews, with or without God.

Source: Heartbroken by Israel – CounterPunch.org

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The War on UNRWA Is Israel’s Awful, Absurd War in Microcosm

The US and more than a dozen other countries cut off aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, worsening the humanitarian crisis in Gaza based on charges US intelligence has “low confidence” in. It’s as cruel and absurd as this entire war.

Source: The War on UNRWA Is Israel’s Awful, Absurd War in Microcosm

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A quarter of Gaza’s people a step away from famine: UN

All the 2.3 million people in Gaza rely on "woefully inadequate" food aid to survive, a senior UN aid official has told the Security Council.

At least 576,000 people in the Gaza Strip – one quarter of the population – are one step away from famine, a senior UN aid official has told the Security Council, warning that widespread famine could be “almost inevitable” without action.

Source: A quarter of Gaza’s people a step away from famine: UN

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The War on Gaza: Public Relations vs. Reality  – CounterPunch.org

Feb. 2, signed by more than 800 civil servants from the United States, the European Union and about a dozen European countries, declaring: “It Is Our Duty To Speak Out When Our Governments’ Policies Are Wrong.”

The statement declares the Gaza pummeling “one of the worst human catastrophes of this century.” And it calls on its countries to halt all military support to Israel and use their leverage “to secure a lasting ceasefire and full humanitarian access in Gaza and a safe release of all hostages” and “develop a strategy for lasting peace.”

Source: The War on Gaza: Public Relations vs. Reality  – CounterPunch.org

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What the Mass Media Needs to Cover Re: Israel/Gaza Conflict – CounterPunch.org

10 Questions

Why is Congress preparing to appropriate over $14 billion to Israel in military and other aid without any public hearings and without any demonstrated fiscal need by Israel, a prosperous economic, technological and military superpower with a social safety net superior to that of the U.S.? USDA just reported over 44 million Americans struggled with hunger in 2022. This, in the midst of a childcare crisis. Should U.S. taxpayers be expected to pay for Netanyahu’s colossal intelligence/military collapse?

Source: What the Mass Media Needs to Cover Re: Israel/Gaza Conflict – CounterPunch.org

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One Month Later, Israel Has ‘Simply Ignored’ ICJ Ruling and Continued to Starve Gazans

Palestinian children food aid

A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses the Israeli government of defying the International Court of Justice’s order to ensure the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Source: One Month Later, Israel Has ‘Simply Ignored’ ICJ Ruling and Continued to Starve Gazans

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Melbourne writers festival deputy chair resigns over Aboriginal and Palestinian solidarity poetry event | Festivals | The Guardian

The deputy chair of the Melbourne writers festival, Leslie Reti, has resigned over a poetry session on Aboriginal and Palestinian solidarity in this year’s program.

Source: Melbourne writers festival deputy chair resigns over Aboriginal and Palestinian solidarity poetry event | Festivals | The Guardian

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Thousands Protest in Israel, Demand Netanyahu Step Down, new Elections, Hostage Deal

The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the Israeli police dispersed a crowd of demonstrators from a major Tel Aviv thoroughfare, Kaplan Street, after they attempted to block it, and that the police used water cannons on the crowd. At least 21 persons were arrested.

Source: Thousands Protest in Israel, Demand Netanyahu Step Down, new Elections, Hostage Deal

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‘Horrific’: Israeli escalation would kill another 85,000 Gazans in 6 months, study shows – Pearls and Irritations

Rafah, Gaza. 21st Feb, 2024. Smoke billows in the sky following Israeli bombardment on Alfaroq Mosque in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, February 22, 2024. Image: Alamy / Ismael Mohamad/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News

According to Israel, that’s not “Plausible Genocide”? It’s also not the destruction of Hamas,

To put “at the front of people’s minds and on the desks of decision-makers” the human cost of the U.S.-backed Israeli onslaught in Gaza, scientists on Wednesday said an escalation in the bombardment was projected to kill 85,000 Palestinians in the next six months—which would bring the total death toll to more than 114,000 people, or about 5% of Gaza’s population, in less than a year.

Source: ‘Horrific’: Israeli escalation would kill another 85,000 Gazans in 6 months, study shows – Pearls and Irritations

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‘I Will No Longer Be Complicit in Genocide’: Man Sets Himself on Fire Outside Israeli Embassy in DC

Man sets himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington

An unidentified man in Washington, D.C. was reported to be in critical condition Sunday after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in what may have been a desperate act of protest against the ongoing military assault and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip

Source: ‘I Will No Longer Be Complicit in Genocide’: Man Sets Himself on Fire Outside Israeli Embassy in DC

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How long will Prime Minister Anthony Albanese continue to turn a blind eye to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians?Kangaroo Court of Australia

Anthony Albanese supports Israel

Netanyahu has turned Gaza from a self-managed Concentration Camp to a Transit Detention Center of displaced “illegals”. The next stage will be searching for a home and nations other than Israel to pay.What will Australia’s role be given it lies on the side of Israel?

The ABC reports “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will keep security control over all Palestinian areas and make reconstruction of Gaza dependent on its demilitarisation.” (Click here to read more) In other words, Israel has invaded Gaza and now own it as far as Benjamin Netanyahu is concerned.

Source: How long will Prime Minister Anthony Albanese continue to turn a blind eye to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians?Kangaroo Court of Australia