Tag: Gaza

Israel’s attempt to destroy Unrwa is part of its starvation strategy in Gaza | Kenneth Roth | The Guardian

People walk past Unrwa’s damaged Gaza City headquarters

Some Israeli leaders see an ugly third way out of this conundrum – reducing the number of Palestinians. By starving Palestinians in Gaza and destroying much of the housing and infrastructure, Netanyahu seems to want to render Gaza unlivable. That would be consistent with the calls of his rightwing ministers for mass deportation from Gaza – an effort to wipe 2.2 million Palestinians from the demographic balance sheet.

Certainly Netanyahu does not want to make the demographics worse by offering any sustenance to Palestinian refugees who might want to return – even to Palestine. Destroying Unrwa is part of that awful plan. No funder should join it.

Source: Israel’s attempt to destroy Unrwa is part of its starvation strategy in Gaza | Kenneth Roth | The Guardian

Critics of Glazer’s Oscars speech prove the relevance of ‘The Zone of Interest’

A recent open letter from Hollywood creatives, condemning Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar acceptance speech, only reinforces the ongoing dehumanisation of lives in Israel and Palestine, Lyn Bender writes.

Source: Critics of Glazer’s Oscars speech prove the relevance of ‘The Zone of Interest’

Moral cowardice hinders pleas for a Common Humanity in Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

Concept of crisis in Gaza, Middle East.

Pleas for a common humanity include urgent, practical objectives:

  • Join 139 countries in implementing the decision of the Labor Party general conference to recognise the State of Palestine.
  • Implementation of the rulings of the ICJ
  • Demands for a permanent ceasefire and an end to the siege of Gaza.
  • Insist on return of all hostages
  • Consider expulsion of Israeli Ambassador to Australia, recall of Australia’s Ambassador to Israel
  • Ending any Australian military support for Israel
  • Developing plans for peace with justice in which Palestinians from all walks take a lead.
  • Consider proposals for an international peace conference to address Palestinians’ rights to self-determination and refugees’ rights of return.
  • Support for a UN led emergency humanitarian program to address the immediate medical, food and housing needs of Gazans

Source: Moral cowardice hinders pleas for a Common Humanity in Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

Gaza is the holocaust reborn – Pearls and Irritations

Long row of people rendered in a rough style wait in line. Drawing Sketch

Gaza now resembles Berlin at the end of WW2. A bombed out ruin, littered with the decomposing bodies of innocent civilians, entombed in the rubble of their homes. The way is now cleared for Israel to take possession of all of Gaza. To forever banish the Palestinians from their traditional homeland. And the world watches on with little more than dispassionate interest. For Israel, founded by victims of the holocaust, how the worm has turned.

Source: Gaza is the holocaust reborn – Pearls and Irritations

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner calls for ethnic cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’ – Pearls and Irritations

September 20, 2022, New York City, New York, USA: JARED KUSHNER attends the 2022 Concordia Annual Summit held at the SheratonTimes Square Hotel. Image: Alamy/Nancy Kaszerman/ZUMA Press Wire

Trump Heights already exists in the occupied Golan Heights make room for a Trump development in Gaza

Kushner, who served as a key Middle East adviser to Trump, said that Gaza’s “waterfront property could be very valuable” and urged Israel to “clean it up.”

“I know that that’s been refused, but [with] the right diplomacy I think it would be possible,” Kushner added. “But in addition to that, the thing that I would try to do if I was Israel right now is I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there. I know that won’t be the popular thing to do, but I think that that’s a better option to do so you can go in and finish the job.”

Source: Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner calls for ethnic cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’ – Pearls and Irritations

Israel: a nation killing and starving children – Pearls and Irritations

Injured Palestinians, Including children are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dair El-Balah Injured Palestinians, Includ Children are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dair El-Balah for treatment following the Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza on March 02, 2024. Photo by Omar Ashtawy apaimages Dair EL-Balah Gaza Strip Palestinian Territory 020324_Dair_EL-Balah_OSH_005 Copyright: Alamy/xapaimagesxOmarxAshtawyxxapaimagesx

There is nothing in recent memory that matches the scale of the atrocities being inflicted on the civilians of Gaza, who appear to be being punished for their very existence. Every report and image coming out of this tiny but densely populated piece of land brings despair, horror and incredulity, with the question “How can this be happening?” being uppermost.

