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Ramon Air Force Base

Updated 2024-07-30

Ramon Airbase  – Wikipedia    Ramon Airbase, Basis Hayil-HaAvir Ramon, lit. Ramon Air Force Base) is an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base in the Negev desert, 50 km south of Beersheba and 20 km northwest of the town Mitzpe Ramon. The base and the town got their names from the huge “erosion crater” Makhtesh Ramon south of it. The base is also titled Kanaf 25, it was formerly known as Matred.

The Ramon Airbase was built as the result of joint Israeli and US government funding as part of the IAF’s redeployment out of its bases Eitam, Etzion, Ofira and Refidim in the Sinai after the peninsula was handed over to Egypt following the 1978 Camp David Accords. It was constructed from 1979 to 1982 by US companies together with the bases Nevatim and Ovda.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Airbase   

2024-04-14 At least 7 missiles hit Israeli Ramon airbase   Sputnik cited the Zionist regime’s media sources that at least seven missiles hit Ramon Airbase base in the Negev desert.

In response to the Israeli terrorist attack on Iran’s consulate building in Syria on April 1, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked targets in occupied Palestine with dozens of drones and missiles early on Sunday.  The Israeli regime attacked Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus on April 1. The Israeli aggression led to the destruction of the entire building and the martyrdom and injury of the entire people inside it.  Seven of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military advisors were martyred following the Israeli attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus, IRGC said in a statement.    https://en.mehrnews.com/news/213835/At-least-7-missiles-hit-Israeli-Ramon-airbase

2024-04-13 Iran State Media Say Israel Attack Dealt ‘Heavy Blows’ To Negev Air Base.        https://www.barrons.com/news/iran-state-media-say-israel-attack-dealt-heavy-blows-to-negev-air-base-8181c8b7

2024-04-13 What we know about the strike Iran is sending into Israeli territory   Iran launched more than 100 drones at Israel Saturday, in a retaliatory attack weeks after a strike hit an Iranian government building in Syria. Iran holds Israel responsible for the attack that killed two top Iranian commanders.  The counter strike heightens concerns about “a major escalation between the regional archenemies,” Reuters reported.

According to a White House press release, President Joe Biden’s administration expects the attack to “unfold over a number of hours,” and confirmed the U.S.’s alliance with Israel.   This attack is likely to unfold over a number of hours. “President Biden has been clear: our support for Israel’s security is ironclad. The United States will stand with the people of Israel and support their defense against these threats from Iran.” 

The U.S. military shot down some of the Iranian drones en route to Israel Saturday afternoon.   Israel has a “very strong defensive posture in order to address anything flying toward Israel,” an Israel Defense Forces official said, per The Washington Post.

Iran is targeting the Negev Desert region, an area that houses several military bases, per The New York Times.

“The attack, while expected, threatened to open a volatile new chapter in the long-running shadow war between Iran and Israel, marking a significant escalation in hostilities between the two regional foes,” the Times reported.   https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2024/04/13/iran-launches-attack-on-israel/

2023-10-31 U.S.military base in Israel’s Negev desert revealed | Pentagon secretly operates military base code-named “Site 512” in Israel’s Negev desert     Two months before the Palestinian resistance fighters attacked Israel, the Pentagon awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to build U.S. troop facilities for a secret base it maintains deep within Israel’s Negev desert, just 20 miles from Gaza. Code-named “Site 512,” the longstanding U.S. base is a radar facility that monitors the skies for missile attacks on Israel.    https://www.anews.com.tr/middle-east/2023/10/31/usmilitary-base-in-israels-negev-desert-revealed-pentagon-secretly-operates-military-base-code-named-site-512-in-israels-negev-desert

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Rachel Corrie – U.S. Activist Killed by Israel

