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Israel Refuses UN Entry to North Gaza to Rescue People From Under Rubble

David Ben Gurion in a letter to his 16 year old son Amos, 5 October 1937.

“Not one village must be left, not one tribe. And only after this transfer will the country be able to absorb millions of our brothers and the Jewish problem will cease to exist. There is no other solution.”

 Joseph Weitz, Head of Jewish National Fund, from his diary, December 1940.

“We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.” 

Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, quoted in Israeli National Daily, Ha’aretz, April 4, 1969.

“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”

David Ben Gurion, Founder of Israel and First Prime Minister; May 1948 to the General Staff, from ‘Ben Gurion’, a biography by Michael Ben Zohar. Published NY 1978.

“We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimetre of Eretz Israel… Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours.” 

Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces – New York Times 14 April 1983.

“Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.

Menachem Begin from Iron Wall, by Z’ev Japotinsky p. 25 & Simha Flapan, p. 32

“There were no such thing as Palestinians, It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.”

Golda Meir, quoted in The Sunday Times, London and The Washington Post. June 1967. 

“The way to deal with Palestinians is to beat them up. Not once, but repeatedly. Beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it’s unbearable”. 

Benjamin Netanyahu, caught on video speaking to Israeli settlers 2001.

Israel Refuses UN Entry to North Gaza to Rescue People From Under Rubble

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Israeli minister taking ‘legal measures’ against French arms fair ban

Netanyahu accused Macron of a “distressing distortion of history”, saying his country’s founding was achieved by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, not a UN ruling.

Macron told his ministers that Netanyahu “must not forget that his country was created by a decision of the UN”, referring to the resolution adopted in November 1947 by the United Nations general assembly on the plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state.

What Netanyahu conveniently ignores is what preceded what he calls the “Arab War” for more than two decades before there was the TERROR of the ZIONIST WAR . Which came first the chicken or the egg is very clear in this case. Their Project was to establish the Palestinian territory and British Mandate as the “Jewish Homeland”

The Jews conducted a war against both the British and Arabs who had initially accepted Jews as asylum seekers and immigrants. Only 2% of the Jews however purchased any land in Palestine and stole the rest. Before 1929 there was no real tension between Palestinians and Jews other than that “manufactured” by the Zionists to fulfil their political ambition. There was no excuse like the Holocaust in Europe.

Israeli minister taking ‘legal measures’ against French arms fair ban

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- History of Israel hidden from plain sight. TV Series a Must Watch

This television series was released in 2011 and resulted in extreme reaction of Zionist Jews in Australia then almost as extreme as today. Should anyone reveal the historic truths about Zionist Terrori in the takeover of Palestine by the Jews in the reality of the birth of Israel not according to Zionists it needs to be censored. We stand witness in 23/24 to the continuance of a historical context & truth that Israel & their Lobby continue to deny and don’t want told today. Australia’s Jewery as far back as 2011 were able to threaten SBS funding at government levels for showing this film then and those attitudes are even more amplified today. Their objections have been echoed here have been seemingly reduced to little more than trope claiming the true story of Israel remains untold. That the Ashkenazis were only defending themselves in 1945 and the Israelis are still defending themselves today.

Fighting Fake News with REAL 19/10/24, The Promise TV series 2011 buried, MUST WATCH!!! India’s Chauvinism,

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The Promise: controversy rages, understanding lost-2011

This television series was released in 2011 and resulted in an extreme reaction by Zionist Jews in Australia, almost as extreme as today. Dare anyone reveal the historical truths about Zionist Terror in the takeover of Palestine by the Ashkenazi Jews and show the reality of the birth of Israel it needs to be censored. We stand witness in 23/24 to the continuance of that historical context & truth. Israel & their Lobby continue today to deny that truth and don’t want it told or in any way examined.

Australia’s Jewery as far back as 2011 were able to threaten the ABC & SBS’s funding at government levels for showing this film then reveals attitudes and influences that are even more amplified today. While their objections echoed here have been reduced to little more than trope the true story of Israel’s birth and development remains untold. That the Ashkenazis were only defending themselves in 1945 and the Israelis are still defending themselves today amounts to what has always been Zionist propaganda

How seriously should the ECAJ’s complaint – or feeling in the Jewish community that the series is anti-Semitic and grossly insulting to Holocaust survivors – be taken?

