GAZA ANTHOLOGIES # 13
CEASEFIRE
December 16, 2023
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace,
Justice, and Ecology.
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·
Stephen F.
Eisenman. “When Anti-Zionism Becomes
Anti-Semitism.”
·
Ari Paul. “NYT amplifies outrage
over imaginary calls for genocide.”
· Liz Theoharis. “Urgent Call for Peace in the Middle East.”
· Peter Lazenby.
“’Hell on Earth’ Returns to Gaza as Israel Extends Bombing to the
South.”
· Jessica Corbett. “UN Members Support Gaza Cease Fire.”
· Norman Finkelstein. Method
and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on
Gaza.
·
CEASE
FIRE! Jessica Corbett. “UN Members support Gaza
cease-fire in overwhelming 153-10 vote.“
· Abel Tomlinson. “Israel Has Always Targeted Civilians,
Debunking a Key Lie.”
· Joe Lauria. “What US Got Most Crucially
Wrong in UN Veto.”
· William Astore. “The
Obliteration of Gaza: AIPAC and the MICC as
Mechagodzilla.”
· OMNI Statement on Israel Gaza US.
· Julie Hollar. US Israeli
Information Control. Sunday News Shows
Biased.
· SONALI KOLHATKAR. US Mainstream Media
Bias.
· Press Release, Drs. Without Borders. Israel Bombing Hospitals.
· Appeal to Senator Warren to Call for Ceasefire.
· Code Pink.
Israeli War Crimes.
· Anne Boyer.
Letter of Resignation from the NYT.
· Jonathan Cook.
Jonathan Cook. “The War Machine
Wants You to Condemn Hamas.”
· Further reading: two anthologies by Jamie Stern-Weiner, 2018 and 2023.
· Local Statement vs. hate speech and antisemitism.
TEXTS GAZA
#13 , CEASEFIRE(18)
The Distinction Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
Stephen F. Eisenman. “When Anti, Anti-Zionism Becomes
Anti-Semitism. “ Counterpunch (November
17, 2023).
My friends in academia tell me they are experiencing the most
repressive environment of their lives. The campuses of Harvard, Yale,
University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Northwestern (where I taught for almost 25
years), and others have been riven by conflict over the Mideast war. Faculty
deemed too sympathetic to Palestine have been tarred by trustees, senior
administrators, other faculty, and some students as naive at best and
anti-Semitic at worst. A few professors have lost their jobs or been subjected to
student petitions demanding their ouster. University presidents have been
hounded by pro-Israeli, often Jewish trustees, to loudly and publicly condemn
criticism of Zionism or Israel, and take additional measures to quash
protest.
Pro-Palestinian student organizations have also
come under fire, either for insufficient zeal in condemning Hamas brutality on
October 7, attributing the attack to a long history of Israeli provocations, or
demanding a ceasefire before the Israeli government is ready. A few groups,
including Jewish Voices for Peace, and Students for Justice in Palestine have
even been banned from campuses. Students from these groups have been pilloried
by trustees and administrators, doxed, hounded, and in a few cases assaulted.
Some Jewish students too have been attacked or subjected to verbal abuse for
their vocal support of Israel. The hurt and anger on many campuses right now
must feel overwhelming.
To be called anti-Semitic is powerful and
professionally annihilating. That’s especially true for university professors
whose stock in trade is reason. Anti-Semitism arises from libel, trades in
stereotypes, and occludes independent thought. It is, as the German Social
Democrat August Bebel purportedly said, “the socialism of fools,” meaning that
it attributes the suffering of the working class to a small and secretive cabal
of wealthy and powerful Jews. For that reason, anti-Semitism is especially
reviled by a professoriate that is often liberal or left in its politics and
strives to achieve a historical understanding of economic and political
oppression. Finally, anti-Semitism was central to the formation of the German
Nazi regime; it was the only consistent faith of Adolf Hitler, the greatest
criminal the world has ever known.
In an unusual intervention, President Isaac
Herzog of Israel, recently sent a letter to American college
presidents alluding to the Holocaust. By calling upon them to “publicly and
unequivocally” reject “calls for the elimination of a whole country, Israel,”
Herzog suggests that current criticism of Israel, which sometimes includes
expressions of anti-Zionism, is both anti-Semitic and eliminationist, that is,
potentially genocidal. This goes far beyond even the overly capacious
definitions of anti-Semitism propounded by the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance (HRA), and the influential Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The latter has written: “While anti-Zionism is indeed antisemitism,
anti-Zionism is much more socially acceptable than classic antisemitism.” Both
clauses are lies, plus the comma in the middle. At its most expansive,
anti-Zionism is a rejection of the idea and reality of an exclusively Jewish
state on the land of historic Palestine. More commonly, it signifies rejection
of the radical expansionism of the current Israeli regime, and its policy of
secluding Palestinians behind walls and checkpoints, a system that is plausibly
called apartheid. Without skipping a beat, the ADL repeats the demonstrable
untruth that anti-Zionism (as anti-Semitism) is widely endorsed. In fact, the
mainstream media and elected politicians generally endorse or accept Israeli
expansionism, and the HRA and ADL definition of anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism.
And they repeat the ADL canard that we are experiencing a wave of anti-Semitism
unequaled in U.S. history. Not only is this historically blinkered, it
overlooks the genuine danger posed by far-right extremists and gun-rights
advocates who have perpetrated or enabled actual murderous violence against
Jews and others, such as at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, and in
Highland Park, Illinois.
Alleged Anti-Semitism on Campuses
Ari Paul. “NYT amplifies outrage
over imaginary calls for genocide.”
University presidents are under fire from politicians and
the media over what is being framed as their waffling over allowing antisemitic
speech on their campuses.
CEASE
FIRE
War on Terror
Became War of Terror.
Rev Dr. Liz Theoharis. “Urgent Call for Peace in the Middle East. “ Yes Magazine, Nov 9 2023.
