Eurovision Controversy: Israeli Entry Faces Backlash, Song Title Changed Amid Political Tensions
Israel Vows to Stand Firm Against Hamas and Hezbollah in Defense Minister's Strong Remembrance Day Speech
Policy: Limited Military Aid to Israel Amid Ongoing Gaza Conflict, Sparks Strategic Recalibration**
Haaretz “After the 2021 Gaza war, Israeli military intelligence made a series of fateful decisions about what constituted the real threat from Hamas in Gaza. From the silencing of divergent opinions to the culling of units, this is how a 'chain of failures' happened” #gaza@israel@palestine#israel https://archive.is/hZXfr
Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s detention confirms what the BDS movement has long argued: Israeli universities are first and foremost instruments of the state and agents of Zionism’s project of dispossession and apartheid rule.
While ruling class has the interest to ensure the genocide happens "peacefully" without peasants fighting back, there is also one more important thing that's going on now — esp amongst fellow comrades in the West.
One of the reason for the brutalisation even when people are not physically fighting back is show who the real boss is. Esp who the real boss is within the physical spaces outside tiny private fiefdoms State calls "private property". Streets & all space outside these tiny fiefdoms/enclosures some are allowed to be transient "owner" of, are the areas where State exerts it's domination esp streets & all publicly visible areas.
We the peasants are allowed to make all sorts of assumptions the so called "rights" ruling class allowed us to pretend we are entitled to, while not seriously testing that belief ever.
Since some of us forget that this is a mere pretence & sometimes try and assert this "constitutional" pretence, ruling class is simply trying to tell everyone this:
You can delude yourself all you want about your "rights", so long as you know your place. If you stop deluding yourself & if you do act, you know what's coming to you.
Don't be fooled by Joe Biden's recent speech on antisemitism. Biden doesn’t care about Jews unless they share his support for Zionism. The rest of us are enemies of the state.
#US / AIPAC urges Biden admin to reverse Israel weapons shipment freeze
[Pro-genocide/Israel lobby] #AIPAC called on Congress to challenge the #Biden administration to reverse its decision to pause a shipment of bombs to Israel given concerns over #Rafah, offering its sharpest criticism of Biden's policy to date.
"Delaying this arms transfer is a dangerous and counterproductive message. It emboldens Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah, and undermines America's commitments to all our allies. Congress must demand the Biden Admin reverse this delay and ensure Israel has what it needs to win this war,”
Ma'ariv newspaper describes the situation as: There is a new prime minister in “Israel”.
They add that in practice, Benjamin Netanyahu has become the servant of his master, Itamar #BenGvir, and this raises the obvious question: To what extent has Netanyahu deteriorated?
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir appeared in front of the cameras a few days ago while leaving the Prime Minister’s Office, acting Prime Minister, and announced in an unambiguous tone: “I warned the Prime Minister that we will not enter #Rafah, nor will there is an illegal deal.
The Prime Minister heard the words, and promised that "Israel" would enter Rafah, and promised that the war would continue, and promised that there would be no illegal deal.
These words and tone of voice leave no room for doubt in the heart of every listener. There is a new prime minister in the State of #Israel.
This raises the obvious question: To what extent has Netanyahu deteriorated? It has reached the point where even a response from a prime minister, in order to preserve his dignity, is not uttered.
Netanyahu, despite thousands of disagreements, knows what the majority of the people want: the release of detainees, and he also knows what is important and useful to the people.
But he follows Ben Gvir and Bezalel #Smotrich, because that is what is good politically for Netanyahu for obvious reasons.
Ich habe eine Frage an die Leute, die gesagt haben: "Wenn sie die Geiseln freilassen, werden die Bombardierungen aufhören". Was ist nun das Argument, nachdem die IDF die Freilassung aller Geiseln abgelehnt hat? Ist Ihnen jetzt klar, dass es nie um die Geiseln ging?
#US / Biden administration to miss deadline for report on Israeli weapons use, sources say
[…] A National Security Memorandum, known as NSM-20, that U.S. President Joe Biden issued in February requires the State Department to report to Congress by May 8 on whether it finds credible Israel's assurances that its use of U.S. weapons does not violate U.S. or international law.
Palestinians are warning the world of threats by Israeli religious extremists and Christian Zionists to implement a bizarre but lethal plot to demolish the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque to make way for the Third Jewish Temple.
Anyone who is talking about what % of protesters are "peaceful" i.e 99% or 99.9% or any other percent have not seriously thought about what they are arguing.
They are wilfully falling into the trap ruling class laid right for them.
Ruling class is the violent thug thats butchering people, it's while legitimacy is built on brutalising people & it doesn't have any legitimacy to talk about so called "violence".
Those who incessantly get worried about proving victims are not "violent" i.e they are not engaging in self-defense acts to stop the crimes of State are only giving legitimacy to the only form of protest thats done to save ones own conscience & if others do escalate (that definately did lot of net good based on history, tho some people were harmed) only makes those who take real risk to do some good more vulnerable & prepares them for condemnation.
It's a mistaken view IMO, even if it comes from the right place. That argument harms others & divides people into "good protestors" who don't do anything beyond getting beaten up & allow the genocidal thug to go rampant (vs) the "bad protestors" who actual take far more real risk, falling for & buttressing the ruling class divide-and-rule strategy.
If one doesn't want to be part of it, that's fine. Giving legitimacy to that ruling class argument only throws other good people under the bus if they engage in direct action.
As Israel’s invasion of Rafah begins, people in Gaza are holding out hope that international pressure will force Israel to stand down. Part of that hope is tied to the heroic actions of students across the U.S. rising up for Palestine.