Category: Israel Palestine

The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has surged to 20,674, the Health Ministry in the territory said yesterday. (more…)

How long will it take for the many Jewish Israelis who support the current destruction of Gaza to see that what is unspeakable about the Holocaust lurks in their government and state’s actions there? Whatever valley-flower of moral cause it might put before the world, always of its own choosing, this is the fact we can see with our own eyes and know when Netanyahu speaks: there is no limit. (more…)

R. David Harden, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama’s special envoy for Middle East peace, and Larry Garber, who served as the USAID mission director to the West Bank and Gaza have recently penned an article in the New York Times arguing that, to achieve peace and end the war on Gaza, ‘The U.S. Must Embrace Palestinian Statehood Now’. (more…)

Back in mid-October, a controversy broke out about a blast on the grounds of the al-Ahli Arab (Baptist) Hospital in Gaza City. Some quarters blamed it on Israel, but the latter’s defenders took the stance that Israel wouldn’t hit a hospital. It appears that it probably didn’t on that occasion, and that the blast can be attributed to a Hamas rocket instead. (more…)

When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” he wasn’t really lying. He was telling the truth — just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it. (more…)

Hymn # 7,000 – “Onward Christian Soldiers, Marching as to War” (more…)

Infectious diseases are tearing through Gaza, whose healthcare system has been rendered almost nonexistent, and people are beginning to starve in massive numbers. All of this is due to concrete policy decisions made by Israel in its horrific assault on the Gaza Strip. (more…)

It is urgent to end the loss of life and destruction in Gaza, but as the joint Statement by the Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada and New Zealand recognises, a sustainable ceasefire will require agreement to a balanced set of conditions consistent with eventually achieving a lasting peace based on a two-State solution. This is how to end the war in Gaza. (more…)

Journalism, whether practised in a proclaimed democracy or in a country controlled by politburo or despot, is fraught and contentious but it is meant to tell the public and the world what is really going on. (more…)

This is a direct quote from a banner that was paraded in Tel Aviv in 2016 in support of the Israeli soldier, Elor Azaria who shot, at point blank range, a Palestinian teenager, Abdel Fattah al-Sharif two years earlier. No matter how many Palestinians the Israeli Occupation Forces kill, the cry will always be ‘Kill them all’. (more…)

As the bloodbath in Gaza moves towards 18,000 casualties, 70% of whom are women and children, as a humanitarian catastrophe affecting a whole people persists, the rich and powerful US vetoes a U.N. Resolution calling for a ceasefire. The rich and powerful UK ducks for cover and abstains. (more…)

In a settler colonial state, the indigenous population has to be physically erased because they are an ongoing reminder of the violence and injustice that occurred at the foundation of the political community. Their continuing existence constitutes a legal and political challenge to the state’s legitimacy. (more…)

Doctors without Borders (the French volunteer organisation Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF]) has written a poignant letter to the United Nations Security Council imploring for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as hospitals are turned into “Morgues”. (more…)

If this 2022-23 opinion poll is correct then a clear majority of Palestinians want a single-Islamic state, not a shared Islamic-Jewish one let alone a two-state solution. (more…)

I came across an interesting quote made last month by a retired Israeli major general named Yitzhak Brick about the ongoing IDF assault on Gaza. (more…)

The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of the government in its conduct of the war in Gaza. (more…)

Israeli children sing, “We will annihilate everyone” in Gaza. The song was played on Israel’s national broadcaster Kan. This fact was exposed by the Electronic Intifada – Ali Abunimah – on 19 November. It pretty well says it all. So, what can you do about it? Well, one thing you might do is support BDS. (more…)

I wake up and I check
The radio News I dread
I hear the authoritative voice
The Newsreader then Israeli government
Spokesman

Terrorists, the terrorists
Hiding under the Hospitals
Under the Kindergartens
Under the Schools
The colonial narrative
Always
Baying for more dead

No electricity, no water
No food, no shelter
What will happen
Hapless Gazans
I worry

Starvation dehydration trauma
Trauma for life
Trauma for the unborn
Flight desperation
The Will to Live

I look at photos, hospital photos
Wreckage, electric cables hanging
From missing ceilings
Dead people, Dead children
Faces full of unimaginable fear
Faces of children of women and men
On trolleys with missing wheels
With all wheels, blood on

Limbs hands bones sticking
Out of the rubble
Bits of clothing
Bits of wheels
Bits of utensils
Bits of rags
From under the rubble

I want and I wish
For the Genocide
To Stop! Stop! Stop!
Stop!
In name of Compassion
In name of Humanity
In the name of Basic Human Decency

The ordinary children
The ordinary women
The ordinary men
Innocent

Enough of revenge
Enough of killing
Enough of murder

I hear Biden, Netanyahu, Blinken
Fencesitter, Perpetrator, Apologist
All Respectively
All for this War
All war criminals

Eliminate Hamas
We are not Terrorists
We the civilised
We the technologically advanced
We the Enlightened
We the successful conquerors
We the ethnic cleansers

We have a long history
We cleansed North America
We cleansed Africa
We cleansed Australia
We, we, we cleansed the Planet
Wherever and whenever
From the uncivilised savages
From the Terrorists
It was Necessary

Now our task is to cleanse Gaza
It’s Necessary

How dare they protest
Being caged like
Animals in an open air prison

We give the work
Ungrateful savages
Complaining, ungracious
The wretched of the Earth

We have only beaten them
Caged them
Restricted their movement
Humiliated, Condescended
It was Necessary

Only killed around a hundred thousand
Not much
Since the First Nakba
It was Necessary

We only tried to break their Spirit
It was Necessary

How dare they stand up
Revolt against us
The Civilised
The Masters

And we will go on
Until we cleansed
You savages
Especially you now in Gaza

In Africa, Latin America
Asia and Everywhere
Everywhere…

For our Lebensraum
For we are One with God

John-Janusz Ebel , 23 November 2023

US corporate media outlets allow IDF to vet ‘all materials’ from embedded reporters in Gaza. “Israel is killing the journalists that expose their crimes, then bribing the journalists that cover for them,” said one critic. (more…)