Americans should wish that their President, Joseph Biden, had the bravery and the moral authority to take a just position, even in matters of war, not selectively.
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Israel was angry & furious at the adoption of the UN resolution. So, it unleashed a hellish barrage of bombing in North and Central Gaza tonight after cutting off electricity and all communications to the people. Who are the barbarians and terrorists? https://t.co/fmvZ1NwBSxpic.twitter.com/FP90l4A7SM
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday adopted a resolution calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” between Israeli forces and Hamas militants in Gaza. It also demands “continuous, sufficient and unhindered” provision of lifesaving supplies and services for civilians trapped inside the enclave, as news reports suggest Israel has expanded ground operations and intensified its bombing campaign.
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What did the UN Chief do to deserve Natanyahu’s venom? Benjamin Netanyahu announced today that Israel will ban visas for UN Representatives for Chief Antonio Guterres’ alleged “Pro Palestinian” remark. Where is the outrage? The entire UN Assembly should express the outrage of each member in writing. And the EU needs to get its act together or suspend their pretend summit in Brussels. This world does not need more cowardice from the European Union. And this steady diet of hypocrisy from these bodies is proving too toxic for the world to bear. We do not need more empty communiqué or calls for humanitarian handouts. The world has spoken, and what the people of the world want immediately is for Israel to stop its war against Palestinian civilians.
What did the UN Chief to have earned such venomous retaliation from Israel? He denounced what he refers to as ‘clear violations’ of international law in Gaza and said this in a press conference:
“Hamas assault ‘did not happen in a vacuum.”
UN Chief António Guterres
Benjamin Netanyahu is a bully and he has managed to bully and intimidate old Joe Biden and all those whimpy European “leaders,” who have been acting more like followers since this war on Gaza started. Understandably, American leaders must be shocked that anyone can hold such moral convictions. After all, they have murdered all concepts of morality in this country and are now exporting their depravity to other countries. And they sure have a will confederate in Netanyahu, a man whom the Israel population re-elected after he was charged on several counts of bribery and public corruption.
The Israeli military has just murdered an Aljazeera journalist in Gaza. This follows the murder of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank. Since Hamas stunned the world by breaching Israel’s defenses, mounting an unprecedented attack inside Israel, and taking hostages, at least 24 journalists are among the more than 6,000 people killed in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. But this is hardly a war between two armies. Following the Hamas attack, Israel has engaged in what can only be described as an attempt to mass exterminate Palestinian civilians in Gaza. According to reports from the Committee to Protect Journalists, of the two dozen journalists who have died, 20 were Palestinian, three were Israeli and one was Lebanese. At least eight other journalists have been reported injured, while three others are believed missing or detained, according to the CPJ. There is no doubt that journalists are being targeted for reporting the truth about Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza.
Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. She was covering an Israeli army raid on the Jenin refugee camp when she was shot in the head.
It has just been discovered that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has contacted the Qataris to ask them to keep Al Jazeera from reporting the atrocious acts being committed by Israel in Gaza. He has, apparently, also contacted social media companies to black out content that does not toe the Israeli line.
United States UN Ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is a part of the head of the genocidal delegation who is single-handedly obstructing any effort in the United Nations to put an end to the killings of Palestinians by Israel. This license to murder innocent Palestinians in Gaza handed to Israel by the United States and the Europeans must be scrapped at once.
Due to the American and European censorship of news from Gaza and the West Bank, I have been watching the news on Al Jazeera. I was astounded to find how factual, transparent, unbiased, and straightforward the reporting has been, especially from the Arab and Palestinian journalists. What the murderous Western powers and Israel find unacceptable about the coverage by Al Jazeera and the reporting by the media organization’s journalists is the reporting of Israeli crimes.
This was a deliberate assassination of yet another journalist by Israel. After it became clear that the media in the U.S. and Europe had received orders to blanket the airwaves and the pages of newspapers with fake news about Israel’s actions in Gaza, I watched with great trepidation as local journalists reported the news every day from Gaza. It is always dangerous to the lives of journalists to report from a war zone. But these journalists take all the precautions, including staying as far away from the battle lines as possible and making their presences known to the worrying fractions.
The U.S. media and the White House Press Corps have abdicated their responsibilities in fear. In the face of the indiscriminate killings of some of the most vulnerable people in Gaza, multiple hospitals being systematically bombed, and starvation being used as a weapon of war, The American media have trashed their obligations to the profession of journalism, and that is to bear witness and to hold the powerful accountable. Instead, the U.S. media have joined in cheering the murders of innocent and helpless women, children, the elderly, and the disabled. This is cowardice on a grand scale, but it is still shocking.
MAGA Insurrectionist Republicans Have Been Looking for a Reason to Impeach Biden. How About “Contributing to War Crimes?” But They Will Not Because They Are Waiting for What They Believe in as the Rapture:
The belief among Evangelical Christians that Israel has a God-given right to its land and that the nations that support Israel will be blessed. Thus, Jesus will return physically to earth to set up a kingdom centered in the nation of Israel, which will fulfill God’s Old Testament promises to Israel of a worldwide rule and a worldwide ministry of blessing. (As Modified).
Where is the International warrant for the immediate arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu? I forgot. Israel and the United States stand against the International Criminal Court because they reserve the right to commit atrocities and war crimes with impunity. But why would all the European countries join in this immorality, France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Spain, and the European Union? Oh! again, it is easy to forget. All of these members of the so-called community of nations have committed atrocities worldwide and reserve their right to commit violence against civilians where they choose to do so. This is beyond cowardice and depravity.
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Oct 25, 2023
With the failure of two resolutions, by Russia and Brazil, calling for a humanitarian pause in Gaza, the Security Council voted on a new resolution today by the United States Ambassador. The proposal was voted down by Russia and China because it failed to call for a ceasefire, leaving Israel free to expand this murderous war by launching a ground invasion among the civilian population in addition to the on-going bombing campaing in the besieged enclave of Gaza.1
We cannot sit by and allow the deaths of thousands of women, children, the sick, the elderly, and the disabled, or their deaths will be on our conscience. And the utter carnage, destruction, deaths, and miseries in Gaza and the West Bank does not make anything about Israelis’ suffering right.
Everything I did before to help elect democrats, including convincing my intergenerational family to vote for Joe Biden, I will now do to defeat him. Should the country end up with a scorch-earth authoritarian wanna-be, so be it! pic.twitter.com/PQl44ddg7v
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