#Navy apologizes 142 years after shelling and burning an #Alaska #Native village to oblivion
"'The Navy recognizes the pain and suffering inflicted upon the #Tlingit people,' said the commander of the Navy’s northwest region."
AP, October 28, 2024
"Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that elders sacrificed their own lives to spare food for surviving children.
"It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the #USNavy —has apologized.
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#Navy apologizes 142 years after shelling and burning an #Alaska #Native village to oblivion
"'The Navy recognizes the pain and suffering inflicted upon the #Tlingit people,' said the commander of the Navy’s northwest region."
AP, October 28, 2024
"Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that elders sacrificed their own lives to spare food for surviving children.
"It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the #USNavy —has apologized.
"Rear Adm. Mark Sucato, the commander of the Navy’s northwest region, issued the apology during an at-times emotional ceremony Saturday, the anniversary of the atrocity.
"'The Navy recognizes the pain and suffering inflicted upon the#TlingitPeople, and we acknowledge these wrongful actions resulted in the loss of life, the loss of resources, the loss of culture, and created and inflicted #IntergenerationalTrauma on these clans,' he said during the ceremony, which was livestreamed from Angoon. 'The Navy takes the significance of this action very, very seriously and knows an apology is long overdue.'
"While the rebuilt Angoon received $90,000 in a settlement with the Department of Interior in 1973, village leaders have for decades sought an apology as well, beginning each yearly remembrance by asking three times, 'Is there anyone here from the Navy to apologize?'
"'You can imagine the generations of people that have died since 1882 that have wondered what had happened, why it happened, and wanted an apology of some sort, because in our minds, we didn’t do anything wrong,' said Daniel Johnson Jr., a tribal head in #Angoon.
"The attack was one of a series of conflicts between the American military and Alaska Natives in the years after the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867. The U.S. Navy issued an apology last month for destroying the nearby village of Kake in 1869, and the Army has indicated that it plans to apologize for shelling Wrangell, also in southeast Alaska, that year, though no date has been set.
"The Navy acknowledges the actions it undertook or ordered in Angoon and #Kake caused deaths, a loss of resources and multigenerational trauma, Navy civilian spokesperson Julianne Leinenveber said in an email prior to the event.
"'An apology is not only warranted, but long overdue,' she said."
Bernie is a disgusting zionist apologist. The genocide against Palestinians has been going on for 75 years and Bernie has voted for every single bomb used against the Indigenous people of Palestine. Bernie insults the intelligence of anyone who opposes #Kamalaharris - We've heard her repeat over & over she'll support everything sociopathic thing Israel does. The problem isnt Netanyahu, it's #Israel . AFTER THE ELECTION YOU'LL RIGHT THE WRONGS OF THIS #GENOCIDE ?? That takes gaslighting to a whole another level!! Fuck off Bernie- you and the #democrats are traitors to humanity !!
South Africa files 750 boxes of evidence of #genocide in #Gaza: "which shows how the government of Israel has violated the Genocide Convention by promoting the destruction of Palestinians living in Gaza, physically killing them with an assortment of destructive weapons, depriving them access to humanitarian assistance, causing conditions of life which are aimed at their physical destruction..." https://www.commondreams.org/news/south-africa-icj-genocide-israel
The #unitedkingdom military won’t have to be the commandants of Israel’s new concentration camps for #Gaza because private #UK military contractors — who will be accountable to no one but their shareholders — will run the private prisons.
"But of course we – the United Kingdom – a Kingdom made “great” by perpetuating precursors to #genocide worldwide... from concentration camps to #massacres in our colonies, we stand “unfailingly” with the perpetrators; arming and encouraging, murmuring platitudes with no content or action, committed to sending aid in the full knowledge that it cannot and will not enter" – @alisonphipps
❞ Last October, my Vox colleague Sigal Samuel and I interviewed scholars about how to think through those allegations of genocide. At that time, some were willing to definitively call what was happening in Gaza a genocide. But most were hesitant, citing the high threshold required to establish genocide under international law. Several said “crimes against humanity” or “war crimes,” which hold equal weight under international law, had likely been committed, but withheld judgment on genocide. ... In light of those developments, I went back to the scholars we cited and spoke to last fall to see if their thinking about allegations of genocide against Israel had changed over the last year. Of the five who responded, most of them were now more confident the legal requirements for genocide had been met. If an official determination of genocide by the ICJ follows, that could have critical legal and political consequences. ❝
❞ Last October, my Vox colleague Sigal Samuel and I interviewed scholars about how to think through those allegations of genocide. At that time, some were willing to definitively call what was happening in Gaza a genocide. But most were hesitant, citing the high threshold required to establish genocide under international law. Several said “crimes against humanity” or “war crimes,” which hold equal weight under international law, had likely been committed, but withheld judgment on genocide. ... In light of those developments, I went back to the scholars we cited and spoke to last fall to see if their thinking about allegations of genocide against Israel had changed over the last year. Of the five who responded, most of them were now more confident the legal requirements for genocide had been met. If an official determination of genocide by the ICJ follows, that could have critical legal and political consequences. ❝
"It doesn’t matter if Israel says it is doing this or not, if it calls it by a different name or not. What matters in international law is what is happening on the ground, and we can clearly see Israel is trying to erase the Palestinian presence in north Gaza.” Sawsan Zaher, a Haifa-based Palestinian human rights lawyer
More than 100 Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive Democrats and community leaders have signed a letter making the case for those reluctant to support Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.
