Amount of Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza surpasses that of World War II
Israel dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza Strip since last October, exceeding World War II bombings in **Dresden, Hamburg, London combined**, according to rights monitor. #Gaza
Israel dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza Strip since last October, exceeding World War II bombings in Dresden, Hamburg, London combined, according to rights monitor - Anadolu Ajansı
Last week, the National Student Union (unlike in the US, this is a national group that does have some political power, can strike, can collectively bargain with administrations, etc.) released a statement calling for a law to be passed which will fire, without compensation or pension, any university professor in Israel who speaks out against Israel by (a) denying its status as Jewish, (b) inciting or supporting violence or terror. (1/7)
The US House of Representatives has voted to pass legislation that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its prosecutor applied for arrest warrants against Israeli officials.
The bill, proposed by pro-Israel Republicans, targets ICC officials involved in the case by blocking their entry to the US.
On Tuesday, it passed with a majority of Republican support by a vote of 247-155.
#Biden’s admin has worked to prevent the #war in #Gaza from igniting a broader regional conflict. He brokered the 1st trilateral summit w/long-distrustful regional partners #SouthKorea & #Japan, & coaxed the #Philippines to move away from China’s orbit & accept 4 new #US military bases. He has rallied countries in #Europe & #Asia to curtail #China’s economic sway. “We have put together the strongest #alliance in the history of the world,” Biden says…. #ForeignPolicy #geopolitics #BidenHarris2024
With a net worth in excess of $30 billion, Miriam Adelson is continuing her husband's tradition of being a kingmaker in Republican politics, and she recently signaled to Trump that the campaign cash spigot could be turned on IF he comes out in favor of allowing Israel to annex the Palestinian-controlled West Bank territory, and if his administration recognizes it as Israeli territory.
Quotes: "One advocate responded: "Take this seriously. If extremists like Smotrich get their way they will do to the West Bank exactly what they have done to Gaza."
"Israel's forces have killed at least 36,224 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in less than eight months, and far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday threatened to similarly attack the illegally occupied West Bank." [illegally occupied by Israel !! Jd
Quotes: "One advocate responded: "Take this seriously. If extremists like Smotrich get their way they will do to the West Bank exactly what they have done to Gaza."
"Israel's forces have killed at least 36,224 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in less than eight months, and far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday threatened to similarly attack the illegally occupied West Bank." [illegally occupied by Israel !! JdeB]
"Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionism party, shared on social media a video he recorded...."Our message to the neighbors beyond the fence in Tulkarem, Nur Shams, Shuweika, and Qalqilya: We will turn you into ruined cities like in the Gaza Strip if the terror you are exerting on the settlements continues," Smotrich said in Hebrew, according to a translation from Al Jazeera."
"Rohan Talbot, director of advocacy and campaigns of the U.K.-based Medical Aid for Palestinians, said of Smotrich's remarks: "Take this seriously. If extremists like Smotrich get their way they will do to the West Bank exactly what they have done to Gaza. Starting with the refugee camps and Area C communities (to a certain extent it has already begun)."
"Since the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel, Israeli forces and settlers have killed over 500 Palestinians in the West Bank."
""Every day, we see Israel's far-right government targeting civilian infrastructure vital to the lives of ordinary Palestinians, whether in Gaza or the West Bank," Hooper [Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)] said. "This ongoing destruction has one goal—to make life unbearable for the Palestinian people and to force their removal from the land of Palestine."
"CAIR also "condemned the far-right Israeli government's destruction of a vegetable market in the West Bank city of Ramallah," explaining: "During a raid, Israeli stun grenades and tear gas canisters ignited the blaze that consumed a large portion of the market. Some 200 shops and stalls were impacted."
"In January, Smotrich said that the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza would be a "humanitarian solution" and "a small country like ours cannot afford a reality where, four minutes away from our settlements, there is a hotbed of hatred and terror, where there are 2 million people who wake up every morning with the desire to destroy the state of Israel." [Aha... the 'entlósung' 'the final solution' ! Another invention of Nazi Germany]
“On Monday 3 June #PalestineAction upped the ante over genocide-enabling #Barclays – by targetting two locations of the Israel-complicit bank.
Overnight, Palestine Action activists targeted the Bradford and Bolton branches of Barclays, investors in Israel’s largest weapons firm – #Elbit Systems.”
“Activists dropped a banner on Monday 3 June from Westminster bridge calling on Labour Party leader Keir Starmer to say he’ll end arms sales to Israel if he wins the general election and becomes prime minister
On Sunday 2 June a letter was published from more than 100 celebrities, including Riz Ahmed, Paloma Faith and Steve Coogan, calling on Ke
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“Keir #Starmer’s #Labour just got a very public message about its support for Israel: End the arms exports”
“Activists dropped a banner on Monday 3 June from Westminster bridge calling on Labour Party leader Keir Starmer to say he’ll end arms sales to Israel if he wins the general election and becomes prime minister
On Sunday 2 June a letter was published from more than 100 celebrities, including Riz Ahmed, Paloma Faith and Steve Coogan, calling on Keir Starmer to commit to ending arms sales to Israel if elected prime minister on 4 July.”
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir slammed US President Joe Biden’s three-stage Gaza ceasefire deal, labelling it “promiscuous”.
Ben Gvir threatened to leave the coalition and topple the government if Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to the deal, which he said would end the war without eliminating Hamas.
The extremist minister said he was told by Netanyahu that the actual proposal differs from the one announced by Biden.
An important piece from Bosnian journalist Nidžara Ahmetašević:
"Using the term “ethnic cleansing” and talking about “complex situations” and “centuries-old hatreds” is like letting Milošević or any other genocide perpetrator win. It is deeply insulting to the victims of genocide since it implies that they are just dirt that has to be cleaned from an area."
