Category: Israel
By Jessica Wolfendale, Case Western Reserve University | – Some commentators have criticized Israel for causing what is claimed to be disproportionate harm to civilians in its military response to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Others have defended Israel’s actions, claiming that such force – and the risk to civilians involved – is necessary to eliminate Hamas, which some Israelis believe poses an existential threat to Israel. As of Nov. 25, according to health officials in the Gaza Strip, more than 14,000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority of whom are women and children. But one of the arguments given
Source: Gaza: Why all Civilian lives matter Equally, according to a Military Ethicist
The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of the government in its conduct of the war in Gaza.
The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said the death toll there since October 7 has surpassed 15,500. The ministry does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths, but said 70 per cent of the dead were women and children. It said more than 41,000 people had been wounded.
Source: Israel Hamas: South Gaza ground invasion feared, tanks heard near Khan Younis
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Israel is taking a variety of actions to crack down on any form of support for the Palestinian cause.
Following the October 7 Hamas attack, Israel has been clamping down on pro-Palestinian sentiment within its borders, including passing an amendment to its counterterrorism law that has been criticised for violating civil and human rights.
Much has changed for Jews and Palestinians living inside Israel since the Hamas attack, which killed about 1,200 people, and the subsequent devastation wrought by Israel on Gaza, which has killed more than 14,500 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
One of the highest daily death tolls since the war began as Israeli army targets Jabalia refugee camp for a second day.
The Wall Street Journal published details about the White House’s secretive arms transfers to Israel since October 7. The US has provided Israel with 57,000 artillery shells and 15,000 bombs, including over 5,000 with 2,000-pound warheads.
Source: US Sent Israel 15,000 Bombs Since October 7 – scheerpost.com
THE HUMAN COST of Israel’s war on Gaza has become increasingly difficult to fathom. Air strikes and a ground assault into Gaza have left over 14,800 Palestinians dead, with over 6,000 being children. Currently, over 1.7 million or 80 per cent of Gazans are internally displaced.
It cannot expect the world to turn a blind eye to the genocide it is committing in plain sight, with the support of the US. The short ceasefire – which allowed some humanitarian aid to enter the besieged enclave and the Palestinians to bury their dead and wrap their wounds as much as they can – is expected to end soon. Israel will likely continue with its indiscriminate bombardment and suffocating total siege on Gaza in the immediate aftermath of the brief truce. Israel’s war on Palestinians may be far from over, but it has already lost the war of public opinion.
Source: Israel has lost the war of public opinion | Opinions | Al Jazeera
As Israel resumes its bombing of Gaza, the risk of a wider regional war grows. Mouin Rabbani analyzes the military and propaganda battles between Hamas and Israel.
You have Israel’s clownish representative to the United Nations, who attends security council meetings wearing a concentration camp outfit, or at least the yellow star, and demanding the immediate resignation of the U.N. Secretary General, whose position … He hasn’t named Israel once as responsible for anything. But he demanded his immediate resignation simply because he made the obvious factual observation that the attacks of October 7th were not the beginning of the history of this conflict, and is demanding resignations left and right.
For Israel, slaughtering 15,000 people in a month, conducting the most intensive bombing in the history of the Middle East — and we’re talking about the Middle East, not Scandinavia — has become perfectly normal. It is a state that has become thoroughly incapable of any form of inhibition. I would argue that the Israeli regime is a clear and present danger to peace in the Middle East, and, rather than drawing any conclusions, rather than or in addition to having a discussion and debate about how Israeli-Palestinian peace might be achieved, we should also be asking ourselves, should that peace be achieved? Or, rather, can it only be achieved by dismantling a regime and its key institutions the way that was done in Europe in the 1940s, in Southeast Asia in the 1970s, in South Africa in the 1990s, Southern Africa in the 1990s, and I’m sure there are other examples as well.
And, just to be clear, I’m not talking about expulsion of Israeli citizens or whatnot. I’m talking about a regime and its institutions. Again, let’s not jump to conclusions, but let’s ask the difficult questions.
