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Zionism and Nazi

Updated 2024-04-08

2024-02-14 ESSAY: Fascist South Africa and Zionist “Israel”—Hitler’s Heirs, Victor Lungelo Mayekiso, 1969   The equation used to be Zionism = Apartheid. It was a formulation that drew attention to the racist practices of two of the most notoriously racist states, South Africa, under the policy of Apartheid, and “Israel” in its current formation. Yet these days, Zionism = Apartheid seems a little hackneyed and feeble and almost quaintly liberal in its formulation. It does not attend to the raw, unrestrained, and insouciant murderous brutality of both states — and it is oblivious to zionism’s genocidal mandate. Indeed “apartheid,” which means “separateness” or “apartness” in Afrikaans, was not premised on the complete elimination of the African as the African was necessary as the laboring and serving class to the white settler population. (Although, most certainly, for many white South Africans, elimination would have been preferable). Yet what Palestinians have always known, and what is now becoming clear to the rest of the world, is that Zionism is not about separation, or even Apartheid; it is about the absolute elimination of Palestinians on a biological, cultural, and historical level. There is no other reason to murder both children and poets and destroy both hospitals and universities.  In this light, Zionism does not equal Apartheid. Zionism equals Nazism.     https://blackagendareport.com/essay-fascist-south-africa-and-zionist-israel-hitlers-heirs-victor-lungelo-mayekiso-1969

2024-02-14 The Killing Fields of Gaza   Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed tirelessly to be acting in the name of the Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust with Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.   In truth, the actions of his regime and military these past few months has placed them much closer to the guards than the inmates at Hitler’s death camps during this dark period in human affairs.  In other words, and put more simply, when your response to genocide is more genocide, you become precisely that which you claim to be against. This is precisely where we are now after four months of the IDF’s murderous and wholly indiscriminate military campaign against the people of Gaza.  

The result is 13,000 Palestinian children being thus far sent to their deaths under the missiles and bombs of a 21st century military machine in the hands of a government comprised of men with 14th century minds.   Netanyahu and his supporters will not be happy until the history, culture and entire existence of the Palestinians are relegated to the museum. This is both evident and implicit in the mad slaughter they have and are currently engaged in.  A twisted conception of the world as being fashioned on the basis of might is right and racial hierarchy has throughout human history produced monsters. And in this respect, Benjamin Netanyahu is merely the latest in a long line.  In this respect, too, he has inflicted a moral injury on every one of us still in possession of a beating heart and a conscience, not to mention consciousness.  https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/14/the-killing-fields-of-gaza/

2022-11-02 How Zionists collaborated with the Nazis, in conversation with Tony Greenstein | EI Podcast      On episode 68, we speak with activist and blogger Tony Greenstein, a veteran of the Palestine solidarity movement in the UK, about his new book “Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation.” Click here for more details and the full transcript: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/…   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9evhLCuA_k&t=222s

2016-04-29 George Galloway: Zionism and Nazism cooperated   Respect Party leader George Galloway and former political adviser to Tony Blair, John McTernan discuss the anti-semitism crisis engulfing the Labour Party.  Transcript   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8L_Xzrgzg

2015-10-22 Netanyahu says Hitler didn’t want to kill the Jews, but a Muslim convinced him to do it     Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Adolf Hitler didn’t want to kill the Jews, but a Muslim convinced him to do it.   Holocaust historians disagree. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9HmkRYlVZw

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World Leaders

Updated 2024-08-29

2024-08-09 Western Media, Leaders Slammed for ‘Deafening’ Silence Over Israeli Torture Revelations     “Can you imagine the response if Palestinians were holding Israelis in mass rape camps and torturing them to death?” asked one critic. 

Human rights defenders are calling out Western news outlets and political leaders for their conspicuous lack of coverage and vocalized condemnation after leaked video footage appeared to show Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian detainee in the notorious Sde Teiman prison and the release of a new report documenting systematic torture of prisoners held by Israel.

Earlier this week, Israel’s Channel 12 aired a video showing Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservists assaulting a Palestinian man at Sde Teiman, which is often called “Israel’s Guantánamo.” The victim was reportedly hospitalized with a severe anal injury, ruptured bowel, broken ribs, and lung damage. In addition to torture, former Sde Teiman detainees have described rampant rape and sexual abuse, allegedly often committed by female soldiers.