In 2008, Israeli colonel Gabriel Siboni said that militancy coming from Lebanon, Syria and Gaza should be met with "disproportionate strikes" and that the goal should be to inflict lasting damage, no matter the civilian consequences, as a future deterrent, and that targeting rocket launchers and the source for other attacks are a secondary priority. Also in 2008, IOF commander Gadi Eisenkot commented on these regions saying “from our perspective, these are military bases”
They've called all Arabs animals, expressed how they view the entire population in these countries as terrorists, and view the countries themselves as military bases with zero regard for civilian lives. How can they care about civilian lives when they don’t even see us as human? They have been burning people alive in hospitals still tethered to their IV’s, burying people alive, bombing countless hospitals, attacking orphanages and refugee camps. They've completely leveled countless residential buildings. Mosques. Churches. Schools. Muslim neighborhoods. Christian villages. They've targeted children, medics, firefighters, people distributing food and aid, journalists, peace keepers. They target escape routes for forcibly displaced people so people are trapped with nowhere to go. Their evil has no mercy, and evidently no limits.
Israel continues to insist that they’re only targeting Hamas and Hezb targets while also making their plans for a greater Israel even more obvious than a decade or two ago. They’re openly stating what their plans and intentions are, they are often honest and upfront about their colonization and ethnic cleansing, but that doesn’t matter. The Dahiyeh Doctrine? All of Lebanon is being attacked. No demographic is spared. Ethnicity, religion, party affiliation? It doesn’t matter. We saw this play out first in Palestine and now the same thing in Lebanon.
Meanwhile western media is still reporting that it’s only (“only”) southern Lebanon being attacked to minimize Israel’s destruction and murder. They call hospitals with zero party affiliations “hezbollah hospitals” or “Hamas hospitals” to justify them being bombed, regardless of the fact that it’s still inhumane to bomb a hospital- no matter its religious or political affiliations. They’re still demonizing Arabs to justify genocide. They’re still underreporting massacres and deaths. There’s still no mention of the manufactured starvation, lack of aid, clean water, medical supplies. Syria is still getting bombed in the shadows as if nothing is even happening.
At this point there is no reality in which those in power don't see it for what it is. There is no reality in which the media doesn’t see and know the truth. Every single one of these massacres has been live streamed for the world to see. There are no excuses. Just a lot of people with blood on their hands. There will come a day when each and every one of them will have to answer for this and I hope I’m alive to see it. May each and every one of them forever be haunted by each persons screams as their bodies were buried under rubble.
The coverage of the news from Gaza and Lebanon is like it is being orchestrated by a central command!
Every paper, every media, every web site is using the same language, avoiding to name Israel on their headlines and using a passive sentence like "died", "exploded", "injured".
The screen capture is from yesterday Swedish "liberal left" Dagens Nyheter. covering the catastrophe in Lebanon. - Doctors warn after attacks in northern Gaza - 87 reported dead or missing
Explosions in Beirut - houses reported hit
And EVERY freaking time when they report about the casualties in Gaza, they use the EXACT same phrase "According to hams controlled heath department".
This is one of the first times they actually reported about the catastrophe in Gaza after days of silence about the catastrophe in the north or even mentioning the starvation of upto 400 000 people by the genocidal regime of Israel and it's murderous gang.
This bag was arrested trying to sneak into the National Gallery, London. Must be a terrorist!!
A small pathetic incident this past week -- and 'pathetic' is the right word for the #genocide #complicity permeating our lives. This was nothing like the #police raid on Electronic Intifada (#Palestine's #weapon of #Mass #Instruction) and oh orders of magnitude less and less than what's being done to people in Palestine and #Lebanon now...
I went with a friend over from the US to visit the National Gallery. When we went through bag check, quite extraordinarily the bag
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This bag was arrested trying to sneak into the National Gallery, London. Must be a terrorist!!
A small pathetic incident this past week -- and 'pathetic' is the right word for the #genocide #complicity permeating our lives. This was nothing like the #police raid on Electronic Intifada (#Palestine's #weapon of #Mass #Instruction) and oh orders of magnitude less and less than what's being done to people in Palestine and #Lebanon now...
