Xavier Garcia Casals

[Yvonne Ridley 4 Glasgow @yvonneridley]

The Attorney General of the International Criminal Court, Mr. Karim Ahmad Khan, after a months-long investigation into war crimes against Israel, and after being subjected to pressures and threats to him, his family, and all those working with him to halt these investigations, and after a recent investigation was launched against him on serious charges such as misconduct and sexual harassment to undermine the court’s credibility and force him to resign… This prominent British lawyer, specialized in international criminal law and human rights, managed to issue a detention warrant against war criminals Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Gallant.

Unlike the previous prosecutors of the same court who held the same position and refused to anger the United States to avoid cutting off the court’s funding, turning a blind eye to all the complaints and files proving war crimes… this hero dared to prove charges against the Zionists similar to those brought against the Nazis in the same court years ago.

Karim Khan has succeeded in making this day a dark day in the history of the Zionist entity!

Thank you, sir, for being the greatest man in these sorrowful times, a true superhero. Humanity as a whole will remember your courage.

Share his name on all platforms so that every honorable person knows of his heroic stance.

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

But is very happy to arrest Jews who protest against Israel's genocide of Palestinians...

[MSF International @MSF]

We are outraged after an Israeli drone strike almost hit 5 of our Palestinian and international staff on their way home from Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. As always, the Israeli authorities were notified about our movements and the vehicle was identifiable with an MSF logo.

This attack, which occurred on the afternoon of 20 November, killed 20 people and seriously injured 10 others according to the Ministry of Health. These indiscriminate attacks on civilians and healthcare must stop.

“Repeated security incidents in the humanitarian zone pose a real threat to the safety of our staff and patients and the continuity of our activities in Gaza. Humanitarian workers must be protected at all times,” says Caroline Seguin, MSF coordinator in Gaza.

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

These fuckers vetoed a vote yet again that would demand an immediate unconditional ceasefire in Gaza and all the hostages released.

Only America voted against it. Try tell me these bastards aren’t the real terrorists!

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

🇺🇸 BREAKING:

The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages.

RESULT
In Favor: 14
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 0

@SuppressedNws

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

“What the hell does Israel need to do more for this Council to act under Chapter VII? Is there a UN charter for Israel that is different from the charter we all have? Tell us, is there an international law for them and international law for us? Do they have the right to kill? And the only right we have is to die?”

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

🇺🇸JEFFREY SACHS:

"Who elected Trump? Billionaires.

Who was opposing Trump with Harris? Billionaires.

When you look at our politics—'We the People'—we are like spectators at a sport.

Who are the billionaires? Well, it's that list on one side and that list on the other.

We sit back—who's going to win? I don't know, but it's going to be the billionaires.

So what do the billionaires backing Trump want? Tax cuts.

What did the billionaires backing Harris want? Tax cuts.

What is the election going to produce? Tax cuts.

Big surprise. Is it a drama? Of course it's not a drama.

Our Congress is corrupt. Our political system is corrupt. It's run by the big boys, not by the little people, so we're going to have more tax cuts.

Here comes Trump, elected by a disgruntled voting population—the working class. This is his core.

And he's telling the working class, 'You've been cheated. I'm going to support you.'

And what's he going to do? He's going to give tax cuts to the richest people in the world.

You know, ten people now—TEN PEOPLE—have a net worth of $2 trillion.

I'm sorry, we can't even imagine what this means.

The days after Trump was elected, their net worth increased by $100 billion—in days.

Because people who have money know, 'Oh, this is a bonanza for the billionaires.'

By the way, if Harris had won, it probably would have gone up the same way—because it's billionaires on both sides.

So this deficit is going to rise; it's not going to fall.

Now Trump has a very particular, clever electoral strategy.

He says to the voters, 'The billionaires are your friends. That's not the problem. Your enemy is the immigrant and your enemy is China. I'm going to go after your enemies, not your friends, the billionaires.'

So what Trump says is, 'I'm going to raise tariffs on the Chinese, I'm going to kick out the immigrants, and you're going to live the American dream.'

And it's not going to happen.

And sure enough, within the next few years, the Trump administration will be a failure—widening income inequalities, big unhappiness, larger budget deficits, frictions with China, a lot of lawsuits in the United States, and people trying to stay in the U.S. who are threatened with deportation.

It's not going to be a happy period.

And this, unfortunately, comes from the fact that when you have two parties—billionaires backing this one and billionaires backing that one—someone gets left out.

And that's the people."

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

Bookmark this.

