Category: Israel

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Israel October 7 & America September 11 — Self-Hating or Self-Aware?

Questions that have never been answered and won’t be addressed

 data now exists to demonstrate without question certain parties were placing inexplicable market bets in the hours before Hamas slaughtered hundreds that an attack — or some calamitous incident — was imminent.

 these aberrations have not been explained to the Israeli People. The Israeli government has not addressed this grotesque aspect of that tragic day in any responsible way except to say “the methodology was flawed.”

  the fact this foreknowledge of events resulting in market manipulation also occurred on April 3, 2023, which was the original intended date of attack by Hamas.

, it’s acknowledged the Hamas figure was the specific individual who had negotiated in Qatar with the Israeli government for earlier release of hostages taken during the October 7 Attack.

If this be the case, then what are Israeli Citizens to make in the matter of assassinating a lead negotiator?

 how does such a killing propel the cause of freeing the approximately 100 Israeli Citizens still remaining in captivity?

 this “sends a message” that the Israeli government is indifferent to rescuing those innocents being held in despicable conditions?

There are on average 10 Palestinian children every day who require one or multiple amputations.

What is to be the result of these realities other than a legacy of hatred?

Source: Israel October 7 & America September 11 — Self-Hating or Self-Aware?

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Israel’s mosaic of Jewish ethnic groups is key to understanding the country

There has been a political shift to the extreme right in Israel when it comes to the greed of a minority of Jews who managed to gain control of Israel and its major institutions. Israel has been an army a nation of Generals even before it became a Nation of civilians. Fighters once useful to the West. America Created Bin Laden, Sadam, The Taliban, and the Haganah now the IDF in their own interest and eventually, they all turned against them.

The diversity of Israel’s Jewish population has been a source of tensions, but also strength, over the decades.

Source: Israel’s mosaic of Jewish ethnic groups is key to understanding the country

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Biden to Send Israel More Bombs As Rafah Invasion Looms

Poor weather conditions worsen the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza

All that money wasted they could have been freed with kindness and Hamas would have been reduced to a handful of ingrates

While pushing its tired narrative about Biden “losing patience,” the White House remains dedicated to Israel’s war on Gaza.

Source: Biden to Send Israel More Bombs As Rafah Invasion Looms

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The perfect recipe for a real antisemitism crisis – Pearls and Irritations

Military man posing in front of Israel flag and The Western Wall background in Jerusalem

If I wanted to increase antisemitism, I imagine I’d do a lot of really evil stuff under a Star of David flag while adamantly insisting that my actions are inseparable from the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. I’d kill children by the thousands and commit genocidal atrocities.

Source: The perfect recipe for a real antisemitism crisis – Pearls and Irritations

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With Rafah Under Siege, ICJ Reiterates Israeli Obligations Under Genocide Convention

Palestinian children hold placards

Israel might disregard the IJC but will America, UK, Canada, and Australia?

“The court emphasizes that the state of Israel remains bound to fully comply with its obligations under the Genocide Convention and with the said order, including by ensuring the safety and security of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” the ICJ added.

Source: With Rafah Under Siege, ICJ Reiterates Israeli Obligations Under Genocide Convention

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Imperiled Gazans Do Have Somewhere to Go

Many professing solidarity with Palestinians — including alleged legal experts — being slaughtered in Gaza have said they have “nowhere to go.” 

It’s not true. 

They do.

Source: Imperiled Gazans Do Have Somewhere to Go

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ICJ Hearings to Examine 57 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine

Israeli troops control a large group of Palestinian woman at gunpoint

The woman Israelis are so very eager to disparage must be doing something right.

“Decades of injustice will finally face scrutiny,” said U.N. human rights official Francesca Albanese ahead of next week’s Hague hearings on the legal consequences of Israel’s illegal occupation.

The ICJ—also known as the World Court—will hold a week of hearings on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, which dates to the Israeli conquest of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Syrian Golan Heights, and Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the 1967 Six-Day War.

Source: ICJ Hearings to Examine 57 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine

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Western Governments Share Responsibility for Israel’s Crimes

Israel is preparing to launch a ground assault against the Palestinian town of Rafah, where one million refugees are sheltered. It will likely mean a surge in civilians deaths — for which the US and other Western governments also will be culpable.

