February 2024
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 146:
Israeli forces massacre civilians waiting for humanitarian aid
Mondoweiss: Israeli tanks and warplanes reportedly targeted civilians waiting for aid, killing at least 77 and wounding hundreds. Meanwhile, international aid groups say airdrops of aid are so “negligible” that they “perpetuate the overall blockade strategy.” Read More
Israeli massacre of starving civilians
Northern hospitals in Gaza are non-functional
Medical staff still unlawfully detained
Seven babies die of malnutrition
As Gaza is obliterated, scholars and academics need to speak up
Analyst News: Educators have a responsibility to help guide ethical leadership. That’s why more than 4,000 of us are calling on Biden to demand a ceasefire. Read More
Pakistan: The Elite Who Betrayed the Nation
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: Every dictator is a despot in heart and an enemy of himself and the nation. They contribute nothing to build a nation or its future but destroy all that was built over time and generations to give truth a meaning for human culture and civilization. An egomaniac mind imagines “power” in absolute terms, a vicious concept that corrupts all and all the time. But never cares to search for the consequential truth leading to the end game - assured deceit of transitory triumphalism. Read More
Biden claims Gaza ceasefire in sight as Palestinians starve
by Thomas Scripps: A day of speculation about a ceasefire in Gaza sparked by US President Joe Biden has exposed the vicious cynicism of all involved. Biden told reporters, “My national security adviser tells me that we’re close. We’re close. We’re not done yet. My hope is by next Monday, we’ll have a ceasefire.”Media commentators were quick to report this “optimism”, but it soon became clear that an agreement was not “close” at all. The Israeli media was widely briefed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government did not know what Biden was talking about and that Netanyahu himself had been “surprised.” Read More
Aaron Bushnell’s Ultimate Protest
by Alfred de Zayas: The live-streaming and subsequent videos of US active duty airman Aaron Bushnell’s extreme sacrifice in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Sunday 25 February 2024 should make us reflect on the complicity of our governments in the on-going genocide being perpetrated by Israel on the hapless Palestinian people. 30,000 dead – overwhelmingly civilians, women and children. Read More
Being alive is tough and even untenable sometimes …
by Sally Dugman: Recently a person in the US Air Force killed himself in front of the US Isreali Embassy. He ended his life in protest of the genocide of the Palestinians. His name was Aaron Bushnell. I’m sorry that I didn’t meet with this young man before he chose to kille himself by setting himself on fire … because I, likely, may have been able to dissuade him from his suicide as he is, in my opinion, more of value to serve humanity by interacting with those of our ilk — war resisters like many of my Quaker and Catholic Worker F/friends throughout my life than ending his existence. Read More
Understanding ICJ’s Genocide Ruling and Its Impact
by Dr. Nafees Ahmad: Enforcing the ICJ ruling entails holding the state accountable for those actions, directing them to behave legally, determining that their actions are at odds with their treaty obligations, and providing precise instructions on how the state is to react. One conceivable response from Israel in this situation would be to downplay or ignore it. The next issue that will come up is how other states—and especially how the US—would react to that. Read More
Brendon McCullum Has Ruined English Cricket
By Syed Rifaquat Ali: Kiwi opener of yesteryear Brendon McCullum, now coach of the English team touring India, foolishly introduced baseball cricket to England team which has produced disastrous results, evident from England's defeat against India in Ranchi Test played from 23-27 February 2024. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 145:
Hamas warns Israel and U.S. of ‘political machinations’ amid ceasefire talks
Mondoweiss: UN humanitarian officials say that thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are “just a step away from famine” by May. Russia calls on UNSC members to refrain from endorsing Washington’s resolution on Gaza, denouncing it as “a license to kill” for Israel. Read More
Opposing genocide in Gaza, US Air Force soldier live-streams self-immolation in front of Israeli embassy
by Jacob Crosse: In a fatal Sunday afternoon protest, livestreamed and conducted in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C., Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active duty Air Force member, declared his opposition to participating in the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. He then proceeded to douse himself in an accelerant and light himself on fire. His last words were “Free Palestine.” Read More
