"... there are reasonable grounds to believe that Israel is committing the international ‘crime of all crimes’: that of genocide."
"... while our government has called for a ceasefire, they refuse to name Israel’s crimes or take the material action many have called for under international law, including implementing sanctions and throwing our weight behind a global arms embargo. As Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah asked in a 2023 essay commissioned but then censured by Harvard Law Review, “does one have to wait for a genocide to be successfully completed to name it?” "
Armed Israeli settlers [who are living in the West Bank against Israeli law and international law] are destroying the pump that brings water to the Palestinian village of Umm Al-Khair south of Hebron. Temperatures will reach 101° tomorrow.
@israelwarcrimes@palestine@israel
Ces ordures sont le mal incarné. Ils sont juifs. Mais les dénoncer pour ce qu'ils font relève de l'antisémitisme ....
"#Greens & the Coalition joined forces to REJECT a ... government amendment to the motion’s wording that embraced a "TWO-STATE solution" and, if accepted, would have allowed ALL #Labor senators to vote for the motion."
@mark_melbin
Like most of the world, Fatima Payman probably realises that there is no viable "two-state solution". Never has been.
Israeli Zionists want to be the Master Race of the region. That's the problem.
As Miko Peled observed, Israel and Palestine are the same place. He believes that Jews and Arabs can live together peacefully. That may be true, but by all appearances, it's true of probably less than 20% of the population. The remaining 80% would need to be homed elsewhere.
Palestine is sacred to more than Judaism and Islam. Ideally, I'd like to see it established as World Heritage. Protected by the world at large and thus needing no armed forces. I can dream, can't I?
What of the other 80%? Netanyahu advocates a state in Sinai for Palestinians, so let's make that two states. I think of them as sanatoria. Unarmed and heavily guarded, to protect them from each other and the world from them.
@Miro_Collas@palestine
I find I need to do other things while here but still watch al-Jazeera updates and boost your posts for my own health. I need to stay up to date and do something to enjoy my time here at the same time.
Security forces spray people as Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest an Israeli Supreme Court ruling that requires the state to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students to the military, in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
@appassionato Looks like firefighting foam. It's perhaps toxic with long term or continuous exposure... I mean they aren't gonna use CS Tear Gas on these people. It's poisonous to the nervous system... or pepper spray. It hurts. FireHosing, a la the southern US during the civil rights movement, can cause physical damage. They're saving all that for #Palestinians. @photography@palestine
@appassionato@photography@palestine
Nutanyahu wants another war the people don't. The court sides with Nutanyahu. Guess how his criminal trial will go?
I'm definitely concerned about the state of democracy, plus all of the other issues shown in your cartoon.
I think the war against Palestine is interconnected with them, and Biden is too.
He has already earned the name of "Genocide Joe" for the unconditional support he has given the Israeli onslaught against Gaza.
And now he and his team are trying to tell people not to look at the train wreck on Thursday night. I'm not saying this because I don't like Biden, it's just a fact. If he doesn't allow someone else to be the nominee, it's very likely Trump will win.
Complicity in genocide is not confined to the Israeli right. Members of the liberal organization that spearheaded the anti-Netanyahu protests last year are now blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza.
"transitive. To exert influence upon, to affect by influence." (OED)
The term "influenced" means having an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something. When used in a context where it doesn't refer to being a singular cause, it implies that the effect is part of a broader set of factors contributing to an outcome.
Alongside the catastrophe in Gaza, another crisis is unfolding in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where the Israeli military has launched land incursions, conducted airstrikes, restricted access to resources, and targeted health infrastructure.
[1/4] WARNING: Many are unaware of the magnitude of the disaster. The Israeli army has now released a statement identifying areas that need to be evacuated. The "Red" area is extensive and home to hundreds of thousands who returned to their homes with the start of the Rafah invasion. However, what is concealed in this map are areas where Israeli tanks are present: the southern area of Rafah, part of Al-Mawasi, and the northern area near Netzarim.
[1/3] This means that a large part of the so-called "humanitarian" zone is adjacent to dangerous conflict zones due to the presence of Israeli tanks (the yellow misleading area).
The Israeli army is attempting to deceive the world by not providing complete information and not conveying the true reality. This map implies the use of displaced people as human shields to protect its soldiers and military equipment in the Rafah and Netzarim axis.
[3/3] The current situation is far more dangerous than the Rafah invasion due to the overcrowding of displaced people in a much smaller area compared to before the Rafah invasion.
@mindaslab That's a sickeningly racist, prejudiced assertion.
For centuries, Muslims, Christians and Jews shared Palestine. Then, the Zionists started arriving. They wanted to be the Master Race of the region. That's the problem.