Source: Western Governments Share Responsibility for Israel’s Crimes

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Israel’s Big Game Propaganda

Propagandists for Israel are chosen to be characterized not as Israelis but as British and American personalities. How strange? One thing that makes them stand out is they talk rapidly and over the top of interviewers as if it’s a matter of urgency repeating the same repetitive tropes heard time and time again.

Many viewers felt that what they saw amounted to little more than expensive disinformation. “I’m sorry, is Israel seriously airing a SOB STORY PROPAGANDA AD during the SUPER BOWL while SIMULTANEOUSLY BOMBING THE REFUGEES AT RAFAH???????” wrote one viewer on Twitter.

Nevertheless, the Super Bowl was the most-watched American telecast ever, reaching over 123 million viewers. Some say you cannot put a price on that sort of publicity, but apparently, you can, and that price is $7 million. Propaganda it might be, but in America, money talks. And both Robert Kraft and the government of Israel certainly have a lot of it to spend.

Source: Israel’s Big Game Propaganda

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Foreign Military Aid: $95.3 Billion Sounds Like a Lot of Money. So Does Your Cut. – CounterPunch.org

Don’t let them dazzle you with political marketing. They’re just taking your money and giving it to their friends, and that’s all they’re doing.

Source: Foreign Military Aid: $95.3 Billion Sounds Like a Lot of Money. So Does Your Cut. – CounterPunch.org

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The Continuation of Zionist Settler Colonialism

The Greed for which there has never been an excuse

In the face of this devastating colonization, we can take inspiration from those effectively demonstrating what it means to stand in solidarity. South Africa has brought Israel to the International Court of Justice, charging them with the crime of genocide. Yemen’s Houthis have seized Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea, refusing to back down in the face of US-led aggression against them. Palestine solidarity activists have blocked Israeli ships from entering ports around the world, from San Francisco to Sydney. The Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement is stronger than ever before. These are but a few of the examples we may draw on that advocate for Palestinian liberation and recognize the root cause of its hindrance: Zionist settler colonialism. We must continue to stand in such solidarity until Palestinians, alongside all colonized and Indigenous peoples, are truly free.

Source: The Continuation of Zionist Settler Colonialism

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Don’t just mow the grass – burn down the entire forest – Pearls and Irritations

Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City on October 9, 2023.

How the fuck did we get to this failure and refuse to accept that we have simply been wrong since the Belfour Declaration in 1917 and even made it worse in 1948 by declaring Israel a State?

You know there is a shocking decimation taking place when news footage shows only two colours – grey and red. Images of the persecution and murder of Gazans are utterly heartbreaking. Israel is asking the world to allow it to commit genocide. The US, and the West, are saying “Yes, go ahead”.

Source: Don’t just mow the grass – burn down the entire forest – Pearls and Irritations

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Israel raids Gaza’s largest functioning hospital — RT World News

Israel raids Gaza’s largest functioning hospital

We have an idea why the IDF shot the 17-year-old messenger they sent in to deliver their message. There was nobody there to receive it. A bad look for the IDF yet again. Wait for the propaganda to flow now. But they need time to invent a story to justify their crime.

The IDF also indicated that it believed Hamas militants to be hiding inside the facility, though it did not immediately release evidence to back up the claim. A spokesperson for Hamas dismissed the IDF statement as “lies.” 

Source: Israel raids Gaza’s largest functioning hospital — RT World News

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Gaza and the End of the Rules-Based Order | Foreign Affairs

What the Israel-Hamas War Means for the Future of Human Rights and International Law

Source: Gaza and the End of the Rules-Based Order | Foreign Affairs

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Israel Sent Palestinian Prisoner to Tell Nasser Hospital to Evacuate

Israeli attacks on Gaza continue

This is a true act of Terror and cruelty about as little regard as shooting your own Israeli hostages

The young man, bound by zip-tie cuffs, delivered his Israeli captors’ message but was shot as he tried to walk out of the hospital gate.

Source: Israel Sent Palestinian Prisoner to Tell Nasser Hospital to Evacuate

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Israel is surveilling U.S. data on settler attacks to thwart sanctions

Armed Israeli settlers harass Palestinian farmers and activists from the Faz3a campaign during olive harvest in the village of Jibya, West Bank, October 28, 2022. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

What a surprise hasn’t anyone realized that Israel’s army is Mossad, the IDF, and Multimedia who exists to counter the dust storm of negative information they stir up. Israel’s tentacles stretch far and wide to counter any opposition promoting and bribing their way forward not to reverse their interests by saying sorry. Take a mile and give an inch only reluctantly and only as a ploy until the next push forward.

