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"If we're shooting down a $50,000 one-way #drone with a $3 million #missile, that's not a good cost equation," Bill LaPlante, the #Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, told a Senate appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday. #RedSea #Houthis #Israel #Gaza
The Pentagon's growing costly headache: Cheap drones
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/16/us-military-attack-drones-pentagon
The South African legal team, which set out its case for fresh emergency measures the previous day, framed the Israeli military operation as part of a #GenocidalPlan aimed at bringing about the destruction of the Palestinian people. #Gaza #Rafah #TheHague #ICC
#Israel tells #WorldCourt #SouthAfrica case makes a mockery of genocide
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-tells-world-court-south-africa-case-makes-a-mockery-of-genocide/ar-BB1myJuN?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01
Crucially, however, it is not considered a substitute for far cheaper land-based deliveries that aid agencies say are much more sustainable. #Israel #Egypt
Fraught with logistical, weather and security challenges, delivering aid via the maritime route and floating pier is designed to bolster the amount of aid getting into the #GazaStrip.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/16/israel-gaza-war-rafah-middle-east-floating-pier-aid-hamas-latest?page=with:block-6645b43a8f081942f56c4bc9#block-6645b43a8f081942f56c4bc9
US completes floating pier to deliver aid to Gaza; five killed in Israeli friendly fire incident – as it happened
US officials insist American troops will not step foot in Gaza despite building the pier; seven troops also wounded in friendly fire incidentHamish Mackay (The Guardian)
Recently, #food and other supplies have fail to make it in to #Gaza as #Israel recently seized the key #Rafah border crossing in its push on that southern city on the Egyptian border.
The #USMilitary has finished installing a floating pier for the #GazaStrip.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/16/israel-gaza-war-rafah-middle-east-floating-pier-aid-hamas-latest?page=with:block-6645b1468f0835020111211c#block-6645b1468f0835020111211c
US completes floating pier to deliver aid to Gaza; five killed in Israeli friendly fire incident – as it happened
US officials insist American troops will not step foot in Gaza despite building the pier; seven troops also wounded in friendly fire incidentHamish Mackay (The Guardian)
A long-festering split at the heart of #Israel’s #WarCabinet has burst into the open with the defence minister, #YoavGallant, challenging the prime minister, Benjamin #Netanyahu, to come up with plans for the “day after” the war in #Gaza, and saying he would not permit any solution where Israeli military or civil governance were in the territory.
Israel war cabinet split looms as defence minister demands post-war Gaza plan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/israel-war-cabinet-split-looms-as-defence-minister-demands-plan-for-post-war-gaza
Israel war cabinet split looms as defence minister demands post-war Gaza plan
Yoav Gallant, who Benjamin Netanyahu tried to fire in 2023, says he will not allow Israeli rule of GazaPeter Beaumont (The Guardian)
The hearings at the #InternationalCourtOfJustice(#ICJ), also known as the #WorldCourt, come after #SouthAfrica last week asked for additional emergency measures to protect #Rafah, a southern #Gaza city where more than a million #Palestinians have been sheltering. #TheHague
South Africa seeks halt to #Israel's #RafahOffensive at World Court
https://www.reuters.com/world/south-africa-seeks-halt-israels-rafah-offensive-world-court-2024-05-15/
In recent days #Egypt has announced it will no longer participate in allowing the transit of aid into #Gaza and said it planned to join the #genocide case brought by #SouthAfrica against Israel at the UN’s top court. #TheHague
#Israel and Egypt in growing diplomatic row over #Rafah border crossing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/israel-egypt-diplomatic-row-rafah-border-crossing-gaza
Israel and Egypt in growing diplomatic row over Rafah border crossing
Anger over Israel’s seizure of Palestinian side of crossing raises fears Cairo may downgrade relationsPeter Beaumont (The Guardian)
The Jordanian monarchy supports the establishment of a #PalestinianState. While some right-wing politicians in #Israel have envisaged #Jordan becoming an alternative Palestinian state, #KingAbdullah has repeatedly warned that there is no such thing as a "Jordan option."
