No trick has been too low for the No campaign as it followed the LNP trend of aping Donald Trump’s dis- and misinformation and outright lies.
Source: Dutton has scarred the nation with his shameful ‘No’ campaign
Yes or No on Saturday, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was a staggeringly generous offer from Indigenous Australians, the easiest of olive branches to clasp, moral and justifiable legally, economically, philosophically; a course of action with precisely fuck all negative consequences for anyone except mining companies and the sick fucks that still get a kick out of Indigenous subjugation. I sincerely hope we accept this opportunity in good faith, with open hearts and minds. I am worried we will not.
Source: Whatever happens tomorrow, that truly fucking sucked – The Shot
So if – as looks likely – it’s defeated, then I’m sure we’ll hear from Mr Dutton that it was because of Labor and that Albanese should step down because…
Because the Voice was defeated?
But wasn’t the Voice a bad thing?
And if it’s Albanese’s fault then shouldn’t all those people who voted against it be giving him three cheers?
Or was Dutton’s stance against the Voice just a cheap attempt to gain a win against Labor by taking the low hanging fruit of ensuring that a Constitutional Referendum is defeated?
Trying to find a consistent pattern to the Liberals has been difficult over the years, but I’d have to say that Dutton has raised it to a whole new level. Let’s take their position on the repeal of 18C. Georgie Brandis asserted that people had a right to be bigots and the general position of…
Source: Three Cheers For Albanese For Stopping The Voice! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
That a majority of Australians might vote no to something so graciously proposed by a majority of Indigenous people is a depressing prospect. That such an opportunity for healing through a constitutional enshrinement of the voices of Aboriginal people (so that those voices will no longer be subject to the political whims and agendas of successive governments) could possibly be rejected by the rest of us who are so enshrined, or that we might simply slam the door on such an extraordinary gesture of peace and reconciliation, hardly bears thinking about.
Source: Treasured Possessions – » The Australian Independent Media Network
“The post-mortem of the Voice referendum should find the shallow nature of mass media did not by itself reject the invitation offered by the Uluru Statement – but it sure as hell did not help.
Voice derailed by fear, outrage and ‘Trumpian schtick’
Quid pro Quo backroom deals, Fake photo shoots, and Dismantling of the ABC to Maintain this nation’s colonial course. News Corp & Abbott are determined to show we are White, Christian, and Monarchist. Murdoch has appointed a psychopath with a trail of broken promises and hate to a governor of Rupert’s interests down under. The American media invasion will continue with a wannabe Knight on the board who still dreams of being PM.
Tony Abbott’s appointment to the Fox Corporation board next month will formalise a long and fruitful relationship between the former prime minister and the Murdoch family.
Source: Abbott appointment formalises relationship with the Murdoch family
Israel tells Gazans to flee South then bombs them anyway and provides a cover and a distraction for a further settler invasion to kill and raid Palestinian land in the West Bank. Meanwhile, America provides $2 B in aid to you guessed who Israel the invaders.
The U.N. warned that so many people fleeing en masse would be calamitous, while Hamas called on people to stay in their homes.
Source: Palestinians Flee Northern Gaza As Feared Israeli Ground Attack Looms | HuffPost Latest News
Settlers and soldiers have killed 51 Palestinians in the West Bank since Saturday. At least two Palestinian villages have been entirely depopulated.
Source: Israeli Settlers Take Advantage of Gaza Chaos to Attack Palestinians in West Bank – The Intercept
A Fair Go is a definite No Go in Australia and the nation is desperate the world doesn’t define us by our 19th Century Colonial Culture in the Pacific and our skins
Terrorism: “(adjective) unlawfully using violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in pursuit of political aims.” Has any term more fully captured what the state of Israel inflicts on Palestinians?
Source: The one word Israel is desperate you not define – terrorism – Pearls and Irritations
Israel has normalised Terror and invasion by stealth all In plain sight and profits at the same time.
The siege of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians, imposed by Israel in 2007 following the election of Hamas to rule the enclave, allowed for all sorts of experiments.
Source: Lawless in Gaza: Why the West Backs Israel No Matter What
Stopping this sort of Corporate Colonisation of Australia is a definite “No” vote. Our shame those found guilty won’t be punished. Indigenous Australians didn’t steal anything but will be if “No” passes and the world will judge us all as citizens of a shameful nation.