His statement was not made lightly:

  • More children have been reported killed in just over 4 months in Gaza (over 12,300) than the number killed in wars globally in the 4 years to 2022 (12,193) (UNRWA, here).
  • “Today no child in Gaza is free from fear, pain and hunger…..All children living in the Gaza Strip have lost their childhood”. (UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, here).
  • UNICEF estimates that at least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip are unaccompanied or separated from their parents.
  • Children are now dying of starvation, as its use as a weapon intensifies. Mass killings of those desperately seeking food occur (see for example here).

Source: Israel: a nation killing and starving children – Pearls and Irritations

Not just the UNRWA report: Countless accounts of Israeli torture in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

Bald, bearded man lying exhausted on a reclined hospital bench, with a blanket pulled over him

On Monday, the Times of Israel reported that the country’s forces intended to unilaterally dismantle UNRWA within Gaza, with its functions hived off to other agencies of the military’s choosing.

While it was not clear which agencies the Israeli military had designated, or if negotiations were under way, the report did note that this move against the agency came as the latest in a longstanding campaign to discredit it, which goes back to UNRWA’s 1949 founding, mandating the agency to support displaced Palestinian refugees until they could return home.

As hunger worsens, with 15 children reported to have starved to death in recent days, UNRWA’s role in helping prevent what agencies are warning of a “humanitarian crisis” grows increasingly vital.

Other agencies, such as the Danish Refugee Council have warned that neither they nor other NGOs still operating in Gaza can replicate UNRWA’s role.

Source: Not just the UNRWA report: Countless accounts of Israeli torture in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

Israeli Genocide Causing ‘Complete Psychological Destruction’ of Gaza Children

Palestinian children wounded by Israeli airstrike on Al-Maghazi refugee camp at Gaza hospital

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“Five months of violence, displacement, starvation, and disease on top of nearly 17 years of a blockade have caused relentless mental harm to children in Gaza,” said Save the Children.

Source: Israeli Genocide Causing ‘Complete Psychological Destruction’ of Gaza Children

Accessory to genocide in Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

Rafah, Palestinian Territories. 08th Mar, 2024. Palestinians participate in a burial of five people who were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in the Swedish village (Al-Ezbah). The house belongs to the Abu Salima Najm family Five dead and dozens injured, near the Egyptian border on the seashore in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip Image: Alamy/ Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa/Alamy Live News

Mary Kostakidis and Quentin Dempster explore the Australian mainstream media’s blind eyes on the humanitarian catastrophe now unfolding in Gaza.

Source: Accessory to genocide in Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

Thinking intensely about the holocaust, Israel and Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

Ghaza in 1949. Map

The current tenuous leadership in Israel today has turned the light on the history of the State and making of Israel

The vengeful, scheming, genocidal response unleashed since October last year in Gaza, by Israel, has prompted a profoundly intensified global review of the punishing history related to the establishment of the State of Israel and its colonial-settler expansion ever since 1948.

Source: Thinking intensely about the holocaust, Israel and Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

The Real Gaza Death Toll

Above all, it lets weak Secretary of State Antony Blinken and duplicitous President Biden be less servile when Netanyahu dismisses the low death toll by taunting them: What about Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

As a percentage of the total population being killed, Gaza can expose the Israeli ruling racist extremists to a stronger rebuttal for ending U.S. co-belligerent complicity in this never-to-be-forgotten slaughter of mostly children and women. (The terrifying PTSD on civilians, especially children, will continue for years.)

Respecting the more accurate casualty toll of Palestinian children, mothers, and fathers presses harder for permanent cease-fires and the process of recovery and reparations for the survivors of their holocaust.

Source: The Real Gaza Death Toll

Aiding Those We Kill: US Humanitarianism in Gaza – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Even as this in extremis tool is being used, US made military hardware continues to be used at will by the Israel Defence Forces. The point was not missed on Vermont Democratic Senator Peter Welch: “We have a situation where the US is airdropping aid on day one, and Israel is dropping bombs on day two. And the American taxpayer is paying for the aid and the bombs.”

Source: Aiding Those We Kill: US Humanitarianism in Gaza – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Cuts to UNRWA Are Devastating Gaza

UNRWA, the United Nations Palestinian refugee relief agency, has faced severe funding cuts after Israel dubiously accused the organization of ties to Hamas. We spoke with a director of UNRWA in Jordan about the impact of the cuts.

