Heartbreaking, just awful.
Chris Hedges an honest, brave man is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper.
Israel's Lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazis' depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear.
Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water.
Block shipments of food and fuel.
Impose telecommunications blackouts.
Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day.
Let starvation and epidemics of infectious diseases, along with the daily massacres and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes, turn Gaza into a mortuary.
Israel has killed or seriously wounded close to 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza, almost one in every 20 inhabitants.
It has destroyed or damaged 60% of the housing.
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The Nazis ship their victims to death camps.
The Israelis will ship their victims to squalid refugee camps in countries outside of Israel.
This is the plan. No one, especially the Biden administration, intends to stop it.
The most disturbing lesson I learned while covering armed conflicts for two decades is that we all have the capacity, with little prodding, to become willing executioners.
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We can all become Nazis. It takes very little.
in eternal vigilance over evil, our evil, we become, like those carrying out the mass killing in Gaza, monsters.
Perhaps the saddest irony is that a people once in need of protection from genocide now commit it.
Rep Matt "Rapey McForehead" Gaetz is being investigated again for sexual misconduct by the House's Ethics Committee.... again.
This time he can't blame Kevin McCarthy!
Are you starting to see a pattern here?
House GOP Poised to Sink Border Security Bill
“House Republicans appear to be on the precipice of torpedoing their best opportunity in years of passing border legislation,” The Hill reports.
“Republicans had long insisted on changes to border and migration policy as a ...
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This is important & needs to be emphasized:
Pres. Biden has AGREED to the GOP border demands and would sign the Senate border security bill (that includes $ for Ukraine & Israel) if it passes the GOP controlled House. It won't pass... Trump says it would hurt his reelection!
So Republicans love to go to the border to have their picture made, but when they have the opportunity to actually do something about it by supporting the Border Security Bill, they would rather play politics.
Texas’s economy took a more than $4 billion hit in April after Governor Greg Abbott’s order to ramp up on security at the border https://t.co/S7Nu7VPsXa via @business