Ashkenazi moderates were far too slow for this new generation of hot-headed avaricious minority. Their interest is wanting everything promised. They saw what previous generations got for nothing and they also want it, but now. The Greater Palestine with all its resources parts of Syria Jordan and Lebanon in a little longer term they can use as their defensive perimeter ” From the River to the Sea”

Intelligence sources say Israel seeks to counter information sent to the U.S. by the PA, fearing actions against West Bank settlers.

Source: Israel is surveilling U.S. data on settler attacks to thwart sanctions

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A deeper look at Hamas and what terrorism means in Israel-Palestine – Pearls and Irritations

Palestine-Israel. Concept

These are the recent facts and allegations. But is there more that needs to be said if we are to understand Hamas? Is there room for a more complex understanding? We think so. It is, after all, the responsibility of journalism to produce exactly that. In this paper we probe the term “terrorism,” and discuss Hamas’s original, as well as its updated, charter and its largely unknown efforts to use diplomacy in search of a just peace. In the process, a comparison of actions and policies will be made between Hamas and Zionism/Israel.

Source: A deeper look at Hamas and what terrorism means in Israel-Palestine – Pearls and Irritations

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Israel lays siege to Gaza hospital as Rafah stares death in the face | The Electronic Intifada

Israeli troops execute detainee

Ahmad al-Mughrabi, the head of the burns department, said that Israeli troops sent a Palestinian detainee, wearing PPE and his hands cuffed, into Nasser Medical Complex to deliver the military’s order to evacuate on Tuesday. When he returned to the troops as they had ordered, they executed the young man.

Source: Israel lays siege to Gaza hospital as Rafah stares death in the face | The Electronic Intifada

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Israel engineers “deep pockets of starvation” across Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

A crowd of children holding metal food containers.

There are only between 70-100 trucks entering Gaza per day “in the best case scenario,” with only “two of those trucks going to the northern governorates,” according to estimates by the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

Source: Israel engineers “deep pockets of starvation” across Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

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There is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go – CounterPunch.org

As I speak with Saleem the sound of the Israeli advance can be heard in the distance. “I don’t know when we can speak next,” he says. “I don’t know where I will be.”

Source: There is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go – CounterPunch.org

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Jerusalem: Jewish Settler Movement makes bid for Large Expanse of Christian Armenian Quarter

The Armenian quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City is facing its biggest crisis in a long time. A Jewish businessman with connections to the radical settler movement is poised to develop a quarter of the neighbourhood’s territory, with plans to build a luxury hotel. If this goes ahead, it will significantly change part of Jerusalem’s Old City and hasten the demographic shift towards the city’s Jewish population which has been happening for some years.

Source: Jerusalem: Jewish Settler Movement makes bid for Large Expanse of Christian Armenian Quarter

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Oxfam reaction to the Dutch court’s decision to stop military exports to Israel – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Oh Shit and I gave the Dutch Government the credit thank you OXFAM

Oxfam Novib, together with PAX, and the Rights Forum organisations, has won a lawsuit against the Dutch Government for exporting arms to Israel that are being used in the war in Gaza. The Dutch Court ordered the government of Netherlands to stop supplying F35 fighter jet parts to Israel within seven days, due to the clear risk of serious violations of international humanitarian law. The decision comes following the three organisations’ appeal to the court case against the Dutch government for supplying Israel with military equipment despite knowing they are used to commit war crimes in Gaza. The judge concluded, based on reports from Amnesty and the UN, that many civilians, including children, are being targeted.

Source: Oxfam reaction to the Dutch court’s decision to stop military exports to Israel – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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If You Care About the Hostages, Demand a Cease-Fire

 

Cynical politicians like John Fetterman and Benjamin Netanyahu are trying to pit calls for a cease-fire in Gaza against efforts to bring Israeli hostages home. The reality is a cease-fire is the only way to do just that.

Source: If You Care About the Hostages, Demand a Cease-Fire

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“Are They ‘Hamas’?” 12,300 children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

A man holds the body of a baby killed in an Israeli air strike, at Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 12 February 2024. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, more than 60 people have been killed and over 230 others have been injured in the airstrikes carried out by the Israeli military. According to a statement released by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), two Israeli hostages were rescued during an overnight operation in Rafah. More than 28,300 Palestinians and over 1,300 Israelis have been killed, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), since Hamas militants launched an attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October 2023, and the Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank which followed it. Image: Alamy/ EPA/HAITHAM IMAD ATTENTION EDITORS: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Gruesome new data shows that kids make up around 43% of the death toll from Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip.

