Has The Israeli Goverment BecomeThe Monster?

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

@Cindy: just look 2 posts above.

Netanyahu by the way claims that this warrant is antisemitic.

And the GOP already is thinking about new sanctions against the ICC, which really shows a strange relationship of the US to that court. When the ICC issued the warrant of arrest against Putin the US applauded, despite not recognizing the ICC. Now the little love and admiration for the ICC vanished again.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

See also the Helms-Burton Act.

 

[detrius]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

See also the Helms-Burton Act.

Or the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, nick name Den Hague Invasion Act.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Israel is close to agree a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah. Netanyahu recommended his cabinet to approve it, the vote is happening later today.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-netanyahu-war-lebanon-gaza-hamas/

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza

We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

www.amnesty.org.uk

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Ellie]

Since the continuing murders of aid workers under the pretense they are Hamas operatives, as well as the deliberate targeting of doctors and other key healthcare staff, has not produced total and sustained global outrage, perhaps greater reporting of widespread IDF targeting of children will prompt wider condemnation of this slaughter. And perhaps not.

At least during World War II and the Holocaust, the world had the excuse not to act that news of Hitler's atrocities against the Jews was not widespread.

At the end of WWII, Eisenhower sent local residents and troops in as witnesses, and requested members of Congress and journalists visit liberated camps to document the horrific scenes. Never again!

And yet, despite growing evidence, including from many doctors, here we are again; politically-motivated, non-proportional violent responses killing children and noncombatants, with land grabs well underway.

The murders, settler violence, detention camp abuses, land grabs, and pseudo-legal evictions from homes, all of it must be fully documented and those responsible punished.

A retired surgeon who volunteered at a hospital in Gaza has told MPs that Israeli drones would target children who were lying injured after bombings.
"The drones would come down and pick off civilians - children. We [were] operating on children who would say: 'I was lying on the ground after a bomb had dropped and this quadcopter came down and hovered over me and shot me.' That's clearly a deliberate act and it was a persistent act - persistent targeting of civilians day after day."

Gaza surgeon describes drones targeting children

{Trigger warning} Harrowing accounts, including by doctors, of IDF snipers & quadcopters shooting children.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war

Ballistics details

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/israeli-weapons-shrapnel-children-gaza-injured

 

[Free]

Accidentally posted this in the Syrian thread. Reposting here...

Pope Francis Unveils Christmas Nativity With Baby Jesus Atop A Keffiyeh

The pontiff declared "Enough wars, enough violence!" while presenting a scene by two Palestinian artists near the Vatican on Saturday.

www.huffpost.com

Pope Francis made a plea for peace while unveiling a nativity featuring baby Jesus nestled in a keffiyeh in Vatican City on Saturday.

The pontiff declared “Enough wars, enough violence!” while receiving a delegation of representatives from the Palestinian groups that organized the project by Bethlehem-based artists Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi, Vatican News reported.

 

[Ellie]

FRANCE 24's Jerusalem correspondent Noga Tarnopolsky talks about why Israeli troops have seized control of the demilitarised buffer zone in Syria's Golan Heights following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

'They have taken it quite far': Why Israel is moving troops deeper into Syria after Assad's fall

 

[Ellie]

“I got about 10% of the harvest and now we need to trim and tend the trees,” he said. “I keep trying to go back but people come from the settlement and tell us to leave and threaten us.”
Last month the UN said Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank that resulted in casualties or property damage had at least tripled during the 2024 olive harvest season compared with each of the preceding three years.

“Olives are 90% of our economy as a town. We have a few oranges and lemons but they, too, are surrounded by settlements and very difficult to get to,” said Khaled Yusuf Abu Hijleh, 60, the deputy mayor. “There have been problems for a long time. The bigger the settlements get, the more pressure they exert. It’s our land.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/11/why-settler-intimidation-of-west-bank-farmers-is-about-far-more-than-the-olive-harvest

 

[Ellie]

About 1.9 million Palestinians in Gaza, approximately 90% of the territory’s total population, have been displaced, many several times. Half of that number are children who have lost their home and been forced to flee their neighbourhoods.
More than 60% of the surveyed children reported having experienced traumatic events during the war and some had been exposed to multiple traumatic events.
An estimated 17,000 children in Gaza are unaccompanied, separated from their parents, although the study notes the real number may be much higher.

The sense of being doomed has become pervasive. Almost all the children (96%) felt their death was imminent, and 49% actually wished to die, a feeling that was much more prevalent among boys (72%) than girls (26%).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/11/death-feels-imminent-for-96-of-children-in-gaza-study-finds

 

[Myradyl Muse]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/11/death-feels-imminent-for-96-of-children-in-gaza-study-finds

How to destroy a society and guarantee/promote massive PTSD with compounded generational trauma for decades to come. This tears my heart out.

