Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation to block a $20 billion arms sale to Israel recently approved by the Biden administration.
For the first time ever there will be a vote in Congress on blocking weapons to Israel
Gaza’s children have no voice. Their cries go unheard. Their tears evaporate in the summer heat, and merge with the winter rain. No one comes from outside to make a documentary about them. No one comes at all.
If Gaza’s children survive, will they ever get to dance?
Assange’s Final Remarks
In 2010, I was living in Paris, and I went to, to the United Kingdom and never came back. Until now. It’s. Good to be back. And it’s good to be amongst people who, as we say in Australia, who give a damn.
It’s good to be amongst friends. And I would just like to thank all the people who have fought for my liberation. And who have understood, importantly, that my liberation was coupled to their own liberation.
The basic fundamental liberties which sustain us all have to be fought for.
And that when one of us falls through the cracks. Soon enough, those cracks will widen and take the rest of us down. So thank you for your your courage in this and other settings and, keep up the fight.
One observer noted that the Israeli prime minister “has a habit of pretending to reach out to the people of the countries he intends to bomb next.”
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But if a well-intentioned platforming of i24 turns into an attempt to bankrupt Informed Comment, then I wonder if people shouldn’t stay away from formal Israeli institutions. There is something creepy and cult-like about this level of antipathy to any criticism at all. (The cultish side of Israel derangement syndrome is examined in the film, Israelism, which streams on Apple TV among other places.)
Fundraising Appeal: Threatened Israeli (SLAPP?) Lawsuit attempts to bankrupt Informed Comment
There will be no peace and security for Israelis until Palestinians enjoy freedom, justice and equality from the river to the sea.
The source of Israel’s security challenges, the heart of the “rising tensions” in the region, is Israel’s siege on Gaza, what is widely condemned as apartheid in the West Bank, its continuing occupation of territories that it has been ordered by UN security council resolutions to vacate, and its illegal expansion of settlements. As long as these conditions continue, uprisings through both justified and illegitimate means, from intifada to 7 October, will persist.Resiste
With Gaza in ruins and Lebanon under siege, what defence remains for Israel’s actions?
The people of Lebanon know that our struggles are intertwined; that the bombs killing their children are the same ones killing ours in Gaza.
Palestine and Lebanon are living the same nightmare. We will rise out of it together
Israeli officials claimed that Hezbollah was storing thousands of long-range rockets in civilian homes. They sent people in Lebanon text messages and automated calls cautioning them to move away from Hezbollah’s weapons caches. But Lebanese civilians could not know how close they were to potential military targets, human rights groups said. UNIFIL, which is the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, has “grave concern for the safety of civilians in southern Lebanon” amid what it called “the most intense Israeli bombing campaign” since October 7.
As it continues its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Israel is demonstrating that it is fully prepared to commit war crimes in Lebanon as well. In addition to their illegality, Israel’s actions imperil the entire region, and indeed, the world.
Israel’s Tally of War Crimes in Lebanon Increases in Wake of Exploding Pagers
As Israel intensified its deadly attacks on Lebanon, the U.S. moved more troops to the Middle East. The move shows Joe Biden’s priority is not to avoid escalation but to ensure that Israel has full impunity.
Biden would rather defend Israeli impunity than stop a regional war
By Mitchell PlitnickSeptember 27, 20244
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked the United Nations as an “antisemitic swamp.”
The strike targeted and leveled six residential buildings. The Israeli army’s spokesperson, Daniel Hagari, released a video statement shortly after the strike claiming that the buildings contained Hezbollah’s “Central Headquarters.” Lebanese media reported that over 10 Israeli missiles were dropped in less than three minutes on the complex, situated in the Haret Hreik area in Dahiya. The Israeli army’s radio said that Israeli F-35 fighter jets dropped 2000-pound bunker-buster bombs on the residential buildings.
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