Palestine

I just saw this 2-minute #video that was posted on social media by someone in #JewishVoiceforPeace. Using a very original and powerful approach to present the #Gaza genocide, it could be shown to someone who is not doing anything about it. [FYI -There are no shocking close-up depictions of violence.]

Please take a look at it and comment if you wish.

#StopArmingIsrael #RejectAIPAC #BDS #CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael #StopGazaGenocide

Jake Johnson Oct 08, 2024

Jake Johnson
Oct 07, 2024

“That son of a removed, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy,” said Biden privately, according to Woodward. “He’s a bad fucking guy!”

Reads like a bloody Onion article.

By Mairav Zonszein

[Insightful article on current events and moods in Israel. Dehumanization of Palestinians has deepened]

Ms. Zonszein is the senior Israel analyst with the International Crisis Group. She wrote from Tel Aviv.

Oct. 7, 2024

Based on interview withh International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan. Article also contains a link to actual transcript of interview

September 26, 2024 9:53 PM ET

Protest group Palestine Action has targeted 10 Allianz offices across the UK over the insurer’s alleged involvement with Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems.

Offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and other cities have seen windows smashed, Palestinian flags hung and red paint sprayed across facades by the protestors.

In a statement, the group also added that it was occupying the insurer’s Guildford-based headquarters.

Palestine Action have said the insurer is a major financial backer of Israel’s arms and weapons industry and described Allianz as one of Elbit System’s “principle institutional shareholders”.

Elbit Systems manufactures over 85% of Israel’s drones, including quadcopters used by the country’s military to perform targeted military operations.

The poll, conducted by Israel's national broadcaster KAN News and the Kantar Institute, interviewed a sample of 653 Israelis.

Only 27 percent of Israelis think their government has defeated Hamas in its onslaught on the Gaza Strip that started a year ago, according to a new survey. The results show that 35 percent think Israel has lost the war against Hamas, while the rest are unsure.

Asked if they would be willing to move to one of the communities in southern Israel close to Gaza after the war ends, only 14 percent said they would consider living there, while 86 percent said they were unwilling. Former and current Israeli military officials have also said they are losing the war on Gaza and Hamas is winning.

One year on, the evidence is overwhelming.

Open letter to the judges of the International Criminal Court - Yanis Varoufakis and Brian Eno
(Diem25, 2024-10-07)

https://diem25.org/open-letter-to-the-judges-of-the-international-criminal-court/
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"Today, on 7 October 2024, exactly one year after the start of the latest and most brutal phase of the 76-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we feel the need to address you directly..."

"... When can we expect indictments from your Court?"

"... Today humanity needs more than ever a court like yours, where impartial legal minds from around the world can reach consensus on standards of legal conduct in war and its aftermath. Your role is vital, and we implore you to act immediately."

(Appeal to the readers)
"Join us by endorsing this letter via [ https://i.diem25.org/en/answers/new?form_id=731 ]. You can also send the letter to the International Criminal Court. We need them to act as soon as possible."

@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@israel
#ICC #YanisVaroufakis #BrianEno #diem25

Gaza's health ministry said that 39 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 41,909 since 7 October 2023.

Additionally, 97,303 have been wounded since the start of the war.

Secular Israelis who prioritise living in a liberal democracy are a shrinking portion of Israel’s population, said Uri Ram, professor of sociology and anthropology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

By 2015, only a minority – although, at 45%, a large one – of the Jewish population in Israel defined themselves as secular, and that is shrinking as religious and ultra-orthodox Jewish families, on average, have more children.

Data from the first class at elementary schools in 2023 showed that only 40% of children were in the secular stream, he said.

“There is a growing problem of ‘brain drain’, and it will increase, firstly, if the military risk is not reduced and, secondly, if the state does indeed turn more populist-autocratic,” said Ram, who has researched the struggle for Israel’s future between liberal, mostly secular Israelis like Noam and a group he describes as ethno-religious traditionalists.

“In these situations, the upper middle classes will send their young generations abroad. Jews are well networked in desired academic and professional markets abroad, and family and work connections will assist the integration of young, educated Israeli immigrants in the desired locations.”

from #WashingtonPost [gift article]
[Bias alert - WaPo usually favors Israel]

By Souad Mekhennet and Joby Warrick October 5, 2024 at 5:50 p.m. EDT

from #WashingtonPost [gift article] [Bias alert - WaPo usually favors Israel]

By Souad Mekhennet and Joby Warrick October 5, 2024 at 5:50 p.m. EDT

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian journalist on Sunday, weeks after he received threatening messages instructing him to stop filming Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military sent tanks and troops into the camp in the northern Gaza Strip late on Saturday following a night of heavy air strikes. It marked the military's third ground assault on Jabalia since the war on Gaza began a year ago.

Hassan Hamad, 19, died when his home in Jabalia refugee camp was struck by artillery fire. Hamad was reporting on the new Israeli incursion just moments before he was killed.

By MEE staff Published date: 5 October 2024 19:45 BST

[We need a lot more of these]

By Brett Wilkins. October 4, 2024

By Common Dreams staff October 5, 2024

Naomi Klein. Sat 5 Oct 2024 08.00 EDT.

‘An embarrassing moment’ at CNN

In November, CNN International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson embedded with the Israeli army to visit Gaza’s bombed-out al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital.

Once inside, military spokesperson Daniel Hagari claimed to have found proof Hamas was using the hospital to hide Israeli captives. Hagari showed Robertson a document on the wall written in Arabic, which he said was a roster of Hamas members watching over the captives. “This is a guarding list. Every terrorist has his own shift,” Hagari told Robertson.

To make matters worse, the Israeli claim had already been debunked by Arabic speakers on social media before the CNN footage aired, and, according to multiple CNN journalists and an internal WhatsApp chat seen by Al Jazeera, a Palestinian producer alerted her colleagues, including Robertson, but was ignored. After the report aired on television, they said, another producer tried to get it corrected before it was posted online.

‘No balance’ at the BBC

In the days after October 7, the BBC set up an internal group chat in which producers could screen potential interviewees based on their online footprint. Al Jazeera has obtained messages from that chat.

“It was overwhelmingly guests on the Palestinian side of things who were being looked into,” she said. “Palestinians [were] being flagged up for using the word Zionist, which isn’t something to flag necessarily.”

By Humeyra Pamuk
October 4, 20242:56 PM EDT