Biden pretends to care about Palestine with toothless threat to Israel
Biden has given Israel 2 wks to sign a guarantee to stop the genocide, but that gives Israel 2 weeks to bomb Rafah, enough time to kill the rest of them.
A REAL threat with teeth would be: Stop the genocide NOW or we cut off all ties to Israel!
Wednesday 28 February, 2024 07:12
America is threatening to stop weapons to Israel, and Biden wins with the taste of loss
Translation from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Link to report in alkhanadeq:
Joe Biden, the American elections, and his successor, Netanyahu
The administration of US President Joe Biden gave Israel a deadline to sign a letter committing it to international law while using American weapons and allowing aid to enter Gaza. According to what the American website Axios quoted from American and Israeli officials.
Me:
Note that this is a toothless “threat.” Everyone knows that Israel just has to sign a letter and then continue the genocide. It is fake. Also, Biden knows that Israel is threatening to kill all those people trapped at Rafah and that will happen long before the 2 week grace period is up.
All US presidents, including both Trump and Biden, are bought and sold by Israel and will do nothing to save Palestinian lives. Support for Israel is baked in the cake.
Trump is no better, possibly worse.
Things will have to get worse before they can get better.
BUT there are signs of cracks in the US-Israel romance. American Evangelicals are starting to part ways with “Christian” Zionism and when support for this Satanic doctrine reaches a critical low, America will change.
But that may well be too late for Palestine.
**
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Precision strikes on the infrastructure of Ukraine: command headquarters, weapons depots, foreign equipment
Precision strikes on the infrastructure of Ukraine: command headquarters, weapons depots, foreign equipment
In the area of combat operations on the territory of Ukraine, on February 28, Russian armed forces systematically attacked enemy targets, both on the front line and in the depths of its territory.
Russian troops continue to systematically destroy enemy targets both near the line of combat contact and in the rear regions of Ukraine. The Telegram channel “Rybar” reports.
Last night, attacks were carried out on the Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Kharkov and Sumy oblasts, as well as on the occupied part of the Kherson oblast and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). Ballistic missiles, aircraft and Geran-2 unmanned aerial vehicles were used for the attack.
- In the DPR, in the city of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk), the headquarters of a group of enemy forces, located in the building of the Donetsk National Technical University, was attacked. In addition, in the village of Predtechino, an ammunition depot was destroyed, and in the villages of Novoselovka Pervaya and Zhelannye, temporary deployment points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were hit.
- On the territory of the Kharkov oblast, an enemy weapons and equipment warehouse was attacked in Fedorovka, Kupyansky district. Russian artillery also shelled the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlements of Pletenevka, Sinkovka, Kazachya Lopan and Gatishche.
- In Odessa, Geran-2 unmanned aerial vehicles attacked maritime infrastructure, destroying an explosives warehouse on the territory of the Yuzhny Sea Trade Port. Explosions were also recorded on the territory of the Odessa commercial sea port.
At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities, in their usual manner, announced the interception of Russian drones and damage by debris to just one transformer at an unnamed critical infrastructure facility. How this correlates with the footage of arrivals and secondary detonations requires no comment.
Previously they wrote: PETROVSKOYE is completely under the control of the Russian Federation: the village in the Avdeevsk direction is of great strategic importance. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that up to 165 enemy soldiers were killed in the Avdeevsk direction and 7 units of enemy armored vehicles were shot down - four tanks, two Bradley armored personnel carriers and an M113.
Undermining of the Crimean Bridge: the Investigative Committee found out all the circumstances of the terrorist attack - details of the investigation All the details and circumstances of the terrorist attack that happened in 2022 on the Crimean Bridge were established by the Investigative Committee.
The officers' corps in Pokrovsk was destroyed: the enemy's headquarters was hit at the very point - the secret of the catacombs. Tonight, the Russian army struck the buildings of DNTU and school 3, it was there that the enemy stationed a group of personnel, the Paratrooper's Diary writes about this.
The fact that military equipment arrived on the university territory the day before was confirmed by local residents.
The Ukrainian front is falling like dominoes: in Kiev they predicted the collapse of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Kiev warned about the possibility of a domino effect that could engulf the region if Ukraine does not receive the necessary ammunition and weapons. This was reported by the German publication Focus.
