The Israeli army is besieging Gaza City a week after its Shuja’iyya invasion began. People are forced to sleep in the streets with nowhere left to go and residents say…
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Israeli publications +972 Magazine and Local Call interviewed six soldiers released from active duty who gave detailed accounts of how they attacked civilians in Gaza.
Israeli Soldiers — ‘It’s Permissible to Shoot Everyone’
Israel kills authors and poets simply because they put words on paper. Israel like Khomeini did Salman Rushdie issued a Fatwa to have Kanafani an author assassinated and Mossad the State Agency dutifully carried it out. Even Iran didn’t a State execution and they even withdrew their Fatwa (a ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority.)
On July 8, 1972, Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani walked out of his apartment in a Beirut suburb, got into his Austin 1100, and turned the ignition. A grenade containing a three-kilo plastic bomb, planted behind the bumper by Mossad agents, detonated, shaking the entire neighborhood. Kanafani was incinerated instantly, together with his seventeen-year-old niece, Lamis Najim. He was only thirty-six.
His death was orchestrated by the very forces that had dispossessed him.
Kanafani fought with his pen, both as a writer and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was, as one obituary put it, “a commando who never fired a gun.” A revolutionary writer who was born on the eve of the Great Palestinian Revolt, Kanafani championed Palestinian resistance and liberation. This ultimately put him in the crosshairs of Mossad agents, who tolerated no resistance.
The resolution, which was drafted by Saudi Arabia for last week’s U.N. International Telecommunication Union summit in Geneva, is aimed at returning internet access to Gaza’s millions of disconnected denizens.
Israel Opposes Rebuilding Gaza’s Internet Access Because Terrorists Could Go Online Sam Biddle
Real estate firms are touring North American cities marketing homes in Israel — and in illegal West Bank settlements.
In late June, a company called My Israel Home hosted an expo at a Los Angeles synagogue catering to a specific clientele: Jewish Americans looking to buy a new home in Israel — or on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Similar real estate fairs have popped up across North America this year, in places such as Montreal, Toronto, New Jersey, Baltimore, and Brooklyn, and several have faced protests as the war on Gaza has brought the issue of Israeli settlements and Palestinian sovereignty to the fore.
Israel’s War on Gaza The Companies Making It Easy to Buy in a West Bank Settlement Jonah Valdez
Boy witnessed killing of his brother.
Israelis laughed after shooting me, says survivor of 8 June massacre
Fedaa al-Qedra 8 July 2024
UN Experts Say ‘Targeted Starvation Campaign’ by Israel Has Led to Famine Across Gaza
Do-it-Yourself Divestment: Bringing Anti-Gaza War Activism Home
If the UK had preferential voting as we have, the result would have been much closer.
The BLP increased its vote by only 2% and received a total vote lower than the Jeremy Corbyn-led BLP in 2017 and 2019.
Starmer also had a poor result in his own electorate.
Like Albanese, Starmer was wedged on AUKUS and supports this absurdity.
Voters in both the UK and Australia are turning away from the tired old two party system.
One striking feature of the election was the collapse of the Tory vote by 24%. It confirms the old adage that Oppositions seldom win elections. It is Governments that lose them, as happened in Australia at the last election.
UK voters rejected the Conservatives for numerous reasons, but they were lukewarm about Labour.
This voter turn off was also reflected in the low voter turnout which at 59% was the lowest in 20 years and the second lowest since 1885.
A win is a win, but clear lessons on Gaza from the UK election
Any potential ceasefire deal in Gaza must allow Israel to resume fighting until all of its war objectives are met, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. One of the main goals repeatedly voiced by the PM is the complete elimination of the Hamas militant group.
New York City Public Schools has been suppressing Palestinian narratives and activism. NYC Educators for Palestine has attempted to meet with Chancellor David Banks for months, but he keeps dodging our meeting.