Keep this.

Remember this.

Watch it often.

Memorize it.

Learn it.

Understand it.

Grasp it. Believe it. And never forget it. Ever.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Likely raped to death.
A doctor. A stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics.
Likely raped to death.

The racism of Western media who are not covering this, and Western politicians who are not denouncing this, together with the thousand other testimonies and allegations of rape and other forms of mistreatment and torture that Palestinians have suffered in Israeli jails, is absolutely sickening.

[🥀_ Imposter_🖕 @Imposter_Edits]

(Cw ⚠️)

Late last month Oklahoma City Police slammed a 70-year-old Mr. Vu, who is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs just 115 pounds to the pavement head first, leaving him with a fractured skull.

Let me guess, the cop feared for his life?

[John Gibbons 🇵🇸 @think_or_swim]

Thoughts and prayers for Israeli diplomat traumatised by children’s paintings with such hateful anti-Semitic messages as “PEACE” and “Free Palestine”.

Important to remember who the real victims are here. These people’s feelings are being hurt!

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel wipes out the village of Meis al-Jabal in South Lebanon.

A village that has stood for centuries.

A war crime and a crime against humanity.

While the “international community” just watches in silence.

[María Marín @MariaMarinMart]

Lo del PP y la prevención de inundaciones roza lo criminal. En 2019 vivimos una de las peores DANAs de nuestra historia. En 2022 López Miras y @JRDiezdeR pedían la retirada de los mapas de zonas inundables para salvar los pelotazos inmobiliarios de sus amigos. Que se sepa

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

The US is threatening the International Criminal Court under the Democrats.

Fascism isn’t ‘at the door’ — it’s here. It’s been here for years. And it came wearing both Red and Blue.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

My new report is out - available in all UN official languages: https://t.co/FlGLzPTdhz

Genocide is a complex and insidious crime; proving destructive intent is an onerous task - yet not when it is so ostentatious, sustained by a political doctrine of ideological hatred and articulated through institutional structures and policies.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Imagine raiding someone's property holding a gun and still consider yourself "the innocent who is threatened and endangered"

Israeli settlers backed by the army destroy the house of a christian palestinian family and seize their land.

[Doug Parr @doug_parr]

In just over 50 years, nearly three quarters of the world's biodiversity has disappeared owing to climate change, habitat loss (esp to farming), pollution

https://t.co/rpwfKYM5Ca

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Don't forget that, in 2021, the US and Israel were the only countries at the UN to vote against making food a human right.

[Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois]

I suspected this had been mistranslated. It isn't (I'm fluent in German). She didn't make a case for "collateral damage" being acceptable in the pursuit of "military objectives". She literally stated that what Germany stands for is the wilful slaughter of civilians. This is dark.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Extermination Works. At First.

Extermination works. At first. This is the terrible lesson of history. If Israel is not stopped — and no outside power appears willing to halt the genocide in Gaza or the destruction of Lebanon — it will achieve its goals of depopulating and annexing northern Gaza and turning southern Gaza into a charnel house where Palestinians are burned alive, decimated by bombs and die from starvation and infectious diseases, until they are driven out. It will achieve its goal of destroying Lebanon — 2,255 people have been killed and over one million Lebanese have been displaced — in an attempt to turn it into a failed state. And, it may soon realize its long cherished dream of forcing the United States into war with Iran. Israeli leaders are publicly salivating over proposals to assassinate Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei and carry out airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear installations and oil facilities.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet, like those driving Middle East policy in the White House — Antony Blinken, raised in a staunch Zionist family, Brett McGurk, Amos Hochstein, who was born in Israel and served in the Israeli military, and Jake Sullivan — are true believers in the doctrine that violence can mold the world to fit their demented vision. That this doctrine has been a spectacular failure in Israel’s occupied territories, and did not work in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, and a generation earlier in Vietnam, does not deter them. This time, they assure us, it will succeed.

In the short term they are right. This is not good news for Palestinians or the Lebanese. The U.S. and Israel will continue to use their arsenal of industrial weapons to kill huge numbers of people and turn cities into rubble. But in the long term, this indiscriminate violence sows dragon’s teeth. It creates adversaries that, sometimes a generation later, outdo in savagery — we call it terrorism — what was done to those slain in the previous generation.

Hate and a lust of vengeance, as I learned covering the war in the former Yugoslavia, are passed down like a poisonous elixir from one generation to the next. Our disastrous interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, along with Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which created Hezbollah, should have taught us this.

