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  • justice4allMarch 18, 2024, 6:28 PM

    “Schumer himself admitted that he voted against the Iran deal because it was in Israel’s interest not the American one.”

    I’d call that treason.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • LaleMarch 18, 2024, 6:17 PM

    when i hear this chant i think of this poem, based on niemöller (a german pastor who later, after ww2, realized he did too little):

    First they came for the Communists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Communist

    Then they came for the Socialists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Socialist

    Then they came for the trade unionists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a trade unionist

    Then they came for the disabled
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not disabled.

    Then they came for the Jews
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Jew

    Then they came for me
    And there was no one left
    To speak out for me”

    most of us living on this planet belong to oppressed groups. and we need to remind ourselves that we are all one. otherwise there is no chance for any one of us. they violate the rights of palestinians and say they do that to protect queer people. then they violate the rights of queer people and say they do this to protect children. and while they are doing that they violate the rights of children, disabled people, jewish people, palestinian people etc. to protect them ”from themselves”. but in reality it is all one fight and the oppression faced by palestinians is born in the same place of hatred and greed as the oppression i face, as a white disabled person.

    the nazi regime used chemicals they had first tested on disabled people and methods of incarceration that germany perfected in their genocide against herero and nama, to comit the crime of genocide against jews and sintize and romja.
    and in gaza weapons are tested that will be used against racialized people in other countries.

    no one is free, until all are free. no one is protected by the oppression of another. we need to protect each other as if we were all one and the same. because in the end we are all the same. and the struggle for palestinian life is at the same time the struggle for all life on earth.

    Source: Are we indeed all Palestinians?
  • jon sMarch 18, 2024, 6:00 PM

    “75 Years of brutal occupation”? Israel occupied Gaza 1967-1994. In 1994, after the Oslo accords, Israel withdrew from most of the Gaza strip. In 2005, the “disengagement” brought an end to the settlements in Gush Katif. So since 2005 there hasn’t been a single Israeli soldier or settler on Gazan territory. That means that the perpetrators of the Oct7 atrocities (assuming that they were mainly young men) had no memory of living even one day under Israeli occupation.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • jon sMarch 18, 2024, 5:20 PM

    Rebecca Turner, you wrote an outright lie, not a reasonable inference and if you want to retract and aplogize – that’s the right thing to do . But you can’t make your retraction and apology conditional on my agreeing to commit suicide.

    While you’re at it , do you also retract this: it’s gleefully, joyfully removing limbs and heads from the bodies of countless thousands of children, women and men.”?

    Incidentally , do you know of any significant Palestinian support for a “secular democracy”?

    Source: Palestine: Unity of land, people and struggle 
  • YusufLegereMarch 18, 2024, 1:56 PM

    This is a hughe problem in the West. We are supposed to believe in things like “a jury of peers” but in reality a great many people think that suffering the indignity of being stuck in traffic, or getting cold soup at their favorite restaurant qualifies them to judge people resisting 75 years of brutal occupation.
    Your condemnation of people you have nothing in common with is as meaningless as Israel’s excuses for genocide.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • RobertBMarch 18, 2024, 1:56 PM

    sps1946 … Israel’s brutal occupation and its Nazi-Apartheid of/against the Palestinians has been in place for many decades. One almost never hears it on the MSM. And the zio-comrades on MW try to paint a picture of their beloved Apartheid Israel, as if, zionism is freedom, equality, there is no Apartheid in Israel, same western values … and so on … and always the victim.

    Many are beginning to see through their deceptions and lies!

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • HostageMarch 18, 2024, 1:54 PM

    Re: “Israeli military storms al-Shifa Hospital for the fourth time, killing and wounding a number of people.”

    What’s fair for the goose is fair for the gander. The IDF cited evidence that Hamas stored weapons in UNRWA facilities that had been evacuated at IDF’s direction as evidence that UNRWA was (somehow) responsible and had to be defunded. So, now it looks like the 14 billion USA military aid package for the Netanyahu regime and the IDF need to be suspended until we can investigate this latest development.

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 164: Israeli army storms al-Shifa again, aid reaches Jabalia for first time in months
  • YusufLegereMarch 18, 2024, 1:50 PM

    I don’t think the speech was directed at Israel at all, but rather Yemen. The day before this speech Yemen announced it was expanding it’s operations to include the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope. The US/UK alliance probably knows that their bombing runs aren’t affecting AnsarAllah in the slightest, and that the new technology Yemen has is a threat to them. My guess is that the administration thinks the Yemenis will be fooled by an apparent change in tone and stop shooting at them. I would also guess that the Yemenis are not so foolish.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • Rebecca TurnerMarch 18, 2024, 1:42 PM

    I made a reasonable inference based on your comments. However, I’ll happily retract it and apologise when you agree that, based on the appalling suffering inflicted by apartheid Israel on the Palestinian people, the Zionist entity must be dismantled and replaced by a secular democracy of equal rights. And its illegal nuclear weapons arsenal should be disposed of, too.

    Source: Palestine: Unity of land, people and struggle 
  • Rebecca TurnerMarch 18, 2024, 1:24 PM

    Why would someone lie about the cause of the immense suffering of the Palestinian people and say it’s the fault of a resistance movement? One needn’t condone all of what was done on 7th October or agree with all of the movement’s goals to see the blazing reality of apartheid Israel’s mass slaughter of the Palestinian people. What core values demand this murder on a gigantic scale?

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • bcgMarch 18, 2024, 1:15 PM

    More on the accuracy of the Gaza death toll:

    Israeli officials rely on Gaza health ministry death toll, contradicting public claims…Israeli intelligence officials told the Local Call news website that Gaza’s health ministry is their main source of data on civilian deaths in Gaza…Israeli intelligence officials have admitted to relying on civilian death toll statistics collated by Gaza’s health ministry, despite Tel Aviv publicly undermining the ministry’s reliability....Two Israeli intelligence officials who spoke to the Hebrew-language Local Call news website said the health ministry is mostly “reliable” and their main source of statistics on civilian deaths in Gaza….

    https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-intel-confirms-gaza-health-ministry-stats-reliable

    Yuval Abraham on X:

    Israeli intelligence secretly surveilled officials in Gaza’s Health Ministry to check if their data on the number of civilians killed in Gaza is ‘reliable’, Israeli intelligence sources told us…. officers conducted hundreds of AI-directed assassination strikes against suspected low-level Hamas operatives, usually by destroying entire homes and killing entire families – a practice we previously termed a ‘mass assassination factory’. There was often no bomb damage assessment (BDA) for these strikes, meaning there was no check on who and how many civilians were killed. This routine post-strike check was skipped to ‘save time’….’I don’t know how many people I killed as collateral damage. We only check that information for senior Hamas targets,’ one source said. ‘In other cases I didn’t care. I immediately moved on to the next target. The focus was on creating as many targets as quickly as possible. That’s why I trust the Health Ministry in Gaza more than the IDF for these statistics. The army just doesn’t have the information.’

