Murderous thug racist settlers go on destructive rampage and murder internationally famous filmaker Awdah Hathaleen.
Remind me again how a bill to refuse to handle apartheid goods from illegal racist settlements is anti-Semitic? I can’t quite remember how that circle was squared.
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The UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Keir Starmer now says - before listing some conditions for this to happen.
According to a written handout of the cabinet meeting he held earlier, Starmer said this would happen “unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, reaches a ceasefire, makes clear there will be no annexation in the West Bank, and commits to a long-term peace process that delivers a two-state solution”.
He also reiterated that there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas and that the UK’s demands on Hamas remain - that they must release all the hostages, sign up to a ceasefire, accept that they will play no role in the government of Gaza, and disarm.
Starmer committed to make an assessment ahead of UNGA on how far the parties have met these steps before making a final decision, ensuring that no one side will have a veto, the statement says.
It’s always so weird to me when MTG accidentally says something that’s not wrong. She was also one of the main Republicans who spoke against the ban on state regulation of AI and helped create momentum to remove that provision from the final version of that awful bill. (After initially voting in favor of it.)
Like she gives a shit. She’s fine with acts of genocide here in America. She can get fucked.
I’m sick to my stomach with all the news coming out of Gaza. My first full-time job out of college was working with a food aid project for USAID. Though our particular project was a big old barrel of pork, I did learn a lot about how food aid works, particularly food aid during times of war, because my co-workers had experience in the field.
That as when the Ethiopian famine was in the headlines. One day, a friend of one of my co-workers, Frederique (“Fred”) had a friend visiting. He was a photographer who specialized in photographing famine. He brought some of his photography with him, and spoke about the challenges of photographing famine. “It’s true, he said, the camera really does add 10 pounds.”
I’m just gut wrenched and the pro-Israeli subs are making all kinds of excuses for the news.
It always happens during war that food aid becomes weaponized. The aid gets taken by warring groups, always. But it will get out to people one way or another, even if that means it gets stolen and then resold back to the people who were supposed to get it for free.
It’s not surprising that all this is happening, but it’s still awful.
From the most recent flotilla attempt… Chris Smalls was on it, and he was physically abused by IDF troops…
I always have to assume when she says something that’s not-wrong, she must be saying it for the wrong reasons, though. Given her rabid support of Israel and attacks on anyone who criticized what was going on in Gaza (e.g. censuring Tlaib), my initial thought was that she doesn’t know what “genocide” means, but Greene also was upset about Israel bombing that Catholic church. So maybe her antisemitism has temporarily overcome her Islamophobia.
It is awful… and I still believe, ultimately, the only people who can stop this without an invasion of some kind from without is the Israeli public. The pro-war, pro-Greater Israel are making themselves known, both in their unwavering support of the war in Gaza and for the continued expansion of the settlements and ethnic cleansing in the west bank. (see the awful video I posted below) I don’t believe it’s a majority, but it’s enough to keep Netanyahu’s coalition in power. We’re starting to hear more Israelis (and many Jews here in the US, in Europe, etc) speaking out against the war and that’s great…
But the Israeli public needs to come out in very large numbers to both support the remaining hostages and the end to the war and occupation, while demanding a solution to this decades-long conflict, a solution that absolutely recognizes the humanity of the Palestinian people. Even if we did have a truly mass antiwar movement here, it’s gotta happen in Israel, too.
I was really struck by Beinart’s arguments with regards to the Talmud and what can be learned about it with regards to the concept of common humanity of all of us. There is a reason why the teachings of Judaism are still around, and why at least two other major world religions based their own teachings upon them… there is so much truth and beauty there about what humanity could be. We’ve all got to fight to see the common humanity of those we’re told are our enemies in order to keep some dickheads in power… It’s only when we finally recognize our shared, common humanity against those who would divide us that we can finally live a peaceful world.
I’m not sure about this channel (a Pakistani national runs it, I believe), but it’s the awesome former Irish President Mary Robinson…
But Israel is the only liberal democracy in the middle east with freedom of the press! We have to support them fighting for our way of life!