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p.s. of course being an Israeli scholar in Israel he includes this, which – if he feels to be a necessary addition – is incomplete:
“The brutal Hamas attack of October 7 was a heinous and terrible crime. During it, about 1,200 people were killed or murdered, of which more than 850 were Israeli civilians (and foreigners), including many children and elderly, about 240 Israelis were kidnapped to Gaza, and atrocities such as rape were committed. This is an event with catastrophic, deep and lasting traumatic effects, for many years, certainly for the direct victims and their immediate circle, but also for Israeli society as a whole.”
Why bring up the rape exclusively – if the case of mass rapes has never been proven – and if getting into 1200 killed, at least mention that possibly Hundreds of those were killed by indiscriminate fire by the IDF into homes and groups of people. And that several of the attacking Hamas groups wanted to negotiate but were ignored.
So as a scholar being so exact with terminologies on genocide he should be as cautious with the not yet investigated details of Oct. 7th.
And I would take a wild guess that the pre Oct. 7th atrocities by the IDF over almost 20 years Goldberg did not describe as “heinous and terrible crimes”.
AG
And I would take a wild guess that the pre Oct. 7th atrocities by the IDF over almost 20 years Goldberg did not describe as “heinous and terrible crimes”.
Yes up until october 7, Israel had killed 200+ palestinians in the occupied territories from the start of 2023. How much coverage did that generate in the western media? How much condemnations did that brought by the west? Zero.
https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1716826089551778156“Jewish voice for peace” made a timeline of the events that occured before october 7
Countdown to genocide: the year before October 7
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/24/countdown-to-genocide/—
In other news US probe have “reasonable” grounds to believe that Israel used american weapons in unlawful ways.
Reasonable grounds!? That is as far as US would go to describe the obvious war crimes by Israel with US weapons. These people have no shame. Gaslightning is the word to describe this denying and playing down of facts, reality:US unveils results of Israel war crimes probe
Washington has “reasonable” concerns that the IDF may have violated humanitarian law while using American weapons
https://swentr.site/news/597379-israel-gaza-us-weapons-report/I think I’ve found the voting record here.
The resolution passed by UN is as a downloadable .pdfHere are some of the changes in status that Palestine will have a right to later this year:
- To be seated among Member States in alphabetical order
- Make statements on behalf of a group
- Submit proposals and amendments and introduce them
- Co-sponsor proposals and amendments, including on behalf of a group
- Propose items to be included in the provisional agenda of the regular or special sessions and the right to request the inclusion of supplementary or additional items in the agenda of regular or special sessions
- The right of members of the delegation of the State of Palestine to be elected as officers in the plenary and the Main Committees of the General Assembly
- Full and effective participation in UN conferences and international conferences and meetings convened under the auspices of the General Assembly or, as appropriate, of other UN organs
The last link above didn’t work, Here it is
Bambie Thug, who performs Ireland’s suprisingly successful Eurovision entry and who had resisted calls by 400 artists to boycott the competition silently made her own protest. She had inscriptions on her face and legs which spelt out the words “Ceasefire” and “Saoirse don Phalaistín” in an early medieval script. “Saoirse don Phalaistín” is irish gaelic for freedom to Palastine or free Palastine.
A spokeswoman for the European Broadcasting Union said the “writing” seen on the performer’s body during rehearsals “contravened contest rules that are designed to protect [its] non-political nature.” So Bambie Thug’s performance went ahead without the coded message – but social media saw to it that the point was made anyway.That story amused me and is reported here
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Speaking of Eurovision, the contestant from Netherlands that past days have criticized Israel’s participation have today, suddenly been disqualified for an alleged misdemeanor!
Netherlands’ Eurovision entry disqualified from song contest
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/11/netherlands-eurovision-entry-disqualified-from-song-contestThe whole Eurovision spectacle is a mess, when Israel participant made her performance in the semi-finals the other day, the Eurovision blocked out the booings and added applause for the viewers watching at home.
https://twitter.com/PresidentIRE/status/1788678806015819947It is like Eurovision is controlled by pro-israel interests and I would not be surprised if Israel win – the islamophobia is rife.
Even the biggest partner for Eurovision is somehow *surprise surprise* an israeli company:Moroccanoil becomes Presenting Partner of Eurovision 2020
https://eurovision.tv/story/moroccanoil-becomes-presenting-partner-of-eurovision-2020Take also note that Israel’s participant have taken clear political standpoints, she for example denied there is a genocide going in Gaza:
https://twitter.com/IsrBreaksRules/status/1768325520318697865
She declared that she is proud to represent Israel:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68986410
And she declared that she will join the war with IDF as soon as Eurovision is over:
https://twitter.com/n0kturne/status/1788665785553911866JACOBIN with a longer piece about how CNN and Co. present the police and law enforcement´s lies about Gaza protests in the US as the proper news:
Mainstream Media Is Spreading Lies About Palestine Protests
By Neil deMause
May 11th 2024
“Rather than acting as a check on the powerful, media outlets like CNN and MSNBC are allowing police to give their interpretation of student Palestine protests with few challenges, even in cases where police are blatantly lying or distorting the truth.”