USCMO Reiterates Call on President Biden to Stop the Gaza Genocide After U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell Dies in Protest
The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) – the nation’s umbrella group of national, regional, and local Muslim associations today reiterated its call on President Biden to stop the Gaza genocide after 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the United States Air Force died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy to protest U.S. support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Read More
At least 29,878 Palestinians killed in Israel's brutal war on Gaza
Daily Sabah: At least 29,878 Palestinians have now lost their lives in Israel's continued attack on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. The Gaza-based Health Ministry made the statement as the Israeli deadly onslaught against Gaza enters its 144th day. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 144:
Israel and Hamas contradict Biden claim that Gaza ceasefire is close
Mondoweiss: A proposed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is reported to include a temporary 40-day truce, the release of 40 Israeli captives in return for 400 Palestinian prisoners, and the entry of humanitarian aid and mobile shelters into Gaza. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 143:
Gaza famine is ‘man-made,’ says UNRWA Chief
Mondoweiss: UNRWA says that the famine in northern Gaza can be avoided if more food convoys are allowed in, but Israel continues to hold up over 2000 aid trucks. Meanwhile, Netanyahu reaffirms plans to invade Rafah, where 1.5 million Gazans have sought shelter. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 142: UN experts call for immediate arms embargo on Israel
Mondoweiss: Israel bombs near Egypt’s fortified wall with Rafah as talks resume to reach a captive exchange with Hamas. UN experts call for arms embargo against Israel and say states supplying weapons, ammunition or intelligence risk violating international law. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 141:
Israel attacks civilian shelter in Deir el-Balah as ceasefire talks continue in Paris
Mondoweiss: Israeli forces attacked a building in Deir el-Balah where more than 120 people were sheltering, killing at least 24. Medical staff at nearby Al Aqsa Hospital expect many more casualties and are struggling to deal with the influx of wounded civilians. Read More
America Supports Israeli War Beyond Gaza onto the Arab World
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: Political cynicism is endemic and its shallowness defines the claim of liberal democracy. America again flunked the global consensus of 13 member states calling for an immediate ceasefire and vetoed the February 20, Security Council resolution to support Israeli continued onslaught on the innocent people across Gaza. Are global institutions fast becoming redundant in a crisis? Read More
Where is India Heading to?
Dr. Habib Siddiqui: India is going through a phenomenal transformation politically, socially, and religiously. It is exciting. But it is also scarry and quite different than the popular image of a Nehru-Gandhi’s India. On February 14, 2024, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a $95 million temple in Abu Dhabi on 27 acres of land that is donated by President Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a Muslim ruler of UAE. Modi said, “This temple is a symbol of the shared heritage of humanity.” While history may be in the past, heritage is in the present and Muslim heritage is threatened as never before in Modi’s India. So, the inauguration of the Hindu temple in the heart of Muslim Arabia sounds so surrealistic when under his very watch, India is guilty of cultural genocide and vandalism in which Muslim heritage sites are demolished one after another. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 140:
UN experts urge countries to stop arming Israel as Netanyahu unveils postwar plan
Mondoweiss: Benjamin Netanyahu’s postwar plan would see Israel exerting direct control over a demilitarized Gaza Strip while permanently dismantling UNRWA and assigning “local officials” to govern civilian affairs. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 139:
As Palestinians in north Gaza starve, Israel attacks MSF building in Rafah
Mondoweiss: The situation in Gaza grows worse by the day as Palestinians are starved and Israeli forces turn hospitals into morgues. In the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, tensions rise as Ramadan approaches. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 138:
U.S. vetoes another UN resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza
Mondoweiss: The U.S. vetoed another resolution in the UN Security Council calling for a Gaza ceasefire as the WHO evacuates 32 critical patients from besieged Nasser Hospital, and the World Food Program is forced to suspend distribution amid mounting famine. Read More
US vetoes third UN Security Council resolution on Gaza war ceasefire
