Tag: Gaza

Reflections on Ukraine and the Broke-Brain “Left” 

The moral hypocrisy on display in the West’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is stunning. The West is quite naturally shocked and appalled about the misery criminally inflicted on Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s incursion but has no remotely comparable concern for the misery criminally inflicted on: the people of Gaza by the United States’(US) imperial client Israel; the people of Yemen by the US-imperial client Saudi Arabia; the people of Central America and the Caribbean by the US Empire and its client regimes there; the Afghans by US-imperial invasion and sanctions; the North Africans crushed and traumatized by the US-led NATO attack on Libya; and …

Source: Reflections on Ukraine and the Broke-Brain “Left” – CounterPunch.org

  A Hole In the Heart 

Fatima al-Masri, one of the latest, smallest victims of Israel’s brutal apartheid regime, has died in Gaza after waiting five months for an Israeli permit allowing her to travel for treatment for a ventricular septal defect, a hole in her heart, diagnosed last year. She was 19 months old. “They kept saying (it) was under review, under review,” said her father. “I wish I had died as well.” Sentient beings blame a genocidal Israel: “(This is) how this regime operates; cruelly against everything Palestinian, including children.”

Source: Further | A Hole In the Heart | Opinion

Israel, an Apartheid Nation? Of Course!  

Israel dismisses charges of “apartheid against Palestinians” as anti-Semitic propaganda, and the United States has been an enabler of Israeli racism over the years with its hands-off attitudes toward the inhumanity of Israeli actions on the West Bank and Gaza.  But the tragic death of an elderly Palestinian-American on the West Bank last month highlights the worst aspects of Israeli policy.  The nature of the death, directly due to Israeli brutality and negligence, amounts to manslaughter.  The outrageously tepid response from the Israeli military’s central command tells us everything we need to know about Israel’s unconscionable occupation policy.

Source: Israel, an Apartheid Nation? Of Course! – CounterPunch.org

Can Israel Stop the World from Saying ‘Apartheid’? Concealing the Suffering in Palestine 

On January 27, 2022, the Hebrew-language news site Walla published part of the text from a telegram sent by Amir Weissbrod—who is part of the Israeli Foreign Ministry—to Israeli embassies around the world. The telegram warned the Israeli diplomats that in the upcoming 49th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which is expected to begin on February 28, a report will be tabled regarding Israel’s 2021 bombing of Gaza. This report will apparently use the word“apartheid” to refer to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians, according to the telegram.

Source: Can Israel Stop the World from Saying ‘Apartheid’? Concealing the Suffering in Palestine – CounterPunch.org