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Wed 03/27/24 07:22 PM
“Israel has killed more Palestinian civilians in one month than the Russians have killed Ukrainian civilians in the entire course of the war in Ukraine.”

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584?i=1000635266947

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Tue 03/26/24 07:59 PM
Evidence has been gathering/gathered that Hind Rajab, aged 6, was deliberately targeted and murdered by Israeli Army as soon as her position was established from her phone call, by the Israeli Army.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68261286

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Mon 03/25/24 09:45 PM
Netanyahu being compared to Hitler.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Netanyahu+being+compared+to+Hitler#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:0f39dfa1,vid:sHYI_q81hiQ,st:0

*** 8 Oct 2018 *** Michigan university lecture compares Netanyahu to Hitler

https://www.timesofisrael.com/required-michigan-u-lecture-included-slide-comparing-netanyahu-to-hitler/

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Sun 03/24/24 08:38 PM
On 12/25/2023
The Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom said that Prime Minister Netanyahu is working to "achieve the voluntary displacement of the residents of the Gaza Strip to other countries." The Canadian Minister of Immigration spoke about these matters publicly, as did Nikki Haley, a potential candidate for the US presidency.”
And on 2/11/2024
The Israeli Prime Minister said that he issued instructions to the Israeli army to plan to evacuate hundreds of thousands of Rafah residents before the expected ground invasion of the city, which has become the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who were displaced by Israel from many areas of Gaza.
On 20-Mar-24
The Hebrew channel "Kan" said that Netanyahu presented a proposal at a special meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the Knesset. The newspaper quoted Netanyahu as saying that the “new port” built by the United States On the coast of Gaza could facilitate the removal of the Palestinians from Gaza.

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Sat 03/23/24 09:23 PM
Displacement of Palestinians
In 1948, Zionist gangs committed massacres against Palestinian villages, for the purpose of intimidating the Palestinians and pushing them to leave their lands. The Deir Yassin massacre is a model for the displacement of Palestinians. Israel continued to displace Palestinians until the mid-1950s.
The number of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza reached 5.48 million people, or approximately 38% of the 14.5 million Palestinians around the world, which means that 62% of the Palestinians live outside their lands.
The Palestinians took refuge in various countries of the world. Today, Jordan is home to more than four million naturalized Palestinians and refugees.
The displacement continued between 1948 and 1967. After that, Israel did not stop practicing coercive policies that included economic restrictions, home demolitions, land control, movement restrictions, and arrests. Together, these policies pushed many Palestinians, especially young people, to search for opportunities abroad.
The displacement, which represents a dream of Israel, has been brought up again with the development of the war in Gaza. Therefore, the Israeli bombing took an unusual pace, and its ferocity and intensity prompted questions about its goals, and whether it went beyond the idea of a military response beyond that. These questions were reinforced by Israeli statements that confirmed that it wanted to completely eliminate the Hamas movement in Gaza, and announced since the beginning of the ground operation its explicit call for the people of northern Gaza to emigrate south. In addition to the siege that caused the starvation and death of many.
Displacing Palestinians from Gaza towards Sinai is the most ideal option for the occupation, but Egypt rejects it, just as Jordan rejects displacement.
The privacy of Gaza and its society
The Gaza Strip includes approximately 2.2 million Palestinians. The psychological and mental state possessed by the people of the Gaza Strip, in addition to the very strong connection between their social structure and the resistance movements, has made Israel face difficult and complex circumstances in the face of its project of displacement, to which it finds no solution other than continuing the massacres, and continuing to pressure the world and the region to accept its project, and it is the one that it could take the entire area to explode.

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Sat 03/23/24 08:06 PM
Israelis are prophesying the end of their state

https://jordantimes.com/opinion/ramzy-baroud/israelis-are-prophesying-end-their-state#google_vignette

Former Israeli Premier: Israel Could Cease to Exist before 80th Anniversary

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/former-israeli-premier-israel-could-cease-to-exist-before-80th-anniversary/

Israel could cease to exist before 80th anniversary, says ex-premier Barak

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/05/07/681651/Israel-will-cease-to-celebrate-its-80th-creation-anniversary,-former-prime-minister-Barak-says

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Fri 03/22/24 10:04 PM
Russia and China use their veto power in the UN Security Council against a draft US resolution on the war in Gaza.
The American draft resolution on the situation in Gaza did not include a call for a ceasefire. Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations explained that "the American project that was proposed encourages Israel to wage a ground war that would expand the conflict throughout the region." And that "the Americans ignored all the observations that were presented to them, as this text does not call for a ceasefire and non-attack on civilians and their property in Gaza. That is, it is a document that does not aim to spare the blood of civilians, but rather to grant Israel the right to launch a ground attack." Stressing that "the Council may not adopt this resolution because it gives Israel a license to kill."
He continued that he would support the Jordanian draft resolution submitted to the General Assembly to compensate for the Security Council's inability to adopt a resolution calling for a ceasefire.
China's representative to the United Nations said that his country "opposed the decision after consulting with several countries, including Arab countries."
The Chinese delegate stated that the American project “divides the international community because it did not take into account the concerns of countries. Rather, it is biased and was presented in haste, and it did not achieve the necessary consensus by calling for a ceasefire, so it is not suitable for adoption.”
He also clarified that “the resolution does not condemn the indiscriminate bombing, does not call for an investigation into the crime of the Ahli Baptist Hospital, does not put an end to an imminent humanitarian catastrophe, and does not demand the lifting of the siege on Gaza.”
He stressed that "China would like the Council to bear its responsibility to stop the fighting in an unequivocal manner."
A week ago, the United States of America voted in the UN Security Council against Brazil's proposal, which calls for canceling the Israeli order to displace the population of the Gaza Strip towards the Egyptian Sinai desert, using the right of veto.
Before that, the United States thwarted, by vetoing, an Algerian draft resolution in the UN Security Council demanding an immediate ceasefire for humanitarian reasons in the Gaza Strip.