Source: Intercepted Podcast: Month Two, Phase One of the Gaza War
If the government fell, Israel would go to new elections. Israelis would Hiding behialmost certainly toss out the rogues gallery of terrorists, homophobes, racists, religious zealots, male chauvinists, and genocidal psychopaths that make up the current government, putting in the center-right instead. (Israel no longer has a left to speak of). If Netanyahu loses his hold on the office of prime minister, the corruption cases against him would proceed, and he likely will go to jail.
Israel couldn’t give a second thought about the Biden Administration as long as Trump remains a credible threat in the Presidential Race it will remain a case of the tail wagging the dog.
The Biden administration has pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to allow the Palestinian Authority to control Gaza after Hamas is defeated. However, one source told FT that Tel Aviv will not listen to Washington, even as the US provides Israel with billions of dollars in weapons. “No one, not even the US, can talk to them about this,” said one of the sources familiar with the matter. That person emphasized that this point was crucial to Netanyahu keeping his far-right war cabinet together.
Source: Israel Planning for Gaza War To Last Over a Year – scheerpost.com
Israel’s attack is the last desperate measure of a settler colonial project that foolishly thinks, as many settler colonial projects have in the past, that it can crush the resistance of an indigenous population with genocide. But even Israel will not get away with killing on this scale. A generation of Palestinians, many of whom have seen most, if not all, of their families killed and their homes and neighborhoods destroyed, will carry within them a lifelong thirst for justice and retribution.
Source: Chris Hedges: Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse – scheerpost.com
Today, with the endorsement of the West Bank settlements there is no hint that Netanyahu, or anyone in his government has any intention of finding a two-state solution to the situation in Israel/Palestine.
His policy is to continue the process of driving Palestinians from their ancestral homes. And “Who will remember the Palestinians?” is his final solution.
Objectively report that!
Objectivity does not exist – it cannot exist… The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No sir: sometimes truth stays on one side only. – Oriana Fallaci
The journalist who penned an open letter to Australian media organisations calling for ethical reporting of the Gaza war were probably not aware of Italian journalist and partisan, Oriana Fallaci’s quote, when they rightly called for adherence to truth over ‘both-sidesism’ in reporting of the war.
Source: Only journalists who support the Gaza war can report “objectively” on it… – Pearls and Irritations
A temporary cease-fire made it easier to grasp the horrifying violence inflicted upon civilians in Gaza by the Israeli military. As Israel begins another onslaught, Joe Biden will bear full responsibility for the carnage that follows unless he demands a halt.
Source: Israel’s War on the People of Gaza Must Not Be Allowed to Continue
Israeli media outlets sheds new light on the Israel Defense Forces’ use of artificial intelligence to select targets, essentially creating what one former Israeli officer called a “mass assassination factory.”
Source: Israel’s AI-Aided Bomb Targeting Creates Massacre ‘Factory’ in Gaza
While the Israeli army is taking a pause from slaughtering Palestinian children in Gaza, its routine killing of children in the occupied West Bank persists unabated.
Source: Israel executes 8-year-old in broad daylight | The Electronic Intifada
– More than 32 Palestinians, including two infants, have been killed in 200 Israeli bombings, Friday, since the resumption of the Israeli bombing of Gaza at dawn.
Source: Updated 2: Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens Of Palestinians, Including Children, In Gaza | – IMEMC News
In the 1970s, Kissinger was so hated by the Likud party, which now controls Israel’s far-right coalition government, that some of its members tried to have him assassinated, according to a news report from the time.
Source: Members of Israel’s Likud Party Once Planned to Assassinate Henry Kissinger
Articles such as the one from CNN discussed herein only demonstrate the blindness of the people who thoughtlessly proclaim that they ‘stand with Israel’, overlooking its many violations of international law and human rights, and its war crimes and crimes against humanity. But around the globe, as demonstrated even in cities that attempted to ban pro-Palestinian rallies (London and Paris are two), huge numbers of people recognize blatant, murderous injustice. It is long past time for their leaders to listen to them, and act accordingly.