Instead of avoiding the Sde Teiman rape story, Israeli media have aired an interview with one of the IDF suspects—who are being hailed as “heroes” by far-right Israelis including multiple Cabinet ministers—and panel discussions including one in which a journalist called for “institutionalized” rape of Palestinian prisoners. This, as Israeli leaders demanded an investigation of the rape video to find and punish whoever leaked the footage, and as Israeli lawmakers argue that it’s permissible to rape Palestinian prisoners.    https://www.commondreams.org/news/u-s-media-coverage-of-israel-palestinian-conflict

2024-03-02 Just Two US Lawmakers Sign International Statement Demanding Arms Embargo on Israel    More than 200 lawmakers from 13 countries issued a joint statement Friday expressing opposition to their nations’ weapons exports to Israel and pledging to do everything in their power to halt the flow of arms that are being used to massacre Palestinians in Gaza.   Just two U.S. lawmakers—Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.)—backed the statement.

“We, the undersigned parliamentarians, declare our commitment to end our nations’ arms sales to the state of Israel,” reads the statement, which was coordinated by Progressive International. “Our bombs and bullets must not be used to kill, maim, and dispossess Palestinians. But they are: We know that lethal weapons and their parts, made or shipped through our countries, currently aid the Israeli assault on Palestine that has claimed over 30,000 lives across Gaza and the West Bank.”

The statement’s signatories include legislators from Israel’s top allies and weapons suppliers, including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada. The statement includes six signatories from Germany, which is facing an International Court of Justice (ICJ) case alleging complicity in genocide against Palestinians.  The lawmakers argued that an arms embargo on Israel is both “a moral necessity” and “a legal requirement,” given the ICJ’s interim ruling in late January.  https://www.commondreams.org/news/lawmakers-arms-embargo-israel

2023-12-20 Justin Trudeau’s belated and shameful volte face on Gaza    Some of Israel’s most prominent enablers now claim to abhor the scope of Israel’s wanton killing of Palestinians with a barrage of bullets, bombs, and rampaging bulldozers.  Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joined France and Germany in calling for a “sustainable ceasefire” to stop the killing. 

Like his European allies, Sunak said that “too many civilian lives have been lost”.  Sunak’s belated admonition invites several questions: When did he realise that “too many [Palestinian] lives have been lost”? What was the number of dead Palestinians that tipped into “too many”? Why didn’t 5,000, 10,000 or 15,000 dead Palestinians constitute “too many”?  

It is touching, isn’t it, to watch Sunak and craven company find, surprisingly, a moral compass when, all along, we warned them that this is what was going to happen.   Apparently, Netanyahu killed too many Palestinians, too quickly for London’s, Berlin’s, and Paris’s liking. Hence, the qualified volte-face.  Israel has the right to defend itself, they say. But it shouldn’t kill that many Palestinian civilians that quickly. It’s not a good look, they say.

Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has finally had a “humanitarian” epiphany too.   Not too long ago, Trudeau also told Netanyahu that he could, in effect, do whatever he wanted to do in Gaza and the West Bank since Israel had the right to defend itself. 

Trudeau had Canada’s UN ambassador, Bob Rae, announce the sudden change of strategic heart. Rae told the General Assembly last week that Canada supported a ceasefire.  Trudeau’s decision has provoked a furious rhetorical response from the “no ceasefire” quarters inside and outside the Liberal caucus who, predictably, have insisted that the jejune prime minister had not only abandoned Israel, but sided with the murderous Hamas.   The carnage in Gaza is no longer palatable. Only zealots refuse to acknowledge that the winds have shifted. Trudeau can see what most of us can see.

As long as US President Joe Biden keeps telling Netanyahu that he can do whatever he wants to Palestinians, for as long as he wants to, the “killing rage” will claim more Palestinians.  Inevitably, 20,000 will become 30,000 and on and on it will go until Israel, and Israel alone, decides its “killing rage” is spent. That doesn’t mean that Trudeau is powerless to help Palestinians in desperate straits. To help relieve their shocking hardship and suffering. To extend a generous, welcoming hand to a people whose generosity and welcoming spirit is familiar to anyone who has visited Gaza or the West Bank.  Trudeau can help but it will require the will to help.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/justin-trudeau-s-belated-and-shameful-volte-face-on-gaza/ar-AA1lNgLE