...Eight days
after 9/11, as the leaders of both parties were already pounding a frenzied
drumbeat of war, a diverse group of concerned Americans released a warning
about the long-term consequences of a military response. Among them were
veteran civil rights activists, faith leaders, and public intellectuals,
including Rosa Parks, Harry Belafonte, and Palestinian-American Edward Said.
Rare public opponents of the drive to war at the time, they wrote with
level-headed clarity: “We foresee that a military response would not end the
terror. Rather, it would spark a cycle of escalating violence, the loss of
innocent lives, and new acts of terrorism. … Our best chance for preventing
such devastating acts of terror is to act decisively and cooperatively as part
of a community of nations within the framework of international law … and work
for justice at home and abroad.”
Twenty-three
years and more than two wars later, this statement reads as a tragic footnote
..... (Dr. Theoharis deeply impactful statement at
the link)
Peter Lazenby. “‘Hell on Earth’ returns
to Gaza as Israel extends bombing to the south.” Mronline.org ( 12-5-23). Originally published: Morning Star Online on December 1, 2023.
Human Rights, Inequality, Movements, WarBritain, Europe, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, PalestineNewswire“HELL on Earth”
“HELL on Earth” returned to Gaza today in the
words of a UN official, as Israel resumed its murderous bombing campaign with
dozens of air strikes on the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.
Over 100 solidarity actions will take place
for Palestine across Britain on Saturday as peace campaigners demand an end to
the killing.
After almost a week’s truce which saw Hamas
release 78 hostages seized in its October 7 raid on Israel, and Israel free 240
Palestinian prisoners of the thousands in its jails, Israeli Defence Forces
(IDF) unleashed another wave of bombing which had killed at least 109 people
today when the Morning Star went to press, bringing the total death toll
from its war above 15,000.
Israel’s former defence minister Benny Gantz
said it had spent the week’s truce planning an extension of its onslaught to
south Gaza, with the first phase of the war having targeted the north.
“We must change the reality in the south as
well as in the north,” he declared, with Israeli aircraft dropping leaflets
warning people to flee further south, to Rafah on the Egyptian border. “You
have to evacuate immediately. Khan Younis is a dangerous fighting zone. You
have been warned,” the leaflets read.
Following previous warnings that Palestinians
should flee northern Gaza for southern cities like Khan Younis, the new demand
raises fears that Israel intends to drive the whole population of Gaza out.
The Stop the War Coalition’s Lindsey German
told the Morning Star that Gaza faced the “hideous prospect [of] winter
cold, disease and food shortages and now renewed bombardment by Israel.
The West Bank is also seeing increasing violence with many young
Palestinians being shot and arrested every day. . . . MORE https://mronline.org/2023/12/04/hell-on-earth-returns-to-ga za-as-israel-extends-bombing-to-the-south/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hell-on-earth-returns-to-gaza-as-israel-extends-bombing-to-the-south&mc_cid=9621209827&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e
Jessica Corbett. “UN Members support Gaza
cease-fire in overwhelming 153-10
vote.” Defend
Democracy Press, Dec. 14, 2023. Editor.
mronline.org (12-15-23).
Humanity has prevailed,” said Egyptian Ambassador Osama Abdel
Khalek. “The Israeli aggression on Gaza must end. This bloodshed must stop.”
Originally published: Defend Democracy
Press on December 12, 2023 by Jessica Corbett (more by Defend Democracy Press) | (Posted Dec
14, 2023)
Empire, Inequality, State Repression, WarAmericas, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, United StatesNewswire
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday
passed a resolution demanding
“an immediate humanitarian cease-fire” in Israel’s two-month war on Gaza after
the U.S. last week used its
permanent member status to veto a similar Security Council measure.
The resolution also demands “that all parties comply with their
obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law,
notably with regard to the protection of civilians,” as well as “the immediate
and unconditional release of all hostages, as well as ensuring humanitarian
access.”
Norman Finkelstein. Method and Madness: THE HIDDEN STORY OF ISRAEL'S ASSAULTS ON GAZA . 2023.
Donald Macintyre. Book Review: “The Case against Israel.” The Independent (January 2,
2015).
Fierce polemic against
Israel’s actions in Gaza calls for non-violent resistance.
The
best known of Israel’s American Jewish critics apart from Noam Chomsky, Norman
Finkelstein is hardly a stereotype. The son of holocaust survivors, he was
banned from entering Israel after a visit to Lebanon in which he expressed
solidarity with Hezbollah; and frozen out of US universities after a savage
academic conflict with Israel supporter Alan Dershowitz. Yet more recently he
has angered some “pro-Palestinians” by his adherence to a two-state solution,
and his criticism of some elements in the Boycott Diversity and Sanctions (BDS)
campaign for equivocating over the continued existence of Israel.
That
said, there is nothing ambivalent about Method and Madness, an
undiluted, undoubtedly powerful prosecution case against Israel over the death
and destruction visited on Gaza by its military assaults since 2008. So far
from seeing these onslaughts as retaliation against Hamas violence, he contends
that they deliberately pre-empted peace feelers from the Islamic faction and
sought to re-establish Israel’s regional deterrence after what Finkelstein sees
as its clear defeat in the 2006 Lebanon war. While insisting that Palestinians
have the legal and moral right to combat the occupation by force, he calls for
mass non-violent resistance as the best means of defeating it. . . . MORE https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/gaza-israel-hezbollah-hamas-civilian-deaths-b2437709.html
“Brilliant
. . . he spares nobody . . . ” —The
Economist.
“Method and Madness is simply outstanding.” Mouin Rabbani
“One of the most perceptive critics of Israel’s increasingly barbarous
occupation.” —TeleSUR
“An undiluted, undoubtedly powerful prosecution case against Israel over the
death and destruction visited on Gaza.” —The
Independent
“Deploys the weapons of white-hot anger, scathing irony, sanity, common sense,
international law, rational logic, clear analysis and the truth.” —New Left Project
Abel
Tomlinson. “Israel Has Always Targeted
Civilians, Debunking a Key Lie.” December
3, 2023.
