Notices by Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)

Israeli commander Major David Portel (Gaza Division), who in Nov. called for "100,000s" of Gazan corpses:

"Everybody is guilty. And we won't know victory unless we annihilate Gaza"

"What does the Bible [Torah?] say? 'Leave none of them remaining.'"

(Recall Bibi priming them w/genocidal Amalek rhetoric before invasion)

"The moral thing is to annihilate them…make [Gaza] a parking lot. Anything less is immoral…a crime"

"I hope that next Sabbath Gaza will be no more."

https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1801351740979102107

Fleas on cats, dogs, mice, etc., transfer the virus to humans.

Mosquito season is here.

All of these vectors are obvious.

Yet Tom Vilsack (Big Ag dairy rep who heads USDA), has taken the "do nothing & wait for it to fix itself" approach, rather than protect citizens against the greed & anti-social behavior of dairy businessmen, who refuse testing.

"3 key factors for transmission [of #H5N1] between farms:

*shared equipment & vehicles,
*shared personnel who may…carry the virus between farms on their clothes or boots, &
*animal movements…such as from Texas to Michigan in the initial weeks of the outbreak"

☠️ "60% of farms continued to move cattle off the facilities after animals showed signs of illness"👀

"Most farms had cats…more than 50% of those had sick or dead cats."

20% of dairy farms had chickens or poultry, & sick or dead birds

@tparsi is really important to read on #Gaza.

My god, this makes everything so much worse. From @nav "That same bill also threatens Palestinians with a cutoff of aid in response to any attempt to seek justice via the International Criminal Court, for alleged crimes committed against them by any Israeli national."

This is another level of evil: basically, if you people ever try to seek the protection of the #ICC, or hold us accountable in any way, we will help starve you permanently.

https://progressives.social/@nav@infosec.exchange/112159117220099760

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

A #MustRead thread: https://progressives.social/@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems/112158149698062526

When US responded to #ICJ ruling of plausible case, by stripping all funding from #UNRWA, I argued that was active US execution of #Genocide against #Gaza. New spending bill defunding it until 2025 outstrips that in viciousness & scope.

ALSO NOTE her citation of CNN reporting from 3 wks ago: UN clearly says Israeli govt ***used torture on UN staff*** to extract false confessions.

cc @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

#Colonialism
#Imperialism
#USPolitics

Anyway the point is:

With this new spending bill stripping all funding away from #UNRWA, the UN agency that feeds #Gaza – a population of 2.3 million Palestinians that our ally #Israel has openly admitted to intentionally starving to death for the past 6 months as a collective punishment for #Hamas murdering over 1000 Israelis –the US government has now *definitely* adopted an official policy of genocide against #Gaza.

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Norwegian-Swiss research team has ID'd "more than 16,000 chemicals in plastic products in the first comprehensive database of all known plastic chemicals [it hopes will inform] international negotiations for a treaty to curb plastic use & production"

“at least 25% of these are chemicals of concern [with] tendency to persist without degrading, ability to build up in [living] organisms, mobility through the environment & toxicity"

“We need a systemic political solution.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-comprehensive-plastics-database-tallies-staggering-16-000-chemicals/

#AlJazeera journalists used a consumer drone to document the aftermath of a Jan 7 Israeli strike on a building in #KhanYounis.

As the 4 #journalists returned, the #IDF targeted them in their car, striking it with a missile & killing the driver & 2 Al Jazeera crew — Hamza Dahdouh, 27, & drone operator Mustafa Thuraya, 30 — & seriously wounding 2 freelancers.

IDF claimed they were terrorists who'd threatened IDF troops.

WaPo got the drone footage...no IDF anywhere.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/19/gaza-journalists-killed-israel-al-jazeera-footage/

The "next day [IDF claimed] it had “identified & struck a terrorist who operated an aircraft that posed a threat to #IDF troops”

2 days later, IDF claimed to have uncovered new evidence: the 2 #journalists they'd murdered were militants! 🥴

However. "Dahdouh had recently been approved to leave #Gaza, a rare privilege unlikely to have been granted to a known militant." Both had "passed through Israeli checkpoints on their way to the south"

The IDF refused multiple opportunities to comment.