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Whistleblowers

Updated 2024-01-07

2023-12-11 State Dept. Whistleblower Blasts Blinken for Bypassing Congress to Send 14K Tank Munitions to Israel   The Biden administration has bypassed Congress to approve an “emergency” sale of over $100 million of tank ammunition to Israel. Congress was notified just hours after the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a Gaza ceasefire. We get response from Josh Paul, former director of congressional and public affairs for the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which oversees arms transfers to Israel and other nations. Paul resigned from the State Department in October to protest the Biden administration’s push to increase arms sales to Israel amid its ongoing siege on Gaza.     https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/11/state_department_arms_israel

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United States Police – IDF (also see Blue Leaks)

Updated 2024-01-07

2023-12-08  US police agencies took intelligence directly from IDF, leaked files show  Hacked police files show US law enforcement agencies for decades received analysis of incidents in the Israel-Palestine conflict directly from the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli thinktanks, training on domestic “Muslim extremists” from pro-Israel non-profits, and surveilled social media accounts of pro-Palestine activists in the US.    

The Guardian’s analysis of documents from the BlueLeaks trove of internal law enforcement documents found no indication that this was balanced by information from other Middle Eastern sources or US Muslim community groups. Nor is there any indication that pro-Israel activists were subject to any specific scrutiny.

At a time of polarized reactions to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the analysis raises questions about the scope of police intelligence-gathering in the US and the influence of Israel and its supporters on those efforts, and how this has shaped the treatment of activists and social movements, especially those who are pro-Palestinian. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-police-agencies-took-intelligence-directly-from-idf-leaked-files-show/ar-AA1lcdBc

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Unions

Updated 2024-08-29

2024-08-06 Humphrey Without Vietnam, but More Down-Home  Rural roots. High school social studies teacher. As coach, turned around losing high school football team and led it to state championship. Twenty-four years’ service in the state’s National Guard. Gun owner; hunts pheasants. As congressman, won historically Republican district six times. As governor, worked with the legislature and signed into law universal free breakfast and lunch program for public school students, paid sick and family leave, groundbreaking sectoral bargaining for nursing home employees, and first-in-the-nation outlawing of employers’ common practice of compelling employees to attend anti-union rants—all with just a one-vote majority in the state Senate. Coined a devastating (because accurate and simple) meme to describe Donald Trump & Co.   

In 2022, however, not only was Walz re-elected as governor but the Democrats were able to cling to their narrow majority in the lower house and win a one-vote majority in the state Senate. Whereupon, as my colleague Ryan Cooper noted last year, the legislature passed and Walz signed into law new statutes that created  paid sick days for nearly all workers, which will accrue at the rate of one hour per 30 hours worked up to a maximum of 48 hours; forbids noncompete agreements in labor contracts; establishes a sectoral bargaining system for nursing homes; allows teachers to negotiate class sizes; and bans “captive audience” meetings where employers force their workers to listen to anti-union propaganda. It also sets up new protections for meatpackers, construction workers, and Amazon employees. And a separate bill passed on Sunday guarantees a minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers.

In other words, second-term Walz had a first hundred days almost comparable to Franklin Roosevelt’s in 1933.   Walz deserves huge credit for this.  If you’re a Democrat who understands the need to win back some of the rural and working-class voters who’ve moved right, not to mention the need to enact major progressive populist, pro-worker, and pro-choice legislation, what’s not to like about Tim Walz?  https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-08-06-humphrey-without-vietnam-tim-walz/

2024-05-25 UAW rank and file demand their union divest from genocide    UAW Labor for Palestine (UAW L4P) issued the statement below on May 10.  United Auto Workers leadership must stop crossing the Palestinian trade union picket line and immediately divest from Israeli genocide!   UAW Labor for Palestine has learned that the International Executive Board of the United Auto Workers [at its meeting held April 30 to May 2] voted down a motion to divest from Israel Bonds, with only three IEB members voting in favor. https://www.workers.org/2024/05/78887/

2024-07-23 Major Unions Urge Biden to Stop Arming Israel Amid Netanyahu Visit    A group of seven major unions, including some of the largest unions in the U.S., are calling on President Joe Biden to immediately stop sending military support to Israel amid Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the U.S. this week.

In a letter sent to Biden on Tuesday, the unions said that ending weapons shipments is the only way to secure the ceasefire deal that U.S. negotiators have supposedly been working on for months. It is one of the strongest statements yet from organized labor in the U.S. against the genocide.

“We write to publicly call upon your Administration to immediately halt all military aid to Israel as part of the work to secure an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the war in Gaza,” the unions wrote. A copy of the letter was posted online by HuffPost labor reporter Dave Jamieson. https://truthout.org/articles/major-unions-urge-biden-to-stop-arming-israel-amid-netanyahu-visit/

2024-07-23 US Teachers Pushed Their Union to Divest From Israel. What Happened?     s the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention kicked off in Houston, Texas, this week, the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza was top of mind for many in attendance.

