Israel

As Jews, we do not accept that criticism of Israel’s government is antisemitic

A pro-Palestinian protest in Melbourne in November.

Melbourne’s Jewish Community is divided not everyone supports Israel and they suffer the consequences for coming out saying “Not in our name”. In Yiddish they are real Menschen and behave in a manner Judaism expects Menschliekeitn with Niceness, kindness, decency, and humaneness. They are, however, currently experiencing ignorance and chaos of not only growing anti-semitism but also being threatened shunned, and shamed by their own communities as traitors. These are people to be admired for the risks they take. They deserve a place on a Palestinian wall of the righteous and remembered.

Irreconcilable differences of opinion between Jews are widening, yet the broader Australian public could be forgiven for thinking that all Jews agree. This is in part because most so-called Jewish representative organizations in Australia refuse to represent this diversity of opinion between Jews and have become explicit Israel lobby groups.

The Israel lobby’s conflation of these types of incidents has meant that claims of antisemitism are being exploited to stifle legitimate criticism of Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

The history and concept of antisemitism risks becoming confused and devalued amid a very real fight worldwide against genuine anti-Jewish racism and an increase in fascist activity. It will lead to real instances of antisemitism being dismissed.

The history and concept of antisemitism risks becoming confused and devalued amid a very real fight worldwide against genuine anti-Jewish racism and an increase in fascist activity. It will lead to real instances of antisemitism being dismissed.

Source: As Jews, we do not accept that criticism of Israel’s government is antisemitic

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Pro-Israel bias grips CNN | The Electronic Intifada

CNN town hall stage

Israeli spokespeople get a few days or a week to make their case and establish the narrative. Then some Palestinian guests are invited on so that the network can make a nod towards balance.

This time has been the worst to date.

The moral outrage from anchors voiced about 7 October is not routinely brought to bear for the horrors confronting Palestinians for well over 100 days. Nor is there any significant awareness from CNN domestic anchors that the conflict did not begin on 7 October but that Palestinians have been suffering from Israeli violence and forced dispossession for over 75 years.

I do not expect Dana Bash to invite back Mayor Hammoud of Dearborn – or anyone else – for a substantive discussion of Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies. It is, however, long overdue, and her anti-Palestinian bias is part and parcel of the hate gripping media and inspiring anti-Palestinian sentiment in the US.

Shortly after Bash’s interview, an inflammatory op-ed in The Wall Street Journal labeled Dearborn as “America’s jihad capital.”

Source: Pro-Israel bias grips CNN | The Electronic Intifada

Israel, Israel Crimes

Starting over with nothing in Egypt | The Electronic Intifada

People crowd a window at a passport terminal

Australia’s ALP Government is in favor of People Smuggling

Thousands of families in Gaza have evacuated to Egypt, mostly dual nationals, but also those who could manage the necessary money for bribes to border officials.

Source: Starting over with nothing in Egypt | The Electronic Intifada

Israel, Israel Crimes

U.S. Officials Acknowledge Moral Issues at Stake in Gaza

Given the extent of the destruction of Gaza, many lower-level U.S. officials have come to question U.S. policy, fearing that it has been a moral failure. Hundreds have formally protested U.S. actions to the Biden administration, with some even resigning their positions.

Source: U.S. Officials Acknowledge Moral Issues at Stake in Gaza

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Missing 6-Year-Old Gaza Girl Hind Rajab Found Dead With Massacred Family, Rescue Workers

6-year-old Hind Rajab in graduation attire

The Israel Defense Forces said it was “looking into” the incident.

Nothing more will be heard about what happened hear other than “they were Hamas

Rajab drew worldwide attention following the publication of her desperate plea for help as she sat surrounded by relatives slain by Israeli troops. Two paramedics sent to rescue the child were also killed by Israeli forces.

Source: Missing 6-Year-Old Gaza Girl Hind Rajab Found Dead With Massacred Family, Rescue Workers

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American Interests- Israel’s Right-Wing Rewards
Israel

Pro-Israel DMFI Backs Conservative Democrat Tom Suozzi

Tom Suozzi NY-03

This war runs deep and Gazans simply don’t have the money or weapons that have been donated to Israel. The question will the money be enough to beat the hearts and minds of the electorate or even one scammer SUOZZI another politician simply bought in exchange for another Santos

A pro-Israel group closely aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is putting tens of thousands of dollars into Tom Suozzi’s race to win back his old seat in Congress.

