The consequence of neutering the ABC and allowing the consolidation of private media has resulted in the media chaos we now experiencing. Privatization has been sold as the big dream but it has only resulted in Oligarchs, a Plutocracy, and a concentration of interests that doesn’t allow diversification to thrive or a political party to serve all citizens the best.
Australia can’t be a functioning democracy unless voters understand policy platforms on offer and the stakes. Unless we properly control dis- and misinformation in the civic space, we have little chance to vote well. Albanese must find a backbone for his own sake as well as the nation’s.
I knew the gas cartel had been too quiet for too long. Something had to be brewing, and what a doozy it was.
Unique in the world for energy producers, the east coast of Australia has no domestic reservation regime for its gas reserves.
Even now, amid a spaghetti bowl of regulation and price controls, there is still no effective domestic reservation.
Over the past decade, this has allowed China-beholden foreign capital to create a gas export cartel that has:
- delivered the east coast economy perpetual gas and electricity price shocks;
- hollowed-out industry;
- derailed decarbonisation;
- ripped hundreds of billions of out of the economy;
- built cheap China weapons while robbing us of the capacity to build our own;
- forced Aussie households and businesses to subsidise pan-Asian households and businesses;
- cost five prime ministers their jobs, and
- delivered a completely unnecessary inflation shock that is destabilising a sixth.
It’s not like it doesn’t matter or anything. Yet nobody cares, and the mainstream media never writes about it.
As AusSuper plays chicken with Brookfield’s $20b bid for Origin Energy, Origin is quietly putting the chokehold on gas imports too
Source: ‘Gas cartel shoots Australia in the head’ – Origin to control imports too – Michael West
This is certainly the case in Australia, where education is less a pursuit of knowledge as the acquiring of a commodity, laid out spam for so much return. On that vast island continent, the university, dominated by a largely semi-literate and utterly unaccountable management, is a place where secrets are buried, concealed with a gleeful dedication verging on mania.
Source: The militarised university: Where secrecy goes to thrive
If we think it didn’t and isn’t happening here. If Christo-Fascism isn’t here then why is Black Arm Band History seen as dangerous? Why was John Howard cosying up with Australian Christian cults? Scott Morrison and 9 Pentecostalism formed part of the LNP government, and Why was the battle for a Degree in Western Culture deemed so important? Tony Abbott turned education from a system for gaining knowledge into a specialist recruitment and training degree at the tertiary level and an Assimilation program at at primary and secondary levels just as America continues to do
The key to understanding the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation is that it’s not merely about Western civilisation but in favour of it. The fact that it is ‘for’ the cultural inheritance of countries such as ours, rather than just interested in it, makes it distinctive. The fact that respect for our heritage has largely been absent for at least a generation in our premier teaching and academic institutions makes the Ramsay Centre not just timely but necessary. – Former prime minister Tony Abbott, in Quadrant, May 2018
The U.S. Constitution is under attack. Christo-fascists are trying to turn a secular document into a religious proclamation. They want their Jesus back in public schools, prayer before classes, and the Ten Commandments plastered on all four walls with End Times nonsense whispered into the ear of every student in the land. Politicians are finding methods like school vouchers to get tax money into church coffers and drive development of Christian schools, diminishing the viability of public education, and the banning of books they find offensive. Numerous guaranteed rights in the founding document are being quickly abandoned for purposes of political expediency.
And no place is working harder to undo the law than Texas.
Israel’s propaganda team proves themselves to be not just fraudsters but real failures at what they do. Their military snipers are free to kill people leaving the hospital yet they order people to evacuate assuming terrorists won’t? On one particular video tour lights, camera, and action, a military spokesperson points to the evidence that the hospital was a terrorist hive, a list of terrorist names on a wall, that happens not to be names at all but an everyday Arabic Calendar. All this performance to justify their destruction and mitigate their killing of babies and critically ill patients by cutting the power to the hospital. Then demanding the evacuation of everybody under the threat of death expecting the terrorists will stay. All theater of the absurd
Israel’s history has been one of lying to its citizens, its allies, and the world and it continues lying by spending as much on media control of the narrative as they do on weaponry.