#Israel has censored any outside coverage of what it is doing in #Gaza, at all. Then it's murdering any members of the group it's genociding, who dare provide coverage.

These killings "have taken place against a backdrop of growing censorship of #media in the region, including at least 20 arrests as well as physical & online harassment of #journalists. Media facilities have also been damaged or destroyed."

The #IDF's lies & false claims of secret "evidence" are more and more brazen, more and more insulting.

It has been very obvious since shortly after Oct 7 that #Israel has been intentionally targeting doctors, journalists, & many other civilians, IN THEIR HOMES, in many cases, murdering their entire families.

#Journalists should be ashamed of how little they have done to defend their profession & the 95+ Palestinian journalists killed by the IDF over the last few months.
https://cpj.org/2023/12/israel-gaza-war-takes-record-toll-on-journalists/

“The Israel-Gaza war is the most dangerous situation for #journalists we have ever seen, and these figures show that clearly,” said Sherif Mansour, #CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator.

“The Israeli army has killed more journalists in 10 weeks than any other army or entity has in any single year. And with every journalist killed, the war becomes harder to document and to understand.”

#Gaza #GenocideConvention #IDF

#IDF murdering journalists isn't new.

"Deadly Pattern": A #CPJ special report 5/9/2023:

"The May 11, 2022, killing of Al-Jazeera Arabic correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh is part of a deadly, decades-long pattern. Over 22 years, CPJ has documented at least 20 journalist killings by members of [IDF]. Despite numerous #IDF probes, no one has ever been charged or held responsible for these deaths. The impunity in these cases has severely undermined the freedom of the #press"

https://cpj.org/reports/2023/05/deadly-pattern-20-journalists-died-by-israeli-military-fire-in-22-years-no-one-has-been-held-accountable/

Well, goodnight to everyone else on the safe side of the wall (for now, anyway).

I am off to make sure all the house lights are turned off and the doors are locked.

#Gaza #Genocide #ICJ #GenevaConvention

[2d Guardian link is from Dec]

“To acknowledge the couple as human beings,” says Glazer, shaking his head, “was a big part of the awfulness of this entire journey of the film, but I kept thinking that, if we could do so, we would maybe see ourselves in them. For me, this is not a film about the past. It’s trying to be about now, & about us & our similarity to the perpetrators, not our similarity to the victims.”

"the thing in us that drives it all, the capacity for violence that we all have.”

He's been saying this same thing forever. From Cannes in May 2023:

"what it's trying to do is to talk to the capacity within each of us for violence...wherever you're from.[ T]he great crime & tragedy is that human beings did this to other human beings...[O]bviously, it's very convenient for us to try and distance ourselves from them as much as we can...[W]e think we could never behave this way & we don't behave this way. But I think we should be less certain in that."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSxDn7WGtm0

To pretend, as many dehumanization apologists in Israel & the US did today, his remarks are a skin-deep protest, denies meaning to human creativity. He worked on it for 10 years.

"I remember [my dad said] Don't talk about it...I have had my own struggles with that very sentiment. But it is, of course, very important that we...make it as familiar as we can. [N]ot as a museum piece...that we...feel safe from...It's quite the opposite. It needed to be presented with a degree of urgency & alarm."

Clip of his speech here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2024/mar/11/jonathan-glazer-oscars-speech-gaza-israel-video

"Unlike other films about the Holocaust, it focuses on the perpetrators rather than the victims...we witness the myriad ways that the couple’s domestic life adhered to a kind of ordered normality in the literal shadow of Auschwitz’s smoking chimneys...In the evenings, he reads bedtime stories to his children &, before he retires to bed himself, makes sure all the house lights are turned off & the doors locked."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/10/jonathan-glazer-the-zone-of-interest-auschwitz-under-the-skin-interview

Writer & director Jonathan Glazer's own words:

“All our choices were made to reflect & confront us in the present—not to say ‘look what they did then’; rather, look what we do now.’ "

“Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst."

"Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness & the Holocaust being hijacked, by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many people, whether the victims of Oct. the 7th in Israel, or the ongoing attack on Gaza.”

“How do we resist?”