Israel
Has Always Targeted Civilians, Debunking a Key Lie – Abel Tomlinson
(wordpress.com)
We are told many lies from the Israeli
government and by US politicians that parrot what the Israel Lobby tells
them. One of the most prevalent lies is that Israel does not deliberately
target civilians, and is therefore not guilty of genocide. We have
heard this statement from many officials, including the Israeli administration,
the Biden
administration, Robert
Kennedy Jr., and recently Elon
Musk. They are all demonstrably
incorrect, and knowingly misleading the public for various reasons, most
importantly to justify the ongoing mass killing.
In terms of genocide,
numerous reputable scholars have called it genocide. Jewish Israeli
genocide scholar Raz
Segal calls it a “Textbook Case of Genocide.”
Top U.N.
official Craig Mokhiber resigned with a powerful letter also calling
it a “Textbok Case of Genocide.” It is slightly plausible how one may
dispute Israel’s intentions when bombing, but Israel’s genocidal targeting of
civilians by cutting food and water cannot be disputed.
It is easy to further answer this
question of targeting civilians if we look at history. Israel has a long
well-documented history of targeting civilians, with periodic massacres for the
past 75 years, from the first days of its inception up to today. Einstein
and other Jewish leaders wrote about the initial massacres here in 1948.
Jewish Israeli historian Ilan Pappe wrote a book, The Ethnic
Cleansing of Palestine, about the massacres and
forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
Many more books also cover this subject, including Palestinian-American
historian Rashid
Khalidi’s book The 100 Years’ War on Palestine. Israel was literally
founded in large part by targeting civilians.
These massacres continued up to today.
One of the most indisputable mass targeting of civilians by the Israeli
government was the sniper
massacre during the Great March of Return in 2018.
Israeli snipers shot thousands of unarmed Palestinian protesters as they
protested near the walls of their Gaza
prison, which they have not been allowed to leave since the 2007 blockade began.
Snipers shot medics, journalists, children and disabled people, all clear cut
war crimes. An excellent free documentary on this, Gaza Fights for Freedom, can be viewed
here.
In terms of the carpet bombings and targeting of civilians: I
have witnessed numerous Israeli carpet bombings of civilians in Gaza over the
past 20 years of my political life. The current one is only the worst, not the
first. Israeli talking points insist that we believe that they are trying
to kill only Hamas members, and “accidentally” kill dozens or hundreds or
thousands of civilians in the process; it is “unintentional collateral
damage.” However, a great deal of evidence proves otherwise.
Previous Israeli carpet bombings were
shown to have targeted civilians as detailed in scholar Norman Finkelstein’s
book Gaza:
An Inquest into its martyrdom. The targeting of civilians was
also detailed
in the Goldstone Report, which was endorsed by the United
Nations Human Rights Council and the European
Parliament. The Goldstone Report found,
“Numerous instances of Israeli lethal attacks on civilians and civilian objects
were intentional, including with the aim of spreading terror, that Israeli
forces used Palestinian civilians as human shields and that such tactics had no
justifiable military objective. Israeli forces engaged in the deliberate
killing, torture and other inhuman treatment of civilians and deliberately
caused extensive destruction of property, outside any military necessity,
carried out wantonly and unlawfully.”
In terms of the current carpet bombings,
a powerful new report was just published from the independent Israeli
journal 972 Magazine, which was subsequently corroborated
by The Guardian. This report, based on Israeli
military and intelligence sources, details how the Israeli military is using a
new artificial intelligence system called “The Gospel” to generate
far greater numbers of targets, and how this includes targeting of civilians,
“Nothing happens by accident,” said another source. “When a 3-year-old girl is
killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a
big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to
hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets.
Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is
in every home.”
Just as most, if not all, American wars are based on lies and
pro-war propaganda, so is Israel’s 75 year war on Palestine. We must
learn to question, reject and debunk Israel’s lies not only about targeting
civilians and genocide, but also about the occupation, apartheid, and
systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
This is of particular importance for Americans, since it is our
government that is far and away the #1 sponsor of Israel. This
unconditional support includes over $260 billion in foreign military aid, and
massive political support by vetoing over 53 UN
resolutions that condemned Israel’s many violations of international
law. Everything Israel does is co-signed by the United States. If
there is hope for peace, the American keystone of unqualified support must be
removed so this bridge of injustice may fall. American support for
genocide and apartheid must end, so a new paradigm or new constitution may be
birthed that provides equal rights for all.
Joe Lauria. “What US Got Most Crucially Wrong in UN Veto.”
Consortium News (December 10, 2023).
The U.S. has again vetoed a Security Council resolution urging an immediate end to the
killing in Gaza, in essence backing the ongoing genocide, writes Joe Lauria.
The United States has once again voted for genocide before all the
world.
There is no government in
the world that has more power to put an end to probably the worst crime of the
century than the United States.
And yet on Friday at the
U.N. Security Council Washington vetoed a resolution that would have demanded
an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel’s unmitigated slaughter. The U.S.
blocked the measure because it unequivocally wants the killing to continue.
It can talk all it wants
about its rejection of the resolution because it did not condemn Hamas’ attack
on Oct. 7. But the crux of the U.S. justification for a vote that has
brought it worldwide condemnation is a willfully ignorant statement about the
cause of this war.
In the U.S. explanation of its veto, the U.S.
deputy ambassador Robert Wood said:
“Perhaps most
unrealistically, this resolution retains a call for an unconditional ceasefire.
I explained in my remarks this morning why this is not only unrealistic but
dangerous: it would simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat
what it did on October 7. …
As long as Hamas clings to
its ideology of destruction, any ceasefire is at best temporary and is
certainly not peace. And any ceasefire that leaves Hamas in control of Gaza
would deny Palestinian civilians the chance to build something better for
themselves.”