Those of us who covered the Middle East were stunned that the Bush administration imagined it would be greeted as liberators in Iraq when the U.S. had spent over a decade imposing sanctions that resulted in severe shortages of food and medicine, causing the deaths of at least one million Iraqis, including 500,000 children. Denis Halliday, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, resigned in 1998 over U.S.-imposed sanctions, calling them “genocidal” because they represented “a deliberate policy to destroy the people of Iraq.”

Israel’s occupation of Palestine and its saturation bombing of Lebanon in 1982, were the catalyst for Osama bin Laden’s attack on the Twin Towers in New York City in 2001, along with U.S. support for attacks on Muslims in Somalia, Chechnya, Kashmir and the South of the Philippines, U.S. military assistance to Israel and the sanctions on Iraq.

Will the international community continue to stand by passively and allow Israel to carry out a mass extermination campaign? Will there ever be limits? Or will war with Lebanon and Iran provide a smokescreen — Israel’s worst campaigns of ethnic cleansing and mass murder have always been done under the cover of war — to turn what is happening in Palestine into an updated version of the Armenian genocide?

I fear, given that the Israel lobby has bought and paid for Congress and the two ruling parties, as well as cowed the media and universities, the rivers of blood will continue to swell. There is money to be made in war. A lot of it. And the influence of the war industry, buttressed by hundreds of millions of dollars spent on political campaigns by the Zionists, will be a formidable barrier to peace, not to mention sanity.

Unless, as Chalmers Johnson writes in “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic,” “we abolish the CIA, restore intelligence gathering to the State Department, and remove all but purely military functions from the Pentagon” we will “never again know peace, nor in all probability survive very long as a nation.”

Genocide is done by attrition. Once a targeted group is stripped of its rights the next steps are the displacement of the population, destruction of the infrastructure and the wholesale killing of civilians. Israel is also attacking and killing international monitors, human rights organizations, aid workers and United Nations staff, a feature of most genocides. Foreign journalists are being arrested and accused of “aiding the enemy,” while Palestinian journalists are being assassinated and their families wiped out. Israel carries out continuous assaults in Gaza on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), where two-thirds of its facilities have been damaged or destroyed, and 223 of its staff have been killed. It has attacked the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), where peacekeepers have been fired upon, tear gassed and wounded. This tactic replicates the Bosnian Serb attacks in July 1995, which I covered, on the U.N. Protection Force outposts in Srebrenica. The Serbs, who had cut off food deliveries to the Bosnian enclave, resulting in severe malnutrition and starvation, overran the U.N. outposts and took 30 U.N. troops hostage before massacring more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys.

These initial phases are complete in Gaza. The final stage is mass death, not only from bullets and bombs, but famine and disease. No food has entered northern Gaza since the beginning of this month.

Israel has been dropping leaflets demanding everyone in the north evacuate. 400,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza must leave or die. It has ordered the evacuation of hospitals — Israel is also targeting hospitals in Lebanon — deployed drones to fire indiscriminately on civilians, including those attempting to take the wounded for treatment, bombed schools that serve as shelters and turned the Jabaliya refugee camp into a free fire zone. As usual, Israel continues to target journalists, including Al Jazeera’s Fadi Al-Wahidi, who was shot in the neck and remains in critical condition. At least 175 journalists and media workers are estimated to have been killed by Israeli troops in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns that aid shipments to all of Gaza are at their lowest level in months. “People have run out of ways to cope, food systems have collapsed, and the risk of famine persists,” it notes.

The total siege imposed on northern Gaza will, in the next stage, be imposed on southern Gaza. Incremental death. And the primary weapon, as in the north, will be famine.

Egypt and the other Arab states have refused to consider accepting Palestinian refugees. But Israel is banking on creating a humanitarian disaster of such catastrophic proportions that these countries, or other countries, will relent so they can depopulate Gaza and turn their attention to ethnically cleansing the West Bank. That is the plan, although no one, including Israel, knows if it will work.

Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, in August complained openly that international pressure is preventing Israel from starving the Palestinians, “even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.”

What is happening in Gaza is not unprecedented. Indonesia’s military, backed by the U.S., carried out a year-long campaign in 1965 to exterminate those accused of being communist leaders, functionaries, party members and sympathizers. The bloodbath — much of it carried out by rogue death squads and paramilitary gangs — decimated the labor union movement along with the intellectual and artistic class, opposition parties, university student leaders, journalists and ethnic Chinese. A million people were slaughtered. Many of the bodies were dumped into rivers, hastily buried or left to rot on roadsides.

