Israel’s bombing of Lebanon has killed more than a thousand civilians this year. Israel also drove out more than a half million civilians from southern Lebanon… Past Israeli attacks on Lebanon…Israel has been dragging the US into Lebanese quagmires since the 1980s…
Despite what appears to be mounting obstacles, it is the ordinary people who choose to take part in the face of all the odds that give this movement its power.
This is a relationship without parallel in which the largest economic & military power the world has known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents.
Gaza’s critical shortages ■ Flotilla activists face death threats; next flotilla group already under attack ■ “We’re killing [Palestinians] like we haven’t since 1967″ – IDF chief ■ Updates on Iran, Lebanon, Syria ■ Palestine and US politics ■ More
Lebanese rescue workers now wait 15 minutes after each strike before responding, the only way, they say, to stay alive long enough to reach the wounded amid Israel’s implementation of its Gaza “double-tap” policy in Lebanon.
Israel’s warfare in Gaza and Lebanon looks like systems-level destruction of the environmental and infrastructural substrate of life—water, soil, agriculture, energy, and urban continuity.
An entire street is leveled. Houses and shops are flattened, including a popular cafe. This is what is left of the town of Bint Jbeil, just a couple of miles from the Israeli border, nearly two months after Israel relaunched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
Flotilla update ■ Another Israeli land grab in Gaza ■ Latest on Iran, Lebanon ■ Will Netanyahu refuse to recognize election results if he loses? ■ More.
Israel’s attacks on humanitarian sea missions aiming to reach Gaza go back over 2 decades (Israel attacked almost all of them)- Here is the list
US sides with Israel on flotilla stoppage ■ Israel continues to block sheltering mat’ls from Gaza ■ Gaza unemployment at 68% ■ Israel may return to Iran attacks soon ■ Rubio floats a plan to disarm Hezbollah so Israel won’t have to ■ Israel earmarks $730 million to refurbish its reputation ■ More