    https://twitter.com/yuval_abraham/status/1750123648533324158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1750123648533324158%7Ctwgr%5Edd4c038c009d9a771d66129c77fd035520a3dadf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstories%2F2024%2F2%2F23%2F2225385%2F-Israel-lying-about-the-Gaza-Health-Ministry-and-Civilian-Casualties

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 164: Israeli army storms al-Shifa again, aid reaches Jabalia for first time in months
  • bcgMarch 18, 2024, 12:28 PM

    There’s been some pushback on the accuracy of the Gaza death toll – the Tablet** ran a piece claiming there were statistical anomalies in the data, for example the number of dead goes up in a straight linear fashion that seems unreal. But the Tablet arguments are based on what the author thinks real data should look like and, I might add, the article doesn’t give its own estimate.

    A few days ago an epidemiologist with extensive experience in measuring mortality in health crisis situations had this to say:

    the world has been taken aback by the number of deaths reported out of Gaza: 30,000 through the end of February. Because the death count is compiled by the local Ministry of Health (MOH), an agency controlled by Hamas, which governs Gaza, the tally has been subject to skepticism. Israel’s U.N. ambassador and online pundits have purported that the numbers are exaggerated or, as a recent article in Tablet alleged, simply faked....Actually, the numbers are likely conservative. The science is extremely clear…. There are a huge number of U.N. employees in Gaza, and very close correlations between the rates of death of U.N. employees and the overall population, and regarding the fraction dying under bombs in their homes….In 2021, an assessment of the MOH mortality surveillance system found that the system under-reported by 13%. In past crises, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and UN reports have aligned closely with those of the MOH in spite of Israeli dismissals.In fact, there may have never been a major conflict where real-time surveillance data about deaths was more complete than is unfolding in Gaza today…

    https://time.com/6909636/gaza-death-toll/

    ** https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 164: Israeli army storms al-Shifa again, aid reaches Jabalia for first time in months
  • jon sMarch 18, 2024, 11:57 AM

    Phil Weiss refers to “Jewish values and conscience“, and I hope that he’s not too cynical about them. He also expresses opposition to religious nationalism. Does that include Palestinian religious nationalism?

    But, once again,  PW doesn’t even mention our kidnapped hostages. Our  sisters and brothers , still being held and abused by cruel killers and rapists.

    Allow me to introduce one. Shlomo Mansour, the oldest hostage, just “celebrated ” his 86th birthday, in captivity. He was born in Iraq, survived the Farhud, came to Israel and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Kissufim. He has 5 children and 13 grandchildren, likes to do carpentry and gardening, beer and wine, and pistachio ice cream.
    Is he still alive?
    https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ski39j4ra

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • RobertBMarch 18, 2024, 11:53 AM

    “I don’t feel the need to list the organizations, initiatives and actions I’ve been involved in over the years in support of Palestinian rights, in order to gain your approval.”

    Who is asking you to list any organizations? I didn’t say/imply anything regarding “approval”.

    I wanted to bring your attention to the horrors of your country’s vicious Apartheid system that has been enforced for decades on the Palestinians.

    and if its possible, ask/request from your IDF at those checkpoints to treat the Palestinians as equals …as human beings.”

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • joysglobalMarch 18, 2024, 11:38 AM

    Clearly, Netanyahu is not the problem, or at least not the sole problem. If, by opening up the issue of even the possibility of transgression/s by Israel, Schumer has created a small space for others to widen the scope of the discussion, that is indeed a good thing. I feel certain, that Netanyahu will not go quietly into that good night or retirement/prison. I would imagine he may well have anticipated this occurrence, and made any number of contingency plans to survive it. And if not, then to bring on the Samson Option, whether a political one, or the nuclear one, will depend on how threatened he feels. Asylum considerations should be already on the table. 

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • brentMarch 18, 2024, 11:38 AM

    Reasons why an effective, competent defense is needed. Far too many Americans have seen (often unfairly) the bad things going around as “being brought upon themselves”.

    The best defense is a good offense. “Any means necessary” was/is self-defeating. We’ll see what good ideas evolve, bridges built, to move toward liberation. Doors are opening.

    Source: Palestine: Unity of land, people and struggle 
  • jon sMarch 18, 2024, 11:26 AM

    Donald, it seems to me that you are the one who has “sunk”: to the point where you’re almost a Hamas-apologist. Let’s look at some of the terms you use:
    The human shield issue is not an excuse. It’s a consistent Hamas strategy, and increases casualties and destruction among their own people. Hamas is responsible for that suffering.
    “Biggest bombs” – are used for big targets. Smaller bombs are used for smaller targets.”
    “Carpet bombing”. Israel doesn’t do carpet bombing. The IAF doesn’t even have bombers.
    The war launched by Hamas has nothing to do with the occupation and blockade. And it has caused terrible suffering on both sides, for which Hamas is responsible. I’m not the one suffering from immoral delusions.

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • jon sMarch 18, 2024, 11:02 AM

    Robert, with all respect, I don’t feel the need to list the organizations, initiatives and actions I’ve been involved in over the years in support of Palestinian rights, in order to gain your approval. I’ll just say that I try to do my modest part.

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • brentMarch 18, 2024, 10:49 AM

    It has been my opinion exaggerations occurred. Not to take away the tragedy of people massacred and others taken hostage. There seems a compelling need for each side to see “the other” in a self-serving manner, as not having rights..

    I reason the date was selected for its significance, as in 73. There are a multitude of unanswered questions about October.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • RobertBMarch 18, 2024, 7:58 AM

    “Imagine your Mom or Dad, sister or brother, son or daughter…in the hands of killers, rapists and kidnappers…”

    Palestinians/Arabs/Christians/Muslims don’t have to imagine the horrors that Apartheid Israel commits/committed; its a reality; it happens to them just about every day.

    The cold blooded murders/assassinations, the killings/massacres, the torture/rape, the racism/discrimination, the abductions, the brutal occupation/vicious apartheid system, evictions, land thefts, blockades/sieges, ethnic cleansing/genocide …etc…

    They don’t have to imagine at all; they live through such horrors/nightmares on a daily basis. Their horror trails span back to over 75 years.

    And its all happening right there in your backyard and very close to you!

    Can you imagine what the Palestinians have/had to endure? … is it possible for you?

