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In solidarity with Gaza and the world's forgotten millions
By Share The World’s Resources (STWR)
The moral burden lies with us all to express solidarity with the people of Palestine. And let's not forget the other ‘silent’ conflicts and famines that are mounting across the world, which also demands a massive international response in the face of political apathy and indifference.
Since Israel’s military response in Gaza to the 7 October attack by Hamas, hundreds of civil society organisations have supported the call for a ceasefire. Global humanitarian and human rights groups also demand that all UN member states immediately halt arms transfers to Israel and Palestinian armed groups in order to avert further humanitarian catastrophe and loss of life.
While sharing the outrage and condemnation for the horrific attacks by Hamas, it is important to acknowledge its causes in decades of state-sanctioned violence against Palestinians by Israel. Rights groups have long documented the shameful hallmarks of colonialism and apartheid in Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. The Gaza Strip has endured unimaginable suffering as a result of the illegal blockades imposed since the 1990s, a form of collective punishment that has turned Gaza into an ‘open-air prison’. But over the past seven months, Israel has gravely violated international law with its unprecedented military assaults on the besieged territory, killing upwards of 35,000 people including over 15,000 children.
List of war crimes and crimes qualifying as genocide committed by Israel in Gaza between 7th & 14th October 2023
Yanis Varoufakis
War crimes are an everyday occurrence in the West Bank. From the Observer/Guardian: ‘They want revenge. They’re saying, either we die or you die’: West Bank residents fear rising tide of violence
Defenders of Israel’s bombing and invasion of Gaza have challenged me to offer a ‘chapter-and-verse’ list of war crimes that Israel has committed since the Hamas Offensive of 7th October.
Here is an indicative, but not exhaustive, list. There is no doubt: Israel is investing in war crimes to effect its recapture and ethnic cleansing of Gaza while, at the same time, practising similar tactics in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court – Genocide
Article 6(c): Deliberately inflicting on a group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
● Imposition of a complete siege of the Gaza Strip, totally depriving Gazans of electricity, food and fuel, and tightening even more the existing 16-year-old blockade thereof.[1]
Article 25(3)(c): For the purpose of facilitating the commission of such a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission
● Israel purchases 10,000 riffles for Israeli settlers[2]
Article 25(3)(e): Directly and publicly Incites others to commit genocide
● “We are fighting human animals, and we act accordingly” (Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant)[3]
War crimes – Grave breaches of the Wilful killings of the 1949 Geneva Conventions
Leading Terrorist Nation Keeps Various Lists of Which Other Nations It Deems Terrorists, Takes Cuba Off One of Them
By David Swanson
The world’s leading military spender, arms dealer, foreign base builder, opponent of the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, hold-out on basic human rights and disarmament treaties, and fueler of the wars in Palestine and Ukraine has removed Cuba from its list of nations that “do not fully cooperate with the United States antiterrorist efforts for the 2023 calendar year,” and yet — nonsensically — kept Cuba on its list of state sponsors of terrorism. So, Cuba is sponsoring terrorism AND fully cooperating with the United States’ supposed anti-terrorism efforts — presumably including the outrageously counterproductive ongoing War on Terrorism. Except that, as far as we know, and judging by the total lack of any actual allegations from the U.S. government (other than naming a likely nonexistent attack after Cuba’s capital) Cuba is NOT sponsoring terrorism.
More People Go Missing In This Alaska Region Than In All Of America
BY LAKEISHA ETHANS
With over 16,000 disappearances, the Alaska Triangle leaves experts baffled. Is it nature, foul play, or something supernatural?
The Alaska Triangle's disappearance rate doubles the national average, with over 20,000 missing since the 1970s.
Harsh terrain, unpredictable weather, and hidden dangers contribute to the mystery of vanishings in this rugged region.
From high-profile cases like the Hale Boggs disappearance to supernatural theories, the Alaska Triangle remains a captivating enigma.
The vast Alaskan wilderness holds a beauty as untamed as its dangers. But beneath the awe-inspiring glaciers in national parks and rugged mountain ranges lurks a chilling mystery: the Alaska Triangle. This region, roughly formed by a triangle connecting Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik, has become notorious for its alarmingly high number of missing persons.
From Habsora to Lavender – The Israeli AI ‘Machines Hunting Down People’ In Gaza
By Robert Inlakesh
Attention has recently been refocused on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by the Israeli military to help them kill Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
This has come after renowned Hollywood actor, Mark Ruffalo, retweeted an article written for the MIT’s Technology Review about the subject.