**
The following did not happen today, but the report on damage just came in.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://ok.ru/yesttaka/topic/157788675029169
The Russian Aerospace Forces have delivered a missile strike and are continuing to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
On February 19, 2024, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special operation in Ukraine to protect Donbass, as well as the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
On February 19, 2024, the Russian armed forces launched a powerful missile attack on Ukraine. At night, air raid sirens sounded in several oblasts of Ukraine at once - Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and Poltava oblasts.
The Russian military continues to strike targets that are used for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At night, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a missile and bomb attack on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kramatorsk, Lastochkino, Tonenkoye, Severny and Orlovka, and the last populated area was hit with volume-detonating ODAB-1500 bombs.
The VKS hit the command post of the 31st mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the village of Zhelannye in the DPR,
Strikes on Kramatorsk and Slavyansk were carried out using MLRS, ballistic missiles and X-22 cruise missiles launched by strategic bombers. Now the enemy armed forces who fled from Avdeevka are concentrated in these settlements, and their withdrawal is difficult due to a lack of transport. Powerful explosions took place in the Poltava, Kharkov, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk and Chernigov oblasts.
At night, targets in Ukraine were attacked by kamikaze drones of the “Geran” type in the Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Sumy, Poltava and Chernigov oblasts. Explosions occurred in the Kharkov oblast of Ukraine, this happened for the second time this night. In the morning, Russian forces launched attacks on Ukrainian Armed Forces targets in the Kharkov oblast using ODAB-1500 FABs.
In Ukraine, a train with military cargo for the Ukrainian Armed Forces was blown up on the way from Moldova to Vinnitsa, near the village of Serebriya in the Mogilev-Podolsk oblast, more than 60 tons of NATO-style shells were destroyed, and a section of the railway was disabled. This is already the third echelon with ammunition that the underground is liquidating (the first two were liquidated in the Nikolaev and Odessa oblasts).
A drone production plant in Lviv was burned down by Ukrainian partisans. On February 18, 2024, local underground fighters liquidated the plant’s guards, then doused the plant with gasoline and burned it. The fire covered an area of more than 400 sq.m. The plant produced 5 thousand drones per month for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them are the Furia, Leleka 100 UAVs, RAM II UAV and others. https://dzen.ru/a/ZdM1fEEoZCqP0AaS The Russian Armed Forces on February 19, 2024 destroyed 1,340 militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
[I’ve said it before but it bears repeating: It is amazing to me that there could be pro-Russian partisans in Lviv because that western city is in the heart of the original Russophobic Nazi hotbed that goes back to WW II and earlier. I assume most of Ukraine now wants the war to be over and possibly the majority are prepared to accept a Russian win and even occupation. A poll a while back showed that Kiev was ready then for the Russians to come in and straighten out the mess that Zelensky had caused]
In the Kupyansk area, on February 19, 2024, the Aerospace Forces attacked the command post in Kupyansk [Kharkov oblast] and the locations of the Armed Forces with ODAB-1500 FABs. The Russian Armed Forces advanced in the direction of Ternov. The Russian Armed Forces eliminated closed firing positions and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, thanks to UAV crews that carried out attacks on Ukrainian positions. In the Kupyansk area, units of the “Western” group of forces, supported by air strikes and artillery fire, repelled six attacks by assault groups of the 30th, 32nd, 60th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Kharkov oblast and Terny, Donetsk People’s Republic. During the counter-battery fight, the following were hit: a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, a D-20 howitzer, as well as a Gvozdika self-propelled gun.
Over 30 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, a Leopard tank, two armored personnel carriers and four cars were destroyed.
In the Krasnolimansk area February 19, 2024 In the Krasnolimansk area, the forces of the Russian Federation advanced approximately 1.5 kilometers towards Ternov, less than 1 kilometer remained to the village. Most of Yar Laptev is under our control. An army aviation strike group hit the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnolimansk direction. The offensive of the Russian Armed Forces against the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Tern and Yampolovka continues.
In the Krasnolimansk area, units of the Southern Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, defeated the formations of the 22nd, 42nd, 93rd mechanized, 79th, 80th air assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka, Grigorovka, Kurdyumovka and Kleshcheevka, Donetsk People's Republic. Four attacks by assault groups of the 24th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled in the area of the village of Leninskoye, Donetsk People's Republic.