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • SPS1946March 18, 2024, 7:51 AM

    To Israel, any dead male Palestinian in Gaza, under the age of 65, is a “terrorist.”
    The same propaganda message has been repeated for decades in the West Bank every time the IDF or a militant settler kills a Palestinian male past the age of puberty.
    This is part of the endless dehumanizing of the Palestinians by the apartheid government of Israel.

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • SPS1946March 18, 2024, 7:37 AM

    I think that viewing is changing.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • Alain AlameddineMarch 18, 2024, 4:21 AM

    I agree with the content of the letter. One thing that is unclear to me is why there is a “call” for a new leadership and who exactly are they calling to do that. Why not go ahead and build a new leadership that refuses the two-state problem and reverts to the original Palestinian vision for a single democratic state? This is what the ODS Initiative is working on establishing. If the writers of this letter can see this, please contact me/us back so we can discuss it further.

    Source: Palestine: Unity of land, people and struggle 
  • AnndeeMarch 18, 2024, 4:05 AM

    I watched a ‘UN Watch’ ‘Summit Conference’ against UNRWA where UN Watch lawyers (Hillel? ) along with a panel of guest rallied to have donors redirect any donations away from UNRWA , (claiming they were not “irreplacable”) and instead donate to a new program (which they never named saying “it is not important which program”). They emphasized greatly they did not consider Palestinians as refugees (even saying no where in the world are people considered as refugees who haven’t left the country) and put forth a little insight into their Zionist plans for the people in Gaza Strip: To receive the aid in the new program that replaces UNRWA, before they are approved for aid, recipients must first severe all connection they have to UNRWA rosters and remove themselves from them; they must agree that they are not refugees; they must admit they do not have any ‘right to return and that they have no intentions to actively participate in liberating Palestine from the River to the Sea! Seriously? The woman who spoke about this was named Eilat Wilf and UN Watch segmented the video and posted it on Youtube

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • Kay24March 18, 2024, 3:59 AM

    Polls have shown even the people support apartheid policies.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • John OMarch 18, 2024, 3:26 AM

    That Yassin was blown to bits indicates how threatening his Hudna, non-violence, was.”

    I disagree. It indicates that Israel sees no difference between violent and peaceful resistance and kills both kinds equally.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • jon sMarch 18, 2024, 2:34 AM

    “Exaggerate victimization”?? How insensitive can you be? Imagine your Mom or Dad, sister or brother, son or daughter…in the hands of killers, rapists and kidnappers…
    5 months of abuse…how many are still alive?

    “Babies in ovens” – unfounded rumour. Beheadings – did occur.
    What does Yom Kippur have to do with it? Egypt and Syria launched the Yom Kippur war back in 1973! Hamas attacked on Simhat Torah. You’re right that the NOVA rave was a stroke of luck for Hamas : plenty of Jews to kill rape and kidnap, right out there in the open. (On the other hand , Hamas were so busy slaughtering them that they never got around to the villages to the east of Rd.232. If not for the NOVA, those places may have endured the fate of the kibbutzim to the west of that road. )

    Hamas terrorists had clear orders to murder, rape and kidnap. Yes, they were followed by private-enterprise killers kidnappers and looters. If you look at the video of the kidnapping of Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or , it looks like the kidnappers may not have been armed.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • RobertBMarch 18, 2024, 1:38 AM

    If Israel Wants to Be an ‘Independent Nation,’ Let It Be
    March 15, 2024

    Israel knows it’s fully dependent on the U.S. and cannot sustain its nonstop violence without the backing of the U.S. war machine, writes Caitlin Johnstone.

    “In a continuation of the Democratic Party’s weird new tactic of trying to assign Benjamin Netanyahu all the blame for the PR crisis caused by Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer denounced the Israeli prime minister on Thursday and called for new elections in Israel.

    He said on the Senate floor:

    “As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it has become clear to me: The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after Oct. 7. The world has changed, radically, since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past,” said Schumer, adding, “At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government.”

    Netanyahu’s Likud party responded with an indignant statement saying that Schumer is “expected to respect Israel’s elected government and not undermine it.”

    “Israel is not a banana republic, but an independent and proud democracy that elected Prime Minister Netanyahu,” the statement said.”

    https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/15/if-israel-wants-to-be-an-independent-nation-let-it-be/

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • italian ex-patMarch 18, 2024, 1:27 AM

    If anything, the number of dead civilians has to be much higher, the published numbers don’t reflect the number of bodies still buried under the rubble – we’ll never know how many. Of course Israel will claim a good majority of those, too, were terrorists, so it’s all good..

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • RobertBMarch 18, 2024, 1:20 AM

    “Sheik Yassin got it right.”

    Sheik Yassin was murdered/assassinated by apartheid Israel. And no doubt that the “assassination nation” may have many on its “kill list”.

    The zionist regime doesn’t want a lasting peace agreement to resolve the plight of the Palestinian matter. Apartheid Israel wants all the land and with no Palestinians.

    The zionist regime knows that continuous turmoil brings more US money, more aid, more free weapons/ammunition. The flow just continuous to come in and even increases.
    Its a good deal … a great deal … why change it? Just continue with no permanent solution and the American taxpayers money just keeps flowing … time and time again!

    Source: Palestine: Unity of land, people and struggle 
  • Donald JohnsonMarch 17, 2024, 11:42 PM

    Btw, what’s funny about your hissy fit is that I mentioned Hamas crimes and said each side is responsible for its own actions and you simply couldn’t take that in.

    But I forgot to mention America’s crimes and Western crimes in general. I suppose because of the internet it has become impossible to conceal what the US and other Western Israel supporters have been supporting. There is no denying it. The US and some other countries are complicit in this genocide. Western governments have lost whatever scrap of moral credibility they ever thought they had.

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • Donald JohnsonMarch 17, 2024, 11:35 PM

    I think Hamas committed a massive war crime on Oct 7 and of course previous to that Hamas and other groups had deliberately murdered civilians. I’ve said that before.

    You are just having a temper tantrum because people can condemn Palestinian terrorism and still see that Israel is a racist genocidal state and even some of its most prominent US supporters are warning that Israel is making itself a pariah. So stop sticking your head in the sand and face reality. Zionists who continue to blame Israel’s gigantic crimes on Hamas ( Hamas has its own crimes) are just showing everyone that Israel defenders have become morally insane.

    There really isn’t a military solution to this.

