Showing posts with label NETANYAHU'S LUNACY. Show all posts
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Monday, October 28, 2024

"This Carnage Needs to Stop": Israel Bans Aid Groups from Gaza, Kills Over 1,000 in North Gaza Siege

COMMENTS:

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem reported “Since 1967 , Thousands of homes of Palestinians were demolished by Israel. This is part of war crime: The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits the occupying state from destroying the property of civilians in occupied territory, ” Homes were usually demolished at night without residents being given any advance warning. The homes destroyed by security forces belonged to Palestinians who were not suspected of any involvement in causing harm to Israeli civilians or security forces. They were given no opportunity to plead their case before any instance and received no compensation for the damage they sustained. This policy of collective punishment inflicted lasting harm on thousands of people. 

This policy constitutes collective punishment, which is prohibited and violates binding provisions of international law. 

I wept just a few minutes into watching this. Thank you Amy, for giving us a window into what's happening in Gaza. Thank you for your coverage, thank you for your humanity. God bless you. Evil thrives when good men and women keep quiet. We will continue to speak out against this madness. We will not give up.

“Settler Violence = State Violence” Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, 25 November 2021 “Since occupying the West Bank in 1967, Israel has misappropriated more than 2 million dunams( 1 duman= 10763.9 square feet) of land throughout the West Bank. Israel has taken over some of these areas using official means: issuing military orders, declaring the area “state land,” a “firing zone” or a “nature reserve,”. Other areas have been effectively taken over by settlers through daily acts of violence, including attacks on Palestinians and their property. Settler violence against Palestinians is part of the strategy employed by Israel’s apartheid regime, which seeks to take over more and more West Bank land. The state fully supports and assists these acts of violence,

This is barbaric and savagery. This is an absolute outrage to humanity and I'm outraged at my government for standing by and supporting this! We the people do not support this and this must cease! I don't know why I should pay my taxes - for this??? Not in my name πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ™πŸ½

Northern Gaza, which is one-fourth of Gaza’s territory, has been under siege for 23 days. The nearly 400,000 residents who had remained there after a year of war face inhumane conditions as food, water, and medicines have run out, and aid is not reaching them More than 800 people have been killed in three weeks.πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ♥️πŸ˜ͺπŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ♥️πŸ˜ͺ

This shows the level of the greed. “Israel’s Netanyahu brings his dirty laundry to Washington. Literally.”The Washington Post “The Netanyahus are the only ones who bring actual suitcases of dirty laundry for us to clean,” said one U.S. official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the details of a foreign leader’s visits. “After multiple trips, it became clear this was intentional.” Over the years, the Israeli leader has developed a reputation among the staff at the U.S. president’s guesthouse for bringing special cargo on his trips to Washington: bags and suitcases full of dirty laundry, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The clothes are cleaned for the prime minister free of charge by the U.S. staff, a perk that is available to all foreign leaders but sparingly taken advantage of given the short stays of busy heads of state.





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Thursday, October 17, 2024

Israel bombs refugee tent hospital in Gaza

 



The world watched in horror on Sunday as video emerged of Palestinians burning alive after Israel bombed a hospital tent camp in Gaza.1

It's just the latest unspeakable atrocity committed with U.S. weapons and political support.

Enough is enough. We must act now to stop the slaughter.

Senator Bernie Sanders is leading the way by forcing a Senate vote to block $20 billion in arms sales to Israel.2

In the words of Waleed Shahid, a leader in the Uncommitted Movement, "The image of hospital patients, tethered to IVs as American-supplied Israeli bombs ignite fires around them in Gaza, may well stand as the defining image of this horror."3

A comprehensive new report from researchers at Brown University found that 114,000 people have been killed since the start of Israel's war on Gaza, the majority women and children.4

In that time, the U.S. has provided Israel $17.9 billion in military aid, including weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and bombs.5

And with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expanding the war by invading Lebanon and openly preparing an attack on Iran, the situation is on the verge of spiraling even further out of control.