Stolen Australian Government tax policy information was shared between two top-level groups of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia’s controversial “Transfer Pricing” tax division, documents reveal.
Rep. Michael McCaul said “we’re not quite sure” how both American and Israeli intelligence missed signs of the deadly Oct. 7 attack.
Source: Egypt Warned Israel Days Before Attack, Congressman Says | HuffPost Latest News
The bloodshed and loss of life is devastating, the lack of balance in reporting the conflict we watch unfold is predictable and complicit.
Source: Israeli forces have killed 2400 Palestinian children since year 2000 – Pearls and Irritations
1 Comment on Source of Dubious ‘Beheaded Babies’ Claim is Israeli Settler Leader Who Incited Riots to ‘Wipe Out’ Palestinian Village After an Israeli reserve soldier named David Ben Zion told a reporter Palestinian militants “cut [off] heads of babies,” Biden, Netanyahu, and the international media amplified the dubious claim. The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be “wiped out.”
Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, I watched as a large grey four-engine jet with the distinctive fat squarish-looking fuselage of a military C-17 lumbered eastward far overhead, almost certainly one of the earliest of many such massive cargo planes bound for Israel loaded with heavy ammunition, bombs and who knows what other horrors designed by the sick minds of engineers in the US arms industry. Those industrialized killing products are bad enough in the toolkit of our own military, but they should definitely not be provided as a gift to a country that plans to use its overwhelming might to destroy the lives of countless civilians as part of a collective punishment for the acts of fighters they have no control over— especially people who are at the complete mercy of Israel, unable to leave their fenced and walled-in “open-air prison” of Gaza.
To America UK and Australia
‘Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather, they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the longstanding, even increasing support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, and the Gulf States.
The human rights group Jewish Voice for Peace has issued an urgent call to the U.S. public, calling on Americans to pressure members of Congress to help end the ongoing airstrikes in Gaza, which have now killed at least 1,100 people and injured nearly 5,200.
Source: US Jewish Group Calls on Congress to Halt Gaza Carnage
A Voice 2023 Stolen like the “Never Stolen Generation of Children” The odds against the referendum were already stacked by the electoral college hurdle it faced of 50% in each state and a majority of states required for it to pass. That alone proved it would be a highway to hell for yes and heaven for a Racist Australia
If the polls are to be believed, the referendum question will be soundly voted down this Saturday. It could – and should – have been so different.
Source: The Voice. A simple proposition of empathy to be ruined by time and politics? – Michael West
Basic map of the five languages of the Kulin nation. Image: Wikimedia Commons /Nick carson at English Wikipedia / Public Domain
We need to be educated about what the LNP does not want taught but prefers ignored.
These days, Melbournians celebrate the contribution of the Kulin clans to the life of the city. But even as Elders welcome us to the MCG, and clan members, young and old, bring vibrancy to the city’s cultural, intellectual and spiritual life, commentators on the Voice referendum report that many voters have little knowledge of the history of this place and its continuing impact on Kulin lives. It is as if a people just walked away and left the place to the invaders.
The claim that colonisation had no lasting negative impact is absurd. That Kulin have survived at all is a measure of the extraordinary determination of their Old People and their current leaders. That many carry generational trauma and labour under a continuing burden of structural inequality in education, health, housing, and rates of poverty and incarceration is apparent in the continuing gaps in Victoria’s life tables. That Kulin welcome us to Country and share culture so generously is a gift to us all. A ‘Yes’ vote in the Voice referendum just may go some way to closing these gaps and to addressing historic wrongs.
Source: Bitter truths: colonisation was not so good for some – Pearls and Irritations
We can attribute a similarity of this to Peter Dutton who has with strategic effort divided the public by spreading baseless lies about the fear of Replacement, Reverse Racism, the poverty of Indigenous Culture, and lies about irresponsible Corporate “elites” trying to ingratiate themselves with a woke ignorant public. Using these tactics Dutton is intentionally fermenting chaos and division for a win-at-all-cost political strategy with no good reason other than self-interest and not any real sense of duty to public service.
