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Sustainable, compost, diversity, cooking, bikes, subsistence, pedestrian cities, half earth. Born 309 ppm of CO2. Anti-war. More anti poverty than anything else. All jobs should be union jobs including bullshit jobs. For guaranteed basic income. Make polluters pay. Don’t book genocidal apologists. Alternate media.

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: Much of the news from the Gaza Strip have come from local journalists, as regional and international journalists have been barred by Israel from independently entering the enclave. Their reporting has come at a historically high cost. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) states that at least 95 journalists have been killed since the start of the war (90 Palestinian), making it “the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992.” 
Israel’s killing of journalists in this war opens a new dark page for the unpunished and free targeting of journalists in the region… This is a war crime, as journalists are granted the same protection as civilians under international humanitarian law.
The killing of several reporters through drone and sniper fire strengthens this claim… Journalist families are not safe either.
nalistAndTheirFamilies

https://timep.org/2024/03/21/reporting-under-siege-israels-war-on-journalists-in-gaza/

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Turning an ethnostate into a genocidal pariah on the international stage takes effort from believers: Israel apologists will always have excuses and justifications for every horrible thing that comes out about what Israel is doing in Gaza. There is no testimony, investigative report, statistic or raw video clip that could come out showing horrific criminality on the part of the IDF or the Israeli state that would cause Israel supporters to go “Oh okay now this one really is bad, Israel needs to hold those responsible to account and make some dramatic systemic changes to make sure it never happens again.”

https://substack.com/inbox/post/142847124

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: The Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping have disrupted cargo traffic between Europe and Asia, increasing shipping times, costs and fuel consumption. This has forced port operators to adapt to altered schedules. For the Red Sea port of Eilat, Israel, the disruption has been much more severe: its operator is laying off half of its workforce because of a sharp drop in business.

https://maritime-executive.com/article/houthi-attacks-force-port-of-eilat-to-lay-off-half-its-staff

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lied, died, as the international genocidal pariah: was bombing buildings in Gaza without having “solid intelligence” that they were military… was bombing the Strip indiscriminately, and a report from +972 Magazine published in November revealed was actually intentionally hitting civilian targets… such as high-rise apartment buildings, banks, universities, and other public buildings.

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/18/biden-knew-israel-was-bombing-civilian-targets-in-october/

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: “I think it had to be South Africa” to bring the case against Israel, Pandor told Mehdi. It’s the “only country that has a similar experience to the Palestinian people and that has been firmly attached to the struggle for freedom and human rights,” she said, referring to the racial segregation and brutality black South Africans endured under apartheid.
“For us to be invisible in a massive human struggle where we know a huge murder is underway [in Gaza], I think that is unacceptable. … And having a large protest with a million is insufficient. There has to be an ongoing campaign to say to the world: ‘This can't be.’”

https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/exclusive-south-african-fm-tells?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

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“The occupation army (Israel) bombed the specialized surgeries building in Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza City,” in the northern Gaza Strip, Al-Aqsa TV channel said in a brief statement on Telegram.
The Israeli army executed 140 Palestinians and detained hundreds for interrogations, transferring at least 160 of them to Israel.


https://www.palestinechronicle.com/140-executed-hundreds-detained-israeli-forces-bomb-al-shifa-hospital-in-gaza/

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“oh rafah. aching rafah. aching of refugees aching of tumbled houses bicycles severed from tank-warped tires and aching of bullet riddled homes…”
So begins a poem by . Now, as Israel plans a land invasion of , where an estimated 1.4 million refugees from across have fled Israel’s unrelenting bombardment that has killed over 32,000 people, and as Israel’s strategically-imposed starvation stalks and kills the children of Gaza, her words are strikingly relevant. “if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people, please pin the reason squarely on the fact that I am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/21/aching_rafah_gaza_21_years_after

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: According to journalists and the Gaza Health Ministry, Israeli troops directed missiles and gunfire at part of the hospital being used for specialized surgeries.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians ― including displaced civilians, medical staff and injured patients ― were trapped at the complex during Israel’s attack, according to the ministry. The facility is Gaza’s largest hospital.
nalistAndTheirFamilies

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-al-jazeera-journalist-israel-detained-hospital_n_65f8cb41e4b0defe9b27fe58

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Oxfam, an international humanitarian and development organization, and Human Rights Watch, an international human rights organization, together write to you to demonstrate that any such assurances from the Israeli government, a major recipient of US arms, are not credible

The use of white phosphorus in densely populated areas of Gaza violates the requirement under international humanitarian law to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian injury and loss of life.


https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/03/19/israeli-forces-conduct-gaza

