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CONTENTS GAZA #11 (9 articles)
Chris
Hedges. “Exterminate All the Brutes.”
United Nations General Assembly Calls for a Ceasfire
“How to Begin the End of the Occupation”
Ask
Your Congress Member to Cosponsor Ceasefire NOW Resolution To
Stop the Cycle of Violence, the U.S. Must Quit Supporting Israel's Occupation.
“Israeli war on Gaza sparks ‘largest mass mobilization
of Jews in American history’ .”
“Israel-Palestine war: Mounting evidence suggests
Israel may be ready to ‘cleanse’ Gaza.”
“The ‘sweet boy with curly hair’ was found, but under
the rubble.”
“Israel told U.S. it is modeling Gaza attack on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.”
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increased to 32 articles Nov. 7, roughly edited in order to present a more
adequate archive of this international support of Gaza.
TEXTS GAZA #11
Chris
Hedges. “Exterminate All the Brutes.”
“in a white heat of indignation the situation demands,
crafted as few writers can when bombs and lies fill skies and level neighborhoods—
Hedges’ essay implores a moral world to stop Israel’s killing and hypocrisy.
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During the siege in Sarajevo, when I was
reporting for The New York Times,
we never endured the level of saturation bombing and near total blockage of
food, water, fuel and medicine that Israel has imposed on Gaza. We never
endured hundreds of dead and wounded a day. We never endured the complicity
of the international community in the Serbian campaign of genocide. We
never endured Washington intervening to block ceasefire resolutions. We
never endured massive arms shipments from the U.S. and other Western
countries to sustain the siege. We never endured press reports from
Sarajevo that were routinely discredited and dismissed by the international
community, although 25 journalists were killed in the
war by the besieging Serbian forces. We never endured Western governments
justifying the siege as the right of the Serbs to defend themselves,
although the U.N. peacekeepers sent to Bosnia were largely a public
relations gesture, ineffective in halting the slaughter until forced to
respond following the massacres of
8,000 Bosniak men and boys at Srebrenica.
I don’t mean to minimize the horror of the
siege of Sarajevo, which gives me nightmares nearly three decades later.
But what we suffered – three to four hundred shells a day, four to five
dead a day, and two dozen wounded a day - is a tiny fraction of the
wholesale death and destruction in Gaza. The Israeli siege of Gaza more
resembles the Wehrmacht’s assault on Stalingrad, where over 90 percent of
the city’s buildings were destroyed, than Sarajevo.
On Friday the Gaza Strip had all its
communications severed. No Internet. No phone service. No electricity.
Israel’s goal is the murder of tens, probably hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians and the ethnic cleansing of
those who survive into refugee camps in Egypt. It is an attempt by
Israel to erase not only
a people, but the idea of Palestine. It is a carbon copy of
the massive campaigns of racialized slaughter by other settler colonial
projects who believed that indiscriminate and wholesale violence could make
the aspirations of an oppressed people, whose land they stole, go away. And
like other perpetrators of genocide, Israel intends to keep it hidden.
Israel’s bombing campaign, one of
the heaviest of the
21st century, has killed more than 7,300 Palestinians, nearly half of them
children, along with 26 journalists, medical workers, teachers and United
Nations staff. Some 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced and
an estimated 600,000 are homeless. Mosques,
120 health facilities, ambulances, schools, apartment blocks, supermarkets,
water and sewage treatment plants and power plants have been blasted into
rubble. Hospitals and clinics, lacking fuel, medicine and electricity, have
been bombed or are shutting down. Clean water is running out. Gaza, by the
end of Israel’s scorched earth campaign, will be uninhabitable, a tactic
the Nazis regularly employed when facing armed resistance, including in the
Warsaw Ghetto and later Warsaw itself. By the time Israel is done, Gaza, or
at least Gaza as we knew it, will not exist.
Not only are the tactics the same, but so
is the rhetoric.
Palestinians are referred to as
animals, beasts and Nazis. They have no right to exist. Their children have
no right to exist. They must be cleansed from the earth.