Updated 2024-07-30

Rachel Corrie News     https://www.bing.com/search?q=rachel+corrie&form=ANNTH1&refig=81dfaf97b3f843848b15b8910967e0a7&pc=EE09&sp=3&lq=0&filters=ufn%3A%22Rachel+Corrie%22+sid%3A%2238c8f5d2-b049-4955-269d-e88d52c2a7ee%22&asbe=LS&qs=MB&pq=rachel+co&sk=LS2&sc=10-9&cvid=81dfaf97b3f843848b15b8910967e0a7

Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice   The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice is a grassroots, 501(c)3 non-profit organization that conducts and supports programs that foster connections between people, that build understanding, respect, and appreciation for differences, and that promote cooperation within and between local and global communities.  https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/about

Legacy of Rachel Corrie (video) Rachel was an activist, a truth teller, and defender of human life. Twenty years ago while in Palestine, Israeli Occupation soldiers killed her. Her parents carry on her legacy. #RachelCorrie    https://www.instagram.com/p/C4kTZmZudeD/  

2013-07-04 Rachel Corrie Remembered By Family of Bulldozed Home        https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2013/07/rachel-corrie-israel-gaza.html

2003-09 The Death of Rachel Corrie- Mother Jones   At two o’clock on the afternoon of Sunday, March 16, Rachel Corrie received a cell-phone call from a comrade in the International Solidarity Movement. “The Israelis are back,” she told Corrie. “Get over here right away. I think they’re heading for Dr. Samir’s house.” The news alarmed Corrie. Samir Nasrallah was a Palestinian pharmacist who lived with his wife and three children a few hundred yards from the battle-scarred Egyptian border in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah. Corrie and other pro-Palestinian activists based in Rafah had frequently spent the night in Nasrallah’s house, acting as human shields against the Israeli tanks and bulldozers clearing a security zone around the border. Almost every other structure in the area had been knocked down in recent months; Nasrallah’s abode now stood alone in a sea of sand and debris.

This much has never been contested: Placing herself in the path of an Israeli bulldozer that she believed was about to flatten Nasrallah’s house, Rachel Corrie was crushed to death — her skull fractured, her ribs shattered, her lungs punctured. But the bitter accusations and violent recriminations that followed obscured almost everything else about the incident. Palestinians hailed her as a martyr of the Intifada. Several eyewitnesses charged that the bulldozer operator ran her down deliberately and called her killing “a war crime.” The Israeli government, which rarely acknowledges the deaths of Palestinian civilians killed during its military operations, went into damage-control mode. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised President Bush a “thorough, credible, and transparent investigation.” Later Israel declared the killing a “regrettable accident” and blamed it on overzealous Corrie and the other activists working as human shields. Charges and countercharges flew back and forth until, like Rashomon, the facts of Rachel Corrie’s death dissolved into a half-dozen competing versions of the truth, none of them fully convincing.

In the United States, the reaction to Corrie’s death also reflected the deep divide over the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Candlelit vigils took place in her hometown; her poignant letters home were posted on the Internet along with tributes from friends and teachers; Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) called for a congressional investigation. But many others greeted Corrie’s death with a distinct lack of sympathy.  https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/09/death-rachel-corrie/

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Palestinians Dehumanized

Updated 2024-07-30

2024-06-07 The Rafah Tents Massacre Exemplifies Israeli and US Disdain for Palestinian Life      This reality is a disastrous tragedy for Palestinians, defining the United States for generations in a negative light and ultimately harming Washington’s soft power and any genuine effort to do good in the region.  

Palestinians have long been melted down into various data points, often relegating them to vague and dehumanizing categories in the so-called “modern” world. Israel’s latest invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza and the May 26 massacre of roughly 45 Palestinians—where most were burned alive in the strike on their displacement tents—exemplifies this reality as Israeli leaders and the United States continue to show disdain for Palestinian life. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/tents-massacre-palestinian-life

2024-04-20 The Palestinians Are the Latest Victims of Empire to Be Dehumanized as ‘Others’     Throughout history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of “The Others.” The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit by supporting their empire’s predatory policies with slanted coverage.  Such is the case with the U.S. global and the Israeli regional empires. The U.S. federal government and the mainstream media often move in lockstep.