A glance at his past Cabinet history tells that Dutton was the worst Minister appointed to each of his portfolios. Health under the Howard government. Immigration which is a current disaster when Dutton was little more than the ventriloquist’s doll on partisan Mike Pezzullo’s knee. Who, he then chose to take with him to Home Affairs and leaked National Security. Look Dutton’s attitude to our Indigenous Pacific Neighbours was displayed at “Boom Gate” which says it all. To Dutton, they are just a joke and there to be laughed at.
Indigenous Australians have historically been a political football and are simply asking to be heard. They would like an advisory voice constitutionally recognized because for over a century it hasn’t. A history of on-and-off legislation that has been applied to them looks more like a political yo-yo than any real attempt at service or effort in “closing the gap”. They aren’t migrants! If they were they’d be better off. Australia was built on their land and even a racist’s glance at the history of social and statistical facts would be left shame-faced. We can’t deny that the colonial mindset remains embedded in our Institutions and has done more harm by way of generational trauma and little to close the gap. To say otherwise or blame their culture for the divide in material and psychological dysfunction is simply blinkered victim blaming.
The point is this: Whether named Netanyahu, Trump, or Putin, when authoritarian leaders gain power by dividing the public, spreading baseless conspiracy theories, and accusing opponents of being “deep state” traitors, they weaken a society’s capacities to protect itself from all sorts of threats.
They undermine the public good, which is the wellspring of a society’s true strength.
Netanyahu, Trump, and Putin have imperiled each of their nations by filling them with lies, paranoia, and distrust.
Source: The Horrible Price of Lies, Paranoia, and Distrust | The Smirking Chimp
Coming to terms with the past is more important than ever. The Voice referendum is a vital first step
Heidi Norman, University of Technology Sydney
Final thoughts
As was explained to me by a voter that changed their mind about voting, No: “Who am I to stand in the way of a chance for Aboriginals to make their lives better?”
Indeed, how can we deny an opportunity that does not affect the vast majority of our lives in the slightest? Voting No will ensure more of the same, which clearly has not worked. Voting Yes will finally allow Indigenous Australians some control over their destinies.
Source: Heart To Heart – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The reasons we believe Australia will vote “Yes” to give First Nations people a seat at the table are to do with voter intelligence, the rejection of contemptuous politicians and media, and the overwhelming capacity of Australians to do the right thing.
Source: Cookers stir the crock to stop Australia voting ‘Yes’
Australia’s Shame: It’s had a Colonial Wall not as visible surrounding Indigenous Australians the foundations of which were imported and laid in 1788. It’s racist and may be crumbling ever so slowly but it needs to be pushed down and NO only repairs it and puts the brakes on the beginning of what needed to be changed for more than 250 years.
The political class internationally, with one voice, put out statements supporting “Israel’s right to self-defence,” a right they grant to the oppressor but deny to the oppressed.
Those are the people who need to be condemned.
Source: Craig Murray: Condemnation
50% of 2.3M people in Gaza are children the majority of the remainder are Elderly. 48% of what’s left are unemployed it is and has been a prison camp blockaded for 16 years Israel is the jailkeeper conducting Collective Punishment in the most brutal way.
“Where is the outrage we saw when Israeli children were killed?” asked a co-founder of IfNotNow.
Source: Israeli Airstrikes Have Killed Over 320 Children in Gaza: Health Ministry
Since when do we praise Occupiers for brutal oppression? Words are used to confuse, obfuscate and detract from the truth of Palestine-Israel. Words such as terrorist, enemy, militants and murderous are often used to describe Palestinians who are, in essence, victims, freedom fighters, oppressed, occupied and ignored.
Fascism is always the bastard child of bankrupt liberalism. This was true in Weimar Germany. It was true in Italy. And it is true in the United States, writes Chris Hedges.
If this is a “most often” fact then Australia has been at war since 1788. The current army fighting truth in this nation is the LNP and Peter Dutton is their general. He’s certainly not fighting, our progress or liberation from oppression or the common good. Our history has been a crime against humanity which has been and continues to be acknowledged as self-evident. Truth has been denied in current history as written for no advantage other than to hide our racial system which is constantly being revealed in the personal and documented histories told by white men. Killing for Country by David Marr sets a standard a yardstick no matter the outcome of the referendum.