They also object that SBS marketed a fictional account as a historical truth.

The principal objection from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry to the series – as explained in a strongly worded and detailed complaint to SBS – is that the “insidious” series involves a collective group libel that:

“Unrelentingly portrays the entire Jewish presence throughout the country, including modern-day Israel, as an act of usurpation by Jews who, without exception, are aliens, predators and thieves and who enforce their usurpation by brutal, racist policies akin to those inflicted by the Nazis upon the Jewish people.”

This is an extraordinary charge. In addition the ECAJ’s concerns are going to be raised via political allies at Senate Estimates hearings in mid-February, to which SBS director Michael Ebeid has been summoned. There is an implied threat to SBS funding.

The Promise: controversy rages, understanding lost

Informed Comment

Regulators duck for cover as Australian media fails to correct “40 babies beheaded”

Michael West reports.Australia’s mainstream media continues to push the unfounded October 7 narrative of “babies beheaded” and “mass rapes” which gave rise to Israel’s extreme “collective punishment” in Gaza.

Regulators duck for cover as Australian media fails to correct “40 babies beheaded”

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Antisemitism, Zionism and the war in Gaza: Sara Dowse, Author

Antisemitism, Zionism and the war in Gaza: Sara Dowse, Author

America's Shame

Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It.

The United States voted against a U.N. resolution that sets a 12-month timeframe to end Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.

Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It.

Zionism

Zionism International is Working Both Sides of the Atlantic

Walling Off the Truth

Journalists in the US and UK have paid little attention to what is happening to their colleagues in Palestine. It is another indicator of the racial hierarchy by which western media assign the status of victimhood (see Sussman 2022). The state and mainstream media collaboration of the US and UK with the Israeli propaganda apparatuses and their operatives in Britain and America make a farce of the notion of “freedom of the press.”

Zionism International is Working Both Sides of the Atlantic

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The United Nations and states, individually and collectively, are responsible for Palestine and Israel

All States are under an obligation not to recognise as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. They are also under an obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. It is for all States, while respecting the Charter of the United Nations and international law, to ensure that any impediment resulting from the illegal presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the exercise of the Palestinian people of its right to self-determination is brought to an end. In addition, all the States parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention have the obligation, while respecting the Charter of the United Nations and international law, to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law as embodied in that Convention.

The United Nations and states, individually and collectively, are responsible for Palestine and Israel

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Jordanians hail as hero man who killed settlers at Allenby crossing

“Everyone came to congratulate us,” said his cousin Sheikh Habis al-Jazi at the funeral of the Jordanian truck driver who fatally shot three Israelis at the Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank on 8 September, and was himself killed by Israeli guards.

Shooting at Allenby

Maher Thiab Hussein al-Jazi arrived by truck at the goods inspection area on the occupied West Bank side of the Allenby Bridge on Sunday morning and opened fire with a handgun at Israelis operating the crossing.

Yohanan Schuri, Yuri Birenbaum and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer died of their wounds. All three lived in illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The three settlers were employed as forklift operators by the Israel Airports Authority, a department under the Israeli ministry of transport that manages land crossings.

Israel considers them to be civilians, although they were part and parcel of a military occupation that the International Court of Justice recently declared to be inherently illegal.

Israeli security guards shot and killed al-Jazi on the scene.

Footage circulated on social media, taken by someone from a nearby vehicle behind a fence, shows the lifeless body of al-Jazi. A man with a pistol then approaches the body and shoots al-Jazi in the head at point-blank range, even though he is already incapacitated.

Jordanians hail as hero man who killed settlers at Allenby crossing

Facebook

‘From the river to the sea’ doesn’t violate Meta rules: Oversight panel

Meta’s independent oversight board has ruled that the phrase “from the river to the sea”, often used in solidarity with Palestinians, does not in and of itself violate the company’s current policies.