Over 275 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, two infantry fighting vehicles, two cars, and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed
In the Donetsk area, on February 19, 2024, the Russian Armed Forces liberated Lastochkino. Russian attack aircraft are clearing a populated area from Ukrainian gangs. The Russian Armed Forces did not stop behind Avdeevka and continued the offensive. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are withdrawing forces from Stepovoye, Berdychi, Semenovka, Orlovka, Tonenkoye and Lastochkino. Aerospace Forces aviation and artillery are operating along the current defense line of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Lastochkino, Tonenkoye, Severny and Orlovka, and the latter was hit with ODAB-1500 volumetric detonating bombs. The main logistics route of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area, running along the Novobakhmutovka - Berdychi line, is blocked by units of the 114th motorized rifle brigade of the Russian Armed Forces
The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the Ukrainian Armed Forces base in the DPR city of Chasov Yar with an ODAB-1500 thermobaric bomb. During the liberation of Avdeevka, Russian soldiers captured a large number of trophies. The weapons, ammunition and equipment that had been stored there for ten years, by the non-brothers, fell into their hands. The Russian Armed Forces are clearing the city of the remaining Ukrainian soldiers, evacuating from the city more than two dozen wounded Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, who were left by their colleagues to die in the basements of Avdiivka.
Units of the "Center" group of troops occupied more advantageous lines and positions and completely liberated the Avdeevka coke plant. Concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 71st Jaeger, 23rd Mechanized Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 116th Terrorist Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Solovyevo and Tonenkoye of the Donetsk People's Republic were defeated. During the day, nine attacks by assault groups of the 53rd, 59th mechanized and 3rd assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Lastochkino and Pervomaiskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic. In the Donetsk area, units of the “Southern” group of troops improved the situation along the front line, defeated formations of the 22nd, 42nd, 93rd mechanized, 79th, 80th air assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka and Grigorovka , Kurdyumovka and Kleshcheevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Up to 840 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles, 25 vehicles, as well as two US-made M777 artillery systems and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
In the South Donetsk direction February 19, 2024 In the South Donetsk direction, Russian soldiers of the Vostok group of forces neutralized soldiers of the 58th infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 127th air defense brigade near Urozhainy DPR and Priyutnyy in the Zaporozhye oblast. The Russian Armed Forces thwarted eight attempts to rotate the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South Donetsk direction. Russian troops destroyed 14 temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, four control points for unmanned aircraft and two enemy field ammunition depots.
In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of troops defeated formations of the 102nd and 128th defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Staromayorskoye, Donetsk People's Republic and Chervonoye, Zaporozhye oblast. An attack by the assault group of the 58th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the village of Shevchenko, Zaporozhye oblast, was repelled.
Up to 150 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, three vehicles, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, a D-20 howitzer, as well as two Bukovel-AD electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
In the Kherson direction On February 19, 2024, in the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian armed forces are increasing their offensive. The Russian Armed Forces are powerfully crushing the enemy at Rabotino. The Russian Aerospace Forces regularly use the Solntsepek to destroy the enemy; the enemy has lost a number of strongholds along all sectors of the Zaporozhye Front. At the moment, our troops have advanced approximately 3 kilometers in the area of Rabotino and Verbovoy, capturing important positions and capturing Ukrainian military personnel. The Russian army continues its offensive to the west and south of Rabotino with the goal of bypassing the village from the north and capturing the southern fortified area. In the Kamensk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are striking enemy concentrations. The Russian Armed Forces destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters in the area of three settlements in the Zaporozhye oblast.
In the Kherson direction, the Russian military grouping of forces “Dnepr” managed to take more advantageous positions and destroy soldiers and equipment of the Ukrainian army near Rabotino, Verbovoy in the Zaporozhye oblast, Lvovo and Tyaginka in the Kherson oblast. Airborne artillery destroyed self-propelled guns and a grenade launcher crew of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the right bank of the Dnieper. In the Kherson direction, as a result of coordinated actions of units of the Dnepr group of forces and complex fire damage, damage was caused to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The Russian Armed Forces captured three large strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kamensky area of the Zaporozhye oblast. The Russian military captured three large strongholds of the Ukrainian Nazis in the area of the village of Kamensky, Zaporozhye oblast, located on the shore of the Kakhovka reservoir north of Vasilyevka
Up to 45 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, four pickup trucks and a D-20 howitzer were destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of groupings of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation successfully destroyed the SAMP/T anti-aircraft missile system made in France, and damaged manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 138 regions.