Jordan foils arms plot as kingdom caught in #Iran-Israel shadow war
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/jordan-foils-arms-plot-as-kingdom-caught-in-iran-israel-shadow-war-801218
Jordan thwarts suspected Iranian plot to smuggle weapons into country
The weapons were sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to a cell of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan that has links to the military wing of the Palestinian terror group Hamas.By REUTERS (The Jerusalem Post)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/14/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-gaza-hamas-rafah-joe-biden?page=with:block-6643261d8f089b98257f3b35#block-6643261d8f089b98257f3b35
Middle East crisis: large parts of Rafah now a ‘ghost town’, says Unrwa spokesperson – as it happened
Louise Wateridge, in a post on X, said it was ‘hard to believe there were over a million people sheltering here just a week ago’Yohannes Lowe (The Guardian)
#FarhanHaq, a #UN spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed.
#UN denies #Gaza death toll of #women and #children has been revised down | #Israel-#Gaza war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/gaza-ministry-revises-figures-for-women-and-children-killed
UN denies Gaza death toll of women and children has been revised down | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/gaza-ministry-revises-figures-for-women-and-children-killed
UN denies Gaza death toll of women and children has been revised down
Spokesperson says confusion results from Gaza health ministry’s new way of classifying those not yet fully identifiedPeter Beaumont (The Guardian)
#AidGroups warn of a looming crisis in #Gaza's southern city of #Rafah where they have no more #food to distribute since the closure of the Rafah border crossing over a week ago, even as the first trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza via a temporary pier built by the #US. #Israel
Rafah is running out of food, even as the U.S. pier starts operating in Gaza : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1252095266/rafah-is-running-out-of-food-even-as-the-u-s-pier-starts-operating-in-gaza
#JoeBiden said on Wednesday he signed into law legislation that rushes $95bn in foreign aid to #Ukraine, #Israel and #Taiwan, a #bipartisan legislative victory he hailed as a “good day for world peace” after months of congressional gridlock threatened Washington’s support for Kyiv in its fight to repel #Russia’s invasion
Biden signs $95bn foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/biden-signs-foreign-aid-ukraine-israel
Biden signs $95bn foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
President says legislation is ‘going to make the world safer’ after months of congressional gridlock threatened support for KyivLauren Gambino (The Guardian)
The Senate, in a bipartisan super-majority, overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure, which Joe Biden is expected to sign
#US Senate passes $95bn in aid for #Ukraine, #Israel and #Taiwan | #USSenate | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/23/senate-aid-bill-ukraine-israel-taiwan
In a sweeping 80-19 vote, the #USSenate overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure in a step hailed by the Senate majority leader as “one of the greatest achievements the Senate has faced in years”.
#US Senate close to passing $95bn aid for #Ukraine, #Israel and #Taiwan after key vote
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/23/senate-aid-bill-ukraine-israel-taiwan
US Senate passes $95bn in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The Senate, in a bipartisan super-majority, overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure, which Joe Biden is expected to signLauren Gambino (The Guardian)
"Daily, Russian missiles and drones pummel Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure. A recent missile attack on a power generation plant in the north means that hundreds of thousands, if not a million more...
Unable to occupy what is an unoccupiable country, #Russia has decided it wants to make Ukrainian cities uninhabitable."
The west defends #Israel’s skies. Not doing the same for #Ukraine is a deadly mistake | #NathalieTocci
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/22/west-israel-ukraine-russia-air-defence-systems
The west defends Israel’s skies. Not doing the same for Ukraine is a deadly mistake
In Kyiv, I saw life under Russian aerial attack. If Europe doesn’t share its air defence systems now, Putin’s threat will only spread, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie TocciNathalie Tocci (The Guardian)
from #CommonDreams
Critics Denounce Israel's Defense Against #Genocide Charges as 'Dishonest Talking Points'
"The problem for #Israel is that the world has seen what they've done," said one observer.
#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism #CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #ICJ #UN #DivestFromIsraelNow
#EndTheOccupation #PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine
#news #press @palestine @israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-defense-icj
Critics Denounce Israel's Defense Against Genocide Charges as 'Dishonest Talking Points'
"The problem for Israel is that the world has seen what they've done," said one observer.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
Just a bunch of plutocrats utilising their free-speech rights..
