Notices by DrALJONES (draljones@mastodon.social), page 4

@pbaesse

🙂Do we have a translation problem?

Spanish to English gave me: "Here are some of the reasons for international sanctions against Israel:"

But my post was about reasons there are _so few_ sanctions, ie, the opposite

Panel: The importance of UNRWA & why Israel wants to destroy it.

A recent Israeli air strike on a school-polio-vax centre in Gaza killed six UNRWA staff.

Attacking schools & places of shelter is a war crime.

Israel repeatedly & deliberately attacks UNRWA bcz it is mandated to protect Palestinians driven out by Israel's ethnic cleansing & genocide over decades.

Panel:
Riham Jafari
Chris Gunness & Tamara Alrifai, UNRWA

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/9/12/what-is-the-purpose-of-israels-repeated-attacks-on-unrwa

#UNRWA #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide #BDS ..

Report: A draft UN General Assembly resolution demands that Israel end its unlawful presence in Gaza & the West Bank within six months. It follows the ICJ July ruling that Israel’s presence in the Palestinian territories is unlawful & must end.

The Palestinian draft resolution not only demands an end to all new settlement activity but the evacuation of all settlers & the dismantling of the separation barrier Israel constructed in the West Bank.

https://aje.io/uzyds7?update=3167693

#UN #Israel #Palestine .

Analysis: "US not probing killing of its citizen Aysenur Eygi in West Bank"

"State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel declined to acknowledge that Eygi was killed by an Israeli soldier, but he called for the process to play out and for the facts to be gathered”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/9/us-not-probing-killing-of-its-citizen-aysenur-eygi-in-west-bank-officials

#WestBankAtrocities #USEnablement #USHasbara #AysenurEygi ..

Interview: “The True Gaza Death Toll Could Be Many Times Higher". "Israel’s devastation of the territory makes it increasingly difficult to properly recover & identify the dead.

"The true cost in Palestinian lives could already be well over 300,000. If the true count was known, it would devastate US mythology that the Israeli government does not purposely target civilian populations.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/10/ralph_nader_gaza_death_toll

#GazaGenocide #USEnablement #DeathToll ..

Highly recommend this free MOOC on "Modern Monetary Theory: Economics for the 21st Century"

available via MMTed.org

https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=61995

#mmt ..

Interview: "Israel does not do investigations; they do cover-ups.” Calls by Ezgi Eygi’s family for an independent probe into her killing are echoed by the parents of Rachel Corrie, another American killed in the West Bank.

"Corrie was just 23 years old when she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza in 2003 as she attempted to use her body to stop the destruction of Palestinian homes."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/9/aysenur_eygi_rachel_corrie

#EzgiEygiKilling #USPol #IsraeliWarCrimes #WestBank ..

Report: Canadian author, social activist and filmmaker Naomi Klein stated that Zionism was an antisemitic idea from the start, as it helped "European powers get rid of their Jewish populations while establishing a sub-imperial power in the Middle East".

#Antisemitism #USPol #NaomiKlein ..

One reason there is so little sanctioning of Israel

Many countries are under threat of US economic retaliation if they do.

Treaties & trade deals often grant foreign investors the right to sue govts whose decisions threaten profit, eg, sanctions.

100s of foreign investors have sued more than half of the world’s countries, claiming damages for such government decisions.

They use "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/10/obscure-legal-system-lets-corportations-sue-states-ttip-icsid

#ISDS #BDS #Israel #GazaGenocide .

Interview: Richard Medhurst is the first journalist to be arrested under the UK terrorism act for “speech crimes”. He was released, but wasn't told which of his statements re Palestine were deemed "criminal."

So now I don't know what I can & can't say under the act. They're making an example of me & "trying to see what they can get away with," said Medhurst.

It's the new fascism, says lawyer Dima Khalidi.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2024/9/8/are-restrictions-on-pro-palestine-speech-the-new-mccarthyism

#USPol #UKPol #Censorship #Fascism ..

Interview with Daniel Levy: "This is also America’s war: Why the U.S. isn’t stopping Israel’s Gaza onslaught"

"The occupation is so permanent, & Oslo has become so transparent a mechanism for Bantustanization."

https://www.972mag.com/daniel-levy-us-israel-gaza-democrats/

#USPol #US #DanielLevy #Palestine ..