Silenced at School: NYC Public Schools Chancellor suppresses Palestinian voices
A few weeks ago, at a rally in Nevada, Trump told his followers that boat manufacturers are now required to use electric engines. He claimed that someone at a boat company in South Carolina told him, “It’s a problem, sir. They want us to make all-electric boats.” (There is no such requirement.)
Trump then said the South Carolinian warned him “the boat is so heavy it can’t float. Also, it can’t go fast because of the weight.”
Trump continued:
“So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question,’ and [the South Carolinian] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT — very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’
Why Isn’t the Media Reporting on Trump’s Growing Dementia? by Robert Reich | July 8, 2024 – 6:23am | permalink
— from Robert Reich’s Substack
Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission.
‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
By Oren Ziv
Israel has committed a new massacre in Nuseirat as it launches a new invasion of Gaza City.
Meanwhile, Hamas says it has recruited thousands of new resistance fighters.
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 276: Top Israeli security officials ‘shocked’ by Netanyahu’s attempts to sabotage ceasefire proposal
The Israeli prime minister has chosen this moment to mount a go-for-broke attempt to bring the U.S. into some kind of once-and-for-all conflict that would leave Israel supreme in the region.
It is a matter of record that the Zionist project has had extensive territorial designs on the lands known as Palestine since at least the early 20th century.
As others have argued, the Israelis’ openly racist assault on the Palestinians of Gaza is to be understood not as a sudden eruption of violence, a departure, but as an especially savage continuation of Zionist conduct for more than a century.
The birth of Israel on 14 May 1948 is said to be based on three related claims.Some people regard these claims as questionable. They form the basis for why Israel’s birth is said to be illegitimate.
Israel, born illegitimate, seizes more illegal land in the West Bank
By Gim Teh
Jul 8, 2024
Job cuts continue across the empire as the business model dies a slow death.
News Corp is ailing. How long will the Murdochs prop it up?
The latest life expectancy data confirms that some countries – including Australia – are making better choices than others,
Alan Austin …
Life expectancy data reaffirms the horrors of a Trump Presidency
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Conclusion
Evangelical groups in Australia are often transnational and importing ultraconservative goals here.
A separate presence of CNP groups is not yet obvious, but it is worth noting that Feulner, speaking to Atlas junktanks in Australia in 1985, would have been as much connected to the CNP as Atlas.
Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) mostly leaves the culture war battles on gender and religious virtues to the IPA and their media ally, News Corp. This October’s CIS Consilium event where the Atlas pipeliners intermingle with local and international talking heads is running adjacent to the inaugural conference of the Australian Chapter of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. The consecutive timing is convenient for international guests to attend both.
America’s second revolution is frightening. While Trump disavows Project 2025, his current spokesperson is part of the project. It will be difficult for him to step away from a strategy designed by people he has worked with, setting out the steps his people need to take and providing him with the partisan leaders and employees he will need to enact his dreams of vengeance. He is too lazy not to accept the process.
The rest of us must remain focused on the fact that these networks operate transnationally. They share talking points, strategies, people and money. The revolution that Kevin Roberts has declared they are winning in the US is to be reenacted, piecemeal, for all of us.
It’s past time we fought back.
Conclusion
Evangelical groups in Australia are often transnational and importing ultraconservative goals here.
A separate presence of CNP groups is not yet obvious, but it is worth noting that Feulner, speaking to Atlas junktanks in Australia in 1985, would have been as much connected to the CNP as Atlas.
Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) mostly leaves the culture war battles on gender and religious virtues to the IPA and their media ally, News Corp. This October’s CIS Consilium event where the Atlas pipeliners intermingle with local and international talking heads is running adjacent to the inaugural conference of the Australian Chapter of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. The consecutive timing is convenient for international guests to attend both.
America’s second revolution is frightening. While Trump disavows Project 2025, his current spokesperson is part of the project. It will be difficult for him to step away from a strategy designed by people he has worked with, setting out the steps his people need to take and providing him with the partisan leaders and employees he will need to enact his dreams of vengeance. He is too lazy not to accept the process.
