U.S. reporters are providing breathless around the clock coverage from Israel, but none are reporting from the destruction of Gaza. The result is that Palestinians are dehumanized and Americans are missing the story.
The side to be on is that of the Palestinians. Peacefully. That's how you get to a better life for everyone now and long-term. For Americans, demand that the UNSC is allowed to deliberate a compromise on all issues. Like the Minsk agreements regarding Ukraine. But then instead actually help enforce it. #Israel#Palestine#Gaza
Israel has used white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, putting civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries.
White phosphorus causes excruciating burns and can set homes afire. Its use in populated areas is unlawful.
Israël heeft witte fosfor gebruikt bij militaire operaties in Gaza en Libanon, waardoor burgers het risico lopen op ernstige en langdurige verwondingen.
Witte fosfor veroorzaakt ondragelijke brandwonden en kan huizen in brand steken. Het gebruik ervan in bevolkte gebieden is onwettig.
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbour
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Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes.
As Israel continues to bombard Gaza's starving population, armed settlers across the West Bank are launching attacks on Palestinian communities with the help of the Israeli military and the support of the government. At least five Palestinian were killed by reported settler fire.
Today, Activists shut down an Elbit Systems facility in Cambridge, MA. "Right now Israel is using Elbit's weapons to mass murder thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children indiscriminately," protesters said.
#SocialMedia#Disinformation#War#Israel#Palestine: "Musk’s changes to the foundation of how Twitter works have not only rendered Twitter useless as a means of making sense of the conflict as (or even hours after) it unfolds, but made it actively counterproductive for users trying to figure out what’s going on. As Musk and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino have rolled back the platform’s rules of engagement and rid their ranks of the content-moderation teams and tools that actually keep X trustworthy, they’ve also put in place a system that fundamentally incentivizes the spread of misinformation during times of mass panic and confusion, in part because X is now a platform that pays for viral content.
The end result is that Twitter, more so than any other platform right now, is fertile ground for a new kind of war profiteering."
"I think it’s vital for political leaders and for Palestinians to be able to see the suffering and the tragedy and the loss of human life and the violence, and to be able to still maintain the ethical value in seeing the justice of their own struggle, while also grieving over sadistic violence. We need to be able to hold both. We need to recognize that anti-colonial struggles are violent. But not all of that violence is in pursuit of a political project. As you say, violence occurs for all different sorts of reasons. We need to be able to hold that truth while also recognizing the ethical purpose of ending apartheid. And I think it’s really hard to do that when the media tries to portray this in black and white. It’s very complex, and we need to be able to hold that complexity." Interview Tareq Baconi, president of the board of the think tank Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, author of the 2018 book “Hamas Contained.”
The war on public opinion following the #Hamas massacre on Saturday, is intensifying. Ynet reporter is worried #Israel might loose students’ support, which appear to be much more opinionated and determined not to ignore historical context, while world leaders are standing by Israel unequivocally.
Last quote in the article is from one of the organizers involved with the #DayOfResisirance counter protest: its upsetting they’re pushing a narrative ignoring the fact that it all started in 1948 … it’s a war over the home, and there are only losers.
UK democracy in action : Waving Palestinian flag may be a criminal offence, Braverman tells police
Home secretary also suggests clampdown on pro-Arab chants in letter that will concern free speech advocates
Waving a Palestinian #flag or singing a chant advocating freedom for Arabs in the region may be a criminal offence, Suella Braverman has told senior police officers.
In a letter to chief constables in #England and #Wales, the home secretary urged them to clamp down on any attempts to use flags, songs or swastikas to harass or intimidate members of the Jewish community.
Her words, which follow deadly attacks by #Hamas on Israelis and a #military response, will deeply concern #freedom of speech advocates and members of the #Muslim community.
In the letter, #Braverman said police should not restrict themselves to potential offences related to the promotion of Hamas, a proscribed organisation.
"We in the health sector are realising the true horror of what is happening here – that no one is safe. Not families in their homes, and not first responders in ambulances. My eldest son, who is nine years old, asked me whether if he died he would go to heaven or hell. This broke my heart in half." Mahmoud Shalabi, Gaza director for Medical Aid for Palestinians.
Forget the lie about EU money for Hamas. For ordinary Palestinians, the aid is a lifeline
Brussels is right to backtrack on its threats – cutting the territories’ largest aid package would only inflame the crisis
That suspending aid was even considered, and remains a possibility, is mind-boggling. If the goal is to punish Hamas, stopping European aid makes no sense. The EU and its member states do not fund Hamas.
I've seen lots of posts on here claim that #Hamas "beheaded 40 babies" in #KfarAza, the #kibbutz near Gaza where Hamas attacked the #IDF. But journalists who visited the site are refuting such claims, and those hostages who have been freed are reporting that they were treated with humanely by the militants who captured them.
In the video linked below the captive says that she was with her kids, they were not abused, the militants were friendly and even asked whether they could have a banana. Doesn't sound like the kind of people so evil that they cut the heads off infants and flail their entrails all over the place as the Western media is claiming.
If you are one of the people who has spread such malicious, racist lies you should either make the effort to post a correction and apology, or be honest that you are a genocidal racist participating in an effort to justify the cutting off of all water, fuel and electricity to #Gaza in an escalation of the 17 year long seige to levels of depravity not seen since the Nazi blockade on Stalingrad.
If you are a #Jew and spreading such horrid propaganda, you need to think about what it means that you are employing the same tactics of defamation used to justify a millenia of #antisemitic violence in #Europe.
Belle démonstration de solidarité et de détermination à Paris où les soutiens au peuple palestinien gardent la rue malgré l'interdiction de Darmanin ! ❤️
Les policiers chargent violemment les manifestants qui sont bloqués entre la foule et les barrières du métro #Palestine#Paris#etatpolicier
Src : AB7 Media (X)
Les forces de l'ordre chargent et utilisent les gazeuses pour disperser les manifestants pro-Palestine à Paris. #israel#palestine#hamas#gaza
Src : Luc Auffret (X)
As usual, the left is playing its role as the critical opposition within the capitalist camp, trying to rally workers to one or the other capitalist state.
As an antidote, I will share -- as I notice them -- the internationalist, anti-frontist positions of the Communist Left (and some anarchists) on the war in Israel/Gaza.
First up is the International Communist Current's statement, "Neither Israel nor Palestine! Workers have no fatherland!"
(5 / x) Statement of the Anarchist Communist Group: "Neither Israel nor Hamas!"
"Because a solution to the conflict can ultimately only be a common, classless and stateless society in which people of different religious (and non-religious) and ethnic backgrounds can coexist peacefully. And the way to achieve this can only be through class struggle, with workers uniting on both sides to improve their situation and thereby overcoming long-held resentments. It is the task of the libertarian communist movement to push for exactly this."