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You Are Entitled To Your Opinion, Not Your Own Facts

December 8, 2023 Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III, Popular Resistance. , , , , , ,
On October 19, President Biden gave an Oval Office address. He was desperately trying to convince the nation to support his $105B military and humanitarian aid package for Israel, Ukraine and border efforts. His focus was on the wars between Israel/Hamas and Ukraine/Russia.  Biden’s presentation was ahistorical, based upon supposition, personal bias and just wrong.  One of Biden’s constant underlying themes as he champions support for these failing efforts is that by supporting Israel and Ukraine, we’re supporting “democracy”. One of the prevalent talking points about Israel is that it’s the “only democracy in the Middle East”. 

The Shift: Congress Embraces McCarthyism

December 8, 2023 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , , , , , ,
It’s now generally understood that McCarthyism was a dark and shameful aspect of our history. Oppenheimer made $953 million at the U.S. box office this summer and the bulk of Christopher Nolan’s film isn’t about the bomb, but the Red Scare attacks that destroyed the physicist’s reputation. Political repression might get pilloried in films these days, but you can still hear the faint echo of the Wisconsin Senator’s accusations in any number of policies being pushed throughout the country. One of the most glaring examples is the GOP’s ongoing war on libraries. However, that crusade is mainly waged by just one party. The war on Palestine activism that has emerged since October 7th is a bipartisan affair.

Gaza Divides The World, Again

December 7, 2023 Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. , , , , , ,
My award for courageous elocution of the week goes hands-down to Samuel Moncada, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations, who addressed the General Assembly last Tuesday on the topic of Israel and its barbaric attacks on the Palestinians of Gaza. His remarks, which Consortium News reproduced, were appropriately lengthy. Here I draw from his introductory paragraphs: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela robustly condemns the Israeli aggression against the civilian population in the occupied Palestinian territories. This is an operation of mass expulsion of an entire people in order to annex their territory by the occupying power. It’s a new cycle of expansionist terror, of so much that has been suffered by the Palestinian people over 75 years of occupation….

Why Journalists Must Speak Out About Gaza

December 7, 2023 Aja Arnold, Victoria Bouloubasis, Rebecca Chowdhury, Rae Garringer, Charmaine Lang, Nour Saudi, Tina Vasquez, and Lewis Raven Wallace, The Real News Network. , , , , ,
As journalists and media workers, we know that silencing a free press is a key tactic of authoritarian governments. We are horrified that the Israeli military has now murdered an unprecedented number of journalists and media workers in Gaza—at least 75 people as of December 4. Since October 7, Israeli forces have also killed three journalists in Lebanon, and targeted journalists in the West Bank and Jerusalem, arresting 44 journalists as of November 28, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. And, Israel’s forced power and communications outages in Gaza have made even the simplest communications mostly impossible, slowing the on-the-ground news out of Gaza to a trickle.

Predicting Pestilence

December 7, 2023 Kathy Kelly, Progressive.org. , , ,
Speaking from a hospital ward about fifty meters from where a bomb had just exploded, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder raised his voice over the sound of children screaming. In a video posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), he emphasized that Gaza’s health care system is overwhelmed. Pointing at children packed into the ward of a hospital he said was operating at 200 percent capacity, Elder insisted the hospital “cannot take more children with the wounds of war . . . with the burns, with the shrapnel littering their bodies, with the broken bones.” Calling it a war on children, Elder warned that “inaction by those with influence is allowing the killing of children.”

This Chanukah Is A Time For Palestine Solidarity

December 7, 2023 Maya Schenwar, In These Times. , , , ,
Chanukah — often a time of joy and abundance — is here. Throughout these eight days, many Jews eat delicious fried foods like potato pancakes and jelly donuts, sing, spin dreidels and celebrate the story of a bit of oil that lasted for eight nights, lighting an ancient temple. While Chanukah is considered a minor holiday on the Jewish calendar (and its history is fraught with questions of militarism), we look forward to it each year as a winter festival that responds to the increasingly dark season with a celebration of light.

Buncombe County Rezoning For Raytheon, Genocide

December 7, 2023 David Forbes, Asheville Blade. , , , , ,
The Buncombe County commissioners are set to give Raytheon a massive rezoning, over 760 acres owned by Biltmore Farms will be converted from commercial and residential zoning into offices, warehouses and other infrastructure for the giant plant the weapons company is building. The area is huge, over seven times the size of downtown Asheville. It’s the largest rezoning in Buncombe County’s history. Importantly it takes away land designated for things like housing, which this area is of course famous for having no shortage of whatsoever, and instead gives a massive company’s massive factory even more.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 61: US Believes Israel’s Gaza Invasion Could Last Until The End Of January

December 6, 2023 Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Mondoweiss. , , , , ,
Israeli forces went through their “most intense day” of battle as they approached the Gaza Strip’s second-largest city of Khan Younis on Tuesday afternoon. The occupation forces had been attempting to control the Khan Younis governorate since Friday and reach the seaside street of Al-Rashid. Khan Younis is split into a zone east of Salah El-Din Street, where the towns of Al-Qarara, Abasan, Khuza’a, and Bani Suheila are located, and to the west lays the city of Khan Younis, Nasser Hospital, and the town of Al-Mawasi. Israeli forces have bombed most of these locations in the past 24 hours to pave the way for tanks to drive and cut Salah El-Din Street, a tactic it employed in southern Gaza at the start of the ground incursion in late October.