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • bcgMarch 17, 2024, 11:06 PM

    But in the months since, the world has been taken aback by the number of deaths reported out of Gaza: 30,000 through the end of February. Because the death count is compiled by the local Ministry of Health (MOH), an agency controlled by Hamas, which governs Gaza, the tally has been subject to skepticism. Israel’s U.N. ambassador and online pundits have purported that the numbers are exaggerated or, as a recent article in Tablet alleged, simply faked. [ that’s what you posted, the Tablet article ] ….Actually, the numbers are likely conservative. The science is extremely clear…..In December, the medical journal The Lancet, published two critiques of the death surveillance process done by extremely experienced scholars at Johns Hopkins and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Both concluded that the Gazan numbers were plausible and credible, albeit by somewhat different techniques and logic….The Hopkins’ analysis looked at internal aspects of the data like comparing hospital trend reports to the overall numbers, but also compared the death rates among U.N. employees with the overall MOH reports in terms of trends and mechanisms of death. There are a huge number of U.N. employees in Gaza, and very close correlations between the rates of death of U.N. employees and the overall population, and regarding the fraction dying under bombs in their homes….But, the evidence supporting the Gaza MOH mortality number credibility goes beyond these two assessments.

    The author:

    Les Roberts is an Epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He has taken part in the field measurement of mortality in crises including: Rwanda 1994, more than 30 health Zones in the Democratic Repoublic of Congo 1999-2002, Iraq 2004, Zimbabwe 2007, the Central African Repbulic 2009, 2018, and 2022, and Sierra Leone 2000 and 2014.

    https://time.com/6909636/gaza-death-toll/

    UNICEF defends accuracy of Gaza death toll as horror unfolds in ravaged enclave
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/world/gaza-death-toll-accuracy-unicef-intl-hnk/index.html

    I find it interesting that the author of the Tablet article you mentioned does not give his own estimate.

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • bcgMarch 17, 2024, 10:44 PM

    So if independent evidence surfaces that shows that the numbers are real – hypothetically at this point – what would that mean to you personally?

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • oscar60604March 17, 2024, 10:28 PM

    You are insufferably self-righteous. Listening to you, you would think that Israel is responsible for every bad decision made in this conflict going back to at least 1948. Not a single shred of responsibility for the multitude of bad, inept, and violent choices and miscalculation made by Palestinians, eh?

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • RobertBMarch 17, 2024, 10:18 PM

    Fatah / Abbas are stooges of apartheid Israel. Who cares what Fatah says. If elections were held today, Fatah would be sent packing with a humiliating defeat. Abbas is dysfunctional; he is worse that Biden’s pithy cognitive state.

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • RobertBMarch 17, 2024, 10:06 PM

    “Words and ideas like “equality”,”one state”, when seem as a consensus and campaigned for will separate Americans and humanist Jews from the extreme nationalists.”

    Since you think and you are convinced that “equality”, “one state” is/are an achievable goal via your suggested pathway/method(s) … can you sort of give an approximate time frame (how many months/years?) that “equality & one state” can be accomplished/a reality?

    “That Yassin was blown to bits indicates how threatening his Hudna, non-violence, was.”

    Israel, the assassination nation, murdered him, assassinated him … blew him to bits and pieces. It seems that you avoid saying that Israel assassinated Yassin.

    Do you think that Israel currently/always has some Palestinians/Arabs on its assassination list?

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • Kay24March 17, 2024, 9:53 PM

    The UN and the US seems to find it credible, in fact they found that it was undercounted sometimes, and had to revise it.

    “Others say the ministry has a track record of reliable casualty figures and that it has fallen victim to the propaganda war as Israel seeks to minimise the consequences of its hundreds of bombing raids on Gaza.
    In the past, the US state department’s annual human rights report indirectly relied on the same ministry’s casualty figures in quoting UN statistics drawn from Palestinian data.
    Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, said he saw no evidence that the numbers were being manipulated.
    “We have been monitoring human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip for three decades, including several rounds of hostilities. We’ve generally found the data that comes out of the ministry of health to be reliable,” he said.
    “When we have done our own independent investigations around particular strikes, and we’ve compared those figures against those from the health ministry, there haven’t been major deviations.
    “Their numbers generally are consistent with what we’re seeing on the ground in recent days. There have been hundreds of airstrikes per day in one of the most densely populated areas of the world.
    “We’ve looked at satellite imagery. We’ve seen the number of buildings, and the numbers that are coming out are in line with what we would expect with what we’re seeing on the ground. So you put all those things together and we’re quite confident in the overall casualty numbers.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/26/can-we-trust-casualty-figures-from-the-hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • brentMarch 17, 2024, 9:12 PM

    How can we support a discriminatory, brutal state in our name as Jews over there when we absolutely oppose religious nationalism and persecution of minorities here?….no Zionist will ultimately be able to save its racist apartheid constitution. And idealistic Jews here will help transform that land.”
    ________________________________________________________

    Humanist Jews now see Greater Israel’s final solution, the destruction of Palestinian culture and infrastructure. A state guaranteeing equality needs to be firmly tabled. Hopefully Israeli and Palestinian intellectuals, with Mondo, will facilitate this promising political opportunity.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • SPS1946March 17, 2024, 9:09 PM

    Unfortunately for Biden and Schumer, American voters are beginning to see the truth. There are almost no moderates in the Israeli government. Nearly all of them condone the apartheid policies.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • RosettaMarch 17, 2024, 7:21 PM

    The irony is that Israel’s maniacal genocidal slaughter in Occupied Palestine has spread the stories of Palestine and the facts of its history and Israel’s bloody and illegal foundation around the world. The power of the word and the pen is at its greatest in the service of justice and this is what will destroy Zionist Israel.

    Source: Refaat Alareer lives
  • RosettaMarch 17, 2024, 7:20 PM

    A beautiful piece and tribute. You can kill people but you can never kill ideas.

    Source: Refaat Alareer lives
  • Sharon SMarch 17, 2024, 6:57 PM

    Mr Weiss, I appreciate your effort in championing the Palestinian cause .

    I hope you don’t mind with this question- to date , has any Arab or Muslim leader publicly stated that Hamas is the cause of Palestinian suffering in Gaza ?

    Has any Arab or Muslim leader admitted that Hamas has hijacked the Palestinian people’s well being ?

    Has any Arab or Muslim leader expressed concerned with Oct 7th attacks and how it goes against Islamic values ?

    Forgive me for asking the above questions. I admire Jews like yourself , Mr Schumer, Jonathan Glazer and others who are bravely standing up for the Palestinians. This just goes to show that your core values are intact .

    I hope you can tap into your core values, what makes you a Jew to call for good governance , good leadership who wants the good for the Palestinian people- not leaders who hijack Palestinian suffering for their own interests.

    Thank you.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • Yonah FredmanMarch 17, 2024, 5:37 PM

    CT- God forbid we would try to understand the Israelis as human beings rather than monsters. You’re so filled with spouting propaganda you can’t stop for 10 seconds.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • Jasonius MaximusMarch 17, 2024, 5:09 PM

    Seems like Biden and Schumer are drinking the Thomas Friedman koolaid and reading from the same script, that says if only Bibi would go away everything will be fine in Israel.

