Genocide in Gaza? Part II

Stating the obvious^… again

Do I have to include a ‘clause’ every time I comment on this topic, to the effect of being very well-aware of the contentious nature of the voting system in conjunction with the electable choices at hand.

The voters’ job doesn’t end after the votes have been counted, but continues for the duration of the entire term, in ensuring that that government stays on track with their promises to that Party.

If nobody had bothered to act over this election and not gone out and voted, you’d still have the Biden/Kamala/Dems administration, but they did bother… and then there’s the next term’s election to be focusing on in conjunction to all that ^.

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Read the above, and chill:woman_shrugging:

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Now… on a fun/funny note:

Well, if Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone are part of the intention to make Hollywood ‘better’ I guess I’ll be watching even fewer Hollywood films than I already do!

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I wouldn’t say that Palestine is wholly innocent in the Gaza/Israel situation, as the videos I shared demonstrates, but the deaths on all sides has been truly atrocious.

“Hamas reneges on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators and Israel in an effort to extort last minute concessions,” a statement from Netanyahu said. “The Israeli cabinet will not convene until the mediators notify Israel that Hamas has accepted all elements of the agreement.”

Following the Israeli announcement, senior Hamas official Izzat al-Risheq said in a statement that the Palestinian group was committed to the ceasefire agreement announced by mediators on Wednesday.

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The world needs to know peace/what peace is…

I agree, but the smokescreens that American politicians are throwing up (but also allied governments) are just fooling people. It’s like the ‘magicians’ who are really just illusionists.

In his comment to the book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi, John J. Mearsheimer, co-author of The Israel Lobby writes:
‘Rashid Khalidi makes clear that the Zionists could not have created modern day Israel without abundant help from Britain and the United States. A must read for the growing number of people who are interested in understanding the real roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.’
This is an interview with Rashid Khalidi:

Yeah, anyone who doesn’t know about the Balfour Agreement and the real reasons behind WW2 is probably not going to understand Israel’s newest iteration of genocide and land theft either.

JINSAFUT, West Bank (AP) — Shortly after suspected Jewish settlers stormed Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank late Monday, setting cars and property ablaze, U.S. President Donald Trump canceled sanctions against Israelis accused of violence in the territory.

The reversal of the Biden administration’s sanctions, which were meant to punish radical settlers, could set the tone for a presidency that is expected to be more tolerant of Israel’s expansion of settlementsand of violence toward Palestinians. In Trump’s previous term he lavished support on Israel, and he has once again surrounded himself with aides who back the settlers.

Settler leaders rushed to praise Trump’s decision on the sanctions, which were first imposed nearly a year ago as violence surged during the war in Gaza. The sanctions were later expanded to include other Israelis seen as violent or radical.

Finance Minister and settler firebrand Bezalel Smotrich called it a just decision, saying the sanctions were a “severe and blatant foreign intervention.” In a post on social media platform X, he went on to praise Trump’s “unwavering and uncompromising support for the state of Israel.”

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The West Bank’s 3 million Palestinians already live under seemingly open-ended Israeli military rule, with the Palestinian Authority administering cities and towns. Smotrich and other hard-line settler leaders want Israel to annex the West Bank and rebuild settlements in Gaza, territories that Israel seized during the 1967 Mideast war.

Palestinians want both territories for a future state and have long viewed the settlements as a major obstacle to peace, while the international community overwhelmingly considers them illegal. There are more than 500,000 settlers in the West Bank who have Israeli citizenship.

At her confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said she stood by previous remarks in which she said Israel had a “biblical right” to the occupied territory.

Late Monday, dozens of masked men who are widely believed to be settlers marauded through at least two Palestinian villages and attacked homes and businesses, according to officials in Jinsafut and Al-Funduq, which are roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated 12 people who were beaten by the men. It gave no details on their condition. Israel’s military said the men hurled rocks at soldiers who had arrived to disperse them, and that it had launched an investigation.

Violence has surged in the West Bank during the Gaza war, so it was not clear if the attack had any link to the inauguration. On Tuesday, meanwhile, Israel launched a deadly raid on the Jenin refugee camp.

Jalal Bashir, the head of Jinsafut’s village council, said that the men attacked three houses, a nursery and a carpentry shop located on the village’s main road. Louay Tayem, head of the local council in Al-Funduq, said dozens of men had fired shots, thrown stones, burned cars, and attacked homes and shops.

“The settlers were masked and had incendiary materials,” said Bashir. “Their numbers were large and unprecedented.”

On Tuesday, the charred shells of cars lay on the side of the road in Jinsafut and residents surveyed the damage to a burned storage space.

Growing impunity, even after Biden’s sanctions

Biden’s executive order against the settlers marked a rare break with America’s closest Middle East ally, and signaled his frustration with what critics say is Israel’s leniency in dealing with violent settlers.

Rights groups say that impunity has deepened since Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz exempted settlers from what is known as administrative detention — Israel’s practice of detaining individuals on security grounds without charge or trial — which is routinely used against Palestinians.

Katz, who freed all Israelis held in administrative detention just last week, said those behind Monday’s attack should be held accountable in Israel’s more transparent criminal justice system.

Palestinian residents, meanwhile, are tried in Israeli military courts.

Biden’s sanctions were aimed at settlers who were involved in acts of violence, as well as threats against and attempts to destroy or seize Palestinian property. They later were broadened to include other groups, including Tzav 9, an activist organization that was accused of disrupting the flow of aid into Gaza by trying to block trucks heading into the territory.

