In case you’re distracted by the shiny buildings in Kushner’s vision for Gaza, their plan is keep Palestinians in hyper-surveilled prison camps where they’ll eventually provide cheap labor for the resorts/high rises they won’t be allowed to live in, all built atop a mass grave.
Everyone knew this was a scam. There are now two Gazas: the 58% occupied by Israel, completely flattened, which has been completely purged of Palestinians. And the 42% that is now a concentration camp, where all survivors live without sufficient food, water, shelter, or medicine.
Soon after the explosion in Rafah, I’m told by a source familiar, the White House and Pentagon knew that the incident was caused by an Israeli settler bulldozer running over unexploded ordnance — contradicting Netanyahu’s claim that Hamas had popped up from tunnels.
After Netanyahu said he was blocking all aid from entering Gaza in response, and unleashed a bombing campaign, the administration conveyed to Israel that they know what happened. Netanyahu then announced he would re-open the crossings in a few hours.
Our teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital, Gaza, today, after another disastrous food distribution resulted in people getting shot by Israeli forces. Hear from patients:
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BREAKING: Red Cross hospital in Gaza says at least 21 people were killed and another 175 were injured as they went to receive aid from an Israeli-backed foundation. https://t.co/VzPYXTfpcr
not to defend the robber barons but Andrew Carnegie, the richest man of his era, gave away 90 percent of his wealth and funded the building of 2,811 libraries, and I’m afraid the current crop of oligarchs isn’t sending their best.
If you’ve ever wondered how ostensibly liberal people rationalize genocide, this is how.
Nothing has done more to strip Palestinians of their humanity while ensuring total Israeli impunity for the slaughter of 10s of 1000s of civilians than the insidious “human shields” trope.
"The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something."
Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague
NEW: The UN Security Council has voted 13-0-2 for a hostage release & ramp-up of aid to Gaza.
The US delayed this for days until it was watered down, including softening the call for an end to the violence.
They got what they wanted. And even after all that, the US abstained.
the images from the protest action this morning are mind blowing in that even without sound or movement, they say so much about America’s always-existing requirement to operate in/sustain two (or more) concurrent but entirely disparate realities