This campaign of mass murder is today mythologized in Indonesia, as it will be in Israel. It is portrayed as an epic battle against the forces of evil, just as Israel equates the Palestinians with Nazis.

The killers in the Indonesian war against “communism” are cheered at political rallies. They are lionized for saving the country. They are interviewed on television about their “heroic” battles. The three-million-strong Pancasila Youth — Indonesia’s equivalent of the “Brownshirts” or the Hitler Youth — in 1965, joined in the genocidal mayhem and are held up as the pillars of the nation.

Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary “The Act of Killing,” which took eight years to make, exposes the dark psychology of a society that engages in genocide and venerates mass murderers.

We are as depraved as the killers in Indonesia and Israel. We mythologize our genocide of Native Americans, romanticizing our killers, gunmen, outlaws, militias and cavalry units. We, like Israel, fetishize the military.

Our mass killing in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq – what the sociologist James William Gibson calls “technowar”— defines Israel’s assault on Gaza and Lebanon. Technowar is centered on the concept of “overkill.” Overkill, with its intentionally large numbers of civilian casualties, is justified as an effective form of deterrence.

We, like Israel, as Nick Turse points out in “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam” deliberately maimed, abused, beat, tortured, raped, wounded and killed hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians, including children.

The slaughters, Turse writes, “were the inevitable outcome of deliberate policies, dictated at the highest levels of the military.”

Many of the Vietnamese — like Palestinians — who were murdered, Turse relates, were first subjected to degrading forms of public abuse. They were, Turse writes, when first detained “confined to tiny barbed wire ‘cow cages’ and sometimes jabbed with sharpened bamboo sticks while inside them.” Other detainees “were placed in large drums filled with water; the containers were then struck with great force, which caused internal injuries but left no scars.” Some were “suspended by ropes for hours on end or hung upside down and beaten, a practice called ‘the plane ride.’” They were subjected to electric shocks from crank-operated field telephones, battery-powered devices, or even cattle prods.” Soles of feet were beaten. Fingers were dismembered. Detainees were slashed with knives, “suffocated, burned by cigarettes, or beaten with truncheons, clubs, sticks, bamboo flails, baseball bats, and other objects. Many were threatened with death or even subjected to mock executions.” Turse found — again like Israel — that “detained civilians and captured guerrillas were often used as human mine detectors and regularly died in the process.” And while soldiers and Marines were engaged in daily acts of brutality and murder, the CIA “organized, coordinated, and paid for” a clandestine program of targeted assassinations “of specific individuals without any attempt to capture them alive or any thought of a legal trial.”

“After the war,” Turse concludes, “most scholars wrote off the accounts of widespread war crimes that recur throughout Vietnamese revolutionary publications and American antiwar literature as merely so much propaganda. Few academic historians even thought to cite such sources, and almost none did so extensively. Meanwhile, My Lai came to stand for — and thus blot out — all other American atrocities. Vietnam War bookshelves are now filled with big-picture histories, sober studies of diplomacy and military tactics, and combat memoirs told from the soldiers’ perspective. Buried in forgotten U.S. government archives, locked away in the memories of atrocity survivors, the real American war in Vietnam has all but vanished from public consciousness.”

There is no difference between us and Israel. This is why we do not halt the genocide. Israel is doing exactly what we would do in its place. Israel’s bloodlust is our own. As ProPublica reported, “Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Antony Blinken Rejected Them.”

U.S. law requires the government to suspend weapons shipments to countries that prevent the delivery of U.S.-backed humanitarian aid.

Historical amnesia is a vital part of extermination campaigns once they end, at least for the victors. But for the victims, the memory of genocide, along with a yearning for retribution, is a sacred calling. The vanquished reappear in ways the genocidal killers cannot predict, fueling new conflicts and new animosities. The physical eradication of all Palestinians, the only way genocide works, is an impossibility given that six million Palestinians alone live in the diaspora. Over five million live in Gaza and the West Bank.

Israel’s genocide has enraged the 1.9 billion Muslims worldwide, as well as most of the Global South. It has discredited and weakened the corrupt and fragile regimes of the dictatorships and monarchies in the Arab world, home to 456 million Muslims, who collaborate with the U.S. and Israel. It has fueled the ranks of the Palestinian resistance. And it has turned Israel and the U.S. into despised pariahs.

Israel and the U.S. will probably win this round. But ultimately, they have signed their own death warrants.