‘From the river to the sea’ doesn’t violate Meta rules: Oversight panel

UK

UK Prime Minister Terrorizing Palestine Supporters

After the arrest of Sarah Wilkinson on Thursday, Jonathan Cook says Keir Starmer is determined to silence critics of his — and his government’s — complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

UK Prime Minister Terrorizing Palestine Supporters

August 30, 2024

Israel

Miko Peled: Inside Israel’s ‘Insane Society’ that Systematically Tortures and Rapes Palestinians

Miko Peled: Inside Israel’s ‘Insane Society’ that Systematically Tortures and Rapes Palestinians

America, America's Shame, American Hypocrisy

US tells UN Security Council Gaza ceasefire ‘in sight’ ahead of Cairo talks

US tells UN Security Council Gaza ceasefire ‘in sight’ ahead of Cairo talks

America, America's Shame, American Hypocrisy, American Politics, American War, voice of America

More Than 70 DNC Protesters Arrested, Including Several Journalists

The mass arrests occurred at a protest outside the Israeli consulate. Earlier arrests left protesters hospitalized and without access to lawyers.

More Than 70 DNC Protesters Arrested, Including Several Journalists

Morality

Partners in Genocide: Israel is Slaughtering Palestinians with Western Arms 

One can continue to argue that Israel must respect international law, and that Burma must respect human rights. But what use are mere words when the wWest continues to provide the murder weapon, with no moral or legal accountability?

Partners in Genocide: Israel is Slaughtering Palestinians with Western Arms 

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The 1948 Irgun re-born?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel gives a joint address to Congress in the US Capitol in Washington, DC on July 24, 2024. The Prime Minister’s visit caused mixed reactions from Congress, with some members refusing to attend or claiming to have other preexisting commitments. Image:AAP/ Annabelle Gordon/Sipa USA

Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon, former Chief of Staff of the IDF, who also served as Israel’s Defence Minister, had this to say in a video interview on the forces taking over in Israel:

“When you talk about Smotrich and Ben Gvir: They have a Rabbi. His name is Dov Lior. He is the Rabbi of the Jewish Underground, who intended to blow up the Dome of the Rock – and before that the buses in Jerusalem. Why? In order to hurry up the ‘Last War’. Do you [not] hear them talking in terms of the Last War; or of Smotrich’s concept of ‘subjugation’? Read the article he published in Shiloh in 2017. First of all, this concept rests on Jewish supremacy: Mein Kampf in reverse”.

“My hair stands on end when I say that – as he said it. I learned and grew up in the house of Holocaust survivors and ‘never again’. It is Mein Kampf in reverse: Jewish supremacy: and therefore [Smotrich] says: “My wife won’t go into a room with an Arab”. It is anchored in ideology. And then actually what he aspires to – as soon as possible – is to go to a big war. A war of Gog and Magog. How do you start the flames? A massacre like the [1994] Cave of the Patriarchs? Baruch Goldstein is a student of this Rabbi. Ben Gvir has hung up Goldstein’s picture [in his house]”.

“This is what goes into the decision-making process in the Israeli government”.

Rabbi Dov Lior has been described by Netanyahu as the “élite unit that leads Israel”, because of his influence and control over the settler forces. The 1948 Irgun, drawing heavily on the Mizrahim, is being reborn?

The 1948 Irgun re-born?

Israel

Israel’s Mask Is Slipping
America

Why has America risked it all in Gaza?

No Israeli military goal requires the total destruction of Gaza. Killing 40,000 Palestinians – a death toll that could reach 186,000 per some estimates – and injuring many more serves no clear strategic purpose. Nor does the systematic and wholesale destruction of Gazan universities, schools, hospitals and neighbourhoods. If Israel wants to occupy and annex Gaza, presumably it would want to inherit something more than a blast zone.

Gone is the rhetoric of “peaceful coexistence” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises instead “total victory”.


History can give a clue as to what he might mean by that phrase. It is eerily similar to the German word Endsieg, which literally translates to “final victory” and described the full realisation of the Nazi regime’s genocidal ambitions. The parallels are chilling.

Why has America risked it all in Gaza?

terrorism

Who Is a Terrorist? A Lesson in Semantics

Is politics in America so corrupt and cynical that Netanyahu, the thuggish Likud Mafioso now in control in the Holy Land, gets repeated standing ovations from the representatives of small town America?

Who Is a Terrorist? A Lesson in Semantics

Israel, Israel Crimes

Israel lobby ramps up scare campaigns in fear of truth
Israel lobby ramps up scare campaigns in fear of truth

Israel lobby groups have increased efforts to silence those accusing the nation of genocide in Gaza.

The United States makes much of the role of the Iranian Council of Guardians selecting acceptable candidates for political office but ignores the role of its own Council of Guardians, AIPAC, which decides on suitable candidates for office.

