DrALJONES
Analysis: More than 100,000 Palestinians have crossed the border into Egypt since Oct 7. This is despite Egypt refusing to accept refugees from Gaza.
Because they are not technically "refugees", they are not eligible for most international aid for refugees, unlike their counterparts back in Gaza.
DrALJONES
Interview: Francesca Albanese: For decades, "no matter what Israel does & says... it still enjoys impunity at the International level."
Palestinians have "been forgotten as human beings.... So this is something that..Western policy makers & media have tolerated & even condoned."
The US, followed by the UK, France, Germany, Italy "are contributing to that blow at the heart of the international system."
DrALJONES
Report: Israel is buying Google ads aimed at discrediting UNRWA & blocking users from giving donations to the agency.
“This does not just hurt the agency’s reputation, but most importantly it puts the lives of our staff at risk."
Philippe Lazzarini
DrALJONES
For those puzzled about why so many nations are "blindly" following US on Israel
They're not blind; they're just US client states (see partial list ⬇️)
Under threat of being sued, typically via US corps, for behaviour that "conflicts with their trade agreements", client states do as they're told.
US "agreements" typically enable client states to be bankrupted at will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_state
#USClientStates #Israel #GazaGenocide . @ramin_hal9001 emacs.ch
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Interview: “The UN building should be closed & wiped off from the face of the earth.”
~Departing Israeli Ambassador to UN, Gilad Erdan
Erdan "has clearly had an unpleasant experience at the world’s largest international institution."
https://www.juancole.com/2024/08/israels-nations-international.html
DrALJONES
Report: UK, police state
"The UK-based Palestine Action group of activists has criticised the reported arrest of a member for online posts, as well as a raid on the address of one of 10 previously arrested members, & the issuing of charges against another for supporting a “terrorist” organisation.
“This is what you call a police state – one which is trying desperately to protect the interests of a foreign genocidal entity."
DrALJONES
Interview
Dr Mustafa Barghouti
"They are trying to repeat the Nakba"
"The Israeli military has launched its biggest operation in the occupied West Bank in close to two decades.
"In total, at least 652 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October — nearly 150 of them children.
"Israeli officials have indicated that the raids are just the first stage of an even larger operation in the West Bank."
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/8/28/west_bank_raids_mustafa_barghouti
DrALJONES
Report
Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured
"One paramedic said that at the Sde Teiman detention facility he was suspended from a chain attached to handcuffs, electroshocked, denied medical care for broken ribs caused by beatings, & administered what he believed was a psychoactive drug before interrogations.
"It was so degrading, it was unbelievable... I was helping people as a paramedic, I never expected something like this.”
https://www.juancole.com/2024/08/palestinian-healthcare-tortured.html
DrALJONES
Interview
Milena Ansari, Human Rights Watch
Palestinian Healthcare Workers Chained, Starved, Tortured, Sexually Abused in Israeli prisons
"HRW has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for its attacks on healthcare workers":
Inside Israeli custody & detention facilities is a "mounting systematic pattern of ill-treatment & abuse."
DrALJONES
Report
Amnesty calls for war crimes investigation into Rafah tent massacre.
Erika Guevara-Rosas
"The Israeli military would have been fully aware that the use of bombs that project deadly shrapnel across hundreds of metres … would kill & injure a large number of civilians.
The US-made 113 kilogram GBU-39s used killed at least 36 Palestinians (4 were fighters).
DrALJONES
All US aid to Israel is military aid mandated to be spent on US weapons.
It is hundreds of billions of US public money going straight to US arms makers.
Total racket.
Analysis by Dov Waxman
Since the 1960s, the US gives only military aid to Israel & it must be spent on American weapons.
"So, many American lawmakers have an interest in sustaining that aid because that money ends up flowing into their own states."
DrALJONES
Speech
The Speech the DNC Wouldn’t Allow on Stage
by Georgia state Representative Ruwa Romman
"What I’m about to read to you is, frankly, very sanitized. It was meant to have an opportunity to represent a Palestinian voice.
"We came here to offer a gift, an opportunity to bridge the gap between our party & our voters... so many people wearing their pins, their keffiyehs, their flags. It’s very unfortunate."
DrALJONES
Report
"Biden Appoints Hawkish Official To Lead Israel Policy At State Department"
"Biden's pick reflects a doubling down on the administration’s determination to continue to provide unconditional material support for Israel's genocidal campaign against civilians in Gaza."
The new pick, Mira Resnick, also worked with Netanyahu to allow private American citizens to donate equipment to the Israel military.
DrALJONES
Just what they said a century ago...
Report
"We cannot let [a Palestinian state] happen"
~Israeli foreign minister Katz
"A Palestinian state would mean an Iranian base in Gaza & the West Bank – just like in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria & Iraq... which would threaten Israel’s population centres, flight paths, shipping routes & economic hubs."
https://aje.io/unvvgl?update=3136706
The truce talks are a sham for US domestic consumption.
#USPol #Israel #PalestinianStatehood #GazaGenocide #USEnablement ..
DrALJONES
Interview
Juan González
“Two Faces of American Capitalism”
"The level of choreographed mass spectacle of this convention [would be] worthy of Leni Riefenstahl.
"Democrats & Republicans presented the two faces of American capitalism at their conventions:
"GOP as home to white supremacist capitalism while Democrats promote a “multiracial neoliberal capitalism.
"The US has never been lower in prestige & more discredited around the world than today.”
DrALJONES
DNC protester interviewx
"Thousands March Against U.S. Arming of Israel as Harris Accepts Presidential Nomination"
"Thousands of protesters marched on the DNC on Thursday night calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel.
"Demonstrators had planned to march toward the convention site but were blocked by hundreds of police in riot gear who forced the march to disperse.
"We hear from some of the protesters who took to the streets."
DrALJONES
Sorry, you're mistaken again.
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Re " both want this conflict to escalate to a point where genocide is the only option."
This is another example of ignorance of the facts - which are freely available.
For a century, Palestinians have fought for independence & freedom.
It's spozed to be a US "value".
DrALJONES
Analysis
Antony Loewenstein
"Israel likely plans to indefinitely occupy Gaza."
Settler outposts could emerge as in the West Bank, where Israel strengthened its control for years during drawn-out peace negotiations.
“What Israel is doing is similar to Oslo. Oslo was negotiated for years. Creeping, creeping negotiations while at the same time occupation of the West Bank deepened & grew. This is a very similar situation in Gaza.”
DrALJONES
Interview
Ilhan Omar
Rep. Ilhan Omar joined protesters outside the DNC, where the uncommitted movement had launched a sit-in.
The DNC had refused their request for a Palestinian American to address the convention from the main stage
Omar also demanded an arms embargo:
“A ceasefire is only possible if we use every leverage that we have, & the biggest leverage that we have is to stop sending bombs."
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