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Sunday, February 11, 2024

غزه آئینهٔ تمام‌نمای سیاست‌های سلطه‌جویانۀ جنایتکاران جنگی

شانزده بهمن ۱۴۰۲
در پی افزایش قدرت جبهۀ مقاومت در غرب آسیا و گسترش دامنۀ مبارزه در جهان علیه جنایات آمریکا و اسرائیل در غزه، دولت‌های این دو کشور به سیاست مهلک ایجاد قحطی و گرسنگی جهت ادامۀ نسل‌کشی در سرزمین‌های اشغالی فلسطینیان دست یازیده‌اند. برخی از دولت‌های غربی، مانند آلمان، ایتالیا، کانادا، استرالیا، و انگلستان، در پیروی از آن‌ها طی روزهای گذشته کمک‌های مالی خود به «آژانس امدادرسانی و کاریابی برای آوارگان فلسطینی در خاور نزدیک» (آنروا) را قطع کردند.ا

برخلاف رأی اولیهٔ دیوان بین‌المللی دادگستری، اسرائیل و آمریکا با توسل به همهٔ توطئه‌ها به پاکسازی قومی در غزّه ادامه می‌دهند

شانزده بهمن ۱۴۰۲
در روز جمعه ۲۶ ژانویهٔ ۳۰۲۴، دیوان بین‌المللی دادگستری، با ۱۶ رأی مثبت و یک رأی منفی، قرار موقت و رأی اولیه خود را در تأیید نظر آفریقای جنوبی، به‌نفع مردم فلسطین و به ضرر اسرائیل صادر کرد. رأی اولیه بر آن است که آنچه در نوار غزه می‌گذرد از مصادیق جنایات بین‌المللی، از جمله نسل‌کشی است. واضح است که این جنایات بین‌المللی از جمله نسل‌کشی، با حمایت همه‌جانبهٔ دولت آمریکا از رژیم کودک‌کُش صیهونیستی صورت پذیرفته و به طرق مختلف و در نهایت قساوت هنوز هم ادامه دارد.ا

Friday, February 9, 2024

A Prescription for Peace in Gaza

February 9, 2024
Since Hamas’ October 7 attack triggered the most recent, brutal round of violence in Gaza, the discourse surrounding the conflict has remained stunningly stagnant. Both sides find themselves emboldened at home.
Palestinians attend injured baby in Al-Nasir Hospital  in Khan Yunis, Gaza

Thursday, February 8, 2024

The Orphans of Gaza

February 8, 2024
I’ve a bee in my bonnet when it comes to the children of Gaza, and so far, have not found any means to swat it away. The buzzing is making me a little crazy. This may be a very good thing….

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The Silence of the Damned

February 7, 2024
There is no effective health care system left in Gaza.
 

Deal With Iran Politically and Diplomatically, Not Militarily

February 7, 2024
There is a consensus on the right and the left that the only way to deal with Iran is with military force.  The conservative Chicken Hawks in the Senate and the House of Representatives believe targeting Iran—and not merely Iranian proxies—is essential. 

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Palestinians abused, forced to chant anti-Hamas slogans in ‘safe corridor’

February 6, 2024
For several weeks, the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip has witnessed intense Israeli bombardment by ground and air, as well as fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced last week that the army had successfully dismantled Hamas’ capabilities in the city — a claim Israel made earlier about Gaza City in the north, only to be proven wrong. But in Khan Younis, as in the rest of Gaza, it is we civilians who are bearing the brunt of the violence. 
Israeli forces watch on as Palestinians flee Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 30, 2024. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Grappling with Nuclear Dangers at 90 Seconds to Midnight

February 6, 2024
What’s in your basement? Mine is full of things I’ve mostly forgotten about — tools I bought for projects I never completed, long abandoned sports equipment, furniture I planned on refinishing ages ago, and unused cans of paint I thought I wanted when someone was giving them away.

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Neck-Deep Again in the Big Muddy, But Any Reason for Hope?

February 4, 2024
Thus began a recent, and oh so typical, piece of war reportage. It was purveyed by the New York Times but it’s something you find in almost any mainstream source. The essence of the news is that the U.S. will continue to support Israel’s right to “defend itself” by bombing the crap out of Gaza and will keep feeding it the military equipment necessary to do so, but it sternly urges Israel to try not to kill too many babies or other civilians. Get it? War must be — and is, when we wage it — a moral undertaking.
Gaza women mourn slain civilians

Friday, February 2, 2024

Palestinians Uncover Dozens Killed Execution-Style in Schoolyard in Gaza

February 2, 2024
Dozens of bodies of Palestinians have been uncovered in a mass grave in a schoolyard in northern Gaza, with witnesses saying they appeared to have been killed “execution style” by Israeli forces. A human rights lawyer has said the killings are “clearly a war crime.”

