Daily Sabah – January 3, 2024
Israel spreads war on Gaza to Beirut with killing of Hamas leader
Israel's war on Gaza was facing a heightened risk of spreading into neighboring Lebanon Wednesday with the killing of Hamas deputy leader in Beirut a day earlier.
Israeli forces, in the meantime, intensified their bombing of the Gaza Strip and told civilians to leave a refugee camp in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
It has neither confirmed nor denied that it killed Saleh al-Arouri in a drone strike in the Lebanese capital Tuesday. But military spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Israeli forces were in a high state of readiness and prepared for any scenario.
The assassination was a further sign that Israel's nearly three-month war on Gaza was spreading across the region, drawing in the occupied West Bank, Hezbollah forces on the Lebanon-Israel border and even Red Sea shipping lanes.
Arouri, 57, who lived in Beirut, was the first senior Hamas political leader to be assassinated since Israel began its offensive against the resistance group in response to a deadly incursion into Israeli towns on Oct. 7.
Hamas politburo member Hossam Badran said in a eulogy for Arouri: "We say to the criminal occupation (Israel) that the battle between us is open."
Israel had long accused him of orchestrating attacks on its citizens. But a Hamas official said he was also "at the heart of negotiations" conducted by Qatar and Egypt over the outcome of the Gaza war and the release of Hamas-held Israeli hostages.
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was due to speak in Beirut on Wednesday afternoon. Previously he had warned Israel against carrying out assassinations on Lebanese soil, vowing a "severe reaction."
The Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, has been exchanging near-daily fire with Israel across Lebanon's southern border since the Gaza war began.
More than 100 Hezbollah members and two dozen civilians have been killed on Lebanese territory, as well as at least nine Israeli soldiers in Israel.
Following Arouri's killing, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said it was deeply concerned about the possibility of an escalation "that could have devastating consequences for people on both sides of the border."
Refugee camp under fire
The Israeli military said in its daily briefing that "intensive battles" with militants were continuing in Gaza on Wednesday in the southern city of Khan Younis. It has said previously it is trying to flush out Hamas leaders in the area.
Residents and Palestinian media said Israeli forces bombed the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the northern part of the Hamas-ruled enclave overnight and into Wednesday, destroying several multi-floor buildings.
Israeli planes also dropped leaflets on al-Nuseirat ordering people to leave seven districts.
"You are in a dangerous combat area. The IDF is operating heavily in your area of residence. For your safety the IDF urge you to immediately evacuate this area and leave towards the known shelters in Deir Al-Balah (west)," the leaflets said.
Israeli warplanes and tanks also stepped up attacks on the al-Bureij refugee camp.
Hamas' armed members said they had killed 10 Israeli soldiers in fighting in al-Bureij and hit five tanks and troop carriers. The Israeli military said the number of its soldiers killed since its first invasion into Gaza on Oct. 20 had reached 177.
In the al-Maghazi refugee camp, health officials said at least four people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house. They said three people were also killed in an air strike on a house in Rafah in the south of Gaza.
Israel says it tries to avoid harm to civilians. But the total recorded Palestinian death toll had reached 22,313 by Wednesday, 128 of them in the past 24 hours, the Gaza health ministry said.
'Veins of resistance'
Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of Ramallah and other towns in the West Bank to condemn Arouri's killing, chanting, "Revenge, revenge."
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Arouri's killing would "ignite another surge in the veins of resistance and the motivation to fight against the Zionist occupiers ..."
Shortly before Arouri's killing, Hamas' paramount leader Ismail Haniyeh, who is also based outside Gaza, said the movement had delivered its response to an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal.
He reiterated that Hamas' conditions entailed "a complete cessation" of Israel's offensive in exchange for further release of hostages.
Israel believes 129 hostages remain in Gaza after some were released during a brief truce in late November and others were killed during airstrikes and rescue or escape attempts.
https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/israel-spreads-war-on-gaza-to-beirut-with-killing-of-hamas-leader
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 89:
Hamas and Hezbollah pledge to punish Israel following Aruri killing
Israeli spokesperson says the assassination of Hamas leader Saleh Al-Aruri was "not an attack on the Lebanese state" while Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah pledge resistance will continue.
BY MUSTAFA ABU SNEINEH
Key Developments
- Israel kills Hamas deputy political leader, Saleh Al-Aruri, alongside two commanders and four cadres, injuring eleven others in drone attack in Beirut.
- Aruri was one of masterminds of The Al-Aqsa Flood operation and talked about it openly in an interview with Al-Mayadeen channel in August.
- In the interview, Aruri revealed the Palestinian resistance was ready for a scenario that later manifested in the October 7 surprise attack on Israel.
- Israel’s military spokesperson says Israel is “in a high state of readiness for any scenario” without officially admitting if Tel Aviv was behind the assassination.
- Axios reveals Israel was behind the Aruri killing.
- Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh says assassination is “a full-fledged terrorist act” violating Lebanon’s sovereignty.
- Haniyeh says resistance fighters in Gaza turned Israel’s Merkava tanks into “charred coffins” and “no security, stability, or future in the region” without Palestinians achieving their political rights.
- Islamic Jihad says “Al-Aruri assassination would not go unpunished and the resistance would continue until the occupation is defeated.”
- Hezbollah says “this crime will never pass without response and punishment” as Syed Hassan Nasrallah is scheduled to give a speech on third anniversary of U.S. assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
- Israel’s foreign media spokesperson says “whoever did this, it’s not an attack on the Lebanese state. It’s not an attack on the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Whoever did this, it’s an attack on Hamas, that’s very clear.”
- Gaza’s Ministry of Health announces Israel committed ten massacres in the past 24 hours, killing 128 and injuring 261 Palestinians.
- Itamar Ben-Gvir rejects U.S. criticism of calls to force Palestinians from Gaza and says Israel is ‘not another star on the American flag.’
- Israeli forces arrest dozens of Palestinians in West Bank, and fire drone missile on Nour Sham refugee camp in Tulkarm.
- Hezbollah: ‘this crime will never pass without punishment’
All Palestinian factions issued statements condemning the Aruri assassination and highlighting his efforts as a national figure that worked to end Israel’s occupation in Palestine and his attempt to reach a conciliation deal with Fatah in 2018.
Ezzat al-Rishq, a Hamas leader, said Aruri’s killing was “once again a proof of Israel’s failure to achieve any of its goals in the Gaza Strip,” following 88 days of bombardment.
“Israel is trying to escape from the political impasse it is experiencing after 90 days of barbaric war and genocide [in Gaza] and its failure to impose its conditions on the Palestinian people,” said a statement by the Islamic Jihad.
“Al-Aruri assassination would not go unpunished and the resistance would continue until the occupation is defeated,” it added.
Hezbollah also pledged to punish Israel. The attack happened in the movement’s backyard. Hezbollah’s leader, Syed Hassan Nasrallah, is scheduled to speak on Wednesday evening on the third anniversary of Qassem Soleimani’s assassination by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad airport in 2020.
Soleimani was the Iranian commander of Quds Force in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and he reportedly visited Gaza on numerous occasions.
Hezbollah said following the Aruri assassination that “this crime will never pass without response and punishment.”
“The criminal enemy, which after ninety days of crime, murder and destruction, was unable to subjugate Gaza, Khan Younis, the Jabalia camp and the rest of the cities, camps and proud villages, is resorting to a policy of assassination and physical liquidation of everyone who worked, planned, carried out or supported The Al-Aqsa Flood operation,” Hezbollah said.
Since October 8, Hezbollah had been attacking Israeli settlements and military barracks near southern Lebanon, which led to thousands of Israelis deserting their homes to live in hotels and shelters subsidized by the government since October.
Aruri: ‘I feel like I’m living in the extra time’
Aruri became a key player in planning attacks against the Israeli occupation in the occupied West Bank and was behind the kidnapping and killing of three Israelis in Hebron in 2015.
Since then, Israeli intelligence has mentioned his name as a top target for assassination. In December, Israel’s internal intelligence chief vowed “to eliminate Hamas… We will do this everywhere, in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Lebanon, in Turkey, in Qatar. It will take a few years but we will be there to do it.”
However, in the summer of 2023, Aruri responded to a blatant threat by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to kill him, with a photo sitting and talking in the phone, while wearing a military uniform and with a machine gun on his desk.
When asked about the threat during an interview with Al-Mayadeen channel in August, Aruri said that he has already lived enough and never imagined that he would reach this age.
“I feel like I’m living on the extra time,” he said with a smile on his face.
Aruri also revealed in that interview that the Palestinian resistance was ready for a scenario which later became clear was the October 7 surprise attacks on Israel.
“We are preparing for a comprehensive war, and we are discussing this in closed rooms with all parties and components that are related to this war,” he said.
He added that the classic wars Israel used to launch since 1967 are not compatible anymore with the new weapons and paramilitary tactics used in Ukraine and elsewhere.
“If a comprehensive conflict was opened, this means that the occupation’s airspace and sea will be closed, and there will be no electricity, communications, or economy… the resistance forces are capable of doing that,” he added.
Aruri was one of Hamas leaders to bow down in Istanbul, in a gesture of gratitude to God, when Al-Jazeera channel broke the news of the October 7 surprise attack.
In 2015, the U.S. put Aruri on a “terrorist watch list” with a reward of five million dollars for any information leading to his arrest or killing.
He played a key role in resistance attacks in the occupied West Bank and said that if Palestinians did not fight the one million settlers today, in a decade, they will have to fight three million of them.
“My message to our people, all stand up and fight. Throw a stone, a Molotov cocktail, [use] a rifle. Resist with everything you can get your hands on. Instead of a thousand young men in the resistance, 100 thousand young men must participate in the resistance, a million young people must resist.”
World Socialist Web Site – January 3, 2024
Threat of wider war in Middle East rises as Israel assassinates
Hamas deputy leader in Beirut
By Jordan Shilton
Israel’s far-right government carried out the assassination of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, on Tuesday. This brazen act of aggression increases the danger of an escalation of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza into a region-wide war, for which US imperialism and its European imperialist allies have long been preparing.
Al-Arouri, reportedly Hamas’ closest link with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran, was targeted in a suspected drone strike on an apartment building where he was meeting secretly with other senior Hamas officials in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. Among the seven casualties were two commanders of the Qasem Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, Samir Findi and Azzam al-Aqraa. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh announced that the assassination meant a halt to negotiations with Israel over the release of the hostages remaining in Gaza.
Following the common practice in its long list of previous assassinations, Israel did not officially claim responsibility for the strike. An unnamed US Defence Department official speaking to the Washington Post said Israel was responsible for the assassination. The US State Department confirmed that a planned trip by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to Israel later this week will be delayed until the beginning of next week, underscoring that Washington intends to determine Israel’s next steps in the conflict.
Responding to the assassination, Hezbollah reportedly fired missiles towards Israel’s northern border late Tuesday. Two Israeli soldiers were lightly injured.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah stated in an August 2023 speech that any Israeli assassination on Lebanese territory would result in a “decisive response” to prevent Lebanon from becoming “a new killing field for Israel.” A statement from the militant group following al-Arouri’s killing vowed that it would not “pass without response or punishment.”
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati also denounced the targeted killing of al-Arouri, accusing Israel of dragging Lebanon into a “new phase of conflict.” In 2006, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) launched a massive invasion of southern Lebanon, triggering a month-long war in which Israel carried out barbaric war crimes against the civilian population. In 1982, supported by the Christian fascist Falange, Israel directed the bloody massacre of over 3,000 Palestinian refugees in the Sabra neighbourhood of Beirut and the Shatila refugee camp. Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon claimed the lives of some 18,000 people.
Israel’s extra-judicial killing of al-Arouri, a violation of international law, provides yet another example of the Zionist regime’s utter criminality. Since 7 October, it has flattened hospitals and schools, deliberately targeted journalists and medical workers, and used food, water, and fuel as weapons of war. All of these policies are part of a genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza.
This fascistic policy was underscored again in comments calling for the “voluntary emigration,” i.e., ethnic cleansing, of Gaza’s residents, by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir earlier this week. Speaking at his Jewish Power’s weekly faction meeting, Ben-Gvir stated that the war provides an “opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza.” He added that a “correct, just, moral and humane solution” would include the return of Israeli settlements to Gaza, which were abandoned in 2005.