Source: Cuts to UNRWA Are Devastating Gaza

Israel war: IDF’s killing of innocent Palestinians has given me no choice but to speak out

Israeli soldiers pose for a photo on a position on the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, last month.

And this at a time of war, mass dislodgement and impending famine, and when the allegations – still unsubstantiated – were directed at roughly 0.1 per cent of the UN agency’s estimated 13,000 Gaza staff members.

I thought about this abject failure of the international community and the failure of so many Jewish people to condemn an Israeli government so utterly hijacked by right-wing extremists, messianic radicals, hooligan settlers and a morally bankrupt prime minister.

The Israeli government had for months been preventing sufficient aid from entering Gaza, and Palestinians were now eating grass and drinking putrid water. Hundreds were being forced to share one latrine. Children were beginning to die of famine, and even aid workers were starving to death. Virtually every hospital had been damaged or destroyed. Doctors, nurses, artists, students, teachers, journalists, entire families and children, thousands upon thousands of children, all dead.

“I have never in my many, many years as an aid worker seen a place that has been so bombarded for such a long time, with such a trapped population, without any escape,” said Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Source: Israel war: IDF’s killing of innocent Palestinians has given me no choice but to speak out

Palestinians of Gaza are Starving: Don’t Cut Aid

Israel’s Minister For National Security demands All Aid to Gaza be cut.  Ex- Terrorists have always advocated politics before Religion. He’s a Zionist and a Jew. However, all Jews around for 3000yrs aren’t Zionists around for less than 200yrs and the two shouldn’t be conflated. Zionists wish to change Judaism into an idolatrous cult. If you’re anti-Zionist you’re not antisemitic the two aren’t equivalent.

To feed children, treat the wounded, and save innocent lives, the U.S. must restore UNRWA’s funding.

Source: Palestinians of Gaza are Starving: Don’t Cut Aid

Israel denies the flour massacre was in any way their fault. Aid shouldn’t be provided in any form

Horror in Gaza and the shallowness of Western civilisation – Pearls and Irritations

Palestinian mother Asmaa Naser, mourns the bodies of her twin children, Ahmed and Jihan Naser Palestinian mother Asmaa Naser, mourns the bodies of her twin children, Ahmed and Jihan Naser, who were killed as a result of an Israeli air strike on Nuseirat camp, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on December 29, 2023. Image:Alamy / Ali Hamad apaimages Dair El-Balah Gaza Strip Palestinian Territory 291223_Dair_El-Balah_AH_009 Copyright: xapaimagesxAlixHamadxapaimagesx

Modern Israel has existed for 860 months, yet the past 5 will define its culture, its values, and the very basis of its religious inspiration before the bar of history for generations to come.

Either way, without a “change of heart” in the most Biblical sense of the phrase, Israel will remain an armed fortress, a failed pariah state, and a liability to Western civilisation.

Source: Horror in Gaza and the shallowness of Western civilisation – Pearls and Irritations

Palestinians in Gaza massacred, starved and raped – Pearls and Irritations

A woman wears a mask with Palestine flag. Save gaza concept Image:iStock/ ninitta

The Australian government remains silent, continues to call Israel “our friend”, and rewards Israel’s war machine in a new contract with the Israeli arms firm Elbit. The Federal Government sends more troops to the Middle East while starving Palestinians in northern Gaza are massacred as they desperately seek food for their families, babies in Gaza are dying of starvation and dehydration and the IDF sexually abuses and rapes Palestinian women prisoners.

Source: Palestinians in Gaza massacred, starved and raped – Pearls and Irritations

Senator Jeff Merkley: U.S. “Complicit in Starvation and Humanitarian Catastrophe” in Gaza | Democracy Now!

As over 100 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces while gathering for food aid in Gaza City, we speak to Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, who in November became the second of only five U.S. senators to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. In January, he traveled to the Rafah border crossing in Egypt to witness the system of humanitarian aid deliveries, which he described on the Senate floor as a “complicated, bizarre inspection process.” Merkley is now calling for the U.S. to bypass Israel in order to directly send aid to Gaza. Because of the United States’ relationship to Israel — “more closely tied than any situation in the world” — Merkley says, “It’s the United States that has leverage to address this situation, and the world expects us to take the lead.”

