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Clearly those 300 cuffed themselves first and then got lost in the basement after they couldn´t find the keys any more and died of thirst.
Why are you making things so difficult!good text:
“Israel’s Architect of Ethnic Cleansing”
As Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza unfolds, the spectre of Yosef Weitz lives on, writes Stefan Moore.https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/23/israels-architect-of-ethnic-cleansing/
“Stefan Moore is an American-Australian documentary filmmaker whose films have received four Emmys and numerous other awards. In New York he was a series producer for WNET and a producer for the prime-time CBS News magazine program 48 HOURS. In the U.K. he worked as a series producer at the BBC, and in Australia he was an executive producer for the national film company Film Australia and ABC-TV.”
EUs von der Leyen hail Israel in new speech:
“You have literally made the desert bloom,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a video message on Wednesday, hailing the Zionist entity as a “vibrant democracy”.
Video:
Today we celebrate 75 years of Israel’s independence and friendship with Europe.
A special message from President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyenhttps://twitter.com/EUinIsrael/status/1651088583644594177?s=20
These EU people are worse than the kings and emperors of yesteryear since it was easier to get to those then, like with assassinations, brute attacks by peasants e.g., or take say 1789-execution style. State force, interestingly with the rise of democratic parliamentarianism has in fact increased. By measure of physical force the individual citizen is weaker than he used to be.
That makes it even easier for such delusional indiviuals like cozy “Little Bear” von der Liar.
Because I assure you she in fact believes that genocidal idiotic babbling of hers when running around in that castle or wherever she is lollopping around.AG
Apparently that was a statement from last year, my bad, not sure if von der Leyen said the same racist bs this year though, I do not want to know.
Ursula Von der Leyen slammed for ‘You have literally made the desert bloom’ message to Israel
EU President Ursula von der Leyen has been criticised for making ‘racist’ remarks in her recent speech about Israel Independence Day
Implying that Israel was built in the “desert” is incredibly de-legitimizing and dehumanizing of the palestinian people (and other ethnicities) living on that very soil before Israel was built.
The claim that Zionist settlers “made the desert bloom” is one of the most recognizable Israeli talking points, perhaps second only to the “land without a people for a people without a land” slogan. This line is used so often that it has become a rather parodied cliché. But cliché or not, it still endures to this day and is fervently repeated over and over by Israelis and their supporters worldwide.
https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-made-the-desert-bloom/
Sounds like her speech was written by the israeli lobby. Speaking of which:
After House Speaker Mike Johnson Pushed Through Israel Aid Package, AIPAC Cash Came Flowing In
The pro-Israel lobby donated around $95,000 to Johnson after he led the House passage of an extra $14 billion for Israel.
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/20/israel-aipac-house-mike-johnson/
Finkelstein in the interview for TRT which I linked in the main section earlier today in fact says, he would spit into Scholz´ face. Despite the admission that Germans might have a more difficult time than others. But this would not give them the right to act the way they do and talk about it constantly. They should simply shut up.
And in that regard it doesn´t matter how old the statement is. It could be 20 or 30 years old. The problem would still stand because those statements, the mindset behind them is built on such racist, fake formulas that you mention.AG
Very true, as we have seen past months now it does not matter how many massacres being carried out or how many palestinians killed or how many obvious war crimes being commited by Israel – the west will not change their stance because as you say, it is a racist mindset from the beginning, a racist foundation. There could problably be as many aa 100000 palestinians killed and the west will still only respond by the claim ” israel have the right to defend itself”.
What is telling also how western politicians/journalists cannot in their life understand why their populations have so much compassion for Palestine. Instead they make up stories now that the protests are directed from China, Russia.
Blaming Russia
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1783186070558933411
Blaming China
https://twitter.com/EmekaGift100/status/1755207601921335514…and HAMAS is behind it too.
I didn´t know about that creative new spin until today. See new post by Craig today, for my link/comment (April 26, 2024 at 10:38).AG
Terrible, and all this is being done under the watch of a Democratic regime. If this is the Democrats, well then the Republican response would be even worse. It is sickening to see the increasing right-wing turn of the Democrats past couple of years.
