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Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau confirms Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant will be arrested if they step foot in Canada after the ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants.
ctvnews.ca/video/c3033910-cana…
#cdnpoli #israel #gaza #palestine #icc #canada
Canada 'will abide' by ICC ruling on Netanyahu
PM Trudeau says Canada must 'remember who we are' and abide ICC rulings when asked about the arrest warrant issued for Netanyahu.CTVNews
In theory, Netanyahu and Gallant won't be able to travel in any of the 124 countries that are members of the ICC without facing arrest. In practice, the US isn't a member, and others that are member will not comply (and may even retaliate against the ICC). But many countries will, so it's a major win.
2024 Edward Said Memorial Lecture
Dr Samah Sabawi is a Palestinian playwright, scholar, commentator and poet.
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#Palestine #Israel #US #USPol #AusPol .
2024 Edward Said Memorial Lecture - Dr Samah Sabawi
See Samah Sabawi’s 2024 Edward Said Memorial Lecture: The Ethnocentric State and Our Fragile Australian Democracy: How Support for Israel Erodes Democratic V...YouTube
Here's the Historical context of appeasement in Europe. One of those things we actually learned when I was in High School.
#WWII #Europe #NATO #RussiaUkraine
#Ukraine #Russia #Appeasement #israel
#gaza @hanse_mina
My mother, who lived on a kibbutz in the 70s and goes to Israel every few months to be with family, just texted me "Israel will disappear". She's realizing that Bibi and the far-right aren't, after all, an anomaly.
And she's right, Israel is dying. This is one thing people don't realize enough:
A few excerpts here from a beautifully written, deeply insightful, and ultimately inspiring essay by Chris Hedges…
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In the end, the election was about despair.
Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious oligarchs. Despair over a liberal class that refuses to acknowledge the suffering it orchestrated under neoliberalism. Despair over the futile, endless wars, as well as the genocide in Gaza, where generals and politicians are never held accountable. Despair over a democratic system that has been seized by corporate and oligarchic power.
Donald Trump is a symptom of our diseased society. He is not its cause. He is what is vomited up out of decay.
Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party live in their own non-reality-based belief system. Harris, who was anointed by party elites and never received a single primary vote, proudly trumpeted her endorsement by Dick Cheney, a politician who left office with a 13% approval rating.
The smug, self-righteous “moral” crusade against Trump stokes the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. It reduces a social, economic, and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It refuses to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy.
The American dream has become an American nightmare.
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FULL ESSAY ➡️ chrishedges.substack.com/p/the…
#USA #Politics #History #Economics #Israel #Gaza
The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
Megaphone | ميغافون on Instagram: "استهدفت غارات إسرائيلية #الضاحية_الجنوبية لبيروت صباح اليوم، بعد تهديدات أصدرها المتحدّث باسم جيش الاحتلال، أفيخاي أدرعي، لـ11 موقعاً في #الضاحية. وقد أفادت وسائل إعلامية عن شنّ الاحتلال 13 غارةً على الأقلّ استهدفت أ
313 likes, 3 comments - megaphonenews on November 12, 2024: "استهدفت غارات إسرائيلية #الضاحية_الجنوبية لبيروت صباح اليوم، بعد تهديدات أصدرها المتحدّث باسم جيش الاحتلال، أفيخاي أدرعي، لـ11 موقعاً في #الضاحية.Instagram
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
– Malcolm X
#netherlands #germany #UK #israel #maccabiTelAviv #football #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide
Report: German parliament passes a resolution that includes banning public funding for any group “that calls into question Israel’s right to exist or calls for a boycott of Israel”.
100 Jewish artists & intellectuals living in Germany said the resolution would “weaken, rather than strengthen, the diversity of Jewish life in Germany by associating all Jews with the actions of the Israeli government”.
aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11…
#Censorship #Israel #BDS #FakeAntisemitism .
Why is Germany supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
The answer lies in Germany’s history – but it is not, as many assume tied to efforts to atone for the Nazi Holocaust.Tony Greenstein (Al Jazeera)
"In running an opinion piece that suggests it may now be acceptable to use the term genocide about Gaza, the Guardian has admitted it has been – even according to its own resident genocide expert – complicit in obscuring that genocide for a half a year.
Remember that when editor Kath Viner comes cap in hand once again, as she did this week, begging for money from readers for her brand of supposedly “fearless, independent journalism”.
#TheGuardian #Israel #Genocide #Gaza
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A year late, the Guardian finally permits us to use the term 'genocide'
It's not the World Court, non-western states, rights groups and Palestinians who have been using the term genocide 'too lightly'. It's the Guardian that's reached the same conclusion far, far too lateJonathan Cook
Report: Israel buys 25 F-15 aircraft from US Boeing, with an option for 25 more.
“The transaction will be carried out from American aid funds".
Note:
All US aid to Israel is military aid & must be spent in the US.
It is US public money going directly into the pockets of US arms corps.
Vive la guerre!
aljazeera.com/program/start-he…
#Israel #USMilitaryAid #USPol #USEconomics .
Updates: Israeli strikes on Gaza kill over 50; attacks on Lebanon continue
These were the updates on Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and war on Gaza for Thursday, November 7.Alastair McCready (Al Jazeera)
The Israeli army has admitted for the first time that it intends to prevent Palestinian residents of northern Gaza to return to their homes.
"I have just finished burying 11 of my cousins and sat down for a minute, only for another massacre to happen right across from where I was sitting.
Death is all around us; death is close."
Google translate:
"This mother was going to the market and when she returned to school she was surprised to find that everyone in the place had been killed, in addition to her children from the Shabat family."