Thursday, February 1, 2024

For Western Media, Only Israeli Lives Matter

February 1, 2024
Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Gaza on Jan. 22. Mainstream media outlets around the world reacted in unison: this was the “deadliest day” for Israel since Oct. 7.
 

Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine

February 1, 2024
Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Governments should continue funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), given its vital role in averting a humanitarian catastrophe and the risk of famine in the Gaza Strip, while the agency investigates allegations that 12 of its staff were involved in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel, Human Rights Watch said today.
 

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

On a Unified Call for a Ceasefire in Gaza

January 31, 2024
A response to Representative Mike Sigler’s comments at the Tompkins County Legislature’s meetings on Jan 2, and 16, 2024, concerning  A Unified Call for a Ceasefire in Gaza; Urgent Humanitarian and Local Imperatives of the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission:

USA Keeps Fighting for Iran

Scott Horton
January 31, 2024
According to neoconservative theoreticians David Wurmser and Richard Perle, George W. Bush’s Iraq War II (supported by Senator Biden) was supposed to weaken Iran and Syria and therefore Hezbollah’s threat to Israel. Instead, the war empowered Iran as the U.S. put their best friends from the Hakim family’s Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and their Badr Brigade in power. Gen. David Petraeus turned their death and torture squads into the Iraqi army.

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel’s International War against the UNRWA

January 30, 2024
Imperilled, tormented Palestinians in Gaza had little time to celebrate the January 26 order of the International Court of Justice.  In a case brought by South Africa intended to facilitate a ceasefire and ease the suffering of the Gaza populace, Israel received the unwanted news that it had to, among other obligations, ensure compliance with the UN Genocide Convention, including by its military; prevent and punish “the direct and public incitement to genocide” against the Palestinian populace in Gaza and permit basic services and humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip.

Turning Zeitoun into Shivat Zion: Israeli summit envisions Gaza resettlement

January 30, 2024
The strangest sight at the “Conference for Israel’s Victory,” which took place on Sunday evening at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center, wasn’t the map depicting dozens of new settlements that Israeli settlers hope to establish throughout the Gaza Strip after the war is over. It was the moment when thousands of people danced around the hall singing celebratory songs — a rare spectacle in post-October 7 Israel, with most of the nation still mourning the victims of the Hamas-led attacks and fearing for the safety of the hostages in Gaza.
Israelis look at a giant map of the Gaza Strip depicting future Israeli settlements at the "Conference for Israel's Victory" in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Oren Ziv)
Israelis look at a giant map of the Gaza Strip depicting future Israeli settlements at the "Conference for Israel's Victory" in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Monday, January 29, 2024

Netanyahu and the IDF Provided All the Evidence the ICJ Needed

January 29, 2024
The International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled last week that Israel must prevent genocide in Gaza and provide greater assistance to the Palestinians.  Sadly, the ICJ did not call for a cease-fire, which is desperately needed, but it demonstrated genuine understanding of the Israeli war crimes that point to genocidal intentions as stipulated by the Geneva International Genocide Convention in 1948.

Sunday, January 28, 2024

From the Siege of Leningrad to the Siege of Gaza: Colonialist Mentality

January 28, 2024
Montréal (Special to Informed Comment) – Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1944, people in the street were hugging each other and weeping with joy. They were celebrating the end of a nearly 900 days brutal siege. Soviet forces lifted the siege of Leningrad after ferocious battles. Exactly a year later they liberated Auschwitz. Even today, walking in Saint-Petersburg’s main avenue, the Nevsky Prospect, one notices a blue sign painted on a wall during the siege: “Citizens! This side of the street is the most dangerous during artillery shelling”.
From the Siege of Leningrad to the Siege of Gaza: Colonialist Mentality

How Dare You Shrug at the Doomsday Clock?

January 28, 2024
I inhale the big, do-nothing shrug that always follows the annual posting, by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, of its global metaphor for Armageddon.
The Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight The Doomsday Clock was reset at 90 seconds to midnight on January 23, 2024.
(Photo: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)