U.S. Congressman Jamaal Bowman, once a recipient of lobby largesse, after seeing reality in Palestine on a J Street-funded excursion, called Gaza a genocide and said boycotts were legitimate.  

Israeli lobby groups spent $9.9 million in a Democrat primary to get rid of him in favour of a supporter of Israel.

The scare campaign around rising anti-Semitism, which conflates criticism of Israel’s mass atrocities with prejudice against Jews, is a feature of most of the old colonial countries.

Mary Kostakidis, one of Australia’s most respected journalists, who speaks truth to power, has written regarding the Israeli genocide in Gaza:

‘In an effort to silence me, the Zionist Federation have filed a complaint with the [Australian Human Rights Commission] for racial vilification, aided by a reporter who can’t do his own research.’

The lobby levelled another case of harassment and suspicious accusations against a Palestinian Australian engaged in anti-genocide activity

Hash Tayeh, who had to present himself to the police over alleged anti-Semitic comments, was not charged and his matter has been referred to the Office of Public Prosecutions.

His Caulfield Burgertory outlet was set on fire, allegedly by two men, on 10 November, an attack he claimed was linked to his involvement in a pro-Palestine rally and thus a hate crime.

Then we witnessed the arrest of a Palestinian activist in the Prime Minister’s electoral office.

Sarah Shaweesh, who was asking about the delay in visas for her family in Gaza, was arrested.

The office refused to help her.

She is a key organiser of the 24/7 Gaza sit-in protest in front of the PM’s office.

Israel lobby ramps up scare campaigns in fear of truth

ISRAEL |

Bilal Cleland

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No to Russia, yes to Israel. But are the Olympic Games still relevant?

The TV rights bonanza has stalled, the frenzy to secure hosting rights is a thing of the past, and the Olympic’s political relevance has been reduced to who can be the most outraged over the artistic merits of the opening ceremony.

No to Russia, yes to Israel. But are the Olympic Games still relevant?

by Kim Wingerei | Jul 30, 2024

Informed Comment

Big Lie: Biden & Harris Hate Israel; Trump Loves Russia

On the fantasy worlds of Democrats trying to free Palestine from the river to the sea and Republicans trying to turn the White House into a puppet regime of Moscow, writes Caitlin Johnstone. 

Big Lie: Biden & Harris Hate Israel; Trump Loves Russia

July 29, 2024

Israel

Groups Demand Probe of Israeli Influence Operations Targeting Americans
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

“The administration must work to defend our democracy fully, and ensure that no foreign state has a green light to inappropriately target American citizens or manipulate our democratic process.”

Groups Demand Probe of Israeli Influence Operations Targeting Americans

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Australia's Shame

The real threat to ‘social cohesion’ is the ongoing genocide of Palestine

Over the past 6 months, the diarrhoea tsunami that is Australian political discourse found its new favourite meaningless phrase: ‘social cohesion’.

Those who use the phrase claim that it is about maintaining a respectful society, so we can all come together around the campfire at the end of the day and sing Kumbaya. Oddly enough, the ongoing genocide, which is attempting to wipe out an entire society, does not seem to count as a ‘threat to social cohesion’. Just the protests against it. 

The real threat to ‘social cohesion’ is the ongoing genocide of Palestine

Israel

Hezbollah Drones
How Drones form part of Hezbollah’s deterrence Strategy against Israel

The drone footage provides evidence of Hezbollah’s growing technological capabilities. Along with Nasrallah’s speech, it appears designed to check Israeli threats to invade Lebanon and send a message that Hezbollah has the ability to cause serious damage in Israel in the event of a full-scale war.

How Drones form part of Hezbollah’s deterrence Strategy against Israel

Trump

Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Hitler did it Trump’s doing it

FIRE SALE

The cynical billionaires who support Trump — whether feverishly with piles of ill-gotten wealth or passively by not using their wealth and influence to try to stop the fascist train — are the enemy within. These MAGA bankrollers believe that great individual wealth is a sign of the holder’s innate superiority, not the lucky fallout of nepotism, whiteness, a privileged childhood, and access to education. They are the 21st Century American version of the German industrialists, bankers, and rich families who bankrolled Hitler and the Nazis in the 1930s, similarly fanatical about expanding their already-vast wealth and willing to ignore the consequences of the creeping fascism that they are enabling.

