This is literally money talking and feeling it has been disrespected by someone expressing their opposition to further killing after 35,000+ Gazans (at least half women and children) have already been slaughtered and seen their open air confinement zone razed in reply to the Oct 7 loss of 1,200 Israelis.
We have here a picture of exactly the calculus our politicians are using to assess their larger interests in relation to Gaza.
"It is frankly incredible to me that advocating for a cessation of hostilities is seen as not only controversial, but somehow hateful.
"Criticism of the actions of the Israeli government does not in and of itself constitute antisemitism. That accusation… serves to trivialize the regrettably very real instances of antisemitism that do occur."
"Israel is retaliating against Hamas in Gaza — an enclave of 2.3 million people — over the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian militants where more than 1,200 people were killed and over 150 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies."
("According to Israeli tallies" is new.)
Will it last?
"Enclave" is unhelpful though; it's a confinement zone.
Complaining & writing to politicians helps. That's the only reason this might be changing.
Another shameful whitewash in #CBC racist reporting on #Gaza and the #ICC proceedings this morning.
Dismissal of SA’s ‘allegations’ with zero detail of the evidence being presented (like the man left to die with maggots eating away at the wounds left by a double leg amputation) and a full megaphone given to fascist Israeli government outrage and claims the operation is strictly defensive.
We are the ordinary people blithely carrying on with our lives like those before us you-know-where.
Ten photos from major news outlets depicting the results of Israel's 'defensive' action in Gaza vs. those of Russian-led scorched earth campaigns. Each image is presented as found on the source; no cropping or adjustments applied.
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If you find anti-genocide protests leaving you feeling ‘uncomfortable’, imagine watching your baby bleed out after receiving a dose of US-made shrapnel from a US-made bomb dropped by a US-made airplane in a US-funded, religious-extremist-run ethnic cleansing program.
We really are drifting into #police state territory.
#Poilievre is speaking in tongues to the junior aspirants; they fully understand him.
It’ll grow worse as today’s young men prove unable to adjust to the new #economy (it needs fewer, smarter of them). They’ll feel shamed. Poilievre promises to help them feel better, stronger, more effective somehow—if only by crying ‘no!’ like ranting toddlers.
Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.
2 guys fired for getting Israel in trouble by doing what they’ve been ordered to do and have done many times already, nevermind the journalists slaughtered in a parallel campaign to keep stories like these at bay (hence the obligatory firings).
Gaza today:
Millions bombed, starving, displaced. Thirty-three thousand dead and counting. Unknown numbers crushed, maimed, buried.