NotImpressed

NotImpressed, 1 month ago to Palestine

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"Israel has ended its assault on the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, because there is nothing left to assault...Israel is currently doing its usual song and dance where it claims the hospital was a Hamas headquarters and everyone it killed there was a “terrorist”, but at this point the only people buying that schtick are the ones who desperately need to."

Superb 👇

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/04/01/israels-savage-destruction-of-gazas-healthcare-system-is-exactly-what-it-looks-like/

NotImpressed, 1 month ago to Palestine

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“This is obscene,” Bernie Sanders wrote. “We must end our complicity: No more bombs to Israel. The U.S. cannot beg Netanyahu to stop bombing civilians one day and the next send him thousands more 2,000 lb. bombs that can level entire city blocks.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/weekly-briefing-biden-quietly-gives-massive-bombs-to-israel-even-as-establishment-voices-say-stop-the-genocide/

NotImpressed, 1 month ago to Palestine

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Annelle Sheline, a State Department official resigned in protest on Wednesday. She wrote:
"...as a representative of a government that is directly enabling what the International Court of Justice has said could plausibly be a genocide in Gaza, such work has become almost impossible. Unable to serve an administration that enables such atrocities, I have decided to resign from my position at the Department of State,”
This interview tells of a wider dissent:

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/28/annelle_sheline

NotImpressed, 1 month ago to Palestine

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This piece by Abubaker Abed, a journalist and translator from Deir al-Balah refugee camp in Gaza, is full of emotions. He's comparing past Ramadan to the current one.

What he says here ... I instantly heard it:
"The noise of Israel’s drones is shortening my life." ...if you watch Al Jazeera, their reporters from Gaza have to make themselves heard over the constant noise of drones, and they are fucking loud. They do it on purpose, so that nobody sleeps.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/ramadan-heartbreak/45426

NotImpressed, 1 month ago to Palestine

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On the Oct 7th atrocities that turned out to be lies, namely the NY Times article "Screams Without Words" or , as it has been publicly referred to "Screams Without Evidence"..

It'd be almost comical, were it not for the fact that people believed the article to be true and that various other news outlets reported it and amplified it.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-commission-7-october-rape-claims-exposed-fraud/45401

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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""Israeli forces just murdered my only brother in front of my eyes."
These are the last words Bayan Abusultan, a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza City, posted on X (formerly Twitter) on 19 March, before two weeks of silence...Abusultan has not posted on social media ever since,"

Before disappearing she also posted "If you google me and find out I was killed, please take care of my books,"

https://www.newarab.com/news/where-bayanpalestine-gazas-missing-reporter

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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UN Security Council adopts resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire.

All voted in favour. The US abstained. So, it passed.

"UN chief Antonio Guterres said in a post on X: “This resolution must be implemented. Failure would be unforgivable.”... Netanyahu will not be sending a high-level delegation to Washington in light of the new US position." Oh dear 😂

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/25/un-security-council-adopts-resolution-calling-for-immediate-gaza-ceasefire

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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Des Freedman on UK media bias when it comes to Palestine. Some examples:
"Since 1 February, there has not been a single mention of “genocide” in the Twitter feeds of BBC News, BBC World or Channel 4 News.
TV news raced to cover Israeli allegations that UNRWA staff were complicit with Hamas but are virtually silent on reports Israel coerced agency staff to falsely admit Hamas links."

I've been avoiding UK media for a long time, as you can tell 😉

https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-media-shouldnt-be-impartial-but-fearless-and-truthful/

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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Jeremy Scahill interviews Yasser Khan, a Canadian surgeon who went on a mission at the European Hospital in Gaza.

It's a tough read.

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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Jared Kushner's interview at Harvard is a train wreck lasting over an hour. Here's The Majority Report's take on it, so you don't have to watch the whole thing ... unless you really want to listen to a white supremacist sociopath talking about the real estate value of Gaza shoreline ...

I cannot say Jared Kushner without a "c" word attached to it. I just can't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0YgRZQl03I&t=329s

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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"On 18 January, Israeli forces bombed a residential compound in Gaza housing the emergency medical team of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), a British charity,...there is therefore a distinct possibility that Israel bombed a British medical facility with UK-supplied weaponry."
Also "...the Ministry of Defence is refusing to say whether its bases on Cyprus are being used to facilitate the bombing of Gaza, ..."

Yes, really.

https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-refuses-to-say-if-israel-bombed-british-doctors-with-uk-supplied-weaponry/

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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'Israel' fears 'snowball effect' of Western arms embargo after Canada

Here's a comparison between Canada's and US, Germany and UK's arms contributions to Israel.