Source: Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

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Chris Hedge’s Promise
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Australia must recognise Palestine to promote peace – Pearls and Irritations

22nd October 2023, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian. The Palestinian Flag and the blurred faces of Supporters of the Pro Palestine Rally, Credit: Contributor: P.j.Hickox / Alamy Stock Photo

If we don’t recognize Palestine we don’t recognize that Israel has killed and wounded over 120,000 people and has continued to illegally occupy seize and settle land disposed of the people living there. Basically, we are washing our hands of the matter like Pontius Pilate. Pilate washed his hands in front of the crowd before announcing, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” The Jewish people shouted in response, “His blood be on us and our children.” It’s a passage that would be used for millennia to persecute the Jewish people.

In opposition, our prime minister and the Labor Party were fierce champions of Palestine and passionate voices for justice. I ask that we summon that spirit of old and do the same in power. Let historians write of us that we were on the right side of history, that we boldly reinforced international law, and that we were a shining beacon and voice for freedom.

It is time to recognise Palestine.

Source: Australia must recognise Palestine to promote peace – Pearls and Irritations

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The elephant in the Zionist classroom

WHAT IS IT about the Australian Jewish community, Australian Jewish “faith” schools and Israel?

Michael Brull spent 13 years at Moriah College, and he outlined in 2013 his experience as a fish out of water. The Jewish school system’s attachment to Israel appears deeply embedded. In particular, camps, both in Australia and Israel, involve soldier training simulations that feed, whether directly through recruitment or in sympathy, into Israel’s militarised society and killing machine.

An unqualified attachment by the Jewish school system to a pariah state sits uneasily with the system’s other “core values” that emphasise critical thinking and Jewish ethics.

Is this school system the nursery for the Israel lobby in Australia?

Source: The elephant in the Zionist classroom

USA

Intruder at Large: The United States in the Middle East – CounterPunch.org

American policymakers have regarded command of the Persian Gulf a foreign policy imperative since it emerged as the world’s economic and military power following the Second World War.   Because of its location and rich resources, it is, in the words of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61), the “most strategically important area in the world.”

The U.S. doctrine of dominance that began in the 1940s and has kept the Middle East divided, chaotic and dependent must come to an end so that transformation can begin. Radical and profound change of the region’s social, political and economic order can only come about if the United States departs, Zionism ends and Palestinians return to a free Palestine. Anything less will fail.

Source: Intruder at Large: The United States in the Middle East – CounterPunch.org

Israel, Israel Crimes

Apple Matches Donations to IDF and Illegal Settlements, Employees Allege

Apple Pay-New Features

Apple employees and shareholders demands the tech giant stop matching employee donations to organizations with ties to the Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip and ongoing illegal settlement development in the West Bank. The letter, building on a previous demand by Apple employees for a ceasefire in the conflict, calls on the company to “promptly investigate and cease matching donations to all organizations that further illegal settlements in occupied territories and support the IDF.”

organizations on Apple’s matching contribution list appear to include support for religious extremism or back activity in the West Bank deemed illegal under international law. The One Israel Fund, for example, includes on its website a talk titled “The Arab Takeover of Judea and Samaria: Who Is Behind It; What Can Be Done?” — invoking the religious name of the territory that is deemed to be part of a future Palestinian state under international law. HaYovel, a Christian Zionist organization, states on its website that its goal is to help further the “prophetic restoration” of a region that “many incorrectly refer to as the West Bank.” The charitable status of the Jewish National Fund has come under criticism in both the U.S. and European Union due its historic involvement in the “systematic discrimination” against Palestinians since the founding of the state of Israel, as well as ongoing support for dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank. 

Source: Apple Matches Donations to IDF and Illegal Settlements, Employees Allege

America

Palestine Is on the Ballot

AIPAC, The Lobby, Billionaires & Money. But the flow of that money will have been laundered and not revealed until 2025

In numerous races across the country this year, Palestine is a key issue for voters. Popular opinion is on the side of a Gaza cease-fire, but pro-Israel billionaires are spending big to overcome that antiwar will.

Source: Palestine Is on the Ballot

UK

UK Foreign Office Revolt Over Gaza

staff in the Foreign Office, I’m told up to 300, have formally raised concerns with ministers, seeking a change of course.

They are questioning ministers’ actions and policy in relation to Gaza and asking to see the legal advice they received that this is based on — advice that they have so far refused to publish, despite calls to do so from some in Parliament.

