While the world’s attention is on Gaza, life for Palestinians in the West Bank is also growing increasingly precarious. There has been a surge in settler violence and a spike in unlawful lethal force from Israeli forces....
The #Sun will be setting as close to due #West as makes no odds in about an hour’s time. One time out of two a year, as it will be for everyone else, unless you happen to reside on the equator, of course.
#West#Europe#Russia#Ukraine: "Whatever the outcome of the war in Ukraine, it seems unlikely to vindicate Todd’s fading reputation as a prophet. For all their confused values and stuttering economies, European societies remain stronger and wealthier than his gloomy prognostications or his loaded comparisons with Russia allow. Perhaps the “nihilism” and the “narcissism” which characterize their politics are in the eye of the beholder. By contrast, the war in Gaza, which began just as Todd wrote the coda to his book, is vindicating some of its wilder flourishes. The unconditional support of America’s elderly political elite for Israel’s invasion does indeed suggest they are in the grip of a psychic crisis which finds expression in a “need for violence.” The “childish simplicity” with which President Biden likened Israel to Ukraine as beleaguered bastions of freedom show how quickly Western values can become discredited by their addled defenders. The “irrational” commitment of America’s military materiel to the destruction of Gaza’s cities — which met with the protracted, if uneasy, acquiescence of its European allies and the mainstream media — suggests that all is not well with the West."
Yes, as it has to made any clearer. The ultimate aim of the State of #Israel is to use the #Gaza Strip and the #West#Bank exclusively for Israeli #Jews. The #genocide is just a step towards that aim.
Since early February, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, has been rocked by protests directed against western embassies. Protests took place in front of the British and French embassies, and in front of United Nations buildings. Throughout the city, American and Belgian flags were burned....
#West doesn't need proof. It needs allegations that goes its way to create an empty context so that it can act like if it wasn't committing a #genocide itself. To deliberately put #palestinians in the bloody hands of #Israel is not its fault. Of course. It just weaponize this hands but who cares ?
Sad the #west is incompetent. It could do the paperwork and take a weight off the #palestinians mind instead of being the weight and applauding #Israel (if it was anything else than a conglomerate of a limited number of privileged people who think they represent anything else than their own inhumanity).
Have you spent a year in birthright or why is a German so utterly, utterly delusional and brainwashed? Oh no wait, you never said you were German. You only said you grew up there. Going by your rhetoric, you’ve definitely listened to Israeli state propaganda, and a lot of it.
I did very early on say I’m amazed at the level of your delusions.
Israel is targeting kids. They know this. Everyone know this. There’s A METRIC FUCKTON OF OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE OF IT WHICH YOU KEEP IGNORING.
Carpet bombing an area in which more than 50% of the population are kids is targeting kids.
You’re simply so brainwashed you will never accept this. You’re like the Germans who allowed Jewish people to be genocided in plain view, yelling Heil Hitler, but after the war pretended they knew nothing about it.
You think Israeli state propaganda is more accurate than the rest of the world? The reports of the UN and all news sources, all fake, owned by Hamas? Because Israel is the only one denying what everyone can see. A despicable, horrible, purposeful genocide in which a vast majority of victims are women and children.
You are contributing to murdering women and children with that rhetoric, you sick f*ck.
#West Bank: Spike in Israeli Killings of Palestinian Children
On 19 December 2023, between 2000 and 2300 hours, IDF reportedly surrounded and raided Al Awda building, also known as the “Annan building”, in Al Remal neighborhood, Gaza City, where three related families were sheltering in addition to Annan family. According to witness accounts circulated by media sources and Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, while in control of the building and the civilians sheltering there, the IDF allegedly separated the men from the women and children, and then shot and killed at least 11 of the men, mostly aged in their late 20’s and early 30’s, in front of their family members. The IDF then allegedly ordered the women and children into a room, and either shot at them or threw a grenade into the room, reportedly seriously injuring some of them, including an infant and a child. OHCHR has confirmed the killings at Al Awdabuilding, although the details and circumstances of the killings are still under verification. IDF has not released any information on the incident.
#Third Committee Condemns Brutal Bombing of Gaza Hospital, Enforced Displacement of Palestinian Civilians, Emphasizes Urgent Need for Unimpeded Humanitarian Aid
AND the systemic targeting has been going on for years.
Since 1967, Israel has systematically targeted Palestinians including children – HRC 28th session – NGO Submission, Annex (Palestine Independent Commission for Human Rights)
How fucking childish does a person need to be to believe Israeli state porpaganda? You probably also think Putler didn’t have Navalny killed? That a healthy man in his forties just happened to drop dead?
Do you understand the size difference between Gaza and Afghanistan? Keep that in mind.
“Mommy, please, that man on the internet called me a bad name for actively supporting the genocide of women and children. He’s the baddie, but we aren’t, right?”
Oh no, words, they’re so terribly hurtful.
I use United Nations and the consensus of the international community to make my decisions. You use shitty lies perpetuated by zionists. You haven’t posted a single source for any of your claims, and purposefully ignored the ones I’ve sent, because you’re literally made to think they’re not real by conditioning you into not accepting that Israel ever does anything bad.
Your refusal to believe Israel is GENOCIDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN is what shows how brainwashed you are.
##Two Thirds of Gaza War Dead Are Women and Children, Briefers Say, as Security Council Debates Their Plight
Sima Sami Bahous, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), recalled that women and girls pay the highest price when armed conflict erupts. Since 7 October, when Hamas fighters attacked Israel, 67 per cent of the more than 14,000 people killed in Gaza are estimated to be women and children. “That is two mothers killed every hour and seven women every two hours,” she said. “We mourn them all.”