The extermination of those whose land we
steal, whose resources we plunder and whose labor we exploit is coded
within our DNA. Ask Native Americans. Ask Indians. Ask the Congolese. Ask
the Kikuyu in Kenya. Ask the Herero in Namibia who, like Palestinians in
Gaza, were gunned down and
driven into desert concentration camps where they died of starvation and
disease. Eighty thousand of them. Ask Iraqis. Ask Afghans. Ask Syrians. Ask
Kurds. Ask Libyans. Ask indigenous peoples across the globe. They know who
we are.
Israel’s distorted, settler colonial
visage is our own. We pretend otherwise. We ascribe to ourselves virtues
and civilizing qualities that are, as in Israel, flimsy justifications for
stripping an occupied and besieged people of their rights, seizing their
land and using prolonged imprisonment, torture, humiliation, enforced
poverty and murder to keep them subjugated.
Our past, including our recent past in the
Middle East, is built on the idea of subduing or wiping out the “inferior”
races of the earth. We give these “inferior” races names that embody evil.
ISIS. Al Qaeda. Hezbollah. Hamas. We use racist slurs to dehumanize them.
“Haji” “Sand Nigger” “Camel Jockey” “Ali Baba” “Dung Shoveler” And then,
because they embody evil, because they are less than human, we feel
licensed, as Nissim Vaturi, a member of the Israeli parliament for the
ruling Likud party said, to erase “the
Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.”
Naftali Bennett, Israel’s former Prime
Minister, in an interview on Sky News on Oct. 12 said, “We’re
fighting Nazis,” in other words, absolute evil.
Not to be outdone, Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu described Hamas
in a press conference with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, as “the new
Nazis”.
Think about that. A people, imprisoned in
the world’s largest concentration camp for sixteen years, denied food,
water, fuel and medicine, lacking an army, air force, navy, mechanized
units, artillery, command and control and missile batteries, is being butchered and starved by one
of the most advanced militaries on the planet, and they are the Nazis?
There is an historical analogy here. But
it is not one that Bennett, Netanyahu or any other Israeli leader wants to
acknowledge.
When those who are occupied refuse to
submit, when they continue to resist, we drop all pretense of our “civilizing”
mission and unleash, as in Gaza, an orgy of slaughter and destruction. We
become drunk on violence. This violence makes us insane. We kill with
reckless ferocity. We become the beasts we accuse the oppressed of being.
We expose the lie of our vaunted moral superiority. We expose the
fundamental truth about Western civilization — we are the most ruthless and
efficient killers on the planet. This alone is why we dominate the
“wretched of the earth.” It has nothing to do with democracy or freedom or
liberty. These are rights we never intend to grant to the oppressed.
“Honor, justice, compassion and freedom
are ideas that have no converts,” Joseph Conrad, who wrote “Heart of
Darkness,” reminds us. “There are only people, without knowing,
understanding or feelings, who intoxicate themselves with words, repeat
words, shout them out, imagining they believe them without believing in
anything else but profit, personal advantage and their own satisfaction.”
Genocide lies at the core of Western
imperialism. It is not unique to Israel. It is not unique to the Nazis. It
is the building block of Western domination. The humanitarian interventionists who
insist we should bomb and occupy other nations because we embody goodness —
although they promote military intervention only when it is perceived to be
in our national interest — are useful idiots of the war machine and global
imperialists. They live in an Alice-in-Wonderland fairytale where the
rivers of blood we spawn make the world a happier and better place. They
are the smiley faces of genocide. You can watch them on your screens. You
can listen to them spout their pseudo-morality in the White House and in
Congress. They are always wrong. And they never go away.
Maybe we are fooled by our own lies, but
most of the world sees us, and Israel, clearly. They understand our
genocidal proclivities, rank hypocrisy and self-righteousness. They see
that Palestinians, largely friendless, without power, forced to live in
squalid refugee camps or the diaspora, denied their homeland and eternally
persecuted, suffer the kind of fate once reserved for Jews. This perhaps is
the final tragic irony. Those who were once in need of protection from
genocide now commit it.
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United Nations
General Assembly Votes For Gaza Ceasefire By Consortium News. The [Jordanian]resolution calls for an
“immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce”,
and demands all parties comply with international humanitarian law
and “continuous, sufficient and unhindered” provision of essential supplies and
services into the Gaza Strip. It also calls for the “immediate and
unconditional release” of all civilians held captive as well as demanding their
safety, well-being and humane treatment in compliance with international law.
