Israel's religious extremist finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, just ramped up his ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. The US immediately condemned the move as illegal.
#Smotrich and #Bibi share the goal of getting Trump elected, and they've seen that atrocities against Palestinians are an easy way to make it happen. Is this a team effort, designed to let Bibi maintain at least token concessions to Biden?
I'm interested in takes from #Israel politics experts.
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Yesterday, in the middle of an answer from prime minister Trudeau, #Poilievre gets up to leave and his caucus gives him a STANDING ovation, interrupting Trudeau, and exasperating the Speaker.
@pinhman@gemelliz Pierre will axe the tax, end the housing shortage, eradicate all crime, stop car theft, and build new roads, end all disease, make abortions illegal, ensure women & children take their rightful place in society, end all inflation, return food prices to their original level, convince #Putin to stop the war, convince #Bibi to stop his genocide, and make sure no one stays woke. And he will do all this in the first 30 days of being elected PM. #MapleMAGAPierre will make us great.
#UN / Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says
Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food:
“There is no reason to intentionally block the passage of humanitarian aid or intentionally obliterate small-scale fishing vessels, greenhouses and orchards in Gaza – other than to deny people access to food,”
“Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime. Israel has announced its intention to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, simply for being Palestinian. In my view as a UN human rights expert, this is now a situation of genocide. This means the State of Israel in its entirety is culpable and should be held accountable – not just individuals or this government, or that person.”
@oatmeal@israel@palestine The total eradication of a people b/c of #Bibi and his hatred of Palestinians. All he wants is to reclaim the land and get rid of every single living man, woman and child in Gaza. He will face his #Karma but it can’t be soon enough for me. May his soul forever be tormented.
I have just read (the Guardian) what #Bibi has said recently about the emergence of Palestinian state and I'll just say that allowing just #Israel to exist in the contested land would also reward state terrorism and coercion against civilian populace and therefore reward Israel for doing all the heinous shit it does.
Especially since most of us would probably agree Israeli military actions these past few months outclass what Hamas did by at least few notches.
Considering the Israeli government's stance on the matter, leaving them free to do whatever with Palestinians after that 'war' would just allow them to further realise genocidal ambitions.
I really wish we could just kick Israel from the UN and treat them as another warmongering power until the government changes to something more cooperative if not dissolving Israeli state in it's current form entirely.
So, struck with a sudden change of heart, #Bibi has stated that civilians are free to escape the 'battle zones'. The question emerges: to where? #Rafah, the place 1,4 million war refugees had been directed to is the furthest Palestinians can go, without crossing international borders.
And what exactly does he mean by a 'battle zone'?
Didn't #Israel bomb the shit out of so-called 'safe zones' this week? The ones comprised of tents full of unarmed civilians?
It has taken enough outcry to change the blind hold Israel has over the English speaking nations. For the first time #Biden has stated clearly that #Israel went over board in #Rafah, and the #UK is putting sanctions on settlers in the #westbank who have been engaged in Klan tactics. #Bibi has destroyed Israels standing in the world, and further degrades it daily even with his own blind ally nations. They need to be viewed as just another country that can do horrible things if they know they can get away with it, just like any other nation. Once the halo effect is gone, they will have to deal with to effects of what they did, just like Germans did for many of their ancestors.
Keep up they pressure on your elected leaders, it's working, just way to slowly
Please keep donating because the crisis is beyond high, the needs are many & we need to show our global humanity over cruel geopolitics & BS power games by government asshats.
"The UN’s children’s agency has reported that Israel’s genocidal siege of Gaza has orphaned 19,000 Palestinian children so far.
"All 1.1 million of the children in Gaza are currently in need of mental health assistance, according to UNICEF — but, with Israel having destroyed nearly the entire health care system in the region, there are little to no resources to be found."