 

[Ellie]

As well as ensuring many of these kids grow up to hate all things Israeli, and continue to fight the oppression of their people, some in ways The West doesn't approve.

I feel we have failed, as the human race, in allowing this sort of atrocity to be repeated endlessly.

Genocide Watch- Countries at Risk

 

[Ellie]

Heartbreaking. Evil. Drones killing kids again.

“It’s difficult to express how I felt,” Ayman said. “This is what I believe: that I hurt my family, not helped them, by giving all this information to the embassy who passed the information to the Israelis. And instead of bringing safe passage for the ambulance to come, they attacked the house again using the coordinates we gave them.”

The White House Gave Israel Coordinates to Save an American’s Family. Then Israel Bombed Them Again.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Foreign Policy has an analysis by Lina Khatib about the fall of Assad, which really sounds quite promising in terms of how the future in the region might look like.

The spectacularly rapid fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and his regime is the Middle East’s 1989. Like the fall of the Berlin Wall, this weekend’s end of 54 years of Assad family rule signals an earthquake in the regional order—with tremors that will be felt for decades to come. Just as 1989 was marked by a series of falling dominoes in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, and elsewhere, the collapse of the Syrian regime is part of a chain of events, including Israel’s decimation of Hezbollah, Iran’s loss of its most potent proxy forces, and the weakening of Russia due to the war it started in Ukraine.

[...]

The collapse of the Assad regime has jolted this dynamic to an abrupt stop. Russia’s abandonment of Assad—and by extension, Iran’s project in Syria—creates additional rifts in Iran’s already shrinking network of proxies. The Iranian leadership will struggle to justify to its people decades of investment in Syria that have gone down the drain in a matter of days.

Standing alone without Syria and Russia in the face of a still-strong Western-backed bloc, the regime in Tehran will be revealed to its people as having imposed a futile sacrifice that not even its nuclear program can redeem. This poses a serious risk to the survival of the Islamic Republic—potentially the biggest fallout of last week’s events.

The repercussions of Assad’s collapse will also ripple across Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen as Iran’s proxies find themselves without an important lifeline. In Lebanon, in particular, the political dynamics set off by Israel’s decimation of Hezbollah are likely to accelerate with the loss of the all-important land bridge for weapons supplies from Iran. The sudden vulnerability of an already weakened Iran also means that Tehran’s remaining proxies may doubt the reliability of their patron.

The domino effect of the collapse of the Assad regime will inevitably mean the end of the Iran-dominated regional order. Replacing it will be a regional order dominated by Israel and its partners. Israel has shifted its perspective from an uneasy tolerance of Iran’s influence in the Middle East to actively seeking an end to this status quo and has succeeded in practically neutralizing the biggest threat to its security, Iran. Israel will move from being a state surrounded by adversaries and clawing at regional legitimacy to becoming the Middle East’s agenda-setter. Enjoying good relations with both the United States and Russia also makes Israel a key player in ending the cold war in the Middle East.

For the Gulf Arab countries, Iran’s degradation as a destabilizing actor also bolsters the implementation of their economic visions. The defeat of Iran’s revolutionary project will pave the way for widening the scope of normalization between Arab countries and Israel on the basis of shared business, political, and security interests. This recalibration will likely push Turkey to act more pragmatically in the way it engages with the region.

The anti-Western ideology nurtured by the Syrian Baath Party for 54 years and successfully appropriated by Iran blossomed for decades but is rapidly withering. Just as the Cold War ended with the defeat of communism, decades of confrontation in the Middle East will end with the defeat of the resistance ideology.

Assad’s Fall Is the Middle East’s 1989

One of many consequences is the demise of Iran’s self-styled Axis of Resistance.

foreignpolicy.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

German magazine "Der Spiegel" is reporting that the IDF is systematically destoying Palestinian settlements in Gaza strip, and pushing the Palestine population to the south.

According to lots of talks with people in the region it is pretty evident that the IDF is planning the occupation of big chunks of the strip with the goal of Jewish resettlement.

It seems that the supposedly border for now is Wadi Gaza, which has historical reasons.

Forensic Architecture

forensic-architecture.org

 

[Isabeau]

London O2 Arena apologises for refusing man entry over 'Free Gaza' shirt

London O2 Arena apologises for refusing man entry over 'Free Gaza' shirt, says they are reviewing their policies going forward.

www.nme.com