Source: Senator Jeff Merkley: U.S. “Complicit in Starvation and Humanitarian Catastrophe” in Gaza | Democracy Now!

Israel’s Flour Massacre in Gaza Is a Horrific War Crime

The very denial by Israel saying it wasn’t us to each and every incident in this war is a denial that there even is a war going on. Israel’s whole propaganda campaign has been to treat every event as a single issue and decontextualize the very reason there is a war in the first place. They don’t want the History of Israel and its existence at the cost of Palestinians brought into relief.

It’s a criminal offense for teachers in Israel to stray off the official line at any level in an Israeli’s education. This event will be sold as “Hamas and the UNRWA did this we only shot in the air to disperse the trucks and they prevented COGAT from doing the generous job they have always done”

Continuing the relentless assault on civilians in Gaza, Israeli troops killed more than 100 starving Palestinians waiting for flour from aid trucks yesterday. Emboldened by US complicity, Israel persists in acting with impunity in Gaza.

Source: Israel’s Flour Massacre in Gaza Is a Horrific War Crime

More than 100 in Gaza killed trying to get aid – Vox

A girl holds a pot of food while being jostled by a crowd.

What we do notice is Israel when cornered by witness to their actions doesn’t respond too quickly but when they have their narrative in place everything else is drowned out. October 7th there’s no mention of the number of Israelis killed. The three hostages they shot have been all forgotten. The journalists killed are never talked about. While Hamas issues official Statements that aren’t a flood of propaganda and tend to be more measured than anything that comes out of Israel. This leads one to believe what’s being said is less based on fact than it is propaganda and Israel Hasbara Batallion.  This was a COGAT-supervised operation. Israel Run

 

Hagari said during the press conference that a private contractor was coordinating the aid distribution, although he did not name the contractor. Vox reached out to the IDF and to Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) for more information but did not receive a response by press time.

Source: More than 100 in Gaza killed trying to get aid – Vox

Has the IDF slaughtered enough children to make Israel safe from terrorism yet? – The Shot

They too were once babies raised and socialized to dehumanize and hate. 18 years ago PM of Israel Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed a peace pact and shared the Nobel Peace Prize. The Priminister of Israel was assassinated by the coalition in power now. In 2006 Palestinians in Gaza voted for Hamas  not the militia bearing their name their political arm because of the welfare programs they had already delivered. Israel  & the USA declared them “terrorists” not the UN and they still don’t today. Who are Internationally out of order? Who are rogue states? Israel then turned Gaza into a “concentration camp” ( Israel’s own description) and it’s been one since 2006.

Israel has been doing what Hamas did on Oct7th on more than one occasion  Operation Cast Lead 2008 and Operation Protective Edge (2014) are just two of many.

The Goldstone report contains an objective assessment of what took place during the military attack on Gaza, which was described by the Mission as serious violations of international humanitarian law and other relevant international instruments.

The effort Israel is currently putting in to prevent any Independent investigation into what has been happening these past 4 months is as much a crime as what has been clearly visible but disguised by their systemic and gigantic flood of rhetoric on International media. So much so they are now losing the media war by shooting themselves in the foot.

This war didn’t start on Oct 7th as the Israelis would like the world to believe

The 12,300 Palestinian children taken from their funny dads, their kind dads, their adventurous dads, for the crime of being born in Gaza, to keep Israel safe from terrorism.

Source: Has the IDF slaughtered enough children to make Israel safe from terrorism yet? – The Shot

Australian media’s greatest crime against Gaza is ignoring it

IF ANY ONE CRIME of the Australian establishment press over the assault on Gaza has been the most unforgivable, it is perhaps the crime of omission.

Source: Australian media’s greatest crime against Gaza is ignoring it

Misrepresenting the ICJ and muzzling our press – the Empire strikes back – Pearls and Irritations

THE HAGUE - President Donoghue and other judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) before the hearing of the genocide case against Israel, brought by South Africa. According to the South Africans, Israel is currently committing genocidal acts against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Image: ANP / Alamy Stock Photo/ REMKO DE WAAL

On 26 January, the World spoke to Israel and its supporters – on the issue of Gaza. The World spoke through the International Court of Justice (ICJ). There can be no doubt about that. A number of provisional orders were made. Israel, and its primary accomplice, the United States – hereinafter “the Empire” – did not like what the World said. The Empire has struck back. Let us consider what it has done.