Air defense systems destroyed 96 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Olshana, Krakhmalnoye, Timkovka of the Kharkov oblast, Svatovo, Kremennaya of the Lugansk People's Republic, Artemovsk, Peski, Vladimirovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Ulyanovka, Verbovoye of the Zaporozhye oblast, Razdolnoye of the Kherson oblast, as well as two HIMARS multiple rocket launcher system.
A drone production plant in Lviv was burned down by Ukrainian partisans. On February 18, 2024, local underground fighters liquidated the plant’s guards, then doused the plant with gasoline and burned it. The fire covered an area of more than 400 sq.m. The plant produced 5 thousand drones per month for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them are the Furia, Leleka 100 UAVs, RAM II UAV and others.
**
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://military.pravda.ru/news/1958994-nochnogo-raketnogo-udara/
During a night Russian missile attack in Pokrovsk, mercenaries from Poland came under attack
Polish mercenaries were destroyed during a night missile attack in Pokrovsk
02/28/2024
Last night, February 28, the Russian army launched an attack on Pokrovsk (DPR).
During the strike, mercenaries from Poland were destroyed. They were in the DonNTU building, where they arrived that evening from Konstantinovka.
Foreigners were also injured in the attack on the Pokrovsk House of Culture, reports the Military Chronicle Telegram channel.
The intensity of Russian attacks on the locations of mercenaries and Ukrainian nationalists is increasing, and in the near future will reach the level that was observed in Marinka.
**
Tucker says sanctions spoiling america
https://pravda-en.com/world/2024/02/27/344854.html
**
Axios: Washington gives Israel two weeks and threatens to stop weapons
https://www.alquds.com/en/posts/111774
This will not help the Palestinians and Biden knows this. Israel is threatening to bomb Rafah, where most refugees are concentrated, and that is planned for long before the 2 weeks is up. Further, all Biden is requiring is for Israel to sign a letter of promise, and we all know how reliable Israel is!
This is Biden’s way of “doing something” without doing anything!
**
Spain supports Gaza w giant Gaza flag
Tiktok failed to load.Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser
**
Adam Kinzinger is one of legions of American “Christians” who think Jesus wants to kill all the people in the world who disagree with the US leadership.
Our thanks to JS for this:
Meet the Republican Congressman Who Says His Faith Led Him to Vote for Impeachment
Adam Kinzinger wants to see a commitment to truth reorient his party and recover the witness of the American church. [The American “church” is in thrall to the Satanic doctrine of “Christian” Zionism, which supports genocide. It is no longer a church at all]
Kinzinger’s journey: From religious fundamentalism to political fundamentalism’s foe
yet he has repeatedly revealed himself to believe that war is the answer to every problem that the USA confronts in the world.
While many Republicans in Congress oppose direct U.S. involvement in Ukraine, Wicker is joined by Representative Adam Kinzinger, who on Twitter said the U.S. should “declare a #NoFlyZone over Ukraine” and help level the battle field to “give the heroic Ukrainians a fair fight.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/republican-senator-urges-u-s-to-impose-no-fly-zone-over-ukraine/
“If we let nukes prevent us from action then expect literally every country to try to get nukes in next few years.”
-- Adam Kinzinger
https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/12/matt-taibbi-give-war-a-chance/
If the Ukraine frontline collapses because of the @HouseGOP and @SpeakerJohnson, I hope the American people vomit them out of leadership and history never forgives their cowardice.
-- Adam Kinzinger
https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1762480613422956898
and in the case of the article I sent you, has found reason to
celebrate the deaths of 400,000 human beings [Russians], irrespective of
whether that is an accurate number or not.
Clearly he has a bad case of cognitive dissonance, or he worships a different Jesus than the one whom I am familiar with.
What's worse, CNN has hired him to be their go-to foreign policy expert.
**
Our thanks to AN for this:
War zone Brussels! French farmers surround the EU Headquarters Building in Brussels, Belgium.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1762190204461371749
https://www.europereloaded.com/farmers-surround-eu-headquarters-building/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/things-are-heating-farmers-surround-eu-headquarters-building
AN
P.S. - Victoire aux fermiers et agriculteurs de France! Allez-y!
**
https://www.alquds.com/en/posts/111774
جريدة القدس || Axios: Washington gives Israel two weeks and threatens to stop weapons
Axios quoted American and Israeli officials as saying that the administration of US President Joe Biden gave Israel a deadline to sign a letter committing it to international law when using American weapons.
Officials confirmed that the deadline expires in mid-March, and includes Israel allowing humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip. They added that if Israel does not provide guarantees by the specified date, American arms transfers to it will stop. [Israel will provide the guarantees and then renegue on them. Will Biden REALLY stop sending weapons? He is owned]
According to the website, the deadline came after members of the US Senate expressed their concern about the use of weapons against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Axios explained that the aforementioned guarantees have now become a requirement under a memorandum issued by President Biden earlier this February, and although it does not specifically concern Israel, the new policy came after some Democratic senators expressed their concerns about the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.
The website quoted a senior Israeli official as saying that the United States has set to obtain written guarantees from Israel by mid-next March so that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken can ratify them by the end of the same month.
The official pointed out that the letter did not specify the Israeli party that must sign the guarantees, and that Tel Aviv gets to decide who will sign the letter in the government.
In turn, an American official said that similar messages had been sent in recent days to many other countries that use American weapons, according to what Axios reported.
Mounting pressures
Yesterday, Tuesday, Reuters reported from officials in the Democratic Party and the White House that the election campaign of US President Joe Biden was surprised by the extent of anger and frustration within the party over Washington’s support for Israel in its war on Gaza and other issues.
The agency also quoted a senior adviser to Biden's election campaign as saying that the party was harmed by its support for Israel in a way that was more than expected.
In a lengthy report that highlighted the escalation of protests within the Democratic Party 9 months before the presidential elections, American officials said that anger over Biden’s handling of the Gaza war may lead to a decline in support for him.
The agency noted the escalation of calls from activists in the Democratic Party not to vote for Biden in the presidential elections, during which he is supposed to face the potential Republican Party nominee, Donald Trump.
The report indicated that anger at Biden's policies, especially with regard to his support for Israel in its war on Gaza and his refusal to call for a permanent ceasefire, is rising among young people and Americans of Arab and African descent.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving about 30,000 martyrs, most of them children and women, and more than 70,000 injured, in addition to massive destruction of infrastructure, vital facilities, and hospitals.
Source: Al Jazeera + American press
**
European Union hits new level of psychopathy
This is scary and will affect Americans! Europsychos are clamoring for an all-out war on Russia!
**
RE: Senate Democrat Chris Van Hollen from Maryland called the “deliberate withholding of food” in Gaza a “textbook war crime”
More weasel words, in my view. Why did he not mention and condemn this long-standing Israeli policy? [Any US federal politician who dares to condemn Israel is WAY ahead of the rest. And BTW, the Israeli crimes were not well known just a few years ago. Only after Oct 7, 2023, did Israel rip off its mask - Don]
A Brief History of Israel’s 33-Year Long Policy of Starving Gaza
First lockdowns, then siege, now famine. At the time of writing, estimates are that 95% of starving people in the world are now in Gaza.
by Zachary Foster, Palestine News, January 26, 2024
https://palestine.beehiiv.com/p/brief-history-israels-33year-long-policy-starving-gaza
EXCERPTS:
It’s been 5 weeks since Human Rights Watch reported Israel was starving Palestinians “as a weapon of war;” 5 weeks since the UN said more than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving; 5 weeks since 1 in 2 people in Gaza have been facing "Emergency" or "Catastrophe" levels of food insecurity; 5 weeks since the World Health Organizations said the risk of famine is “increasing each day.”
Israel is starving a million plus Palestinians to death. “Everyone in Gaza is hungry,” the UN reported this week. “If the current conditions prevail,” said Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation, there would be famine in Gaza by early February.”
According to multiple testimonies (1, 2, 3), people are grinding rabbit fodder into powder to make bread since flour is nowhere to be found. Now, Al Jazeera has reported that even the animal feed has run out. Make no mistake, Gaza is on the brink of famine.
The famine unfolding before our eyes did not begin 5 weeks ago or even 3 and a half months ago.
…
By the late 2000s, Israel wanted to make the people of Gaza suffer, but not starve. At the time, Israeli leaders didn’t think the world would allow death by actual starvation to happen in Gaza. (Turns out they were wrong about that.)