The political action committee of Democratic Majority for Israel has spent $40,000Opens in a new tab on Suozzi’s campaign, mostly on ads, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Suozzi is running in a February 13 special election to fill the House seat in New York’s 3rd Congressional District vacated by former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., who was expelled from Congress after receiving a federal indictment for fraud and money laundering.

Source: Pro-Israel DMFI Backs Conservative Democrat Tom Suozzi

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Old Dog Thought When the meaning of Mensch became Israeli for Traitor. The State tried to sew this teacher’s lips shut

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Australia's pride

Australia ranks 7th globally on data breaches. What’s the Scam? – Michael West

Surfshark, data breaches

Australia is the 7th most breached nation globally in 2023, according to Surfshark’s global data breach statistics recap.

Source: Australia ranks 7th globally on data breaches. What’s the Scam? – Michael West

Informed Comment

What will the conservatives campaign on at the next election? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Strangely, conservatives have never realised that kids from low socioeconomic backgrounds are our most untapped source of potential growth. They are the most undervalued resource.

Source: What will the conservatives campaign on at the next election? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

When Times Were Better: Victoria’s Ties with Israel’s Defence Industry – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Given the federal government’s brusque termination of previous agreements entered into by Victoria with purportedly undesirable entities, the Albanese government has a useful precedent. With legal proceedings underway in the International Court of Justice in The Hague seeking to determine whether genocide is taking place in Gaza, along with an interim order warning Israel to abide by the UN Genocide Convention, a sound justification has presented itself. Complicity with genocide – actual, potential or as yet unassessed by a court – can hardly be in Canberra’s interest. Over to you, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Source: When Times Were Better: Victoria’s Ties with Israel’s Defence Industry – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Chris Hedges: Let Them Eat Dirt

“UNRWA’s role in documenting the genocide, as well as providing food and aid to the Palestinians, infuriates the Israeli government.”

“Israel has given the Palestinians in Gaza two choices. Leave or die.”

Source: Chris Hedges: Let Them Eat Dirt

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Israel’s dignity will be damaged, Hamas will be crowned winner, but the war will end – Pearls and Irritations

map - destination: Israel

Israel’s leadership isn’t about the wisest course of action it’s about material goals to be achieved.  It’s about control over Gaza and its gas fields. Everything we have seen is a cheap investment for Israel”arms for nothing and land for free for the future return. Even the public relations battle later will be relatively nothing compared with the years of wealth to be had. The precedents for their methods have been set in the historical record. You take as much as possible and return as little as required. Israel has the cultural capital to remain the West’s favorite actor because their supporters would need to admit they’ve been scammed all these 100 years. Far from it if one adds the Ben Gurion Canal to the strategic mix The US and UK have been well and truly co-conspirators in the race to dominate World Trade routes over China. This war is for Gaza’s land, gas and devaluation of the Suez Canal

The wisest course of action that Israel should have taken a long time ago was to voluntarily release the security prisoners as a gesture and not just as a concession in negotiations. But there is no chance of that happening – it is too smart. Freeing 1,500 prisoners, as Hamas is asking, is neither a disaster nor is it painful. It will bring the hostages home. Disaster and pain will only result if they are not rescued.Nor would it be a disaster or painful to bring an end to this cursed war, during which Israel lost its humanity without achieving its goals from the indiscriminate killing and destruction, the likes of which have only been seen in the most brutal of wars.

Source: Israel’s dignity will be damaged, Hamas will be crowned winner, but the war will end – Pearls and Irritations

Israel, Israel Crimes

Israeli Plan to Evacuate Rafah by Force Sparks Warnings of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

Palestinian children in rafah

How the West was spun,

One Palestinian human rights group called Israel’s evacuation orders “a pretext to push Gaza’s population closer to the border with Egypt in preparation for their mass deportation.”

Source: Israeli Plan to Evacuate Rafah by Force Sparks Warnings of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

Israel

The dangers of Zionism behind closed doors

 

Campaigning in private by pro-Zionist parties against Palestinian supporters has intended public outcomes and must be addressed urgently, writes Tom Tanuki.