Nevertheless, the Empire continues to strike back. Israel has made it absolutely clear that it does not consider itself restrained in any way by the ICJ’s rulings. The rest of the Empire seems to be content to accept Israel’s position.

In conclusion, we, Australia, must understand the ICJ’s orders and act accordingly. We must oppose the Empire. And we must publicise the message: “Palestine has the right to exist – and therefore the right to resist”.

Source: Misrepresenting the ICJ and muzzling our press – the Empire strikes back – Pearls and Irritations

Inside Gaza, this child is forced to eat bread made from animal feed and tea made from sticks – ABC News

A young girl wearing a pink jumper holds a piece of bread made from animal feed.

In Gaza, Maazize is feeding her children ground up animal food and tea made from sticks and leaves, just so they have something in their starving stomachs.

Source: Inside Gaza, this child is forced to eat bread made from animal feed and tea made from sticks – ABC News

Opinion | One Key Reason Behind Israel’s War on Gaza? Gas | Common Dreams

Palestinians protest in boats off Gaza coast.

Israel’s desire to seize Gaza’s gas can partially explain Netanyahu’s intransigence when it comes to cease-fire initiatives, as this project hinges on Israel maintaining security control over the territory and expelling the Palestinian population.

Source: Opinion | One Key Reason Behind Israel’s War on Gaza? Gas | Common Dreams

It’s the OCCUPATION, stupid: What have Australian journalists got against Palestinians? – Pearls and Irritations

Young woman reading.

Finkelstein’s conclusion concerning the events of October the 7th was that ‘you don’t justify what happened but you don’t condemn them either’. And if resisting occupation of one’s land by another state is legal in International law, then Hamas acted legally when organising an attack on the Israeli forces. This does not excuse or justify breaches of the law by particular soldiers or their leaders, but accurate reporting of Gazans’ incarcerated condition would allow Australians to better understand the tragic events we are witnessing.

Source: It’s the OCCUPATION, stupid: What have Australian journalists got against Palestinians? – Pearls and Irritations

PM says Israel won’t ‘pay any price’ to free hostages

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the country will not pay any price for the return of hostages being held by militants.

The ultra-right government’s priority was never the release of hostages. Since 1929 the Zionists have used the same strategy to gain increasingly more land than they ever returned. They created a conflict where there was peace. Back then they did it by spreading rumours that the Jews were planning to seize control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Manufacturing hate ensured peace turned into the conflict Zionists wanted. They could then form the Haganagh terrorists calling them defence militias to protect all Jews. Nobody ever said they were dumb but rather disingenuous. They certainly weren’t operating in the interests of all Jews and never have.

The UN, who they now openly call Hamas lovers, solved Britain’s Jewish Problem by ratifying and giving them Israel. The Americans provided welfare in exchange for a ready-made army base in the Middle East the IDF.

In 1969 Israel attacked Egypt and Syria on what PM Ehud Barak openly admitted was a totally presumptive ploy that had no concrete merit. Again it was for more ground which they simply refused to return but illegally settled. In 1978 they returned the Sinai, as a token of peace, to Egypt.

These incursions were continuously called “defence of all Jews” but were rather a strategy to steal land, and water and encourage the diaspora back to Israel. However, that hasn’t happened. While they successfully created “hate” the Jews remained a minority in the region but wanted total control. Leaving the Palestinians with the options of facing Death, Ethnic Cleansing or Apartheid in a Fascist State. They claim 50% of Jews are now Israeli which isn’t true. 1M Israelis at any one time have left without any rushing back. 500k have permanent residency elsewhere and in the meantime, the others are trying to get it.

 Currently, Israel is America’s primary base in the Middle East but what was once a quid pro quo arrangement Israeli Zionist greed has now become the tail trying to wag the dog. For their effort the Zionists have tried to gain Land, Gazan Gas and a 3rd Nakbah and a shitload load of  deserved hate.

Asked about the 134 hostages who remain in Gaza, Smotrich told Kan Radio that their return was “very important” but that they could not be released “at any cost”.

Source: PM says Israel won’t ‘pay any price’ to free hostages

Israeli forces kill, wound Palestinians waiting for food aid in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

Displaced Palestinians gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024.

At least one Palestinian man has been killed and many others wounded in northern Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire on desperate crowds waiting for food aid, according to witnesses and videos.