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The United States Tuesday (Feb. 20) vetoed another United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israeli war against Hamas. The US was the only country to vote against the resolution put moved by Algeria while the United Kingdom abstained. Algeria, the current Arab member of the Security Council, put forward an initial draft resolution more than two weeks ago.It was the third U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. Earlier on October 18, and December 2023 US vetoes resolutions on Gaza war ceasefire. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 137:
Israel builds highway cutting Gaza Strip in two
Mondoweiss: Several patients evacuated Nasser Hospital while dozens remain trapped under the Israeli siege of Khan Younis. Meanwhile, Palestine called on the ICJ to end the Israeli occupation, and Brazil’s Lula likened Israel’s Gaza genocide to Nazi Germany. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 136:
Netanyahu approves Ramadan restrictions on Al-Aqsa Mosque
Mondoweiss: Hamas slams Israel over plans to restrict access of Palestinian worshipers to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem during the holy month of Ramadan. Meanwhile, more Palestinians die from preventable causes as Israel besieges hospitals in Gaza. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 135:
Israel’s war on Gaza’s hospitals continues
Mondoweiss: Nasser Hospital, the second-largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip, was forced closed Sunday following an Israeli siege, storming, and arrest of medical staff and patients. Meanwhile, Israel also bombed Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 134:
Biden claims to push for temporary ceasefire, as US authorizes more weapons to Israel
Mondoweiss: After several days of reported negotiations, Hamas says it will not accept anything less than complete ceasefire, blames Israel for stalling a ceasefire agreement. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 133:
Israel cuts electricity to critical Nasser Hospital patients, forces staff to evacuate
Mondoweiss: Medicins Sans Frontiers reports "an unknown number of dead and wounded” following Israel's attack on Nasser Hospital. UNRWA says 84% of Gaza health facilities have been impacted by Israeli attacks, and 70% of civilian infrastructure has been damaged. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 132:
Israel bombards Nasser hospital, reports of Egypt preparing ‘buffer zone’ ahead of Gaza expulsion
Mondoweiss: Israel bombarded Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, killing and injuring patients and those sheltering inside. Egyptian human rights group reports construction underway on detention zone ahead of a possible mass expulsion from Gaza into Sinai. Read More
Preparations reportedly underway for mass expulsion from Gaza into Egyptian Sinai
Israel bombards Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, killing patients and detaining medical staff
10 civilians killed in deadliest Israeli attack on Lebanon since October
U.S. struggles to get Israel to allow flour into Gaza, Israel doubles down on UNRWA
The Unrepentant West: Olaf Scholz and the Right to Commit Genocide in Gaza
by Dr Ramzy Baroud: On February 8, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on an officialvisit, aimed at working jointly with the United States to make “sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself”. If such a statement was made soon after the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation of October 7, one may cognize its logic, based on the well-known, inherent bias of both Washington and Berlin towards Israel. The statement and the visit, however, were conducted on the 125th day of one of the bloodiest genocides in modern history. Read More
Israeli strikes kill 7 civilians in Lebanon as war spreads throughout the Middle East
Andre Damon: Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed eight people, including seven civilians Monday as the genocide in Gaza continues to metastasize into a regional war throughout the Middle East. The strike was the largest single-day death toll in Lebanon since the beginning of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Since October 7, Israeli forces have killed more than 200 people inside of Lebanon. Read More
Gaza War Horrors
by Dr Marwan Asmar: And the horrors continue in Gaza. In this human slaughter, Israeli warplanes have had no compunction in bombing homes, houses, and flats in buildings of ordinary civilians. Figures have been mind boggling as more than 12000 children have died in this war that began soon after 7 October. The Israeli war machines have killed more than 30,000 people so far. Today, it is the turn of Rafah to be destroyed. Israeli big guns are already doing the rounds and killing and striking homes. Read More
Pakistan: A Quagmire of Strange Democracy at Work