The Israeli Defence Force has released “proof” that Hamas was using Gaza’s main hospital as a command centre after raiding the compound.
Source: Israel releases ‘proof’ of ‘terror’ HQ at Al Shifa hospital
Every time Israel tries to prove their point they have failed miserably.
In fact, when the history of supposedly damning revelations about Shifa hospital providing cover for Hamas military activities are examined more carefully it becomes clear that it has been no more than a thinly veiled excuse for the IDF to attack and close down Gaza’s most important provider of medical care for the population of Gaza.
The time has come for a reckoning on the long-running IDF propaganda ploy of claiming that Shifa has been used to hide Hamas’s command center.
Unless the IDF can show journalists convincing evidence of that long-claimed Hamas command presence under the hospital, the should stand for the truth and denounce that massive Israeli deception about Gaza.
My father was Jewish, my mother is on the wall of the righteous meanwhile Murdoch media gives Carte Blanche to talking heads like Andrew Bolt whose family origins are from the notorious Nazi town of Aalsmeer in Holland who are weaponizing anti-Semitism to combat Humanism. Bolt even lies about his Education. His CV in order to boost his plausibility to the less educated while HR at Murdoch Media rubber stamps a fake as they have no space for genuine news delivered by a real person
The Israeli media has been interpreting the October 7 attack as ‘reaching Holocaust levels’, or as ‘an equivalent of the 9-11 attack in the US’: and in an atmosphere of fear and anger, Israeli citizens are said to perceive the Hamas slaughter as a threat to the country’s existence. In Australia, to defend Israel, to stifle critics of the bombing of Gaza, and to follow Prime Minister Netanyahu’s polarisation of choices between good and evil, between civilisation or barbarism, between a powerful law-abiding country or Hamas terrorists, charges of anti-Semitism are being weaponised.
Source: ‘The Australian’ weaponises anti-Semitism – Pearls and Irritations
It’s time to stop abuse of the word antisemitism.
Source: Serial Abuse of ‘Antisemitism’ Destroys Meaning, Harms Jews – CounterPunch.org
If a Jew raises these issues in the contemporary setting of the war, then the libel and slander of antisemite and self-hating Jew will closely follow. The dogs and masters of war have even turned against the Jewish ideas of repairing the world and not doing to others what a person does not want done to them. It’s not antiwar Jews who need a huge mirror held above our collective selves, but the Zionists and warmongers who need that mirror handed over to them. Their ugliness and hate in that reflection and on the ground are apparent and blinding.
Source: The Long View of Palestine, Israel and War – CounterPunch.org
The Final Solution Let Israelis’s leave Israel
Moreover, open immigration of Israelis to these countries should be instituted, such that any of them who desires to can emigrate from Israel and make a new home. Special programs should be set up to offer them job training and integration into local communities.
One poll this summer found that nearly a third of Israelis wish to emigrate, in part over pessimism about the country given the extremist governments attempts to gut the Supreme Court. The number could be higher today.
Of Israel’s 7 million Jews, at any one time about a million of them are living abroad. Whether because their visas run out or because their jobs were downsized, or out of homesickness, most of them ultimately used to return to Israel. But now a recent poll finds that half of the current generation living abroad, some 500,000 people, have no plans to return.
Britain, it caused the whole problem of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute with its double-dealing during World War I and its asinine Balfour Declaration that promised Jews a homeland in Palestine while promising that the Palestinians would not be disadvantaged by it. Now that the horrid Suella Braverman is gone, maybe the UK can adopt a saner immigration policy. And part of it should be free immigration of Israelis.
Since there are really only 6 million Israeli Jews left in Israel, if each of the major North Atlantic countries just took in half a million, they could all flee the unpleasantness of drones, rockets, and terror attacks, and the even greater trauma of being ruled by far right extremists Binyamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir. In this way, the Europeans wouldn’t even have to admit the traumatized, ethnically cleansed Palestinians of Gaza, who could finally go back to their homes in southern Israel, from which their families were expelled in 1948.
Source: Shocking Restrictions on Israeli Immigration to West should be Lifted, Since 1/3 wish to Emigrate
A new generation of people have now been drawn by the mass struggles not only into pro-Palestine activity, but into anti-war – if not anti-imperialist – consciousness.
A new section of activists – particularly trade unionists – has been inspired to stop the shipment of goods to and from Israel.
An entire political process has begun on the basis of the hypocrisy of the Western-led “rules-based international order” to demand that the International Criminal Court indict Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other high officials of the Israeli government.
Source: Mistrust of West defines Global South attitudes to Palestine | The Electronic Intifada
At the very bottom of a new index ranking 74 countries adhering to the UN Charter is the United States, with Israel being the second from the bottom. Both countries are frequently at odds with the UN multilateral system. The US needs to recognise that the UN system, operating under the UN Charter, is the true “rule-based international order.”
Source: US ranks last on adherence to UN Charter – Pearls and Irritations
Peter Dutton seems panicked because he is. All 83 persons released were put in detention by the LNP and he did nothing about the possibility of this High Court Decision while Minister. Both Peter Dutton and Kevin Andrews are vying for the position of the most incompetent Immigration Ministers in history. Both were Dumb but who was dumber? It seems Dutton takes the medal and the quadrella. Health, Defence,Immigration and Home Affairs.
Peter Dutton says parliament should keep sitting until legislation is passed to address the High Court decision that has led to the release of 83 people from immigration detention, among them criminals.
The news will no longer inform you, it will simply be a tool that politicians like Dutton utilise to amplify their latest lie or their latest culture war head-on-a-stick, so our hearts and minds and our neighbourhoods become divided every moment of every day.
Source: The lying game: Australia’s political landscape to come – The Shot
Financed by who? Does he really represent the majority of Jews 70% of Israelis want Netanyahu sacked?
Why do they never quote what Israel’s leadership is actually saying domestically?
Keeping foreign minister Bob Carr in check, “watching” journalists at the ABC, lobbying prime ministers. Mark Leibler has a few tricks up his sleeve when it comes to power and influence. Jommy Tee and Michael West reveal the master lobbyist’s playbook in his own words.
Mark Leibler is the tax lawyer, Australian Jewish community leader and staunch Israel defender behind the initiative to get six former Australian prime ministers to sign a letter in favour of Israel in Gaza. Paul Keating, the notable living exception to this line of signatories, famously outed Leibler as the man behind the strategy.
Leibler has been an influential player in Australian politics for decades, a Zionist community leader with the ear of successive prime ministers and media chiefs.
On Monday night’s Q+A program on the ABC, Leibler – in his role as chairman of the Australia Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) – was involved in a tense debate on Israel and Gaza, which has reverberated on social media since. Much of the criticism centred around what many viewers believed was preferential treatment given to Leibler by host Patricia Karvelas over the UN and Palestinian representatives on the show.
Biden’s support for the terror bombing of Gaza continues his long history as a steadfast supporter of Israel’s greatest crimes.
Source: Biden’s Legacy Should Be Forever Haunted by Names of Gaza’s Dead
On October 7, when Hamas prosecuted its unholy massacre it did more than slaughter human victims. It punctured as well Israel’s image as a sophisticatedly armed, righteous military power that over the years the world has come to share.
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I grieve for the people of Israel and Palestine, both of whom are being abused and terrorized by their own governments and leadership. Hamas is not a legitimate government, and is not Islam. Zionism is not Judaism. Hamas and the Israeli government have used their own people’s lives as pawns in a gross political game. By razing Gaza as badly as Dresden in WWII, the Israeli government quickly burned through any diplomatic and global sympathy it had gained from the Hamas murders of 1,200 innocent Israelis and kidnapping 240 more.
