Last week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she would vote against any military aid to Israel, even weapons deemed “defensive.” As support for Israel craters across the U.S., the issue of military aid has become the latest litmus test for Democrats.
The Catholic Archbishop for the US Military Services has said the US-Israeli war against Iran is unjust, according to Catholic teaching, as Catholic leaders in the US, Rome, and the Middle East continue to criticize the conflict.
Lebanon’s Christians are being told by the Israeli military to get rid of any displaced Shias hiding in their homes or villages. Haven’t we seen this story before, and don’t we all know how it ends?
Last-ditch effort at temporary ceasefire in Iran ■ Christians in Gaza “refuse to celebrate” Easter amid genocide ■ Israeli Jews attempt to bring sacrificial animals into Al Aqsa Mosque ■ Israeli army admits it “underestimated” Hezbollah ■ Paula White said what?
Israel-US struggle to make progress in Iran ■ In Lebanon, Israeli soldier killed by “friendly fire” ■ Israel’s control over West Bank grows stronger ■ More
Team Israel-US struggles to keep up ■ Gaza runs low on medical supplies ■ Muslims still blocked from worship in al Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem
Meanwhile, in reality, civilians and children are mercilessly butchered in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by Israel and its allies
Land Day is the annual acknowledgement of the crime scene. Why should a people being erased also have to edit their own testimony into a tone acceptable to those who looked away?
The report’s conclusion—that Israel’s denying Palestinians the right of return constitutes a crime against humanity–apparently made HRW’s legal dept uncomfortable enough to halt the report, a decision that one staffer described as “unprincipled and cowardly.”
Israel’s strangulation of the West Bank is collapsing every system of Palestinian well-being, enforcing a mandate of expulsion, and stripping Palestinians of their rights.