DrALJONES
Trump's pick for US ambassador to Israel is evangelical Christian Zionist Mike Huckabee...
who cites the Bible to say the West Bank is part of Israel: "It’s Judea & Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement. There’s no such thing as an occupation."
And Trump's special envoy to the Middle East is his regular golf partner, real estate tycoon Steven Witkoff, who has no formal diplomatic or foreign policy experience."
DrALJONES
Analysis: "How Matt Gaetz Used Daddy’s Money to Become Trump’s Favorite Congressman"
"Flattery in Trumpworld is a two-way street, & Gaetz, 37, has earned a reputation for becoming one of the party’s highest-profile members by cheerleading for the president & emulating his public bullying & trolling.
"Gaetz’s political ascent was fueled by a rich father who paved his way, & a series of unorthodox financial maneuvers."
DrALJONES
Well, what that describes is patriarchy - created ~6000 years ago
DrALJONES
Analysis: Anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick to head Health, says he’ll fire & replace "600 people from the National Institutes of Health on day one of a second Trump term."
Kennedy has "been critical of the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control, & other federal agencies that are part of the basic infrastructure of public health."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/robert-f-kennedy-jr-national-institutes-of-health/
DrALJONES
Trump's pick for US ambassador to Israel is evangelical Christian Zionist Mike Huckabee...
who cites the Bible to say the West Bank is part of Israel: "It’s Judea & Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement. There’s no such thing as an occupation."
And Trump's special envoy to the Middle East is his regular golf partner, real estate tycoon Steven Witkoff, who has no formal diplomatic or foreign policy experience."
DrALJONES
Analysis: Why is the German government working so hard to ensure no one speaks against Israel’s conduct in Gaza?
The answer lies in Germany’s history – but not its attempts to atone for the Nazi Holocaust....
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/8/why-is-germany-supporting-israels-genocide-in-gaza
DrALJONES
Analysis: The Blinken aid-demand letter is now merely a "suggestion".
Blinken's letter purported "to demand Israel improve the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza" & warned that the failure to provide more aid "may have implications for U.S. policy".
The State Department now says "the letter was a suggestion of steps that we think that they should take.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-hunger-israel-restricts-aid
DrALJONES
Report:
Israel has failed to meet US demands to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Eight international aid organizations say that, of 19 required measures of compliance with the US demand, Israel failed to comply with 15 & only partially complied with four.
Failure to comply could - theoretically - require the US to scale back military support for Israel.
What are the chances the election loss will spur change?
DrALJONES
Interview: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur: Israel has rendered Gaza unfit for human life.
Albanese has called on the UN General Assembly to consider suspending Israel as a UN member state.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/francesca-albanese-11-november-2024/104587548
Albanese's latest report
https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/a79384-report-special-rapporteur-situation-human-rights-palestinian
DrALJONES
Analysis: The House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims "support terrorism."
The bill, "Stop Terror-Financing & Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act" would grant Treasury unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.”
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/10/trump-nonprofit-tax-exempt-political-enemies/
#USPol #Trump #HouseVoteNGOs #H.R.9495 .
DrALJONES
End the Genocide! It is not a war!"
Francesca Albanese to UN
"You're talking of this as if it were two armies confronting each other. It's between a people who are trying to resist on the little that remains of their land, & one of the most powerful armies in the region.
"I'm very critical of the [west] but many many states from the global South still have ties with Israel.... These relations have to be suspended."
DrALJONES
Report: German parliament passes a resolution that includes banning public funding for any group “that calls into question Israel’s right to exist or calls for a boycott of Israel”.
100 Jewish artists & intellectuals living in Germany said the resolution would “weaken, rather than strengthen, the diversity of Jewish life in Germany by associating all Jews with the actions of the Israeli government”.
DrALJONES
Interview: Bishop William Barber "Democrats Deserted Working Poor".
800 Americans a day "are dying from poverty".
There are 140m poor & low-wage adults in the US, "43% of our country":
30% of white ppl
60% of Black ppl
68% of Latino ppl
68% of Indigenous ppl
Everywhere a living wage was on the ballot, Dems won.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/8/william_barber_trump_economic_policy_project2025
DrALJONES
Analysis: The House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims "support terrorism."
The bill, "Stop Terror-Financing & Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act" would grant Treasury unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.”
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/10/trump-nonprofit-tax-exempt-political-enemies/
#USPol #Trump #HouseVoteNGOs #H.R.9495 .
DrALJONES
Analysis: Why is the German government working so hard to ensure no one speaks against Israel’s conduct in Gaza?
The answer lies in Germany’s history – but not its attempts to atone for the Nazi Holocaust....
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/8/why-is-germany-supporting-israels-genocide-in-gaza
DrALJONES
Analysis: "How close is the Israeli army to collapse?" ~Asa Winstanley
"This may be a..hushed-up phenomenon..but one that is continuously increasing. Many soldiers are refusing to continue fighting in Gaza & are voting with their feet.”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-close-israeli-army-collapse/49851
#IDFLosses #Israel #IDFburnout #GazaGenocide #USPol #WarTrauma .
DrALJONES
Report: German parliament passes a resolution that includes banning public funding for any group “that calls into question Israel’s right to exist or calls for a boycott of Israel”.
100 Jewish artists & intellectuals living in Germany said the resolution would “weaken, rather than strengthen, the diversity of Jewish life in Germany by associating all Jews with the actions of the Israeli government”.
https://aje.io/mkjl9m?update=3308471
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/8/why-is-germany-supporting-israels-genocide-in-gaza
DrALJONES
Analysis: Why is Germany working so hard to ensure no one speaks against Israel’s conduct in Gaza?
The answer lies in Germany’s history – but not its attempts to atone for the Nazi Holocaust....
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/8/why-is-germany-supporting-israels-genocide-in-gaza
DrALJONES
Report: German parliament passes a resolution that includes banning public funding for any group “that calls into question Israel’s right to exist or calls for a boycott of Israel”.
100 Jewish artists & intellectuals living in Germany said the resolution would “weaken, rather than strengthen, the diversity of Jewish life in Germany by associating all Jews with the actions of the Israeli government”.
DrALJONES
Report: The UN says nearly 70 percent of verified deaths in Gaza are women & children.
Overall, 44 percent of the victims were children. UNRWA reports that an average of 67 children are killed every day in Gaza.
"The UN’s breakdown of the victims’ ages and genders backs the Palestinian assertion that women and children represent a large portion of those killed in the war."
#GazaGenocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #UN #UNRWA #USPol #IsraelTargetsChildren .
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