“President Biden and Secretaries Blinken and Austin have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with an Israeli government that has made clear its intention to destroy the Palestinian population in Gaza”:
Driven from their office to a hotel, journalists there were targeted, and “evacuated to Al Shifa Hospital, but them the hospital was threatened:
- I Joined Gaza’s Trail of Tears and Displacement (The Intercept)
“Jewish people (me included) attend Gaza solidarity marches for many reasons. But I would bet that none include giving free passes on antisemitism to leftists” …
- To Understand Israel-Palestine, First Understand the History of Racism and Antisemitism (The Guardian)
… but free speech threatens Israeli lies …
- Israel’s War on the Truth: Disinformation, Censorship & Social Media Complicity (Palestine Deep Dive / YouTube)
… such as that “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a call to eliminate Jews from the land (as if no Jew would want to live in a free country!) …
- From The River, to the Sea Isn’t Controversial (Left Reckoning /YouTube)
- Tensions High at Brandeis University After Palestine Supporters Arrested (WCVB)
… and, astoundingly, an “occupying power … that many human rights groups agree is imposing a system of apartheid, is trusted to relay information about its own atrocities”:
- When Palestinians Tell the World What Is Happening to Them, Why Are They Met with Disbelief? (The Guardian)
Israel’s war on hospitals continues:
- On Day 38 of Israeli Aggression on Gaza, Dozens Killed and Wounded as Siege of the Hospitals Continues (Wafa)
- Medics and Patients, Including Babies, Stranded as Battles Rage Around Gaza Hospitals (AP)
- Gaza’s Aqsa Hospital Warns Patients, Babies May End Up in Mass Graves Soon (Aljazeera)
- World Health Organization Says Gaza’s Main Hospital No Longer Functioning (BBC)
Settler-soldier violence increases:
- While It Bombs Gaza, Israel Is Now Shooting to Kill Palestinians in the West Bank (Haaretz)
- As Gaza War Wages On, Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians and Create a New Reality in the West Bank (Haaretz)
- Israel Using Gaza War to Forcibly Transfer Palestinians from South Hebron Hills (Btselem)
“Austin informed Yoav Gallant in a phone call on Saturday of the White House’s concern that Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon … could develop into a regional war” …
- US Warns Israel Against Escalating Lebanon Fighting, Says War Should Be Contained to Gaza (New Arab)
… and yet:
In “an air strike which struck the family home on 22 October. In total, 21 people were killed including [Ahmed al-Naouq’s] father, three sisters, two brothers and 14 of their children”:
“Gazans did at one point elect Hamas. But if you think that makes them all complicit in war crimes their government commits, then boy, do I have bad news for you about decades of U.S. foreign policy”:
- John Oliver Flips GOP Lawmaker’s ‘Disgusting’ Claim About Palestinians Against Him (Huffington Post)
Backtracking to conform to IsraEli policy not to admit to its nuclear arsenal, “Israel’s Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu … later called his remarks in a radio interview Sunday ‘metaphorical’”:
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