Every day, 180 women are giving birth without water, painkillers, anaesthesia for Caesarean sections, electricity for incubators or medical supplies, she said. Mothers, meanwhile, mix baby formula with contaminated water — when they find it — and go without food so that their children can live another day. “Women in Gaza have told us that they pray for peace, but that if peace does not come, they pray for a quick death, in their sleep, with their children in their arms,” she said. “It should shame us all that any mother, anywhere, has such a prayer.”
Could you imagine defending Hitler in 1940 by saying “I’m choosing the lesser evil”? Probably not. So open your eyes and smell the genocide.
Still vehemently denying that Israel is committing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
You’re just unable to accept it. Literally. You will not be able to address a single article of the UN and OCHR I’ve linked and accept them as reality. Do you not understand how childish it is to pretend that second hand Israeli propaganda is more credible than the rest of the world combined?
Prove me wrong and address these WOMEN AND CHILDREN BEING PURPOSEFULLY KILLED BY ISRAEL.
It makes my stomach hurt knowing that people like you exist, that people will defend a genocide, of slaughtering children, while pretending they care about children dying.
It’s insane.
“How do you think Israel should react”
How about by not committing genocide? That’s a good start, in my opinion. How about not using collective punishment, which is a LITERAL WAR CRIME?
So you think Israel shouldn’t be held to the standards of international laws, and should be allowed to act like an international terrorist organisation, and should be allowed to continue a literal GENOCIDE?
Imagine if you had lived 90 years earlier and you’d have to listen to non-Jewish Germans going on about “well Germany shouldn’t just sit and take these [a horrible ethnic insult] taking over our jobs and industries. They’re all to blame for! Let’s get them in the gas chambers! It’s ONLY REASONABLE!”
You sicken me. Prove me wrong and address even one of these articles.
##Two Thirds of Gaza War Dead Are Women and Children, Briefers Say, as Security Council Debates Their Plight
Sima Sami Bahous, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), recalled that women and girls pay the highest price when armed conflict erupts. Since 7 October, when Hamas fighters attacked Israel, 67 per cent of the more than 14,000 people killed in Gaza are estimated to be women and children. “That is two mothers killed every hour and seven women every two hours,” she said. “We mourn them all.”
Every day, 180 women are giving birth without water, painkillers, anaesthesia for Caesarean sections, electricity for incubators or medical supplies, she said. Mothers, meanwhile, mix baby formula with contaminated water — when they find it — and go without food so that their children can live another day. “Women in Gaza have told us that they pray for peace, but that if peace does not come, they pray for a quick death, in their sleep, with their children in their arms,” she said. “It should shame us all that any mother, anywhere, has such a prayer.”
"I have a feeling of déjà vu. Just like in February 2022, as columns of troops approached my city of #Kyiv, I have a feeling of impending apocalypse. Back then, my worry was the #Russians. I was thinking of my inevitable death, of soldiers laying their hands on me, torturing me just because I am #Ukrainian.
This time, the sinking feeling comes from the #West. Our allies, who promised to support us as long as it takes, have other problems to deal with."
I attribute #Navalny death to #congress inaction to fund #ukraine . #putin is obviously encouraged because the #west does nothing about Putin's transgressions. The violations will grow in scope and scale until Putin is stopped. Every kick of the Putin can down the road results in another escalation by Putin. Putin wants to re-partition Eastern #Europe and central #asia . We might feel indifferent. After we have compromised our way of life, we will feel pain.
On Feb 14h, Dmitry #Peskov, the #Russian Presidential Press Secretary said:
“A special military operation began against #Ukraine. Over time, it took the form of a war against the collective #West. This is a war when the countries of the collective West, led by the United States, are directly involved in the conflict. Yes, this may lead to the fact that the operation will take a little longer, but cannot change the course of things,”
#Herzog speaking as if #Palestine was already a "nation" when it isn't because of #Israel & the #West. All that follows in his reasoning is pure hare-brained ideas. And they have risen up against the real evil regime oppressing them : the one from himself & his fellow #Netanyahu.
#West whose institutions are ravaged by #capitalist lobbies, military #warmongers & sadistic #politicians is irrelevant when reprimanding others. This whole polemic is pure #fascism. Nothing else.
#Russia's occupation of #Ukraine amounts to a deliberate ethnic cleansing campaign that relies on a strategy of forced depopulation and repopulation, creating the façade of multigenerational and irreversible impacts intended to further isolate Ukraine from the #West.
Quality of life -- for both humanity and the planet itself -- involves freedom from the credence that it's unreasonable to expect ALL people to treat other people, and the resources of this planet, with respect, dignity, and honor.
As long as there are rulers, neither humanity nor the planet will benefit.
When #Israel does that kind of project, that kind of announcement, and dare to materialize it - mass bombing, mass killing, mass destruction, mass starvation, mass flooding... - it can't be denied it's the "terrorist" one & it's committing a #genocide. What #west is doing is to participate. None of these politicians, these governments, has any credibility. They should be ashamed of themselves. Disgust is all what they can inspire. I don't even know how they can listen to themselves.
"A plan to provide more artillery shells to #Ukraine by having #Japan send munitions to #Britain has stalled, underscoring the challenge the #West faces in increasing #Kyiv’s stocks of the much-needed ammunition."
As Gaza is destroyed, Israel is killing dozens of children in the West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
While the world’s attention is on Gaza, life for Palestinians in the West Bank is also growing increasingly precarious. There has been a surge in settler violence and a spike in unlawful lethal force from Israeli forces....
Explainer: Democratic Republic of Congo protests: expert explains why Congolese anger against the West is justified – and useful to the government (theconversation.com)
Since early February, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, has been rocked by protests directed against western embassies. Protests took place in front of the British and French embassies, and in front of United Nations buildings. Throughout the city, American and Belgian flags were burned....
Consistency (lemmy.world)