Source: Confessions of an Ex-Zionist: My Judaism will not stand for the Mass Slaughter in Gaza
Israel is meting out lethal collective punishment in Gaza and floating plans of ethnic cleansing to try to restore its security. But peace will not be won without democracy for Palestinians.
Source: Israel Can’t Win Peace Militarily. Palestinian Democracy Is the Solution.
The task before us is one of restoration. It is to take language back, to renew its life, to wrest it from the deadening influence of institutions, bureaucracies, and corporate media — these having deformed language into an instrument for the enforcement of conformity. This is why every shout and placard heard or seen in London or many other cities these days is important, an act of significance and worth.
Clear language is an instrument — unadorned, written and spoken plainly, colloquial in the best sense of this term but perfectly capable of subtlety and complexity. It is the language of history, not myth.
This language is spoken not in the cause of empire but always in the human cause. “Free Palestine,” “From the river to the sea”: These are two-word and six-word examples of the language I describe.
This is the language necessary to confront power rather than accommodate it. It is language that presumes the utility of intelligence and critical thought. It is meant for the posing of many worthy questions. It is unreservedly dedicated to enlarging what is sayable in hostile response to “the great unsayable,” as I call it.
how do we explain that when fleeing residents, traveling on a road Israel identified as a “safe route” to the south, are hit by a deadly air strike not a single voice on mainstream media is heard criticizing the assault? Nor do we hear any outrage when bombs are dropped in the middle of one of the most crowded neighborhoods in Jabalia refugee camp or when missiles strike a convoy of ambulances. For most Israelis, “winning” currently seems to justify almost any violence.
Source: Why is Israel Bombing Gaza Hospitals and Ambulances? It’s All About “Winning” – CounterPunch.org
Israel’s Decisive Solution- The Smoritch Solution.
In the latter territory, demographic concerns will be ameliorated by offering the 3 million Palestinian residents a choice: to renounce their national aspirations and continue living on their land in an inferior status, or to emigrate abroad. If, instead, they choose to take up arms against Israel, they will be identified as terrorists and the Israeli army will set about “killing those who need to be killed.” When asked at a meeting, in which he presented his plan to religious-Zionist figures, if he also meant killing families, women, and children, Smotrich replied: “In war as in war.”
Source: The Israeli public has embraced the Smotrich doctrine
“These journalists were accomplices in crimes against humanity; their actions were contrary to professional ethics,” said a post from the X account of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. Another, from Benny Gantz — currently a minister without portfolio in Israel’s war cabinet — asserted: “Journalists found to have known about the massacre, and still chose to stand as idle bystanders while children were slaughtered — are no different than terrorists and should be treated as such.”
However, even a cursory examination of the investigation’s claims revealed major discrepancies. While it asserted, for example, that the journalists “happened to be at the border just in time for Hamas’ infiltration,” the photographers’ documentation itself shows that they were not near the Gaza fence when it was first breached at 6:30 a.m. In fact, they arrived there two hours later, when residents of Gaza were already streaming into Israel and Israeli hostages were already being taken back to the Strip by Hamas and other fighters.
Indeed, the allegations against the Palestinian journalists appear to be completely baseless. Gil Hoffman, Honest Reporting’s director and a former longtime correspondent at the Jerusalem Post, admitted as much two days after the report’s publication, in response to refutations issued by the four outlets implicated by the claims: Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, and The New York Times.
Source: Hasbara group’s sham investigation put Gaza journalists in the firing line
In this video, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari gives a tour of a room he says is in the hospital’s basement. He claims there are signs that it had been used to hold captives taken by Hamas.
Source: Need comic relief? Watch Israel’s PR stunt collapse | The Electronic Intifada
The resounding defeat of the recent Voice to Parliament referendum is another case in point. It reveals a lack of understanding of the historical nature of violence against Indigenous people, the racist foundations of settler Australia, and how these continue to impact communities today.
No doubt some of you will think we made a mistake in that first sentence. The Uluru page was created in 2017, during the Coalition Government’s tenure. The now resigned Coalition Minister, Ken Wyatt, as Indigenous Affairs Minister, submitted a final report in July 2021 to the Morrison Government, which designed and funded the Voice with $7.3 million.
The Morrison Government, under former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg‘s direction, subsequently included $160 million in the 2019 Budget for the Voice Referendum, assuring Australia a referendum within three years.
Frydenberg openly supported the Voice and expressed confidence that it would succeed:
Source: Voice Referendum doomed by Coalition’s digital manipulation
Whistleblower David McBride’s lawyers argued on Day One of his trial that a soldier’s duty is not just to follow his superior’s orders, but to serve the entire nation. Joe Lauria reports. By Joe Lauria in Canberra, Australia Special to Consortium News The trial of Australian whistleblower
Source: McBride Trial: Defense Argues Duty to Nation Surpasses Military Law
1) We know all embedded journalists in Israel are vetted by the IDF and Shira Rubin is living In Tel Aviv.
2) Reading this article is what has been allowed by Israeli Intelligence which has a history of duplicity
3) What is attributed to Hamas is always reported by a third party and often by organizations that are known to support Israel
4) So, if the raid was intended to go deeper why were 240 hostages taken and returned by this small force to Gaza so quickly? It doesn’t seem to have been a suicide raid and according to witnesses houses were blown apart by Israeli tanks. Why has it taken Israeli Intelligence over a month to release this story and reduce the number of civilians killed?
Israel has said their hostages were taken and hidden in underground tunnels. So, why is Israel bombing the very locations where they say the hostages are hidden?
Israel has a history remember when
Australia expels Israeli diplomat over fake passports used in Dubai killing
This article might be more than 13 years old but Netanyahu was still in control and Israeli intelligence was attempting to spin bullshit that they weren’t the assassins. We kicked the Israeli ambassador out of the country why?
Investigators concluded Israel was responsible for the assassination and for forging four Australian passports used in the killing of the Hamas operative. They never bothered to either ask or inform us.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat
Tel Aviv: The first clues came from the bodies of slain militants: maps, drawings, notes, and the weapons and gear they carried.
Source: New evidence suggests Hamas wanted to go even further on October 7
Australian ASPI head Peter Jennings calls the Israeli Government liars when he says there isn’t any attempt at ethnic cleansing, and there isn’t any effort by Israel to kill civilians. But what Israeli ministers are saying is quite the opposite. Jenning’s propaganda is fully rehearsed, scripted, and he’s invited to say it on our ABC RN. He spits in the face of every Australian who wants the truth. The Israeli Government says one thin domestically and pays puppets like Jennings to say quite the opposite internationally. What’s worse the ABC don’t even question what’s being said.
Members of the Israeli government have been quite candid about their plans for the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, so candid that one has to wonder whether the current campaign is actually aimed at destroying Hamas (which everyone knows to be unlikely) and whether it is really intended to ensure the further ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Some 70% of the families in Gaza are refugees from southern Israel, expelled there by Zionist militiamen in 1948. Now they will be displaced again.
Source: Nakba 2.0: Israeli Gov’t Minister Describes War on Gaza as another Catastrophic Ethnic Cleansing
In the early hours of that fateful morning, October 7th 2023, the silence was broken by a wake-up call like no other. A group of Palestinian freedom fighters, young men who had never known anything but occupation, siege, and subjugation shook the Israeli Occupation foundations to the core. Like birds of prey, those fighters flew on their motorcycles over the electronic steel fence, breached that same fence on their jeeps and attacked the illegal settlements on the periphery of the besieged Gaza Strip. They killed 1400 people and captured over 200 others. The casualties were a mixture of Israeli soldiers, reservists and, of course, civilians. And the cry for Freedom and basic human dignity reverberated across the land.
Source: A rude awakening: Israel’s occupation shaken to the core – Pearls and Irritations
Doctors, nurses, patients and thousands of internally displaced Palestinians are being bombed, terrorised and held hostage in Al Shifa hospital, one of Gaza biggest hospitals. There is no water, no electricity, no oxygen and 37 pre-term babies are slowly dying due to lack of oxygen.
