Has The Israeli Goverment BecomeThe Monster?

[Ellie]

By Mike Casey, US lead political reporting officer on internal politics and security issues in the Gaza Strip and on Palestinian reconciliation issues.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/state-department-employee-resigns-israel-gaza

“The more informed you become on this issue, you can’t avoid realizing how bad it is,” Casey told the Guardian.

Casey reflected on how, as one of only two people in the entire US government explicitly focused on Gaza, he became an unwilling chronicler of a humanitarian catastrophe.

“I got so tired of writing about dead kids,” he said. “Just constantly having to prove to Washington that these children actually died and then watching nothing happen.”

“I remember two children killed in a ramming attack at a bus stop in Jerusalem who were the same age as my kids,” Casey said. “You see the effect the conflict has on people in Israel as well. Israelis deserve better, not just Palestinians.”

“We don’t have a policy on Palestine. We just do what the Israelis want us to do.”

“I was too embarrassed to continue being an American diplomat,” he said. “I knew I couldn’t go to another assignment and function.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/state-department-employee-resigns-israel-gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/state-department-employee-resigns-israel-gaza

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly will not go next year to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, because he's concerned about potential arrest. Poland is committed to honor the ICC and its arrest warrant for Netanyahu over alleged war crimes.

Netanyahu might not attend Auschwitz event over arrest fears: Report

The Israeli prime minister is reportedly planning to forgo attending the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz amid concern over his potential arrest.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Ellie]

They knew.

Head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a social media post on Thursday that he was about to board a plane at the airport when it came under aerial attack. A crew member on the plane was injured, he said, and at least two people were reported killed at the airport.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/27/israel-strike-yemen-sanaa-airport-world-health-organization-who-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus

 

[Ellie]

This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.

“The west cannot hide, they cannot claim ignorance. Nobody can say they didn’t know,” says Palestinian writer, Susan Abulhawa.This is “the first livestream genocide in history … If people are ignorant they are willfully ignorant,” she says.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Old and busted: Al Jazeera ban in Israel.
New hotness: Al Jazeera ban in the West Bank issued by the Palestinian Authority! Why? Because: PA accuses network of broadcasting ‘inciting material’ and ‘stirring strife’ in the country.

Palestinian Authority suspends Al Jazeera operations in the West Bank

PA accuses network of broadcasting ‘inciting material’ and ‘stirring strife’ in the country.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Poland has confirmed that they will not arrest Benyamin Netanyahu in case he wants to visit Auschwitz for the 80th liberation anniversary, so on in other words they will not fulfill the ICC arrest warrant.

Poland says it will protect Israel’s Netanyahu from potential arrest

PM Donald Tusk says Israeli prime minister will not be detained despite ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.

www.aljazeera.com