The first casualty of war is truth. We know that. We’re seeing a display of just how true that axiom is as yet another war commences. We’ve had plenty of opportunity to observe the truth dying during war by watching the one that’s been going on between Russia and Ukraine for over a year now. It was all the Ukrainians fault. NATO’s fault? Maybe Biden’s. If not them, then Putin. It depended on many factors, the biggest factor being the source.
Source: The First Casualty of War is Truth Other Casualties to Come | The Smirking Chimp
Indian Government Raids Journalism
At the end of the day, the Delhi Police, who answer to India’s Ministry of Home Affairs, arrested Newsclick founder and chief editor Prabir Purkayastha and the organisation’s head of human relations Amit Chakraborty. Both remain in prison under remand. During the raid, the Delhi Police seized computers, phones, documents, and – crucially – network-attached storage (NAS) units from the Newsclick office. The NAS system contains fourteen years of coverage by Newsclick – the entire archive of its work. The Delhi Police sealed the office, making the equipment inside inaccessible to Newsclick journalists.
Source: Statement on the Attack on Journalists and Alternative Media in India – CounterPunch.org
The NSW government’s Landcom has sold a hectare of prime bushland in Sydney for just $41k to shopping centre developers but has declined to respond to questions about the number of people at the auction. Callum Foote reports.
Last month, the NSW Government’s land and property developer Landcom sold a hectare of bushland in Sydney’s Shire for just $41k. The median house price for the area is $1.4 million, with the sale going to shopping centre developer Revelop.
Source: Did you miss the auction? Shucks. Government sells a hectare of Sydney for just $41k – Michael West
Donald Trump has publicly announced his plans to become America’s first de facto dictator if he wins the 2024 election. Using Orwellian Newspeak and other lies, Trump and his spokespeople are presenting their fascist agenda as “taking back the country” for “real Americans.” In reality, Trump’s Agenda 47 and Project 2025 (both created by right-wing think tanks and interest groups) are no such thing. If imposed on the American people, these political projects will attempt to end the First Amendment, make White Christianity the official religion, fire government employees who are not personally loyal to Trump, use the military to occupy cities, invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport undocumented immigrants, and take away the civil and human rights of other targeted groups.
While Australian politicians complained and sniffed, Israel has imposed another blockade of Gaza, with news reporters limply avoiding the point that the enclave of two million inhabitants was already blockaded. Such a political entity was barely breathing to begin with, but the promise now is to cut off water (97% of the water in Gaza is already contaminated), food, fuel and access to electricity (this was already subject to regular outages) is seen as a logical, natural barbarism. Searching for the appropriate word, the Israeli forces had dubbed this latest measure a “siege”.
During a visit to the Israeli Air Force’s underground command centre, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant summed up the attitude to this approach of even deeper deprivation against an already exhausted civilian population. “We are fighting animals and are acting accordingly.”
It has been a few days of slaughter-filled accounts. Starting on October 7 on the Jewish day of Simchat Torah, the State of Israel has faced assaults from hundreds of Hamas militants. Directed from southwards in the country, the mayhem has rattled the security and intelligence establishment smugly convinced in their reading of Palestinian motivations…
Source: Blue Light, Green Blood: Edifice Politics for Israel – » The Australian Independent Media Network
This isn’t a religious war but one of colonial oppression and the right of resistance. Collective Punishment is a war crime and more than half of Gaza are children the rest elderly being bombed and starved of food water and medical supplies,
The reality, as Raz Segal punchily declared, has been etched “into the landscape of the occupied Palestinian territories,” a policy of colonisation manifested “through walls, fences, other barriers, and roads intended only for Jews or only for Palestinians.” Writing in 2002, former Israeli Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair merely confirmed that, “We established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories.”
When allegations of apartheid are made, along with accusations that Israel’s policy towards Palestinians conforms to a long tradition of colonial oppression and displacement by the dominant power, defenders arc up in defiance, seeing antisemitism everywhere. On February 8, 2022, Deborah Lipstadt, in testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in confirmation hearings for the role as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, did just that. She rejected any claims of apartheid, notably by Amnesty International, as “unhistorical,” a crass act of delegitimising a proud democratic country.
And what of the comments from those engaged in planning the assaults of October 7? Mohammad Deif, leader of Hamas’s military wing, claimed that the operation was launched as a direct response to Israeli provocations towards the sanctity of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, notably by Jewish nationalist settlers. “They [Israeli forces] consistently assault our women, the elderly, children and [the] youth; and prevent our people from praying in the Aqsa Mosque while allowing groups of Jews to desecrate the mosque with daily incursions.”
Israel has long preferred force to peace, segregation to equality. Its brutal air strikes on Gaza are a continuation of that policy — and will do nothing to bring peace and dignity to civilians on both sides.
Source: Israel’s Assault on Gaza Is Part of Its Permanent War on Palestinians
“One crime does not justify another, nor does one kind of injustice justify another,” said B’Tselem. ( An Israeli Human Rights Organization)
Source: Israeli Human Rights Group Denounces Netanyahu’s ‘Criminal Policy of Revenge’
ABOVE IS WHO WE DO KNOW IN OPPOSITION TO YES IS A THE DARK ARMY WE DON”T KNOW!! SO VOTE YES!!
Led by Advance, the “No” campaign is supported by The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) and the Australian conference of the international Far-Right Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC — until recently, hosted by LibertyWorks), organisations with which Price and Mundine have been associated for years. All have long opposed climate policy. CIS, IPA and LibertyWorks are all affiliated with the little-known global Atlas Network.
Founded in 1981 by the English businessman, Antony Fisher, ‘to litter the world with free-market think tanks’, headquartered in Virginia by the U.S. Capitol, Atlas is not itself a think tank. It discreetly fundraises, networks and expands its vast public opinion, public policy and election influence machinery of 515 “partner organisations” in 100 nations.
Better-known U.S. think tanks include the Heritage Foundation, the Cato, Heartland and Competitive Enterprise institutes. All oppose climate policy and all have documented histories of oil-derived funding, such as from oil billionaires Charles Koch and Richard Scaife, along with ExxonMobil and other multinational corporations.
Source: Atlas Network’s fossil-fuelled campaign against the Voice
Indigenous for well over 100 years couldn’t ‘Testify’, or “Bear Witness” in any court in the Colony because Aborigines simply couldn’t swear on a bible as they were heathens. That belief was the cornerstone of our racist system which has carried through as a belief that they can’t be trusted even today.. As a consequence, crimes by whites murder, rape, theft, or the stealing of children never came before the courts. Charges were never laid as there weren’t any white Christians who would testify.
Today Andrew Bolt publicly calls Indigenous Australians liars if they accuse whites of racist crimes or our Institutions as Racial. To do so is not to be a REALIST but to be WOKE and a REVERSE RACIST.
The Voice Referendum presents voters with many dilemmas, including, for “Yes” voters after a secret ballot, how to tell who not to invite into their homes.
Source: Referendum’s clear choices on the way Australia should go
Australia is currently facing the consequences of policy bungling by the former Coalition Government that has left our electricity infrastructure in chaos, writes Paul Budde.
Source: Lost decade of electricity policies could lead to power shortage
Grifters are just smarter just play golf with one. Trump signed documents on his apartment, and on Mar-a-Lago that factually prove none of those assets are worth what he claims they are. However, he genuinely believes a Big Mac cheeseburger in his hand is worth 1000 times more simply because he’s DJ Trump. He’ll even try to sell it on even if his mark doesn’t want to buy it. However, it’s a crime for which he can be sued if he made any prior agreements with Macas. According to Trump the MAGA way is to outsmart, outwit, and even break the law just get the deal done if the profit is greater than the fine, and if caught always yes always deny it. A sucker will only bring you to justice once in a 100 times so you can even afford a lawyer you only pay if you win.
The attachment was a 1994 document, signed by Trump, that pegged his Trump Tower triplex at 10,996 square feet — not the 30,000 square feet later claimed for years on financial statements that were given to banks, insurers and others to make deals and secure loans.
Source: Trump reveals New York penthouse true size is smaller than claimed | Fortune
The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier. Israel has spoken this blood-soaked language of violence to the Palestinians since Zionist militias seized more than 78 percent of historic Palestine, destroyed some 530 Palestinian villages and cities and killed about 15,000 Palestinians in more than 70 massacres. Some 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed between 1947 and 1949 to create the state of Israel in 1948.