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: Pakistan represents traces of compelling authoritarian tyranny, stupidity, political sinisterism of rooted insolence of lost wisdom and hopes for a navigational change. Despite the national elections, pains, horrors and degradation of the nation for change are distinctly visible on the screen.The nation is fraught with loss of time and opportunities for political change and sustainable future-making. The February 8, elections arranged by the Generals and the Judges produced no signs of systematic optimism that the nation will lose more when sadistic egoism and the authoritarian governance of the few have left nothing more to lose. Read More
Indian Muslims and Electoral Choices
by Dr Ram Puniyani: As the 2024 General Elections are looming on the horizon some Muslim elite are appealing to Muslim community to give a relook at BJP They claim that Indian Muslims are not being discriminated against. Such intellectuals also argue that BJP is giving special attention to Pasmanda Muslims and the Sufi Muslims. They also argue that Muslims are beneficiaries of BJP’s schemes for social welfare: food; housing; gas; water among others and lastly that there has been no major communal violence since 2014 and that India has been most peaceful during the last fifty years. Read More
Australia's National Anthem Needs Rehashing
By Syed Rifaquat Ali: The first stanza of Australia's national anthem says: Australians all let us rejoice For we are young and free We've golden soil and wealth for toil Our home is girt by sea. Instead of 'Our home is girt by sea', it will be appropriate to say 'Our land is girt by sea.' Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 131:
Israeli snipers force dozens to evacuate Nasser Hospital
in Khan Younis, Israel steps up bombing in Lebanon
Mondoweiss: As ceasefire negotiations enter their second day in Cairo, fighting around Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis is intensifying—with dozens of Palestinians who have been sheltering inside forced to evacuate by Israeli sniper attacks. Read More
Raids, home demolitions continue in the West Bank
US gives Israel blank check to massacre civilians in Rafah
By Andre Damon: In multiple statements over the past 24 hours, US officials have made clear that they will take no action against Israel no matter how many civilians it massacres in its planned assault on Rafah, where one million displaced people are sheltering. These statements effectively give Israel a blank check to commit unrestrained war crimes in its assault on the city. Read More
In bipartisan vote, US Senate backs $95 billion for war in Ukraine
Jacob Crosse, Joseph Kishore: In a bipartisan 70-29 vote Tuesday morning, the US Senate advanced a $95.3 billion military funding package centered on expanding the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, continuing the genocide in Gaza and preparing for war with China. Working through the night, the vast majority of Democrats voted to approve the bill, with only two voting against, while a near-majority of Republicans, 22 out of the 48 voting, gave their support. Read More
Modi government unleashes massive police-military crackdown against farmers’ protest
India’s Narendra Modi-led, far-right BJP government has launched a massive state security operation to crush a farmers’ protest already joined by over 100,000 farmers and farm laborers. The crackdown has involved tens of thousands of police and para-militaries, the erection of huge multi-layered blockades at state borders, and drone-delivered tear-gas strikes. Read More
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 130:
U.S. Senate votes to send additional $14 billion to Israel
as catastrophic ground invasion of Rafah appears imminent
Mondoweiss: As Palestinians prepare for a catastrophic ground invasion of Rafah, the U.S. Senate votes to send an additional $14 billion to Israel. Amnesty International warns Palestinians in southern Gaza are "facing the real and imminent risk of genocide." Read More
Panic and apprehension fill Rafah
Famine-like conditions being created as a weapon of war
U.S. and Jordanian leaders meet
U.S. continues bankrolling genocide
With a green light from Biden, Israel commencing Rafah massacre
by Andre Damon: Israel launched a massive aerial bombardment of Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, on Sunday night into Monday morning, killing over 100 people. As the sun came up, the world was horrified by images of the mangled bodies of children, in a chilling demonstration of what is to come in the weeks ahead. Read More
What Israel has achieved
by Jim Miles: I shudder to think what further achievements might come from Israel’s aggression in the Middle East. With over thirty thousand killed and missing, and the millions of displaced Palestinians now huddled near the Egyptian border, what kind of slaughter have they conceived next? The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is their ultimate goal, to be achieved by murder and slaughter and/or by push and shove acrossinternational borders. Allow that this “achievement” will be marked by failure before too much more damage has been achieved. Read More