Source: Israel’s Foreign Labourers: Exploitation is the Norm – CounterPunch.org
Savagery on a Biblical Scale. Rationality Lost
Sometimes Israel’s crimes are so horrific that at first you don’t even understand what you’re looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what you’re seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something.
Source: Israel’s savagery is so shocking it’s sometimes hard to take in – Pearls and Irritations
But overshadowing the fragile deal, Hamas announced on Thursday (AEDT) that the youngest hostage – baby Kfir Bibas – had died in an earlier Israeli bombing. His four-year-old brother Ariel and their mother are also said to have died.
The children’s father has also been held.
The Israeli military said it was checking the “cruel and inhumane” claim, which was potentially explosive given the high-profile campaign in Israel to free the family.
If you do what the SS did deflect and simply accuse doctors of being dishonest enemy collaborators and round them up like the Spanish Inquisition once did. Because the accusation alone is sufficient justification to justify the lie that hospitals were needed to be destroyed.
Israel alleges that the doctors aided Palestinian resistance forces, notoriously claiming that Hamas’ “command center” was underneath the hospital complex as a pretext for the 18 November raid and siege of the medical center by Israeli forces. “We are currently moving forward with … questioning [Abu Salmiya] over the fact that he was the head of a hospital that was really sitting on top of an entire terror network,” an Israeli military spokesperson said.
Source: Israeli military left Palestinian infants to die | The Electronic Intifada
It’s why that “open letter” by Australian Journalists was a letter attempting to strengthen journalism and distinguish it from a product masqueraded, by Australian Corporate Mainstream Media, as “impartial” news. Journalism is rather a search for the facts that reveal truth and information for the common good.
Instead
US corporate media outlets allow IDF to vet ‘all materials’ from embedded reporters in Gaza. “Israel is killing the journalists that expose their crimes, then bribing the journalists that cover for them,” said one critic.
Source: Imagine the outrage if Al Jazeera agreed Hamas could vet its footage? – Pearls and Irritations
Despite a temporary pause in Israel’s massive bombardment and ground operations in Gaza, the humanitarian catastrophe continues to worsen. With more than 15,000 dead Palestinians and whole neighborhoods and towns left in ruin, Israel’s defense minister has defiantly vowed to dramatically escalate the attacks inside Gaza the moment the truce ends. This week on Intercepted, Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain discuss the state of the war as well as the propaganda campaigns being waged by each side. Then Roy Yellin, head of public outreach at Israel’s leading human rights organization B’Tselem, discusses recent developments on the hostage and prisoner exchanges, how the crisis has impacted Israeli society, and describes the conditions faced by Palestinians when they are thrown into Israel’s military justice system. Yellin also explains the state sponsorship of violent Israeli settlers, the mass detentions underway of Palestinians in the West Bank, and the dangerous nature of Israel’s far-right Interior Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Source: Intercepted: Prisoners, Propaganda, and Battle Over Gaza War Narrative
History shows Israel is the peace-breaker never the peace-maker and has always been the denier of a Palestinian Homeland
Israel has been widely condemned for its brutal response to the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas. With the coming expiration of the ceasefire, this will only become more vociferous. But many U.S. supporters of Israel have responded to the criticism with a question: What else is the beleaguered country supposed to do?
The answer is simple. Israel should do what it has never done before: agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state, based on international law.
Source: All the Times Israel Has Rejected Peace With Palestinians
Why has Israel killed so many journalists and UN employees well over 230. Why have they so tightly embedded the Corporate Mainstream Western media to report only the Israeli side of this war? Why is the IDF feeding and vetting all reports being made? Even Israelis aren’t witnessing the carnage being handed out to Gaza in their name? We are about to witness a blitz of horror stories about how badly hostages were treated by Hamas despite witnessing people actually waving goodbye to their Hamas captors. Stories telling us how well-behaved the invading IDF is. However, the truth always gets out just look and it’s there in alternate media sources who are calling out “We are Julian Assange”
Using U.S.-made bombs that weigh 2,000 pounds “that can flatten [apartment towers],” Israel has killed “roughly 10,000 women and children” according to the Times. Women and children make up almost 70 percent of all deaths reported in Gaza.