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In other news: The hypocrisy by the West:Biden and 17 other world leaders call for ‘immediate release’ of hostages held by Hamas
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/biden-17-other-world-leaders-130105366.htmlWhen close to 40000 have been killed, the west have no condemnations against the perpetrator but the victim!
EU condemn Iran after they legally responded to Israel’s consulate bombing…which the EU did not condemn!
Members of the European Parliament have adopted a resolution strongly condemning the recent Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel and calling for further sanctions against Iran.
The resolution was adopted on April 25 with 357 votes in favour, 20 against and 58 abstentions.
https://sofiaglobe.com/2024/04/26/meps-condemn-irans-attack-on-israel-call-for-de-escalation/
AG
I agree with the Bucha comment you left (April 26, 2024 at 18:12), it is completely different now when it comes to the Gaza massacre. Almost no reporting, no condemnations, no sanctions.
Just look how US react when 350-400 palestinian corpses being unearthed:
https://twitter.com/AssalRad/status/1783554457500111194It seems that Israel control everything, US will not even sanction a minor IDF unit in the West Bank:
U.S. Delays Plans to Sanction IDF Unit Embroiled in Alleged Human Rights Violations
Four of five units under review have undergone proper remediation steps by Israel, according to a letter by Secretary of State Antony Blinken obtained by ABC. The allegations involving the units occurred before the current war in GazaNot really news but another proof of what Israel is doing:
Israel struck zones in Gaza it had declared ‘safe’ – NBC
Investigation claims to have found that Palestinians have been killed in airstrikes on areas of Rafah IDF told public to go toSigh
Boston cops clear pro-Palestinian college protest (VIDEOS)
University:“What began as a student demonstration two days ago, was infiltrated by professional organizers with no affiliation to Northeastern,” the university claimed in a statement. “Last night, the use of virulent antisemitic slurs, including ‘Kill the Jews,’ crossed the line. We cannot tolerate this kind of hate on our campus.”
Obviously the chant did not come from pro-Palestinian protesters but pro-israelis that tried to discredit the protests on the campuses!
The Massachusetts chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), however, claimed that anti-Semitic chants were not started by the protesters, but by “pro-Israel counter-supporters” attempting to discredit the pro-Palestinian side. Video footage shared by the DSA on Saturday apparently shows protesters shouting down someone who tried to start a chant of “Kill the Jews.”
https://swentr.site/news/596692-israel-palestinian-protest-northeastern-boston/
Always these type of false-flags…
Follow up to the comment above, as Jimmy Dore Show hosts said: pro-palestinian protesters do not use such language and are very sensitive not to say something that Israel/supporters could use against them:
Infiltrators EXPOSED At NYC G@za Protests!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmeDW9l_W0Despicable but not a surprising act by Saudi Arabia:
Israeli plane previously used by Mossad officials lands in Riyadh: Report
A private plane, previously used by officials with the Israeli regime’s Mossad spy agency, reportedly lands in the Saudi capital amid the likelihood of resumption of normalization talks between Riyadh and Tel Aviv.The arab leaders seems to have zero interest in supporting the palestinians against Israel.
on the other hand:
D.C. police refused to clear a protest site:https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/27/dc-police-refuse-gwu-request-to-arrest-students/
“Holocaust Survivor Tells Student Anti-Genocide Protesters: ‘Just Keep Doing It’
April 28, 2024“There is a question of historical responsibility towards injustice, genocide, and fascism,” said Stephen Kapos. “If you are indifferent, if you do not take a stand, you acquire a degree of guilt.”
Presidential candidate Jill Stein (jewish) arrested on campus:
https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1784411081340809348Jewish holocaust researcher: “Yes it is genocide”
In most cases of genocide, from Bosnia to Namibia, from Rwanda to Armenia, the perpetrators of the murder said they were acting in self-defence. The fact that what is happening in Gaza does not resemble the Holocaust, writes Holocaust scholar Amos Goldberg, does not mean that it is not genocide
https://thepalestineproject.medium.com/yes-it-is-genocide-634a07ea27d4
IDF soldier changed his mind of the war after witnessing the brutality Israel commit in Gaza:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa-VDAjL8vMGaza Campus Protestors: Today’s “Have You No Sense of Decency?”
by Michael Hudsonon Gaza, McCarthyism today and past.
