DrALJONES
Interview
"As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza"
Drs Feroze Sidhwa & Mark Perlmutter describe a hospital “hanging on by a thread,” with the majority of patients being young children.
"This is dehumanization. The purpose of this is to kill a population.
“We’re buying the bullets & the gun for the gunman who’s going to the school & killing the children.
"If our support stops, the occupation stops."
DrALJONES
Report on pro-Palestinian protests in Jordan
"Since 7 October 2023, Jordanian authorities have arrested at least 1,500 people.
The number includes "about 500 detained following huge protests outside the Israeli Embassy in Amman in March.
"Activists continue to be detained by the intelligence forces & barred from accessing their lawyers or families."
DrALJONES
Israel, having been so close to apartheid South Africa, realised the very real threat that BDS posed to the existence of Israel as a racist occupying state.
It created the Strategic Affairs dept specifically to counter the BDS movement.
Its strategy was to ensure that any criticism of Israel was framed as equivalent to anti-Semitism.
Accusing critics of Israel of anti-Semitism deflects attention from what matters.
Andrew Feinstein
DrALJONES
Report
"Turkey imposes export restrictions to Israel over Gaza"
"Effective immediately, the ministry has restricted the export of 54 products to Israel, encompassing items such as aluminium wire, steel, cement, construction materials, granite, chemicals, pesticides, engine oils, jet fuel, & bricks."
Turkey had announced it "would take certain measures..following Israel's refusal to grant aerial access to Gaza for humanitarian air drops."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-imposes-export-restrictions-israel-over-gaza-invasion
#Turkey #GazaGenocide ...
DrALJONES
Report
US airman, Larry Hebert, is on a hunger strike to protest Israel's starvation of Gaza & US complicity.
Hebert said he was deeply touched when Aaron Bushnell took his own life for Gaza & knew he had to raise his voice against US supplying Israel bombs & rockets to commit genocide in Gaza.
"Active-duty members are afraid to speak out," he said. "I hope that my example & that of others, like Aaron, can change that.”
https://popularresistance.org/active-duty-air-force-airman-on-white-house-hunger-strike-for-gaza/
DrALJONES
Analysis
"Nothing can wash the blood from your hands,” says Rev Munther Isaac about Western complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
Bethlehem Palestinian Christian theologian talks to Democracy Now about the history of Palestinian Christians in Gaza, Israel’s occupation of Bethlehem, its strangling of freedoms in the West Bank, U.S. Christians’ support of Israel, & more.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/1/easter_in_palestine_rev_munther_isaac
DrALJONES
Report
"We Jews are just arrested; Palestinians are beaten".
"In Germany, phrases including ‘from the river to the sea’ are banned, & police are arresting people for using them.
German-Israeli activist Iris Hefets was arrested after Oct 7 for holding a sign which read, “As a Jew & Israeli, stop the genocide in Gaza”.
DrALJONES
Analysis
UK Recognizes Israel’s Persecution of Palestinians
In an asylum case, a "Palestinian citizen of Israel won asylum in the UK, citing apartheid & persecution.
"This is a victory not just for me but for all Palestinians living under the apartheid Israeli regime,” said the asylum seeker.
DrALJONES
Short animated film on Gaza
Dear Child I
The film "takes the viewer on an uncompromising journey into the life of a child from Gaza living under Israeli bombardment.
"The film intentionally challenges the viewer to look at their own actions or lack there of, while also hinting at a possible hopeful future."
written by Chris Hedges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS6cl20tU1M
#Gaza #US #DearChild1 ....
DrALJONES
Interview
"UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Urges Arms Embargo & Sanctions on Israel over War Crimes in Gaza"
"The 'monstrosity' of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, incl attacks on civilians & restrictions on aid, shows that the ICJ's provisional orders to protect civilians are being ignored.
“What should be done is an arms embargo right now & sanctions, because Israel is not in compliance with the critical measures ordered by the ICJ"
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/12/francesca_albanese_gaza_israel_palestine
DrALJONES
UNRWA "has accused Israel of detaining & torturing some of its staffers, coercing them into making false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas."
Israel has been pushing to dismantle UNRWA based on the false statements.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/04/middleeast/un-israel-confessions-allegations-intl/index.html
And Israel's complicit chheerleaders have kneecapped UNRWA, just as Israel demanded. 🤮
DrALJONES
Report
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Dave Harden, former director, US Agency for International Development (USAID) blasts the US airdrop plan:
"The US’s use of airdrops is “to paper over a massive policy failure” by the Biden administration.
"Airdrops are a symbol of massive failure.
"The US has the ability to compel Israel to open up more aid.
"By not compelling the Israelis to do this, we are putting our assets & our people at risk."
4.45 GMT Mar 2 AJ updates
DrALJONES
Moving interview with a friend of Aaron Bushnell, the airman who died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington
Bushnell's courageous act was in protest against U.S. complicity in the genocide in Gaza
His friend, Levi Pierpont, says Bushnell -- "a really sweet person with a strong sense of justice" -- would not have described his act as a "suicide", but as a strong message to help end the genocide.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/28/aaron_bushnell_self_immolation_gaza_protest
DrALJONES
News report
"Swedish MEP’s silent protest – ‘There are no more words to say on Gaza’"
"A Swedish Member of the European Parliament has spent most of her allotted speaking time at an EU parliamentary session in silence to protest Israel’s war on Gaza."
Abir al-Sahlani concluded by saying that there were “no more words to speak about what’s going on in Gaza” & that “human rights have a skin colour”.
3.30 GMT Feb 29 AJ updates
DrALJONES
News item
A US intelligence report has said that Israel's claims that UNRWA staff took part in Oct 7 "cannot be independently verified", & that it had “low confidence” that staff took part in the violence.
Major UNRWA donors, incl the US, have frozen vital funds bcz of Israel's allegations.
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says "the UN has never, never, ever received any written dossier, despite our repeated call."
DrALJONES
Yes. Former UN spokesman Craig Mokhiber::
"The real purpose here is the the destruction of UNRWA, because UNRWA is in the way of the destruction of the Palestinian people"
DrALJONES
Report
"The Israeli government is holding up more than 1,000 shipping containers of vital food items at the Ashdod port, just 20 miles north of the Gaza boundary.
"The shipments, which contain rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar & cooking oil, are enough to feed more than 1 million people for one month."
Along with blocking or attacking aid trucks, Israel is killing fishermen, & has destroyed "up to 34 percent of arable land".
DrALJONES
Analysis
"Let Them Eat Dirt"
"The final stage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, an orchestrated mass starvation, has begun. The international community does not intend to stop it.
"When Israeli leaders use the term “absolute victory,” they mean total decimation, total elimination.
"The Nazis in 1942 systematically starved the 500,000 men, women and children in the Warsaw Ghetto. This is a number Israel intends to exceed."
Chris Hedges
DrALJONES
Interview
After Losing Nearly 100 Relatives in Gaza, Dr Tariq Haddad could not bring himself to meet with Blinken.
“I just kept looking for evidence that our government actually cares about the lives of my family, & I saw none.”
Haddad wrote Blinken a 12-page letter:
"I wanted him to see me & see Palestinians as human beings, not as some part of a political game."
DrALJONES
"Israeli conference’s plan for 21 illegal settlements in Gaza Strip"
INTERACTIVE - Israels Return to Gaza Conference map-1706522923
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