The resolution does not mention Hamas or the events of Oct. Gilad
Erdan, Ambassador of Israel to the U.N., said in response to the
resolution... -more-unhindered” provision of essential supplies
and services into the Gaza Strip. It also calls for the “immediate and
unconditional release” of all civilians held captive as well as demanding their
safety, well-being and humane treatment in compliance with international law.
The resolution does not mention Hamas or the events of Oct. Gilad
Erdan, Ambassador of Israel to the U.N., said in response to the
resolution... -more-
Ceasefire Now!
Phyllis Bennis: How
to begin the end of the occupation. CounterPunch
(Oct. 22, 2023)
Roots Action (World Beyond War)
Ask Your Congress Member to
Cosponsor Ceasefire NOW Resolution
To Stop the Cycle of
Violence, the U.S. Must Quit Supporting Israel's Occupation. CounterPunch (Oct. 22, 2023).
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Tell Progressives in
Congress That Endless War Is Not Progressive
Israeli war on Gaza sparks ‘largest mass
mobilization of Jews in American history’
Editor
mronline.org (11-3-23).
"We
will do everything in our power to demand an end to U.S. support for
genocide and apartheid," said Jewish Voice for Peace.
Israel-Palestine war: Mounting evidence
suggests Israel may be ready to ‘cleanse’ Gaza
Jonathan Cook. Mronline.org (11-3-23).
All
the signs are in place that Israel is once again seriously considering a
massive ethnic cleansing operation, conducted at lightning speed and with
U.S. assistance.
The ‘sweet boy with curly hair’ was found, but
under the rubble
Editor.mronline.org (11-3-23).
While
Yusuf’s mother was preparing dinner their neighborhood came under heavy
shelling. Israeli missiles penetrated the house, killing Yusuf.
Israel told U.S. it is modeling Gaza attack on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Editor.
mronline.org (11-3-23).
“It became evident to U.S. officials
that Israeli leaders believed mass civilian casualties were an acceptable
price in the military campaign,” The New York Times reported on Monday.
POLITICS / NOVEMBER
3, 2023
People Are Urging Bernie Sanders to Back a Gaza Cease-Fire.
Here’s Why He Hasn’t.
Sanders has
insisted on supporting a “humanitarian pause” instead of a cease-fire. To
understand why, you have to look at his personal history.
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Senator
Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) speaks to reporters in front of the West Wing after
meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on August 30, 2023,
in Washington, D.C.
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USA via AP)
As Israeli missiles continue to pound Gaza—killing, at most
recent estimate, more than six times as many people as were killed by
Hamas in its bloody October 7 incursion, including thousands of
children—a cease-fire has become the consensus demand of progressive
activist groups like IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace. It has also become the
demand of many of the most high-profile progressive members of Congress.
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Just two days after Hamas’s attack, Representative
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was calling for an end to the violence. “An
immediate ceasefire and de-escalation is urgently needed to save lives,”
Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement. A week later, AOC signed
the Ceasefire Now Resolution along with 11 of
her progressive House colleagues, including fellow “Squad” members Jamaal
Bowman, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, and Ilhan Omar.
But the call for a cease-fire has yet to receive the backing
of the single most influential progressive on Capitol Hill: Sen. Bernie
Sanders. The Vermont socialist, whose trailblazing presidential runs
helped inspire a generation of left-wing activists, including everyone in
the Squad, has stubbornly avoided using the term “cease-fire,” even as he
calls for a “humanitarian pause” in Israel’s assault to get aid to
Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Sanders has stuck to this position even as calls for a
cease-fire have started to move from the edges of the Democratic Party to
its center. On Thursday, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-highest
ranking Democrat in the Senate, became the first senator to endorse a
cease-fire when a TV interviewer pressed the issue; though Durbin is
relatively progressive, commentators like MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan took note that he got out ahead of Sanders,
the left’s standard-bearer in the Senate.