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Hudson last week wrote a statement that Jill Stein was about to press for a Congressional Committee on US secret intelligence services.
Today from JACK we know that Jill Stein was arrested for participating in the campus protests.Stein is as well running in the Presidential race.
Hudson has a long text so allow me to quote just the initial paragraphs to get a gist of his take:
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The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the 1950s when everyone’s eyes were glued to the TV broadcast of the McCarthy hearings. And the student revolts incited by vicious college presidents trying to stifle academic freedom when it opposes foreign unjust wars awakens memories of the 1960s protests against the Vietnam War and the campus clampdowns confronting police violence. I was the junior member of the “Columbia three” alongside Seymour Melman and my mentor Terence McCarthy (both of whom taught at Columbia’s Seeley Mudd School of Industrial Engineering; my job was mainly to handle publicity and publication). At the end of that decade, students occupied my office and all others at the New School’s graduate faculty in New York City – very peacefully, without disturbing any of my books and papers.Only the epithets have changed. The invective “Communist” has been replaced by “anti-Semite,” and the renewal of police violence on campus has not yet led to a Kent State-style rifle barrage against protesters. But the common denominators are all here once again. A concerted effort has been organized to condemn and even to punish today’s nationwide student uprisings against the genocide occurring in Gaza and the West Bank. Just as the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) aimed to end the careers of progressive actors, directors, professors and State Department officials unsympathetic to Chiang Kai-Shek or sympathetic to the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1975, today’s version aims at ending what remains of academic freedom in the United States.
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Blinken hopes Hamas makes ‘right decision’ on ‘extraordinarily generous’ truce, hostage dealUS secretary of state says Israel-Saudi normalization deal close to ‘completion,’ says he hasn’t seen plans to keep civilians safe in case of Rafah incursion
Obvious what is going to happen, Israel allegedly offer “generous” truce, Hamas will reject it and then US/Israel will justify the Rafah invasion and blame the deaths on Hamas/Palestinians.
Blinken do not even care for the civilians in Rafah, he do not even pretend!JACOBIN with a piece highly critical of HAMAS, blaming them for what is happening.
“The Palestinian Resistance Isn’t a Monolith
As Palestinians reckon with the genocide being inflicted on them and their prospects for national liberation, it does them a disservice to flatten their political diversity and complex ongoing debates.”https://jacobin.com/2024/04/gaza-left-hamas-occupation-war-solidarity
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https://archive.is/JdaYHThe author Bashir Abu-Manneh is teaching at KENT Univers. (incidentally the frm. Univ. of Richard Sakwa.) He blames Hamas as responsible for this mess, too.
I remember that this was a topic heavily discussed among scholars and activists: “What tactics is appropriate?”
I remember well the conversation where Rashid Khalidi criticized Hamas heavily for what they brought upon the people.
Now all of this was long before the ICJ case and the current global outrage.
And before Hamas stating they did not intend to kill civilians only abduct hostages to pressure the Israeli government for the 5000 in prisons.
But I haven´t followed that as closely as others here.I am not sure. Since the peaceful examples the author brings up didn´t exactly work out in the long run.
On the other hand, may be the Intifada had more potential?
I am not up to date on this question regarding the various experts, except Finkelstein who argues that all other non-violent means failed.from the piece
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The Financial Times recently reported on public opinion in Gaza — a sobering read. While Palestinians in Gaza clearly blame Israel for executing a human catastrophe in Gaza, there is growing anger and resentment directed at Hamas for failing to expect the scale of Israel’s retaliation for the October 7 attacks and to protect Palestinians during the war.One interviewee, Nassim, openly says, that Hamas “should have predicted Israel’s response and thought of what would happen to the 2.3mn Gazans who have nowhere safe to go” and “should have restricted themselves to military targets.”
Another interviewee, Samia, is even more damning. “The role of the resistance is to protect us civilians, not to sacrifice us,” she said. “I don’t want to die and I didn’t want my children to witness what they’ve seen and to live in a tent suffering from hunger, cold and poverty.”