Source: The dangers of Zionism behind closed doors

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Inside Gaza: From Paradise to Rubble

Gaza’s destruction was a political act. Jacobin spoke to Palestinian refugees about the vibrant, beautiful Gaza they remember and how Israel brought their homeland to ruin.

Source: Inside Gaza: From Paradise to Rubble

Israel

Israel-Gaza war: why did the ceasefire negotiations collapse – and can they be revived?

Though Netanyahu has rejected the ICJ’s ruling, he needs to take account of the views of his Western supporters who place high value on the role of the court.

Source: Israel-Gaza war: why did the ceasefire negotiations collapse – and can they be revived?

Israel

Israel Does Not Speak for Jews Like Us – ScheerPost

Steve Wasserman via Heyday Books. Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube / Rumble

Amid the ongoing destruction of Gaza and the slaughter of Palestinians, the identity and authenticity of Jewish people calling into question the actions of Israel are being tarnished. A greater discussion of what it means to be Jewish, what it means to have a Jewish state, and what Judaism has historically taught people is taking place among Jews around the world.

Source: Israel Does Not Speak for Jews Like Us – ScheerPost

Israel

Systemic Journalistic Malpractice: How Western Journalism Failed in covering Gaza

In this case, when Israel, the ally of the US and the West in the Middle East commits war crimes, editors at the big media corporations seem to feel that their job is to paper over these atrocities to protect an ally. Let’s not forget that old video showing President Joe Biden proclaiming in the Senate “[Israel] is the best 3 billion dollar investment [the United States] made…were there not an Israel, the United States would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region (Middle East).”

Source: Systemic Journalistic Malpractice: How Western Journalism Failed in covering Gaza

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Planned BBC smear on UK Palestinians will rely on Israeli spy source | The Electronic Intifada

A man with glasses interviewing someone

Citing Israeli “terror” allegations, the BBC plans to broadcast an attack on prominent British Palestinians in a television program presented by pro-Israel reporter John Ware.

The Electronic Intifada has learned that the episode of Panorama is likely to be based partly on “confidential evidence” which has almost certainly been provided by Israeli spies.

The BBC and Panorama declined to comment when asked a series of detailed questions about the forthcoming program.

Source: Planned BBC smear on UK Palestinians will rely on Israeli spy source | The Electronic Intifada

Israel

Deconstructed Podcast: No University Left Standing in Gaza

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Germany only burnt books,  Israel Destroys Culture

Dr. Ahmed Alhussaina of Israa University joins Natasha Lennard to discuss Israel’s attacks on academic life in Gaza.

Source: Deconstructed Podcast: No University Left Standing in Gaza

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Old Dog Thought All Jews aren’t Zionists All Israelis aren’t Jews. Protesting Israeli and/or Jewish Zionism isn’t antisemitism it’s antizionism

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Scourge of Democracy. Senate Inquiry into Lobbying is upon us; get your submissions in now! – Michael West

Political lobbying

Richard Barnes reports..

Lobbying is the scourge of the Australian body politic. Described by the eminent retired public servant and publisher John Menadue as “pervasive and insidious” and here at Michael West Media as a toxic and powerful influence over democracy, it is now coming under political purview via an inquiry by the Senate into lobbyist access to Parliament House. 

Source: Scourge of Democracy. Senate Inquiry into Lobbying is upon us; get your submissions in now! – Michael West

USA

A nuclear armed Rogue State is threatening Asian peace and stability – Pearls and Irritations

US grunge flag. American national symbol. USA old grungy texture. Vector illustration. Image: iStock/Victor Metelskiy

Instead of abiding by recognised International Laws the US has created a new rule book that no one has ever seen called a “Rules Based Order”. Through this unwritten, undefined system of unknown rules, the USA allows itself to be an aggressor, it allows for its own actions to go unpunished while at the same time, calls for other nations to be held accountable under the International laws it has placed itself above.

Source: A nuclear armed Rogue State is threatening Asian peace and stability – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

God’s people and colonialism – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It seems that not a lot has been learned when we view the ongoing crisis in Palestine/Israel, where since the late 19th Century Zionists have sought to colonise, take back the land promised to Abraham by God in the book of Genesis. Since 1948 the explosion of the Palestinian peoples has been an ongoing activity, culminating in what we currently see, the devastation of Gaza and the perpetual dehumanisation of those living on the West Bank, with the rhetoric from the Israeli Prime Minister quoting Biblical calls to destroy the Amalekites (Exodus 17:8-15) for the annihilation of Palestinians.