Source: “Are They ‘Hamas’?” 12,300 children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

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Updated: “Israel’s Missiles Kill 100, Injure 300, In Rafah” | – IMEMC News

Updated: Since the early morning hours Monday, Israel’s missiles have killed nearly 100 Palestinians, and injured at least 300, including many women and children …

Source: Updated: “Israel’s Missiles Kill 100, Injure 300, In Rafah” | – IMEMC News

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“Where Can We Go?”: Terror, Panic Set In as Israel Readies to Invade Rafah

A Palestinian wounded in the Israeli bombardment sits in a hospital In Rafah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Palestinians in Rafah’s rapidly growing makeshift camps talk about all they have lost and endured throughout four months of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Source: “Where Can We Go?”: Terror, Panic Set In as Israel Readies to Invade Rafah

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‘Change in Israel will only happen when there are costs that force our eyes open’

Israeli soldiers from the 646 Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade operating in Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza, during an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, January 2, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Levy illustrates the direct connection between these phenomena and various sociological changes that have occurred within the Israeli army in recent years. First and foremost, he points out the gradual withdrawal of the old Ashkenazi middle class from the ranks of the combat forces and their replacement by new groups: settlers and religious Zionists, ex-Soviets and Ethiopian immigrants, Mizrahim, and Druze.

Source: ‘Change in Israel will only happen when there are costs that force our eyes open’

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Former US Navy Pilot: The Day Israel Attacked the USA – ScheerPost

June 8, 1967, Another Date That Lives in Infamy

Sacrificing Liberty, by TruHistory Films, a documentary directed by Matthew Skow. It reveals recently uncovered information, new interviews as well as provocative theories for the attack. Watch the trailer on YouTube or purchase the documentary by visiting SacrificingLiberty.com.

The Day Israel Attacked America, an Al Jazeera documentary directed by Richard Belfield. Watch on YouTube.

Source: Former US Navy Pilot: The Day Israel Attacked the USA – ScheerPost

For the past 56 years, survivors and the families of the Israeli attack as well the families of the dead have petitioned our government in the most civil and respectful terms for a reopening of the investigation into the attack on the Liberty. Each and every plea has gone ignored and unanswered. Funds are currently being raised from the public to help sustain their continuing efforts for justice and recognition of their suffering. Each year, some of them die and the rest “soldier on.” To assist them financially in this worthy endeavor, please visit https://ussliberty.com.

 Former US Navy Pilot: The Day Israel Attacked the USA

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Israel Attacked America 205 dead and wounded The Great Cover Up

https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/– 4 Episode Docuseries
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Dutch Court Blocks Weapons Parts for Israel

Gareth Jennings’s statement is what might be expected from a firm that makes a living of war. The Dutch judgment is meaningful in that it’s the “law” that’s intervening against companies like his and is setting an example.

With over 28,000 Palestinians killed by Israel so far in the Gaza Strip, a Dutch appeals court ruled Monday that the Netherlands must stop exporting parts for Israeli forces’ aircraft due to the “clear risk that Israel’s F-35 fighter jets might be used in the commission of serious violations of international humanitarian law.”

Explaining the potential limitations of the Dutch ruling, Gareth Jennings, aviation editor at the defense intelligence firm Janes, told The New York Times that “if one supplier isn’t able to deliver for any reason, the parts can be sourced from another.”

Therefore, the decision seems to be “a symbolic act rather than one having any meaningful effect on Israel’s F-35 fleet,” he said.

Source: Dutch Court Blocks Weapons Parts for Israel

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Egypt Threatens Netanyahu with End of Camp David Peace Accords if he Invades Rafah

In 1967 Israel attacked Egypt & Syria later a Prime Minister admitted it was a “presumptive attack” based on no real evidence. At the time in blind opportunity, they attacked an American ship the USS Liberty killing 34 and wounding 171 sailors. The Americans LBJ helped Israel cover up their mindless aggression and land grab. To date, Israel hasn’t paid a cent in any compensation or reparation but was rewarded with the Sinai until 1978 and the Golan Heights that’s been and is being developed and colonized with a project named Trump Heights what value is that? Trump will say billions. News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch has fossil fuel investments with GoGas there https://michaelwest.com.au/compromised-genie-energy-and-the-murdoch-medias-climate-denial/

Although American newspapers depict Egypt as broke, desperate and easily manipulated, my own estimation is that Cairo absolutely will not accept the Palestinians of Gaza as refugees on its soil. The Sinai is already a security problem for Cairo, and 2 million radicalized Palestinians would make it ungovernable. No amount of debt forgiveness would make such a bitter pill go down.

