“If Blinken and the US administration would have liked this war to be over, this war would be over. Continuing to supply Israel with weapons and to beg Israel to stop the war is quite a farce. This is not international relations, this is a children’s game.” -- Gideon Levy, Haaretz
Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the law.
Noor Mossawi, aged six, is one of a number of people in critical condition in a hospital in eastern Lebanon.
Prison authorities are allowing scabies to spread by restricting Palestinian inmates’ water supply and depriving them of clean clothes and medical care.
Blinken Faces Calls to Resign Over Lie That Israel Is Not Blocking Gaza Aid
"When a senior American official lies to Congress in the middle of genocide so that the government can keep funding that genocide, he is deliberately flouting the law and prolonging the suffering of millions of innocent people."
The poll also shows that 72 percent of Israelis want graphic war-related footage removed from social media
The long read: This summer, one of my lectures was protested by far-right students. Their rhetoric brought to mind some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history – and overlapped with mainstream Israeli views to a shocking degree
The Israel Air Force is crafting a recommendation to increase production of bombs, missiles and other ammunition at home, in an attempt to reduce its dependence on other countries, especially the United States, a senior air force officer says.
The air force’s stance echoes one by Israel in 1967. After the Six-Day War, French President Charles de Gaulle imposed an arms embargo on Israel, which included tanks, missile boats and Mirage jets.
Israel then switched over its dependence on a foreign power to the United States, which provides the air force with all of its fighter planes and some of its bombs, missiles and intelligence equipment – on top of the development of joint weapons systems for all three layers of air defense.
The senior air force official told Haaretz that without the Americans’ supply of weapons to the Israel Defense Forces, especially the air force, Israel would have had a hard time sustaining its war for more than a few months.
In 1968, the Israeli Jewish philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994) wrote an essay entitled "the territories" in which he described the future of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem:
A review of The Six Day War and Israeli Self-Defense: Questioning the Legal Basis for Preventive War, by John Quigley. Cambridge University Press (2013) 284 pages; $14.89 Kindle ed.
The United Nations says that a record number of aid workers were killed in conflicts around the world last year, and this year may be on course to be even deadlier.
UNRWA announced over the weekend that Israel has reduced Gaza’s humanitarian zone to only 11 percent, leaving hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians with nowhere to go
Hamas’ actions cannot be moral for they killed civilians which Israel is now doing and rightfully getting pushback for.
Hamas' actions are moral. Indigenous people have the right to resist settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing. Settlers have no right to use their people as human shields. If Russia was sending people to settle the territories it occupied from Ukraine you would have supported the Ukrainians fighting them back with any means necessary. Russians wouldn't be able claim that the settlers are innocent civilians.
Hamas actions are not justified as they have not reacted to civilian deaths but only to the death of their commander/leader.
Hamas has been serious about ceasefire negotiations from the beginning of the conflict. Israel wants to use this conflict to justify the 2nd Nakba they wanted to do for years.
Hamas actions’ legality is moot as their morality is questionable at best.
It is not moot, it is very relevant. Per international law people living under a military occupation have the right to resist even violently. The vast majority of people Hamas killed were military, it was Israel's Hannibal Directive that lead to most of the civilian deaths.
If they did not kill civilians on oct 7 then most of the deaths in Gaza since Oct 7 would have never happened.
If Israel hasn't illegally occupied Palestinian territories since 1967 Hamas wouldn't have come to be. The root of all evil here is the colonialism and occupation of Palestine, not the resistance. Israel has used settlers as human shields since its founding. You are blaming the victim for resisting and blaming them for the genocidal response from the aggressors.
Hamas willing to drop their weapons and surrender is just a political move designed to trick people into thinking they care about Gaza or it’s civilians. Nobody would be willing to bet that Netanyahu would accept their surrender.
The Arab Peace Initiative was from 2002. In 2006 Ismail Haniyeh sent a message to George W Bush telling him of Hamas' willingness to negotiate and accept a 2-state solution on 1967 borders. Both were rejected. The Likud Party has a policy since the 1970s of not allowing or recognizing any Palestinian state. When your oppressor refuses peace and continues the blockade and ethnic cleansing, you are morally obligated to resist even if violently.
Addressing #1 & #2: The legality/morality of Israel’s action in Gaza since Oct 7 is not a complement of the actions of Hamas. There is no justification for killing Israeli civilians on oct 7.
There is justifications for resisting settler colonialism, military occupation and ethnic cleansing, which Israelis are all participants in.