It really does seem that the laws, you shall not kill, you shall not steal only apply to those who are ‘God’s People.’

Source: God’s people and colonialism – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel, Israel Crimes

Jeremy Scahill: Israel Has Waged a “Deliberate Propaganda Campaign” to Justify Brutal Gaza Assault

UNRWA are just the latest example of what journalist Jeremy Scahill says is a “deliberate propaganda campaign” to justify its brutal assault on Gaza. “This is one of the most epic frauds in modern history, reminiscent of the lies told to explain and justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq,” says Scahill, senior reporter and correspondent at The Intercept.

https://democracynow.cachefly.net/democracynow/360/dn2024-0207.mp4?start=2517.0

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Palestinian Aid Worker Describes 18-Day Siege Inside Gaza Hospital

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Australia’s shame is supporting this insanity while acting against Ben Roberts-Smith. It defies logic or any excuses that might be made. War crimes are war crimes but not so it seems where foreign policy is concerned. VC winner justifiably lost his award for killing the innocent and Australia justifiably applauded. We are now supporting the mass killing of innocents and are applauding

Israeli forces have surrounded Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis for more than two weeks, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis.

Source: Palestinian Aid Worker Describes 18-Day Siege Inside Gaza Hospital

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‘We try every day to escape’: Palestinians struggle to afford Gaza exit fees

Palestinians with foreign passports leave Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah Crossing, southern Gaza Strip, February 6, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

In supporting Israel Australia is supporting People Smugglers there are enormous hypocrisy in that

With private brokers charging thousands of dollars to coordinate passage through Rafah Crossing, most Gazans are being priced out of safety.

Source: ‘We try every day to escape’: Palestinians struggle to afford Gaza exit fees

Israel, Israel Crimes

John Pilger and Ilan Pape are still Relevant today
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Old Dog Thought- Aussie moral high ground.Dumping Ben Roberts-Smith who’d be a hero in Israel.

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Australia's Shame

War criminal Ben Roberts-Smith thrown under a bus by Kerry Stokes and his own barrister Bret Walker SCKangaroo Court of Australia

Israelis can’t understand what he did wrong. It’s just beyond them

It’s a failed strategy that Kerry Stokes, who is paying Roberts-Smith’s legal fees, used in the infamous C7 case he lost in 2009 and Kerry Stokes would know that Roberts-Smith’s chances of winning the appeal are Buckley’s or none.

Source: War criminal Ben Roberts-Smith thrown under a bus by Kerry Stokes and his own barrister Bret Walker SCKangaroo Court of Australia

Media

Study Finds Media Giants NY Times, CNN and Fox News Pushing for US War in Yemen – ScheerPost

Therefore, the results of this study, while shocking, should not be surprising, given this context. Through examining the coverage of Yemen in four leading U.S. outlets, it is clear that corporate media are failing to inform the public of many of the basic realities of who Ansar Allah is, why they are carrying out their campaign, and what it would take to end the hostilities, they are perpetuating this war, and therefore are every bit as responsible as the politicians and military commanders who keep the bloodshed going.

Source: Study Finds Media Giants NY Times, CNN and Fox News Pushing for US War in Yemen – ScheerPost

Israel

Israeli Groups Demand Gaza Cease-Fire as Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Deal

Families of Israeli hostages carry photos and banners marching to Netanyahu's residence

The Hannibal Directive is in Play fuck the Hostages. Netanyahu has simply ignored the relatives.

“There is a deal on the table: Free the hostages, end the war. But Israel won’t take it,” said the U.S. Jewish-led group IfNotNow on social media. “Every day without a cease-fire means death for hundreds of civilians, starvation for millions, and safety for nobody. It has to stop. Biden MUST use his leverage to end the bloodshed.”

Source: Israeli Groups Demand Gaza Cease-Fire as Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Deal

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Police debunk Pro-Israel NSW premier’s false “Gas the Jews” claim – Pearls and Irritations

Debunked rubber stamp.