Many in Sanders’ orbit have also backed a cease-fire. Matt
Duss, the executive vice president of the Center for International Policy,
who served as Sanders’s foreign policy adviser from 2017-2022, endorsed the goal of a cease-fire in
the Guardian this week,
urging progressive activists to “continue to apply pressure to those not
yet courageous enough to support a cessation of this horror.” At the same
time, Duss cautioned against “a false binary between whether Israel
should be taking any military action or not,” arguing that the
distinction between “humanitarian pause” and “cease-fire” is largely
semantic, that the former can be extended to the latter and the latter is
not a peace treaty, and that the important thing is to protect civilian
lives and oppose Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas
without necessarily opposing targeted military action against Hamas
leaders. Though Duss no longer works for Sanders, he remains in contact
with the senator and with his successor as foreign policy adviser, Max
Hoffman; from his position, it makes sense to call for a big tent
approach to rein in Israel’s assault.
But for many on the left who passionately supported Sanders
in 2016 and 2020, the refusal to call for an actual cease-fire is
baffling. “How many dead Palestinians is enough for Bernie Sanders to
call for a ceasefire? We learned today that it is higher than 8,000, how
high it actually is is still not known,” tweeted Palestinian-American writer Yousef
Munayyer on Wednesday. Daniel Denvir, host of Jacobin’s popular podcast The Dig, contrasted “the Squad’s leadership demanding
a ceasefire while Bernie breaks our hearts, refusing to speak out against
genocide.” Felix Biederman, cohost of the left-wing podcast Chapo Trap House, which ferociously championed
Sanders’s presidential runs, had the harshest words of all for Sanders:
Israel, he wrote, “is doing their best to end all life in
Gaza and the most you can offer is suggesting a brief timeout while
assuring them that they’re allowed to do whatever they want. hope you
live just long enough to see Biden lose and the last years of your life
wasted.”
Current Issue
November 13/20, 2023
Sanders is the most powerful leftist Jewish politician in
America. He has been a consistent critic of Israel. He is well aware of
the horrors being inflicted on Gaza. He would seem to be an obvious
spokesman for a cease-fire. And yet he has clearly taken a firm decision
not to call for one.
To understand where Sanders is coming from, it helps to know
a little about his personal history. Though he is well to the left of his
Senate colleagues and has consistently voiced support for the basic human
rights of Palestinians and criticized the Israel lobby, Sanders is in
many ways a product of the liberal Zionist tradition. During his 2020
campaign, Sanders advisers urged the instinctively private candidate
to talk more about his Jewish background,
including the fact that his father, an immigrant from Poland, lost most
of his family in the Holocaust. The slaughter of Europe’s Jews is deeply
personal for Sanders, and it likely factors into his response to the
October 7 attacks, which were the single deadliest day for Jews anywhere
in the world since 1945. The members of the Squad, who come from a wide
diversity of backgrounds and are on average many decades younger than
Sanders, lack this direct connection to the personal trauma that many
American Jews of Sanders’s generation feel.
They also lack his direct connection to Israel itself,
including his time living on a socialist kibbutz near Haifa in 1963. As
Sanders wrote in Jewish Currents in
2019, “It was there that I saw and experienced for myself many of the
progressive values upon which Israel was founded. I think it is very
important for everyone, but particularly for progressives, to acknowledge
the enormous achievement of establishing a democratic homeland for the
Jewish people after centuries of displacement and persecution.” Sanders
went on to acknowledge that Palestinians experienced the founding of
Israel very differently, “as the cause of their painful displacement,”
and to call for a two-state solution. His understanding of the conflict
is basically indistinguishable from that of J Street, the “pro-Israel,
pro-peace” organization that many progressive Democrats prefer to the
increasingly right-wing AIPAC—and J Street has refused to back a cease-fire, though it has
called for humanitarian pauses.
Sanders, it should be acknowledged, has called for an end to the indiscriminate
bombing of Gaza and the killing of thousands of Palestinian civilians,
warned against a ground invasion, and insisted on more humanitarian
aid—and the practical effects of his demands would more or less amount to
a cease-fire. A defender of Sanders might reasonably ask why the word
“cease-fire” is essential, while a critic might respond that if that’s
what he supports then he shouldn’t have so much difficulty saying it. But
the truth is that there is a meaningful ideological distinction to be
drawn between calling for a cease-fire and calling for a humanitarian
pause: the latter acknowledges that some military operations by Israel
might theoretically be legitimate, even if much of what they’re doing in
practice is not.
