US thinks it has influence over rogue Israel as it commences ground invasion of Lebanon; record-breaking number of women and children deaths in Gaza; nearly 100% of Gaza in poverty; “a monster has been unleashed”; US sending a ‘few thousand’ troops to Middle East to defend Israel (but not to evacuate Americans); Veterans for Peace demands probe Into Blinken’s enabling of Israel’s genocide; Netanyahu’s sales pitch for chaos in Iran; Israeli settlers promote new properties in Lebanon for sale “to Jews”; more.
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Israel’s defiance on full display; Biden admin commences hand-wringing – Day 356
Hezbollah leader Nasrallah confirmed dead in Israeli strike – global outrage against “maniac” Netanyahu; Israel withholds nearly 90% of humanitarian aid from Gaza; mass walkout in UN General Assembly chamber as “global pariah” Netanyahu takes the stage; meanwhile, Netanyahu’s popularity in Israel grows; calls for Sec’y of State Blinken’s resignation after lying to Congress for Israel; Israel called out for violating global labor law in West Bank; Google’s shady actions vis-a-vis Israel; more.
Israel burns Rafah crossing: no exits left for Gazans; US arms sales continue – Day 255
Israel seals Gaza off from the world; Israel kills aid seekers again; aid delivery is too risky; White House event pushes false mass rape narrative again; $1 billion US naval campaign; Israel running low on military manpower; Israel has detained 640 children since Oct 7; Israel lobby news; more
“Laws Of War” Biden-Blinken Style
When Biden talks about a “rules-based order”, whose rules is he talking about? What “Laws of War”? See this video to find out…
Ceasefire deal on the table, as Gazans survey the wreckage – Day 238
Biden presents ceasefire deal, Netanyahu says “non-starter”; Israel withdraws from Jabalia, leaving corpses, destruction, signs of ethnic cleansing in its wake; conditions in Rafah are “horrific and apocalyptic”; more mass graves discovered; Israel has made one third of Gaza “uninhabitable”; Blinken’s feeble commentary on Gaza’s famine; experts say Israel could have used smaller weapons, avoided mass casualties in Rafah last week; AND YET Congress invites Netanyahu to speak.
Not even the US government knows the US government line on Rafah
Red line? What red line? As Washington indulges in conflicting chatter and denial of the facts, Israel just keeps on killing in Gaza.
Disaster unfolds all over Gaza, West Bank – Day 219
Gaza deaths by airstrike, lack of medical supplies, hunger, torture; what is happening in Gaza is a ‘turkey shoot’; Nobel laureate denounces Gaza invasion at Vatican; Gaza prisoners endure ‘barbaric treatment’ by Israeli forces; 226 buildings in West Bank destroyed or damaged by Israeli army in April; Israeli forces use children as human shields;
Colombia President: Netanyahu will go down in history as ‘genocide perpetrator’
Israel will kill Palestinians just fine without US heavy payload weapons; humanitarian crisis spirals – Day 216
Hunger, danger deepen all over Gaza; refugees streaming out of Rafah with nowhere safe to go; deadly airdrops have killed over 20; Israeli leaders will keep war going “with God’s help”; Israeli settlers torch UNRWA office for a second time; 300 Palestinian Bedouin face homelessness after militarized Israeli police bulldoze village; more
Debris undoubtedly hides booby traps, unexploded ordnance, asbestos – Day 208
Danger in the debris; humanitarian aid entering Gaza still very low; Blinken pressures Hamas to accept truce proposal; hundreds of Gazans missing in Israel; will Knesset shutter Al Jazeera?; Netanyahu doesn’t want war to end; Israelis attack aid convoy; 2 Palestinian prisoners including a doctor die behind bars; up to 80 years to repair Gaza homes; threat of ICC arrest warrants has Israel, US worried; another pro-Israel bill in Congress; campus repression of pro-Palestine protests intensifies
Blinken claims State Dept has no double standard favoring Israel – Day 199
Another shameless moment for Blinken, even as he reveals a long list of Israeli human rights abuses; over 300 Gazan bodies discovered in mass graves; Israel prepping for invasion of Rafah; having a baby in Gaza; final report on UNRWA says Israel never offered evidence of wrongdoing; West Bank death; flurry of actions in solidarity with Palestine on US college campuses, more