Al-Arouri’s assassination was timed to prove Israel’s readiness to escalate and broaden the war. In Gaza, the IDF’s savage bombardment continues, with over 200 Palestinians killed over the preceding 24 hours, according to figures released Tuesday by the Gaza Health Ministry. Strikes and fighting on the ground persisted in Khan Younis, where hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped. Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, where over 1 million people are now crammed, was also hit. The ongoing bloodshed underlines how Israel is persisting with its genocidal policy even as it modestly reduces the number of troops deployed in the north of the Gaza Strip.
In Khan Younis, the IDF bombed the al-Amal Hospital, which is used by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society for its training programmes. The strike killed five people, including a five-day-old baby. World Health Organisation head Tedros Ghebreyesus criticised the bombing, saying, “Today’s bombings are unconscionable. Gaza’s health system is already on its knees, with health and aid workers continuously stymied in their efforts to save lives due to the hostilities.” Some 14,000 people are sheltering in and around the hospital.
In the West Bank, an Israeli raid Monday night in the small town of Azzun resulted in the deaths of four Palestinian militants and the arrest of seven. Over 320 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers in the West Bank since 7 October.
The provocative escalation of the war represented by Israel’s assassination of al-Arouri plays into the hands of the far-right Netanyahu government, which is increasingly unpopular domestically. Its failure to secure the release of over 120 hostages still in Gaza has fuelled popular anger. On Monday, Netanyahu suffered a significant setback when Israel’s Supreme Court overturned a judicial reform law that would have altered Israel’s constitutional basic laws to weaken judicial oversight over the government. The authoritarian reform, imposed by Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud and his fascistic allies, triggered mass protests for a year prior to Hamas’ 7 October attacks.
Fully confident of American imperialism’s unrestrained support, demonstrated with the steady supply of high-powered weaponry for its Gaza onslaught, Israel has repeatedly struck targets in Lebanon and Syria since launching its genocide on the Palestinians. Last week, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant asserted that Israel was engaged in a “multi-front war” covering Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. The assassination of al-Arouri in Beirut came just eight days after the targeted killing in Syria December 25 of Brigadier General Seyed Razi Mousavi, a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
US imperialism has made preparations to wage a wider regional war, whose main target would be Iran. Over the past three decades, it has waged one war after another, from Iraq, to Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, in the Middle East and Central Asia as it seeks to offset its economic decline by deploying its military might. Washington sees Israel’s onslaught as an opportunity to consolidate its hegemony over the energy-rich Middle East by defeating its major geostrategic rivals, China and Russia.
The Biden administration has ramped up the deployment of naval and air power to the region, most recently under the guise of protecting the flow of trade through the Red Sea following a series of attacks on merchant ships by the Houthis in Yemen. US troops are also deployed in significant numbers in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Syria, and Iraq.
On Sunday, US helicopters associated with the Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group fired on and sunk three boats used by Houthi militants in the Red Sea. A fourth boat fled the scene. The carrier strike group has operated in the Persian Gulf since the Hamas-led uprising against Israel on 7 October. A second carrier strike group led by the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier is due to be withdrawn from the eastern Mediterranean this week. A UN Security Council meeting to discuss mounting tensions in the Red Sea is expected to take place Wednesday.
As the smouldering conflicts across the Middle East threaten to ignite in a broader conflagration, the necessity of the independent political mobilisation of the working class against imperialist war is posed with renewed urgency. The mass protests involving millions of workers and young people that swept the world in the last months of 2023 against Israel’s genocide demonstrated that mass opposition to war exists and is growing. But this opposition must be armed with a clear orientation to the international working class and socialist programme. It must fight to link the struggle against imperialist war with the strikes involving workers in all the major imperialist countries over the past year for improvements to wages and conditions.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/03/dfdn-j03.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws
Global Research - January - 3, 2024
Almost 70% of Gaza Homes Damaged or Destroyed: WSJ
The WSJ bases its assessment on an analysis of satellite imagery of the Gaza Strip and other advanced remote sensing techniques.
By Al Mayadeen
The Wall Street Journal highlighted that by mid-December, the Israeli occupation forces had dropped 29,000 bombs, munitions, and shells on the Gaza Strip.