[See: UK Ignores Its Lawyers’ Warnings on Arms to Israel]

Source: UK Foreign Office Revolt Over Gaza

Israel

USAID Contractor Resigns After Presentation on Maternal & Child Mortality in Gaza Canceled

Smith worked as a senior adviser on gender, maternal health, child health and nutrition at USAID until last week, when he was set to deliver a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians. One day before he was scheduled to present, the USAID leadership canceled his presentation. Smith says he was then given a choice between resignation and dismissal. “I would like them to stop gaslighting and speak truthfully about what is happening,” says Smith, who says USAID must do more than acknowledge famine is happening in Gaza. “We need to take the next step of saying it is illegal and who is doing the starvation intentionally.” Smith condemns the Biden administration for silencing U.S. experts while supporting Israel, which claims there is no famine in Gaza. “It’s shameful that that misinformation can go around the world to millions, while we at USAID can’t even whisper about it in a conference on gender and human rights and health outcomes.”

StoryMay 31, 2024 https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/31/alex_smith_usaid_resignation_gaza_war?jwsource=cl

Exclusive: USAID Contractor Resigns After Presentation on Maternal & Child Mortality in Gaza Canceled

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“This Is a Crime”

StoryMay 30, 2024

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/30/israel_icc?jwsource=cl

A joint investigation by The Guardian and the Israeli +972 Magazine revealed that Israel surveilled, hacked, smeared and threatened top ICC officials, including chief prosecutor Karim Khan and his predecessor, Fatou Bensouda. The former head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, is said to have personally threatened Bensouda. The revelations come just a week after Khan announced he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three top leaders of Hamas. “This is a crime,” Roth says of the Israeli campaign against the ICC. He says the revelations also undermine U.S. claims that Israel can hold itself accountable. “There is no good-faith Israeli investigation. There is a concerted, high-level effort to undermine justice to protect Netanyahu, Gallant and others from war crime charges.”

“This Is a Crime”: Ken Roth on Israel’s Secret War Targeting the ICC to Derail War Crimes Charges

Israel, Israel Crimes

Israel’s Stalking Operation against the ICC is Mirrored in its Canary Mission attack on US Universities

The backdrop to the plan of troglodytes in Congress to harass the ICC is that Netanyahu’s government in Israel has run a decade-long campaign of spying and intimidation against the judges of the International Criminal Court, according to an investigation of The Guardian and two Israeli magazines, +972 Mag and Local Call, published by journalists Harry Davies, Bethan McKernan, Yuval Abraham, and Meron Rapoport.

It is important to point out that the same cast of cyber-bullies has run an operation against American universities under the rubric of “Canary Mission,” in coordination with the inquisitorial Ministry of Strategic Affairs. headed by the American Ron Dermer. So reported James Bamford in The Nation. Canary Mission smears and doxes students and professors at American universities who stand for Palestinian rights in an attempt to interfere with their careers and for the purpose of intimidating them and others into silence.

Both operations are Israeli government-inspired but aided by local agents. Despite the US federal law, FARA, which requires agents of foreign governments to register, Israeli such agents have been exempted from such requirements for political reasons, including Canary Mission and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Source: Israel’s Stalking Operation against the ICC is Mirrored in its Canary Mission attack on US Universities

Israel

We don’t know what Australian Jews think about Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

Australia and Israel flag together relations textile cloth fabric texture

Since October 2023, much has been said about what Jewish Australians think about Israel’s war in Gaza. If you’ve been reading the statistics quoted in media articles, you can be forgiven for thinking that the vast majority of Australian Jews support Israel’s war in Gaza and believe that the student protests on Australian University campuses constitute antisemitism and should be shut down. In reality, we have no idea what the majority of Australian Jews feel about either of these issues because there is no representative survey that has asked us.

Instead, the statistics that are stated in media articles, provided by both Jewish and non-Jewish contributors, are ostensibly drawn from a survey that was finalised prior to the attacks of October 7, 2023, the subsequent violence of the Israeli military in Gaza, and actions in support of Gaza on our University campuses. If you read these articles carefully, you will note that the oft cited statistics don’t even relate to the Israeli military actions and the fallout from them. Instead, they cite wide support for Zionism and Israel and conflate this with support for what has unfolded in Gaza over the past seven months.