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Those on the left who demand a cease-fire are saying, in
effect, that we don’t identify with Israel’s desire to wipe out Hamas
militarily, because we see everything that’s happening in the context of
a decades-old colonial project in which Israel is fundamentally the
aggressor. By contrast, those who call for a humanitarian pause may
acknowledge the need to protect Palestinian civilians, or that Israel’s
ongoing assault on Gaza is brutal and unjustified, or even that Israel
owns its share of responsibility for the underlying conflict—but still,
they insist, Israel was attacked by Hamas on October 7 and has some right
to respond in kind. Sanders has been clear that this is where he stands.
“Israel suffered a major attack and has, as do all other countries under
similar circumstances, the absolute right to defend itself,” he said last
week.
To put my own cards on the table, I wish Sanders would call
for a cease-fire, and as a longtime supporter and admirer, I’m
disappointed that he hasn’t. I understand the reasons why but I don’t
think they excuse the call he’s made. At the same time, I’d like to think
Sanders appreciates that so many young activists aren’t relying on him
for cues on how to talk about this unfolding atrocity. Instead, they are
organizing and demonstrating on their own terms, based on their own
collective sense of what is morally demanded of them right now. As
Sanders has said many times, the movement is much bigger than him.
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Is The US
Turning Into A Christofascist State?
By Chris Hedges, The Real News. Jeff Sharlet has spent two decades
covering the intersection of extreme Christian nationalism and the
far-right. In his new book, Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, he
gives snapshots of a country rapidly devolving into a Christian fascism
state. He captures the rage, the despair, the dislocation, the
alienation, the aesthetic of violence, and the magical thinking that are
the foundations of all fascist movements—forces that are now coalescing
around the Trump-led Republican Party. The bizarre conspiracy theories
and buffoonish quality of many who lead and embrace this movement, such
as Republican Rep... -more-
‘Operation
Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 21: Gaza Health Ministry Lists Martyrs' Names
By Palestine Bureau, Mondoweiss. The Ministry of Health in Gaza
released on Thursday evening a list of 6,747 Palestinians confirmed
killed since Israel began carpet bombing the blockaded enclave on October
7. The list, which includes names, ages, gender, and ID numbers for each
casualty identified as of the afternoon of October 26, does not include
people still trapped under rubble, those who were buried directly without
being brought to hospitals, and those whose details had yet to be
confirmed and processed by health officials – meaning that hundreds have
yet to be officially identified, according to the ministry’s own
estimates. -more-
United
Nations General Assembly Votes For Gaza Ceasefire
By Consortium News. The [Jordanian]resolution calls for an “immediate,
durable and sustained humanitarian truce”, and demands all
parties comply with international humanitarian law and “continuous,
sufficient and unhindered” provision of essential
supplies and services into the Gaza Strip. It also calls for the
“immediate and unconditional release” of all civilians held captive as
well as demanding their safety, well-being and humane treatment in
compliance with international law. The resolution does not mention
Hamas or the events of Oct. Gilad Erdan, Ambassador of
Israel to the U.N., said in response to the resolution... -more-unhindered” provision of essential
supplies and services into the Gaza Strip. It also calls for the
“immediate and unconditional release” of all civilians held captive as
well as demanding their safety, well-being and humane treatment in
compliance with international law. The resolution does not mention
Hamas or the events of Oct. Gilad Erdan, Ambassador of
Israel to the U.N., said in response to the resolution... -more-
New
Yorkers Shut Down Wall Street For Palestine
By Fight Back News. Hundreds of people descended into Wall Street on October
27 for Palestine. The NYPD attempted to close off the entrances by
barricading each access point, but that didn't deter those standing with
the Palestinian resistance. The protest was organized by Within Our
Lifetime and endorsed by many other organizations. Chants in front of the
New York Stock Exchange included “Not another nickel, not another dime,
no more money for Israel's crimes” and “Biden, Biden, you can't hide, we
charge you with genocide!” Protesters began marching and completely took
over NYC's Financial District. -more-
Full-Dress
Irrationality
By Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. Whenever Joe Biden speaks, you have to
make sure your bullshit detector is switched on, to borrow Hemingway’s
pungent phrase. As is well-documented, our president has spent his public
life making it up as he goes along. No surprise, there was a lot of
boilerplate junk in the two much-noted speeches Biden gave last
week, one in Tel Aviv after attending a session of Israel’s war
cabinet, the other when he dropped it on the American public
that they were about to spend a lot more money financing Israeli
violence, war in Ukraine and provocation across the Taiwan Strait.