It’s not a mistake it’s a common theme a template of how Israel’s propaganda works. They desperately need to maintain their narrative in order to achieve their goals before the world  (America) says enough. Then having taken a mile they’ll return an inch but never without bargaining. 50 % of Israel’s economy is military and Diamond-related. BDS Israel the Antisemitic Semite Zionists who in the main are really European Jews

A lie travels around the world before the truth puts on its boots. 120 days since the Australian Jewish Association AJA, alleged pro-Palestine, antiwar protesters chanted “Gas the Jews”, the truth arrives with boots and all.

The NSW Police investigation into the chant “Gas the Jews” has now delivered their conclusive findings that there is no evidence that it was said. The lie that “Gas the Jews” was chanted by the pro-Palestine protesters at the Opera House on October the 9th 2023, was let fly by AJA without inhibition. They posted a subtitled video, alleging that a ‘Muslim mob of hundreds” had chanted, “Gas the Jews”. The protest organisers rejected this allegation.

Source: Police debunk Pro-Israel NSW premier’s false “Gas the Jews” claim – Pearls and Irritations

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Thomas Friedman and Journalism’s Red Lines on Israel–Palestine

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 06: Thomas L. Friedman, Author and Columnist, The New York Times leads a Task Force session during 2019 New York Times Dealbook on November 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times)

Many people are unhappy about some recent pensées from New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, headlined “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal KingdomOpens in a new tab.” Friedman explains that “Iran is to geopolitics what a recently discovered species of parasitoid wasp is to nature.” He informs us that Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq are like caterpillars in which this wasp lays its eggs, and those eggs are the “Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas and Kataib Hezbollah.”

This is imperialistic blather straight out of the 19th century, except horribly written — imagine Rudyard Kipling after an anvil fell on his head. But the column is useful because it reconnects us to a 1982 incident that illustrates how, when it comes to the Middle East and Israel, the management of the Times has sometimes been to the right of Friedman.

The same thing is true for the Times itself. Somehow it is simultaneously the worst and best newspaper on earth. On the one hand, it runs crimes against human cognition about the insects living in the Middle East. On the other hand, it also regularly produces brilliant investigative reporting, sometimes even about IsraelOpens in a new tab. 

This complexity is extremely cold comfort for the people who are brutalized by the U.S. and its allies. Nonetheless, it’s important to comprehend if we’re trying to understand reality — something we should want to do, no matter how difficult and frustrating it can be.

 

Source: Thomas Friedman and Journalism’s Red Lines on Israel–Palestine

Israel

The Hasbara cover for Israel’s crimes: FLASHBACK 2012

According to the ubiquitous Hasbara Brigade, if you criticise Israel, you’re an anti-Semite — and if you’re Jewish, you become a “self-hater”.

In this article from 2012, Dr Evan Jones looked at how apologists for Israel invoke the spectre of the Holocaust to deflect criticism of its actions in Palestine.

Source: The Hasbara cover for Israel’s crimes: FLASHBACK 2012

HAVE THE Israelites reached the Promised Land yet? Long in preparation, Operation Pillar of Cloud has followed Operation Cast Lead as the latest episode of the Israeli pastime of shooting Arab fish in a barrel, or rather in the world’s largest open-air prison. Iran is presently in the too-hard basket. Israel’s military and political “strategists” evidently know their Old Testament, even if their intelligence and humanity are seriously deficient.

But no worries. The Hasbara Brigade is ready to spring into action 24/7. Pencils are still sharp from the victory after Operation Cast Lead in converting the laboratory experiment with white phosphorus into a triumph of good over evil. On cue, courtesy of a media whose collective masthead is “Might is Right” (with marginal concessions to dissenters from the official script).

Israel

War on Gaza: What is Next after Genocide?

The unchallengeable truth coming out of Gaza speaks of daily planned bloodbath of the civilian population and forced displacement of 1.9 millions to make Gaza another occupied entity of Israel facilitating futuristic exploration of gas and oil in the Mediterranean region favoring Israel and the US interests. Is Israel attacking Gaza for oil and gas? There are reportedly huge gas and oil fields in Gaza and West Bank, reports Muhdan Saglam. Media reports disclose Israeli strategic plans to change the geography by creating another canal from Gulf Of Aqaba to undo the Suez Canal impacting Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan accessibility to the Red Sea.

Source: War on Gaza: What is Next after Genocide?

