As Israeli Forces Fire on Starving Palestinians, US Again Vetoes UN Cease-Fire Resolution

JuliaConley

February 23, 2024

As a United Nations agency halted aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where acute malnourishment is rampant among children, citing a “breakdown of social order” fueled by Israel’s bombardment of and blockade on the enclave, the United States for a third time on Tuesday vetoed a cease-fire resolution at the U.N. Security Council—saying it was an inopportune time to demand that Israel end its massacre of Palestinians.

If Israel continues War on Gaza for 6 Months, death toll will Exceed 100,000 from Trauma and Disease: Public Health Study

JuanCole

February 22, 2024

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact Projections, a joint report by the the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University, issued this week, warns that a further 85,750 Palestinians could die in the next six months from physical trauma and disease if the conflict in Gaza continues and escalates.

The figure of 85,750 is a worst case scenario and deaths would reach that level only if the military assault on Gaza escalates and if the poor hygienic conditions of the 1.9 displaced Palestinians cause epidemics.

 

Bombing Muslims for Peace

WilliamAstore

February 21, 2024

Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and “the Japs” during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its various Arab enemies in the Middle East. It was, I suppose, an early sign that I would make both the military and the study of history into careers.

 

Biden, tired of being “Genocide Joe,” Finally Blinks, will push UN Resolution for Temporary Gaza Ceasefire

Juan Cole

February 20, 2024

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julian Borger at The Guardian says he has seen a draft US proposal for a United Nations Security Council calling for a “temporary ceasefire” in Gaza and cautioning against any offensive on the southern Gaza region of Rafah, where 1.4 million refugees from the rest of Gaza have joined the existing hundreds of thousands of residents.

How Israel’s war went wrong

Zack Beauchamp

February 20, 2024

At the end of November, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham broke one of the most important stories of the war in Gaza to date — an inside look at the disturbing reasoning that has led the Israeli military to kill so many civilians.

Laying the groundwork for Gaza’s permanent exodus

Samer Badawi

February 19, 2024

With most of the Gaza Strip’s Palestinians now trapped inside the enclave’s southern tip, the Israeli onslaught they had attempted to escape has followed them to Rafah. Some 1.4 million people are pinned against a virtually impermeable Egyptian border, while the entry of life-sustaining aid is chronically stalled. At Kerem Shalom, the southeastern crossing directly controlled by Israel, Jewish Israelis have been filmed gleefully blocking food convoys from Egypt, in a fitting correlative to the genocidal rhetoric of their leaders.

What’s at Stake for Julian Assange—and the Rest of Us

Karen Sharpe

February 19, 2024

On February 20 and 21, the High Court of Justice in London will conduct a hearing to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal the court’s earlier decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face 17 charges under the Espionage Act and one for computer crime, with a Methuselan prison sentence of 175 years. This, even though Julian is not an American citizen (he’s Australian), and he was not under U.S. jurisdiction when the “crimes” were allegedly committed.

نگاهی‌ گذرا

در اینکه جمهوری اسلامی ضایعه‌ای است برای مردمی که بیش از چهار دهه با آن مدارا کرده‌ا‌ند، و همواره در صدد اصلاح آن بر آمده‌ا‌ند، شکی نیست. ولی‌ رژیم همواره بیش از پیش افول کرده است. نمونهٔ بارز آن روش انتخابات است، که کاندیداها را محدود به تصویب یک عده‌ مُلّای بیسواد می‌کند، که در نتیجه چنین روسای دولت نالایقی تحویل میدهند. اعتراضات و تظاهرات مردم در سرتاسر کشور به دلیل تجاوزات، حق‌کُشی، دزدی، نادیده گرفتن کوچکترین نیاز مردم، بی‌اعتباری، و افول سیاسی‌-علمی‌-اجتماعی، همچنان ادامه دارد، و تا انجام تغییرات وسیعی در سطح کشور ادامه خواهد داشت.ا

A Quick Look

There is no doubt that the Islamic Republic is a brutal regime governing the people who have tolerated it for more than four decades and have always tried to reform it, with no success. But the regime has been declining further into the abyss, by acting illogically and unreasonably in its internal politics. A clear example of that is presidential elections and its policies and methods of electing, which limits candidates to the approval of a few illiterate mullahs, resulting in such incompetent heads of states. People's protests and demonstrations throughout the country due to encroachments, killings, theft, ignoring the smallest needs of the people, and political-scientific-social decline continue, and will continue until extensive changes are made in the country.

The obliteration of Gaza’s multi-civilizational treasures

IbtisamMahdi

February 17, 2024

Since the beginning of Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, innumerable treasures of Palestine’s cultural heritage have been damaged or destroyed. Like so much of the rest of the besieged enclave, these priceless and beloved landmarks of our people’s history — archaeological sites, millennia-old religious structures, and museums with ancient collections — now lie in ruin. 

The ruins of the Great Omari Mosque, the largest and oldes mosque in Norther Gaza, Feb 12, 2024 (Omar El Qattaa)

The looming ground assault on the last “safe” zone in Gaza

Avishay Artsy

February 16, 2024

Voices from a besieged Rafah.

 

Hospitals are supposed to be safe. Not in Gaza.

Ellen Ioanes and Nicole Narea

February 15, 2024

The Israel Defense Forces raided Gaza’s largest still-operating hospital on Thursday in Khan Younis, a southern city that once sheltered over 100,000 displaced Palestinians but that has been under siege for weeks.

 

An Israeli tank is seen as Palestinians leave the area of Nasser Hospital on January 29, 2024.

Mohammed Talatene/picture alliance via Getty Images

How the CIA Destabilizes the World

Jeffrey D. Sachs

February 15, 2024

There are three basic problems with the C.I.A.: its objectives, methods and unaccountability.

“Spies in D.C., code name ‘Giddy Up.’ ” (Lorie Shaull, Flickr, CC BY 2.0)

There is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go

Vijay Prashad

February 14, 2024

Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City. Photo by Naaman Omar apaimages.

‘Change in Israel will only happen when there are costs that force our eyes open’

Meron Rapoport

February 13, 2024

In Partnership with

Few books can aptly be described as “prophetic,” but the latest release by the Israeli political sociologist Yagil Levy is certainly one of them. Levy submitted the manuscript of “Shooting and Not Crying: The New Militarization of Israel in the 2000s” in April 2022, and the book was published in February 2023 by Lamda – The Open University Press, as if to prepare us for the events of October 7. 

Will Egypt Ditch Camp David Accords If Israel Invades Rafah?

Juan Cole

February 12, 2024

It is being widely reported based on press leaks that the Egyptian government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has privately threatened Israel. Cairo is said to have warned that the 1978 Camp David Peace Treaty will be suspended “with immediate effect” if the government of Binyamin Netanyahu tries to take over the Philadelphi Corridor at the Gaza-Egypt Border and if it expels the Palestinians of Gaza into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula at the Rafah border crossing as a result of an invasion of Rafah City. Israel attempted to convince an Egyptian delegation to Tel Aviv on Friday that Cairo should cooperate with the Israeli war plan, but allegedly was rebuffed.

 

غزه آئینهٔ تمام‌نمای سیاست‌های سلطه‌جویانۀ جنایتکاران جنگی

سایت گروه ۱۰ مهر".ا

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

سایت گروه ۱۰ مهر.ا

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

Israel’s Gaza war ‘reminiscent of the Nazis’ – Erdogan

RT

February 10, 2024

A Prescription for Peace in Gaza

Yazeed Ibrahim

Ira Helfand

Robert Dodge

David E. Drake

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.