Source: Israeli forces kill, wound Palestinians waiting for food aid in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

Rafah, Gaza: Urgent Statement from CEOs of Humanitarian and Human Rights Organisations – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Is Might Right? Or is there a better path considering a Universal Common Good rather than Greed?

States bear legal and moral responsibilities to protect civilians, prevent war crimes and uphold international law. We urge all States to consider that their inaction or continued support not only deepens the tragedy but also implicates them. We call upon them to do everything in their power to prevent further military offensives and forge a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza.

Source: Rafah, Gaza: Urgent Statement from CEOs of Humanitarian and Human Rights Organisations – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Levin to Biden: ‘If We Don’t Change Course’ on Gaza, ‘We Can’t Win’ in November

Andy Levin

Blaming voters for not supporting Biden in the primary is “totally useless,” added the former congressman. “What we’re all saying is, ‘This is a catastrophe in Gaza. We have to change course. Let’s do it now and then November will take care of itself.'”

“I’m afraid if we don’t change course then we can’t win on November 5 and that’s why I’m pouring my energy into this, because we cannot allow Donald Trump to be anywhere near the White House again

.” Historian Barbara Ransby on Monday applauded Levin and Tlaib for their vehement support of the Listen to Michigan movement.

Source: Levin to Biden: ‘If We Don’t Change Course’ on Gaza, ‘We Can’t Win’ in November

US Finally Backs UN Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution—But Only When ‘Practical’

U.S. U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield raises her hand to vote.

This will become known as Bidenspeak.. 80-yrs old unclear and confused.

While some welcomed the Biden administration’s evolving stance, others decried the vague language of its proposal, which comes as Israeli forces kill and maim hundreds of Palestinians daily.

Source: US Finally Backs UN Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution—But Only When ‘Practical’

Israeli Military Says Hamas Will Not Be Defeated in Gaza Offensive – ScheerPost

Preparing for phase 2 Removing Hamas from Palestine and mass migration calling and it “voluntary” but by any means possible. It’s not what the “IDF says” but what the leadership of Israel Ben Gvir and Smotrich want and Netanyahu their marionette must say.

It’s back to the future of Colonialism at its worst. You can call a white man a cunt, a black man a Nigger, a woman a Shiska, a man a Goy, and an Arab a terrorist but you can’t call a Jew a Jew, a Zionist, or simply an Arschloch without being antisemitic? They have weaponized antisemitism and claimed victimhood just as Being Black Matters and is real Being White Matters, is unreal and fake Racism there is no antisemitism without Hitler and the Nazi State of Germany. They were defeated. However, there are new fascists and new battles for freedom with repeated mistakes. Is it any wonder Marx a Jew was an atheist?

Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Thursday that even if the IDF eliminates Hamas organization in Gaza, the group will continue to fight Israel as “a terror group and a guerrilla group.” The Israeli defense officials concluded in their report that “authentic support remains” for Hamas among Palestinians.

Source: Israeli Military Says Hamas Will Not Be Defeated in Gaza Offensive – ScheerPost

Israel’s Big Game Propaganda

Propagandists for Israel are chosen to be characterized not as Israelis but as British and American personalities. How strange? One thing that makes them stand out is they talk rapidly and over the top of interviewers as if it’s a matter of urgency repeating the same repetitive tropes heard time and time again.

Many viewers felt that what they saw amounted to little more than expensive disinformation. “I’m sorry, is Israel seriously airing a SOB STORY PROPAGANDA AD during the SUPER BOWL while SIMULTANEOUSLY BOMBING THE REFUGEES AT RAFAH???????” wrote one viewer on Twitter.

Nevertheless, the Super Bowl was the most-watched American telecast ever, reaching over 123 million viewers. Some say you cannot put a price on that sort of publicity, but apparently, you can, and that price is $7 million. Propaganda it might be, but in America, money talks. And both Robert Kraft and the government of Israel certainly have a lot of it to spend.

Source: Israel’s Big Game Propaganda

Rafah May Prove the Most Dire Moment in Israel’s War on Gaza

An invasion of Rafah would be the most dangerous stage of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians yet, causing death on a scale unseen even in these four months of sheer brutality.