“In past clashes between Israel and Hamas, for example, about 60 percent of the reported deaths in Gaza were men,” according to the Times.
Further, “U.S. military officials often believed that the most common American aerial bomb — a 500-pound weapon — was far too large for most targets when battling the Islamic State in urban areas like Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria,” according to the Times. As the Times reported:
“‘It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career,’ said Marc Garlasco, a military adviser for the Dutch organization PAX and a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon. To find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, he said, we may ‘have to go back to Vietnam, or the Second World War.’”
It is an invitation to drown in blur and induced confusion. I put this down in part — in large part — to the derelictions of those reporting what is called — incorrectly, a case in point — the Israel–Gaza war.
I have watched recently a goodly number of videos recorded in Gaza and seen many photographs taken on the ground there. Here is a video of Gazans fleeing for their lives, published two weeks into the bombing by Al Jazeera. Here are some photographs shot by Mohammed Zaanoun, a Palestinian photographer, and published on Nov. 23 by The New Humanitarian, which was founded at the U.N. in the mid–1990s.
This kind of material, produced by professional journalists, various kinds of nongovernmental organizations, relief agencies and the like, is readily available. How differently would people think, how much clearer would their understanding and conclusions be, were our major media to make it available.
It is no longer enough to tether correspondents to the perspective of the military from whose side they report. We appear to be on the way to having wars fought — huge, bloody, consequential wars — without any witnesses. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News The practice of “em
While the Western world is subjected to Israeli paid-for propaganda to be sold on our MSM in decibels. Reality leaks to the surface via alternative media sources. Any news of hostages being treated well by Hamas will be obliterated and news of how Israelis treat women and children blocked. However, the truth always finds a way out.https://twitter.com/i/status/1729660701700993424
This brief temporary ceasefire has given people in Gaza a small reprieve from the ferocious carpet bombing, murdering and destruction unleashed by Israel since Oct 7th. But in spite of the millions and millions of people taking to the streets across the world in protest at Israel’s war crimes, the killing of women and children in horrific numbers, the sinister quiet silencing of dissent both in Israel and across the world has not ceased.
Source: A sinister, quiet, silencing of dissent – Pearls and Irritations
A Jacobin investigation explores Israel’s practice of using the bodies of slain Palestinians as bargaining chips, refusing to return them to their families. Denying the right to bury loved ones, this policy inflicts the anguish of mourning without closure.
How the Israel lobby moved to quash rising dissent in Congress against Israel’s apartheid regime.
Source: A Big-Money Operation Purged Critics of Israel From the Democratic Party
Money walks and talks to silence anti-Israeli Protest
Dylan Saba, an attorney with Palestine Legal, on the censorship of those who defend Palestinian rights and condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Source: Chris Hedges Report: Zionist Anti-Palestine Censorship Is Surging w/ Dylan Saba – scheerpost.com
Dagan emphasized to Porat that none of the hostages had been intentionally killed by the Hamas fighters. “There were no executions, or anything like that. At least not the people with her,” Porat said.
In a separate interview on October 15, Porat insisted the Palestinian militants “did not abuse us. They treated us very humanely.”
It is impossible to know if the standoff between Israeli and Hamas forces at the Dagan home could have been resolved without bloodshed. But it is clear that the Israeli decision to shell the home with tanks wound up killing almost everyone inside, including the child who has become a centerpiece of Israel’s international anti-Hamas propaganda campaign. All the Israelis left behind, Porat said, was “a house full of corpses.”
Source: Israeli October 7 Poster Child Was Killed by Israeli Tank, Eyewitnesses Reveal – scheerpost.com
ALP Government Shames Us!
Australian-equipped Israeli Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighters are being used to commit what amounts to war crimes in Gaza by bombing civilians and providing aerial support for a murderous ground invasion.
In the 60’s Che was that face on every young person’s wall and T. He became a cult hero and is still spoken of reverently today. Will Hamas replace Che thanks to Netanyahu who’s certainly not anybody’s hero and is acting like a Philistine.