According to the newspaper, “Nearly 70% of Gaza’s 439,000 homes and about half of its buildings have been damaged or destroyed.”
The WSJ‘s assessment is based on an analysis of satellite imagery of the Gaza Strip and other advanced remote sensing techniques.
The report emphasized that
“the bombing has damaged Byzantine churches and ancient mosques, factories and apartment buildings, shopping malls and luxury hotels, theaters and schools,” adding that “much of the water, electrical, communications and healthcare infrastructure that made Gaza function is beyond repair.”
Moreover, the newspaper pointed out that only eight out of 36 hospitals in the Strip can accommodate patients.
“The word ‘Gaza’ is going to go down in history along with Dresden and other famous cities that have been bombed,” the WSJ quoted Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who has written about the history of aerial bombing, as saying.
This comes as the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the number of Palestinians killed since the start of the Israeli aggression has risen to 21,672 martyrs, in addition to over 56,000 injuries.
According to the Ministry, the Israeli occupation forces committed 14 massacres in a single day, resulting in 165 martyrs and 250 injuries.
Israeli Bombing of Gaza Most Destructive in Recent History: Experts
Analysts who spoke to the Associated Press, on December 22, described “Israel’s” war on Gaza as currently among the bloodiest and most devastating in recent history.
In just over two months, the aggression destroyed more than what was seen as a result of the battle in Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol, or the Allied bombardment of Germany during World War II and killed more people than the fight against ISIS.
Meanwhile, an analysis of new satellite imagery and video footage by The New York Times on December 15 revealed that at least six cemeteries were desecrated and destroyed by “Israel” during its invasion of northern Gaza.
One satellite image displayed damaged graves in parts of the Tunisian cemetery in Gaza’s al-Shujaiya neighborhood, where heavy combat is focused. Armored vehicles were seen on top of where those graves once were, indicating the cemetery’s use as a temporary military set-up.
On December 6, an article published by the Financial Times revealed that the damage caused by ﾓIsraelﾒsﾔ bombing campaigns in the Gaza Strip has approached the UK and US’s years-long bombing of German cities in the Second World War.
Rober Pape, a US military historian and author of Bombing to Win, told FT that Gaza like Dresden, Hamburg, and Cologne “will also go down as a place name denoting one of history’s heaviest conventional bombing campaigns.”
On November 21, 42 days into the aggression on Gaza, satellite data imaging showed that “Israel’s” bombing of Gaza leveled most of northern Gaza, severely damaging more than half of the structures and big swathes of whole neighborhoods.
Social media videos, images from reporters, and images from the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) themselves have depicted a shattered landscape, a report by the Financial Times revealed.
The complete size of the damage has been calculated using radar signals received by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellite. *
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Global Research - January 2, 2024
The Genocide in Palestine and the Fascist Continuum
By Dr. David Halpin
The fascist – “The sub-human/untermensch who delights in crushing the life out of humans.”
I think of Yehudi Menuhin in his art, of Archbishop Romero, of Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and of the millions who put self second. And of those truth tellers who strove but who were set aside and kept away from the distracted, ill informed and semi-conscious populations.
John Pilger left this ‘veil of tears’ last Saturday.
The BBC, the ZBC, records it but shunned broadcasting his words and film. (1)(2)
October 7th of 2023, the ‘break out’ from the largest concentration camp ever created, is reported as pivotal in this culmination of elemental evil now seen via Al Jazeera.
Just as Zionist evil swells ever larger in the other remnants of Palestine – ‘East’ Jerusalem and the ineptly called ‘West Bank’. Journalists, doctors, paramedics are ‘eliminated’ along with whole families, one recently numbering 70.
These sacrifices, this infinite negation of the sanctity of life, is neatly done at arms length by Hariri style ‘AI’, appropriately named by the Israel High Command as Gospel and Alchemist. (3).
But the goading of a captive but resistant native population has been there in the Land of Milk and Honey since about 1885 when the first Zionists started ‘settling’ and dispelling Palestinian land workers from that fertile land.
Is this four yearlong Operation Barbarossa of the German fascists rolled up into weeks the zenith of Zionist goading for an even greater evil?