    What they conveniently forget – intentionally omit – is that Israel just had a coalition government without Netanyahu in charge and it was equally happy to expand Settlements, ignore the never ending Occupation, continue Israeli Apartheid, starve the people of Gaza, and brutalize and kill Palestinians in their hundreds.

    So no! Israel doesn’t have a Netanyahu problem it had as Apartheid Israel problem. Netanyahu could vanish tomorrow and nothing would change. What Biden, Schumer, and Friedman are hoping, is that if their newest chosen scapegoat goes away, they might be able to return to the status quo of sweeping the Apartheid and PR nightmare back under the giant Israel shaped rug.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • jon sMarch 17, 2024, 4:46 PM

    Rebecca Turner, LIAR.

    Where did I write that?

    Source: Palestine: Unity of land, people and struggle 
  • oscar60604March 17, 2024, 4:06 PM

    It appears that Fatah is disgusted with Hamas for starting this war and
    is placing blame on Hamas leadership.
    Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Outraged – Fatah Accuses Hamas of Causing Genocide in Gaza
    https://www.palestinechronicle.com/al-aqsa-martyrs-outraged-fatah-accuses-hamas-of-causing-genocide-in-gaza/

    So yes, the primary blame lies with Hamas, says Fatah.

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • SennaMarch 17, 2024, 3:28 PM

    Thank you for everything that you do Phil. As a long-time MW reader, you are so vital and important.

    Source: Weekly Briefing: Now everyone hates Israel
  • brentMarch 17, 2024, 1:27 PM

    It has come natural to exaggerate victimization of the hostages. The record is replete…. babies in ovens….beheadings.

    Netanyahu’s idea for freeing the hostages militarily is in play. He broke off the exchanges in Nov. for an unworkable path.

    It’s reasonable Yom Kippur was chosen for its significance and the rave was yet to be scheduled…. not central to the planning. My best guess is Hamas sought hostages and much of the mayhem came from those who followed on foot and on bikes.

    It is unlikely Sinwar will surrender unilaterally. If Israel offered terms for his surrender, that could be facilitative.

    Main reality, Greater Israel has yet to want any agreement based on fairness.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • Donald JohnsonMarch 17, 2024, 1:23 PM

    The human shield excuse doesn’t work. Israel chooses to use the biggest bombs they have, they shoot unarmed people including their own hostages, they torture, and they cut off food. Look up power targets sometime. Serious people don’t use the human shield phrase as a mantra to excuse carpet bombing, but Israel genocide apologists have nothing else.

    And your reasoning that Hamas is responsible for Israel’s butchery could be turned around to say that Israel is responsible for Hamas’s crimes because of the occupation and blockade, not to mention countless Israeli killings of Palestinians before Oct 7. In the real world as opposed to the world of childish genocide apologists, each side is responsible for the innocent people they kill with their chosen tactics.

    Anyway, Jon, you are hopeless. If you represent a “ liberal” Israeli then Israel is no better than the Jim Crow South. You won’t correct your own behavior. You are so far sunk in your own immoral delusions you need to be pressured to do the right thing and it is likely that individuals who think like you will never change. I knew white southerners who were forced to live in a society where Jim Crow was ended— I am old enough to remember that. The society was forced to change, but they clung to their bigoted delusions, as you probably will.

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • jrgMarch 17, 2024, 1:14 PM

    So you agree with most or all of what Mondoweiss carries, but are willing to see it remain or become marginalized rather than engage its critics?

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • jrgMarch 17, 2024, 1:11 PM

    “You can’t endlessly brutalize an indigenous population for a century and expect a peaceful outcome.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • jrgMarch 17, 2024, 1:09 PM

    Save it for May Day, Rebecca.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • brentMarch 17, 2024, 1:05 PM

    No words will convince “Greater Israel”, they are ideologues. Words and ideas like “equality”,”one state”, when seem as a consensus and campaigned for will separate Americans and humanist Jews from the extreme nationalists.

    That Yassin was blown to bits indicates how threatening his Hudna, non-violence, was.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • brentMarch 17, 2024, 12:39 PM

    World attention has been focused by Greater Israel seizing the window of opportunity provided by 10-7 to secure objectives. Hamas’ use of arms has long provided the “iron wall” against getting to what is a fair agreement.

    IMO, humanist Jews are the single most important bridge to Palestinian liberation.

    Sheik Yassin got it right.

    Source: Palestine: Unity of land, people and struggle 
  • SPS1946March 17, 2024, 11:57 AM

    Yes, the UNRWA management panicked. They’ve been demonized by Israel and the zionist elites for decades. It is all part of the “whitewashing” of history since the Nakba catastrophe by the Israeli lobby.
    How often do we hear the Israeli lobby tell us how evil the United Nations is as an institution? It hasn’t worked with the issue of “Middle East Peace” because on 48 occasions UNCLE SAM (aka America) has used the Security Council veto power to block any peaceful negotiation through the UN – a forum designed after WWII to engage in such action.

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • Vera GottliebMarch 17, 2024, 11:44 AM

    Sanctioning illegal settlements…Is this for real or just another American spectacle…as the show most go on? Pathetic.

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • bcgMarch 17, 2024, 11:29 AM

    “Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA”
    Since the whole UNWRA issue has surfaced our colleagues at Hasbara U have been promoting the idea that UNWRA needs to be diminished because it’s keeping Palestinians on the dole. Why work when UNWRA will give you food for free?

    Those of a certain age will recognize this as a thinly disguised version of Ronald Reagan’s welfare queen** narrative. According to this story, the welfare system was keeping lazy poor people dependent, and by ‘poor people’ everyone understood it meant blacks.

    The subtext of a lot of discussions about UNWRA is that the Palestinians are basically welfare queens.

    ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • SPS1946March 17, 2024, 10:35 AM

    Zionists need to finally look at themselves in the mirror.
    Then they will see the “enemy” and realize it is “us” (racist zionism).
    You can’t endlessly brutalize an indigenous population for a century and expect a peaceful outcome.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • SPS1946March 17, 2024, 10:31 AM

    …and now the bully!

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • SPS1946March 17, 2024, 10:16 AM

    Yes, the abject force of arms by Israel since 1948 has been a complete failure.

    The Palestinians have tried peaceful protest for decades, but with no success because Israel and the United States blocked any attempts for a peaceful resolution at the United Nations, and other fora. [Example: Look at how BDS has been assaulted by state governments and the ADL in the United States.]