“We’re going to show up at [the] convention and do everything we can to organize people around doing something about the genocide,” Ted Cooper, executive vice president of AFT-Oregon, told Truthout as he was preparing to travel to Houston last week.

Like Cooper, delegates from union locals nationwide are leading political education and organizing efforts at the convention and calling for AFT, their locals and their pension funds to divest from State of Israel bonds and companies implicated in Israel’s assault on Gaza and its decades-long occupation of Palestine. In doing so, they’ve come up against some of the union’s leadership, who have instead put forth a resolution of their own: one that calls for a two-state solution and argues that “rather than turn away and divest from Israel and Palestine, now is the moment to rededicate ourselves.”   https://truthout.org/articles/us-teachers-pushed-their-union-to-divest-from-israel-what-happened/

2023-12-15 Largest Health Union in US Calls for Cease-Fire in Gaza      Days after U.S.-backed Israeli forces conducted its latest raid on a hospital in Gaza and as the spread of diseases including meningitis and chickenpox were reported in the besieged enclave, the largest healthcare union in the United States joined the international call for a cease-fire.

The executive council of 1199SEIU, a union that represents more than 450,000 healthcare workers from five states and Washington, D.C., said all parties involved “must commit to negotiating a permanent, just resolution to this conflict which will enable Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace and build a future.”

“1199SEIU calls for the immediate cessation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip, to allow for urgent humanitarian relief amid the collapse of the territory’s health and other infrastructure,” said the executive council. “International humanitarian law and the laws of war must be upheld without exception, which include the inviolability of healthcare facilities. War crimes committed by one side of the conflict cannot and do not serve as justification for crimes and breaches of the Geneva Conventions by the other.”

The union rejected the notion that Israel’s numerous attacks on healthcare centers—where doctors are struggling to treat sick and injured patients and displaced Palestinians are sheltering—as well as “apartment blocks filled with families, and the deaths of 11,000+ Palestinian women and children are acceptable collateral damage.”

1199SEIU made its statement a day after the leaders of unions including the United Auto Workers; the Postal Workers Union; and the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America joined progressive lawmakers at a rally outside the U.S. Capitol to urge President Joe Biden to back a cease-fire.   “https://www.commondreams.org/news/health-union-ceasefire

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Categorized Directory: News and Articles about Israel- Palestine Conflict

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from Creating Better World

Six-Day War (June War, War of 1967)

Updated 2024-01-07

Six-Day War – Wikipedia     The Six-Day War,  Ḥarb 1967, ‘War of 1967’) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 June 1967. 

On 5 June 1967, as the UNEF was in the process of leaving the zone, Israel launched a series of preemptive airstrikes against Egyptian airfields and other facilities, launching its war effort.  Egyptian forces were caught by surprise, and nearly all of Egypt’s military aerial assets were destroyed, giving Israel air supremacy. Simultaneously, the Israeli military launched a ground offensive into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula as well as the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip. After some initial resistance, Nasser ordered an evacuation of the Sinai Peninsula; by the sixth day of the conflict, Israel had occupied the entire Sinai Peninsula.  Jordan, which had entered into a defense pact with Egypt just a week before the war began, did not take on an all-out offensive role against Israel. However, the Jordanians did launch attacks against Israeli forces to slow Israel’s advance.  On the fifth day, Syria joined the war by shelling Israeli positions in the north.

Egypt and Jordan agreed to a ceasefire on 8 June, and Syria on 9 June, and it was signed with Israel on 11 June. The Six-Day War resulted in more than 20,000 fatal Arab casualties, while Israel suffered fewer than 1,000 fatal casualties. Alongside the combatant casualties were the deaths of 20 Israeli civilians killed in Arab forces air strikes on Jerusalem, 15 UN peacekeepers killed by Israeli strikes in the Sinai at the outset of the war, and 34 US personnel killed in the USS Liberty incident in which Israeli air forces struck a United States Navy technical research ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War

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Regional & Global Order

Updated 2024-07-30

2024-05-07 To Achieve Peace and Stability, the Middle East Needs a Regional Security Framework  The broader Middle East needs peace and stability, not more conflict. This will not come through more arms and more hostile posturing. If we’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the region’s antagonists will not be defeated. Conflict either emboldens them or results in a metastasizing of their conflicts’ root causes into new and more virulent forms.