For example, take the word “terrorism.” TheNew York Times regularly refers to the Hamas regime as “terrorists,” while describing the far more extensive Israeli acts of state terrorism as “military operations.” Since October 7, the Israeli military superpower has killed over 500 times more children than Hamas killed in their raid through a still uninvestigated collapse of Israel’s vaunted multi-tiered border security.

Apart from a massively greater overall civilian toll inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza—the vast undercount stands at 34,000 Palestinian deaths compared to the deaths of 1,139 Israeli civilians, soldiers, and foreign workers. This staggering ratio—over 14,000 Palestinian children (with many thousands under the rubble) compared to 30 Israeli children—escapes proper reporting. “The Others” don’t get accurate coverage as was also the case with huge Iraqi losses during the Bush/Cheney criminal war.   https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/palestinians-victims-empire-others

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Palestinian Students in Israel

Updated 2024-07-30

2024-05-25 Zionists condemn us for posting on the Internet   Since October 7, more than 160 Palestinian students have been suspended or expelled from Israeli universities – and even arrested. The reason? – Their posts on social networks. This is their story.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiP0vRv-umU 

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Palestinian Refugees

Updated 2024-07-30

2023-11-06 Refugee Settlers in Guam and Palestine – KPFA – Against the Grain     In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the U.S. transported refugees from Vietnam to its colonial possession Guam. In that period, Israel did something similar, offering citizenship to Vietnamese refugees, in the wake of its expanded occupation of Palestine. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi looks at the condition of refugee settlers, as well as solidarity between the indigenous inhabitants of settler colonial states.  Resources:   Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine UC Press, 2022   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/refugee-settlers-in-guam-and-palestine/id78900506

2022-05-05 The Nakba and Palestine Refugees | IMEU Questions and Answers   From an original estimated population of 750,000 in 1948, today there are more than 7 million Palestinian refugees worldwide, 5.7 million of whom are refugees registered with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), a specialized UN agency established in 1949 to provide social services to refugees.

Nakba is an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe” and refers to Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine, its exiling of Palestinians and making them into refugees, its dispossession of Palestinian property, its destruction of Palestinian cities, towns, and villages, and its attempt to erase the existence of the Palestinian people from its homeland in 1948.

Before, during, and after the establishment of Israel in May 1948, first Zionist militias and later the Israeli military used terrorism and committed massacres and other atrocities to drive Palestinians from their homes. Zionist militias and the Israeli military also systematically looted and demolished Palestinian property. By the time Israel signed armistice agreements with neighboring Arab states in 1949, there were an estimated 750,000 Palestinian refugees (approximately 75 percent of the Palestinian population of that lived on land that became Israel). Israel demolished between 400 and 500 Palestinian villages, town, and cities.

The Nakba is not only a historical event; Israel’s ongoing dispossession of Palestinians and colonization of Palestinian land means that the Nakba is ongoing and accurately defines Palestinian life under Israeli military occupation, apartheid, and settler-colonialism.    https://imeu.org/article/the-nakba-and-palestine-refugees-imeu-questions-and-answers

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Palestinian Red Cross Society

Updated 2024-07-30

Gaza 101: Emergency Rescue – Documentary   Palestinian Red Crescent Society medics risk everything to save lives.  Humanitarian workers in Gaza risk their lives daily to provide aid to Palestinians under dire conditions. This BBC report follows paramedics with the Palestinian Red Crescent in Northern Gaza during the first month of the war, when the area was under the heaviest Israeli bombardment.   https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8611

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Palestinian Hostages

Updated 2024-07-30

2024-04-20 The Palestinians Are the Latest Victims of Empire to Be Dehumanized as ‘Others’     Throughout history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of “The Others.” The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit by supporting their empire’s predatory policies with slanted coverage.  Such is the case with the U.S. global and the Israeli regional empires. The U.S. federal government and the mainstream media often move in lockstep.