Source: We don’t know what Australian Jews think about Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Jewish extremists in West Bank pose biggest threat to Israel: report – Pearls and Irritations

Jewish settlers with their rifles at the vibrant Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, Israel. December 2009

They have always been there but have been ignored. They have assassinated Israel’s PM and were forgotten. They are in the Israeli cabinet and have never been as powerful as they are today except for before Israel was created. They are what Israel has become today run by terrorists and gangsters. Ben Gvir has been and still is a terrorist who wants total control of Gaza. While Smotrich ran a blockade against Gaza not to keep Palestinians locked in but to stop Jews from leaving. They are the genocidal maniacs running Israel and Netanyahu is their puppet

The conclusion? “After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law,” to use the words of Bergman and Mazzetti. Yet no Israeli politician will dare say this in public.”

But two highly experienced reporters from The New York Times recently filed an extremely detailed report outlining the threat that the country faces from Jewish terrorists in the occupied West Bank – something which, according to the material they gathered, far exceeds any threat from the sources mentioned above.

Source: Jewish extremists in West Bank pose biggest threat to Israel: report – Pearls and Irritations

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L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty, From Los Angeles to Iran – CounterPunch.org

L’chaim’s opposition to state murder is grounded in the fact that  many at L’chaim like myself – one of its co-founders – are direct descendants of Holocaust survivors. L’chaim carries the torch of one such survivor, Poet Laureate Elie Wiesel, who famously said of capital punishment: “Death is not the answer.”  L’chaim also follows in the footsteps of renowned Jewish theologian Martin Buber, and other Jewish human rights luminaries who opposed the execution of the Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eichmann. Members of L’chaim are keenly aware that the USA continues to carry on the Nazi legacy that is lethal injection, and to erect more and more gas chambers, including those that propose use of Zyklon B, of Auschwitz infamy. L’chaim stands with its partners in Louisiana – the Jews Against Gassing Coalition, chanting loudly together that Jews will “never forget!” As Wiesel said: “With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s human to become an agent of the angel of death.”

Source: L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty, From Los Angeles to Iran – CounterPunch.org

Israel

Racism and discrimination in Israeli school texts by an Israeli expert on education

Nurit Peled-Elhanan maintains that these same books instill racist attitudes and enhance ignorance of “. . . the real social and geopolitical situations and of geographical and historical discourse.” Upon graduation from secondary school, young Israelis are drafted into military service to implement Israeli policies against Palestinians “. . . whose life-world is unknown to them and whose very existence they have been taught to resent and fear” (p. 232). How does Peled-Elhanan arrive at such conclusions?

Peled-Elhanan demonstrates that all Israeli schoolbooks hold some common assumptions about Palestinians and history. They emphasize Jewish historical rights to the land. Arabs are hateful and a threat to the state. Also, the Arabs have twenty-one states and the Jews have only one. Palestinian citizens are seen as a demographic problem (or threat). The Palestinians in the occupied territories must be controlled, otherwise they will kill Israelis. Therefore the only solution resides in: “A Jewish state, Jewish majority, Israeli control” (p. 21)

What is a soldier to do? Does he obey or disobey? The schoolbooks that taught him/her imbued them with fear of a dehumanized “other.” Indeed, school texts can be seen as a weapon whose use is justified precisely because the “other” is actually an imposter and an intruder. The soldier is the true “indigene.” With such logic, how can an Israeli soldier ever consider the “other” as an equal? Israeli education, as currently constructed, disallows education for peace and coexistence from its curricula (p. 232).

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Palestine and History: Macklemore v. Hillary Clinton

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered herself of some ahistorical and distorted remarks about Palestine on Morning Joe, maintaining that the young people protesting the Gaza atrocities do not know history.

Ms. Clinton’s self-serving description of the 2000 Camp David process has been debunked by many historians. In fact, her husband Bill Clinton promised in the Oslo Accords in 1993 that Israel would withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank by 1997. He then allowed Benjamin Netanyahu to sabotage that process and allowed the Israelis to double the number of squatters they sent in to the Palestinian West Bank to steal property and terrorize people. When Netanyahu went out and Ehud Barak came in, Clinton sponsored negotiations, but Barak was maddeningly vague about what he would offer and never produced a text that Yasser Arafat could sign. It is not clear why Arafat needed to sign anything more; he already signed the Oslo treaty, which should have resulted in an Israeli withdrawal that never came. Soon thereafter Barak lost to Ariel Sharon, who was as determined to sabotage any land for peace deal as Netanyahu had been, and he wrecked the whole process.