Colombia’s president calls on ICC to issue arrest warrant Netanyahu
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/05/11/725341/Colombia%E2%80%99s-president-calls-on-ICC-to-issue-arrest-warrant-NetanyahuThe Colombian Left Has Every Reason to Condemn Israel
It’s a long time coming: Israeli mercenaries aided in the wholesale slaughter of Colombia’s insurgent leftist party, Patriotic Union, in the ’80s.
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/colombia-israel-patriotic-union-genocideThe BOSTON GLOBE commissioned an article about the student protests to eventually put it back into the drawer.
Electronic Intifada published it here:“Read an article on the student intifada censored by The Boston Globe
Ruya Hazeyen The Electronic Intifada 10 May 2024”https://electronicintifada.net/content/read-article-student-intifada-censored-boston-globe/46311
Trump blast pro-Palestine demonstrations
Donald Trump vowed to deport students protesting against genocide at universities, as it is promoting “jihadism”
Video https://www.instagram.com/muslim/p/C649giGr6JN/?img_index=2Trump Promises to ‘Immediately Deport’ Foreign Students Involved in Anti-Israel Protests
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-promises-to-immediately-deport-foreign-students-involved-in-anti-israel-protests/Apparently UN have revised the death toll for Gaza making it significantly smaller, on what basis is not clear yet:
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released an infographic suggesting that the number of Gaza women and children killed in the Israel-Hamas war dropped by 17 percent in the last two days.
The infographic issued on Wednesday places the total broader Gaza war toll at 34,844 with 7,797 (32%) of the casualties being children and 4,959 (20%) of them being women. In the previous infographic released by OCHA two days earlier, the broader death toll was 34,735 with over 9,500 (27%) of them being women and over 14,500 (42%) being children.
The pro-israelis are now spreading this news everywhere.
Ok apparently I was too quick spreading that news above^, UN simply collected 1 confirmed deaths and 2 unconfirmed deaths (because the corpses cannot be ID as of yet + people under rubble have not been ID).
Nothing has “changed”, sorry for the confusion.It’s not going to change world politics but a league of Ireland football team invited the Palestine female team for a friendly match in Dublin which was played yesterday in a “festival” atmosphere. The Palestinian team had earlier been greeted by Ireland’s President.
https://archive.is/wKHwgPost by Moon of Alabama:
“The Al-Aqsa Flood Operation Is – Despite All Damage – Effectual”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/05/the-al-aqsa-flood-operation-is-effectual.html#more
Jewish staffer resigns from Biden administration over Gaza
“I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” Greenberg Call wrote. Israel strongly denies that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/15/jewish-staff-resigns-biden-administration-gaza/
Important and good that she used the word “genocide” to describe what is going on.
CNN expose the violent hoodlums at pro-palestine protests at universities. Turns out, surprise surprise, that the violent instigators are people coming from the outside and that they are pro-israeli jews.
CNN track down the address of one of these guys, an 18 year old boy, CNN talk with his mom that, first claim her boy is innocent and only “defended itself”, then CNN expose how the mom have actually glorified her sons violent behavior on social media, bragging about his escapades and how the son will soon join the IDF in Gaza! Then, she suddenly deny that her son was even there! Hilarious to watch but also disturbing since the zionists seems to have no shame in decieve and constantly frame themselves as helpless victims.
I personally have zero interest in this idiotic song contest but the Israeli government apparently has:
“Israel Astroturfed Eurovision Vote But Lost Anyway, Gov. Admits”
“Israeli officials hyped their country’s 5th place Eurovision finish as proof of quiet global grassroots support for their assault on Gaza. Now, they admit they manipulated the results through an international propaganda blitz.”https://scheerpost.com/2024/05/18/israel-astroturfed-eurovision-vote-but-lost-anyway-gov-admits/
p.s. For those who don´t mind goofy comedy, see
“Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga”
(currently only on Netflix I think)AG
I do not watch Eurovision anymore either, I remember as kid though it was a fun show because back then it was about music. Today it is incredibly political not to mention childish, immature, crass and creepy.
Also, this is the EBU chief, the guy that rule Eurovision
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07B7LGRFQ/about
https://www.thebigthrill.org/2018/12/ask-no-mercy-by-martin-osterdahl/
He is a russiophobe that have authored spy novels about evil Russians.
Of course this was the same guy that banned Russia directly from Eurovision.
Eurovision chief says Russia ban stands for ‘ultimate values of democracy’
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/30/eurovision-chief-russia-ban-stands-for-ultimate-values-democracyThat Israel could participate was no problem for this hypocrite though!
recommended long conversation with activist Majd Nasrallah, who has studied intern. law because he doesn´t believe in it.
And much more.E.g. about his family’s legal battle in Israeli courts to regain its property seized 1948.
