As Palestinians pushes for statehood, Israel finds itself more isolated
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The death toll in Gaza
The cumulative death toll as of today is just over 29,000, about 1.3% of the total population of Gaza. Dead and injured come to just under 100,000, or 4.3% of the total population. https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-repo
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On a population basis, that's six times the number of American casualties in all of World War II. During World War II the US suffered roughly 1 million dead and wounded out of a population of 136 million, for a casualty rate of 0.7 percent.
https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-the-death-toll-in-gaza-4/
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The death toll in Gaza
The cumulative death toll as of today is just over 29,000, about 1.3% of the total population of Gaza. Dead and injured come to just under 100,000, or 4.3% of the total population.
I bet they'll think twice before ever paratrooping into a concert and picking off a bunch of unarmed civilians before taking the women and children, kidnapping and raping them.
Now if we only punished criminals in America maybe they'd think twice as well.
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In shameless displays of social depravity, Israeli soldiers are looting Gaza homes en masse
February 25, 2024
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2024/02/25/in-shameless-displays-of-s
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Oren Ziv reports:
Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza have not been shy about posting videos on social media gleefully documenting their wanton destruction of buildings and humiliation of Palestinian detainees. Some of these clips were even exhibited in South Africa’s presentation at the International Court of Justice last month as evidence of genocide. But there is another war crime being readily documented by Israeli soldiers that has garnered less attention and condemnation despite its prevalence: looting.
In November, the Palestinian singer Hamada Nasrallah was shocked to discover a TikTok of a soldier playing the guitar that his father had bought him 15 years earlier. Other videos uploaded to social media in recent months show Israeli soldiers boasting about finding wristwatches; unboxing someone’s collection of soccer shirts; and stealing rugs, groceries, and jewelry.
In a Facebook group for Israeli women comprising nearly 100,000 users, someone wondered what to do with the “gifts from Gaza” that her partner, a soldier, had brought back for her. Sharing a photo of cosmetic products, she wrote: “Everything is sealed except for one product. Would you use these? And does someone know the products or are they only in Gaza?”
Indeed, since the start of Israel’s ground invasion in late October, soldiers have been taking whatever they can get their hands on from the homes of Palestinians who have been forced to flee. More than an open secret, the phenomenon has been widely — and uncritically — reported in the Israeli media, while rabbis from the Religious Zionist movement have been answering soldiers’ questions about what is permissible to loot according to Jewish law.
A commonplace rationalization of amoral behavior by soldiers is that warfare can bring out the worst in people and yet the behavior of IDF soldiers in Gaza speaks to a much more deeply rooted issue: the debased character of Israeli society.
An abstract for Do Israelis Respect Human Dignity?, a policy paper by Alouph Hareven, published by The Israel Democracy Institute says:
Most Israelis share the perception that the condition of human dignity in Israel is problematic. There are of course tens of thousands of Israelis who daily practice the respect of human dignity – in their families, at work, in relationship to persons belonging to other groups. Yet, according to repeated public opinion surveys, most Israelis attach to “who is an Israeli” mainly qualities of rudeness, intolerance, incivility, and loudness.
Human dignity is harmed in Israel in several major areas:
• About one million Israelis live in families where the men use violence against their wives.
• In the rate of violence among young people, in schools, Israel is a leading country.
• In the rate of people killed in traffic accidents Israel, again, is one of the leading countries.
• Lack of respect, and humiliation of new immigrants is a major barrier to their integration in Israeli society.
• On many occasions there is a mutual lack of respect of human dignity in the relations between secular and religious Jews.
• There are many cases where human dignity is harmed inside the Israel Defense Forces, in the behavior of policemen, and in the behavior of public officials.
• The prevailing public view of the behavior of Knesset members is that most of them do not respect the human dignity of their colleagues.
• According to top security officials, and leading Palestinians, daily humiliation of Palestinians, by Israelis, has been a major cause of the Intifada and the seeking of revenge.
• Foreign workers in Israel, who number a few hundred thousand, also often suffer from humiliating behavior by their employees and other Israelis.
• Many Israeli tourists abroad – though of cou
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That's what happens when hostile invaders come in and murder unarmed civilians, and then kidnap and rape the women and children.
I wouldn't be so concerned about what's happening in Gaza now because it's going to start happening here too.
This is Laken Riley.
Joe Biden* murdered her. Democrats murdered her. You murdered her.
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Aaron Burned Himself To Make Us Look At Gaza
Like many readers here I feel helpless about the ongoing genocide against Palestinians committed by U.S. supported Zionist settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. I can not even find the right words to express myself about it.
Others are more consequential. And powerful. Disgust about the cruelty imposed on Palestinians can induce the utmost will to change things.
U.S. Air Force Member Sets Self on Fire Outside Israel’s Embassy in D.C. to Protest War in Gaza - Time, Feb 25 2024
An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, in apparent protest of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, which he described as a “genocide.”
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The burn victim, who identified himself in video of the incident as 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell, reportedly succumbed to his injuries on Sunday night, according to independent journalist Talia Jane, who posted on social media that she is in contact with Bushnell’s family and friends.
Bushnell reportedly sent a message to media outlets before his planned self-immolation. “??Today, I am planning to engage in an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people,”
he warned. ...
On Facebook Sunday morning, he also wrote:
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
The post included a link to a live-stream of his protest on the web-broadcasting platform Twitch, which has since removed the video for violations of its community guidelines and terms of service.