    There need to be free and fair elections in which all the Palestinians (Gaza, East Jerusalem, West Bank, and those in exile) get to vote. Those elections need to take place ASAP. The corrupt Abbas must go – just like Bibi Netanyahu must go. They are both obstacles to Peace.

    Source: Palestine: Unity of land, people and struggle 
  • Rebecca TurnerMarch 17, 2024, 10:12 AM

    UNRWA has reacted properly, immediately, effectively… UNRWA has already fired nine of those employees

    Those two statements are antithetical. We know that UNRWA was presented by apartheid Israel with no evidence of the complicity of its employees in Hamas’s actions on 7th October, so why did it dispose of nine employees, likely wrecking their lives and those of their families? What kind of organisation does that? It seems the management of UNRWA panicked, which is standard for NGOs reliant on wealthy, capitalist donors and shows their structural weakness. He who pays the piper…

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
  • Rebecca TurnerMarch 17, 2024, 9:56 AM

    Having the attention of the world community is a great opportunity to advance politically.

    Now, I wonder how that happened? I know: the Palestinian Authority issued a press release about consensus with Zionists. That must be how the world came to wake up to the oppression of the Palestinian people. Because, like in all previous wars of imperialism, armed resistance is pointless as the colonising nation merely wants to live in peace and harmony with the indigenous people it is busily slaughtering or exploiting. Right, Brent? I assume you didn’t read the comment by fanatical Zionist Jon S posted the other day in which he made clear that, so far as he’s concerned, the only good Palestinian is a dead Palestinian.

    Source: Palestine: Unity of land, people and struggle 
  • RobertBMarch 17, 2024, 8:46 AM

    “Of course, that’s with desirable and good ideas.
    Sheik Yassin had it right. Hudna!”

    Brent, by all means, do tell us how & which “desirable and good ideas” will convince the “assassination nation” to bring about the end of its brutal occupation, its vicious Apartheid system, the land grabs/thefts, its decades of oppression, its “for Jews only” settlements & roads, its aggression/assassinations, its ethnic cleansing … etc…??

    What/which “desirable and good ideas” will convince a bully country like Israel, which is fully armed with the most destructive and sophisticated weapons and even with WMD?

    Do you really think this/these “when words and ideas are more powerful” will convince a belligerent war criminal country, Israel?

    BTW … Sheik Yassin was assassinated by Israel …correct?

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • CTMarch 17, 2024, 8:24 AM

    Israeli Jews have been brainwashed to believe Palestinians are sub-human. It starts at home, then school, synagogues and then indoctrination in the “most moral army in the world”, the IDF. For centuries, Palestinian Christians and Muslims lives in harmony with their Jewish neighbours. They are not natural enemies.

    It is actually Israeli Jews who need to be re-educated, not Palestinians as many racist Israeli leaders and their shills in NA and Europe, have condescendingly prescribed. For Israeli supporters such as yourself, it seems that you are incapable of seeking out solutions other than ones popular in 20th Century fascist Europe: genocide and extermination.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • John OMarch 17, 2024, 8:18 AM

    Thank you, Rebecca. As to bombing the railways leading to the camps, there are practical reasons why this was not done. Rail tracks are difficult to hit and easy to repair (see Christian Wolmar, Engines of War). The death camps were out of range of allied aircraft until very late in the war (so the allies didn’t know where exactly they were) and, in any event, the precision needed to destroy key installations without killing the prisoners was virtually impossible.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • CTMarch 17, 2024, 8:12 AM

    Not quite. Israel holds thousand of hostages, including hundreds of children. Yes, hostages, because Israel is an Apartheid regime that applies one set of laws to non-Jews and another set of military guidelines against Palestinians whom it has now occupied and abuses for decades. B’Tselem, Israel’s preeminent human rights organization, has fully documents torture, abuse, rape of male and female Palestinian hostage and much much worse. “Pressuring” (i.e. killing, wounding ethnically cleansing and traumatizing hundreds of thousands of Gazans) will most likely cause the hostages to die.

    If Israel’s primary goal was to release Israeli hostages, it would have pursued a wholly different strategy. Its goal now is Gaza is obvious for the world to see: ethnic cleansing, starvation and industrial-scale war crimes that the ICJ has declared to be plausibly constituting genocide. In fact, Israel’s behaviour has become much worse since the court’s ruling.

    No one expects kindness from the vast majority of Israeli Jews because it has never existed. One recalls a few years ago during another IDF “mowing the lawn” operations that entailed killing and injuring thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, Israeli Jews in the south bringing their whole families, including children, to watch the barbarity. They brought lawn chairs and picnicked as they watched bombs and flesh-burning white phosphorus land on a defenceless refugee population. A population whose grandparents were violently evicted in the 1940s from their ancestral homes. They cheered as the bombs fell.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • John HallMarch 17, 2024, 7:29 AM

    Many Jewish Israelis support Crimes Against Humanity? So once did many Germans under the Nazis. Just because Israel is a “democracy” – within its green line – does not mean that Israel’s “popular” programme of ethnic cleansing verging on genocide and apartheid and starvation should be tolerated by the outside world. Experiences from WWII and the creation of international law and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights mean that all Governments have a duty to sanction and apply pressure to “the Jewish state”. Stopping US subsidies and supply of arms could remove Netanyahu, if that was what was wanted.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • Rebecca TurnerMarch 17, 2024, 6:03 AM

    The more I learn of Dr Refaat Alareer, the more admiration I have for him. Thank you for sharing your love for him and your experience of his kindness. The linked article by him that you provided has a lot of wisdom:

    Knowledge is Israel’s worst enemy. Awareness is Israel’s most hated and feared foe. That’s why Israel bombs a university; it wants to kill openness and determination to refuse living under injustice and racism.

    We see from the few Zionist fanatics commenting on this site how they detest the knowledge and understanding that Mondoweiss (along with other pro-Palestinian sources) brings to the world. Just a few years ago I had little interest in the Palestinian people. Here in the UK, none of my friends mentions it, even now during the mass killings. But as I grew more aware of it through sites such as this one, I grew to learn of the injustice, the suffering and the righteous desire for liberation amongst the Palestinian people. They are imperfect like all of us but their cause is one of the most urgent of our times.

    Source: Refaat Alareer lives
  • Rebecca TurnerMarch 17, 2024, 5:51 AM

    Yes. The Zionist entity has shown itself throughout its existence to be utterly untrustworthy. How many so-called deals has it brazenly ignored, deals that were massively in its favour anyway? That there will never be negative consequences for the entity in breaching deals, laws or any other agreement is a clear moral hazard to negotiating with it.