And so, to ensure no starvation took place, the Israeli Health Ministry began to calculate the caloric needs of the population of Gaza, and allow precisely that much food in. Dov Weisglass, an adviser to former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, summed up Israel’s policy this way: “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”
By 2023, Gaza’s population had been put on a 16-year “diet”, and was on the brink of collapse. A 2022 UN report found that 76% of households were worried about not having enough food to eat; 54% of Gazans had to borrow money for food; 52% had to reduce expenses on health and 46% had to reduce or cease payment on utilities like electricity to put enough food on the table. Meanwhile, households spent on average 56% of their money on food.
That was the state of Gaza on the eve of October 7th. A besieged population totally dependent on food aid to survive.
After nearly four months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Israel has imposed its most severe lockdowns to date, preventing any food from entering Gaza for nearly a month, and just a small fraction of Gaza’s food needs since.
At the time of writing, estimates are that 95% of starving people in the world are now in Gaza.
More on the frequent and ongoing use of this genocide-by-starvation policy here
Israel's policy was summed up by Dov Weisglass, an adviser to Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, earlier this year [2006]. 'The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,' he said. The hunger pangs are supposed to encourage the Palestinians to force Hamas to change its attitude towards Israel or force Hamas out of government.
SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/apr/16/israel
In a similar tone Dov Weisglas, Ariel Sharon's chief of staff, referred to the siege of Gaza that preceded this bombing [in 2008], a siege in which the Israelis prevented the population from receiving essential supplies of food, medicine, electricity and water, by saying, "We put them on a diet."
The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip [in 2023/4], which is a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural areas, and depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to their survival.
SOURCE: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/18/israel-starvation-used-weapon-war-gaza
RE: The flat-out refusal of the GOP to honestly condemn the Israeli crimes may be the death knell of the Republican Party.
It is both unfair and unjust to suggest that the Republican Party alone is responsible for endorsing Israeli crimes with its silence.
Both parties are complicit in these crimes and have been for decades.
SEE:
Archie Gottesman, a board member of Democratic Majority for Israel and president of the board of directors of Zioness, was exposed Wednesday as an advocate for genocide directed at Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip.As first noted on Twitter by Eli Valley, a writer and artist, in June 2018 Gottesman tweeted: “Gaza is full of monsters. Time to burn the whole place.”
SOURCE: DMFI board member Archie Gottesman wanted to “burn” Gaza
In 2022, the 99 Senate and House Democrats accepted legal bribes from the DMFI:
Also in 2022, 365 candidates took bribes from AIPAC-PAC,
https://aipacorg.app.box.com/s/3bnlheso6zkiicp3znpbrqqdqhku698j
Of whom, 129 were Democrats:
https://candidates.aipacpac.org/page/featured/
Between 2017 and 2022, the last time he was up for re-election, Van Hollen himself received over $50,000 from JStreetPac.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/chris-van-hollen/summary?cid=N00013820&cycle=2022
What we need, in my opinion, is the death knell of the two-party tyranny. [But that will require a major overhaul of US grassroots political culture, like cleaning out the Aegean stables]
**
Israel’s mask is coming off
The problem for Israel is that for 70+ years they could count on the US to censor reports of their evil deeds and most of the world remained relatively ignorant.
But a few years ago, pro-Palestinians started posting photos and videos of the Israeli atrocities on Facebook and no one censored them. A film Born in Gaza (on Netflix) also helped reveal the filth under the veneer.
And now that Israel has ripped off its mask and showed itself in all its genocidal nudity, even the msm are starting to leak out more and more truth, to the point that the world now sees Israel for what it is. Only the bought and sold US politicians continue to support Israel, but that will ultimately serve to tarnish their reputation now.
Israel is still caught up in its bubble of impunity but the mask is gone and with it its reputation.
Only a handful of decrepit “Christian” Zionists continue the charade, but the youngsters ain’t buying it. Time is on the side of Palestinians, but will they survive long enough to benefit?
They are in danger of extinction.
Palestine tragedy today
Photo link: https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/5-6-boy-768x521.jpeg
Now-iconic photo of 16-year-old Fawzi al-Junaidi (c) as he is arrested by Israeli soldiers at a protest in Hebron, December 7, 2017.