This formulation reveals the
U.S. government’s twisted thinking. The occupation of the West Bank and the
blockade of Gaza are not the causes of this and previous wars, but instead
Hamas’ “ideology of destruction.” Which stems from what? Just some evil DNA?
Thus for the U.S. the
solution is not ending the occupation but maintaining the slaughter supposedly
to destroy Hamas, even though Israel has killed relatively few of its fighters
and none of its top commanders
and is instead waging a war of annihilation against the Gazan
people.
World Not Buying It
This is clear in every
capital of the world, including Washington. The worldwide reaction to the U.S.
veto shows an understanding that the United States, that great champion of
human rights, unequivocally supports genocide.
The veto was a slap in the
face of U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who took the rare move of
invoking Article 99 of the U.N. Charter to call for the Security Council to
act.
He wrote to the Council that
“amid constant bombardment by the Israeli Defense Forces and without shelter or
essentials to survive, I expect public order to completely break down soon due
to the desperate conditions, rendering even limited humanitarian assistance
impossible.”
In response, the United Arab
Emirates drew up a resolution that expressed
“grave concern” over the “catastrophic situation” in Gaza. The
resolution demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, immediate
and unconditional release of hostages and humanitarian access.
Thirteen
countries, including U.S.- ally France, voted in favor, Britain abstained, and
the U.S., the one country that can end the bloodshed, vetoed.
Anger at
the U.S. spread quickly.
Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas said the U.S. veto made it “complicit” in war crimes. “The
president has described the American position as aggressive and immoral, a
flagrant violation of all humanitarian principles and values, and holds the
United States responsible for the bloodshed of Palestinian children, women and
elderly people in the Gaza Strip,” Abbas’ office said in a statement.
Avril Benoit, executive
director of Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) USA said:
“By vetoing this resolution,
the US stands alone in casting its vote against humanity. The US veto stands in
sharp contrast to the values it professes to uphold. By continuing to provide
diplomatic cover for the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, the US is signaling that
international humanitarian law can be applied selectively — and that the lives
of some people matter less than the lives of others …. The US veto makes it
complicit in the carnage in Gaza.”
Human Rights Watch said in
a statement: “By continuing to provide
Israel with weapons [and] diplomatic cover as it commits atrocities, including
collectively punishing the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, the US
risks complicity in war crimes.”
It takes a special kind of
arrogance to ignore such criticism.
William
Astore. “The Obliteration of Gaza: AIPAC and the MICC as Mechagodzilla.” December
6, 2023
Reprinted from Bracing
Views with the author’s permission.
We are witnessing the obliteration of
Gaza. The death toll has already surpassed 16,000 as Israel continues to pummel
targets with American-made bombs and missiles. Even CNN is worried (from my
email update this AM):
Top UN officials are
warning of an “apocalyptic” situation in Gaza with “no place safe to go” for
civilians as the deepening humanitarian crisis sparks international concern. Israel is expanding ground operations to the entire
territory to “eliminate” Hamas and has told Palestinians to flee large
swaths of southern Gaza, where many had previously sought refuge. But the
war-torn region is in the midst of a near-total internet blackout as the last major telecommunications operator said
services are completely cut off. This means many Palestinians are unable to
communicate with one another or call for help while
evacuating, and emergency workers can’t coordinate their responses.
Caitlin Johnstone has a telling article in which she states an important truth: Israel couldn’t be
doing this without generous U.S. support. Israel is dropping the bombs,
firing the missiles, and shooting the artillery rounds and bullets, but the U.S.
is largely serving as the merchant of death for all this, though “merchant” is
the wrong word. The U.S. is giving all this deadly weaponry to Israel as “aid,”
even as there’s much rhetorical gnashing of teeth in Washington about Israel’s
“indiscriminate” bombing and wanton killing of Palestinian innocents, including
thousands of children. I say “rhetorical” because as Johnstone notes, the U.S.
government could curtail Israeli military action by turning off the spigot of
arms flowing from U.S. arsenals and warehouses to Israel.
But that’s not going to happen. AIPAC has a hammerlock on
Congress; those few members of Congress who’ve called for a ceasefire in Gaza are already being
targeted by the powerful pro-Israel lobby, with AIPAC promising to spend
upwards of $100 million to unseat those politicians who aren’t consumed by
bloodlust against Gaza. The power of AIPAC is reinforced here by the MICC, the military-industrial-congressional
complex that Ike warned us about in 1961, which stands to profit immensely from
more war in the Middle East as well as Ukraine. The combination of AIPAC with
the MICC is akin to Mechagodzilla, an almost unstoppable monster of immense
power.
Godzilla in its various incarnations would be hard-pressed to
duplicate the scenes of devastation we’re seeing in Gaza. Israel is practicing
its own version of the infamous statement from
America’s war against Vietnam: “It became necessary to destroy the town to save
it.”
The Israeli version: We had to destroy Gaza to save it from
Hamas.
It made no sense in Vietnam, and it makes no sense today in
Gaza. But this is not about making sense: it’s about power and vengeance and
profit.
William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF). He
taught history for fifteen years at military and civilian schools. He writes
at Bracing
Views.
Forwarded to me by Sonny San Juan
Omni Statement on War in Israel / Gaza
OMNI unequivocally stands with our Jewish and Muslim community
members and neighbors, and vows to be a space of refuge for all. We stand
against bias in our community and condemn those who wish to stereotype others
and perpetuate hate/violence.
OMNI unequivocally stands
against Hamas and all those who enrich and support them. The slaughter of human
beings is never a move towards justice and Hamas is a danger to both the
Israeli and Palestinian people. We understand that people are not their government.
OMNI unequivocally stands
with the Palestinian people and all oppressed people around the globe. There is
no justification for the bombardment of innocent people's homes nor the
breaking of international law. There is no justification for dehumanizing people.
OMNI unequivocally stands
against illegal Israeli settlements in the West bank, state sanctioned
violence, and the creation of enforced borders. We believe that no human should
control another, that governments cannot own the earth, and that state violence
doesn’t create safety.
OMNI unequivocally stands in
support of peace and against war and violence. We agree with MLK that, “True
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gas, water, internet, electricity, medical care, and international aid to Gazan
civilians.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/podcasts/the-daily/israel-palestine-1948.html (Transcript attached)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/18/israel-gaza-hamas-palestinians
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/israeli-crimes-against-humanity-in-gaza-letter-from-palestine/
US
Mainstream Media Bias
Sunday's Gaza Guests
Linked to Military Industry, Pro-Israel Funding
JULIE HOLLAR, Nov. 21, 2023,
FAIR, https://fair.org/home/sundays-gaza-guests-linked-to-military-industry-pro-israel-funding/
As the Israel/Gaza crisis continues unabated, eliciting massive
protests around the world, US media offer a strikingly narrow debate. On the
Sunday political news shows, which are both agenda-setting and reflect what
corporate media view as the most important perspectives on the most important
stories, the guests invited to speak on Gaza skew strongly toward US
politicians—especially those with strong financial influence by the military
industrial complex and pro-Israel advocates. The resulting conversations leave
little room for dissent from a pro-war stance.
FAIR looked at four weeks of Sunday shows covering the current
conflagration in Gaza, October 15 through November 5, during which time the
topic occupied a significant portion of political talk show coverage.
We identified 57 guest appearances across ABC's This
Week, CBS's Face the Nation, CNN's State
of the Union, NBC's Meet the Press and Fox
News Sunday, with 41 unique guests. (Some guests appeared more than
once).
Of the 57 appearances, 48 were from the US. While representatives
of the Israeli government or military appeared five times—and on every outlet
except NBC—only once did a Palestinian guest appear: senior Fatah
member Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, on CBS (11/5/23).
Twenty-eight guests had partisan affiliations: 10 Democrats
(making 18 appearances), 19 Republicans (making 25 appearances) and one
Independent (Sen. Bernie Sanders, appearing once). The abundance of Republicans
may have been related to the concurrent drama over the speaker of the House,
which several guests were also asked about.
Three guests represented international humanitarian organizations:
Philippe Lazzarini, UN Relief and Works Agency commissioner-general (CBS,
10/22/23); Robert Mardini, director-general of the International Committee of
the Red Cross (CBS, 10/29/23); and Cindy McCain, director of the World
Food Program (and widow of former Republican Sen. John McCain—ABC,
10/22/23). NBC, CNN and Fox featured
no such organizations during the four weeks studied.
No scholars, activists or international law or human rights
experts appeared, nor did any civil society leaders from either Israel or
Palestine.
Under the influence
Eleven of the 34 US guests, accounting for 13 appearances, had
significant ties to the military industrial complex. These include five former
senior military officials, five current or former board members or advisors to
a military industry company, and four members of Congress who count one or more
"defense industries" as top-20 contributing industries to their 2024
campaigns, according to the OpenSecrets database. (Some guests had
multiple ties)
At least 19 more US guests have taken money from military industry
political action committees (PACs) during their political careers; of the 23
elected officials for whom data was available, only Rep. Pramila Jayapal
(D–Wash.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) and Rep. Jason Crow (D–Colo.) showed no
military industry PAC funding during their political careers. (These three
politicians generally reject corporate PAC money.)
Eighteen of the US guests, who were featured 23 times with repeat
appearances, had significant direct ties to pro-Israel funding.
("Significant" we defined as "pro-Israel" being a top-20
contributing industry to their 2024 campaigns, according to OpenSecrets; or,
for GOP presidential candidates, receiving prominent financial support from
pro-Israel donors; see Ha'aretz, 8/16/23.)
The pro-Israel lobby includes influential groups like J
Street, Democratic Majority for Israel and the Republican Jewish Coalition, but
has been overwhelmingly dominated by the hard-line American Israeli Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC), particularly since its 2021 decision to launch its
own PAC and super PAC. AIPAC's current stated priority is "building
and sustaining congress”.
SONALI KOLHATKAR. “We Must Be
Relentless in Humanizing Palestinians.” Yes
Magazine. November 2, 2023.
The fragile ceasefire could end at any moment. Most of the world
sees that the bombing campaign is not a real solution to peace in the Middle
East, but some parts of the Israeli government cling to violence as the only
way. The humanity of both sides is lost in the firefight.
"… A decade ago, analyst Norman Solomon pointed out ...
how Time Magazine defined “collateral damage” as “a term
meaning dead or wounded civilians who should have picked a safer neighborhood.”
That descriptor can easily be applied today to Gaza, a minuscule and densely
populated strip of land subjected to this savage bombing campaign ...."
In spite of media bias, human stories trickle out. The United
Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in 2014 marked
the 50th year of Israeli occupation by publishing short stories about dozens of Palestinian
men, women, and children. Arab-centric and independent media outlets such Al
Jazeera and Middle
East Eye routinely showcase such stories, in sharp contrast to
mainstream U.S. media outlets. Find some of these stories at this
link… MORE We Must Be Relentless in
Humanizing Palestinians
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Press
Release, Doctors Without Borders. “After
killing children, Israel goes after doctors/reporters. “ |
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Date: Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 9:43 PM
Subject: After killing children, Israel goes after doctors/reporters
To: Sadanand, Nanjundiah (Physics and Engineering Physics) <sadanand@ccsu.edu>
“After killing thousands of children, women and men, Israel is
murdering the beleaguered medical providers and reporters of Gaza
and Lebanon .”
BRUSSELS/JERUSALEM – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is
horrified by the killing of two MSF doctors, Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr
Ahmad Al Sahar, and a third doctor, Dr Ziad Al-Tatari, following a strike earlier today on Al-Awda hospital, Gaza, Palestine. Our
thoughts are with their families and all colleagues mourning their death.
Al-Awda is one of the last remaining functional hospitals in northern Gaza.
Dr Abu Nujaila and Dr Al Sahar were in the
hospital when it was hit on the third and fourth floors. Other medical staff,
including MSF staff, were also severely injured. MSF has regularly shared
information about Al-Awda as a functioning hospital and the presence of our
staff there to the warring parties. GPS coordinates were also shared with Israeli authorities
yesterday.
We condemn this strike in the strongest terms,
and call yet again for the respect and protection of medical facilities, staff
and patients.
MORE https://www.msf.org/msf-doctors-killed-strike-al-awda-hospital-northern-gaza-palestine
The Urgency of This Moment Demands a
Ceasefire
Forwarded to me by Sonny San Juan.
APPEAL TO SENATOR WARREN
NOVEMBER 21, 2023, https://prospect.org/world/2023-11-21-elizabeth-warren-gaza-ceasefire-now/
In the last two weeks, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has
referred to the unconscionable violence imposed on the Palestinian people by
Israel as “horrible.”
She stated that Israel “has
an obligation to protect civilians” and that they are
required to do so under international
law. She has repeatedly said that Israel needs to “stop
the bombing,” and echoed Secretary Blinken’s comments that
Israel “take all possible precautions to avoid harm to civilians.”
In response to her and other U.S. officials’
calls for a humanitarian pause, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
rejected any change in strategy and vowed to continue the onslaught with “all
of its power.” While there is scattered reporting about negotiations to
release some hostages in exchange for a temporary pause, in the past few days,
Israel has signaled that it intends to intensify its deadly campaign, targeting
the south and articulating its intention to maintain a long-term
military presence in Gaza.
The message from Israel is clear: Calls for a
humanitarian pause and words of concern will change nothing. If Sen. Warren
does not aggressively call for a ceasefire and condition future support for
Israel on that, she will continue to be complicit in the deaths of thousands of
Palestinians and violations of international law. We both worked for Sen.
Warren on her campaigns and in her official office; we are disappointed in her
lack of leadership in this critical moment but remain hopeful that she will listen
to the chorus of experts, activists, and impacted communities urging her to do
the right thing.
No reasonable person would oppose a humanitarian
pause to provide civilians food, water, medicine, and other necessities, nor
would they stand in the way of opportunities for civilians to seek safety. But when
both Israel and Hamas have violated and continue to violate international law,
a humanitarian pause is like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. A
humanitarian pause, unlike a ceasefire, does not include any commitments or
concrete steps toward de-escalation. Getting aid into Gaza means nothing
if the very same hospitals, schools, and refugee camps that receive it are
reduced to a pile of rubble the next day. A brief pause for civilians to seek
safety is meaningless if Palestinians have no way to learn about the pause,
nowhere to go, and nothing left to come back to. . . . MORE. , https://prospect.org/world/2023-11-21-elizabeth-warren-gaza-ceasefire-now/ Warren
must aggressively call for a ceasefire and refuse to offer support for Israel
until a ceasefire is pursued. Failure to do so would demonstrate a
disappointing inconsistency with her past statements, a lack of moral clarity,
and a stunning hypocrisy about the importance of action over words.
Code Pink.
“Murdered Civilians Are War Crimes, Call to ICC.” Nov. 21, 2023
Israel’s unrelenting attacks on Gaza has made
the situation more dire than ever. As I write to you, at least 13,300
Palestinians have been murdered by Israel in Gaza, including 5,500
children. This means 1 out of every 200 Gazans have been killed by the
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). In addition to that horrific number,
more than 30,000 have been injured, 75% of them women and children. Perhaps the
most haunting statistic is the 6,000+ Palestinians that are missing under the
rubble, among them 1,770 children, dying slowly, alone and scared. The tragic
reality is that these numbers are likely already outdated, as they increase by
the hour. But these are not just numbers, 13,300 universes have been
wiped off this earth without a second thought. Gazans are some of the
most resilient and beautiful souls on this earth, they have endured so much,
and they deserve to be remembered that way, not as a statistic.
Tell the International Criminal Court to
investigate Israel's war crimes!
https://www.codepink.org/iccgaza1 MORE
Internet and telecommunications in Gaza continue
to be cut off by Israel, making it harder to hear news from Gazans on the
ground. This is also making it harder for people
to connect with their family and friends in Gaza, sending people across the
globe in a panic with the uncertain status of their loved ones. I myself have
not been able to reach my friend in Gaza since last Monday.
Right now, Israel is targeting the Indonesian
hospital, located in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
The area surrounding the hospital was also struck by Israel multiple times, as
well as the second floor of the hospital itself, killing at least 14 people
altogether. According to a medical worker at the Indonesian hospital, Marwan
Abdallah, Israeli tanks are operating less than 656 feet from the hospital, and
Israeli snipers are set up on the rooftops of nearby buildings. Despite the
targeting of the Indonesian hospital, and intimidation by Israeli tanks and
snipers, medical professionals in the hospital refuse to abandon their
patients. They should be regarded as nothing less than superheroes.
Israel justifies the targeting of the Indonesian
hospital by claiming Hamas tunnels are underneath the building. They used the
same claim to justify the bombardment and raid on al-Shifa hospital. Israel’s
targeting of hospitals-an unprecedented inhumane tactic-has left 21 out of
Gaza’s 35 hospitals out of service. Although the Israeli propaganda
justifying these attacks is built on unfounded evidence, even if their claims
were true, that does not justify the targeting of hospitals-a violation of
international law.
Demand the ICC charge and try Israel for
perpetrating genocide!
Gaza is not the only area in Palestine under
attack. Since October 7, villages in the West Bank have been under curfew and
lockdown. This means no one is allowed to enter or
exit these villages, and they cannot leave their homes for any reason after a
certain hour. This has had a devastating effect on the Palestinian economy,
with business sales being cut to 50% and only 80% of salaries being paid out.
Since October 7, at least 215 Palestinians have been murdered by Israel in the
West Bank, including 50 children, and 2,750 more have been injured.
Additionally, over 5,000 Palestinians in the West Bank have been detained, and
Palestinian boys and men are in danger of imprisonment for simply leaving their
homes.
The Israeli attack on Palestine is not slowing
down, which means our action is more urgent than ever. There is truly
no time to waste-especially for those of us that live in the US. Our
government is working to send $14.3 billion in “aid” to Israel on top of the
$3.8 billion our government already provides the apartheid state-made possible
by our tax dollars. A majority of our elected officials also fail to call for
an unconditional ceasefire.
Join us in this global effort to bring Israeli
officials before the ICC and hold them accountable for the blood on their
hands!
Finally, I ask you to never stop fighting for Palestinian
liberation. They are counting on us to forget the people of Gaza, to stop
posting, to stop speaking out against the genocide-but we refuse! We
will never stop fighting for our brothers and sisters in Palestine. We will
never stop fighting for the inevitable truth. Liberation will come
soon enough. In the meantime, we need to keep the momentum going until
Palestine is free, from the river to the sea!
Towards Peace, Nour and the entire CODEPINK team
Dan Sheehan. “Read Anne Boyer’s extraordinary New York
Times resignation letter.” November
16, 2023.
It’s been a hell of a 24
hours for writers demonstrating moral courage.
Last night at the National Book Awards, over a
dozen NBA finalists took to the stage to use their moment in the
spotlight to oppose the ongoing
bombardment of Gaza and to call for a ceasefire.
Then, earlier this morning, the news broke that
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist, and poetry editor of the New York Times Magazine, Anne Boyer, has resigned from
her post, writing in her resignation letter that “the Israeli state’s
U.S.-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone” and that she “won’t write about poetry
amid the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this
unreasonable suffering.”
Here is Boyer’s extraordinary resignation letter—in which she takes direct aim at the language used
by her (now former) employer in its coverage of the war on Gaza—in full:
I have resigned as poetry editor of the New York Times Magazine.
The Israeli state’s U.S-backed war against the
people of Gaza is not a war for anyone.
There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States
or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who
claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of
oil interests and weapon manufacturers.
The world, the future, our hearts—everything
grows smaller and harder from this war. It is not only a war of missiles and
land invasions. It is an ongoing war against the people of Palestine, people
who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation,
deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture.
Because our status quo is self-expression,
sometimes the most effective mode of protest for artists is to refuse.
I can’t write about poetry amidst the
‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable
suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more verbally sanitized hellscapes.
No more warmongering lies.
If this resignation leaves a hole in the news
the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present. —Anne Boyer
Let’s hope that Boyer’s courage inspires other
writers of her stature to use their platforms to speak out against this
unconscionable war.
ANNE
BOYERGAZAPALESTINE
Jonathan Cook. “The War Machine Wants
You to Condemn Hamas.” Consortium News (11-18-23).
The act of
condemnation has been cynically weaponised, writes Jonathan Cook. The aim is
not to show solidarity with Israelis. It’s to fan the flames of hatred to
rationalise crimes against Palestinians. Read here...
FURTHER READING, Two Anthologies edited by Jamie
Stern-Weiner.
Deluge:
GAZA AND ISRAEL FROM CRISIS TO CATACLYSM. Edited by JAMIE STERN-WEINER; Foreword by AVI
SHLAIM. 2023.
“The crucial context and record of the
unfolding crimes against Gaza. It's unlikely to be surpassed any time soon.”
—Norman G. Finkelstein, author of Gaza: An Inquest into Its
Martyrdom
“Broad and engaging . . . encouraging us to
eschew glib analyses . . . a real contribution to those working for justice in
Israel-Palestine.”— Jacobin on
Stern-Weiner’s Moment of Truth
“A monumental and exceptionally rich book.”
—Andreas Van Agt, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, on
Stern-Weiner's Moment of Truth
Contributors: Musa Abuhashhash, Ahmed
Alnaouq, Nathan J. Brown, Yaniv Cogan, Clare
Daly MEP, Talal Hangari, Khaled Hroub, R.
J., Colter Louwerse, Mitchell Plitnick, Mouin
Rabbani, Sara Roy, and Avi Shlaim.
In September 2023, US National Security
Advisor Jake Sullivan boasted that the Middle East “is quieter today than it
has been in two decades.” One week later, unprecedented violence in Gaza and
Israel shattered the status quo and shocked the world.
Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Deluge punctured
delusions of stability as hundreds of militants burst forth from the Gaza
prison camp. In the ensuing carnage and firefights, 1,200 Israelis were killed
and hundreds more taken hostage.
Israel’s retaliation turned the besieged
enclave into a howling wasteland. Nearly 20,000 people were killed in two
months, including more than 7,000 children, and over 60 percent of homes were
damaged or destroyed. Israel targeted the wounded and infirm, newborns and
near-dead, as Gaza’s healthcare system—hospitals, clinics, ambulances, medical
personnel—came under a systematic attack unprecedented in the annals of modern
warfare.
The Hamas massacre and the Israeli
extermination campaign which followed together mark a historic turning point in
the Israel-Palestine conflict. The reverberations have also shaken politics far
beyond, not least in Europe and the United States, where gigantic,
round-the-clock protests for Palestinian rights pitted politicians against the
public and exposed a growing statist authoritarianism.
In this groundbreaking book—the first
published about the 2023 Gaza war—leading Palestinian, Israeli, and
international authorities put these momentous developments in context and
provide an initial taking-stock.
Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to
achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is there a way forward? The
book’s expert contributors address these and other questions, which have never
been more urgent.
320 pages • Paperback ISBN 978-1-68219-619-9 •
E-book ISBN 978-1-68219-620-5
Moment of Truth: TACKLING ISRAEL-PALESTINE’S TOUGHEST QUESTIONS. 2018.
Edited by JAMIE STERN-WEINER. 2018.
“A monumental and exceptionally rich book.”
