The decimation of Gaza’s families; Nasrallah and ceasefire; massacres, including a journalist and his family; a first: bill to block weapons to Israel; white phosphorus (again); damage to Israel’s military bases; Biden admin makes Israel the victim, encourages attack on Iran; Arab world offers Israel peace; evacuating Americans from Lebanon
Israel’s genocide decimates thousands of Gazan families, destroys vast swaths of Gazan farmland, creates a garbage apocalypse; in Lebanon, Israel initiates a refugee crisis – all with help from Western media and US-made bombs; Pope Francis, Jared Kushner weigh in on the conflict; more.
Israel kills orphans, widows, health workers in Gaza, steals land in West Bank, takes terrorism to a new level – could this be the week Netanyahu goes from pariah to international fugitive?
UN Child Rights Committee condemns Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children; Rashida Tlaib: “Palestinians are human beings”; electricity blackout as a tool of genocide; West Bank deaths; Israeli Supreme Court orders Sde Teiman prison to stay open after rape scandal; Hezbollah leader vows “just retribution” for Israel’s pager explosions; exploding electronics might be war crimes; no ceasefire expected while Biden in office; UVA refuses to divest after student referendum
In the past, Israel’s moral debate about its military actions may have been narrow and hypocritical, but at least it existed. Not this time.
The following pieces by Dr. Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet, professor and beloved mentor who was murdered in an Israeli airstrike on 6 December 2023, have not been published previously.
The following cases represent a small fraction of potential human rights violations committed with American planes, shells, and bombs. The US is complicit in genocide.
Yet another “safe zone” massacre in Gaza; Gaza’s toxic air a death sentence; HRW: Israel’s surveillance tools risk civilian harm; detained polio vaccine convoy update; did Israel try to undermine vaccination campaign?; politicians stand in the way of arms embargo in US, but not in Canada; Biden: killing of Turkish American activist was “an accident”; South Africa genocide case against Israel update; debate: which candidate loves Israel more?; more.
Israel has refused entry to some polio vaccine workers; continues to bomb civilians in tents; many Palestinians would prefer death to their current struggle; Amnesty calls Israel’s wanton destruction a “war crime”; Netanyahu’s superfluous demand for control of Philadelphi Corridor; Israeli violence in West Bank spreads; sane words from Jill Stein (with Chris Hedges) in a time of genocide; the unstoppable Khairi Hannoun; IBM’s troubling paradigm; Israel withholds key info from US investigators; when 6 > 40,000; Israel’s pursuit of Jewish supremacy; more.
Almost two-thirds of all campaign donations to St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell — who just beat incumbent Cori Bush in the Democratic primary for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District — reportedly came from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC.