A normalised, gradual genocide over 76 years of Zionist colonialism, peppered by savage episodes of “mowing the lawn”, obscured by liberal Zionist propaganda and backed by imperial Washington, became an unapologetic, even gleeful mass murder of Palestinians, grotesquely captured on video for the world to witness.
Source: Israel’s Experiments in Gaza are the new Face of America’s imperial Laboratory
It was much like witnessing a boy killing flies, with a slight afterthought of apology. The spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, did little to acquit himself, or the cause, as to why more Palestinian civilians had been indulgently killed in yet another Israeli air strike. “Despite our efforts to minimize civilian casualties during the strike, the fire that broke out was unexpected and unintended … Our investigation seeks to determine what may have caused such a large fire to ignite.”
Source: The Stuffing of Crime: Israel’s Rafah Strike – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Netanyahu rejects the Biden offer of a truce and return of hostages. All run second to the impossible
While the record-breaking maximum recorded temperature of 52.9°C has been called into question by India’s Meteorological Department, it’s entirely possible. The city has been sweltering, with top temperatures ranging from 45.2°C to 49.1°C, at the limit of human endurance.
While it had many strains historically, the Zionism that took hold and stands today is a settler-colonial movement, establishing an apartheid state where Jews have more rights than others. Our own history teaches us how dangerous this can be.
Source: Our Approach to Zionism – JVP
When pro-Israel voices carelessly accuse their opponents of antisemitism, they reduce a serious and specific charge to just another political slur. The longer this goes on, the harder it is to identify and respond to real and gravely serious antisemitism.
Source: Calling Israel Critics Antisemites Won’t Solve Antisemitism
Source: ‘Certainly Crossed’: Israel Pummels Rafah as Dems Aim to Hold Biden to ‘Red Line’ | Common Dreams
These students do not want the Zionist Education System adopted in America. It’s been well-documented in “Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education ”
We hear a lot of talk and speculation about why young people in America are so passionate on the topic of Palestine. From the students I was listening to today, the connection is clear. They see in Gaza the destruction of heritage, the obliteration of knowledge, the assault on institutions of learning. Far from seeming like a world away, it seems like the world in front of them. There’s been an assault on the obligation of each generation to pass on to the next generation the intellectual legacy that was passed on to it, and whether the site of that assault is Gaza or the New York City school system, the problem is systemic. For people who are coming of age now, it’s also personal.
Source: Scenes From a New York City Student Walkout for Palestine
At least 17,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip have become unaccompanied or separated from relatives since genocide began
. Read more about Parents separated from baby since December
According to some sections of the media, when Labor are in power they are responsible for every bad thing that happens. But, of course, there is a consistency because when the Coalition is returned to power, Labor are still responsible for every bad thing that happens!
Source: What They’re Really Saying When They Talk About Trump! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
A single slide mentioned international humanitarian law in context of the health crisis in Gaza. USAID staff cited the slide and discussion of international law as potential fodder for leaks, documents and emails Smith shared with The Intercept show. Despite Smith’s willingness to make revisions, his presentation was eventually canceled. On the last day of the conference, he found himself out of a job.
Source: He Made a PowerPoint on Mothers Starving in Gaza, Then Lost His Job
and
Israeli forces’ slaughters of Gazans, journalists, doctors, humanitarian aid workers are described by military spokespersons and by Prime minister Netanyahu as tragic mistakes. In retrospect, killings appear an intention conducted by an alleged accident, in which well rehearsed explanations are part of a familiar two faced process of speaking with double tongues.
Source: To Israel’s ‘Tragic Mistakes’, the world’s response is pathetic – Pearls and Irritations
A seven-month-old child, Fayez Abu Ataya, starved to death yesterday in central Gaza. He lived his entire brief life under Israeli siege. How many more Palestinian children must die?
Can anyone explain why an “official” and “anonymity” are so necessary in a “peace ” offer?
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan would meet on Friday with diplomats from 17 countries who have citizens held hostage in Gaza by Hamas.
Source: Biden calls on Hamas to accept new Israel truce plan
The Knesset is currently preparing to pass the Law to Expand the Means to Combat Criminal Organizations, which would give Ben Gvir, as national security minister, the sole authority to use anti-terrorism tactics in the fight against domestic crime. This would amount to a remarkable expansion of his powers, which he is almost certain to use against — not for the benefit of — Arab citizens.
“If this law had passed before October 7,” Handaqlu suggested, “perhaps the minister would have declared the entire Arab society a terrorist organization.”
