The mandate of the independent commission of inquiry has always been under attack by Israel and its powerful allies, and its conservative approach may be a response to such pressure. The commission’s findings will likely prove useful in ongoing accountability efforts, but they represent an opportunity missed.
“Do I really want to, contribute to Biden being our nominee? And I struggled, because it’s — do I want to vote for someone who’s supporting a genocide? No.”
Whether It’s Biden or Someone Else, Gaza Remains Top Priority for “Uncommitted” Voters
The process of Jewish expansion over Palestinian land has involved maintaining a “system of domination,” says author Nathan Thrall on this week’s Intercepted. In order to constrict “Palestinians into tighter and tighter space” over the decades, Israel has deployed a strict permit system, movement restrictions, walls, fences, segregated roads, and punitive actions such as arrests and detentions, even of children.
“A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” is a 2024 nonfiction Pulitzer Prize winner. Thrall is also the author of “The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine.”
When does politically-motivated violence, or terrorism if you prefer the bastardised term, become legitimate resistance to oppression, occupation and savagery?
Faced with criticism of the war in Gaza, Israeli leaders cynically ask why the world worries about the Palestinians and not the Kurds. Israel’s supposed pro-Kurdish stance is empty posturing — and risks damaging the Kurdish fight for liberation.
07.03
What might the consequences be for future generations?
Why Gazans’ Extreme Hunger Could Leave Its Mark on Subsequent Generations
Israel’s complete dependence on U.S. support means the Biden administration has all the leverage it needs to force an end to Israel’s aggressions at any time.
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July 3, 2024
Israel’s response “Let them eat cake”
The state of hunger in Gaza has not ended. Its long-term health effects are starting to show.
Israel’s starvation policy in Gaza is forcing people to eat tree leaves
In short Dutton cannot be trusted. His support for the second referendum evaporated almost before the claim was made. He would have been sitting around the Cabinet Table when the legislation to allow offshore wind turbines was discussed and approved and he is now making claims that he will sort out Australia’s transition to ‘net zero’ after the election proffering a solution that doesn’t stack up environmentally or economically.
Dutton wants to burden the country with an uncosted, untried energy system that is many times more expensive than the logical alternative, while harping about the cost of living. Talk about champagne tastes on beer budgets!
“It means yet another day, week, chapter of misery for these hundreds of thousands of people,” said one United Nations worker.
Jul 02, 2024
Holocaust survivors live below the poverty line in Israel but are raised above the morality line by the Zionist Government
An Israeli High Court ruling has overturned a decades-old military exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews, leading thousands to rage against the state and their community’s politicians.
By Oren Ziv
Escaping Gaza has left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I had managed to survive a genocide that had starved and almost killed me and my family. But I was also saying goodbye to a place I had loved for my entire life. The moment we crossed into Egypt, we were destined for a life as exiles—refugees with no clear destination, searching for a place to feel at home again. Leaving behind everything we had built—every dream and ambition—was dreadful. We were forced to start a new life from scratch.
I left Gaza because I want to keep talking about it. I want to keep my home—Palestine—in my life and work. To do that, I have to stay alive, and that got harder every day in Gaza. As Palestinian journalists, we are deprived of any protection that international law or press credentials should provide. I have lost many colleagues and loved ones simply because they took on the responsibility of highlighting the struggles of their fellow Palestinians.
The rivalry between Fatah and Hamas has dominated Palestinian politics since the 1990s. Yet for many years, the main challenge to Fatah came from the groups of the Palestinian left, which have made a huge contribution to the national movement.
07.02
Critical and rational thinking is being challenged. Meanwhile, SCOTUS has given Presidential IMMUNITY to the very top educated or not.
Ten CUNY students are still facing felony charges from the police raid on City College’s Gaza encampment. If convicted, the ruling would set a precedent for prosecuting pro-Palestinian students and organizers across the United States.
By Hebh Jamal and Charlie Markbreiter 10
Much ink, resources and litigation, is bound to be expended over the next few years over what falls within official, as opposed to unofficial acts, that attach to the office of the US president. Along the way, a few laws may well be broken. With a delicious sense of irony, the Supreme Court ruling will also shield President Joe Biden from vengeful prosecutions planned by Trump and his courtiers. The law can, every so often, be fantastically double-edged.
Information regarding war crimes committed by Australians against prisoners of war in Iraq has been ignored for over a decade.
As Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica on Tuesday after killing at least four people in the Caribbean’s Windward Islands, climate scientists warned the record-breaking Category 5 storm is a present-tense example of what’s to come on a rapidly heating planet.
‘Historic’ Category 5 Hurricane Beryl Offers Terrifying View of Future
When the smoke clears in Gaza, it will be perceived that the only people not “run over” are the owners and managers of the U.S. military-industrial complex and their political enablers. They will be counting their money, running for reelection, and planning the next war. And that will be no accident.
‘For the resistance’: Tulkarem residents face Israeli airstrikes and assassinations
We are told that the high intensity phase of Israel’s war in Gaza is coming to an end. As world leaders contemplate new wars and a compliant media gets busy with freshly minted threats, there are fewer stories on Gaza. Let us not be lulled into believing that, for those besieged in Gaza, the worst
Any talk of improving our conditions of oppression – and even this is seen as too much for us – in light of the great sacrifices that have been made, is a betrayal of Gaza’s martyrs. We need to start discussing radical solutions to move beyond the status quo, and adopt a clear slogan: End the occupation, end apartheid, and end settler-colonialism. If this happens, all the lives lost in Gaza would not have been lost in vain.
Palestinians must start discussing radical solutions to end Israeli occupation, apartheid …
Israel released 55 prisoners on Monday to free up space in its jails, unconfirmed reports claimed. Speaking shortly after his return to Gaza, al-Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya asserted that Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s prisons were facing daily abuse.
Israel frees hospital chief with prisons ‘full’ of Gaza captives
. “At the most basic level of how journalism should operate, executives in charge of news in the public interest should not be suppressing news. It’s a pretty simple bar, and Will Lewis has failed to clear it,” says Chris Lehmann, D.C. bureau chief for The Nation.
Phone Hacking, Stolen Info: New Washington Post Publisher’s Ties to Murdoch Papers Raise Alarm
The Supreme Court’s decision that Donald Trump has full immunity for “official acts” he took as president is so sweeping and vague that it opens the door for sitting presidents to do whatever they want without any accountability, including assassinating a political rival.
Supreme Court Gives Joe Biden The Legal OK To Assassinate Donald Trump
African and Asia-Pacific countries are increasingly opposed to resolutions on human rights issues on the African continent, according to findings by two nongovernmental organizations.
I am, therefore, doubtful the discussions about dropping out of the race will get serious in the president’s inner circle. Donors and the consultant class will have much to discuss in the week’s leading up to the convention, but the Biden camp will be unmoved. They realize, as does my friend in his comment above, that politics has always been a function of context and perspective, and one old guy with failing faculties but a fine record and good judgment is better risk than another old guy who thinks only of himself and vengeance
Whatever happened to the 25th Amendment that authorises the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president incompetent? What is going on in the Biden White House?
Who is running the country?
Whether vice president or wild card favourite, no Democrat except Biden has declared an intention to run. Amid increased calls for him to step aside following his performance in Thursday’s debate, however, the Democratic party may consider their options ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August.
Joe Biden’s debate disaster – who could replace him on the Democrat ticket in November?
As was made obvious on the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday (23 June), Peter Dutton has gone full Trump – say anything to own the headlines, positive or negative doesn’t matter, truth and facts don’t matter.
By Michael PascoeJul 1, 2024
Antigovernment protest organizers in Tel Aviv estimated 130,000 converged downtown on Saturday night demanding an immediate ceasefire deal to bring the captives home from Gaza.
“Once again, Hamas is ready to deal positively with any proposal that secures a permanent ceasefire, a comprehensive withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and a serious swap deal,” Hamdan told a news conference in Beirut.
As the resistance grows in opposition to the genocide and humanitarian crisis in Palestine, movement organizers across the civil rights spectrum must realize that their stories of oppression are inseparable from the systemic massacre of Palestinians.
For activist Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah, reviving a joint peace effort that learns from past obstacles is ‘the biggest antidote to extremism.’
Israel’s ongoing genocide is part of a downward spiral for the Zionist project. In the words of acclaimed historian Professor Ilan Pappe: “We are witnessing a historical process – or, more accurately, the beginnings of one – that is likely to culminate in the downfall of Zionism.”
For some in Iran, the West’s relentless punishment has weakened the revolutionary fires of 1979. But for countless others, they are being rekindled by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.
The young man says that Australia was founded on racism, that our first 15 prime ministers were White nationalists and that the White Australia policy was about deporting non-Whites. He’s a supporter of racism: what about the panel? That’s the question.
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