Source: Rafah May Prove the Most Dire Moment in Israel’s War on Gaza

There is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go – CounterPunch.org

As I speak with Saleem the sound of the Israeli advance can be heard in the distance. “I don’t know when we can speak next,” he says. “I don’t know where I will be.”

Source: There is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go – CounterPunch.org

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

‘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

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

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-Gaza war: aid agencies ‘outraged’ by ‘reckless’ decision to cut UNRWA funding | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

Israel demands aid be stopped while the world demands Israel’s military funding be stopped.

the funding withdrawal was “collective punishment – like cutting funding to the NHS because of the actions of Lucy Letby”, a British nurse convicted of murdering seven newborn babies.

More than 26,000 people have been killed in Israel’s military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, the enclave’s health ministry said. With flows of aid like food and medicine just a trickle of pre-conflict levels, deaths from preventable diseases as well as risk of famine are growing, aid workers say.

Source: Israel-Gaza war: aid agencies ‘outraged’ by ‘reckless’ decision to cut UNRWA funding | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

AIPAC’s War Chest Is Growing as the War on Gaza Rages

The suggestion that Russia or China interfere in America’s election creates a thunderous tsunami of complaints, Israel no problem it’s the way they do Democracy. Besides how is it possible with  a $100 M investment you can get a return of $10B in one year and that’s just from your parent company whose been feeding you for 75 years

Since the war on Gaza began, the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has reaped $90 million in fundraising. The organization is using that massive haul to lobby against a cease-fire.

Source: AIPAC’s War Chest Is Growing as the War on Gaza Rages

Chris Hedges: The Silence of the Damned – ScheerPost

The Sword of Damocles Mr Fish

IS REALITY

There is no effective health care system left in Gaza. Infants are dying. Children are having their limbs amputated without anesthesia. Thousands of cancer patients and those in need of dialysis lack treatment. The last cancer hospital in Gaza has ceased functioning. An estimated 50,000 pregnant women have no safe place to give birth. They undergo cesarean sections without anesthesia. Miscarriage rates are up 300 percent since the Israeli assault began. The wounded bleed to death. There is no sanitation or clean water. Hospitals have been bombed and shelled. Nasser Hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza, is “near collapse.” Clinics, along with ambulances – 79 in Gaza and over 212 in the West Bank – have been destroyed. Some 400 doctors, nurses, medics and healthcare workers have been killed — more than the total of all healthcare workers killed in conflicts around the world combined since 2016. Over 100 more have been detained, interrogated, beaten and tortured, or disappeared by Israeli soldiers. 

The dehumanization of Palestinians is lifted from the playbook of all settler colonial projects, including our own. This racism, where people of color are branded as “human animals,” is coded within the DNA of our institutions. It infects those chosen to lead these institutions. It lies at the core of our national identity. It is why the two ruling parties and the institutions that sustain them side with Israel. It feeds the perverted logic of funneling weapons and billions of dollars in support to sustain Israel’s occupation and genocide.

History will not judge us kindly. But it will revere those who, under siege, found the courage to say no.

Source: Chris Hedges: The Silence of the Damned – ScheerPost

U.S. Military Personnel on Standby for Israel Ground Involvement in Gaza

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Despite Biden’s promises of no boots on the ground, documents obtained by The Intercept suggest the military has prepared for the possibility.

Source: U.S. Military Personnel on Standby for Israel Ground Involvement in Gaza

‘Strategic interests’, lobby power: What influences Biden’s Israel support? | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 18: Protesters hold a demonstration in support of a cease fire in Gaza in the Cannon House Office Building on October 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. Members of the Jewish Voice for Peace and the IfNotNow movement staged a rally to call for a cease fire in the Israel–Hamas war. Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

The war in Gaza has intensified AIPAC’s endeavours. Since October 7, AIPAC has led efforts to advocate for $14bn in additional military support for Israel, a funding package that remains stalled in Congress.

It has also been a leading voice in criticising lawmakers who voiced concerns over Israel’s military campaign.

That criticism comes at a pivotal time for many elected officials. In the 2024 general elections, the presidency is up for grabs, as is every seat in the House of Representatives and 34 in the Senate.