Source: Abandoned by Israeli state, Palestinian citizens face crime wave
Source: America’s “bounce the rubble” lawmakers want to punish ICC | The Electronic Intifada
The document in question is 46-page national security memorandum 20 (NSM-20) which Gilbert and other experts had been working on up until very close to its completion when access to the report was then restricted to “higher levels.” Those who had drafted the memorandum were unable to view it until it had been published. Gilbert explained she was shocked by the inaccuracy of the document after there had been general agreement among her and others who had worked on the report that, although there are other factors such as military operations that have affected delivery, the role Israel had played in preventing life-saving food and medical supplies from entering the Strip was evident.
Gilbert said, “There is consensus among the humanitarian community on that. It is absolutely the opinion of the humanitarian subject matter experts in the state department, and not just in my bureau – people who look at this from the intelligence community and from other bureaus. I would be very hard pressed to think of anyone who has said [Israeli obstruction] is not an issue. That’s why I object to that report saying that Israel is not blocking humanitarian assistance. That is patently false.”
Here is a fact check of some of the things he said on Friday – and why they weren’t true.
In conclusion, the relentless conflict in Gaza has subjected Palestinian children to profound and enduring psychological trauma.
Source: Innocence is under Siege, with a psychological Toll on Gaza’s Children
Israel seized control of the corridor along Gaza’s southern boundary with Egypt, the military said on Wednesday, as the humanitarian situation in the territory worsened with the ongoing closure of Rafah crossing.
Israel now has “effective authority over the Palestinian territory’s entire land border,” Reuters reported.
Israel had taken control of the now shuttered Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt on 6 May, preventing medical evacuations from the territory and throttling the transfer of humanitarian aid.
Reuters reported on Thursday the Israeli military had “lifted a ban on the sale of food to Gaza from Israel and the occupied West Bank,” citing Palestinian officials, businessmen and international aid workers.
“Aid workers have urged Israel for months to allow more commercial deliveries to enter Gaza so fresh food can supplement international aid, which mostly contains non-perishables like flour and tinned food,” Reuters stated.
But the entry of deliveries via Kerem Shalom, Gaza’s commercial crossing, has been erratic and only 20 to 150 trucks per day are being allowed in by Israel, according to Palestinian officials – far short of the 600 trucks per day that the US State Department says is needed to avert famine.
Reuters said that food brought into Gaza by merchants is being unevenly distributed and sold at prices that are out of reach for most people in the territory, who have been repeatedly displaced and are cash-strapped after nearly eight months of war that has brought the economy to a standstill.
Source: Aid throttled as Israel takes control over Gaza’s southern border | The Electronic Intifada
StoryMay 30, 2024
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/30/israel_icc?jwsource=cl
A joint investigation by The Guardian and the Israeli +972 Magazine revealed that Israel surveilled, hacked, smeared and threatened top ICC officials, including chief prosecutor Karim Khan and his predecessor, Fatou Bensouda. The former head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, is said to have personally threatened Bensouda. The revelations come just a week after Khan announced he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three top leaders of Hamas. “This is a crime,” Roth says of the Israeli campaign against the ICC. He says the revelations also undermine U.S. claims that Israel can hold itself accountable. “There is no good-faith Israeli investigation. There is a concerted, high-level effort to undermine justice to protect Netanyahu, Gallant and others from war crime charges.”
Legal thinkers can debate the wording of the ICJ’s latest order, and political leaders can debate the power of the court, but the only thing that can end the war is widespread international pressure for both sides to agree to a ceasefire. This includes from powerful nations such as the US.
Thus, it is not the legitimacy of the ICJ that is most urgently in question at the moment, but rather how deeply the world’s most influential powers believe in the role of international institutions to maintain peace and security.
The backdrop to the plan of troglodytes in Congress to harass the ICC is that Netanyahu’s government in Israel has run a decade-long campaign of spying and intimidation against the judges of the International Criminal Court, according to an investigation of The Guardian and two Israeli magazines, +972 Mag and Local Call, published by journalists Harry Davies, Bethan McKernan, Yuval Abraham, and Meron Rapoport.
It is important to point out that the same cast of cyber-bullies has run an operation against American universities under the rubric of “Canary Mission,” in coordination with the inquisitorial Ministry of Strategic Affairs. headed by the American Ron Dermer. So reported James Bamford in The Nation. Canary Mission smears and doxes students and professors at American universities who stand for Palestinian rights in an attempt to interfere with their careers and for the purpose of intimidating them and others into silence.
