Breaking News: Israeli and foreign officials believe the International Criminal Court is preparing arrest warrants for top #Israeli and #Hamas leaders related to the war in Gaza.— NYT
Does anyone have concrete ideas on how to solve the situation in Gaza?
It appears that the attack on Israel was intended to launch the big war between Muslims and Jews. If that's true, how do they get the hostages out without force when negotiation is impossible?
Is it an option for Israel simply to take no action, let the chips fall where they may? Leave the hostages to their fates...
#Israeli PM #BenjaminNetanyahu & #BennyGantz, leader of the opposition #NationalUnity party, reached an agreement Wed to form a unity govt. The 2 ldrs said the new govt would pursue only bills or decisions concerning the #conflict, which has prompted Israel to mass troops near the Gaza Strip & call up #reservists ahead of an offensive against #Hamas militants.
"Many Israeli settlers have openly called for Palestinians to be wiped off the map," said one advocacy group. "Now, Israel is giving them the guns to achieve that vision."
While the world watches Israel's military pulverize Gaza amid anticipation of an imminent ground invasion of the besieged strip, Israeli soldiers and settlers—who are receiving thousands of assault rifles
#Iran has offered full support to #Hamas and other resistance groups in #Palestine as they struggle against the Israeli occupation and its atrocities against the #palestinians.
"The #Palestinians who live (or lived) in this hilltop hamlet had decamped in terror a few weeks earlier. A gang of #Israeli settlers... had been tormenting them for weeks... beating them up & threatening #murder if they didn’t leave.
Similar scenes are playing out across the #WestBank these days as Israeli settlers, backed & sometimes aided by #soldiers, force Arabs out of villages, farmlands & herding pastures."
Ink in the blogosphere is beginning to spread about the proposed #Biden#HumanitarianAid bridgehead on the Mediterranean coast of #Gaza.
Some are saying it’s a distraction to appease #voters while Biden continues to provide arms and cover. Some, that the intention is to actually benefit the #zionists by providing a place to evacuate #palestinians. Some go so far as to claim it’s intended as the terminus of the #Israeli#RiverToTheSea dream.
My take? These theories fail to understand the #evil genius leaders in the U.S. are capable.
#Israel 's government is considering the #deportation of #Eritrean#asylum seekers involved in clashes in Tel Aviv on Saturday. About 160 people were injured as #Israeli police used live fire and tear gas. They said they were trying to break up rival groups for and against the Eritrean government. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin #Netanyahu said Saturday’s chaotic scenes had crossed a red line. (cont.)
This reminds us that #policing - in #SettlerColonial societies like Canada - has always been a central force for dispossession, displacement & containment.
An important piece of context for the current escalation of conflict in #IsraelPalestine that I've rarely seen mentioned in mainstream reporting concerns the #GreatMarchOfReturn, a series of large (and largely peaceful) weekly protests in #Gaza near the border fence that were sustained through most of #2018 and #2019, and which were met with enormous amounts of sustained lethal violence by the #Israeli armed forces. The #MassProtests each Friday were attended by crowds ranging in size from 10,000 to 50,000, many of them children and teens (more than 50% of Gaza's population is under the age of 18). Participants were regularly targeted by Israeli Defence Force (IDF) snipers using a combination of live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters (the latter typically fired directly at protesters), and even some tank rounds. Over time, hundreds of #Palestinians were killed and many thousands seriously wounded.
The original idea for the demonstration was for hundreds of thousands of unarmed Palestinians to peacefully walk up to the fence, take down a section, then cross a few kilometres into the land beyond, where they would set up a temporary tent city.
This election story reads like every conversation on Fedi.
"#Missouri’s attorney general race is an unusually #Jewish one: Will Scharf, a #Republican former prosecutor trying to unseat incumbent Republican Andrew Bailey, wraps tefillin every day; Elad Gross, a Jewish former assistant attorney general on the other side of the ballot, is married to a founder of multiple local Jewish nonprofits.
These biographical details hardly figured in the race until this month, when a fourth candidate — #Democratic Rep. Sarah Unsicker — floated a #conspiracy theory developed by a known right-wing troll that Scharf and Gross were #Israeli sleeper agents on a mission to destroy #American#democracy."
Instead of blaming #Gaza crisis on #Hamas, he said it was "a direct consequence of US desire to MONOPOLIZE mediation functions in #Palestinian-#Israeli settlement.”
Hoping to act as a global #powerBroker, he has proposed to mediate in the conflict.
"Lists of such businesses are being circulated on social media, mostly on TikTok, urging people to #boycott restaurants and other establishments that are owned by #Jews or that are deemed to be supportive of the #Israeli government in its war against #Hamas in #Gaza. But protesters are not simply boycotting businesses; some are visiting them and vandalizing company property.
The owner of a chain of local coffee shops told the Montreal Gazette that “last weekend, they put #swastikas on the … menus downtown and they wrote F— THE JEWS.”
🧵 It feels inappropriate to argue on such matters on a Day of Remembrance, but since such a day became a stage for distorting truth and the essence of the #Holocaust, it seems necessary to do so.
In his speech Biden drew a parallel, comparing #Nazis murdering 6000000 #Jews during the Holocaust to #Hamas' 1200 Israeli victims during the Oct 7 attack. That was a x5000 stretch of truth and logic, without counting the 35000+ victims of #Israeli horrible thirty-eyes-for-an-eye retaliation,
The images of Gaza resulting from a blindly destructive military operation that kills thousands of #innocent#women and #children haunts any #peace-loving person of the world. The level of destruction waged by the #Israeli#military is greater than in any recent conflict, and has resulted in over 20,000 #deaths and incalculable physical destruction. Will there be an end to this #madness?
I am going to ask the internet a usually impossible question:
Can you watch without prejudice, this calm & wise #Israeli woman, massacre-survivor, and peace-maker for 9 minutes and 26 seconds (there are subtitles) explain the political solution required in the #IsraelHamasWar?
#Israeli President Says There Are No Innocent Civilians In #Gaza
“It is an entire nation out there that is responsible,” Isaac Herzog said as Israel ordered 1.1 million #Palestinians to evacuate their homes
“It is an entire nation out there that is responsible,” Herzog said on Friday." about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true. They could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’etat.”
I wonder, as a matter of communication strategy, why this is hasn't been used more frequently as a widespread description for the criminal acts of the #IDF and #Israeli citizens participating in the blockade of #Gaza. Is it simply because it is not as well known (and so has less emotional resonance) as genocide?
Under international law, there is also the crime of #starvation, which is distinct as well, which has its own standards.
Though it wasn't until the 1970s that starvation was accepted by the US and its western allies as a crime against humanity. Even after the horrors of #WWII (including especially the Siege of #Leningrad, the most destructive and fatal siege in human history), the US and its allies still wanted to maintain the right to use starvation as a weapon of war.
So it seems that the same events and actions could potentially be prosecuted under murder, extermination, starvation or genocide, with each crime requiring somewhat different levels and types of evidence to prove.