Not enough swear words for how I feel about the US #genocide accomplice government & folks dumb enough to place all blame at #Netanyahu feet - when this genocide of #Palestinians has been the fucking goal of #Israel government for several decades & far before Bibi-Bloodbather had any influence in Israel.
Your country #USA fucking created #Trump. Your country ignored #neoliberalism leading up to Trump. Your country is focused on Trump, when he'll just be replaced by another poster #fascist face.
Some of you are freaking the hell out about Haley autographing bombs. Who sent those fucking #bombs? When some of you haven't freaked out as hard over THOUSANDS of #MURDERED#PALESTINIANS.
GTFO with how you care about Palestinian lives when you're not even posting about them but blasting away at a bigot sellout chump - doing #bigot chump shit.
Foreign ministers from 13 countries warn Israel against Rafah assault
Foreign ministers from 13 countries have signed a letter warning Israel to halt its ground invasion of Rafah and to allow more aid to reach the Palestinian population.
The letter was signed by the foreign ministers of the G7 states: Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Japan and Canada, as well as their counterparts from Australia, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea and Sweden.
“These 2,000-pound bombs routinely kill dozens, scores, more than 100 people at a time … And this one [arms] package that was being withheld apparently had more than 1,200 of those 2,000-pound bombs. So that’s not nothing. But it is very far from what is required.”
“#Civilians have been killed in #Gaza as a consequence of those bombs & other ways in which they go after population centers,” #Biden said in an interview airing Wed evening on CNN, referring to 2k-pound #bombs supplied by the #US “I made it clear that if they go into #Rafah — they haven’t gone in…yet — if they go…, I’m not supplying the #weapons that have been used historically to deal …with the cities….”
The #Biden admin paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to #Israel, including controversial 2k-pound bombs, amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand a military operation in southern #Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict’s death toll, U.S. ofcls said Tues.
The disclosure marks the 1st known instance of a pause in #US#arms transfers since the #Oct7#Hamas-led attack into #Israel…. Since then, the #UnitedStates has sent tens of thousands of #bombs & #missiles to its #ally as huge swaths of #Gaza have been turned to rubble & the death toll among #Palestinians has ballooned to >34k, many of them women & children…. #POTUS#Biden described the bombing as “indiscriminate,” but has been reluctant to leverage weapons transfers to…change…Israel’s behavior.
"The #NYPD is stepping up patrols outside #synagogues and other houses of worship across the city, after more than 20 synagogues received #bomb threats this past weekend. No #bombs were found in any of the buildings."
In face of heavy military and political failures in both zones North & South Viet Nam, and the ever-stronger protest movement against the U.S. #WarOfAggression in Viet Nam by the peoples the world over, #UnitedStates included, #LBJohnson had to declare the limited bombings in North Viet Nam on March 31, 1968.
The number of bombs used has been much greater; in May (1968) alone 800 time-bombs were used against 200 [#CivilianTargets from #ThanhHoa to #QuangBinhand nearly 1,000 mother bombs carrying more than 600,000 small globular bombs (steel- pellet bombs) against civilians.
On May 23, 1968 at 7 p.m. the [#USimperialists dropped 6 anti-personnel #bombs, 3 steel-pellet mother-bombs and fired many incendiary shells setting on fire more than 200 houses of the people of #NamLoc village, #NamDan district, #NgheAn province.]
"#Washington and #London opted to strike #Yemen with precision #bombs rather than accelerating efforts to end violence in #Gaza, where more than 20,000 people have been killed in three months" 👇
Today in Labor History January 8, 1933: Anarchist uprisings began in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia. While the northern uprisings were quickly suppressed, another anarchist uprising broke out in the Andalusian town of Casas Viejas on January 11, led by members of the anarchosyndicalist CNT union. The Civil Guards ultimately quashed it, too, slaughtering 24 people. For more on the Casas Viejas incident, read the detailed history in, “The Anarchists of Casas Viejas,” by Jerome R Mintz.
Today in Labor History January 8, 1892: 500-600 anarchist peasants led a revolt in Andalusia, taking over the town of Jerez and demanding the release of prisoners and economic relief. The authorities quickly quashed the uprising, killing three. They captured and tortured the leaders, executing four of them on February 10. They sentenced another 14 to life imprisonment. The Cadiz labor movement had to go underground because the general repression was so severe. But the Cadiz anarchist movement continued, culminating with the 1933 uprising at Casas Viejas, and subsequent massacre by soldiers. The press condemned the government’s response. Protests erupted in many parts of Spain and other parts of Europe. Activists clashed with police at Spanish consulates throughout Europe. Anarchists set off numerous bombs in retaliation. Anarchist Paulí Pallàs tried to assassinate Catalonia Captain General Arsenio Martínez Campos for his role in the Jerez uprising's repression and executions. Pallas was executed for this. Jerome Mintz wrote about this history in his classic, “The Anarchists of Casas Viejas,” (1982).
> When TIME reached out to the renowned Palestinian poet, academic, and activist Refaat Alareer last month to discuss how Palestinian society in #Gaza was responding to the deadliest and most destructive war to hit the enclave in living memory, he had a lot to say.
> "This is something I really like to highlight," he said in a #WhatsApp voice note, noting that he'd been collecting anecdotes and encounters in order to write an essay on the very subject. "I think it's necessary for people to understand what's going on beyond the #genocide, the #bombs, and the #massacres."
> But Alareer never got the chance. Last week, the 44-year-old was killed in an #Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza alongside six members of his family.
The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:
An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”
An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:
"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"
"The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."
#AI#Habsora estimates in advance the number of innocents killed for each "generated" bombing target:
"Five different sources confirmed that the number of civilians who may be killed in attacks on private residences is known in advance to Israeli intelligence, and appears clearly in the target file under the category of “collateral damage.”
According to these sources, there are degrees of collateral damage, according to which the army determines whether it is possible to attack a target inside a private residence. “When the general directive becomes ‘Collateral Damage 5,’ that means we are authorized to strike all targets that will kill five or less civilians — we can act on all target files that are five or less,” said one of the sources."
#Demonstrators chanted and held signs at the entrance to #L3Harris Technologies #weapons facility in Toronto on November 10. The company makes essential components for many of the #WeaponsSystems that are used by the #Israeli#military including the #bombs currently raining down on #Gaza , said activists.
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