Both operations are Israeli government-inspired but aided by local agents. Despite the US federal law, FARA, which requires agents of foreign governments to register, Israeli such agents have been exempted from such requirements for political reasons, including Canary Mission and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Netanyahu doesn’t believe in the rule of law. After all, he isn’t trying to arrest the leaders of Hamas, he is trying to kill them. Bringing Netanyahu to justice would be a repudiation of his “rule of the jungle” ethos. It would also signal to the sovereignistas that borders are no protection against prosecution for war crimes. His whole life, Netanyahu has fought the law. Let’s hope that, in the end, the law will win.
Source: He Fought the Law: Will the Law Win? | The Smirking Chimp
Israeli embassy front group Labour Friends of Israel has deleted its public list of “Parliamentary supporters” ahead of the UK’s upcoming general election on 4 July.
The deletion appears to be a way to protect pro-Israel Labour candidates from electorial challengers on their left flank.
But copies of the list made as recently as 5 April are still available on internet archives. You can also read a full copy of the most recent list at the end of this article.
It seems likely that the list will be updated and republished later this year after the election.
Labour Friends of Israel did not respond to a request for comment.
Source: Labour Friends of Israel hides “supporters” list ahead of election | The Electronic Intifada
Source: US Official Who Resigned Over Gaza Says Report Absolving Israel ‘Patently False’ | Common Dreams
How much longer Bibi Netanyahu will you try to fool the world with your crimes? For how much longer Bibi Netanyahu will you call the actions of your armed forces technical mishaps, mistakes, blunders, unintended side effects, miscalculations?
Since October 2023, much has been said about what Jewish Australians think about Israel’s war in Gaza. If you’ve been reading the statistics quoted in media articles, you can be forgiven for thinking that the vast majority of Australian Jews support Israel’s war in Gaza and believe that the student protests on Australian University campuses constitute antisemitism and should be shut down. In reality, we have no idea what the majority of Australian Jews feel about either of these issues because there is no representative survey that has asked us.
Instead, the statistics that are stated in media articles, provided by both Jewish and non-Jewish contributors, are ostensibly drawn from a survey that was finalised prior to the attacks of October 7, 2023, the subsequent violence of the Israeli military in Gaza, and actions in support of Gaza on our University campuses. If you read these articles carefully, you will note that the oft cited statistics don’t even relate to the Israeli military actions and the fallout from them. Instead, they cite wide support for Zionism and Israel and conflate this with support for what has unfolded in Gaza over the past seven months.
Source: We don’t know what Australian Jews think about Gaza – Pearls and Irritations
The once venerable The Australian, News Corp’s flagship publication, and where it began for Rupert Murdoch nationally, has found a resting place with Vogue.
In the seagull management style of billionaire scions, Lachlan Murdoch flew into Sydney last week to bandaid the leaking ship through a restructure – the common corporate euphemism for firing a lot of people.
He was accompanied by Rebekah Brooks, head of News UK, and famous for her involvement in the News International phone hacking scandal, from which she emerged scot-free in the eyes of an Old Bailey’s judge, albeit not so in the public perception. Nevertheless, Rupert rewarded her with a promotion, while her partner-in-hacking, Andrew Coulson, was sacked as David Cameron’s advisor and later went to jail for 18 months.
It is unclear what her role has been in the restructuring, although any discussion on journalism ethics is unlikely to have been on the agenda.
Source: Murdoch reshuffles News – lobs The Australian in with Vogue – Michael West
Mike Hand escaped Australia by way of Fiji using a false passport and sporting a fake beard and moustache. He is believed to have received a new identity from his CIA mates and has since totally disappeared.
Source: Drugs, thugs and mystery flights: Byron Bay’s CIA airport
And so we come to Laura Tingle’s comments about Australia being a racist nation.
Dammit, she is right!
Source: Australia is only racist for some – » The Australian Independent Media Network
They have always been there but have been ignored. They have assassinated Israel’s PM and were forgotten. They are in the Israeli cabinet and have never been as powerful as they are today except for before Israel was created. They are what Israel has become today run by terrorists and gangsters. Ben Gvir has been and still is a terrorist who wants total control of Gaza. While Smotrich ran a blockade against Gaza not to keep Palestinians locked in but to stop Jews from leaving. They are the genocidal maniacs running Israel and Netanyahu is their puppet
The conclusion? “After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law,” to use the words of Bergman and Mazzetti. Yet no Israeli politician will dare say this in public.”
But two highly experienced reporters from The New York Times recently filed an extremely detailed report outlining the threat that the country faces from Jewish terrorists in the occupied West Bank – something which, according to the material they gathered, far exceeds any threat from the sources mentioned above.
