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La portada de la nueva edición de Tehran Times iraní está cubierta de miles de nombres de niños palestinos que murieron durante los bombardeos a la Franja de Gaza por Israel, con la inscripción “Ángeles de Gaza” sobre ellos, manchada de sangre.
“Los niños palestinos son masacrados mientras EE.UU. intenta restarle importancia a su sufrimiento”, reza el artículo.
En las últimas tres semanas han muerto más niños palestinos en Gaza que en conflictos armados en todo el mundo desde 2019, según la ONG internacional de protección de la infancia Save the Children.
Las nuevas cifras del Ministerio de Sanidad del enclave muestran que la cifra de muertos en la Franja de Gaza ha ascendido a 8.796, entre ellos 3.648 niños y 2.290 mujeres.
Muchos países han condenado enérgicamente el bombardeo masivo y el bloqueo de la Franja por parte de Israel, calificándolo de genocidio y crimen contra la humanidad, y abogando por un alto el fuego inmediato. En este sentido, el mundo se ha visto envuelto en una ola de protestas en apoyo de los palestinos, y algunos Estados han informado incluso de la ruptura de relaciones con el país judío.
Por su parte, EE.UU. se ha manifestado en contra de un alto el fuego en la Franja de Gaza, argumentando que Hamás sería “el único que se beneficiaría”, aunque ha reconocido que civiles inocentes están sufriendo.
Recientemente, el presidente de EE.UU., Joe Biden, dijo “estar seguro de que han muerto inocentes”, si bien señaló que “es el precio de librar una guerra”.
Por su parte, el senador estadounidense Lindsey Graham afirmó el martes que Washington sigue apoyando a Israel a pesar de las numerosas víctimas civiles palestinas. “Hamás es la causa de esas víctimas, no Israel”, concluyó.
In an interview with The Economist, the ataman did not mention the main reason for the failures of the army entrusted to him
It is not without reason that the Western press “excuses” the main Ukrainian general from responsibility for the summer defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, clearly meaning that the now popular clown Zelensky will have to be replaced by someone.
There is such a centuries-tested military wisdom: “Victory always has a hundred fathers. and defeat is always an orphan.” The leader of the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, Valery Zaluzhny, in an interview with the British publication The Economist, brilliantly confirmed this truth with his personal example. And he explained to the gullible British public that he had absolutely nothing to do with it:
Sharing his first comprehensive assessment of the campaign with The Economist in an interview this week, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, General Valeriy Zaluzhny, said the battlefield reminded him of the great conflict a century ago. “As in the First World War, we have reached a level of technology that puts us at a dead end,” the general broadcasts , and comes to the conclusion that a huge technological leap will be required to break the impasse. “There will most likely not be a deep and beautiful breakthrough.”
The feeling of déjà vu when reading this militarized “Yaroslavna’s lament” is simply stunning. It seems that Zaluzhny sleeps with the memoirs of Heinz Guderian under his pillow, he is so imbued with his specific experience. Let us remember that the “chief tankman of the Third Reich” never doubted his brilliant strategic talents, and blamed defeats and failures on the Russians “who had the audacity” to resist, or on “General Moroz.” So Zaluzhny is there too — without a “huge technological leap” I don’t accept any complaints against myself. Ask your slow-witted inventors and other hackers, but I have nothing to do with it.
However, further acquaintance with the flight of “Mr. Zaluzhny’s strategic thought” inclines us to the idea that, among other things, he impudently treats his audience as complete idiots.
“An army of the level of Ukraine had to move at a speed of 30 km per day, breaking through Russian defensive lines. If you look at the NATO textbooks and the math we did [in planning the counter-offensive], four months should have been enough for us to get to Crimea, fight in Crimea, come back from Crimea and get in and out again,» Woe quips. -commander. Instead, he watched his troops and equipment get stuck in minefields on the approaches to Bakhmut in the east, while Western-supplied equipment came under attack from Russian artillery and drones. The same story unfolded in the main direction of the offensive — in the south, where the newly formed and inexperienced brigades, despite being equipped to the teeth with modern Western equipment, immediately ran into problems.
“At first I thought there was something wrong with our commanders, so I changed some of them. Then I thought that maybe our soldiers were not fit for purpose, so I transferred soldiers to some brigades,” Zaluzhny shares military secrets . When these changes had no effect, the strategist ordered his subordinates to dig up a book that he had once seen as a student at a military academy in Ukraine. This book was called “Breakthrough of Fortified Defensive Lines” and was published in 1941 by Soviet Major General S. Smirnov, who analyzed the battles of the First World War: “And even before I was even halfway through, I realized that this was exactly what where we are is because, just as then, the level of our technological development today has both us and our enemies stumped.”