Make no mistake: There is no way that Israel could inflict such destruction on its neighbors without the weapons and political support of the United States.

We've mobilized over 100,000 people to urge Congress and the Biden administration to use all available leverage to demand a ceasefire, and now we're turning up the heat to support Sen. Bernie Sanders's resolution to stop the $20 billion weapons sale to Israel.


With gratitude,

The team at Demand Progress Action

Sources:
1. BBC, "Witnesses to Israeli strike on Gaza hospital compound saw 'so many people burning'," October 15, 2024.
2. Democracy Now, "'We Must End Our Complicity': Sanders Unveils Resolution to Block $20B in Arms Sales to Israel," September 19, 2024.
3. Common Dreams, "Palestinian Seen Burning Alive in Israeli Tent Massacre Identified," October 15, 2024.
4. Mother Jones, "Report: In One Year, More Than 100,000 Deaths in Gaza—Aided by $17.9 Billion From the US," October 8, 2024.
5. Associated Press, "US spends a record $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since last Oct. 7," October 7, 2024.


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Sunday, October 13, 2024

Weekend Edition: Alarm as Pentagon Confirms Deployment of US Troops to Israel

 

Sunday, October 13, 2024

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Saturday, October 12, 2024

Informed Comment daily updates (10/12/2024)

 


UNHCHR: Israel Guilt of Deliberately Destroying Gaza Healthcare and … Extermination

UNHCHR: Israel Guilt of Deliberately Destroying Gaza Healthcare and … Extermination

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a report dated October 11 the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights concluded that Israel has implemented a deliberate policy of destroying Gaza’s healthcare system and is guilty of the crime against humanity of “extermination.” The numbers revealed by the investigation for the first nine […]

How to find Hope and Common Ground one Year into Gaza War

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What the Messianic Hardliners in Netanyahu’s Government want from the War

What the Messianic Hardliners in Netanyahu’s Government want from the War

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'Regional War Is Here': Biden Urged to Act Before Catastrophe Engulfs Middle East

AMERICANS OPPOSE AN ENDLESS MIDDLE EAST WAR!


PRESIDENT BIDEN IS SURROUNDED BY INCOMPETENT BOOBS WHO IGNORE 

INTELLIGENCE REPORTS, DISREGARD REPORTS OF GAZA STARVATION, ISRAEL'S 

BLOCKADE OF HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES, WATER, FUEL, MEDICAL SUPPLIES  & 

POLIO VACCINES....IGNORE NETANYAHU'S LUNACY AS HE SEEKS TO EXPAND 

ENDLESS WARS & DRAW THE U.S. INTO A REGIONAL WAR..... 

THE U.S. HAS CONTINUED TO IGNORE THE CALLS OF ALLIES, VETOES U.N. 

VOTES....

PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS MADE THE U.S. COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE! 

CORRUPT NETANYAHU WAS ON TRIAL WHEN HE IGNORED WARNINGS OF THE 

OCT 7 HAMAS ATTACK --- POSTPONED HIS TRIAL & FAILED TO PROTECT 

ISRAEL!

ISRAEL HAS EPLOYED WHITE PHOSPHOROUS AGAINST CIVILIANS - A WAR CRIME! 

ISRAEL HAS ARMED ILLEGAL SETTLERS TO KILL UNARMED CIVILIANS IN THE 

WEST BANK & HAS BULLDOZED HOMES....

ISRAEL EXPELLED AL JAZEERA IN THE WEST BANK TO SILENCE REPORTING OF 

ISRAEL'S ATROCITIES! 

ISRAEL HAS PROTECTED THOSE WHO GANG RAPED PRISONERS....





U.S. President Joe Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden presides over a cabinet meeting on September 20, 2024 in Washington, D.C.

 (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)


'Regional War Is Here': Biden Urged to Act Before Catastrophe Engulfs Middle East

"Unless the Biden administration changes course immediately, the likelihood we see even more violence, more displacement, and tens—if not hundreds—of thousands more lives lost in this conflict will only spike."