Israel

Israel rejects truce, Hamas says Netanyahu set on genocide

Netanyahu dismissed the pleas of the hostage relatives begging him to let the hostages he hasn’t killed so far to come home

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday dismissed Hamas’s demand for a ceasefire and ordered troops to prepare to move on the city of Rafah in Gaza’s far south, where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge.

Source: Israel rejects truce, Hamas says Netanyahu set on genocide

Israel, Israel Crimes

Israel isn’t Complying with the International Court of Justice Ruling – What Happens Next?

Gazans are now eating grass and drinking polluted water to stave off death. By choosing not to resume its financial support for UNRWA during this pivotal time, Canada is intensifying its complicity in potential genocidal acts.

It’s time to reinforce, not weaken the UNRWA. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged governments to resume funding, otherwise UNRWA will be forced to shut down operations by the end of February — not only in Gaza, but across the region.

Source: Israel isn’t Complying with the International Court of Justice Ruling – What Happens Next?

Israel, Israel Crimes

EU lawmakers fail to declare freebies from Israel lobby | The Electronic Intifada

Pledge to end foreign interference proves hollow.

The Israel Lobby in action in the EU revealed. The conspiracy in clear sight. Israel has the funds to pull every trick in the book. This was never going to be an equal fight just a moral one Hames knew they couldn’t win. However, suprisingly they now know they will go down in history as if they did

Source: EU lawmakers fail to declare freebies from Israel lobby | The Electronic Intifada

Israel

IDF troops filmed ‘cheering Gaza destruction’ – NYT — RT World News

IDF troops filmed ‘cheering Gaza destruction’ – NYT

Hundreds of videos filmed and shared by Israeli soldiers in Gaza show troops bulldozing houses and mocking Palestinian victims, according to research by the New York Times. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has distanced itself from the content, some of which violates its code of conduct.

The NYT said it reviewed hundreds of videos, including more than 50 clips of Israeli engineering troops using bulldozers, excavators, and explosives to destroy homes, schools, and other civilian structures. Some footage reportedly shows soldiers “vandalizing local shops and school classrooms” and “making derogatory comments about Palestinians.”

Source: IDF troops filmed ‘cheering Gaza destruction’ – NYT — RT World News

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Israel Kills Civilians in Syria; Rejects Gaza Peace Deal

Israel has its ambitions fixed on Greater Palestine which includes more of Syria Lebanon and Jordan.

Israel launched missile attacks on Homs and surrounding areas in Syria in the early morning of Wednesday, killing scores of civilians and destroying significant civilian infrastructure hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Tel Aviv.

Source: Israel Kills Civilians in Syria; Rejects Gaza Peace Deal

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Old Dog Thought – The Israeli Circus entitled to what it wants to these antisemite semites!!

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Australia's Shame

Governments must act faster and listen to Productivity Commission recommendations to Close the Gap and tackle Aboriginal homelessness – » The Australian Independent Media Network

“The Productivity Commission’s report is a wake-up call for all levels of government. We cannot afford to let Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander homelessness continue to rise. The governments must prioritise and implement the necessary measures to address this crisis.”

Source: Governments must act faster and listen to Productivity Commission recommendations to Close the Gap and tackle Aboriginal homelessness – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Truth in Humor

Peter Dutton’s Unequivocal Position! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Now, I know that some of you are thinking that – after the years from Abbott to Morrison – it’d be a much bigger shock to find that there wasn’t a liar in the Lodge, but that’s not what I’m finding so perplexing about the latest attempt by the Coalition to gain some political traction.

Source: Peter Dutton’s Unequivocal Position! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

The Dangers of Complicity: The US Courts, Gaza and Genocide – » The Australian Independent Media Network

To date, the slaughter in Gaza continues. Israeli politicians and military officials persist in claiming that murderously innovative approaches to killing Palestinian civilians are not, by definition, genocidal. But the walls of justifiable impunity, so proudly claimed by Israel in its righteous mission of self-defence, are proving increasingly porous.

Source: The Dangers of Complicity: The US Courts, Gaza and Genocide – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Media

White House Falsely Says It Warned Iraq of Impending Airstrikes

White House Press Press Briefing By Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre And NSC John Kirby

Who’s learning from who? Israel off America or America off Israel in Media releases?