The collective retribution against innocents is a familiar tactic employed by colonial rulers. We used it against Native Americans and later in the Philippines and Vietnam. The Germans used it against the Herero and Namaqua in Namibia. The British in Kenya and Malaya. The Nazis used it in the areas they occupied in the Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe. Israel follows the same playbook. Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
But this is the familiar denouement to all settler-colonial projects. Regimes implanted and maintained by violence engender violence. The Haitian war of liberation. The Mau Mau in Kenya. The African National Congress in South Africa. These uprisings do not always succeed, but they follow familiar patterns. The Palestinians, like all colonized people, have a right to armed resistance under international law.
Israel never had any interest in an equitable settlement with the Palestinians. It built an apartheid state and has steadily absorbed larger and larger tracts of Palestinian land in a slow motion campaign of ethnic cleansing. It turned Gaza in 2007 into the world’s largest open air prison.
Source: Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them – scheerpost.com
War Crimes targeting Israeli civilians is the current catch cry? Israeli Settlers have been targeting Palestinian civilians for years with the help of the IDF. Currently, Israel is performing a Dresden-scale blitzkrieg with a drop in two days of 8000 high explosive bombs dropped randomly on the most densely populated area on the planet filled largely with elderly men, women, and children doesn’t that speak for itself? It screams war crime any which way you look at it.
The events of recent days are unprecedented. The last time units of Jewish and Palestinian fighters — military or paramilitary — went to battle on such a broad front in Israel-Palestine was in 1948. There have, of course, been various battles over the years in Gaza as well as West Bank cities like Jenin, and Israeli and Palestinian units fought one another in Lebanon in 1982. But there is no parallel to the scope of what has taken place here since Saturday morning, and not since 1948 have Palestinian fighters occupied Jewish communities on this scale.
The UN Charter says that countries are henceforth not to acquire territory by force.
That article is the whole basis for the US and NATO and European Union condemnation of Russia’s invasion and occupation of part of Ukraine.
Israel’s seizure of the Palestinian West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967 was therefore illegal. Its annexation of Palestinian East Jerusalem was illegal, and was branded such by the United Nations Security Council.
The laws of military occupation envision a time-limited occupation during the shooting war. Since the Hague Regulations of 1907 occupiers have been forbidden to alter the lifeways of the people who are occupied. They may not expel them arbitrarily from their homes. And they may not send their own citizens into the occupied territory to settle it. These actions were proscribed in the Geneva Convention of 1949 and in the Rome Statute.
These actions were made illegal in international law to forestall a repetition of Nazi Germany’s policies in Poland, where Berlin made a concerted attempt to remove Poles and replace them with Germans so as to “aryanize” the territory and make it part of Germany.
Israel has violated all of these provisions of international law, in a concerted and deliberate manner for over half a century. It has been actively and consistently aided in doing so by the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Canada and other industrialized democracies, under the cover of a phony “peace process” supposedly working toward a “two-state solution,” which has never amounted to more than weasel words and ways of avoiding any confrontation with Israel over its lawlessness. An undertone of white nationalist racism toward the brown Palestinians tinged this outrageous insouciance toward international law, this profound betrayal of post-war ideals.
Source: Tribalism versus International Law in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The operation reflects a pattern of four wars and regular outbreaks of violence between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza since 2005, when Israel withdrew its military posts and forcibly removed 9,000 Israeli settlers from the territory.
Source: Why did Hamas attack, and why now? What does it hope to gain?
A television crew with Sky News Arabia said that Israeli police assaulted them and damaged their equipment in the southern Israeli city of Asheklon, which had been hit by rockets fired from Gaza.
“The channel’s correspondent Firas Lutfi said Israeli police aimed rifles at his head, forced him to remove his clothes, confiscated the team’s phones, and made them leave the area under police escort,” the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
Shortly before the publication of this story, Al Jazeera reported that several journalists were killed and injured in an Israeli air raid targeting a residential tower west of Gaza City.
Israel cuts off food, water to millions of Palestinians it calls “human animals”
“Everything ground up has been bombed,” said a Palestinian human rights lawyer in Gaza.
Source: ‘There Is No Safe Haven’: Israeli Bombing Rampage Hits Gaza Refugee Camp, Homes, and More
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