Reut Ben-Chaim, a mother of eight who founded the group and was then slapped with sanctions that crippled her wellness company and prohibited her access to credit cards or banking apps, welcomed Trump’s step.

“We have heard in the last few days that the Trump administration is going to be the most pro-Israel there has been,” she told The Associated Press. “These actions, such as the removal of the sanctions … these are actions that already mark the way forward.”

Support for Israel could clash with wider ambitions

Trump has long boasted of his support for Israel, but he has also pledged to end wars in the Middle East. That could require exerting some pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Even before taking office, Trump appears to have pressed Netanyahu to accept a Gaza ceasefire agreementwith Hamas that strongly resembled one the Biden administration had been pushing for months.

Trump has also said he hopes to bring Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords, under which the United Arab Emirates and other Arab countries forged ties with Israel during his first term. The Saudis have said they will only sign such a historic agreement if it includes a pathway to a Palestinian state — a nonstarter for Netanyahu’s government.

During his first term, Trump moved the American embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights — which it captured from Syria in the 1967 war — and presented a Mideast peace plan that was seen as overwhelmingly favorable to Israel.

He also let settlement construction in the West Bank surge unchecked.

But he seemed at the time to have tapped the brakes on Netanyahu’s plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, something Israel’s far-right settlers have demanded for years. Netanyahu said he temporarily shelved the idea as part of the agreement with the UAE.

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Goldenberg reported from Tel Aviv, Israel.

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TIA GOLDENBERG

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Anyone who voted for Trump or didn’t vote at all as a protest against the Biden -Harris virtually unconditional support for Israel should take notice.

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Gaza did so first, on the day of the ceasefire announcement.

And don’t forget, this isn’t about Islam. There are plenty of Palestinian Christians who Israel is also murdering.

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To weaken Hamas Israel must restore the rights of Palestinians. Like all people ordinary Palestinians want to be safe and free. Peter Beinart has a nuanced view of the situation.

For Palestinians returning to their homes in Northern Gaza, and for families in Israel reuniting with their loved ones, conversation now begins to turn to rebuilding, processing, and healing. Renowned physician, author and self-help guru Dr. Gabor Maté, a Holocaust survivor, has an intimate understanding of the process. He joins Michel Martin to discuss how his own life experience has informed his perspective on trauma in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Mate’ has a profound perspective on psychological healing based on his own traumatic experiences.

Emperor Trump proposes “plan”(concept?) to put the finishing touches on ethnic cleansing in Gaza by deporting the indigenous Palestinians to ______[to be determined].

Man, that’s gotta be tough being a Palestinian right now. First, they come and take your land back in the 40s, then they come back and kick you out of the land they stole from you in 2025. Finally, when you die while wandering homeless through the desert, you get to go to hell for eternity for not believing in the god of the people who destroyed you.

When those fuckin’ arabs get all stirred up, put their headbands on and wanna start cutting western heads off, i get it man. I totally get it.

It’s surreal man. Sounding like the real estate developer he once was, Trump vowed to turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” He’s gonna scrub it “clean” of those nasty arabs. It’ll be like Mar a Lago. Kushner already scoped it out during Trump’s first term. Netanyahu has been doing the demolition prep work on it since October 2023. An estimated 50 thousand have been terminated in the process. It’s impossible for me to imagine the suffering. But, there are still around 2 million arabs there. Where are they going to ship them? Egypt and Jordan don’t want them. El Salvador? Guantanamo? As far as your” Hell for eternity” statement that may be your belief it’s not mine. Your stereotype doesn’t fit.

The fabulously rich Saudi Arabia wants no part of them, neither does Trans Jordan. Where is Arab Unity when the chips are down?

The arab diaspora. Hopefully the arabs have sense enough not to interpret this mess as punishment by Allah and instead as an opportunity granted by Allah to go full retard on the west. They are a much more masculine, more aggressive, more prideful people who feel an alliance with their god, unlike the guilt-ridden paranoia of the jewish people/psyche who are always being punished or displaced or cursed, etc.

Honestly I wish he would. I know he won’t but I wish he would. Some superpower actually taking control of gaza is probably the only chance gaza has at breaking out of the cycle of violence, which he says in that video - I think he’s right about that one.

It’s definitely an unpopular opinion in a lot of places, probably even cancel-worthy of me to say, but fuck, if he did it, if he actually did it, 20 years from now young gazans could have a completely different outlook on their life, and be working to build themselves up instead of tear israel down. That’s what gaza needs really, and it’s not going to happen without someone making it happen.

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Capitalism has a way of bolstering itself by coming to the rescue of its own disasters. Theology is largely to blame, too, but capitalism is not opposed to theology and often works with it, so it’s indirectly to blame here as well.

Lol, imagine a Middle East where god never spoke to moses, and M never met Gabriel in that cave or whatever. By now, Gaza could very well be like a tourist zone where jews and arabs live together and think nothing of it. Had history gone differently.

It’s so crazy how many countless millions have died and are still dying because of this one little thing. This one little fatal flaw in human beings. Their imagination. And when they suffer, their imaginations try to save them and they totally take over. Enter religion.

Trump’s aides tried to walk back his plan to take over Gaza

Top Trump administration officials attempted today to soften crucial elements of President Trump’s proposal that the U.S. should take over Gaza and drive out the Palestinian population there. The plan, which the president laid out last night, was sharply criticized by allies and adversaries alike.

Do you remember how many lies Trump told during his first term? Why would we expect it to be any different this time?

The job of sane washing Trump’s “plan” falls to Rubio. I wonder how long he’ll last. Trump goes through people like diarrhea goes through toilet paper.

Remember when Trump was against nation building in the middle east?