I went with a friend over from the US to visit the National Gallery. When we went through bag check, quite extraordinarily the bag security personnel (doubtless under orders) told me I could not carry a bag with a 'Free Palestine' badge. Unbelieving I stood there and started to raise my voice on such willingness by a national institution to side with genocide! I continued to yell, bewildered. So were the bag check guys, wondering what to do with me. They were indicating 'just cover it up' which was appalling enough. Because of my friend, I slipped in.
But the whole of my bag was crying PALESTINE WILL BE FREE anyway (beautiful design by Peckham Keffiyeh, Green and Black Cross)!
The former is absolutely factual @defcon201 Only idiots that shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a ballot box don't know that ONLY #ZIONISTS enablers WOULD EVER BE ALLOWED to Shit in the Offal Orifice. There ARE LOTS of those in the US.
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“After a year of conflict, two-thirds of Gaza’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed, leaving behind 42 million tonnes of rubble and a mountain of health risks.”
“I was shot by the Israeli army less than a month before my Turkish-American colleague Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was killed.
The gun Israel used was manufactured in the United States of America, the bullet paid for by my own taxes.
Both of us posed no threat. In my case, I was running away with my back turned. In Ayşenur's case, as per protocol, she had stationed herself out of harm’s way or any heightened risk.”
Une tragédie humaine est en cours dans le camp de Jabaliya, déclaré zone militaire et complètement assiégé depuis le 12 octobre. Un journaliste, parmi les (…)
Israel has been so successful in normalising brutal violence and slaughter of civilians that its attacks on hospitals and schools no longer even get an international reaction, let alone media coverage.
Overnight the grounds of Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah were targetted again, likely with incidiary weapons that killed at least four people and started a massive fire, burning dozens of tents - or what displaced families now call home.
#Israel doesn’t believe in a two-state solution. It doesn’t believe in a one-state solution.
It is committing a #genocide in #Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
What do you think their final solution is to the Palestinian Question? Is this rocket science? Do they need to spell it out every day 24/7 for them to be believed?
And why is the Israeli ambassador to the UK not expelled yet?
"The belief that Israel’s actions amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are “worthy of respect in a democratic society”, an employment tribunal has concluded in a landmark decision"
"We were inundated. We had women, men, children as young as one years of age dying in front of our eyes.. people have really got to the point now where they feel there is no hope. No one is coming to help them, no one is coming to save them.. It’s a horror show here. Honestly, sometimes I feel like this is not real life, that this can go on, and this degree of suffering is allowed to happen in this world” Volunteer surgeon Mohammed Tahir
EU countries have been urged to suspend the bloc's free trade agreement with Israel. It comes after a deadly Israeli airstrike on a Gaza hospital camp - and the killing of IDF soldiers in a Hezbollah drone attack.
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Jabalia RC | “The pink is better on you”
#Israel -i soldiers from the Netzach Yehuda Battalion rifling through wardrobes of Palestinian children in the Jabalia.
The World Food Programme told CNN that #Israel has prevented any food from entering north #Gaza since the beginning of October. There’s a million people in north Gaza. A million people being starved by Netanyahu.
The Western "liberal democracies" have actively promoted this destruction. How are we going to live with it?
Just like in postwar Germany, one day your children will ask you "Mother, Father, how much did you know?" You don't have the luxury of those German parents. You can't say that you didn't know. It's been all over the media & social media.
In October 2023, the IDF tweeted grainy videos of 17 airstrikes in #Gaza with generalised captions about targeting Hamas. @airwars and @SkyNews found that more than 440 civilians were killed in those strikes alone. Almost half were children. #Genocide #Israel
![Screenshot of linked Al-Jazeera article headline and depressing picture.
News | Israel-Palestine conflict
'Death sentence': Asbestos
released by Israel's bombs
will kill for decades
People in Gaza are exposed to airborne
particles released as Israel destroys the
enclave. Inhaled, it can cause cancers.
An injured Palestinian woman covered in dust and
blood hugs an injured girl at the hospital following
the Israeli bombardment of Khan Yunis on November
15, 2023 [Belal Khaled/AFP]](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/3280567 "Screenshot of linked Al-Jazeera article headline and depressing picture.
News | Israel-Palestine conflict
'Death sentence': Asbestos
released by Israel's bombs
will kill for decades
People in Gaza are exposed to airborne
particles released as Israel destroys the
enclave. Inhaled, it can cause cancers.
An injured Palestinian woman covered in dust and
blood hugs an injured girl at the hospital following
the Israeli bombardment of Khan Yunis on November
15, 2023 [Belal Khaled/AFP]")