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 161: Hamas proposes new prisoner exchange deal, Netanyahu’s office calls it ‘unrealistic’
  • gamalMarch 17, 2024, 5:31 AM

    New revelations on Israel’s killing of its own citizens on 7 October | Ali Abunimah & Asa Winstanley

    https://youtu.be/iWx8QbLI5vA?si=6l-khJsN5CeL7VB6&t=2

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 162: Israel kills 36 Palestinians in strike on Gaza home as Netanyahu approves Rafah invasion
  • jon sMarch 17, 2024, 5:06 AM

    Another lie from Rebecca Turner: To Zionists, Palestinian children are dangerous extremists who need to be slaughtered without mercy. 

    Like this one: “it’s gleefully, joyfully removing limbs and heads from the bodies of countless thousands of children, women and men.”

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • Rebecca TurnerMarch 17, 2024, 4:15 AM

    During WWII, there was substantial public debate and unease about area bombing. Vera Brittain, for example, was utterly opposed to it, informed by her pacifism. Martin Hannan in The National:

    Both Germany and Britain said before the war that they would not bomb civilians, but after a stray Luftwaffe bomber dropped its bombs on London, Winston Churchill ordered a retaliatory raid on Berlin which enraged Hitler and led to the Blitz. The Hague Convention on the “rules” of warfare didn’t actually cover the bombing of civilians in cities. Göring at his trial said the Convention rules “do not take into consideration the essential principles of this war, the war of the air, the economic war and the propaganda war.”

    He added: “At this point I should like to say the same words which one of our greatest, most important and toughest opponents, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, used: ‘In the struggle for life and death there is in the end no legality’.” It is estimated that as many as a million Germans died in the raids – one person for every ton of bombs dropped.

    It’s a source of more debate as to why the railways serving the concentration camps were not bombed but civilian areas of cities were.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • Rebecca TurnerMarch 17, 2024, 4:01 AM

    Most of the world’s people, it seems, now see the Zionists and their racialised State for what it is. The Zionists commenting here simply confirm what we observe in the actions and rhetoric of Israel. Even when large numbers of Jewish people protest, write and act in many other ways to oppose Zionism and apartheid Israel, Zionists will still claim against a mountain of evidence that to liberate the Palestinian people is to hate Jews. I have seen this in climate science deniers, in racists attacking migrants, in the anti-vaccination, anti-trans, in all the other far right fanatics. Evidence and arguments simply bounce off them and they continue spouting their hatred and nonsense.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • jon sMarch 17, 2024, 2:21 AM

    Actually the deal that freed Sinwar was 1027:1.
    The hostages are starved, abused, neglected. Who knows how many are still alive? That’s why the issue is so urgent!

    I don’t understand your sentence “My bet is the action was scheduled for Yom Kippur and the rave was a surprise, as the angry young men following out.
    Please clarify.

    It’s unlikely that Sinwar will surrender.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • brentMarch 17, 2024, 12:41 AM

    IMO, a basic reality. Wars are eventually won politically, not militarily. Same with equal rights.

    Of course, that’s with desirable and good ideas.

    Sheik Yassin had it right. Hudna!

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • brentMarch 17, 2024, 12:28 AM

    We call for a representative, competent and revolutionary leadership that speaks to our national liberation and represents the political consensus of our people.”
    ____________________________________________________________

    It is clear for all to see that resisting by arms, by any means, even when spectacular in effect, is not a likely path to a bright future. To living together, sharing a state, in peace and security.

    The 2SS, without both sides having a one gun policy was doomed to fail.

    IMO, there is a special need for national elections in order to settle on a consensus on how to work it out with their cousins. Interesting to note, when Hamas officially called for a ceasefire and then elections asap, no media even took note. Revealing.

    Abbas said several years ago that if the2SS didn’t advance, he would press for a shared state. Certainly many Palestinians now advocate the same. It is a logical move… needs to happen, IMO. That would flush out any possible 2SS. Trump said he’d be good with one state as an agreement.

    Having the attention of the world community is a great opportunity to advance politically.

    Source: Palestine: Unity of land, people and struggle 
  • bcgMarch 16, 2024, 10:55 PM

    If this publication is bankrupt then don’t read it.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • Yonah FredmanMarch 16, 2024, 10:36 PM

    The analogy to America post 9/11 misses one key factor: hostages. It could very well be that the most effective response to the taking of hostages is negotiations, but on an emotional level from an Israeli point of view, Gaza is holding hostages and expecting kindness, which does not add up. Pressure Hamas to release the hostages, is the obvious emotional response. That is what this adds up to. In fact it seems that causing pain and death to the people of Gaza is considered a necessary sacrifice to the end of Palestinian national goals, so this response might be factually contraindicated. But a hostage situation is materially different than a nonhostage situation which was what 9/11 was.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • RobertBMarch 16, 2024, 10:19 PM

    “So, yes,primary blame lies with Hamas.”

    Yep … kill/slaughter more than 31,000 Palestinians in 162 days, most of them women and children, then blame someone else for their brutal deaths … blame Hamas.

    Its that same ole lying Zionist hasbara method … deny and lie!

    “The relentless bombing has destroyed apartment buildings, marketplaces, refugee camps, hospitals, clinics, ambulances, bakeries, schools, mosques, churches, roads, electricity networks, critical water mains — just about everything.”

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • RobertBMarch 16, 2024, 10:08 PM

    “I’m willing to bet that I’ve been supporting Palestinian rights longer than you have.”

    1) You said that you were retired … which means that you are way older than me.

    2) If you can go to one of those ( more than 500 Israeli army apartheid check points/gates) , and with your smartphone/iPhonerecord what Palestinians have to endure from your IDF’s brutality treatment, harassment/insults, intentional restrictions/long delays, physical & verbal abuse …etc… and if its possible, ask/request from your IDF at those checkpoints to treat the Palestinians as equals …as human beings. It would be way more, much more than your words of “I’ve been supporting Palestinian rights”.

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • joysglobalMarch 16, 2024, 8:18 PM

    There must be a permanent ceasefire in Gaza in order to comply with the ICJ ruling. Not with Palestinians suffering under oppressive conditions, but as a place where all live with peace and equality. It is time for Pope Francis to do more than talk. He must go to Gaza and make a stand for peace and freedom.

    Please sign the petition and share widely.

    https://chng.it/CRQ7qw4Gzn

    Code pink
    https://www.codepink.org/cnngaza?utm_campaign=12_15_pali_update_alert_3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

    Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate Let us do it to honor Aaron Bushnell, or in memory of Hind Rajab.

    Let us call for a No Fly-Zone over Gaza!