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Wed 03/20/24 07:49 PM
The framing of the Washington Post article on Biden and the war in Gaza is bizarre:

This article, based on interviews with 20 administration officials and outside advisers, examines how Biden, more than five months after the Oct. 7 attacks, has found himself deeply entangled in a war he does not want [bold mine-DL] and that threatens to become a defining element of his tenure.

American reporters often describe U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts in this way, and it is deeply misleading. The suggestion is that the president did not wish to be so involved in this war, but was somehow pulled in against his will. That’s not true. The president has not “found himself deeply entangled” in the war in Gaza. He jumped headlong into backing the campaign without any conditions.

Daniel Larison

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Tue 03/19/24 07:38 PM
Documents reveal alleged pattern of Israeli harassment of Unrwa workers on West Bank
Exclusive: UN documents seen by the Guardian list hundreds of incidents, including claims workers were blindfolded and beaten

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/19/un-staff-in-west-bank-accuse-israeli-authorities-of-campaign-of-harassment

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Mon 03/18/24 08:32 PM
"Israel, like all settler colonial projects, is built on lies – the lie that the land historically belongs to the colonizers, the lie that Palestinians have no national identity, the lie that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, the lie that a peaceful settlement is thwarted by the Palestinians rather than the Israelis. This mendacity is especially prevalent when Israel carries out its murderous assaults against the Palestinians, including the current genocide in Gaza."

The Chris Hedges Report with Ali Abunimah, founder of The Electronic Intifada, on the Israeli propaganda machine and a compliant press that reports Israeli lies as fact:

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-ali?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-restack-comment&r=3c6s0t&triedRedirect=true

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Sun 03/17/24 08:45 PM
After South Africa submitted an appeal to the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, the court ordered Israel to do everything in its power to prevent acts of genocide during its military offensive as well as allow the entry of humanitarian aid and to submit a report within one month showing its compliance.
Haaretz newspaper reported that the Israeli army began investigating dozens of incidents that took place during the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which included practices that occurred due to “commanders on the ground exceeding their powers,” or “on suspicion of violating international laws of war.” Some of them reached findings of serious cases causing harm to individuals and property.

Damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/damning-evidence-of-war-crimes-as-israeli-attacks-wipe-out-entire-families-in-gaza/

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Sat 03/16/24 07:50 PM
Murderous rampage’: Malaysian PM attacks Western leaders over hypocrisy on Israel, Ukraine

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/murderous-rampage-malaysian-pm-attacks-western-leaders-over-hypocrisy-on-israel-ukraine-20240307-p5fan5.html

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Thu 03/14/24 08:49 PM
American aid to Israel
According to a study issued by the Congressional Research Service, the United States provided Israel with aid from 1948 until the beginning of 2023 worth $158.66 billion without taking into account the inflation rate. If the inflation rate is taken into account, it amounts to $260 billion. Most of this aid is military aid.
In 1981, the then US Secretary of State explained that one of the central aspects of US policy was to ensure that Israel maintained qualitative military superiority in the Middle East. So Tel Aviv receives more advanced weapons than other countries in the region.
American aid to Israel covered the period from 1999 to 2008 at a value of $21.3 billion, then it rose to $30 billion from 2009 to 2018. It reached a peak of $33 billion from 2019 to 2028, at $3.3 billion annually, in addition to $500 million annually. Dedicated to missile defence programs, so Congress allocated $3.8 billion to Israel in the 2023 budget.
Annual US military funding grants represent approximately 16% of the total Israeli military budget. This contributed to transforming the Israeli army into one of the most technically advanced armies.
From 2011 until the beginning of 2023, the United States provided about $3 billion to Israel to purchase Iron Dome batteries and missiles. Since 2006, it also provided about $2.4 billion to develop the “David’s Sling” missile defense system, and $4.5 billion to develop the “Arrow” missile defense system. .
The new US aid package of $14.3 billion represents a continuation of Washington's policies seeking to ensure Israeli military superiority in the region, despite the fact that during the last half of the current century, Tel Aviv did not fight wars against regular armies, and its wars were limited to groups and organizations.
Since October 7, the United States has sent two aircraft carriers to the region in support of Israel. The aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower. This aircraft carrier and its group of warships join the carrier Gerald Ford, which was previously deployed in the region in support of Israel.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's office said that London would send two ships, helicopters and surveillance to Israel, and Germany would provide two drones.
The US Secretary of Defense stated that the US Army does not place conditions on its security assistance and weapons provided to Israel, nor on how it uses them.
The Wall Street Journal quoted the Pentagon as saying that a squadron of A-10 aircraft arrived at Al Dhafra base in the UAE to support Israel and deter any attacks.
The White House also reported that they share intelligence with Israel, at the highest level.