We had better listen carefully this time. -more-
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unhindered” provision of
essential supplies and services into the Gaza Strip. It also calls for the
“immediate and unconditional release” of all civilians held captive as well as
demanding their safety, well-being and humane treatment in compliance with
international law. The resolution does not mention Hamas or the events of
Oct. Gilad Erdan, Ambassador of Israel to the U.N., said in response
to the resolution... -more-
New Yorkers Shut
Down Wall Street For Palestine
By
Fight Back News.
Hundreds of people descended into Wall Street on October 27 for Palestine. The
NYPD attempted to close off the entrances by barricading each access point, but
that didn't deter those standing with the Palestinian resistance. The protest
was organized by Within Our Lifetime and endorsed by many other organizations.
Chants in front of the New York Stock Exchange included “Not another nickel,
not another dime, no more money for Israel's crimes” and “Biden, Biden, you
can't hide, we charge you with genocide!” Protesters began marching and
completely took over NYC's Financial District. -more-
Full-Dress
Irrationality
By
Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. Whenever Joe
Biden speaks, you have to make sure your bullshit detector is switched on,
to borrow Hemingway’s pungent phrase. As is well-documented, our president has
spent his public life making it up as he goes along. No surprise, there was a
lot of boilerplate junk in the two much-noted speeches Biden gave last
week, one in Tel Aviv after attending a session of Israel’s war
cabinet, the other when he dropped it on the American public that
they were about to spend a lot more money financing Israeli violence, war in
Ukraine and provocation across the Taiwan Strait. We had better listen
carefully this time. -more-
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“Looking Back to See Ahead:
The Antiwar Movement Must Not Go Back To Sleep During The Biden Presidency.”
February 7,
2021 Margaret
Flowers, Popular Resistance.NEWSLETTERANTI-WAR
MOVEMENT, JOE BIDEN, US EMPIRE, WARS AND
MILITARISM
On Saturday, members of the administrative
committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), on which I serve,
spoke on a webinar about the importance of building and strengthening the
antiwar, anti-imperialist movement during Biden's presidency. UNAC was founded
during the summer of 2010 as it became clear that the antiwar movement in the
US was faltering. . . .
Popular
Resistance.org sent me the following six items 10-22-23
‘Operation
Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 14: 13 Killed In Raid On Refugee Camp
By Yumna Patel, Mondoweiss. On Thursday night, Israel bombed the Greek Orthodox St
Porphyrius Church, the oldest church in Gaza, dating back to the 5th century.
According to the Ramallah-based Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila, 17
Palestinians were killed in the airstrike, including Muslim and Christian
families who had been sheltering in the church. The historic church also
suffered major structural damage. Located in the historic al-Zaytoun neighborhood
of Gaza City, in close proximity to the recently bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital,
the churched serviced members of Gaza’s Christian minority... -more-
White House
Seeks $105 Billion To Arm Israel, Ukraine, And Taiwan
By Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com. On Friday, the White House rolled out
its proposed $105 billion bill to arm Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The
legislation also includes funding for the border and humanitarian assistance.
US officials say over $50 billion will go to American weapons manufacturers.
The Biden administration is proposing a massive aid package as it has struggled
to get Congress to appropriate more funds for the proxy war in Ukraine. The
largest portion of money is for Ukraine at $61.4 billion. The White House wants
enough money for Ukraine to fund Kiev through the 2024 election. -more-
Demonstrators In
London Call To End Israeli Occupation
By Nadia Péridot, The Real News Network. As the war between Israel and occupied
Palestine escalates to terrifying heights, thousands of demonstrators swarmed
central London earlier this week to show solidarity with Palestinians, to call
for an end to the Israeli Occupation, and to demand that the Israeli military
cease its relentless bombing of civilians in Gaza. “We only know what we see on
television,” Sarah Callaway told TRNN during the demonstration, “but it looks
like the Second World War, it looks catastrophic, and it really looks like the
Israeli government is trying to do a genocide on Palestinian
people.” -more-
Biden Gets
Zelensky Treatment In Middle East As Israel Tries To Escalate
By Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism. The US, in a continued demonstration of
the degree of enbubblement of what passes for its leadership, seems to believe
it still has the force and soft power to be able to bully talk its way out of
its geopolitical messes. Yet this week we have stunning examples of how
critical players in the rest to the world no longer buy what the US is selling.