Apart from a massively greater overall civilian toll inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza—the vast undercount stands at 34,000 Palestinian deaths compared to the deaths of 1,139 Israeli civilians, soldiers, and foreign workers. This staggering ratio—over 14,000 Palestinian children (with many thousands under the rubble) compared to 30 Israeli children—escapes proper reporting. “The Others” don’t get accurate coverage as was also the case with huge Iraqi losses during the Bush/Cheney criminal war.  

Take the use of the term “hostage.” Hamas seized over 240 Israelis hostages on October 7. Since then, the Israeli army has seized about 9,000 Palestinians, including women and children, and taken them without charges, along with many more thousands languishing in these prison camps also without charges for years (it’s called Israel’s “administrative detention”). Many of the imprisoned Palestinians are being tortured. Who has gotten the far greater attention? Aren’t these Palestinian hostages also? Again “The Others.” https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/palestinians-victims-empire-others

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Palestinian Crowd Funding

Updated 2024-07-30

2024-04-30 Palestinians turn to crowdfunding to escape Gaza     Palestinians in Gaza have resorted to crowdfunding to flee, but scammers are preying on their desperation.

Amid Israel’s war on Gaza, Palestinians are turning to crowdfunding to raise funds to escape violence and devastation. The cost? About $5,000 per person. This episode delves deep into the multifaceted exploitation of Palestinians who have been trying to take matters into their own hands. We discuss the struggles of raising money for these border crossings and the roadblocks from crowdfunding sites.

Presenter: Myriam Francois, Guests:, Abeer Salim – Palestinian journalist, Taleed el-Sabawi – Palestinian-American law and public health professor, Abeer Zayyad – Operation Olive Branch volunteer, Timothy Kaldas – Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy   https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-stream/2024/4/30/palestinians-turn-to-crowdfunding-to-escape-gaza

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Palestinian Casualty Undercount

Updated 2024-07-30

2024-03-05 Stop the Worsening UNDERCOUNT of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza    Since the Hamas raid penetrated the multi-tiered Israeli border security on October 7, 2023 (an unexplained collapse of Israel’s defensive capabilities), 2.3 million utterly defenseless Palestinians in the tiny crowded Gaza enclave have been on the receiving end of over 65,000 bombs/missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers.

The extreme right-wing Netanyahu regime has enforced its declared siege of, in its genocidal words, “no food, no water, no electricity, no fuel, no medicine.”  The relentless bombing has destroyed apartment buildings, marketplaces, refugee camps, hospitals, clinics, ambulances, bakeries, schools, mosques, churches, roads, electricity networks, critical water mains – just about everything.

The U.S.-equipped Israeli war machine has even uprooted agricultural fields, including thousands of olive trees on one farm, bulldozed many cemeteries and bombed civilians fleeing on Israeli orders, while obstructing the few trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egypt. With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm and the elderly, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000? With five thousand babies born every month into the rubble, their mothers wounded and without food, healthcare, medicine and clean water for any of their children, severe skepticism about the Hamas Health Ministry’s official count is warranted. https://nader.org/2024/03/05/stop-the-worsening-undercount-of-palestinian-casualties-in-gaza/

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Palestine Talks – Interviews

Updated 2024-07-30

Palestine Talks YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23palestinetalks

Palestine Talks Playlist   Max Blumenthal, John Mearsheimer, Dr. Sahar Mohamed Khamis, Ashish Prashar, Chris Hedges, Dr Harriet Fraad, Norman Finkelstein, Lauren Booth,  Miko Peled,  Sami Al-Arian,  Dr. Mads Gilbert, Mohammed el Kurd,  Professor Avi Shlaim,  Professor David Miller, British rapper and activist Lowkey,  Roger Waters,  Dr. Omar Suleiman https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUW304lJeu3Vg_nM0WQfWDZTDyu6h6PlD

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