Analysis: "The genocidal imperial practices in Gaza constitute a blueprint for future aggressive actions in the Global South & for suppressing dissent within the imperial core.

"Nationalistic propaganda merges the perception of ‘self’ with that of ‘nation’ into a cohesive identity loyal to the ruling class.

"Zionist propaganda fused Jewish longing for safety with white supremacist, messianic & fascistic ideologies aimed at land theft."

https://www.juancole.com/2024/09/defense-aggressive-destruction.html

#Israel #GazaGenocide ..

"The stories of sexual abuse are not new. I don't see why anybody should be surprised.

"It's a little like expecting a ceasefire agreement; you're expecting a ceasefire agreement from a genocidal maniac state that's been engaged in this for eight decades? Why?"

Israel "has been an apartheid racist genocidal regime from the very beginning."

People have "this very misguided notion that there used to be a good Israel before 1967."
~Miko Peled

6.15 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cvTsWeUEzg

#Israel #Gaza .

Interview: "They say that Israel & the US have shared values. It's a very interesting statement when you think about it because it's true - values of genocide of the indigenous people, violence around the world, violent takeover, deep-rooted racism, these are the shared values."

"The US is supplying billions of dollars to the perpetrator of a genocide, to one of the most sadistic regimes we've seen in a very long time."

~Miko Peled

46:44 min in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGqZQcGd-78

#Israel #US .

Report: "Not just mowing the lawn, but uprooting the problem at its source" ~Israeli security

"The Jenin operation is just the beginning."

The West Bank, once designated a "secondary arena requiring stable maintenance", is now categorised as a "combat zone" & the second most critical front after Gaza.

"Security officials recommend launching extensive operations... with dismantling Hamas as a primary objective."

https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/09/03/israel-to-classify-west-bank-as-combat-zone-amid-dramatic-escalation/

#WestBank #US #IsraeliWarCrimes ..

Palestine 1917-1948

Imperial Britain's actions - from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to Israel's statehood in 1948 - were contrary to international law.... & leading British officials & politicians knew it.

But the empire's strategic interests included control over Middle-East oil & a Jewish homeland in Palestine as a "reliable European outpost" near the Suez.

https://bolognalawreview.unibo.it/article/download/7663/7387/23221

#Balfour #Israel #UKPol #Palestine ..

Interview: New Yorker publishes 10 photos from 2005, when U.S. marines executed 24 Iraqi civilians in revenge for an IED bombing that killed a service member.

The innocent Iraqi victims - men, women & children - ranged in age from 3 to 76.

Four marines were charged with the killings, but served not a single day in prison.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/3/haditha_massacre

#USWarCrimes #Iraq ..

The right to resistance against occupation: "The right to resist is a tool & approach to end the occupation, which is at first a violation of international law itself."

"The occupying power does _not_ have the right to resort to self-defense except in its territory - not the occupied territories."

"Third States have an obligation to _not_ protect the occupying State & not to recognize the situation of occupation and its results."

https://jls.shirazu.ac.ir/article_7335_en.html?lang=fa

#IsraeliOccupation #RightToResist ..

Report: "Israeli minister calls for 'declaration of war' on Palestinians in West Bank."

In July 2023, Minister Orit Strock called for a war against Gaza to retake the strip & rebuild Jewish settlements.

https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-minister-calls-for-declaration-of-war-on-palestinians-in-west-bank

#Israel #EthnicCleansing ..

"It Is Not Hamas That Is Collapsing, but Israel" ~Maj. Gen Yitzhak Brik

"If we continue fighting in Gaza by raiding & re-raiding the same targets, not only won't we bring Hamas to collapse, but we'll collapse ourselves."

We'll be "unable to carry out those repeated raids, because... the IDF grows weaker & the number of dead & wounded in action among our soldiers rises.

"Hamas, in contrast, has already replenished its ranks with 17- & 18-year-olds".

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-09-03/ty-article-opinion/.premium/it-is-not-hamas-that-is-collapsing-but-israel/00000191-b3bf-dffe-abf9-bfffd0a50000

#Gaza #Israel ..