The rest of us must remain focused on the fact that these networks operate transnationally. They share talking points, strategies, people and money. The revolution that Kevin Roberts has declared they are winning in the US is to be reenacted, piecemeal, for all of us.
It’s past time we fought back.
It is estimated that from October 7, 2023 until May, 2024, close to 36,000 Palestinians and 1500 Israelis have lost their lives in the Hamas-Israel war. Thousands more Gazans have perished from malnutrition or disease or have disappeared under mountains of sand and rubble.
Gaza and the West Bank: ancient semitic antipathies drive the bloodshed
Our correspondent reports “decapitated” bodies arrive at Al-Aqsa Hospital after Israel bombs a UN school in Nuseirat. The strike killed “more than 16” people, according to the Government Media Office. The majority of those injured are children.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health has said that 29 people were killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours as reports emerge that five Palestinian journalists were among those killed.
The “continuous cycle” of mass displacement of civilians in Gaza and people being in “survival mode” and “despair” must stop, the director of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, has said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that gaps remain between parties after Israel’s Mossad chief left Doha following a meeting with mediators over Gaza ceasefire talks, adding that the talks will resume next week.
Israel war on Gaza live: 16 killed in Israeli attack on UNRWA-run school
Death toll tops 38,000
At least five journalists were killed in attacks by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours in Gaza as bombings and air strikes across the besieged enclave intensified.
On Saturday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said separate Israeli strikes killed three journalists in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the territory and two in Gaza City, raising to at least 158 the number of media workers killed since the current war erupted on October 7.
At the coming elections, many of us will vote on the basis of a party’s or a candidate’s stance on the issue of Palestine. It will be a vote to reject the occupation, apartheid, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and a myriad of other unspeakable horrors. And it will be an appeal to our common humanity to stop the genocide in Gaza and to help Palestinians get peace with justice. I sincerely hope it will not be a religion-based vote.
Palestine is an issue of justice not religion
It seems that the repercussions of the debate recently held between current US President Joe Biden and his rival, former US President Donald Trump, which caused a crisis for the former, fuelled a campaign led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against the current US administration, and aims, among other things, to hold it responsible for Israel’s failure to achieve absolute victory in its war against the Gaza Strip. In light of this campaign that those close to Netanyahu have continued to ignite over the past few days, we have come across two related features.
Netanyahu and his bet on Trump
Without a sympathetic media, Israel’s powerful military would be next to useless in its attempts to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It relies on crucial Western support…
Rupert Murdoch: Israel’s Most Powerful Supporter
Instant Erudition with Jo Dyer
Instant Erudition is the Shot’s new fortnightly column: a quick read from Jo Dyer to whet your whistle while you wait for our next feature article
And it is with this reeling wreck of a country that we have thrown in our military lot. In a book out this week, Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty, Andrew Fowler takes us back through the duplicitous disaster of AUKUS in all its devastating detail: from the opportunity for a new independent geo-political strategy the submarine deal with France offered, to the all-the-way-with-USA China hawks in Defence who immediately worked to undermine it. From the ongoing uncertainty as to when – even if – we’ll ever get nuclear subs from the massively overstretched US construction yards we’re now underwriting to the fact we don’t have the technical capacity to operate them if we do; from the proliferation of ex-US military men who pocketed large amounts of Australian taxpayers’ cash to provide advice on Australia’s best interests to their advice spookily aligning with the interests of their home country and that of the weapons manufacturers on whose Boards they sit. From the transparently political games Morrison played with our national security as he obsequiously cleaved us to the US while hoping to blindside a resurgent Labor with a khaki-tinged campaign, to the craven capitulation of the ALP who embraced AUKUS within 24 hours of its announcement, its privileging of old Anglophonic allies and an anti-China military strategy a price they elected to pay to avoid being wedged in a tight political race, regardless of the ultimate cost to them, to us and the country.
Britain’s latest General Election held on 4th July was nothing short of a major political earthquake that put […]
Britain’s Labour beat the Right, but Must hasten to Win Public Trust and heal Rift with own Left
President Joe Biden is just 2 percentage points away from former President Donald Trump among seven swing states recently polled, despite the president’s dismal debate performance last week.