Source: No water, no electricity, no oxygen, no way to stay alive – Pearls and Irritations
ASPI ‘s Peter Jennings has no qualms about sounding like a member of America’s NRMA when he clearly says over 11,000 civilian deaths half children and some further 30,000 injured that we know about are the fault of Hamas and not Israel. Furthermore that, Israel has the right to defend itself even when the number of Israeli deaths first released on October 7th are falling and witnesses have declared many were killed by Israeli gunfire. On what planet does this paid Australian government advisor and Israeli propagandist live?
How many more unaccounted bodies are buried under that rubble? Jenning’s claim is that the current Gazan body count isn’t to be believed. It’s an overquote by Hamas. If there’s any misquoting it’s from Jennings the head of our Australian Strategic Policy Institute. How many of those 240 Israeli hostages have been killed by Israel’s destruction of those “tunnels” under the 30 hospitals and countless schools? According to Israel Hamas 100’s of “headquarters” are strategically pinpointed and obliterated along with it their own hostages. The Israeli Hannibal Directive “Let there be no hostages” seemingly continues today.
Gaza’s main hospital is “nearly a cemetery” as bodies pile up and doctors fear for hundreds of patients unable to receive life-saving medical treatment as fighting rages outside.
Source: Gaza’s besieged largest hospital ‘nearly a cemetery’: WHO
“If it wasn’t already clear, our democracy is in very serious danger.”
Source: Warnings Grow That US Media Again Failing to Accurately Cover Trump’s Fascist Threat
In a Veterans Day speech that was both shocking and sickening, Donald Trump used terminology straight from the Nazi playbook, describing his opponents as “vermin” and promising that he would “root out” this internal threat. His speech drew on explicitly antisemitic themes as he promised a return to the worst horrors of the past century.
Source: Once Again, The New York Times Sugarcoats Donald Trump | Crooks and Liars
The basic choice every country must make about climate change is whether to pay for it from the budget or pass the cost on to consumers.
Source: Climate con: Australia is playing a deceptive and dangerous game
So slow to change so fast to say No
The jury remains out on hydrogen. Yet a massive new fossil fuel project planned for Victoria’s Western Port Bay, to supply energy for Japan, is subsidised by state and federal governments. Sarah Russell and Jane Carnegie report on the risks to the local environment and the planet.
The HESC project plans to use coal gasification to create hydrogen from coal supplied by AGL in the Latrobe Valley. The project provides a new potential for coal to be burned many years longer than had been planned by AGL’s coal-fired power stations. HESC was given social licence and political impetus following the closure of Latrobe Valley coal production and the spectre of widespread unemployment.
Precisely for its progress in the field, China is being punished by that other contender for AI supremacy, the United States. Despite some forced sense of bonhomie among the delegates, such fault lines were nigh impossible to paper over. On October 17, the US Department of Commerce announced that further restrictions would be placed on advanced AI chips along with the imposition of additional licensing requirements for shipments to 40 countries to prevent resales to China. One company, Nvidia, was told directly by the department that it had to immediately cease shipping A800 and H800 chips to the Chinese market without licensed authorisation from the US.
Capitalism’s proponents often defend it by pointing to the virtues of markets. But capitalism isn’t defined by the presence of markets — it’s defined by capitalists’ domination of workers.
Source: Capitalism Isn’t Just Buying and Selling Things. It’s a System of Domination.
Get ahead of the narrative’ US billionaire Barry Sternlicht, who started the project, said the campaign would help Israel “get ahead of the narrative” as the world has reacted to the intensive Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. “Public opinion will surely shift as scenes, real or fabricated by Hamas, of civilian Palestinian suffering will surely erode [Israel’s] current empathy in the world community”, Sternlicht wrote in an email soliciting contributions from the wealthy figures shortly after Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel, according to Semafor. “We must get ahead of the narrative.”
