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Israel prevents entry of 1M life-saving polio vaccines into Gaza – Day 305

[email protected] August 8, 2024 AIPAC, Bezalel Smotrich, cori bush defeated, genocide, polio in gaza, torture of Palestinian prisoners, west bank detentions, world central kitchen

Polio threat looms large over Gaza – but not over Israel; condemnation of Israeli soldiers’ sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners and Smotrich’s call to starve Gazans reverberate worldwide; another World Central Kitchen staffer killed in airstrike; Israeli detentions of West Bank Palestinians surpasses 10,000; AIPAC money talks as another Squad member is defeated in primaries; American politicians’ full-throated support for Israel’s genocide; BDS victory in UK; more.

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Israel commits three massacres in less than one hour; a survivor says, “We are killed by American missiles” – Day 283

[email protected] July 17, 2024 american support for israel, annexation, Bezalel Smotrich, gazan with down syndrome, genocide, Hebron, israeli massacres, palestinian journalist, tax deductible donations to israel, us made weapons in israel

With US complicity, Israeli attacks continue unabated; another Palestinian journalist killed; Gazan man with Down Syndrome attacked by Israeli military dog, left to die; Smotrich demands blatant disregard for Int’l Court of Justice ruling – if it does not favor Israel; tax deductible support in US for Israeli groups that block humanitarian aid to Gaza; US has been making secret flights to Israel; US court lets Biden off the hook in Gaza genocide; more.

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Israel may be using internationally banned weapons against Gazans – Day 282

[email protected] July 16, 2024 Ahmad Ramzi Abed Sultan, banned weapons, Bezalel Smotrich, biden and palestinians, blocking aid to gaza, ceasefire deal, deir al balah, JD vance, mawasi attack, prison rape, Rafa Salameh, Republican platform, sanction israeli settlers, torture

Israel’s possible use of internationally banned weapons; new allegations of rape and torture of Palestinian prisoners; 13 human rights groups accuse Israel of blocking aid to Gaza; municipality runs out of fuel, water pumps cease; estimated 15 years, $500 million to clear rubble; EU sanctions settlers; Israel explains its failed attack on Mawasi; West Bank death, home demolitions; Smotrich opposes release of any Palestinian prisoners; RNC platform mentions one foreign country – Israel; a quick look at JD Vance’s position on Israel; Biden’s delusional statement on Palestinians; more.

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$320 million Gaza pier has not delivered any aid to people of Gaza – Day 228

[email protected] May 22, 2024 Antony Blinken, arab americans, Associated Press, Bezalel Smotrich, bilal hammoud, freedom of the press, Gaza, gaza pier, humanitarian aid, international criminal court, itamar ben gvir, Jenin, palestinian statehood, podcast, West Bank, world food program, world hunger

Norway, Ireland, Spain to recognize Palestinian statehood; after $320 million and over 2 months, US has not gotten any aid to Gazan families; Israel confiscates, then returns camera equipment to AP; 8 Palestinians killed in West Bank; Israeli forces telling settlers where to attack humanitarian aid trucks; Biden admin showing some hostility on Netanyahu war strategy; Arab Americans told a Palestinian state would result in world hunger

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Promises broken: Israel is still obstructing the entrance of aid to Gaza – Day 194

[email protected] April 18, 2024 Beit Hanoun, Bezalel Smotrich, Biden, ethnic cleansing, famine, genocide, humanitarian aid, Iran, Israeli settlers, itamar ben gvir, moment of truth, Netanyahu, palestinian prisoners

Israel steadfastly starves Gaza; horror in Beit Hanoun; Israeli settlers displace entire communities of Palestinians; Executing Palestinian detainees best way to combat prison overcrowding – Israeli minister; Biden op-ed begs for more money for Israel…

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Recent news from Israel and Palestine that you probably missed

[email protected] August 15, 2023 apartheid, Bezalel Smotrich, dawabsheh, human rights, israeli settler

The news cycle never ends in Israel and Palestine, but coverage by mainstream can be extremely spotty. Here are a few recent stories from the region.

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Bezalel Smotrich calls a lie “the biblical truth”

[email protected] March 22, 2023 Bezalel Smotrich, Christian Zionism, ethnic cleansing, history of israel, Netanyahu

Parroting the Israel “history” fantasy that Netanyahu has been peddling, extremist Israeli lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich told an audience, “Palestinian people are an invention…This is the biblical truth.”

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Israeli lawmaker regrets that ethnic cleansing of Palestinians was not completed

[email protected] October 18, 2021 Bezalel Smotrich, ethnic cleansing, Nakba, zionism

Plenty of Israel partisans deny or explain away the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians c.1948 – but Israeli political leader Bezalel Smotrich openly admits it, and wishes it had gone further.

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In Israel, religious extremism is pervasive, unchecked

[email protected] September 6, 2019 ashkenazi, avichai rontzki, believers in the police, bentzi gopstein, Bezalel Smotrich, bnei david, chief rabbinate of israel, david batzri, david lau, eliezer kashtiel, giora radler, knesset, menachem schneerson, Naftali Bennett, orthodox judaism, rafi peretz, rami brachyahu, religious education, sephardic, settler extremism, Shmuel Eliyahu, temple movement, yeshiva, yisrael ariel, yitzchak ginsburg, yitzhak batzri, zionism

In Israel, religious extremism has gone unchecked in the educational establishment, in top levels of government, and among prominent religious leaders – radicalizing a growing number of Israeli youth and endangering Palestinians.

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Israeli Lawmaker: Palestinian Teen Tamimi ‘Should Have Gotten a Bullet, at Least in the Knee’

[email protected] April 24, 2018 ahed tamimi, Bezalel Smotrich, michel rozin, yinon magal

Deputy Knesset Speaker Bezalel Smotrich tweeted that Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi “should have gotten a bullet at least in the kneecap,” drawing an angry response from feminist Jewish MK Michel Rozin. Tamimi is serving 8 months for slapping a soldier, after soldiers had shot her cousin in the face.

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