The gap between the American establishment’s connection to reality and facts on
the ground has opened up to a yawning chasm as the Arab world, aa Jordan
cancelled a Biden summit with its king Abduallah II plus PLO chief Mahmoud
Abbas and... -more-
'Mutiny Brewing’
Inside State Department Over Israel-Palestine
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed, HuffPost. President Joe Biden’s approach to
the ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine is fueling mounting tensions at
the U.S. government agency most involved in foreign policy: the State
Department. Officials told HuffPost that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and
his most senior advisers are overlooking widespread internal frustration. Some
department staff said they feel as if Blinken and his team are uninterested in
their own experts’ advice as they focus on supporting Israel’s expanding
operation in Gaza, where the Palestinian militant group Hamas is
based. -more-
No Business As
Usual At Rally In Solidarity With Gaza
By Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. As people got off work on Thursday
evening, October 19, the street in front of the Federal Building in San
Francisco swelled with a spirited crowd chanting, “From the river to the sea,
Palestine will be free.” An ocean of demonstrators had stopped traffic as
Homeland Security police looked on and a helicopter hovered overhead. With less
than 24 hours’ notice, the “All Out for Gaza” emergency protest amassed two to
three thousand demanding an end to the siege on Gaza and an immediate cessation
of US aid to Israel. Organizers included Al-Awada, Arab Resource and Organizing
Center.. -more-
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The
Nation sent me the following 5 items Oct. 20, 2023:
to me Our Oct. 30/Nov.
6 Issue: After Oil
OCTOBER 20, 2023
The world is watching with grief and horror as we end the second
week of the Israel-Gaza war. Our reporters and sources on the frontlines, who
are offering up information as their world crumbles around them, tell us that
life in Gaza remains dangerous, difficult, and demoralizing.
As journalists, we cannot control the actions of foreign leaders
or our own lawmakers—many of whom have disappointed us this week with their
decisions about the war—but we can prioritize the need to tell the truth, no
matter how painful.
Horrifying allegations have been made by mainstream news outlets
and on social media this week, Musa al-Gharbi, a sociologist at Stony Brook
University, explains in his latest piece for The Nation. “For those who would
like to minimize unnecessary suffering and death, it is critical to respond to
information warfare with solid facts,” he urges. “Truth, as they say, is the
first casualty of war.”
The following five items
were sent by The Nation.
We Must Not Let the Truth Become a Casualty of This War
Now more than ever, it’s crucial that we talk about what is
actually happening in Gaza and Israel, not about unverified rumors.
MUSA AL-GHARBI
The Jewish Justice Movement Is Being Reborn
At the Jewish Voice for Peace rally, thousands of protesters
made clear that they will no longer allow the suffering of the Jewish people to
be weaponized against others.. DAVE
ZIRIN
“We Are
the Voices of Gazan Citizens Right Now”
Hundreds of Palestinian Americans and supporters from
Cincinnati, Ohio, gathered in Ziegler Park. “My city no longer exists. My
village is no longer there.”
ZURIE POPE
OUR LATEST PODCASTS
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On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, a
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On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Spencer Ackerman
discusses the Hamas Massacre and the Abraham Accords. JEET HEER
The Palestinian
People Are Already Free
By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. This week, from 14–18 October, the
Dilemmas of Humanity conference brought together political leaders, activists,
and organic intellectuals from around the world to discuss the central problems
facing humanity today and strengthen proposals to address them. Gathered in
Johannesburg (South Africa), participants watched in horror as Israel escalated
its genocidal war against the Palestinian people. On 17 October, the eleventh
consecutive day of its bombardment, Israel stunned the world by bombing the
al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City, where thousands of... -more-
United States
Faces Strategic Defeat In Geopolitical War In Gaza
By M. K. Bhadrakumar, Consortium News. One hundred years after the Arab Revolt
(1916-1918) against the ruling Ottoman Turks amidst the impending defeat of
Germany and the Triple Alliance in World War I, another armed uprising by the
Arabs has erupted. This time around it’s against Israeli occupation, in the
backdrop of the looming defeat of the United States and NATO in the Ukraine War
— presenting a spectacle of history repeating unabridged. The Ottoman Empire
disintegrated as a result of the Arab Revolt. Israel too will have to vacate
its occupied territories and make space for a state of Palestine, which of
course, will be... -more-
‘Al-Aqsa Flood
Operation’ Day 13: Humanitarian Aid To Gaza Stalls
By Leila Warah and the Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau, Mondoweiss. Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip
continued overnight on Wednesday into the early hours of Thursday morning.