Report
Pro-Israel billionaires pushed NYC Mayor to use police on pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University.
They donated to him & offered to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations.
The group included Howard Schultz, Michael Dell, Bill Ackman & Joshua Kushner, with Daniel Lubetzky, Daniel Loeb, Len Blavatnik & Joseph Sitt also associated.
#Plutocracy #Israel ..
Pro-Israel billionaires urged New York crackdown on Gaza protests: Report
WhatsApp leaks reveal group of business leaders discussed ways to pressure officials to clear pro-Palestine protesters.Al Jazeera
Finally, the floating pier off #Gaza built by the #US military has commenced operations to provide more aid to the countless civilians suffering from the brutal war. While this is a major step in the right direction, it does not exonerate #Israel from the responsibility to allow far more aid to pass through by road.
🔗 🇬🇧 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/17/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-rafah
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Mass displacement as Israelis intensify assaults | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/16/israels-war-on-gaza-live-mass-displacement-as-israelis-intensify-assaults
- Israeli military says 5 soldiers killed in north Gaza
- Amnesty, Oxfam, ActionAid and others decry world’s failure to stop Israeli invasion of Rafah
- Five reported killed in overnight attacks by Israeli forces
- Scale, intensity of Israeli crimes in Gaza ‘surpass worst nightmares’: Monitor
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Mass displacement as Israelis intensify assaults
Israeli forces reportedly sustaining casualties as Palestinian fighters launch wave of attacks in northern Gaza.Alastair Mccready (Al Jazeera)
- #Israel is carrying out #genocide in #Gaza.
- Context! You must go back… all the way to October 7.
- Sure, let’s go back: let’s go back 76 years to May 15, 1948, to the #Nakba; the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people where 750,000 people were “expelled from their homes or made to flee, at first by Zionist paramilitaries through various violent means, and after the establishment of the State of Israel, by the Israel Defense Forces.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba)
- No, no, not like that.
Analysis
"How the US State Department shields Israel from sanctions"
"The Leahy law is not being applied to Israel" - Stephanie Kirchgaessner
The US has created special mechanisms to shield Israel from sanctions that are designed to punish countries for human rights abuses.
Article by Stephanie Kirchgaessner:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/us-supply-weapons-israel-alleged-abuses-human-rights
‘Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses
Revealed: review of internal state department documents shows special mechanisms have been used to shield Israel from US human rights lawsStephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)
from #NewYorkTimes
[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
A Chaotic Night at #UCLA Raises Questions About Police Response
"Counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours without police intervention, and none were arrested. Now, the police response is under investigation."
#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israel
Mayors, police chiefs, and university heads have defended their violent attacks on student protests by claiming “outside agitators” are the cause of unrest. This racist trope was used during the civil rights movement and is equally obscene today.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/outside-agitators-how-the-power-elite-talk-about-dissent/
from #WorldOutlook
Why Opposition to #Zionism is Not Antisemitism
[article contains links to a statement by over 1,000 #Jewish professors opposing equating #antiZionism with #antisemitism. Also contains link to a statement by Jewish students of #Columbia with the opposite position]
#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism #CeasefireNow
#StopArmingIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israel
https://world-outlook.com/2024/05/11/why-opposition-to-zionism-is-not-antisemitism/
Why Opposition to Zionism is Not Antisemitism - World-Outlook
An important and increasingly sharp debate is taking place today on what is antisemitism, or to use a more accurate term — Jew hatred.world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)
In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/united-methodist-church-votes-to-divest-from-israel-bonds/
Canada’s largest private high school recently organized a genocide solidarity trip in which students cooked for Israeli soldiers. In a sane world, the school’s charitable status would be revoked.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/toronto-school-promoting-israeli-military-deemed-charity/
White people in ski town: “Dear Native American, please come paint art about the struggle of native peoples.”