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y: This dynamic, which leaves antisemitism on the far right to metastasize unchecked, has only intensified since Oct. 7. Many of the flashpoints over Palestine have been sites of ruling-class power purportedly charged with reproducing a multiracial meritocratic elite: electoral politics, government bureaucracy, corporations, nonprofits, the arts, journalism, and above all higher education. And it is predictable that after Palestinians themselves, those punished for speaking out on Palestine in these spaces are often Black.

https://hammerandhope.org/article/boomer-zionism

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How horrific is US policy: “The extensive use of torture against Palestinians taken prisoner by the Israeli military in Gaza, including 21 Unrwa staff members.
They're torturing people who work for the UN. Can you imagine what they're doing to Palestinians?
Let's get into some of the specifics. Practices recorded by Unrwa include the use of a nail gun on prisoners' knees, sexual abuse against both men and women, and the insertion of what appears to be an electrified metal stick into Palestinian prisoners' rectums. They were beating me with an extendable metal bar.
There was blood on my trousers, and when they saw it, they beat me there. Day 161 of the Gaza Genocide. And it's like the situation continues to turn into more and more of a caricature of itself.”

From The Palestine Pod: The Torture Files, Mar 18, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-palestine-pod/id1559480967?i=1000649611919
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’s words that he would “no longer be complicit” highlight one of the often overlooked aspects of the military: it’s never the rich and powerful behind the guns. They create an armed body of working-class men and women to fight and die for them instead.
We are constantly fed the idea that joining the military is honourable or that enlistment entails great fun and travel. For most enlistees, though, the military is sold as a way to get out of poverty.

https://redflag.org.au/article/aaron-bushnell-perished-palestine

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My sister Lubna was planning to film a video and they sang for me. The camera failed to record anything.
Make it stop

Looking back, it might have been a portent.
Maybe the camera refused to record memories that would soon be unrepeatable.
Maybe the Titanic was doomed to go under.
Maybe.
What I know is that this year, there was no birthday celebration.
There is no university to go to. Israel’s genocidal military machine destroyed it.
There is no Capital Mall. Israel’s indiscriminate bombing leveled it.
There is no Titanic Restaurant or al-Farra Tower. Israel’s unhinged military reduced it to rubble.
Many of my friends have been killed. I don’t know exactly how many, because it is almost impossible to stay in touch with anyone…
Every second, I either lose a loved one or a dream.
We’re breathing corpses, barely eating.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/destruction-gazas-titanic/45056

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Beyond the : For two months, Tharifa had to bake bread using animal feed.
“We had no other choice,” she said. “Otherwise, we would die of starvation.”
As they lacked fuel, Tharifa and her husband had to burn their own furniture and clothes so that they could cook a little bread.
Flour and other food items have been unaffordable – when they can be found in markets. A can of peas has been priced at $8 in the north of Gaza recently, whereas it would sell for only around 25 cents before the war was declared.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/weak-hunger/45161

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6.0

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/gaza-in-crisis-29-palestinians-killed-155-injured-in-shelling-while-awaiting-aid-israel-denies-attacks/articleshow/108510297.cms

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Oldie but goldie, from Oct 5 2023, : This hypocrisy perfectly mirrors the long-standing response of affluent, and powerful, Western nations to the Palestinian tragedy. The very same nations who preach peace but subsidise Apartheid in Palestine are also professing their commitment to mitigating climate change, but (alongside the likes of China, Russia and India) helping global CO2 emissions reach historic highs. Indeed, the lofty promises of “climate justice” from Western nations have regrettably proven as hollow as those about “Palestinian justice”. In both cases, these states talked the talk but refused to walk the walk, leaving poor and vulnerable communities to bear the brunt of their excesses and hypocrisy.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/5/interwoven-struggles-the-green-paradox-meets-the-palestine-paradox

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: in both cases, they devised and implemented inadequate and counterproductive mechanisms to appear to be “helping”. On climate change, they came up with deceptive concepts like “carbon offset” and “carbon credit” to evade meaningful action and a just, swift transition to renewable energy. On Palestine, they devised unworkable “peace plans” that only serve to deepen Palestinian oppression, while Israel made supposed attempts to “improve” Palestinian life under occupation instead of addressing the fundamental issue of occupation itself, as it must.

Equally cynical is Israel’s routine attempts to confiscate Palestinian lands under the pretext of “environmental conservation”. This tactic, known as “green colonialism”

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: There is no state of Israel that is separate or separable from the violence, abuse, apartheid and racist indoctrination necessary for its continued existence. Liberals like to pretend they live in this imaginary fantasyland where a nice and peaceful Israel is possible, despite Israel’s entire historical existence making an obvious lie of this premise.

