"On this week’s #MakingContact, we bring you a special encore of an episode that first aired in June. We’ll hear an extended interview with #IveyCamilleManybeadsTso, a #queer#Diné filmmaker and director of the award-winning #documentary Powerlands.
Katherine Trebeck, Donnie Maclurcan, & Jennifer Wilkins explore the challenging question of how existing larger businesses, especially #multinational#enterprises and #corporations, can begin to prepare for a #postgrowth future.
Destroying Hamas is a political objective, not a military one.
Even if Israel claims success after assassinating senior Hamas figures, destroying their arsenal and tunnels, and dismantling their administration, they have not said what they will do the day after “victory”.
The Gaza strip will still be there, albeit mostly in ruins. The population who survive the war will still be there, mourning new losses of loved ones and their homes. And the poverty and other deprivations that fed Hamas will only have intensified.
The national rage, the massing of military might, looked disturbingly familiar to US president Joe Biden, who warned Israel last week:
“Justice must be done. But I caution this – while you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it. After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States. While we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.”
Even if the #Palestinian#Authority could be pressured or bribed into considering taking control, it is far from clear if they would be accepted, or able to do it.
A government installed by the Israeli military would not be seen as legitimate.
The #PA are already widely resented in the #West#Bank for their weakness in the face of Israeli authorities, for being inefficient, unrepresentative and riddled with corruption.
And though the majority of Gazans were not old enough to vote when #Fatah lost elections to #Hamas in 2007, there is no reason to think they have become more popular.
The only idea floated by Israeli politicians and officers for Gaza’s future, an #international#peacekeeping force, seems rooted more in wishful thinking than reality.
“It seems that the war is going to be very, very #long and we have to take into account the #hostages, the risk of conflict #spreading into the wider region, the #erosion of support and the question to whom we are going to pass #control in Gaza – for example if we have to pass it potentially to some Arab-led #multinational force,” said former prime minister Ehud #Barak.
Blowing up a dam is a violation of international humanitarian law, I cite Protocol Additional I to Geneva Conventions. "installations containing dangerous forces, namely dams, ..., shall not be made the object of attack"
Thank you for posting this -
concise reminders of international #humanitarian#law are always welcome in my feed!
I'm always wary when I find myself agreeing with a politician, so with that caveat, I note the #UKDefenceSecretary said the "only reason this is an issue at all is because of Russia's unprovoked full-scale invasion". The Kakhova dam on the Dnipro river provided a vehicular bridge that may have been useful to #ukraine 's #army in re-establishing Ukraine's borders as they were understood when the #BudapestMemorandum was agreed to. https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/6-june-level-of-water-in-kakhovka-water-reservoir-is-rapidly Only the top of the dam is damaged but I hope #dam#engineers might tell us about how fragile or robust these structures are.
At the risk of sounding corny, I think most people in the world would agree that re-opening for #future generations a pathway toward #global#NuclearDisarmament is an essential pillar of #environmental preservation, and human #security.