Know that the arch priest Netanyahu, recently quoting the ‘Bible’ in justification, with others using words like ‘animals’, dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza, rendering another Auschwitz etc. has been calling for the destruction of Iran for over a decade. And the Iranians know this, and know too that WW3 and wide annihilation by nuclear fission is minutes away. (4)
As Turkey is washed down with wine in the disintegrating ‘western’ societies, a dear child is crushed to death or shredded every ten earthly minutes in Gaza.
Some lie there at this minute, alive – limbs trapped with concrete dust in the lungs. The most terrible and terrifing crucifixion.
In Gaza with a population of 70,000 during WW2, an oasis on the Via Maris 2000 years ago. My friend, the late Eyad Serraj, doctor and psychiatrist, told me how as a young boy he ran through trees, with birds in their boughs to a sparkling sea. There was the glint of fish. He would not have foreseen thousands and thousands fleeing into Gaza by boat and by road in the ‘cleansing’ of 1948 – continued right up to this second. (5)
But have not smaller Barbarossas and Babi Yars (6) been going on – continuously since those 50 million were heaped on altars in the second ‘war to end wars’.
As Pilger often said, the US has bombed over 30 nations since WW2 and usually with the support of the other two members of the actual axis of evil – the UK and ‘Israel’. The latter named itself in its Knesset the ‘Jewish State’ – a total denial of humane bases in Judaism.
So the infinite crimes of those who have gripped ‘Israel’ with its pseudo-democracy and its burgeoning ‘parties’ have been going on and been rained down on civilians since Nuremberg One by other armies.
The ‘land of the free’ predominates, with a ‘defence’ expenditure and its Raytheons, Boeings etc exceeding the total of next 9 nations in rank. The 50,000 tank ’rounds’ being hurried to ‘Israel’ by the walking corpse and ‘rapturist’ Biden is the most recent.
The abyss of ‘mutually assured destruction yawns’. Fallujah (7), Sirte, My Lai (8), East Timor, Panama, Chile/Allende, etc etc etc pass by.
Memory of milliseconds aided by an execrable press and broadcast media; electronic noise via the cell phone first distracting and then washing the ‘mind’.
The only way to stop this Gadarene rush into a black hole within a wondrous universe is to bring the present criminals, and those like Anthony Charles Lynton Blair who have escaped so far, is to indict them, judge them – and punish them. Only then might the hands of further Hitlers, Stalins and Kissingers (9) be stilled.
So let this ‘still beautiful world’ gain joy through light and love, through justice under international laws – all written and never realised.
How was Nuremberg One set going, with 8 Nazis later hung, and a similar number of Japanese war criminals. The rope or incarceration – together and for life the choices for those who tortured, maimed and killed so many millions of loved ones?
It was the London Agreement arising out of the Potsdam Conference – the US, the UK of course, France and the USSR. The latter, with its sacrifice of 25 million soldiers and civilians forgotten as the present fascist alliance supports a comedic dictator in an effort to ‘Balkanise’ Russia with its vast mineral resources and land mass. (10)
Note the dates!
- Hiroshima – August 6th 1945
- London Agreement setting up Nuremberg – August 8, 1945
- Nagasaki – August 9th 1945 (11)
- “The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, …”
Thus was fascism set to continue, having started with the ‘Pilgrim Fathers’, the Conquistadores and other European ‘white skins’.
It fits that Holocaust Day Memorial – funded by the UK government with £500,000, does not include ‘Little Boy’ and Fat Man’ on Japan. (12)
*Notes
1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67853392
2. https://johnpilger.com/videos/palestine-is-still-the-issue
5. ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’ Ilan Pappe 2006 One World Publications
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
7. https://dhalpin.infoaction.org.uk/7-articles/political/21-remembrance-and-hypocrisy
8. https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/my-lai-massacre-1
9. https://www.globalresearch.ca/?s=kissinger&x=0&y=0 >
https://www.globalresearch.ca/henry-kissinger-top-us-diplomat-responsible-millions-deaths-dies-100/5841818
10. https://www.roberthjackson.org/article/london-agreement-charter-august-8-1945/
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
12. https://dhalpin.infoaction.org.uk/7-articles/political/137-hmd-a-grotesque-hypocrisy
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