Civilians and journalists continue to report that nowhere is safe. Israel
intensified its bombing across the area, most heavily targeting the Rafah
district, killing dozens of Palestinians, and further damaging roads leading
from the border crossing with Egypt, according to Al Jazeera, which also
reported at least 121 people have been killed and 540 injured in Gaza since
Wednesday evening. In the al-Zahra neighborhood, Palestinian media reports that
Israeli warplanes... -more-
Will Yemen And
Iraq Join Palestine's Al-Aqsa Flood?
By The Cradle's Iraq Correspondent, The Cradle. Just hours after the launch of
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the deadliest resistance offensive for Israel since
its inception, supporters hit the streets in numerous Arab and Muslim-majority
countries. Yet one nation, Yemen, stood out, despite its vast geographical
distance from occupied Palestine. Not unlike previous mass demonstrations in
solidarity with Palestine, hundreds of thousands of Yemenis poured into the
streets of various cities, unwavering in their declaration of readiness to
stand with the Palestinian resistance against what they saw as the "enemy
of the Ummah." -more-
CEASEFIRE
US Unions Call
For A Ceasefire In Gaza
By Alexandra Bradbury and Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. While many union members and other
workers are worried and horrified at the mounting war in Israel and occupied
Palestine, U.S. unions so far have mostly remained silent. But workers are
speaking up and organizing with their co-workers to push their unions on the
side of peace and justice. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 3000
and United Electrical Workers (UE) have sponsored a petition calling for a
ceasefire. Starbucks Workers United has also spoken up. “Union members come
from diverse backgrounds, including Jews, Muslims, and Middle Eastern... -more-
November 4: All
Out For Black People's March On The White House
By
Black Is Back Coalition, Popular Resistance. On November 4, freedom-loving people
from cities throughout the U.S. will march on the White House, having traveled
by plane, train, bus and caravan to make their voices heard at the 15th Annual
Black People's March on the White House. In light of the rapidly escalating
genocidal war being waged by Israel on the Palestinian people, this year’s
Black People’s March on the White House will declare that, “the African,
Indigenous, Mexican, Filipino, Cuban, Venezuelan and other oppressed peoples of
the world stand together with Palestine in a united front against
colonialism. -more-
Israeli Attacks
On Journalists Stifle Reporting On Gaza Horrors
By
Ari Paul, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. The Israeli communications minister’s
attempt to shut down Al Jazeera’s bureau in Jerusalem—on the grounds that the
Qatari news outlet is biased in favor of Hamas and is actively endangering
Israeli troops (Reuters, 10/15/23)—should inspire some déjà vu. In the last war
in Gaza, an Israeli air strike destroyed a Gaza building housing both Al
Jazeera and Associated Press offices (AP, 5/15/21). And just months ago, Al
Jazeera (5/18/23) reported that “the family of Shireen Abu Akleh,” a
Palestinian-American AJ journalist killed by Israeli fire while on assignment,
“has rebuked Israel for saying it is...-more-
Dilemmas Of
Humanity Conference Concludes In Johannesburg
By
Luis De Jesus Reyes and Zoe Alexandra, People's Dispatch. For almost two weeks
now, an incessant rain of bombs has been falling on the Palestinian lands and
people, who for 75 years have struggled against the Zionist settler-colonial
project, under the indifferent gaze of the so-called “Western powers” and their
governments. For more than 60 years, the Cuban people have been suffering from
an economic, financial, and commercial blockade that has deprived them of achieving
their full development, before the impotent gaze of a large part of the world
that cannot – or does not dare – to challenge those responsible for that
policy. -more-
END OMNI GAZA ANTHOLOGIES # 11
(Nov. 4, amplified Nov. 7 to 32 articles)
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