During the past century, the U.S. and its Western allies played an extremely negative role. From the Sykes-Picot betrayal and dismemberment of the region, to the fatal partition of Palestine and United Nation’s failure to insist on Israel honoring the terms of its conditional admission in 1948, the West repeatedly turned a blind eye to Israel’s aggressive behaviors and its egregious violations of Palestinian rights. This only served to make a bad situation worse. As a result, the region has been forced to endure repeated wars involving Israel, the Palestinians, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt.

Our policies have been no better with regard to Iran. We supported the repressive regime of its Shah and worked to overthrow Iran’s effort to form a democracy in the 1950s—a wound Iranians never forgot. This hostility came into clear focus after the Shah’s pro-Western regime grew more repressive and was overthrown in a popular revolt in 1979. That promising revolution quickly devolved into the aggressive Islamic Republic of Iran with its decidedly anti-Western bent.

During the decade-long war of the 1980s between revolutionary Iran and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the U.S. supplied munitions (including chemical and biological components) to Iraq, while covertly (and illegally) funneling weapons to Iran. The results were devastating to both nations. Then came a decade of crippling U.S.-imposed sanctions on both countries and finally the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, which led to Iran gaining a foothold in Iraq among its long-oppressed Shi’a majority. Iran was now emboldened to pursue its regional ambitions with its allies in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, all of whom had their own grievances within their countries

2023-12-20 Will Israel’s Gaza Genocide Reshuffle the Regional & Global Order?      What does the genocide in Gaza mean for the surrounding Arab states? Do their oppositional responses even matter or is it all just symbolic? How will this impact the Abraham Accords and other normalization efforts? Why won’t the Gulf states use their oil as leverage to pressure the United States? How does the genocide in Gaza impact countries like Jordan and Syria? How is it affecting America’s standing in the world? What does it mean for Russia and China in an emerging multipolar world?

To discuss this and other regional developments, Rania Khalek was joined by Giorgio Cafiero, the CEO of Gulf State Analytics, a Washington, D.C.-based geopolitical risk consultancy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQXWRl12ppc

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Red Sea Disruption – US Operation Prosperity Guardian (see Yemen)

Updated 2024-01-07

2023-12-23 Iran’s Khamenei calls on Muslim nations to block shipping to Israel     Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday urged Muslim countries to prevent vital supplies from reaching Israel as the United States accused his country of “deep involvement” in attacks by Yemeni rebels against international shipping.   Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a meeting in Tehran with people from the Iranian provinces of Kerman and Khuzestan, denounced Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza as “bloodthirsty and cruel” and called on Islamic governments to take action against materiel heading to Israel.   It is the duty of Muslim nations “to prevent goods, oil and fuel from reaching the Zionist regime, the regime which itself has blocked off water access to the people of Gaza,” Khamenei said, according to official news accounts.  At the same time, the supreme leader “denounced some Islamic states for their criminal act of assistance towards the Zionist regime,” official media said.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-s-khamenei-calls-on-muslim-nations-to-block-shipping-to-israel/ar-AA1lWRn

2023-12-19 U.S. officials stress Houthi threats to commercial shipping will be stopped      A day after the United States unveiled a new multinational military initiative to counter rising attacks by Houthi militants targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea, U.S. officials stressed they and a coalition of partner nations will do whatever it takes to stop the threats.   Speaking at a Tuesday afternoon press briefing at the White House, national security adviser John Kirby said Operation Prosperity Guardian is underway as ships and aircraft “from multiple nations” conduct maritime surveillance and take defensive action to protect commercial ships from Houthi threats.

“From the beginning, we’ve said that this is an international challenge; it requires collective and international action,” Kirby said. “And we’ve been able to bring together now a number of partners, including the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy … the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, Spain, and even more to address this challenge together.   “But bottom line is: These attacks have to stop,” he said. “They need to stop. They’re unacceptable. The United States and our allies and our partners will do what we have to do to counter these threats and to protect these ships.”   https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/12/19/multinational-force-red-sea-houti-threat/9401703028225/

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Pro-Israel Celebrities

Updated 2024-01-06

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2023-12-20 How Israel Buys Support From Celebrities & Influencers     Why have so many celebrities, politicians, and influencers come out to strongly support Israel? The two word answer: the “Israel lobby.” But it’s much deeper than that.   Comedian Lee Camp reveals the gruesome and often hidden details of how the Israel Support Industrial Complex’s sausage is made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma1autOZcPc