My note: UN resolutions won't shift Netanyahu's lot. They've always ignored the UN. The only way the attack on Gaza will end is if the US stops funding Israel with cash and weapons. If you look at the numbers, they are huge..

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--fears--snowball-effect--of-western-arms-embargo-aft

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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Meanwhile, on the wrong side of history: "Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s trip to Jordan and Israel over the weekend once again emphasised the central role played by German imperialism in the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza...On the ground, the Chancellor repeatedly expressed his solidarity with Israel and the war aims of the far-right Netanyahu regime."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/20/xdsx-m20.html

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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Daily roundup from Mondoweiss.

In the Kew Developments, one piece of good news:
"Canada to halt arms sales to Israel after non-binding vote in parliament" ...we'll see

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-166-israel-kills-gaza-officials-handling-food-delivery-to-the-north-canada-votes-to-halt-arms-sales-to-israel/

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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#Uncommitted

The Uncommitted movement organisers:

“Today, we launched our national movement to let you all know uncommitted voters aren’t going anywhere, and we aren’t backing down until we achieve a permanent ceasefire.”

Biden stands a serious chance of losing the elections because of his support for Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza. If he stops the war, and he can, he'll regain voters:

“Stop funding the killing, then we can talk about November.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/18/how-the-uncommitted-vote-against-bidens-gaza-policy-is-going-national

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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"He [Muhammad Yaghi] is among more than 100 journalists who have been killed in the current genocide. To honor them, we must continue documenting Israel’s crimes.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/my-cousin-documented-israels-crimes/45136

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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"In a statement leaked to Al Jazeera, the trade union representing academics and staff at the University of Leeds said it has urged the university to suspend ties with Deutsch after passing a motion on Monday."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/8/uk-students-call-on-university-to-suspend-rabbi-who-served-in-israeli-army

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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#GenocideJoe

There is one pro-ceasefire candidate running in the California primary today: Barbara Lee.

In her own words:
"For me, doing what's right is leadership.
The lone vote against the war in Afghanistan then.
California's only US Senate candidate calling for a permanent,
unconditional ceasefire now.
Please vote for me, Barbara Lee-the peace and security candidate-by tomorrow, Tuesday!"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/5/how-gaza-ceasefire-became-a-focal-point-in-barbara-lees-us-senate-campaign

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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“Gantz, a former army chief and defence minister, will be received by Vice President Kamala Harris, which is being viewed as a sign of the White House’s growing frustration with Netanyahu…"

There’s growing frustration with Netanyahu domestically too: “An opinion poll conducted by Israeli Channel 13 showed that 53 percent of Israelis believe that political survival is what is pushing Netanyahu to prolong the war in Gaza.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/4/netanyahu-rivals-meeting-with-senior-us-leaders-signals-cracks-in

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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IDF soldiers think they are immune, international law doesn't apply to them. They've been raised and indoctrinated to hate Palestinians. Palestinians are sub-human in their eyes.
Try watching this short documentary without getting enraged. I couldn't. I'm shaking..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAT9NQ4WkE0

NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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#Blinken

Pro-Palestine protest outside Blinken's house. Blinken complained that demonstrators were scaring his children ... the answer to that is on everybody's lips right now.

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NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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Ethnic cleansing. This is what Israel has been doing since 1948: force Palestinians out of their homes and then bulldozing their homes down, to leave no trace of their existence. And then of course denying them return to their land. It's called ethnic cleansing. You cannot call it any other name. That's what it is.

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NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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Bisan's been posting every day from Gaza. This is Bisan on starvation imposed by Israel. And she's right... what are we doing about it?

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NotImpressed, 2 months ago to Palestine

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The legal argument from the Arab League. This lawyer single handedly destroys:
🔥 Israel as a racist, apartheid state
🔥 Their occupation of Palestinian trerritory
🔥 Their claims to justify their aggression
🔥 Colonialism at large

And as for the US and UK's (and Zambia ...wtf?) support and attempted legal justification of Israel's actions, he calls that:
"an affront to the international rule of law". Outstanding 👍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRn4qYAORAE

NotImpressed, 3 months ago to Palestine

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#israel
#nakba

Just finished reading The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

The Zionist state has managed to erase the history of the Nakba to an extent that most Israelis don't know how the state of Israel was really created.

If every Israeli could read this history book, quoting the author, "Israeli Jews would have to recognise that they have become the mirror image of their own worst nightmare."