    These are a few small things we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • jrgMarch 16, 2024, 6:43 PM

    “So why do you bother to read this stuff?” If that’s the best response to or defense of a criticism of a publication that you can come up with, then the publication in question must be pretty bankrupt.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • jon sMarch 16, 2024, 5:27 PM

    We don’t know how many civilians have been killed in Gaza, but I assume that the number is very high.
    Nearly all of them would be alive today had Hamas not attacked on Oct.7, starting this war.
    Hamas has a consistent strategy of using hospitals , mosques, schools and homes and , in general, using their own people as human shields , deliberately increasing the number of civilian casualties. 
    So, yes,primary blame lies with Hamas .

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • SPS1946March 16, 2024, 5:23 PM

    Always the victim………………………………………………………………….

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • jon sMarch 16, 2024, 5:13 PM

    I’m willing to bet that I’ve been supporting Palestinian rights longer than you have.

    I repeat:  people have the right to refer to themselves as they choose.

    Source: Human rights groups sue Denmark for weapons export to Israel
  • bcgMarch 16, 2024, 4:48 PM

    “Yet, fully 68% of Israeli Jews said they opposed aid going into Gaza. Only 30% supported it.”

    That’s the poll results mentioned in the article. That’s not ‘indicts an entire population of Jews as genocidists’, that’s saying that 68% of Israeli Jews oppose aid going into Gaza.

    So why do you bother to read this stuff?

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • BoomerMarch 16, 2024, 3:23 PM

    Thanks for this analysis. Some would say that Biden is acting consistently with the will of “his people,” i.e., those who give him money. Max Blumenthal has a very informative speech along those lines to the Women’s National Democratic Club.” It is posted at “The Gray Zone” and is also available as a podcast:

    https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/15/genocide-democrats-max-blumenthal-wndc/

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • RobertBMarch 16, 2024, 1:50 PM

    You must think/assume that your “words and ideas” are so powerful and more powerful than those 2,000 pound bombs.

    And you think and assume that “words & ideas” will change/convince a brutal zionist regime’s ways and direction?

    In 2014, Israel dropped 100 of those 2,000 pound bombs on of Gaza’s section in one day, in a 24 hour period.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • RobertBMarch 16, 2024, 1:42 PM

    Follow your “indignation” examples tract record!

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • HolyCowMarch 16, 2024, 1:40 PM

    This is more endless “whataboutism” 

    No it’s not, it was an answer to a direct question. If you are going to jump a thread just to go off-topic you should at least read the source comment and figure out what is being discussed.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • John OMarch 16, 2024, 1:32 PM

    You think the allies only bombed Nazi troops? Or that the British public was not OK with widespread and indiscriminate bombing of Germany?

    It is very irritating to read historically uninformed comments like this. The bombing of Germany was not a turkey shoot in the way that the IAF bombing of Gaza is. RAF aircrews had the highest casualty rate of any allied service personnel, with USAAF crews not far behind. Neither British bombing by night or US bombing by day was very accurate, due to technological limitations, until very late in the war; but it was not indiscriminate. Were the British public OK with it? I’m not sure, without doing some research. However, since the war, its effectiveness and morality have been questioned and scrutinised many times.

    Given the technological sophistication of its weaponry, and the complete absence of air defences in Gaza, Israel has no excuse for its butchery (which reminds me: to the British press, the head of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, was known as “Bomber” Harris; to his crews, he was nicknamed “Butcher” Harris – a token of both the terrible savagery of the campaign and the equally terrible price paid by his men).

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • John OMarch 16, 2024, 1:08 PM

    Yes. That’s what Jonathan Glazer’s remarks at the Oscars were about.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • Kay24March 16, 2024, 12:03 PM

    Biden has been on the wrong side of this issue from the beginning.
    He has made little sounds of disapproval when confronted about the slaughter of innocent civilians.
    He has NEVER condemn the killing of 14,000 children, nor called for a ceasefire.
    He has never demanded that his pet nation stop blocking the hundreds of trucks filled with life saving food and medicines, from going in to save lives.

    HE HAS NEVER USED THE LEVERAGE THE US HAS HAD OVER THIS DESPICABLE GENOCIDAL NATION, to rein in this out of control zionist killing machine.

    “Top senator calls on Biden to ‘use all levers’ to pressure Israel over GazaDemocrat Chris Van Hollen says Biden must cease giving arms to Israel until it lifts restrictions on aid and does more to protect lives

    Joe Biden should use his leverage and the law to pressure Israel to change how it is prosecuting the war in Gaza, the Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen said.
    Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, is among a group of senators urging Biden to stop providing Israel with offensive weapons until it lifts restrictions on the delivery of food and medicine into Gaza, where children are now dying of hunger and famine looms.

    “We need the president and the Biden administration to push harder and to use all the levers of US policy to ensure people don’t die of starvation,” Van Hollen said in an interview on Friday.
    This week, Van Hollen and seven of his colleagues sent a letter to the president arguing that Israel was in violation of the Foreign Assistance Act, a section of which prohibits the sale and transfer of military weapons to any nation that restricts the delivery of US aid.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/16/biden-senator-chris-van-hollen-israel-gaza-aid

    Biden’s half hearted efforts are so ineffective, and shows he is only going through the motions.
    I guess it is an election year….

    Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 162: Israel kills 36 Palestinians in strike on Gaza home as Netanyahu approves Rafah invasion
  • kmattar1March 16, 2024, 11:48 AM

    Beautiful and powerful, Amna, thank you. Yes, Professor Alareer lives. For what it’s worth, your Palestinian brothers and sisters teach his words every day here in the US. We stand with you.

    Source: Refaat Alareer lives
  • brentMarch 16, 2024, 11:37 AM

    How to understand taking a knife to a gunfight when words and ideas are more powerful?

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden
  • SPS1946March 16, 2024, 11:13 AM

    This is more endless “whataboutism” from one of may zionist propaganda ideologues.
    In fact, Israel has no moral ground to stand on in this “Gaza War;” especially after 156 days (and counting) of displacement (2.3 million people) and slaughter (at least 32,000 Palestinians). This killing continues because the Israeli war criminal, Bibi Netanyahu, refuses to relinquish power.
    Bibi Netanyahu has been a genocidal maniac for nearly 30 years (since he was first elected PM after the assassination of PM Rabin). The fact that Bibi has won so many elections speaks to how morally bankrupt Israeli Jews have become. They’ve learned nothing from the horrors of the holocaust. “Never again” has actually become “let’s do it again” – but this time to some other people, the Palestinians.
    Israel is rotting from within with this endless rage of brutality against the Palestinians, whose only crime is having the temerity to refuse to surrender all of their land and possessions to the militant zionist settlers who first stampeded into Palestine after WWI and WWII; and who now continue this rampage from their illegal settlements on lands seized in the Six-Day-War of 1967.

    Source: It isn’t Netanyahu who is acting against the will of his people, it’s Biden