Israel is holding over 9,000 Palestinian political prisoners – Day 144
CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG FEBRUARY 28, 2024 AL-AQSA MOSQUE, BIDEN, CEASEFIRE, FAMINE, FRIENDLY FIRE, HUMANITARIAN AID, MICHIGAN VOTERS, PALESTINIAN PRISONERS, RAMADAN, STARVATION, WEST BANK
Al Jazeera reports: A two-year-old Palestinian child named Khaled has died after eating bread made from animal feed in the northern Gaza Strip.
“The older children vomited what they had eaten and recovered”, Khaled’s grandmother Ibtisam Al-Kahlout said.
“As for the younger children, their condition worsened after they ate the bread,” she said.
The Palestinian health ministry said in a brief statement that several children suffering from dehydration and malnutrition have been received at Kamal Adwan Hospital. There have been growing reports of children dying in northern Gaza from lack of food and drinkable water due to Israeli siege.
**
https://eir.news/2024/02/daily-brief/eir-daily-news-wednesday-february-28-2024/
EIR Daily News • Wednesday, February 28, 2024
By EIR News • 28 Feb 2024 View in browser
The Lead
Crazy vs. the Best of All Possible Worlds
by David Shavin (EIRNS) — Feb. 27, 2024
Russia, with all of its problems, did not crumble under Western sanctions. It turns out that a lot of what they could get from the West had little to do with survival, and they were thrown back to the necessity of concentrating on producing more of what they actually needed. The country did not break apart over the mobilization to free the Donbass from Kiev’s eight years of artillery shelling and political deprivations. It turns out there really are a lot of native Russians and Russian-speakers in Crimea and the Donbass, whom other Russians identify with. (It wasn’t as if they were being conscripted to fight an imperialist war.) And the supposed “isolation” of Russia has done more to isolate the West from the Global Majority of the world than leaving Russia punished in the corner.
The question is, do leaders of countries in the West scratch their heads and ask themselves, what of their assumptions about how the world works need to be re-evaluated or dropped? What made anyone think that using Ukraine as a proxy against Russia would work, unless they had a profound misunderstanding as to how a nation or how a culture works?
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was invited to drink the Kool-Aid at a Paris gathering of some 27 countries yesterday, organized by France’s President Emmanuel Macron. As Russian victories multiply and Ukraine suffers from the sharp drop in its two-year-long bonanza of ammunition and money, Europe’s leaders, knowing they don’t have the ammunition or the money, would normally have a “smell the coffee” moment, and sit down with Moscow, asking, what were you saying about mutual security guarantees? But they gathered yesterday to hear Macron rally the forces to do whatever it takes, including long-range missiles to hit Russia deep inside its borders and European troops deployed into Ukraine. He argued that Russia has gotten more harsh, so this was necessary. Why doesn’t Macron consider the possibility that Russia had to extend themselves to deal with a mess on their border, and that they are not in the mood to keep dealing with fools?
Fico chose to expose the crazy proposals at Macron’s gathering—he said that they “send shivers down your spine”—and posed the obvious: Why wasn’t there even one proposal, even a peep about negotiating an end to the fighting? Is that, as with the little boy who asked why the emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes, enough to stop the Kool-Aid party?
Aaron Bushnell decided to sacrifice his life by setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington two days ago. While he would not abide the genocide being carried out in his name, would not be the “good German,” he also chose to broadcast his incineration to pose the question of what happens to thousands and thousands of Palestinian children when their bodies are incinerated by bombs? That was Bushnell’s choice to spend his talent. Is that enough to stop the deep denial of what greed and insensitivity has done to a great nation?
Who knows? They are both honest efforts. However, in this best of all possible worlds, the injustices, the sacrifices, honest efforts without immediate rewards, require that they trigger human creativity. Today, a direct path to triggering that is the campaign to Support the LaRouche “Oasis Plan for Peace and Development in Southwest Asia”. It is time for an outbreak of public sanity.
On the atrocities against the Palestinians by the Zionists:
This is the agenda of the Globalist Financiers.
The lesson for humanity:
This is what happens to people who do not RESIST!
What saves Netanyahu is not just American weapons. Olaf Scholz would fill that void in a heartbeat. Historically, what Zionists have worshipped the most is MONEY!
Checkout a list of Zionist billionaires.