Israel attempted to convince an Egyptian delegation to Tel Aviv on Friday that Cairo should cooperate with the Israeli war plan, but allegedly was rebuffed.

The peace treaty has been the cornerstone of Egyptian-Israeli relations for nearly half a century.

Source: Egypt Threatens Netanyahu with End of Camp David Peace Accords if he Invades Rafah

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Point of no return: the techno-barbaric state of Israel – Pearls and Irritations

Rafah, Gaza. 12th Dec, 2023. Young Palestinians react following Israeli bombardment at Al-Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, December 12, 2023. At least 22 people have been reportedly killed, including seven children, in the bombing by Israel in Rafah on Tuesday. Global calls for a ceasefire have been ignored by Israel and the United States, as humanitarian aid operations have collapsed warning of starvation and disease amongst the Gaza population. Image:Alamy / Ismael Mohamad/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News

This is not a war on Hamas but a war on civilians, the military attack of October 7 the pretext used by a genocidal political and military command to wipe out Palestine once and for all.

Far from wanting to save the Palestinians, the US and its camp followers are lining up alongside their killers. The US provides the arms so the killing can continue. They are all helping to starve the Palestinians by cutting aid to UNRWA. They justify genocide with the ‘right’ of self -defense. They even say they share Israel’s values. Their complicity should see them in the dock as well.

Source: Point of no return: the techno-barbaric state of Israel – Pearls and Irritations

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‘America is the mother of terrorism’: why the Houthis’ new slogan is important for understanding the Middle East

The West’s reflexive support for authoritarian leaders who claim to be targeting terrorism is widely seen in Yemen (and throughout the Middle East) as fuelling a symbiotic relationship between oppressive regimes, terrorist groups and Western-led military interventions.

For many in the region, groups like al-Qaeda and Islamic State function, in part, as “tools” that Western-backed authoritarian leaders use to maintain their power. They provide plausible deniability for the violence these leaders use against civilians, or support their pitch that “if I’m gone, terrorists will take over the country”.

Indeed, the complexities that underpin the Houthis’ new slogan help explain why Western policy across the region will continue to backfire.

Put bluntly, people in the region see Western policymakers as blind to their historical record of strengthening the enemies they come to fight. The fact that Western airstrikes are giving the Houthis a legitimacy that was previously unimaginable is ominous.

Source: ‘America is the mother of terrorism’: why the Houthis’ new slogan is important for understanding the Middle East

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Opinion | Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is the Gravest Moral Crisis of Our Time | Common Dreams

Relatives of Palestinians killed in the Israeli war on Gaza mourn

The crisis in Gaza shows those nations that should be defending international law and humanitarian values to be openly betraying their commitments.

Source: Opinion | Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is the Gravest Moral Crisis of Our Time | Common Dreams

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Pro- Palestinian Response to Israel’s Superbowl Ad
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Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”

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Now one might well ask why would that be?

Meta’s internal rules around the word “Zionist,” first reported by The Intercept in 2021, show that company moderators are only supposed to delete posts using the term if it’s determined to be a proxy for “Jewish” or “Israeli,” both protected classes under company speech rules. The policy change Meta is now considering would enable the platform’s moderators to more aggressively and expansively enforce this rule, a move that could dramatically increase deletions of posts critical of Israeli nationalism.

Source: Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”

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Deflect, distort, deny – Pearls and Irritations

News concept

The UN was the Darling of Israel in 1948. Who changed Israel or the UN. The spoilt child gone selfishly rogue or some 200 nations on this planet?

Israel will bulldoze over anyone who stands in the way of the Zionist project. How frightening. And anyone who is in the way of said Zionist project will be subjected to the violent wrath of Israel because Israel doesn’t respect international law, they don’t care about UN resolutions, they don’t care about international public opinion and have total disregard for international norms of human rights.

Source: Deflect, distort, deny – Pearls and Irritations

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Netanyahu’s Position becoming more Uncertain as he rejects Hamas Deal to end War

The Israeli Mafia Don Netanyahu’s position is becoming tenuous. Who is there to replace him surely not either of the two leaders of the minority parties? Ben Gvir a once-declared terrorist or Smotrich the leader of the colonizing invaders?