ISRAELI BREAK CEASEFIRE “As a result of a clear violation by the enemy of the truce agreement in the northern Gaza Strip today, field friction occurred and our mujahideen dealt with this violation. We are committed to the truce as long as the enemy has committed to it, and we call on the mediators to pressure the occupation to adhere to all the terms of the truce on the ground and in the air.”
But Hamas can’t be ended by force. There are reports that its popularity is rising in the West Bank, where it had been banned by the PA. Chants for Hamas have been heard all this week in the West Bank, and in Arab countries.
Things don’t always go according to plan when colonial powers strategize with heavy firepower.
Israel calls this a deal and holds the world to ransom
Israeli Intelligence Minister, Gila Gamliel, is the latest to suggest voluntary resettlement of displaced Palestinians in Gaza. “Instead of funnelling money to rebuild Gaza or to the failed UNRWA, the international community can assist in the costs of resettlement, helping the people of Gaza build new lives in their new host countries,” she wrote in the Jerusalem Post, leaving out the part that Israeli colonisation would benefit from a complete expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza. There is no voluntary resettlement in colonialism, only the replacement of the indigenous Palestinian population.
Source: A Humanitarian Pause or a Surge in Human Rights Violations?
Don’t accept that what’s happening
Is just a case of others’ suffering
Or you’ll find that you’re joining in
The turning away . . . .
Just a world that we all must share
It’s not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there’ll be
No more turning away? (Pink Floyd)
In the process of watching Gaza burn, it would be good to remember that we’re also turning the whole planet into a Gazan-style catastrophe. It’s just happening in relative slow motion.
Source: Opinion | A Slow-Motion Gaza as We Destroy Planet Earth | Common Dreams
Put a face to Hamas and we might be witnessing Israel’s making the second coming of Che. The youth of the world seems to think so and are wearing symbols of Palestine.
On 7 October Israel vowed to destroy Hamas. To eradicate it as an organization. To neuter it as a military force, political movement, and governing entity. More recently Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in true mob boss style, stated that he had given Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, Mossad, orders to assassinate all Hamas leaders residing in exile.
Fifty days into this war, how close is Israel to achieving its objectives? The short answer is that it requires zero knowledge of military affairs to conclude that 1) Israel’s proclaimed objectives are unattainable, and 2) Israel has additionally failed to significantly degrade either Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Wasn’t he the Israeli who declared Gaza was one massive “Concentration Camp” and all Palestinian inmates deserve to be there?
Giora Eiland is one of the “thinking officers” in the Israeli Defence Forces. He has an idea – epidemics in Gaza are good for Israel. “After all, severe epidemics in the southern Strip will bring victory closer and reduce fatalities among IDF soldiers.” One only has to wait for the daughters of Hamas’ leaders to contract the plague, and we’ve won.
Source: A monstrous Gaza proposal is evil in plain sight – Pearls and Irritations
Israel declared the Thai hostages are “Not Israeli Hostages” What are they saying? That they weren’t taken hostage in Israel on Oct7th? Or saying they aren’t Israelis so “Keep Them”? Or Simply saying ” We don’t give a fuck about them”? Any way you look at It it sounds as if Israel is fishing for a reason to break the cease-fire! How fucking stereotypical!
More than two-thirds of the Palestinians proposed for release by Israel under the truce have not been convicted of any crimes. Most were arrested as children.
Source: Israel’s Insidious Narrative About Palestinian Prisoners – The Intercept
Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza and yet, just as during the first “Nakba,” Israel’s lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and political narrative, writes Jonathan Cook.
Source: Second Nakba; Same Israeli Lies; Same Western Narrative
Across the UK and the US, a wave of repression is muzzling pro-Palestine speech, especially from Muslim and Arab writers and artists. But Palestinian voices refuse to be silenced.