The National Security Council walked back White House spokesperson John Kirby’s statement last week that Iraq had advance notice of the strikes.

Source: White House Falsely Says It Warned Iraq of Impending Airstrikes

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The Confessions of Thomas Friedman – CounterPunch.org

Let TF ask what is it that has enabled Gazans and the Houthis to make the world turn on a time; what is it that is exposing Israel’s narrative of victimhood for the farce that it is; and why have peoples across the world been mounting daily protests against Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians.

Let him also ask why the United States is so openly, brazenly funding and arming the perpetrator of a genocidal war when it should be working very hard to play down its history of war-mongering against the Global South. Can an America that bombs compete with a China that builds?

What is this ‘dangerous moment?’

Is it the discovery by CIA of a Chinese plan to lay siege to Taiwan, Russian forces advancing on the capital of Ukraine, or thousands of Iranian attack boats blockading the Straits of Hormuz? It’s none of these.

Instead, this ‘dangerous moment’ is the result of actions emanating from a tiny sliver of land no larger than the smaller cities in the United States, whose impoverished population of 2.3 million Palestinians has lived in an open-air prison since 2007, and regularly subjected to carpet bombing by Israel, America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East. It is Gaza that has Thomas Friedman (TF) running scared.

What is it about the human spirit (note to self: Palestinians are human, not ‘human animals’) that compels a weak, ethnically cleansed, terrorized people to resist the might and power of the world’s most ‘civilized’ and powerful nation?

Yes, TF admits obliquely that it is an act of resistance by Gazans that now disturbs the USA, Israel and their Western accomplices.

Until the morning of October 7, 2023, the USA, Israel, and their Arab protectorates were blithely convinced that the ‘juggernaut’ of the so-called Abraham Accords would bury the Palestinians forever.

Yet, after nearly four months of the most destructive bombing in recent history, the esteemed NYT columnist is forced to acknowledge that Gaza “is forcing a fundamental rethinking about the Middle East within the Biden administration.” Is the human spirit still capable of such miracles?

Source: The Confessions of Thomas Friedman – CounterPunch.org

Media

Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism – Pearls and Irritations

Relationship between Israel and Palestine. Media 3D illustration

In this moment of overwhelming barbarity, journalists of colour like me are whiplashed by the the monumental amorality of the newsrooms that we are told to look up to. The least Western journalists, with their significant power, could do at this moment is demand a permanent ceasefire and spare us yet another instalment of coloniser’s journalism.

Source: Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Palestinians abused, forced to chant anti-Hamas slogans in ‘safe corridor’

Palestinians flee Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

He then told us that in order to be allowed to pass through the checkpoint unharmed, we had to chant slogans against the resistance: “The people want the overthrow of Hamas,” and “God is sufficient for us, and he is the best disposer of affairs against Hamas and the Qassam Brigades” (appropriating a line from the Qur’an). The officer insisted on the repetition of these slogans; only after more than 45 minutes did the soldiers permit women and children to pass, while men were kept behind.

He then told us that in order to be allowed to pass through the checkpoint unharmed, we had to chant slogans against the resistance: “The people want the overthrow of Hamas,” and “God is sufficient for us, and he is the best disposer of affairs against Hamas and the Qassam Brigades” (appropriating a line from the Qur’an). The officer insisted on the repetition of these slogans; only after more than 45 minutes did the soldiers permit women and children to pass, while men were kept behind.

Qdeih emphasizes that many of the people repeated the slogans merely to comply with the soldiers and safely cross the checkpoint. “Our hearts are with the resistance in all its actions, and with the steadfastness on the ground, despite being displaced from one place to another,” she added.

“Several days ago, tanks bombed the UNRWA Training College, which was very close to where we were staying,” Bakr continued. “We saw the tents of other displaced people burning, people screaming because of injuries, and people who were killed. It was a shock to us. A safe area is suddenly transformed into a war zone; they were not told to evacuate. 

Habib reported that between Jan. 21-Feb. 1, the hospital received approximately 157 martyrs and 450 wounded people, while many more dead and wounded are lying on the streets out of the reach of ambulance crews who are being targeted by the Israeli army if they leave the hospital.

Source: Palestinians abused, forced to chant anti-Hamas slogans in ‘safe corridor’