Her placing of all the blame on the Palestinians is typical of inside-the-Beltway Goy Zionism, and is profoundly ahistorical. The young people can’t be fooled by these glib words. They see what they see.

Source: Palestine and History: Macklemore v. Hillary Clinton

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Israel’s war machine, Australian Universities, and why students are protesting – Pearls and Irritations

Protesting students occupy an area of the quadrangle at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Friday, May 3, 2024. Encampments have sprung up at colleges in major Australian cities as participants protest over the Israel-Hamas war in solidarity with student demonstrators in the United States. Image:AAP/AP/Rick Rycroft

Australian university students are setting up encampments in universities across Australia. They are not only calling for an end to the war on Gaza and freedom for Palestinians, they are calling for key changes needed in Australian universities’ relationships with Israel, including divestments in weapons research and development and sales and the cessation of links to Israeli Universities involved in the Israeli military complex.

Source: Israel’s war machine, Australian Universities, and why students are protesting – Pearls and Irritations

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Which is worse, Israel’s lies about Gaza or its western backers who repeat those lies? | Mehdi Hasan | The Guardian

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Source: Which is worse, Israel’s lies about Gaza or its western backers who repeat those lies? | Mehdi Hasan | The Guardian

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After 200 Days of Carnage, US and UN suddenly Shocked at Israeli Mass Graves for Palestinians in Gaza

After 200 Days of Carnage, US and UN suddenly Shocked at Israeli Mass Graves for Palestinians in Gaza

“This is something that forces us to call for an independent investigation of all the suspicions and all the circumstances because it indeed creates the impression that there might have been violations of international human rights committed,” the EU’s spokesman, Peter Stano, declared.

‘Might have been’? There was evidence even without the discovery of mass graves, but the international community prefers to rest on speculation in the face of evidence. With one phrase, proof has been turned into an assumption. Can the international community, at least, stop sensationalising the horror of mass graves and focus on the entire genocidal process which wants to eliminate all traces of Palestinians? No independent investigation will cancel the fact that genocide unfolded with the international community’s blessing and, as a result, so did the mass graves.

Source: After 200 Days of Carnage, US and UN suddenly Shocked at Israeli Mass Graves for Palestinians in Gaza

Australia's Shame

Australia is a silent partner in atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank – Pearls and Irritations

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On 27 February, we wrote to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) expressing concern that Australia had failed to fulfil its obligation under the Genocide Convention (1948) to prevent any action that further risks the survival of the Palestinian people. That failure continues.

Source: Australia is a silent partner in atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank – Pearls and Irritations

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Australia too soft on war criminals

With Australian soldiers returning from fighting alongside Israeli forces, it’s questionable if the Labor Government will investigate possible war crimes, writes Bilal Cleland.

WHILE WE HAVE long discriminated against First Nations people, we have been open to those who look like “us”, White European colonists, being somewhat too accepting of backgrounds.

Source: Australia too soft on war criminals

Informed Comment

Chris Hedges: Revolt in the Universities

There are many shameful periods in American history. The genocide we carried out against indigenous peoples. Slavery. The violent suppression of the labor movement that saw hundreds of workers killed. Lynching. Jim and Jane Crow. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya.

The genocide in Gaza, which we fund and support, is of such monstrous proportions that it will achieve a prominent place in this pantheon of crimes.

History will not be kind to most of us. But it will bless and revere these students.

Source: Chris Hedges: Revolt in the Universities

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Terrorism is what I say it is – Pearls and Irritations

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‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less’. ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things’.
 ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all’. – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass.

we do know that, after October 7, Israel’s leaders intended to inflict terror on Palestinians and commit genocide.

Source: Terrorism is what I say it is – Pearls and Irritations

Iran

Iran Refuses to Bow — Can it Afford to Stand?

Not that Israeli society is currently an exemplar of social cohesion in comparison. Netanyahu’s fascistic coalition is well aware of the deep and deepening detestation with which it is viewed by a significant proportion of its own people. This after six months of unrelenting military assault that has failed to achieve the destruction of Hamas and/or the release of the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza.

Source: Iran Refuses to Bow — Can it Afford to Stand?

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