Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza 'De-Escalation' Talk
As Israel escalates its offensive, U.S. diplomats are being discouraged from publicly using three phrases that would urge calm.
In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”
'We Must Halt This': US Progressives, Humanitarians Decry Israel's Evacuation Order
"The mass expulsion of over 1 million people in a day is ethnic cleansing," said U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. "We must use all diplomatic tools to stop this."
Progressive members of the U.S. Congress joined humanitarian groups and the United Nations on Friday in condemning Israel's 24-hour evacuation order for the entire population of the northern Gaza Strip
"Israel’s president Isaac Herzog accused Palestinians in Gaza of being collectively responsible for the attack. “It’s not true this rhetoric about civilians [being] not aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true,” he said on Friday. “They could have risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’état.”
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Israel-Hamas war: Hamas tells people to stay put after Israeli military tells Gaza City residents to evacuate
UN spokesperson says evacuation order affects 1.1 million people and will spark ‘devastating humanitarian consequences’, amid expectations of Israeli ground assault
Letter from the Editor: We will likely soon see this genocidal impulse spread, as the Israeli government hands out automatic weapons to West Bank settlers, many of whom were already armed eliminationists. In this way, Jewish grief is routed back into the violence of a merciless system of Palestinian subjugation that reigns from the river to the sea.
Nearly 1,800 Palestinians killed, 6,400 injured in Gaza, say health officials
The Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza reported in a statement the ‘martyrdom of 1,799 citizens including 583 children and 351 women’, adding that nearly 7,000 people have been wounded.
Humza Yousaf: "This is Elizabeth El-Nakla. She is my mother-in-law. A retired nurse from Dundee, Scotland. She, like the vast majority of people in Gaza, has nothing to do with Hamas. She has been told to leave Gaza but, like the rest of the population, is trapped with nowhere to go."
Do watch it if you can bear to.
UK comrades who would like to show their support for Palestine (after donating to Medical Aid for Palestinians ofc):
Run, don't walk, to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign online store - their beautiful keffiyehs, pins, t-shirts & everything else are selling fast!
In the face of multiple western govts attempting to outlaw protest, it is important for us to show visible support for Palestine - & support campaign groups in resisting silencing. 🇵🇸
I am generally the last person to suggest shopping as a method for #SocialJustice.
But increasing the visibility of the Palestinian cause is not a trivial matter, as govts seek to cast #BDS and #Palestine advocacy as extremist or criminal.
Wearing a keffiyeh is a clear symbol of #solidarity with Palestine, and supporting PSC in the process is a bonus. Maybe you have friends or relatives who'd like one, too.
Consider how you'd like to show your support for Palestine. 🇵🇸
When peace was within reach they threw it away and have since worked to sabotage chances for a peaceful settlement in future.
Right now they are perpetrating war crimes: civilian homes eradicated with massive bombs, also white phosphorus, trapped, besieged, essentials for life denied. All clear crimes against humanity.
1,500 already murdered, the ground invasion will scale this up...with #RishiSunak's UK gov support 😱
The Council of Europe recognizes the Soviet-era starvation of millions in Ukraine as genocide.
The 'Holodomor' from 1932-33, known as 'death by starvation' in Ukranian, is considered by Kyiv as a deliberate Stalin-era genocide, when forced 'collectivization' led to millions starving.
Christ, this is awful. Expecting over a million in people to relocate to a new area in 24 h under threat of violence looks like it's setting Gaza up for a humanitarian catastrophe that will make what's happening in Ukraine look like a picnic.
Why on earth are western powers still supporting Israel in face of such genocidal behaviour?
@bp how the fuck do you want to move 1 million people to a place where there is nothing but another million? Let alone in one day. The #IDF and #Israel are committing #warcrimes and starting to commit #genocide here. They've had their own #concentrationcamp for many decades now. It's time the world and especially #enabler#USA should end this madness.
So, Israel starts the next phase in Palestine destruction.
Imagine if you lived in an open-air prison for 80 years, a prison that's grown smaller by each year, and you now are bombed by rockets, drones, and jet planes, and suddenly you're one of 1.1 million of those people living under extreme oppression, and your oppressors suddenly say 'move or get bombed, you have 24 hours to leave your cell'...just try and imagine this.
I wish all international states to put pressure on Israel to not do this.
Imagine if Russia did this to the Ukrainian people. There'd be outrage.
Meanwhile, Palestininans are treated with silence and death.
Give all you can to Palestinian aid movements. There are plenty of them out there.
Israel’s use of white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a question and answer document on white phosphorus. Human Rights Watch verified videos taken in Lebanon and Gaza on October 10 and 11, 2023, respectively.
A high-ranking #NATO official on the sidelines of a meeting of defense ministers of the Alliance countries said that.
"Regarding losses, the Russians are suffering significant losses, and we know this. We know for sure that the Russians suffer significantly more losses than the Ukrainians. We therefore believe that we are approaching a figure of around 300,000 Russian soldiers and mercenaries who have died since the invasion in Feb 2022”
Years of impunity for Israeli crimes against civilians have bred a culture of disregard for international law.
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant used genocidal language and ordered mass war crimes in the occupied Gaza Strip on Monday in response to Hamas’s weekend assault and massacre of Israeli civilians, setting the stage for a large-scale escalation of the violence
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I can give input. I will try to be civil but bear in mind I have the same strong emotions you expressed on the podcast, & feel Gaslit Nation, President Biden, and most Democrats - (yeah I'm not even considering Republicans, they'll have a terrible take) are gaslighting Palestinians. #FreePalestine#podcast
PACE recognises Holodomor as genocide (www.pravda.com.ua)
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has voted for the recognition of Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.