2023-12-20 SHOCKING VIDEO Shows Moment Gaza Hospital OBLITERATED by Israeli Missiles Live on Al Jazeera’s Air  Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss the ceasefire protests over the Israel-Hamas War that took place at the Capitol yesterday.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFdf03JpnwE

2023-12-19 Republican Michelle Bachman Says She Wants To WIPE OUT Gaza        Former Congresswoman and right-winger Michele Bachmann said she wants Gazans wiped off the map. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2RmWKLWEL4

2023-12-19 Fetterman argues TikTok is warping young people’s views on Israel: ‘Hamas started this’   Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., argued that young progressive voters who are anti-Israel are being told what to believe about the Israel-Hamas war on TikTok     https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/fetterman-argues-tiktok-is-warping-young-people-s-views-on-israel-hamas-started-this/vi-AA1lNkWO?

2023-12-18 Bill Maher BERATES Palestinians As Their Kids Get Bombed | The Kyle Kulinski Show       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7EKjxTkrLM

2023-11-04 Psychopathic Liar Nikki Haley Pushes War With Iran!     Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign Republican Nikki Haley has emerged as perhaps the most ardent and bloodthirsty warmongering candidate, and that’s saying something among a group who are not shy about threatening military force all over the globe, from Russia to Israel to Mexico. Haley in particular wants to point U.S. military capabilities at Iran, which she blames for the recent Hamas attacks.    Guest host Craig Jardula and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Haley’s brazen lies about how Iran and Hamas are determined to kill Americans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KlguVEaIIc&t=4s

2023-11-10 Tulsi Gabbard Switches Anti-War Stance To Justify Israeli War Crimes!      During the 2016 presidential election, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard emerged as a uniquely principled voice, criticizing the Clinton campaign and the DNC for icing Bernie Sanders out of the party’s nomination and for criticizing the U.S. war in Syria. So it comes as a terrible disappointment to hear Gabbard buying into the propaganda and spreading war machine talking points about Israel and the war on Gaza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhg8OBz0zLQ

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Pope Francis

Updated 2024-01-06

2023-12-26 Israeli airstrikes in Gaza as pope decries ‘appalling harvest’ of civilians: Live updates     The death toll rose to 106 on Christmas day in one of Israel’s deadliest airstrikes on Gaza since the war began, hospital records showed, as refugee workers pulled dozens of bodies from the rubble at the Maghazi refugee camp.    Doctors Without Borders said Al-Aqsa Hospital had admitted more than 200 injured people and recorded 131 deaths after bombardments Sunday on Al-Maghazi and Al-Bureij refugee camps. Around half were women and children, the agency said. 

Meanwhile, Christmas in Bethlehem, celebrated as the biblical birthplace of Jesus, was overcast be a somber mood at a time when celebrations would usually be filling the streets.  “Our message every year on Christmas is one of peace and love, but this year it’s a message of sadness, grief and anger in front of the international community with what is happening and going on in the Gaza Strip,” Bethlehem Mayor Hana Haniyeh said.

Pope Francis blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for global peace and between Israelis and Palestinians.   Speaking from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on Monday, Francis said he grieved the “abominable attack” of Hamas on Oct. 7 and called for the release of hostages. He also begged for an end to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and the “appalling harvest of innocent civilians” as he called for humanitarian aid.    Francis devoted his Christmas Day blessing to a call for peace in the world, noting the biblical story of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem sent a message of peace. But he said the town “is a place of sorrow and silence” this year.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israeli-airstrikes-in-gaza-as-pope-decries-appalling-harvest-of-civilians-live-updates/ar-AA1m13Gq  

2023-12-20 Pope Condemns Israeli Killings of Palestinian Christians; Relative of 84-Year-Old Mourns Her Death    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRwlc-_kjhA

2023-12-20 ‘TERRORISM!’: Pope Francis Directly Calls Out Israeli War Crimes | The Kyle Kulinski Show      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ookF3F0eCsc

2023-12-20 Ryan HAMMERS State Dep Spox On Pope ‘TERRORISM’     Ryan and Emily discuss Ryan Grim confronting a State Department Spox on the pope accusing Israel of terrorism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P26Y1BWimDk

2023-12-19 Pope ACCUSES Israel Of TERRORISM After Christians Shot At Church     Krystal and Saagar discuss the Pope accusing Israel of terrorism after they shot at churchgoers.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT2Kb2EkvQg

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