Israelis forced themselves on Palestine through sheer brutality committing massacres, rape and ethnic cleansing since its founding. They will leave the way they came. I really don't care if you accept it or not. International law is clear and Zionist settler colonialism is the root of all evil in this conflict and what Palestinians do as a response is moral, legal and justified. Meanwhile what you may have been misled to believe is of no relevance. Colonized people don't need permission from their colonizers nor from the nations that enable their colonization on how to resist.
The following quote tells you everything about how Israel was founded and why Palestinians are justified to fight until the end:
[It is the] iron law of every colonizing movement, a law which knows of no exceptions, a law which existed in all times and under all circumstances. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else – or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempts to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not “difficult”, not “dangerous” but IMPOSSIBLE! … Zionism is a colonizing adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important to build, it is important to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot – or else I am through with playing at colonialization.
-- As quoted by Lenni Brenner, in The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir (1984), where the quotation is cited as being from "The Iron Law" copied from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ze'ev_Jabotinsky
The Iron Wall Essay here: https://en.jabotinsky.org/media/9747/the-iron-wall.pdf by the same Zionist monster quoted above makes it clear that at least since 1923, Zionist settlers did not want peace and only wanted to dominate Palestinians through force.
Western Media, Leaders Slammed for 'Deafening' Silence Over Israeli Torture Revelations
"Can you imagine the response if Palestinians were holding Israelis in mass rape camps and torturing them to death?" asked one critic.
China's enormous subsidies come from trading profits. US and European subsidies come from taxpayers.
Palestinians are not allowed to walk on streets decreed as “sterile” by Israel. This goes beyond Apartheid South Africa.
I disagree with this statement. Hamas' actions are justified, moral and legal for the following reasons:
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Global Court Says Israel’s Occupation of Territories Violates International Law
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The occupation has been ongoing since the 1967 Six Day War that was preemptive and started with a lie.
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Hamas on multiple occasions was willing to drop its weapons, accept peace and a 2-state solution on 1967 borders, but that was rejected by multiple Israeli governments
Supporting genocide hurt it massively in the Arab and Muslim world.
They do it with Baseball, true.
if international to you only means the West and its allies
Ahlan wa Sahlan
I hope one day the rail network in Egypt is connected to Saudi Arabia. There has been talks about a bridge across the Gulf of Aqaba, but maybe that won't be necessary.
"How dare someone from the Global South have a pro-Global South perspective?! 🤡 "
So much chauvinism and 19th-century imperialist mentality in so few words. Enjoy your terminal decline while you cry about being called out on your hypocrisy and tacit racism.
Unshockingly, the source you are citing is unreliable and promotes US interventionism and imperialism. Thankfully, reality doesn't depend on you believing it. The US here is stepping out of line and has no legal or moral authority to dictate to anyone how to run their elections.
If you are American I wish you a very interesting and exciting elections this year ;)
US has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7
Not really complicated. That's why Irish MEP Clare Daly called him "Butcher Biden" and said he dishonors the legacy of his ancestors. It seems many Irish-Americans agree.
It would be impossible for Palestine to have 96.5% literacy rate if half of its people were illiterate.
As far as I know, economy seats are still sold at a loss. They make up for it in the higher classes. I don't fly through Doha often but when I do, I do like getting on Qatar Airways.
perfetta
Gorgeous. Two of my favorite things.
In 1988, Professor Isaiah Leibovitz wrote “If this situation continues, the hooliganization — or should we even say the nazification — of the people and society in Israel, is inevitable”. Today, 35 years later, hooliganization has reached its peak: bullying is omnipresent, on the roads, on social media, in the vulgar speech of elected officials, and in every aspect of life in Israel. Violence reached its peak against Palestinians, even when comparing, in this year alone, the number of Israeli deaths resulting from terrorist attacks to dozens of Palestinian deaths that are not related to terrorism. The violence and bullying towards Palestinians by Jewish settlers is an everyday occurrence and is another horrific indication of the decline in the value of human life and human dignity that we are experiencing.
As Prof. Leibovitz predicted, the occupation crosses the green line and spreads throughout Israeli society. The methods used ‘over there’ are moving here, oppressive acts applied ‘there’ are moving here, and soon the disdain for human life will move in – it already has in a way.
Meanwhile, most of protestors in Tel Aviv are wary of making this connection and are horrified by speakers who try to connect the palpable risk to democracy with the occupation of the territories or the waving of Palestinian flags in protest. However, the moment may well come when they too will recognize that there is no democracy alongside occupation.
The Times of Israel Feb 28, 2023 There is no democracy with occupation
Interesting, not a projection that I have seen before.