An unprecedented 19 senators opposed a recent arms sale; we’ll soon find out whether that sentiment is growing. Some other signs times are changing. Three 2024 pre-election polls showed that likely voters, and not just Democrats, favored conditioning or even halting aid to Israel, including arms transfers.
Israeli attacks kill at least 30 Gazans; Israeli forces strip and line up prisoners in northern Gaza; 2 West Bank deaths; Israel unleashes hell across Syria
As winter approaches and blankets are in short supply, Israel destroys an aid truck; Pope Francis amplifies call for peace in the Holy Land; Netanyahu extends ‘hand of peace’ to Syrians as Israeli jets strike Damascus; Israel continues to violate ceasefire in Lebanon; Israeli settlers run the Wild, Wild West Bank.
For Gaza, it’s business as usual: Israel carries out massacres; causes starvation & medical emergencies; kills journalists; violates ceasefire
By Alison Weir. Some influential Israel partisans push for U.S. policies that benefit Israel – to suppress important facts about Palestine, Israel, and countries that Israeli leaders deem threats – and Iran has long been a target.
Massacres across Gaza, as Hamas agrees to temporary ceasefire (but Israel does not); Hamas calls for probe into Israel’s use of “vaporizing” heavy weapons; Ben-Gvir’s latest supremacist comments; Biden pulls funding from nonprofit, apparently over Palestine
In Gaza, no blankets, warm clothes, shoes; severe shortage of shelter, food, medicine, and safety; Lebanon has a ceasefire deal; more.
Israeli minister calls for ethnic cleansing; Israel has detained 435 Palestinian women in West Bank since Oct 7th; land theft; US weapons used in possible war crime; Israel avoids prosecuting murders of Palestinian prisoners; Pope scolds “arrogant occupiers”; more.
Gaza’s medics battle “super-bacteria that defies medical science,” as Israel withholds food and medical supplies, targets doctors and hospitals; Israeli captive killed in Gaza; no Christmas celebrations again this year in Palestine; more.
Gazan women and children killed in their sleep; farmland and cattle decimated; Gaza is not ready for winter weather; another West Bank death; American politicians denounce, threaten Int’l Criminal Court; Pentagon rejects ICC decision, but doesn’t know why; more