from #TheGuardian
‘What’s happening is not genocide’: #Biden criticizes #ICC for seeking arrest warrants for #Israel officials – as it happened
[Live blog for May 20 - now closed, but still available]
It's not going to happen, but it's a step towards the right direction.
Judging by the way #ICC charged #Hamas, every ranking military serving in Gaza to be charged with #WarCrimes, just like they did with those in #Bosnia and #Rwandan.
But sadly, just #Netanyahu and #Gantz were those they could dare charging.
#Israel / Gallant at a Likud Meeting: "We Are Continuing Begin's Path - Not Ben Gvir's"
Seems to me Gallant is trying to distance himself from genocidal #Kahanism, which for all intents and purposes is now embedded in the #Likud party.
Gallant was attempting to explain his position following a speech in which he criticized the party chairman, PM Netanyahu. Explaining why he opposes military rule in #Gaza, he said:
"We don't have enough soldiers for that, [...] I am against a Palestinian state. There should be neither #Hamas nor Israel there, [...] We are continuing Begin's path, not Ben Gvir's - we have values, and I suggest we don't forget that we represent all Israelis (תנועה ממלכתית)."
#ICC / Prosecutor asks for arrest warrants for three leading Hamas leaders, as well ass Netanyahu and Galant
[...] The office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday said it was seeking arrest warrants against three leading Hamas militants for their alleged roles in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Watch: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan explains the charges against top Hamas and Israeli leadership in detail in this excerpt from his interview with @amanpour this morning at The Hague
[cont'd] The Israeli press is failing in its duty in covering the war in Gaza
The media, especially the news channels, are creating a black hole in Israelis' worldview. So there is a disconnect between how Israelis perceive the conflict and how it is viewed internationally, with Israelis struggling to understand the "sudden hatred" against them worldwide. Potential Israeli explanations range from the world forgetting the events of October 7th to ... yes, #antisemitism.
Over at "The Seventh Eye" (investigative online magazine dedicated to journalism and the media) Chen Egri writes that the real reason is that Israelis are largely unaware of the massive humanitarian disaster and civilian casualties in Gaza due to lack of media coverage on the issue. All major Israeli outlets except #Haaretz are ignoring basic facts about Palestinian deaths, injuries, displacement, etc.
This lack of knowledge creates an "unexplained gap" between international condemnation of #Israel's actions and how Israelis view the situation through the limited lens provided to them of defeating Hamas and Palestinian militancy.
[...] If in online and print journalism it is still possible to find some articles and reports on the civilian reality in Gaza, in television news channels, the main source of news information for Israelis, the situation is appalling. Channel 12 News, the news monopoly watched by most Israelis, refuses to report on the situation in Gaza.
[...] On the fundamentalist Channel 14 website, a counter of "the terrorists we have eliminated" is still prominently displayed. At the time of publishing this column, it stands at 34,971. Most of them, even according to #IDF estimates, were civilians who did not participate in the fighting. Like Hamas, Channel 14 also does not distinguish between infants and fighters. The counter on the N12 website does not wallow in bloodlust like Channel 14, but only shows the number of Hamas militants killed. Civilians are simply not mentioned.
[...] A search on the #N12 website yields a single-digit number of articles on what is happening in the Strip since the outbreak of the war, and even those mostly focus on the resentment of #Gaza residents towards #Hamas and the disaster it has brought upon them, with headlines like "Channel 12 News camera in Gaza: What do the Strip's youth think about Hamas?" What do the Strip's youth think about Israel? Channel 12 News does not address Israel's part in the situation of the Gaza Strip and its residents, or even simply the situation itself.
Oh my dear @h4890
how did you achieve this level of indoctrination and ignorance? To support #genocide today isn't much different than to support #holocaust back in 1938. Are your parents proud that you became a #ZioNazi?
Since it wasn't me who financed #Hamas, but the #apartheid#regime of @israel (that you support) ... you might guess who does the dirty work as useful idiot.
:linus:
While I'm prepared with historical facts for an intellectual duell with #genocideDenier's, it's you who is unarmed, obviously.
"Statisticians have debunked the data. Yet the narrative remains unchanged, even by President #Biden. Clearly, the sheer volume of the footage of suffering civilians– all projected by #Hamas, which censors pictures of dead or wounded combatants– has caused us to lose our minds. When we fought in #Afghanistan, #Syria & #Iraq, nobody debated civilian casualties. Yet when it comes to #Israel, it’s all anybody talks about"
This is why #Gazan civilians are barred from the safety of the tunnels, even though the whole population would fit inside them. This is why they do not have a single air raid shelter. #Hamas’ leaders have been doing their best to get their people killed on camera, then fabricated the figures. They've been doing so to brainwash the international media, political leaders, celebrities and the protesters on our streets, to believe the lie of #Israeli#genocide
#US / Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Interrogated by U.S. Agents at Detroit Airport
[…] The acclaimed Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has revealed he was interrogated for two hours by federal agents at an airport in Detroit after flying into the United States. The agents questioned him about his Arab and Muslim friends in the U.S., as well as his views on #Hamas and if he thought Israel was committing genocide in #Gaza. Pappé said he was allowed to enter the U.S., but only after agents copied the contents of his phone.
from #WashingtonPost
Business titans privately urged #NYC mayor to use police on #Columbia protesters, chats show
A #WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy #Americans after the Oct. 7 #Hamas attack reveals their focus on Mayor #EricAdams and their work to shape #USA opinion of the #Gaza war.
#Israel / Zionism cannot produce a just peace. Only external pressure can end the Israeli apartheid. @raph), May 2021]
#Zionism has created a dominant narrative in Israel that justifies the occupation and human rights violations against Palestinians. This narrative portrays Israel as acting in self-defense, Palestinians as unwilling to compromise for peace, and justifies the occupation, discrimination, and human rights violations against Palestinians.
Only external pressure can meaningfully push Israel to end the occupation and achieve a just peace.
The post is from 2021. So before the current war in Gaza.
Israel is occupying Palestinian lands since 1948. Way before #Hamas even existed. So the conflict has nothing to do with the Hamas, and everything to do with said occupation. dont you think?