Israel's far-right wants the killings to continue!
Two far-right Israeli ministers have threatened to resign from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government over a cease-fire proposal outlined by President Biden on Friday. #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas
There will be no ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas’ military and governing capabilities are destroyed and all hostages are released, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. This comes after U.S. President Joe Biden announced Israel had proposed a three-stage, permanent ceasefire plan to Hamas, a deal a senior Hamas politician said it would “go for" if Israel would. BBC News has more: https://flip.it/OtOKoO #News #WorldNews #Israel #Gaza #Politics
NYT—Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu of Israel threw up a hurdle on Saturday to President #Biden’s declaration a day earlier that it was “time for this war to end,” reiterating that #Israel would not agree to a permanent cease-fire in #Gaza before the destruction of #Hamas’s military and governing capabilities.
As I see it, Israel is saying that they do not want to end their massacre until they have completely wiped out Palestinian resistance and completed the #colonization of the great Israel, from the river to the sea. They plan celebrations of the dead hostages, who will have streets or statues named after them on the beach avenues of Gaza, commemorated by the very same people who let them to their fate, refusing to negotiate their release.
Faced with the German media’s failure to inform, and the subsequent silence surrounding the horrific death tolls of so many innocent victims, we want to speak aloud: our frustration, our outrage, o…
Israel's attacks on the hospitals in the Gaza Strip violate international law, they are part of a pattern that goes back to 1948.
Hospitals are supposed to be immune from attack in times of war but Israel has repeatedly bombed and shelled them since Oct.7.
This film looks at Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s hospitals in the context of its historical expansion at the expense of the Palestinian population, going back to 1948.
Israel is attacking Gaza’s hospitals in violation of international law, but is it part of a pattern going back to 1948? Hospitals are supposed to be immune f...
"Israel's conditions for ending the war have not changed", said Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (June 1).
"Netanyahu is saying that Israel would never agree to the permanent ceasefire until its conditions have been met", reports FRANCE 24's Chief Foreign Editor Rob Parsons.
"Its conditions are the total defeat of Hamas so that they could no longer function in a military sense or in a governmental sense", he added.
UN expert group has called for immediate sanctions & other measures by the international community to pressure Israel to comply with international law.
“The flow of arms into Israel must stop immediately. It is abundantly clear that these weapons are being used to brutally kill and maim Palestinian civilians."
“A staggering five per cent of Gaza’s population has been killed or injured."
Alors que Gaza est depuis plus de huit mois sous les bombes, l’Humanité publie un appel de plusieurs centaines de personnalités pour que la France, enfin, reconnaisse l’État de Palestine. Un jalon indispensable pour une solution politique.
Officials at UCLA are threatening to withhold degrees of 55 pro-Palestinian student protestors, despite reports showing that violence was initiated by counter-protestors.
Students who were arrested on 2 May when police forcefully raided the Gaza solidarity encampment received letters on Friday from administrators accusing them of violating the student code of conduct and warning them of a range of potentially serious sanctions.
"Tareq, Hamza, and Abdel Rahman, three volunteers who cooked for people in Gaza, were killed by Israel. No words, just grief and rage. #Gaza #Justice #Humanity"
House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel have invited Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress.
We join the State of Israel in your struggle against terror, especially as Hamas continues to hold American and Israeli citizens captive and its leaders jeopardize `regional stability`,” the letter from the congressional leaders reads.
NBC News filmed the sad scene as PRCS staff bid farewell to two colleagues killed when their ambulance was targeted while trying to reach casualties from an earlier attack.
Yesterday at the University of Toronto's People's Circle for Palestine, a woman carrying an Israeli flag pulled out a knife on one of the protesters. Toronto police did not arrest her, did not take her knife, nor make her leave the space.
Why do all these crazies have that weird smile as they threaten and insult people, and why are TO cops so gentle with them?
The zionist also asked a Black woman at the gates if her ancestors were originally from Canada. Why do all these crazy zionists have that weird smile on their face as they threaten and insult people, and why are Toronto cops so gentle with them? Of course not a peep from Mayor Olivia Chow, or Premier Doug 'it's the immigrants' Ford, or PM Justin Trudeau. No surprise there.
Today, Israel's president, Joe Biden, held a press conference in which he piously regurgitated the major points of a ceasefire deal -- accepted by Hamas and rejected by the Israelis earlier this month.
The linked thread (see below) details the exact points made by Biden today.
You can see the thread's timestamp is 6 May 2024.
You can also clearly see that each of the three points belong to a Hamas ceasefire plan, unchanged over at least two months.
Hamas consistently repeated for weeks: there are three key prerequisites to serious negotiation.
1. Permanent ceasefire
2. Complete withdrawal of Israeli military from Gaza
3. Return of displaced Palestinian civilians to their homes.
I want peace in the Middle East, and Israel has offered a new peace treaty that is backed by many countries, including Middle East countries, as well as the US.
Will Hamas accept this peace treaty?
Will they abide by the peace treaty?
And will those who cry "Ceasefire Now", promote this treaty?
U.S. President Joe Biden called on Hamas militants to agree to a “comprehensive” deal proposed by Israel on Friday, amid the regions’ ongoing conflict. A dea...
Earlier today I think saw a headline that said #Biden was calling on #Israel for a "permanent" ceasefire with #Hamas in #Gaza, although can't find it now. Now he's telling Hamas they should agree to a 6-week ceasefire. After those six weeks, "the ceasefire will still continue as long as negotiations continue." As John Mullaney said, "that's something, honey, but it's not" a permanent ceasefire. (Yeah, he was talking about hot dog eating contests.)