“Majd Nasrallah has worked in Palestinian cultural institutions and is a local community organizer with a degree in international law and human rights. He talks about criminal violence being the last stage of the attempt to dehumanize and subjugate Palestinians by the Israeli apartheid system. After being a proponent of a one democratic state he now says that future should aim beyond the national state model that has been forced upon the region and the world by the colonizing powers.”
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-48-house-demolitions-good-arabs-and-resistance/
or
https://archive.is/8RDT7The corrupt arab leaders seems to have no shame: Israeli military plane land in Morocco
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1792456750937034818
UK media’s pro-Israel bias revealed
MEMO Monitoring looks at the UK media bias during Israel’s war on Gaza and the influence of the coverage analysed by the Centre of Media Monitoring. Some of the most blatant examples of pro-Israel bias in the UK media include ‘Islamophobia’, ‘dehumanisation of the Palestinian people’, ‘lack of fact checking’ and the constant ‘questioning of the Palestinian death toll’ in Gaza. Israel claims are accepted as fact, the report found, while Palestinians are regularly discredited, it added.
interview with UN Special Rapporteur Albanese:
“They Don’t See Palestinians as Human Beings’: U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on Israel’s Alternate Reality”
by Omid Memarian
May 15, 2024https://dawnmena.org/they-dont-see-palestinians-as-human-beings-u-n-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-on-israels-alternate-reality/
or
https://archive.is/rRf9T“Q: There are two pending pieces of legislation in the U.S. that relate to Israel. Under one, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, the federal government would police campus speech, using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s narrow definition of antisemitism, which incorrectly equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism and conflates Judaism with Zionism. Another bill would give the Treasury Department broad new powers to revoke the nonprofit status of an organization, 90 days after making the unilateral determination that it supports terrorism. The bill appears targeted at U.S. groups critical of Israel. What do you make of these efforts in the U.S. to curb freedom of speech?
A: I see two things. First of all, it’s astonishing how far against its own values and basic democratic tenets the U.S. is going to go in order to favor Israel. And the second thing is that I hope that the American people understand how much of their rights and freedoms are being sacrificed in the name of defending a foreign country. It’s incredible.
How do you think the student protests on U.S. campuses are seen from the outside world?
What is happening on U.S. campuses is reinvigorating the entire world, after South Africa. South Africa gave us hope. And this young generation—I call it the watermelon revolution—also gave us hope, because they asked for justice. They simply asked for justice. There might be an element of agitators among them, and there might be people with a different agenda other than being peaceful. But the majority of them have very clear asks: for divestment of their university, whose fees they pay, from Israel’s enterprise; to have transparency; to have a proper education, including about Palestine, which is necessary; and to stop practicing anti-Palestinian racism. This is basically what they are asking, in all its forms. I think it’s very moving and inspirational.Q: Israel has now started its ground invasion of Rafah. What steps does the international community need to take at this moment? Are there any steps?
A: They have to stop Israel. A cease-fire is not a recommendation; it must be imposed from outside through all possible means. There is no other way. We need to save lives, both lives of the Palestinians in Gaza and the lives of the hostages. There is no other way to protect the hostages. It’s been used as a rhetorical argument empty of meaning, because if the priority had been the hostages, Gaza would not have been turned into rubble. And many Palestinians will still be alive or not in mutilated bodies. The only thing that is needed in the immediate is a cease-fire.”
A piece from Naked Capitalism today. Is it just a cynical ploy to garner popularity for the coming EU elections? Will it have any effect at this point in time?
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JACK
uuuh what a novel title “Ask No Mercy”!
Whenever I see a novel on Russia it´s actually solely about politics – so there are ONLY (political)thrillers out there – which tells you that people/writers, lit. agents have no clue about RU (you can only write a non-genre novel about a place if you have some genuine knowledge about it.)
And it´s almost always about this:
“(…)into a volatile Russia, where a new president is about to be elected in the midst of a (…) revolution(…)”.Since RU is ALWAYS in the midst of a revolution.
The baltics are at it again, acting so tough and cocky as usual but in a war between Russia/NATO-US the baltics is the first to go.
NATO state’s PM calls for breakup of Russia
It is not a bad thing when a big power becomes much smaller, Estonia’s Kaja Kallas has said
https://swentr.site/russia/597979-estonia-ukraine-nato-eu/In other news: Suddenly foreign meddling is ok….when the west do it.
US could sanction NATO applicant for ‘undermining democracy’ – Politico
Washington has threatened to punish Georgian politicians who voted for a ‘foreign agents’ law, the outlet has reported
https://swentr.site/news/597983-georgia-foreign-agents-law-us-sanctions/Sanctioning politicians, because they, vote on a domestic issue!?
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They must have been reading this blog 🙂
The Irish Times: Palestine: Ireland and Norway recognise state on ‘historic day’, Israel recalls ambassadors (22 May 2024), by Fiachra Gallagher.
Israel states they will also recall their ambassador to Spain if they go ahead with recognition of Israel. Hey, Dana Erlich, when you leave Ireland don’t bother to send a post card and don’t come back please. Israel has threatened other “severe consequences” whatever that may mean.
Will this move by Ireland, Norway and Spain have any real effect?