Source: ‘Strategic interests’, lobby power: What influences Biden’s Israel support? | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera

Australia’s withholding of aid to Gaza a human rights disgrace

Has this decision been foisted on them by the Australian Israeli Lobby, the LNP, Murdoch, or IPA? It’s certainly not a decision ALP voters would expect of their government. If Palestinian refugees came by boat would they find themselves in forced detention in open-air offshore concentration camps again? We know what Peter Dutton’s position is on that score Yes. While telling Australia it’s a holiday resort compared to where they are now. Israel will be the people smugglers and supply the boats with the foreign aid they already get from us no doubt.

There can be little more morally degenerate than the enabling of and cooperation with what the ICJ has warned is Israel’s “plausible genocide” in Gaza. Wong and Albanese have lost all moral authority and should prepare themselves for their every public utterance to be greeted with contempt, derision and scorn.

The Australian Government has paused contributing to the distribution of aid to Gaza, a decision likely influenced by our toxic allegiance to the USA. Dr Jennifer Wilson reports.

Source: Australia’s withholding of aid to Gaza a human rights disgrace

Israel’s Ministers attend this conference in favor of the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza. That “joke” about beach front properties was always MORE THAN REAL

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Families of the captives also slammed this conference [calling for building illegal settlements in Gaza], saying the ministers who were dancing there, were “dancing on the blood” of 136 Israelis who are still being held inside of Gaza.

Protests [for the release of captives] are taking place on a near-nightly basis with the families trying to block roads, and holding signs that say, “Give up anything”, to get the captives back.

They have been reiterating this for around 115 days, saying that Israel’s government is simply not hearing their plight. They do not feel heard or seen.

They feel that the government is not keeping in line with what they have previously told them and they say that any deal that is on the table, any concession that needs to be given up [to get the captives back] – the time to do so is now.

ICJ Ruling on Gaza Genocide Is Victory for Palestinians That Israel Vows to Defy

Pro-Palestinian activists wave flags during session of the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Israel is set to hear whether the United Nations' top court will order it to end its military offensive in Gaza during a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

It really does seem like a conspiracy with Israel having killed 157 UNRWA staff and many more other independent observers like reporters. A simple allegation accusing the UNWRA of being a systemic branch of Hamas is enough to cut aid. AIPAC and the Israel Lobby appear to have Biden on a  short string in this 2024 election year and had him cut aid to Gaza on their behalf. 1M children lack clothing food water, fuel or electricity and winter is coming on. America and its Western allies have been drawn into war crimes and assisting in an act of genocide.

The 17-judge panel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague issued a series of rulings on Friday about Israel’s conduct during its war against Gaza that constitute a significant legal defeat for Israel and its chief defenders, the United States and Germany.

Source: ICJ Ruling on Gaza Genocide Is Victory for Palestinians That Israel Vows to Defy

Australia’s role in further collective punishment on Gazans – Pearls and Irritations

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While the UN Secretary General and head of UNRWA calls for an investigation into what Israel alleges are crimes committed by some 12 Gazan UNRWA staff (among the 13,000) in the participation of the October 7th events, the leaders of the Western world including Australia just jump on board of these allegations and immediately cut aid to UNRWA. In so doing I believe they are all involved in yet further collective punishment, Australia among them, on an entrapped, starving, drenched, freezing, ill and injured 2.3 million Palestinians.

Source: Australia’s role in further collective punishment on Gazans – Pearls and Irritations

As Civilians Starve in Gaza, Israelis Block Humanitarian Aid Convoy for Third Day – ScheerPost

The Actions of Israel are a reported factual embarrassment to them. The ICJ  told Israel to increase the flow of aid to Gaza and stop using it as a weapon. It’s no coincidence that to continue to restrict aid they accused the UNRWA of being a systemic branch of Hamas. However, simply an allegation rather than a fact. The US or Biden is wedged by Trump in this election year and has been dancing to the Israel Lobby’s tune and has cut UNRWA aid to Gaza. Biden is Israel’s get-out-of-jail card. The UNRWA was a source of independent information that Israel didn’t want to be revealed so reporters and doctors had to be declared branch of Hamas?

The blocking of aid at Kerem Shalom also comes days after the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reported that the IDF launched an attack with artillery shells, live ammunition, and drones on “hundreds of starving civilians” who were waiting near Gaza City for “U.N. trucks carrying limited aid supplies.” Health officials in Gaza said at least 20 people were killed and 150 were injured in the attack.

Source: As Civilians Starve in Gaza, Israelis Block Humanitarian Aid Convoy for Third Day – ScheerPost