‘Bodies Everywhere:’ One Family’s Harrowing Journey Out Of Gaza City

December 5, 2023 Zakaria Baker, Mondoweiss. , , , , ,
I am Zakaria Baker, one of the people who were displaced from their homes four days ago in November 2023 – around November 7, 2023. The beginning of the displacement is as follows: An Israeli intelligence officer called one of my cousins. There were about 20 of us sitting on chairs. The bombing of Al-Shati Refugee Camp did not stop for a single second. The missiles that were fired at the camp – we couldn’t see or hear them. They were barrel bombs. When they were dropped on a residential block of six or seven houses, they destroyed them completely. The scariest and most painful thing is that these missiles are fired at houses crowded with people.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 59: Palestinians Have Nowhere To Run

December 4, 2023 Leila Warah, Mondoweiss. , , , , ,
In the last 24 hours, Israeli forces have targeted homes, commercial centers, and hospitals across all of the Gaza Strip, where civilians have been experiencing non-stop bombardment, killing tens if not hundreds of people. On Monday morning, Al Jazeera reported that Israeli tanks and armored vehicles began entering southern Gaza, moving towards Khan Younis from the east. “The [military] continues to extend its ground operation against Hamas centers in all of the Gaza Strip,” Daniel Hagari told reporters in Tel Aviv. The army added that its invasion into the south will exhibit “no less strength” than its previous offensive in the north. If allowed to continue, the attack is likely to result in thousands more civilian deaths, including children.

Biden Works To Create Plausible Deniability As He Backs Israel’s Assault

December 3, 2023 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. , , , , ,
This week saw a welcome break in Israel’s constant destruction of the Gaza Strip, but it was only a pause, not a ceasefire, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made sure everyone knew. Israel’s assault on Gaza has recommenced, and the United States, and President Joe Biden in particular, have remained steadfast in their backing. Biden referred to Israel’s initial bombing attack, prior to its ground invasion, as “indiscriminate,” and that was a phrase his people didn’t walk back. It’s always difficult to know whether to read more into Biden’s words since he so frequently doesn’t seem to know what he’s saying, but the comments from not only the President but others in the administration show that they are feeling the domestic pressure from their constituents and the international pressure from their allies to try to restrain Israel from such massive civilian casualties as it has created since October 7.

In COP28 Speech, Colombian President Calls For A Free Palestine

December 3, 2023 People's Dispatch. , , , , , , , ,
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) began on November 30 in Dubai. Around 70,000 delegates are participating in the nearly two- week conference, including member states, business leaders, young people, climate scientists, Indigenous Peoples, journalists, and other experts and stakeholders. The conference seeks to bring together these diverse sectors in order to build serious, global solutions that can address the pressing climate crisis and accelerate collective climate action. It is taking place amid Israel’s genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, which world leaders have brought up in their addresses to the conference and in other events. In his opening remarks to the conference, Colombian President Gustavo Petro condemned the actions of rich countries which have yet to fulfill their key responsibilities and commitments.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 57: ‘Not An Inch’ Of Gaza Is Spared By Israel

December 2, 2023 Palestine Bureau, Mondoweiss. , , , , , ,
The resumption of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Friday after a weeklong truce killed at least 193 Palestinians and wounded 652 in the first 24 hours, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported. While the ministry has struggled to keep track of the death toll since mid-November due, in part, to a breakdown in communication with the northern Gaza Strip, it said on Saturday that its latest estimates stood at at 15,207 Palestinians killed and 40,752 wounded in the besieged enclave, adding that 70 percent of them were women and children, and 280 were medical personnel. The ministry also said that Israeli forces had detained at least 31 health care workers, including Al-Shifa’ hospital director Mohammad Abu Salmiya.

Israel Reopens The Gaza Slaughterhouse

December 2, 2023 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , , ,
The skies over Gaza are filled — after a seven-day truce — with projectiles of death. Warplanes. Attack helicopters. Drones. Artillery shells. Tank shells. Mortars. Bombs. Missiles. Gaza is a cacophony of explosions and forlorn screams and cries for help beneath collapsed buildings. Fear, once again, is coiling itself around every heart in the Gazan concentration camp. By Friday evening, 184 Palestinians — including three journalists and two doctors — had been killed by Israeli air strikes in the north, south and central Gaza, and at least 589 injured, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Most of them are women and children. Israel will not be deterred.

NYC Vigils Honors The Over 15,000 Palestinian Martyrs Killed By Israel

December 2, 2023 People's Dispatch. , , , ,
A thousand people stood outside in below freezing temperatures to honor the martyrs of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip. Attendees memorialized the victims of Israel through stories, chants, songs, and by creating an altar in front of The Shops at Columbus Circle, an upscale shopping mall inside of a skyscraper. This vigil took place on the International Day in Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which was celebrated across the globe with actions for Palestine.
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