Source: Israel’s War on Gaza Has Unleashed a Wave of Repression Against Pro-Palestine Artists
The Diaspora is growing thanks to Netanyahu. Allow Israelis to leave Israel,
I did leave Israel permanently and renounced my Israeli citizenship twenty-two years ago. But my dream was a reminder that I still feel guilty for my collusion with the settler-colonial country in which I was born. I do not need sympathy or protection from my guilt. It is the right thing to feel. Healthy human beings feel guilt when they do something wrong, or when they collude. The Israeli soldiers, pilots, officers, who know precisely what they are doing, and continue to do it without guilt, are not well people. My guilt is a relief. I am not one of them anymore.
Source: You cannot reason with an abuser – Pearls and Irritations
Farmers in the occupied West Bank face near-daily incursions and violence from Israeli settlers, to the point that they live in fear of having their homes and land stolen, they say.
Added to that is the violence they witness in nearby urban areas, like Jenin city and refugee camp that the Israeli army stepped up raids on, killing 10 people and wounding 20 in just one week.
According to the Ministry of Health, at least 237 Palestinians have been killed and about 2,850 others injured by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since October 7.
Farmer Ayman Assad, 45, and his family can clearly hear the attacks from their home just 2km (1.2 miles) from the camp and they have made the past few weeks a nightmare for him, his wife and five children.
Live updates, Israel-Hamas war live: 6 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids in West Bank Israeli soldiers are seen in Balata, a Palestinian refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank, on Thursday, Nov. 23 By Lyndal Rowlands, Usaid Siddiqui and Umut Uras Published On 25 Nov 202325 Nov 2023 At least six Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids in occupied West Bank since last night. Crowds have met 39 Palestinian prisoners – all women and children – in the occupied West Bank while 13 Israeli and four Thai captives have arrived in Israel.
A war on Israelis is being conducted in Israel
In the weeks since Hamas’ October 7 massacres in southern Israel and the start of Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, there has been a dramatic increase in surveillance and political persecution of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship and Jerusalem residency. Emergency wartime regulations, introduced by the Attorney General’s office and the National Security Committee, have given Israeli police and other security bodies expansive and unchecked powers.
Source: Israel’s ‘thought police’ law ramps up dangers for Palestinians
One of the most recent attempts at denying the growing consensus in support of Palestine in the U.S. is to call it a result of people on social media (particularly young people) being tricked by foreign propaganda. A bipartisan group of politicians, media pundits, and think tanks have begun arguing that support for Palestine is built on fake news and disinformation; that millions are being manipulated by China, Russia, Iran, or Hamas.
Source: Opinion | Pro-Palestinian Voices Are Not Disinformation | Common Dreams
Israel proves to be no Hollywood despite the years of experience of Jews in the film fiction industry. Incompetence seems more their skill set in everything but killing. Even that, it seems, has its blunders when done wholesale.
In this bleak mess, it is worth stressing that even if the hospital proved to be a military facility, humanitarian protections would not mysteriously cease for those patients and staff within it. “Anything that the attacking force can do to allow the humanitarian functions of that hospital to continue,” reasons Adil Haq of Rutgers Law School, “they’re obligated to do, even if there’s some office somewhere in the building where there is a fighter holed up.” But the strategy against Al-Shifa was never humanitarian to begin with, starting with depriving Gaza access to fuel, food and water. The rest is Pallywood.
the censorship actions taken by both TikTok and the Guardian align with the requirements of the US government. This should come as no surprise to anyone who is familiar with the long history of the Guardian acting as a liberal gatekeeper for establishment power. Moreover, the paper’s ever-closer relationship with UK state security services, themselves subservient to US state power, is abundantly clear.
And yet, after 9/11, the US government instructed the television networks – ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox – do not show any speeches or interviews with Osama bin Laden, because they didn’t want the American population hearing from him what their actual grievances were. They didn’t want Americans to think that maybe we had done things in that part of the world that caused it to happen, that causes “blowback”, to use the CIA’s term.’
As with any statement from an influential or powerful figure, bin Laden’s letter needs to be read critically. There is much to revile in the letter, not least its antisemitism and homophobia. But consider some of the grievances he detailed against the US government, summarised below:
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