Trump Gets Bad News in Swing States Despite Biden’s Debate Performance
“Sites like Words of Iron are scaring other content creators from posting about Palestine. They’re chilling free speech, and that’s what they aim to do.” — Rosy Pirani
Free Speech Under Fire: How Israel’s Tech Guard Is Killing Free Speech Online
The West Bank remains unusually calm as Israel carries out its genocide in Gaza. But while Israeli repression has dissuaded an uprising in the streets, the tectonic plates underneath continue to shift.
Twelve former members of the Biden administration are calling its policy in Gaza a failure and a threat to U.S. national security.
EXPOSED: Britain’s secret role in Gaza. Britain supplied Israel with intelligence on the day that Australian aid workers were killed in targeted strikes by the IDF.
UK supplied Israel with intelligence on day Australian aid worker killed in targeted strikes
The Australian Government has at last grudgingly admitted that Australian-based companies are supplying parts and components to Israel for its F-35 Lightning jets which are systematically destroying human life and buildings in Gaza. But it has not yet admitted that the supply of such components contravenes the Arms Trade Treaty of 2014, which Australia has ratified
Australia supplies Israel with weapons of genocide, breaches law
Former President Donald Trump at the first Presidential Debate at CNN Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on June 27, 2024. (Photo by Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Project 2025 is spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation in partnership with dozens of rightwing advocacy organizations. It has two main components: First, a 900-page manifesto with a wish list for the first 180 days of the “next conservative administration,” including to further restrict abortion access and “dismantle the administrative state.” The second component is an application-only recruitment effort to ensure the administration is quickly staffed with loyalists.
Trump’s Camp Says It Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025 Manifesto — Aside From Writing It
This is the “ANTISEMITIC SCIENCE” Israel wants banned from the world’s universities and why it’s so intent on retaining only one history of the world their Biblical one
Well before the Jewish Biblical Calendar. However, Israel fully controls its archeology as it does its view of history which only begins 3,500 years ago and not 6000-8000 years. Israeli is between a rock and a hard place calling this data antisemitic. They certainly weren’t the first in the region to call it home
Trading in the Levant
It seems likely these people formed a culturally distinct group who interacted with their neighbours in the Levant to the north, a region which includes modern-day Jordan, Palestine and Syria, among others.
Our findings suggest they imported their animals and stone tool technologies. Some of the tools resemble those found at earlier sites across Jordan, which suggests they either traded or learned how to make them from further north.
Domesticated goats and sheep would have also been sourced from further afield, as there were no wild versions of these animals in the area. Everything they brought was incorporated usefully into their way of life, to suit the lands they already knew so well.
A ‘defeat’ of Hamas seems out of reach, while analysts say recently a announced ‘Phase Three looks more like occupation.
Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in more than three decades, according to a report released by an Israeli anti-settlement watchdog, a move that will exacerbate the escalating tensions surrounding the conflict in Gaza.
Israel has approved ‘largest West Bank land grab in 30 years’, watchdog says
Beersheba (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – Amid the prevailing focus on the war and the geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East, it is easy […]
Centuries of Co-Existence: Jewish Cultural Heritage in Egypt and Morocco
The lawmaker’s hardline call comes amid powder keg tensions between Tel Aviv and Tehran, which warned last week that any Israeli invasion of Lebanon—from which Iranian ally Hezbollah is resisting Israel’s annihilation of Gaza—would trigger an “obliterating war.”
‘More Unhinged by the Minute’: Senior Israeli Lawmaker Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran
The conflict in Gaza has generated vigorous discussion about the assumed ethical prohibition against attacks on health facilities in times of war and the circumstances in which this prohibition might be validly circumvented.
There are no valid ethical arguments in support of attacks on health facilities in Gaza
In a context of fear, hatred, and violence, an Israeli-Palestinian gathering that seemed detached from reality actually represented something revolutionary.
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