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Tue 03/12/24 07:54 PM
More on the mendacious Israeli narrative and how it has been supported by the newspapers of record

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/nyt-october-7-sexual-violence-kibbutz-beeri/

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Mon 03/11/24 07:57 PM
This Documentary is a must viewing in attempting to understand the psychology and thinking of Israeli, and how their hand weaves a continuous web of indoctrination thru out the world, put particularly in the USA. The extent of the "brainwashing" of school age American Jews is incredulous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBnzzGmH7c

Many in the US claim Israel wags the tail of the US. US's actions in Gaza appears to confirm this assumption by the US's continuous supply of 20,000 bombs being flown into Israel daily.

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Mon 03/11/24 01:21 AM
Israel Army is now become World Famous as the "KILLER OF CHILDREN" according to World Wide Media
The Roots of Zionist Terrorism
This a must read if one wants to understand why many have no love for Israel nor those connected with it.
Israel was based on Terrorism in 1948 and run by Terrorists to this day.

https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1654849

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Mon 03/11/24 01:13 AM
The Forever War
The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) Global Affairs Editor, John Lyons, asks the tough questions; challenging some of Israel’s most powerful political and military voices about the country’s strategy and intentions.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-07/the-forever-war/103560766

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Sat 03/09/24 10:45 PM
"The West has set itself on a path of collective suicide — both moral and economic.
Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, they feel no humiliation or shame. Their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them – unable to penetrate the entrenched barriers of dogma, arrogance and deep-seated insecurities. The last are personal as well as political. Therein lies a puzzle. For, as a consequence, the West has set itself on a path of collective suicide. Moral suicide in Gaza; diplomatic suicide – the foundations laid in Europe, the Middle East and across Eurasia; economic suicide – the dollar-based global financial system jeopardized, Europe deindustrializing. It is not a pretty picture..."

https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/08/michael-brenner-the-wests-reckoning/

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Sat 03/09/24 12:29 AM
Temporary port in Gaza.
After 5 months of the Israeli war that destroyed the Gaza Strip, it caused a humanitarian catastrophe and famine for about 2,300,000 people there. The Israeli aggression led to 30,717 martyrs and 72,156 injured. With Israel continuing to close the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, and the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel.
The Jordanian Air Force carried out an airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza. Then the UAE and Egypt participated in the operation. The United States then carried out a similar drop using three military aircraft, amid some criticism from humanitarian organizations and people who were at the drop site. Aid agencies say airdrops provide much smaller quantities than can be delivered by truck by road.
Finally, US President Joe Biden announced that his country’s army would build a temporary port on the coast of the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid by sea. The pier will be connected to the mainland via a temporary bridge. The aid is scheduled to be shipped to the port from Cyprus, where it will be inspected by Israelis first, as is currently happening at the land border. Israel says it "fully supports the establishment of a temporary dock."
This is due to Biden being subjected to pressure from the Democratic Party to pressure Israel to make more efforts to allow the entry of relief supplies.
Juliette Touma, spokeswoman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said that the agency welcomes any effort to enhance the flow of much-needed humanitarian aid. But there is an easier and more effective way to bring aid, which is through the land crossings linking Israel to Gaza. “Aid and the sea are no substitute for land,” said Sikhrid Kach, Gaza’s senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator.
The Palestinians question the American position for the following reasons:
Biden's memo included a special section entitled "Immigration and Asylum Aid," in which Biden requested an additional $3.495 billion, to remain available until spent, to meet humanitarian needs. This ambiguous language means an American willingness to provide financial resources for plans to resettle Gaza residents outside the Strip.
The United States used its veto against a draft UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. While the project received the support of 13 members of the Security Council, against Washington’s objection and Britain’s refusal to vote. America adopts the Israeli position: a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and the release of all hostages.
There are repeated calls in some American circles for the need for the Egyptian government to allow the entry of large numbers of Palestinian refugees into North Sinai, but Cairo strongly rejects the idea of accepting the influx of refugees, even temporarily, because it fears that this will lead to their permanent settlement, as happened with some Palestinians living in Refugee camps in other areas for decades.
The European Union is working to open a potential relief corridor through Cyprus to support the people of Gaza.
The idea of displacing Palestinians to Cyprus is old and is currently being revived by establishing a port in the Gaza Strip to displace them on their way to Europe.

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Fri 03/08/24 09:59 PM
On International Women’s Day, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association reported that this year has been the deadliest year for Palestinian women throughout the years of Israeli occupation, in light of the ongoing comprehensive aggression and genocide against the people in Gaza. This is in addition to the heinous crimes and serious violations suffered by women, including field executions, systematic arrests, and accompanying horrifying violations, including sexual assaults.

https://www.addameer.org/media/5287

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