News and Analysis 10/16/23

The Israeli state has no right to defend itself from the people it occupies. It does have a duty to defend its citizens, a duty at which it has failed miserably:

• Israel & The Myth of ‘Self Defence’ (YouTube / Double Down News)
• A Textbook Case of Genocide (Jewish Currents)
• Water Runs Out at UN Shelters in Gaza. Medics Fear for Patients as Israeli Ground Offensive Looms (Washington Post)

The language of the Israeli and American governments triggers more violence …

• The Language Being Used to Describe Palestinians Is Genocidal (The Guardian)

… case in point:

• A 6-year-old Palestinian-American Was Stabbed 26 Times for Being Muslim, Police Say. His Mom Couldn’t Go to His Funeral Because She Was Stabbed, Too (CNN)

“[Y]ou don’t need an army of 360,000 troops to reoccupy Gaza.” So what exactly is Netanyahu planning to do?

• The Nakba that Israel Has Started Will Backfire (Middle East Eye)

Columbia, Spain, and South Africa are among the first non-Muslim countries to call for action against the Israeli war criminals:

• Colombia Condemns Genocide in Gaza, Threatens to Sever Ties with Israel (Middle East Monitor)
• “We Ask Our Partner that, as the Government of Spain, We Bring Netanyahu Before the International Criminal Court for War Crimes” (X / Palestine Deep Dive)
  
• South Africa’s Top Diplomat on Gaza: ‘Let’s Do Something, Comrades’ (Palestine Chronicle)

“The occupation has closed the exits and entrances to all cities in the West Bank and erected more barriers and cement cubes blocking passage between them”:

• Israel Is Besieging the West Bank as It Decimates Gaza (Mondoweiss)

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