Source: Billionaires are teaming up for pro-Israel, anti-Hamas media drive: Report | Media News | Al Jazeera
France bans Peace for Palestine marches but encourages what they call Anti-Semitism ones? However, marches against genocide aren’t anti-Semitic. But marches against anti-Semitism are a media term for Pro-Israel organized by the French far right-wing Party of Marie Le Penn. Hardly a protest against anti-Semitism and pro-Israel but more a protest against Macron.
However, why has this made bigger headlines here in Australia? Particularly when Jews for Peace are marching against Israel in the thousands and closing Central Station NY down and it doesn’t really get reported?
Our media frames protests against Israeli genocide and West Bank dispossession as anti-Semitic rather than protesting these actions as war crimes as defined by International law? Why are they seemingly supporting the current disastrous Israeli action? Netanyahu is currently the world’s greatest Anti-Semite.
France has largely banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations, although supporters have marched in several French cities in the past weeks, including thousands demanding a cease-fire in Gaza in an authorized protest in Paris last Sunday.
Source: Israel-Hamas: Paris protests against antisemitism draw over 100,000
How many Jews does it take to stop this Genocide? One NETANYAHU
It would be near impossible for peace now that Israel has shown its true colours deliberately slaughtering over 11,000 innocent Palestinians, nearly half of them children. (Thousands more are now maimed and permanently disabled). It’s a bit late for forgiveness. #GazaHolocaust
Israel’s repeated shelling in the vicinity of hospitals and clinics in Gaza has led 20 of 38 hospitals to close their doors to patients, since they lacked the electricity, medicine and functioning equipment they needed to treat patients. The Israeli government’s cut-off of electricity has killed premature babies in incubators, diabetes patients on dialysis, and other people with health crises. The al-Shifa medical complex in the northern Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City had valiantly attempted to continue to function, having had stores of fuel for its generators, and even though its gate was shelled by the Israelis on Friday and there was bombing all around it as Israeli troops advanced on it as though it were Hamburger Hill in an old Vietnam war movie. Attacking hospitals and ambulances is strictly forbidden in international law even if enemy combatants are sited there. It is a war crime. The commanders of the Serbian militiamen who cut off water and electricity to Sarajevo and bombarded it for 3 years in the 1990s ended up on trial at the Hague.
Source: A Tale of Two Sets of Dead Babies: The Preemies of Gaza and Imaginary Beheadings
“We are nearly sure that we are alone now,” said a Doctors Without Borders surgeon at Gaza’s largest hospital. “No one hears us.”
Source: ‘We Are Being Killed Here, Please Do Something’: Nurses and Doctors Plead for Gaza Cease-Fire
Israel’s orgy of death will not crush Hamas. Hamas is an idea. This idea is fed on the blood of martyrs. Israel is giving Hamas an abundant supply.
Source: Chris Hedges: The Horror, The Horror – scheerpost.com
According to Peter Jennings head of ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) “Israel is simply defending itself carefully and within international and humanitarian rules”. One needs only look at what Israel’s leaders say to know Jennings is talking BS and doesn’t deserve to be a government advisor of any sort. He is rather pure and simply a lobbyist for the arms industry and a warmonger.
Israel’s allies have claimed that it “is not deliberately trying to kill civilians” (US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby) and is “taking every precaution to avoid harming civilians” (UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak).
Such claims are hard to square with the massive devastation Israel has inflicted. As of 10 November, over 11,000 people in Gaza were reported killed, including more than 4,500 children, and at least 45 percent of housing units were reported damaged or destroyed.
Finally, claims that Israel is striving to protect civilians in Gaza are most hard to square with how Israeli officials have presented the current onslaught:
- “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy” (IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari, 10 October)
Source: Fighting Amalek in Gaza: What Israelis Say and Western Media Ignore
Words from the man who proudly said he was conceived in Germany
Former U.S. President Donald Trump pledged during a Veterans Day speech on Saturday to “root out” those he described as “radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country” if he’s elected in 2024, an openly fascistic threat that drew comparisons to Nazi rhetoric.
Source: Trump Issues Sinister Threat to ‘Root Out’ Leftists If Elected in 2024
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