Such criticism tracks with what many Palestinians from Gaza have been posting on social media in recent months. It has also been represented in the critical reporting of veteran anti-occupation journalist Amira Hass.
In a recent article in Haaretz, Hass captures the popular disgruntlement and criticism of Hamas’s operation as well as what is seen as Hamas’s hugely costly mode of armed resistance against a vastly superior Israeli military. Palestinians in Gaza openly complain about their lack of security and protection from Israel’s expected retribution and about Hamas’s lack “of clear strategic political planning.”
What most troubles one interviewee, Basel, is that his criticism of Hamas and its approach to resistance is being tarred as treason. As Hass explains, “He’s angry that the Palestinians outside Gaza and their supporters expect Gazans to shut up and not criticize Hamas, because the criticism ostensibly helps the enemy. He rejects the assumption that doubting the decisions and actions of this armed group — and to do so publicly — is an act of treason.”
(…)”*on the author: Dr Bashir Abu-Manneh is Reader in Postcolonial Literature, founder of the Centre for the Global Study of Empire, and author of The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present (2016) and Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939 (2011). He has also edited a collection of essays on Edward Said – as literary critic and postcolonial theorist – entitled After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2019).
I think it is odd that nore more state depy. people have quit their job in protest to ongoing White House support for Israel.
Attorneys inside and outside the administration urge Biden to cut off arms to Israel
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/29/lawyers-israel-arm-sales-biden-00154958___
In other news:Ben-Gvir calls on soldiers to ‘kill’ not arrest Palestinians who surrender in Gaza
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240429-ben-gvir-calls-on-soldiers-to-kill-not-arrest-palestinians-who-surrender-in-gaza/Could you imagine if a russian minister said the same? Kill all ukrainians, even those who surrender.
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In other news:ICJ turn down Nicaragua’s complaint on Germany aiding Israel with arms:
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel and renew funding to UNRWA.
The International Court of Justice says that legal conditions for making such an order weren’t met and ruled against the request in a 15-1 vote.
Presiding Judge Salam said the court was “deeply concerned about the catastrophic living conditions of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip“.
The ICJ reminded all parties that they are under obligation to “respect and ensure respect” to Article 1 of the Geneva Convention.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/30/icj-verdict-live
If Israel commit war crimes with the weapons Germany and other western states provide, why should this not be considered a crime!?
ruling against Germany would have caused a pretty big earthquake
Of course, the Hamas-must-release-hostages-claim was always a trick:
Israel will invade Rafah with or without hostage deal – Netanyahu
The prime minister directly contradicted his own foreign minister, who promised to suspend the operation if Hamas released its captives
https://swentr.site/news/596814-israel-invade-rafah-hostagers/Regarding US/Israel efforts to block any ICC claim against Israel. Something likely happend back in 2010:
Deferring Justice: Clinton emails show how State Dept. undermined U.N. action on Israeli war crimes
U.S. government boasted it “deferred” the Goldstone Report through “political work,” preventing justice for Gazans
Publicly released Clinton emails reveal that the UNHRC, under heavy U.S. pressure, postponed consideration of the Goldstone Report from October 2 until March 2010. While the UNHRC ultimately endorsed the report’s findings on October 16, it took nearly six months for the body to urge the U.N. General Assembly and Security Council to refer the Gaza massacre to the ICC pursuant to 13(b) of the Rome Statute, which the U.S. then blocked.
One could only imagine the lobbying campaign going on against the ICC, not that I in my wildest dreams believe ICC would even contemplate charging Israel with anything. I assume though that ICC will go after Palestinians/Hamas.
Colombia about to cut ties with Israel:
President Gustavo Petro, a vocal critic of the brutal military onslaught, announced the decision, addressing a May Day rally in the capital Bogota on Wednesday.
“And we here in front of you, the government of change, the president of the republic informs that tomorrow diplomatic relations” with the Israeli regime “will be cut,” he said.
“[We cut diplomatic ties] because of them having…a genocidal president,” he added.
“It cannot be, they can’t return, the times of genocide, of the extermination of an entire people before our eyes, before our passivity. If Palestine dies, humanity dies and we will not let it die as we will not let humanity die.”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/05/01/724762/Colombia-Israel-war-Gaza-genocide