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/liberals-are-always-trying-to-distance?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

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• Intense Israeli Security Forces (ISF) bombardment from the air, land and sea continued to be reported across much of the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement and destruction of civilian infrastructure. Israeli forces airstrikes continue in heavily populated Rafah in southern Gaza.
• According to UNICEF latest sitep hospitals continue to experience severe disruptions in providing health care in the Gaza Strip.
• According to UNICEF, child malnutrition levels in northern Gaza are particularly extreme, with now at least 18 children reported to have died from malnutrition and dehydration in northern Gaza. UNFPA has cautioned that “malnutrition rates amount pregnant and breastfeeding women have spiked, posing significant health risks”.
• As of 9 March, the total number of UNRWA colleagues killed since the beginning of hostilities is now 162.
ness

https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-88-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem

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3.0: Israeli army again targeted hundreds of people who were waiting for aid trucks east and west of Gaza City, Anadolu. “A number of dead and wounded arrived at the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City after being targeted by Israeli drones while they were waiting for aid trucks to arrive in the areas of the Kuwait and Nabulsi Roundabouts,” medical sources told Anadolu.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240309-casualties-reported-as-israel-targets-palestinians-waiting-for-aid-in-gaza/

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Medicide- The rights organisation cited the following causes in particular: bombing, starvation, dehydration, malnutrition, and lack of access to medical care.
In a statement issued Sunday, Euro-Med Monitor stated that its field team is recording nearly daily deaths among the elderly due to Israel’s systematic and pervasive crimes of starvation and treatment deprivation in the Gaza Strip, especially in Gaza City and the Strip’s northern regions.

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/death-rate-elderly-people-northern-gaza-strip-soars-due-bombing-starvation-dehydration-and-lack-healthcare-enar

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: “And so not only is there this history of self-immolation by very genuine, deep thinking people who are so opposed to war and to killing by their government that they take this extreme act, this ultimate sacrifice, but it has also been the impetus for change from people like Daniel Ellsberg, like a domino effect of others rebelling, but also became galvanizing moments for the movement.”

From MintCast: US Soldier Reveals Why Self-Immolated, with Mike Prysner, Mar 8, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mintcast/id1460817064?i=1000648528799
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mintcast/id1460817064?i=1000648528799

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Mintcast Podcast on : “I mean, Aaron Bushnell was not just part of this history of soldiers who become anti-war or become politicized, but someone who had become class conscious. And by identifying the ruling class as the perpetrators of this, was identifying that we live in a class society with a ruling class that is very small, that has all the money, that makes all the decisions, who are the ones, the small group of people who actually gain from the Gaza genocide, whereas the rest of us in the other class, the working class, are the ones who not only pay from it, but suffer from it and have so much in common with those in Palestine who are being killed when we don't have anything in common with people who are in the ruling class.”

From MintCast: US Soldier Reveals Why Aaron Bushnell Self-Immolated, with Mike Prysner, Mar 8, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mintcast/id1460817064?i=1000648528799
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: Mike Prysner on Mintcast- “Our enemies are not in the poorest countries on the planet, but right here in the richest one. They're not going to end the wars, because it's not our government, it's their government. It's the government of the rich, it's the government of Wall Street, of the oil giant, of the defense contractors.
It's their government and the only language that they understand is shutting down business as usual, and that's what we're doing here today, and we're going to continue to do until these wars are over.”
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From MintCast: US Soldier Reveals Why Aaron Bushnell Self-Immolated, with Mike Prysner, Mar 8, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mintcast/id1460817064?i=1000648528799
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“Meron’s legal findings (on Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention) did not derail Eshkol; in fact, they gave him a way forward. In his memo, Meron had indicated that law permits temporary encampments established by the occupying power to meet a pressing military need. Therefore, should Israel choose to build a civilian settlement, Meron advised, it should be built “in the framework of camps and [should be], on the face of it, of a temporary rather than permanent nature.” 5 Heeding Meron’s advice, Eshkol instructed the army to establish paramilitary outposts, to create the veneer of temporality. When settlers arrived in the West Bank at the end of September, the government publicly referred to them as soldiers despite their civilian status. 6”

— Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat
https://a.co/4ClVkOa

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Israel does not make that distinction because it considers Hamas an organized armed group and not an embryonic sovereign. This raises at least two troubling issues. First, because Israel rejects Hamas’s legitimate political standing, it categorizes all of its members, regardless of political or military function, as civilians who directly participate in hostilities. Two, even Palestinians in Gaza who are not members of Hamas are at risk because, as the governing authority in the territory, Hamas employs the public sector. This includes law enforcement officers who may have no military purpose and no affiliation to Hamas beyond employment. Israel’s revised military doctrine, which has no regard for Hamas’s sovereignty claims, risks rendering nearly any Palestinian participation in the public sector in Gaza as presumptively continuous. Therefore, Israel can justify targeting these individuals militarily regardless of the actual threat they pose. Page 265

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