—Andreas Van Agt, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
“An extremely rich collection.” —Mouin
Rabbani, Senior Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies
“Incisive and stimulating.” —Sara Roy, Center
for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
“An informed and important contribution.”
—Charles D. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Middle East History, University of
Arizona
More than a century on from the Balfour
Declaration, more than 50 years since the fateful war of 1967, and a full
decade into the inhuman siege of Gaza—painfully, absurdly, almost
unbelievably—the Israel-Palestine conflict rolls on. Amidst a growing sense
that the Palestinians’ long struggle for self-determination has reached a
crossroads, if not an impasse, this volume takes stock, draw lessons from
experience, and weigh paths forward.
Moment of Truth seeks
to clarify what it would take to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, to
assess the prospects of doing so, and to illuminate what is possible in
Palestine. It assembles an unprecedented wealth of expertise—encompassing
political leaders, preeminent scholars, and dedicated activists from Israel,
Palestine, and abroad—in direct critical exchange on the issues at the heart of
the world’s most intractable conflict. Has Israel’s settlement enterprise made
a Palestinian state impossible? Can the Palestinian leadership end the
occupation? Is Israel’s rule in the Palestinian territories a form of
apartheid? Could the US government force Israel to withdraw? In a series of
compelling, enlightening, and at times no-holds-barred debates, leading
authorities tackle these and other challenges, exposing myths, challenging
preconceptions, and establishing between them a more sober and informed basis
for political action.
Contributors:
Musa Abuhashhash, As’ad Abukhalil, Mkhaimar Abusada, Gilbert Achcar, Ghaith
al-Omari, Ghassan Andoni, Usama Antar, Nur Arafeh, Shaul Arieli, Arie Arnon,
Tareq Baconi, Sam Bahour, Sari Bashi, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Suhad Bishara, Nathan J.
Brown, Diana Buttu, John Dugard, Michael Dumper, Hagai El-Ad, Richard A. Falk,
Norman G. Finkelstein, Neve Gordon, Ran Greenstein, Yoaz Hendel, Jamil Hilal,
Khaled Hroub, Amal Jamal, Jan de Jong, Leila Khaled, Raja Khalidi, Rami G.
Khouri, Lior Lehrs, Gideon Levy, Alon Liel, John J. Mearsheimer, Jessica
Montell, Rami Nasrallah, Wendy Pearlman, Nicola Perugini, William B. Quandt,
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Glen Rangwala, Glenn E. Robinson, Nadim Rouhana, Sara Roy,
Bashir Saade, Robbie Sabel, Dahlia Scheindlin, Daniel Seidemann, Michael Sfard,
Muhammad Shehada, Raja Shehadeh, Sammy Smooha, Mark Tessler, Nathan Thrall,
Ahmed Yousef, Ido Zelkovitz.
518 pages • Paperback ISBN 978-1-682191-14-9 •
E-book 978-1-682191-15-6
Tackling
Israel–Palestine’s Toughest Questions
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LOCAL PROTEST, NO HATE SPEECH OR ANTISEMITISM On
Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 9:38 AM Abel Tomlinson <abeltomlinson@gmail.com>
wrote: Dear
Friends, Our Palestine
Peace Rally is now uploaded to Youtube.
There are not only several great informative speeches from students,
activists, professors, a former U.N. worker, and voices from across the
Middle East, but it also has become important for another reason. As
you may or may not know, dangerous false rumors of "hate speech"
at our Palestine Protests have been circulating in Fayetteville and
beyond. These rumors made their way all the way to the top of
Fayetteville City Government. Video of our rally has been forwarded to
Mayor Lioneld Jordan to stop these rumors. On
a similar note, the powerful Israel Lobby group Anti-Defamation League has
published a nationally syndicated report on a "400 percent increase in antisemitic
incidents." Along with scores of other Palestine Protests, ADL
cited our previous Oct. 22 protest as "Anti-Israel Rallies w. Support
for Terror." (Map attached): This
video serves as hard proof that there was no "hate speech" or
"antisemitism" at our event. Quite the opposite, in fact,
as multiple speakers explicitly rejected antisemitism and expressed a whole
lot of love. Please urge anyone spreading false rumors to watch the
video and see that we are all driven by love for humankind and a desire for
peace and justice for Palestine and everyone else too. Video
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1zIemIvSNc&t=50s Sincerely, Abel
Tomlinson Arkansas
Antiwar Alliance, Organizer OMNI
Peace Action Committee, Chair (479)283-5762 |
CONTENTS
GAZA #12
OMNI's
War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI GAZA ANTHOLOGIES # 12, November 16, 2023
(jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com)
Part I: Gaza March AND RALLY in Fayetteville
including Abel Tomlinson’s Palestine
Peace Rally Speech
Part II: Gaza
Anthology #12, p. 10
Guttenplan. Gaza in the Long Run
Musa Al-Gharbi. The Truth War
UNRWA
Sara Roy. Unsilencing Gaza
Chris Hedges. “Israel’s Final Solution for the Palestinians.”
Scott Ritter.
"Israel is LOSING this war and Netanyahu is done"
Theia Chatelle. “The Government
Encourages the Settlers to Attack. . . .”
Spencer Ackerman. “Biden’s Middle
East Policy Collapsed”
Fareed Zakaria. Israel to Vet Reports
from Gaza.
Iman
Abid. “Resist Genocide with Your Whole Heart and
Body.”
CADTM. cadtm-newsletter-en@cadtm.org
Code Pink. “Take
action for Palestine!”
Ron Jacobs.. “Bernie and a Cease
Fire.”
Ajamu Baraka. “The demand must be for decolonization and
Palestinian self-determination.”
Chodhury Interviews Khaled Barakat: Gaza demands end of genocide.
Natalia Marques. Editor. mronline.org. International actions demand an end to the
Israeli genocide in Gaza and an end to all aid to Israel.
END GAZA ANTHOLOGY #13
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