Tom Cotton, US senator from Arkansas, is encouraging grotesque, possibly lethal vigilante violence against demonstrators who oppose genocide
US Senator Incites Violence Against Gaza Protesters
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US singlehandedly blocks Palestine from full UN membership, $26 billion to Israel reaches House floor – Day 195
Biden mulls massive arms sale to Israel; Israeli “limited” strike in Iran takes world’s eyes off Rafah; another mass grave discovered at Al Shifa Hospital, where Israeli forces stashed at least 30 bodies; ICC may issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders; Israeli violence in West Bank refugee camp; pro-Palestinian students arrested at Columbia U, receive death threat;; Google fires employees who stood for Palestine
Israel and US deliberately gutting international law in Gaza
Over the past six months in Gaza, Israel has killed civilians on an industrial scale, turned hospitals into strategic military targets and food into a weapon of war.
AIPAC Talking Points Revealed
Documents show that AIPAC is calling for unconditional military aid to Israel and hyping up threats from Iran.
Six months on, Gaza is a “betrayal of humanity” – Day 182
UN leaders reflect on 6 months of slaughter; Israel admits to “grave mistake” in targeting of World Kitchen; US on high alert for possible attack by Iran; Israel claims it’s opening another crossing into Gaza; childhood in Gaza; UN calls for arms embargo…
2024 spending bill disburses over $20 million per day to or because of Israel
US spending for Israel takes 2 forms: some money goes directly to Israel; some goes to items because they benefit Israel. Recent legislation contains both: a combined total of $7.505 billion of Americans’ tax money – over $20.6 million per day – to be disbursed in 2024 for Israel (which has one of the world’s largest concentrations of millionaires and billionaires)
Flour Power – aid convoys reach northern Gaza; infant malnutrition – Day 163
Welcome shipment of flour & other staples arrives in north Gaza; malnourished babies too weak to cry; Oxfam publishes damning report on Israel’s lethal obstinacy; NYT: 26 attacks on aid-seekers in Gaza; West Bank prisoner death; Biden is angry; Tik Tok and Israel; Senator Chris Van Hollen tells it like it is; Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
Israel has killed or wounded a “staggering” 5% of Gaza’s population – Day 152
Israel kills Gazans by every method: airstrike, starvation, imprisonment, shooting, stillbirth; South Africa calls for stronger language from ICJ to end the famine in Gaza; flour shipment from US still sitting in port after nearly 7 weeks – enough to feed 1.5 million Gazans for five months; West Bank violence and illegal construction; WaPo says the US has “quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza war began”; poll: majority of Americans want weapons shipments to stop, more
Israel is holding over 9,000 Palestinian political prisoners – Day 144
Palestinian prisoner crisis; children dying of starvation, malnutrition; journalist under fire; West Bank deaths; Israeli security worries about Ramadan restrictions at Al Aqsa Mosque; Israeli “friendly fire”; Biden awaits “”credible and reliable written assurances” of proper use of US weapons from Netanyahu; mixed messages on Israel-Hamas-Biden agreement; US voters want a permanent ceasefire; Michiganders don’t want Biden; more
Rafah’s displaced: ‘We read our last prayers every night’ – Day 131
Israeli protesters continue to block aid to Gaza; Khan Younis hospital in chaos; State of Palestine to present to ICJ report on Israel’s actions since genocide ruling; Gaza fishermen attacked; popular Gaza political analyst & family killed day after he appears on Al Jazeera; US investigating white phosphorus and 1-ton bombs used in Israel; US State Dept claims it expects a “quick, thorough, and transparent investigation” into the killing of 2nd American citizen in West Bank; Israel accuses South Africa of representing interests of the “Hamas terrorist organization”; Israel reportedly preparing for war with Lebanon; Pope’s 2nd in command condemns Israel’s actions – Israel calls his words “deplorable”; Church of England says Israel’s actions “can not be morally justified”; and more