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the airman repeated, in footage reviewed by TIME, as he walked toward the driveway of the Israeli embassy.
“But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”
After Bushnell doused himself with liquid and reached for his lighter, unidentified law enforcement or security officers could be heard asking off-screen, “Can I help you?” After setting himself aflame, he repeatedly shouted “Free Palestine.”
A security man decided to 'help' by pointing his gun on the dying man.
A censored video of the incident is here.
Rest in peace, Aaron Bushnell. Rest. In. Peace.
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That's what happens when hostile invaders come in and murder unarmed civilians, and then kidnap and rape the women and children.
Oh, you mean like Israelis did to Palestinians?
Yeah, our Administrations, going back decades .... we seem to favor violent invaders. We tend to be them, too.
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Biden’s planned airdrop of food to Gaza is a ‘major policy failure’ says former USAID official
March 1, 2024 From https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2024/03/01/bidens-planned-airdrop-of-
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The Independent reports:
Jeremy Konyndyk, who led USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance during the Obama administration and oversaw humanitarian air drops to Nepal, the Philippines and Iraq, described the potential US plan to drop aid by air as a “major policy failure” on the part of the Biden administration.
“When the US government has to use tactics that it otherwise used to circumvent the Soviets and Berlin and circumvent Isis in Syria and Iraq, that should prompt some really hard questions about the state of US policy,” he told The Independent.
The United Nations warned this week that some 576,000 people, or one quarter of Gaza’s population, are “one step away from famine.” It has also accused Israel of “systematically” blocking aid deliveries into Gaza and of opening fire on convoys that do make it through.
The US has repeatedly said it has been working behind the scenes to convince Israel to allow more aid into Gaza, but the amount of aid that has reached Gazans dropped by half in February compared to the previous month.
The dire conditions on the ground in Gaza were drawn into sharp relief on Wednesday when more than 100 Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd that was scrambling to collect aid from food trucks near Gaza City. The Israeli army said its forces had “fired at those who posed a threat” after some civilians rushed towards the trucks.
Mr Konyndyk, who is now president of Refugees International, told The Independent that airdrops are “the most expensive and least effective way to get aid to a population. We almost never did it because it is such an in extremis tool.”
He referenced his experience managing US airdrops to Yazidi civilians who were fleeing attacks from Isis fighters on the top of Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq in 2014. At the same time it was dropping aid, the US was also carrying out airstrikes against Isis fighters who were besieging the Yazidis.
Al-Monitor reports:
Scott Paul, who leads humanitarian policy at Oxfam America, said the airdrops would deliver only a symbolic amount of aid while being deeply degrading to the population.
Airdrops “would mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior US officials whose policies are contributing to the ongoing atrocities and risk of famine in Gaza,” Paul said in a statement.
Airdrops are an expensive and inefficient means of aid delivery compared to road convoys and carry the risk of aid diversion. Humanitarian organizations consider them a tool of last resort to reach a population that is not accessible by land.
Politico reports:
For close watchers of the Israel-Hamas conflict, which has raged following the militants’ Oct. 7 attack, the move to drop aid from the skies signals Biden can’t persuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do more for suffering Palestinians.
“We look 100 percent weak,” said Dave Harden, a former humanitarian assistance coordinator at the U.S. Agency for International Development. “Administration officials are doing this just to make themselves feel better.”
The U.S. has many ways to influence Israeli actions, not least of which is to consider conditioning military aid for the country. Democrats in Congress have long suggested that Biden withhold new arms sales to Israel until Netanyahu addresses the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But Kirby, aware the U.S. is in talks with Israel on a new weapons delivery, on Friday reiterated the U.S. would continue to support Israel’s right to self-defense.
“To make matters even more baffling, we’re doing this while continuing to send weapons to the very military responsible for forcing us to conduct aid airdrops,” said Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institu
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More than 100 killed as Israeli troops accused of opening fire on Gazans crowded around aid convoy
The incident came as the death toll Gaza surpassed 30,000 and amid surging fears of starvation in the north of the territory.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-aid-convoy-gaza-ci
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Exclusive: Israeli forces fired on food convoy in Gaza, UN documents and satellite analysis reveals
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Some say that Israel used food aid as bait.
Others say that Jewish settlers were right at the border of Northern Gaza, ready to takeover once Palestinians had been killed or forced out.
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Trump breaks silence on Israel's military campaign in Gaza: 'Finish the problem'
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More news on humanitarian aid to Gaza:
The U.S. military will build a temporary port and pier on Gaza’s coastline to provide a new route for humanitarian aid, President Biden is set to announce in his State of the Union address Thursday evening, according to senior administration officials. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said the plan is part of Biden’s orders to “flood the zone” with assistance arriving by air, land and sea.
This is late, but better late than never.
I realize the "free Palestine" crowd will never buy this, but I think it shows yet again Biden's basic human decency. He's obviously a longtime supporter of Israel and, regardless of the politics, feels strongly that Hamas needs to be destroyed. At the same time, he has slowly but inevitably come around to the view that Israel is deliberately starving the Gazans and the US can't allow that to happen.
He'll get credit from no one for this plan. Progressives will deride it as a token gesture against genocide while hawks will condemn it as weakness in the face of terrorism. In reality, it's just Biden being Biden in a no-win situation.
But in the end, it will be important. It will ramp up steadily, just like other aid programs always have, but it will prevent mass starvation in Gaza. Finally.
https://jabberwocking.com/biden-plans-to-flood-the-zone-with-aid-to-ga
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