Interview: Omer Bartov on Gaza Israel has made a "systematic attempt to make Gaza uninhabitable, as well as to destroy all institutions that make it possible for a group to sustain itself, not only physically but also culturally." Impunity for Israel "endangers the entire edifice of international law... a total moral, ethical failure" by the very countries that claim to be the main protectors of human rights.
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“Moral, Ethical Failure”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Since October 7, 2023, Israel’s onslaught in Gaza has killed more than 45,500 Palestinians and injured more than 108,000. At the same time, Gaza ...
 #GazaGenocide #USEnablement #USPol #BDS #IsraeliCrimes .
Analysis: Former Biden officials comment on his legacy The Biden legacy will be "American complicity in genocide & American tearing down of the rules-based international order.... Neither of those is a legacy that anyone should be proud of.” ~Josh Paul "The US has broken so many of our own laws to continue giving Israel weapons despite the massive amounts of evidence of war crimes committed." ~Lily Greenberg Cole
Al Jazeera
Enabling genocide? Former Biden officials reflect on the president’s legacy
As Biden’s term ends, federal workers who resigned over his Gaza policies share how they think he will be remembered.
 #BidenLegacy #GazaGenocide #USEnablement #USPol .
Report: "Israel is writing one of the darkest pages in the history of genocides, with Made-in-the-West ink." ~Francesca Albanese Albanese was referring to the IDF's forced displacement of staff & patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital & to a video showing a line of Palestinian men, stripped down to their underwear, walking with arms raised between Israeli battle tanks.
Al Jazeera
Updates: Kamal Adwan detainees beaten, humiliated by Israeli army
Gaza’s Health Ministry says fate of hospital director unknown after Israel took hundreds of prisoners during its raid.
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For those asking why the UN isn't stopping Israel: The UN & its courts, etc. have no policing power. They rely on member states imposing sanctions on criminal states. But many UN countries are client states of the US & afraid of retribution. In addition, the victors of ww2 designed the UN for their own imperial purposes. Hence the US ubiquitous use of its veto to protect Israel. It's up to UN members to sanction Israel.
Brave New Europe
Scott Burchill - The Western club- with its own morals, rules and rewards - Brave New Europe
Washington’s confected alternative to international law, the so-called “rules-based international order”, is now exposed as nothing more than...
 #UN #USPol #Israel #GazaGenocide #BDS .
For those asking why the UN isn't stopping Israel: The UN & its courts, etc. have no policing power. They rely on member states imposing sanctions on criminal states. But many UN countries are client states of the US & afraid of retribution. In addition, the victors of ww2 designed the UN for their own imperial purposes. Hence the US ubiquitous use of its veto to protect Israel. It's up to UN members to sanction Israel.
Brave New Europe
Scott Burchill - The Western club- with its own morals, rules and rewards - Brave New Europe
Washington’s confected alternative to international law, the so-called “rules-based international order”, is now exposed as nothing more than...
 #UN #USPol #Israel #GazaGenocide #BDS .
Analysis: Israeli forces: "a moral & historical low" "Israeli forces have emptied the last standing hospital in northern Gaza... [they] are reaching a … moral & historical low when it comes to attacking patients, staff, medical personnel, & the people of Gaza. “There is … absolutely no proof whatsoever that there has been any military activity from the resistance inside Kamal Adwan Hospital." ~Norwegian surgeon, Mads Gilbert
Al Jazeera
Updates: Israeli forces sets fire to Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital
These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza for Friday, December 27.
 #GeneralsPlan #GazaGenocide #US #BDS .
Report: Francesca Albanese has been named UN person of the year by PassBlue news. Albanese responded that she had simply acted as a "sentient human" in the face of genocide. The accolade, she said, speaks more "to the silence of the many, particularly in the west, who should have spoken & acted against Israeli crimes & have chosen not to."
Al Jazeera
Updates: Israeli forces sets fire to Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital
These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza for Friday, December 27.
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"How Fascism Came" "America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists & billionaires. "Now we pay the price." For over two decades, we warned "that the expanding social inequality & steady erosion of our democratic institutions, including the media, the Congress, organized labor, academia & the courts, would inevitably lead to an authoritarian or Christian fascist state."
How Fascism Came
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.
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Interview: Daniel Levy: Israel doesn't want a peace deal. There's too much profit being made for Israel out of Gaza genocide: *Having thoroughly dehumanised Palestinians over decades, Israel sells its totally immoral AI-driven mass-killing machines & programs as cutting-edge & "battle-tested" in Gaza. *It is ethnically cleansing & stealing Gazan land for illegal settlement - part of its "Greater Israel plan".
Al Jazeera
What’s blocking a ceasefire deal in Gaza?
Former Israeli adviser Daniel Levy argues that dehumanisation of Palestinians by Israel blocks peace efforts in Gaza.
 #GazaGenocide #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement #USPol .
"How Fascism Came" "America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists & billionaires. "Now we pay the price." For over two decades, we warned "that the expanding social inequality & steady erosion of our democratic institutions, including the media, the Congress, organized labor, academia & the courts, would inevitably lead to an authoritarian or Christian fascist state."
How Fascism Came
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.
 #USPol #Christofascism #plutocracy . image