By Anne Irfan, UCL | – (The Conversation) – The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has rejected a ceasefire plan put forward by Hamas, calling the terms “delusional”. Claiming that an Israeli victory in Gaza is “within reach”, Netanyahu has vowed to fight on until Hamas is completely destroyed. But the US, which is involved in negotiation efforts along with Qatar and Egypt, has said that there could still be a path to a deal. Hamas’s plan came as a counter offer to a proposal put forward a week ago by Israel, the US, Qatar and Egypt.

All the while, the war in Gaza continues. With United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reporting a toll of more than 26,000 Palestinians killed, more than 65,000 injured, and 1.7 million displaced, the UN is now warning that famine is inevitable in the Strip.

As negotiations continue to go back and forth, time is running out for the most vulnerable.The Conversation

Source: Netanyahu’s Position becoming more Uncertain as he rejects Hamas Deal to end War

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Opinion | The International Community Is Killing Palestinians Through Useless Debate | Common Dreams

Relatives mourn over the body of Palestinian Yazan Al-Najmi

Are priorities so misplaced that world leaders cannot articulate the necessity of a permanent cease-fire as the way to alleviate the Palestinian people’s suffering?

Source: Opinion | The International Community Is Killing Palestinians Through Useless Debate | Common Dreams

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As Jews, we do not accept that criticism of Israel’s government is antisemitic

A pro-Palestinian protest in Melbourne in November.

Melbourne’s Jewish Community is divided not everyone supports Israel and they suffer the consequences for coming out saying “Not in our name”. In Yiddish they are real Menschen and behave in a manner Judaism expects Menschliekeitn with Niceness, kindness, decency, and humaneness. They are, however, currently experiencing ignorance and chaos of not only growing anti-semitism but also being threatened shunned, and shamed by their own communities as traitors. These are people to be admired for the risks they take. They deserve a place on a Palestinian wall of the righteous and remembered.

Irreconcilable differences of opinion between Jews are widening, yet the broader Australian public could be forgiven for thinking that all Jews agree. This is in part because most so-called Jewish representative organizations in Australia refuse to represent this diversity of opinion between Jews and have become explicit Israel lobby groups.

The Israel lobby’s conflation of these types of incidents has meant that claims of antisemitism are being exploited to stifle legitimate criticism of Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

The history and concept of antisemitism risks becoming confused and devalued amid a very real fight worldwide against genuine anti-Jewish racism and an increase in fascist activity. It will lead to real instances of antisemitism being dismissed.

The history and concept of antisemitism risks becoming confused and devalued amid a very real fight worldwide against genuine anti-Jewish racism and an increase in fascist activity. It will lead to real instances of antisemitism being dismissed.

Source: As Jews, we do not accept that criticism of Israel’s government is antisemitic

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Pro-Israel bias grips CNN | The Electronic Intifada

CNN town hall stage

Israeli spokespeople get a few days or a week to make their case and establish the narrative. Then some Palestinian guests are invited on so that the network can make a nod towards balance.

This time has been the worst to date.

The moral outrage from anchors voiced about 7 October is not routinely brought to bear for the horrors confronting Palestinians for well over 100 days. Nor is there any significant awareness from CNN domestic anchors that the conflict did not begin on 7 October but that Palestinians have been suffering from Israeli violence and forced dispossession for over 75 years.

I do not expect Dana Bash to invite back Mayor Hammoud of Dearborn – or anyone else – for a substantive discussion of Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies. It is, however, long overdue, and her anti-Palestinian bias is part and parcel of the hate gripping media and inspiring anti-Palestinian sentiment in the US.

Shortly after Bash’s interview, an inflammatory op-ed in The Wall Street Journal labeled Dearborn as “America’s jihad capital.”

Source: Pro-Israel bias grips CNN | The Electronic Intifada

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Starting over with nothing in Egypt | The Electronic Intifada

People crowd a window at a passport terminal

Australia’s ALP Government is in favor of People Smuggling

Thousands of families in Gaza have evacuated to Egypt, mostly dual nationals, but also those who could manage the necessary money for bribes to border officials.