After Pakistan’s shocking election result, all eyes are on the generals
by Rick Noack: Four days after a shocking election result rattled Pakistan’s establishment, all eyes are on the powerful generals who have long been seen as the ultimate arbiters of politics in this country. Their grip, a constant since independence in 1947, suddenly appears in doubt, according to supporters of jailed ex-premier Imran Khan. Candidates backed by the former leader gained more seats in a general election last week than any other political bloc, posing a remarkable challenge to the establishment that appeared determined to suppress them. Read More
Historic turnout in Pakistan is swamping the military’s effort to rig the election
The Intercept: In a turbulent 24 hours following Pakistan’s elections, the U.S.-backed military has proved unable to suppress the populist movement interrogating its authority. Read More
U.S. lawmakers tell Biden not to accept Pakistan election results
Pakistan Observer: Both Democratic and Republican politicians in the United States have urged President Biden not to accept Pakistan election results until the investigation of alleged regularities. Claims of interference or fraud should be fully investigated “a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department stated in a statement, voiced worries on the interference in the election process. Read More
Elections in Pakistan: Victory of Imran Khan’s PTI Party
Global Research: The elections in Pakistan today (Feb 8) were much freer and fairer than I had expected. Hence, the preliminary results simply reflected the obvious for most of us: former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party, PTI (the movement for justice) – facing ruthless repression over the past year – have swept the elections in every single province of the country. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 129:
Israel bombards Rafah, killing more than 60 in a night
Mondoweiss: 67 Palestinians, including babies and children, were killed Sunday night as Israel intensified bombing in Rafah, where over 1 million Palestinians are sheltering, in preparation for a ground invasion that experts warn would amount to genocide. Read More
Israel bombards Rafah ahead of planned ground invasion
The evacuation of Rafah would be ‘unlawful’, human rights experts warn
Healthcare system in Gaza continues to suffer
Despite growing international calls, U.S. won’t tell Israel not to invade Rafah
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 128:
Israeli snipers kill Palestinians at Nasser Hospital; gear up for Rafah invasion
Mondoweiss: Hamas says an Israeli attack on Rafah would end any exchange talks for captives. The siege of the Al-Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis enters its third week, three Al-Amal patients die due to Israel blocking oxygen tanks from entering. Read More
Ongoing Israeli siege of Khan Younis hospitals
Warnings against Israeli invasion of Rafah invasion
Hamas: Israeli attack on Rafah will “blow up” captive exchange talks
Israeli forces bomb Palestinian houses; families starve in north Gaza
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Hebron
Global Humanity Witnesses Continued Insanity and Not the End of War on Gaza
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: After four months of continuous bombardments and obialeterd Gaza, favorite political perversion appears at work to annihilate the innocent people by dubious and defiant war strategies pursued by Israel. Concealing truth from conscientious humanity, Israel would launch a final ground assault on Rafah - the Israeli presumptuous safe zone. It is a tent corridor keeping alive 1.3 million displaced Palestinian refugees with nowhere to go for shelter and survival. Read More
Yemen’s Houthis say 17 rebels killed in US-led attacks
Al Jazeera: Seventeen Houthi fighters have been killed in United States and British attacks, the Yemeni rebel group has said through its official media, following public funerals in the capital Sanaa. “The bodies of a number of martyrs of the nation and the armed and security forces who were martyred as a result of the bombing of the American-British aggression were carried through Sanaa today in a solemn funeral procession,” a Houthi official media said on Saturday, listing their names. Read More
Debunking Myths: A Critical Analysis of Hindu American Foundation’s Ram Temple Narrative
By Shamsul Islam: It is sad to see the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) run roughshod over the diversity of Hinduism. In its attempt to prove the homogenous character of Hindus, HAF turned a debate on the nature of the Ayodhya inauguration into Hindus versus others. Read More
Bulldozing Muslim Properties Across States
P S Sahni: Open Letter to Attorney General for India. Didn’t Hitler’s ‘de-facto Attorney General’ Face Nuremberg Trials & Execution?! Read More
NATO Confirmed that Ukraine “War Started in 2014”. Who Started the War?