"In a matter of minutes, I found 11 of my cousins killed. We had to collect their bodies in body bags and bury them in a matter of minutes—no funeral, no goodbyes"
"With the ‘west’ distracted by the US presidential election, #Israel has announced the complete partition of northern #Gaza – and has designated the hundreds of thousands of civilians still living there as combatants and therefore targets."
"The United Nations estimate that there are still 400,000 civilians besieged in northern Gaza, where no food has been allowed to enter for over a month and refugee camps and hospitals have been relentlessly bombed."
skwawkbox.org/2024/11/06/break…
Breaking: Israel announces complete partition of north Gaza – and designates 400,000 people as combatants
Israeli media carry report, ignored by UK ‘msm’ With the ‘west’ distracted by the US presidential election, Israel has announced the complete partition of northern Gaza R…SKWAWKBOX
A UN special rapporteur urged the suspension of Israel’s UN membership citing repeated violations of international law and the occupation of Palestinian territory.
“I do believe that the impunity that has been granted to Israel has allowed it to become a serial violator of international law,” Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, said at a news conference.
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![UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese [File: Lukas Coch/EPA-EFE]
Albanese said she recommends the General Assembly consider the suspension of Israel’s credentials as a member of the UN until it ends violating international law and withdraws the clearly unlawful occupation.
“Israel, in the pursuit of realising Greater Israel, is attempting to reduce physically or spiritually … the presence of the Palestinian identity in the occupied Palestinian territory.”](https://plantroon.com/photo/preview/640/346507 "UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese [File: Lukas Coch/EPA-EFE]
Albanese said she recommends the General Assembly consider the suspension of Israel’s credentials as a member of the UN until it ends violating international law and withdraws the clearly unlawful occupation.
“Israel, in the pursuit of realising Greater Israel, is attempting to reduce physically or spiritually … the presence of the Palestinian identity in the occupied Palestinian territory.”")
Israel’s UN membership suspension urged for violating international law and occupying Palestinian territories
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese urged the General Assembly to consider suspending Israel's UN membership over repeated violations of international law and occupation of Palestinian territories.Anadolu Agency (ANews)
The result of the annual "Stop the US embargo of Cuba" vote at the UN.
#Cuba #UnitedNations #Israel #USA #Politics
US calls on Israel to tackle ‘catastrophic humanitarian crisis’ in Gaza | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…
We'll see if that's followed up with action. I have strong doubts.
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #USA
@palestine
US calls on Israel to tackle ‘catastrophic humanitarian crisis’ in Gaza
Failure to help improve the situation on the ground could be met by restrictions on US military aidMiddle East live: latest updatesPatrick Wintour (The Guardian)
from #NewYorkTimes
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[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
U.S. Questions #Israel After ‘Horrifying’ Strike in Northern #Gaza Kills Dozens
Matt Miller, a U.S. State Department spokesman, said the #Biden administration had contacted the #Israeli government to ask about what he called a “horrifying incident.” At least 55 people were killed, according to #Palestinian Civil Defense.
[plus other articles on Gaza on Updates page]
October 29, 2024
nytimes.com/live/2024/10/29/wo…
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Palestine #politics #MiddleEast
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel
"Even if [a Harris presidency] isn’t far better, I still think it will be better than a Trump presidency because one thing we have learned to our horror over the last year is that as terrible as things are, they can get worse. They can get much worse. They can get worse there in Palestine and Israel, and they can certainly get much worse here."
"I want to explain why, if I lived in a swing state, I would vote for Kamala Harris. And I say this as somebody who thinks that Joe Biden and some of his top advisors should be brought before international courts as war criminals for their role in the utter destruction of the Gaza Strip."
~ Peter Beinart
#Israel #Gaza #Biden #KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism
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If I Lived In a Swing State, I’d Vote for Harris
The Consequences of a Trump Presidency Are Simply Too DirePeter Beinart (The Beinart Notebook)
"There’s too much at stake and far too many communities, both in the United States and abroad, that will suffer if Trump is re-elected. The desire to 'punish' Joe Biden and Harris for Gaza and vote instead for Trump or a third party vote, which just helps Trump in swing states, is like punching ourselves in the face."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Israel #Gaza #Biden #KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism
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Yes, I think Democrats are complicit in genocide. But Trump would be far worse
There is simply no moral argument for allowing the former president to win in the name of opposing genocideWajahat Ali (The Guardian)
Microsoft fired employee Hossam Nasr for organising a vigil for commemorating the lives of Palestinians killed by #Israel in #Gaza. Even expressing sadness over a genocide is against Microsoft’s rules.
seattletimes.com/business/micr…
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Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza
Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s yearlong war with Hamas.The Seattle Times
Israeli military wiped out 902 families in Gaza | Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera
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With full US and UK and German support
Interview: “Save Us from Ourselves”: 3,000+ Israelis Call for International Pressure on Israel
"The lack of sanctions from other countries has allowed Israel to pursue war, abandon the hostages... ignore domestic opposition & persecute Palestinians... without real cost.
"Unfortunately, the majority of Israelis support the continuation of the war.... Change from within is not currently feasible.
"The state of Israel is on a suicidal path."
democracynow.org/2024/10/28/is…
“Save Us from Ourselves”: 3,000+ Israelis Call for Int’l Help to Pressure Israel to Back Ceasefire
More than 3,000 Israelis have signed an open letter urging “global pressure on Israel to force an immediate ceasefire.Democracy Now!
“Two children died at the last functioning hospital in Gaza after Israeli fire hit oxygen equipment, Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday.
"Two children have died in the intensive care unit after the hospital's generators failed and the oxygen station was targeted," the statement by Gaza's health ministry reads.“