Source: Starting over with nothing in Egypt | The Electronic Intifada

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U.S. Officials Acknowledge Moral Issues at Stake in Gaza

Given the extent of the destruction of Gaza, many lower-level U.S. officials have come to question U.S. policy, fearing that it has been a moral failure. Hundreds have formally protested U.S. actions to the Biden administration, with some even resigning their positions.

Source: U.S. Officials Acknowledge Moral Issues at Stake in Gaza

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Missing 6-Year-Old Gaza Girl Hind Rajab Found Dead With Massacred Family, Rescue Workers

6-year-old Hind Rajab in graduation attire

The Israel Defense Forces said it was “looking into” the incident.

Nothing more will be heard about what happened hear other than “they were Hamas

Rajab drew worldwide attention following the publication of her desperate plea for help as she sat surrounded by relatives slain by Israeli troops. Two paramedics sent to rescue the child were also killed by Israeli forces.

Source: Missing 6-Year-Old Gaza Girl Hind Rajab Found Dead With Massacred Family, Rescue Workers

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Pro-Israel DMFI Backs Conservative Democrat Tom Suozzi

Tom Suozzi NY-03

This war runs deep and Gazans simply don’t have the money or weapons that have been donated to Israel. The question will the money be enough to beat the hearts and minds of the electorate or even one scammer SUOZZI another politician simply bought in exchange for another Santos

A pro-Israel group closely aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is putting tens of thousands of dollars into Tom Suozzi’s race to win back his old seat in Congress.

The political action committee of Democratic Majority for Israel has spent $40,000Opens in a new tab on Suozzi’s campaign, mostly on ads, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Suozzi is running in a February 13 special election to fill the House seat in New York’s 3rd Congressional District vacated by former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., who was expelled from Congress after receiving a federal indictment for fraud and money laundering.

Source: Pro-Israel DMFI Backs Conservative Democrat Tom Suozzi

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Chris Hedges: Let Them Eat Dirt

“UNRWA’s role in documenting the genocide, as well as providing food and aid to the Palestinians, infuriates the Israeli government.”

“Israel has given the Palestinians in Gaza two choices. Leave or die.”

Source: Chris Hedges: Let Them Eat Dirt

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Israel’s dignity will be damaged, Hamas will be crowned winner, but the war will end – Pearls and Irritations

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Israel’s leadership isn’t about the wisest course of action it’s about material goals to be achieved.  It’s about control over Gaza and its gas fields. Everything we have seen is a cheap investment for Israel”arms for nothing and land for free for the future return. Even the public relations battle later will be relatively nothing compared with the years of wealth to be had. The precedents for their methods have been set in the historical record. You take as much as possible and return as little as required. Israel has the cultural capital to remain the West’s favorite actor because their supporters would need to admit they’ve been scammed all these 100 years. Far from it if one adds the Ben Gurion Canal to the strategic mix The US and UK have been well and truly co-conspirators in the race to dominate World Trade routes over China. This war is for Gaza’s land, gas and devaluation of the Suez Canal

The wisest course of action that Israel should have taken a long time ago was to voluntarily release the security prisoners as a gesture and not just as a concession in negotiations. But there is no chance of that happening – it is too smart. Freeing 1,500 prisoners, as Hamas is asking, is neither a disaster nor is it painful. It will bring the hostages home. Disaster and pain will only result if they are not rescued.Nor would it be a disaster or painful to bring an end to this cursed war, during which Israel lost its humanity without achieving its goals from the indiscriminate killing and destruction, the likes of which have only been seen in the most brutal of wars.

Source: Israel’s dignity will be damaged, Hamas will be crowned winner, but the war will end – Pearls and Irritations

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Israeli Plan to Evacuate Rafah by Force Sparks Warnings of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

Palestinian children in rafah

How the West was spun,

One Palestinian human rights group called Israel’s evacuation orders “a pretext to push Gaza’s population closer to the border with Egypt in preparation for their mass deportation.”

Source: Israeli Plan to Evacuate Rafah by Force Sparks Warnings of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

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The dangers of Zionism behind closed doors

 

Campaigning in private by pro-Zionist parties against Palestinian supporters has intended public outcomes and must be addressed urgently, writes Tom Tanuki.

Source: The dangers of Zionism behind closed doors

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Israel-Gaza war: why did the ceasefire negotiations collapse – and can they be revived?

Though Netanyahu has rejected the ICJ’s ruling, he needs to take account of the views of his Western supporters who place high value on the role of the court.

Source: Israel-Gaza war: why did the ceasefire negotiations collapse – and can they be revived?