Source: Jewish extremists in West Bank pose biggest threat to Israel: report – Pearls and Irritations
Israel will continue the war until Trump and or a GOP president is elected. In the meantime Biden will continue to prove he’s their marionette
Israel has sent tanks on raids into Rafah and predicted its war with Hamas in Gaza would continue all year, after Washington said the Rafah assault did not amount to a major ground operation that would trigger a change in US policy.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said it had evacuated its medical teams from its field hospital in the Al-Mawasi area, a designated civilian evacuation zone, because of continued bombardments.
Staff member Issam Aqel was killed in an Israeli air strike on his house in central Gaza, it said, taking to 30 the number of staff killed since October 7, at least 17 of them while on duty.
Even the weapons used are American-made. Imprisoning American citizens for protesting the lies of their government fails any Democracy test badly in the eyes of the world
A CNN report revealed that Israel used American made munitions in Sunday’s deadly strike on the displacement camp in Rafah. Scenes of the assault, which killed at least 45 people and injured hundreds more, have spread across social media, showing burned bodies, beheaded children and civilians frantically attempting to escape.
Source: CNN Analysis Reveals US-Made Munitions Used in Rafah Massacre – ScheerPost
https://democracynow.cachefly.net/democracynow/360/dn2024-0528.mp4?start=892.0&end=1701.0
Palestinian journalist Shrouq Aila, from Rafah. She explains the bombs set tents made largely of nylon on fire, igniting a deadly blaze, and that Israel’s relentless assault has made three hospitals in the city inoperable. “People are in a total mess and desperate because of this,” she says. Aila has been displaced since the start of the war from Jabaliya, where she had been studying English at the now-destroyed Islamic University of Gaza.
Still, Joe Biden conveys weakness to Netanyahu, to Netanyahu’s Congress and its omnipresent “Israel-can-do-no-wrong” lobby. Being weak on such a high visibility and protested genocide in Gaza is bad for your re-election, Joe. Even though Der Führer Donald is worse. Look at the latest polls in the swing states! A true leader doesn’t zig and zag when innocent people are being killed. “Stop it, stop it now, Joe.”
Source: Joe Biden’s Deceptive-Declaration Zigs & Deadly-Deed Zags – CounterPunch.org
A BBC journalist writes that editors at the broadcaster are afraid of reprimand from their bosses for reporting that displeases the Israeli government, leading to the BBC’s consistently holding back from reporting the full horrors of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Source: The BBC Is Afraid to Report the Facts About Israel’s War
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
By Alastair Mccready and Zaheena Rasheed
Published On 30 May 202430 May 2024
“Today’s Government decision authorises the establishment of full diplomatic relations with the State of Palestine. Subject to the formal request from the Palestinian authorities, the Government will upgrade the status of the Palestinian Mission in Ireland to that of an Embassy, and authorise the appointment of an Ambassador from the State of Palestine to Ireland.
“if you put most of our young people in the army, they’ll see a paradox. They’ll see it strives to be a people’s army … involved in building up the country. On the other hand, it’s a brutal occupation force, similar to the Germans in World War II. Similar, not identical … We’ve become cruel to ourselves as well, but mainly to the occupied population, using the excuse of the war against terror.” Avraham Shalom Shin Bet-1980-86
“The tragedy of Israel’s security debate is that we don’t realize we face a frustrating situation, in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.”Amy Ayalon Shin Bet \1996-2000
the 1995 assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by Yigal Amir, a radical, Orthodox Jew, who they say was incited by right-wing Israeli politicians and rabbis.
Rabin’s widow, Leah, blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then head of Israel’s conservative Likud party, for contributing to the atmosphere that led to her husband’s death, vigorously denied by Netanyahu and his supporters.
Things are worse now than they ever were
Source: GOLDSTEIN: The harshest critics of Israel are Israelis | Toronto Sun
The MAGA agenda would make nearly every aspect of your life more expensive, while making the richest Americans even richer.
Teddy Roosevelt’s economic plan was called the Square Deal. Franklin Roosevelt’s was the New Deal.
What Trump is offering is simply a Raw Deal.
Peter Costello is good friends with Scott Morrison who, as we all know, also has a recent history of covering up sexual assaults of women.
On the 15th of March 2024 the SMH reported that Darren Wick had resigned but it turns out Wick was given a $1 million handshake to get lost after a sexual assault complaint.
The alleged sexual assaults were first reported on Monday (20/5/24) last week by News Corp websites and papers.
olddogthoughts 
You must be logged in to post a comment.