Since November of 2023, when +972 Mag published its investigative article entitled “A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza”, the extent to which the Israeli military is relying on AI technology in conducting its assault on the Palestinian territory has been public knowledge.
From The Gospel to Lavender
The piece revealed that Israel had been using a specific Artificial Intelligence program eerily called Habsora (The Gospel), in order to auto-generate targets at a speed which would not be humanly possible without it.
NATO “Youth Summit” Tells Viewers to Get Ready for War
By David Swanson
The recent NATO “Youth Summit,” even on double speed, is over an hour and a half on Youtube. I couldn’t watch it all, as it just made me feel old — so old that I can remember when people could feel shame about profiteering from mass killing or promoting world wars likely to end in nuclear apocalypse.
The summit’s “youth” participants appear to have met some requirement of being roughly younger than either Biden OR Trump — and there may have been as many as tens of them participating. Mostly they let us know how hip and with-it NATO is.
From the History of Israeli−Palestinian Conflict: The First Palestinian Intifada against the State of Israel (1987−1993) and its Political Consequences
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
The meaning of intifada
The Arabic word intifada means “shaking off” but in the political language as a term, it means “uprising”. More precisely, this term refers to the two Palestinian uprisings on both territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. These two territories were occupied by Israel during The 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and the coalition of the Arab states in the region of the Middle East.[1] Both intifadas lasted from 1987 to 2000.[2]
The First Intifada
The First Intifada was, in fact, the spontaneous uprising in 1987 which lasted until 1993. It began as a revolt of the Palestinian youth throwing stones against the forces of the Israeli occupation but soon became a widespread movement involving civil disobedience with periodic large-scale demonstrations supported by commercial strikes. Usually, it is considered that the beginning of the First Intifada was a response to:
- The realization that the Palestinian Question in the Middle East together with the Arab-Israeli conflict was not seriously taken into consideration by the Governments of Arab states.
- The fact that the Palestinians in the so-called Occupied Territories (after The 1967 Six-Day War) should have to take matters into their own hands.
How to Avoid Reporting That a University Is Lying About Police Violence
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan exiting Pavilion VI
is confronted by students protesting his decision to break
up an anti-war demonstration, Thursday, May 9, 2024.
By David Swanson
I’m old enough to remember a video of a New York Times reporter who let slip that she’d been instructed never to say the president of the United States had lied, even if he (George W. Bush) was just blatantly lying. Not that she objected to the policy. It made perfect sense to her. Now I can’t find that video because the internet is so weighted down with accounts of Trump and Biden lying.
But I was quite pleasantly surprised when the only local daily here in Charlottesville, the Daily Progress, printed a straightforward report on the president of the University of Virginia recently lying about police violence against students protesting genocide. I was less excited about the following chart from the local weekly, the Cville Weekly.
Plastic Pollution Mortality Facts: It is in Your Veins, Causing Cancer, Heart Attacks, Strokes, and Death
by Tracy Turner
Plastic has been in use for over a century. It was first created in the mid-19th century, with the invention of celluloid in 1869, and it is considered the first actual plastic. The widespread commercial production of plastics began in the early 20th century.
"Despite its deep roots, plasticulture is often overlooked in mainstream discussions of sustainable agriculture (mainly because of its non-visibility in the public eye), but researchers are increasingly discovering the practice poses real threats to the future of food security.
Late last year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued A Call for Action concerning the long-term impact of plasticulture on terrestrial and aquatic environments and human health. The FAO found that in 2019 alone, 12.5 million tons of plastic products were used in plant and animal production, and another 37.3 million tons in food packaging. Most of those plastics are single-use and replaced annually, if not seasonally. Often possessing little recycling value, millions of tons end up in landfills or are incinerated, releasing microplastics into food, fields, air, and water all along the way." FAO/Sierra Club.
How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza
Employees from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an
Israeli air strike on their vehicles in the central Gaza Strip.
(Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
JAMES BAMFORD
Because it isn’t so much the bombs that kill but the list that puts civilians in the way of the bombs.
Glilot Junction, in the Israeli city of Ramat HaSharon, is a crossroad where the Trans-Samaria Highway bisects the Coastal Highway. It is also a key crossroad for Israel’s human and technical spies. On the east side of the highway is Hertzog Camp and to the west is Dane Camp. Together, the 462 acres of land make up Camp Moshe Dayan‑the most secret military base in the country.
Surrounded by a variety of intrusion-prevention devices and high steel fences topped with barbed wire, Camp Dayan is home to a number of highly sensitive military intelligence instillations, including its central training base; the advanced Targeting Center; Unit 81, a secret technology unit attached to the Special Operations Division; and the IDF Signals Intelligence College.
