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The War on Gaza – 2.6.24
Anti-Zionist activist Miko Peled says Israel is not a Jewish state. Rather, it was established by a racist, settler-colonial movement and is a violent, apartheid state that is engaged in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
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“Older ‘liberal’ Israelis are shocked. They say this is not the Israel they grew up in, but it always was. They just didn’t see it, didn’t want to see it or were too deeply indoctrinated to see it.
“The evidence is all there in the hundreds of villages destroyed and depopulated and the people massacred all the way up to 1967, including children as sweet and innocent as those obliterated in Gaza. The Gaza subset of a long-running genocide is the evil fruit of seeds sown long ago.”
Israel’s perilous decay
Julian Borger at The Guardian reports that the first verified case of type 2 poliovirus in 25 years in Gaza, […]
Palestinian Baby in Gaza Paralyzed by Polio, as Israel Rejects UN Ceasefire Call to allow Vaccinations
Israel even refuses the vaccinations for the HOSTAGE CHILDREN
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She represents Israel’s “Existential Threat and is their excuse for genocide, The very notion of Palestinian freedom is a threat to the Zionist psyche
In 2021, Israel killed 22 members of Palestinian artist Zainab Alqolaq’s family in an attack on their home in Gaza. Today, Alqolaq is struggling to survive the current genocide, yet she’s determined to see justice prevail.
As Alqolaq looks toward Gaza’s future, she’s determined to see justice prevail. “My hope is to find an end to this barbaric occupation.” Even with the prospect of a regional war between Israel, its Western lackeys, and the Axis of Resistance, compounded by the chaos in Israel as the government’s intransigence continues, the economy plummets and people flee, one thing’s crystal clear. “The future is a free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
The media wedge of Hamas is simply the purpose of the excercise. However Israel is losing the media war not because Hamas is winning but because the hypocricy and contradictions have been increasingly self-evident over the past 11 months no matter how hard Israel tries to vet the releases,. The case of NOA ARGAMANI a prime example.
“These negotiations were doomed to fail from the start… it’s basically a waste of time,” Achcar said.
“The function is more for the Biden administration to try to show that it is doing something. But I think they know quite well that it’s leading nowhere because the gap between what Netanyahu wants and what Hamas requests is too wide to be overcome.”
Is the playing field level for Hamas, Israel in the ceasefire talks?
As the Democratic National Convention entered its final day in Chicago, the topic of the war on Gaza and the role of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in elections had been largely absent from the main stage. No Palestinian speakers got time on the dais, despite the protest efforts from the “Uncommitted” movement this week.
Instead, the conversation among Democrats about pushing for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel, and the party’s role in allowing AIPAC to shape its primaries has been taking place outside the United Center, where progressives held protests to hold convention delegates’ feet to the fire.
And victims of AIPAC’s political campaigns were on hand to add their voices to the demonstrations.
At DNC, the Squad Warns Democrats to Wake Up to the Threat of AIPAC
Correcting the bullshit Israel told and was then caught out
Slamming Israeli Media Lies, Freed Hostage Says IDF Strike—Not Hamas—Wounded Her
Interview with Rania Khalek of Breakthrough News about my book Zionism During the Holocaust
I explained that Israelis were suffering, not from holocaust trauma, but settler colonial trauma. Their reaction was typical of the slaveholders in the Caribbean who, faced with uprisings by their Black slaves, reacted with unbridled violence. It was the reaction of those who have their foot on the neck of the slave or subjugated and then react violently to any rebellion. It is always the nightmare of the oppressor that their victims will rise up and take revenge.
The settlers are the state
But the Israeli government claims that a handful of settlers are bad apples in an otherwise “law-abiding settlement” barrel, is an attempt to distract from who the settlers actually serve, and to whitewash the settlement project as a whole.
The settlers are the foot soldiers of the Israeli colonizer state and as the recent attack on Jit illustrates, they work hard in glove with the army.
Settlement on UNESCO site
Meanwhile, the Israeli government is advancing plans to construct Jewish-only settlements on land belonging to the Palestinian village of Battir, designated in 2014 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
UNESCO’s designation aimed to protect Battir’s unique, ancient agricultural landscape and culture from Israel’s plans to build its separation wall through it.
“The Battir cultural landscape encompasses ancient terraces, archaeological sites, rock-cut tombs, agricultural towers, and most importantly an intact water system, represented by a collection pool [and] channels,” UNESCO states. “The integrity of this traditional water system is guaranteed by the families of Battir, who depend on it.”
Israel plans colony on UNESCO heritage site as land theft surges
Tamara Nassar 23 August 2024
In the past, Israel’s moral debate about its military actions may have been narrow and hypocritical, but at least it existed. Not this time.
Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute
Ibrahim Salem was detained by Israeli forces in Gaza and held for 8 months, including 52 days at the now infamous Sde Teiman torture facility. Salem recounts the torture he…
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The notion of Israeli forces being the exceptional standard bearers of civilised conduct, reluctantly engaged in violence they would otherwise wish to avoid, has vanished before the colonial settler’s violent logic so commonly found in the West Bank. Be it illegal settlements or orchestrated gang rape, all is fair in hate and war against the Palestinians.
Failing to restore military or strategic deterrence, Tel Aviv is invested in restoring the element of fear that was breached on Oct. 7, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Raping prisoners, leaking videos of the gruesome acts, and carrying out the same horrific deed, again and again are all part of the Israeli strategy — that of restoring fear.
But Israel will fail simply because Palestinians have already succeeded in demolishing Israel’s 76-year matrix of physical domination and mental torture.
Restoring Israel’s Rule by Fear
After rejecting the idea for months, US officials are now arguing that a ceasefire agreement should be signed.
US officials estimate that Israel has achieved all it can militarily in the Gaza Strip, but Israel’s leadership is divided on ending the war, argues Joost Hiltermann, the programme director for the Middle East at the International Crisis Group.
Hiltermann tells host Steve Clemons that Israel’s military believes Hamas has been weakened enough for now, while its politicians argue that the war should be open-ended, allowing for a resumption after Israeli captives are released.
The question remains: is the United States content to allow the internal Israeli debate to run its course, even if that means endless war on Gaza?
From: The Bottom Line
What’s blocking a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza?
After the genocide ends, Palestinians in Israel will have to live beside those who spent the past year cheering and participating in Gaza’s slaughter
Israelis are fearing the storm. Palestinian citizens fear the calm that follows
Khalil al-Ramlawi’s brother was shot 20 times by an Israeli sniper and quadcopter.
“The sniper was shooting him for fun”
The head of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which nominated Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda for an Emmy Award for her documentary on life under Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, rebuffed a demand on Tuesday from more than 150 actors, producers, and other industry leaders who wanted the nomination revoked.
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