Lakota artist: *Paints a piece referencing Palestine, with proceeds supporting the UN Crisis Relief Fund*
White people in ski town: “Stay in your lane!” *Revokes residency program*
https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/10/danielle-seewalker-artist-residency-gaza-vail/
#Colorado #Palestine #Gaza #Israel
Vail cancels residency program for Native American artist over painting referencing Gaza
The town rescinded Danielle SeeWalker's residency after town residents complained about a painting referencing Gaza was posted to InstagramParker Yamasaki (The Colorado Sun)
#Israel outlawed #AlJazeera before invading #Rafah for a reason. It's the only source of trusted journalism left.
Things getting ~really~ bad there right now. I suggest their live blog to bear witness to the #Genocide. It's being called #NightOfFire
IDF are conducting operations in several areas of Rafah city, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, while reports are emerging of heavy clashes between Palestinian armed groups and Israel’s military in the east of the city.
Video showed a Palestinian family cowering in a residence as the sounds of heavy machine-gun fire & explosions could be heard nearby in what is being described as a “night of fire”
Israel’s war on Gaza live: ‘Months of horrors’ worsen as aid cut completely
UN aid chief warns seven-months of ‘horrors’ set to worsen as Israeli army controls crucial land crossings with Gaza.Alastair Mccready (Al Jazeera)
President #Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt shipments of American weapons to #Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in #Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/joe-biden-interview-cnntv?cid=ios_app
US paused bomb shipment to Israel to signal concerns over Rafah invasion
The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns that Israel was approaching a decision on launching a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah against the wishes of the U.S.ZEKE MILLER (AP News)
#UnitedStates paused shipments of thousands of bombs to #Israel amid #Rafah rift
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.
#POTUS #ForeignPolicy #MiddleEast #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/07/biden-delays-weapons-israel-rafah/
💥”#Hamas militant group says it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal to halt seven-month war with #Israel.
It issued a statement Monday saying its supreme leader, Ismail Haniyeh, had delivered the news in a phone call with Qatar’s prime minister and Egypt’s intelligence minister.”
https://apnews.com/article/8659eae6e0a7362504f0aa4aa4be53e0
Israel-Hamas war: Hamas accepts Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal
Hamas has announced its acceptance of an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but Israel says the deal did not meet its “core demands” and has pushed ahead with an assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah.SAM MEDNICK (AP News)
Report
Netanyahu supported Hamas in order to split the Palestinian leadership & prevent a Palestinian state.
"Before Oct 7, Netanyahu..encouraged Qatar to fund Hamas, seeing Hamas's existence as a way to split Palestinian leadership & avoid pressure on Israel to enter negotiations about a Palestinian state. Utter cynicism." (@ KenRoth)
"Netanyahu..avoided talking publicly about the funds.. secured from Qatar for Gaza over the past decade."
Those of us who oppose genocide don’t have to justify ourselves to you or to anyone else. We’ve already justified ourselves by opposing genocide.
That said, those of you who support genocide don’t have to justify yourselves either. Because there is no justification for supporting genocide.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Rafah #WestBank #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide
BREAKING NEWS 🚨
The Biden administration put a hold on a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to ISRAEL last week, two Israeli officials stated.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas #BreakingNews #Breaking
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/05/israel-us-ammunition-shipment-hold
In yet another bad sign for #democracy:
#Netanyahu has essentially banned #FreePress in #Israel. His cabinet *voted* to kick #AlJazeera out of Israel says its #journalists are threats to #NationalSecurity.
I guess the pen truly is mightier than the sword & all that.
#Gaza #Palestinians #Authoritarianism
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-cabinet-moves-close-al-jazeeras-local-operations-2024-05-05/
Interview
Chris Hedges covers vast territory in this relatively short interview
* the ultra-violent nature of settler-colonial states, eg, Israel & the US;
* the experience of Palestine & how Oslo negated Palestinian rights;
* the oxymoronic terms "liberal Zionism" (& US "liberal press" that cheer-leads US militarism);
* the power of the Israel lobby;
* where it's all going & the importance of applying BDS as in South Africa
#FreePalestine #Israel #US #NYT #BDS ..
Episode of Palestine Talks - Interview with TRT World
On the moral corruption of Israel and the “savagery” of violenceChris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)