Amid reports that the Biden administration has dropped its push for a cease-fire deal on the Lebanon-Israel border, a U.S. peace group said Thursday that the White House "appears both in the dark and in denial about how much worse the current wars in the Middle East could get" and demanded an urgent cease-fire push to avert catastrophe.

"As Palestinians in northern Gaza are displaced by yet another IDF offensive while still contending with a humanitarian crisis, as thousands of people flee Lebanon, as Iranian families wonder whether their cities and towns will be bombed, as children in Syria are killed by the IDF—likely with U.S.-made bombs—and as Israeli civilians continue to flee to shelters and hostages still languish, it's time to admit that a regional war is here," said Sara Haghdoosti, executive director of Win Without War.

"Right now, tens of thousands of U.S. troops stationed across the Middle East are also in acute danger—and the risk the United States is drawn further and more directly into this war is terrifyingly high," Haghdoosti added. "Unless the Biden administration changes course immediately, the likelihood we see even more violence, more displacement, and tens—if not hundreds—of thousands more lives lost in this conflict will only spike."

For the first time in two months, Biden on Wednesday spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has repeatedly obstructed cease-fire talks with hardline demands and publicly undermined a U.S.-led effort last month to institute a pause along the Lebanon-Israel border.

According to a White House readout of the Wednesday conversation, Biden "emphasized the need for a diplomatic arrangement to safely return both Lebanese and Israeli civilians to their homes on both sides of the Blue Line" but did not push Netanyahu to stop Israel's large-scale bombardment of Lebanon, which has killed more than 2,100 people since mid-September.

Days before the call, CNNreported that the Biden administration was "not actively trying to revive" the three-week cease-fire proposal that Netanyahu tanked last month and "resigned itself to trying to shape and limit Israeli operations in Lebanon and against Iran rather than halting hostilities."

As Khaled Elgindy, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, wrote for Foreign Policy earlier this week, "The Biden administration has now become an active participant in the very outcome it had spent months warning against and working to prevent."

"Whereas only weeks ago it had been frantically working to negotiate a cease-fire in Lebanon, the administration has now openly embraced an Israeli bombing campaign and invasion that it once cautioned against," Elgindy added. "The Biden administration's single-minded focus on Israeli demands, needs, and pain has blinded it not only to the humanity of Palestinians and Lebanese but to the long-term damage done to the region, U.S. interests, and even Israeli security."

"We have to engage every diplomatic tool available to us for a permanent cease-fire, and we have got to stop sending bombs."

On Thursday, Israel's cabinet met to discuss a response to Iran's ballistic missile attack earlier this month, which was retaliation for Israel's assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut and Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

The cabinet was expected to authorize Mr. Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the defense minister, to initiate the response at their discretion," The New York Timesreported, citing unnamed officials. "The results of the meeting were not released."

Gallant pledged Wednesday that Israel's attack on Iran would be "deadly, precise and, above all, surprising."

"They will not understand what happened and how it happened," he added. "They will see the results."


The Israeli government has declined to provide assurances that it does not intend to target Iran's nuclear energy facilities and reportedly has not briefed the U.S.—its principal ally and arms supplier—on the specifics of its plans.

Senior Biden administration officials have also discussed the possibility of "very limited" U.S. strikes "against Iranian targets," according toNBC News.

As the possibility of an Israeli and U.S. attack looms, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that Iran "is fully prepared to take more and stronger defensive measures against any act of aggression, and will have no hesitation in this regard." Iran's ballistic missile attack on Israel earlier this month was limited to military targets and did not kill any Israeli civilians.

Peace advocates and regional experts say Israel's intensifying assaults on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon and its looming attack on Iran underscore the need for immediate deescalation and renewed cease-fire talks.

But the prospect of a deal appears as remote as ever—and the Biden administration has refused to use U.S. military aid as leverage to force Netanyahu's hand.

"We can't just pray for peace, we can't just hope for peace—we have to work for peace," U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said earlier this week. "And that's why we have to engage every diplomatic tool available to us for a permanent cease-fire, and we have got to stop sending bombs."

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