By Michel Chossudovsky: On September 7, 2023, NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a presentation to the European Parliament, formally acknowledged that: “the war didn’t start in February last year. It started in 2014.” This far-reaching declaration confirms his earlier statement in May 2023 to the effect that the Ukraine War “didn’t start in 2022”, “The war started in 2014”. Speaking on behalf of NATO, what this statement implies is that US-NATO was already at war in 2014. It also tacitly acknowledges that Russia did not “initiate the war” on Ukraine in February 2022. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 127:
Growing international alarm over Israeli plans to invade Rafah
Mondoweiss: Israel has announced its intention to push ahead with its plans to invade Rafah in the southernmost Gaza Strip, where 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering. Rafah's mayor, Ahmed al-Sufi, warns any military action there would result in a “massacre”. Read More
Growing chorus of international alarm over Israel’s plans to invade Rafah
As Israel mulls over plans to ‘protect civilians’, Israel kills more civilians in Gaza
6-year-old missing girl and two paramedics found dead in Gaza after 12 days
Two hospitals in Khan Younis are under Israeli attack
Dehumanization and misinformation in service of genocide
BY MITCHELL PLITNICK: The dehumanization of Muslims and Arabs combined with outright misinformation about October 7 is the engine powering the genocide in Gaza. Read More
The Gaza genocide is just an instrument in Israel’s larger colonial project
BY TAMAM MOHSEN: Genocide is Israel's latest policy, alongside ethnic cleansing and apartheid, in its settler colonial project of eliminating the Palestinians. Read More
Alarming rise in anti-Muslim sentiments
Daily Sabah: Addressing the 5th General Assembly of the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF) in Istanbul, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan Fidan said that Western-centric adversity toward Islam and its holy book, the Quran, evolved into a physical intervention rather than a simple expression and it had “nothing to do with being civilized and having an open mind.” Read More
Pakistan stunned as Imran Khan’s PTI over performs in election
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The mystery surrounding the suspicious delay in the issuance of general election results continued to take the center stage on Friday after the Election Commission of Pakistan failed to complete the issuance of poll results of several constituencies even a day after the elections. According to Business Recorder, the polls were held in an air of uncertainty and fear drawn by security threats, allegations of massive poll-rigging, apparent denial of level playing field coupled with alleged state-sponsored coercion against the members of a political party, and undeclared curbs on the media. Conspicuously, the candidates supported by PTI were leading the poll charts with heavy margins in different constituencies across the country when the Election Management System (EMS) suddenly broke down. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 126:
U.S. claims it won’t support ‘unplanned’ ground operation in Rafah,
Israel escalates attacks anyway
Mondoweiss: Even Joe Biden admits that Israel's conduct in Gaza is "over the top," while the Israeli army has continued to intensify its attacks following Netanyahu's rejection of Hamas's most recent ceasefire proposal. Read More
U.S. opposes ‘unplanned’ military operation in Rafah
Raids, arrests, and death in custody in the West Bank
Ending the war in Gaza ‘critical’ to regional stability
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 125:
Israel rejects ceasefire proposal, plans to expand ground invasion into Rafah
Mondoweiss: Israel rejected a Hamas proposal for a ceasefire, which included the return of Israeli captives held in Gaza, and is preparing instead to expand its ground invasion to Rafah, where 1.9 million Palestinians are seeking refuge. Read More
Israel rejects ceasefire, Netanyahu pledges to expand fighting
Israel presses assault on Gaza as Netanyahu and Blinken reject ceasefire
Andre Damon: The Israeli military continued its bombardment Wednesday of Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza where 1 million displaced people are sheltering, as US and Israeli leaders publicly rejected any cessation of hostilities. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during a visit to Israel, said a proposal by Hamas to release all Israeli hostages in exchange for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza was “full of non-starters,” once again giving Israel a green light for its ongoing genocide. Read More
Palestinian-American man stabbed after attending anti-genocide protest in Austin, Texas
Eddie Haywood: On Sunday evening in the West Campus area of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, Zachariah Doar, a 23-year-old Palestinian-American, was stabbed in the chest after attending a pro-Palestinian protest held at the Capitol. Doar, his father Nizar, and Doar’s three friends had traveled from Dallas to attend the second statewide protest that was attended by an estimated 15,000 people in the Texas capital, organized by the Austin for Palestine Coalition. Read More
Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians
The Intercept: Netanyahu is using the horrors of October 7 to wage the crusade he’s been preparing for his entire political career. Just days later, as Hamas commandos penetrated the barriers encircling Gaza and embarked on their deadly raids targeting several military installations as well as kibbutzim, everything changed in an instant. Everything, that is, except the primary agenda that has been at the center of Netanyahu’s long political career: the absolute destruction of Palestine and its people. Read More
American Hindutva outfits on their radar?
By Pieter Friedrich: If an American citizen like myself is “on the radar” of Indian intelligence simply because I use my First Amendment rights, as a journalist, to investigate the Hindutva movement, then isn’t it reasonable to request that American Hindutva organizations — who apparently maintain intimate ties with both Modi regime in India as well as with militant Hindu nationalist groups like the VHP and the RSS — be put on the radar of US intelligence services? In other words, is there any reason why US intelligence agencies should not at least be keeping an eye on the activities of American Hindutva groups? Read More
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