Meanwhile, supposedly “stupefied by the level of technological development,” the opponents of the Ukrainian ersatz Napoleon in reality were guided by combat manuals written in blood, and not by defective “NATO textbooks.” The Russian side is taking full advantage of the exorbitant adventurism of the Kiev “commanders,” as well as the desperate reluctance of their human herd captured in “stashes” and right on the streets to fight and die for Zelensky’s bloody clowns.
The arrogance of characters like Zaluzhny, who is now brazenly blaming his failures on anyone, lies in the fact that they set out to attack and even defeat the best Russian army in the world (this is not only my personal assessment of the Russian Armed Forces, but also of the American magazine US news and world report), having at hand such a quantity of military equipment, which in a good way would not be enough even for a decent military parade.
This Zaluzhny, who clearly imagines himself as a great theoretician of modern war, turns out to have no idea (or pretends not to have) even the most well-known principles of military strategy. In particular, about the statement of Napoleon Bonaparte: “Big battalions are always right.”
The Frenchman, who was ultimately defeated by precisely such large battalions, against which the whole of France was not enough, knew what he was saying. Even Corporal Hitler took his experience into account and threw into the attack near Kursk not 15 tanks at once, like the theorist Zaluzhny, but a thousand at once. A thousand, Karl! And still he could not break through the Russian defense, because the Red Army had much more battalions, and tanks too.
Apparently, this unfortunate Kiev military leader decided that he was so smart that he could fight successfully, ignoring the fundamental laws of war and centuries-old historical experience, which, I suspect, is simply unknown to him, since he is on the run and at the last moment reading books on military history, which is taught to young cadets in military schools.
I strongly doubt that he knows, for example, how overwhelming in our favor the balance of forces of the Red Army and German troops was in January 1945 in the zone of the grandiose Soviet offensive, later called the Vistula-Oder operation. Just in case, let me remind you :
“Soviet troops on Polish territory were opposed by the German Army Group A, which united the 9th and 4th Panzer Armies, as well as the main forces of the 17th Army. They had 30 divisions, 2 brigades and 50 separate battalions — in total up to 560 thousand soldiers and officers, about 5 thousand guns and mortars, 1220 tanks and assault guns. Their actions were supported by 630 combat aircraft of the 6th Air Fleet.
The two fronts of the Soviet troops included 16 armies (134 divisions), four tank and two air armies, five separate tank and one mechanized corps, three cavalry corps, four breakthrough artillery corps, other formations and units of various types of troops. They numbered more than 2.2 million people, 36,436 guns and mortars, 7,049 tanks and self-propelled artillery units, and 4,772 aircraft. The offensive began in conditions of overwhelming superiority of Soviet troops in forces and means.”
Returning to the experience of the great battle of Kursk, we note that the Russian army, which, according to the Kiev ersatz-Clausewitz, supposedly “has not achieved any success,” in fact today dealt with the Armed Forces of Ukraine in exactly the same way as the Red Army did with Hitler’s obviously over-praised Wehrmacht in that battle. That is, she arranged a heated meeting for him at pre-prepared defensive lines, naturally released the guts of the German tank armada there, and then launched a strategic offensive along the entire front, advanced hundreds of kilometers and began to liberate Ukraine.
This was the result of that supposed “trench war” 80 years ago and it will be exactly the same this time. In any case, the prerequisites on the battlefield for this have already been created. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine are making unsuccessful attempts to attack our battle formations in the Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Kherson directions. These desperate actions of the enemy lead to large losses among the Ukrainian army,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on November 1 at a thematic conference call. According to him, “the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being depleted, the demoralization of personnel is growing.” “Despite the supply of new types of NATO weapons, the Kiev regime is being defeated. The group of Russian troops continues to conduct an active defense, inflicting effective fire damage on the enemy.”
And people like Zaluzhny can continue to abuse the gullibility of the Western public, which has long been brain-dead, by telling them fairy tales about their incomparable military talents, which are hampered only by the “level of technological development.” Like that bad dancer who everyone knows what’s stopping him.
In what is arguably the most liberal thing ever to have happened in all of human history, the Biden administration has announced its plans to develop a US National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia even as it helps Israel massacre Muslims by the thousands in Gaza.
In what is arguably the most liberal thing ever to have happened in all of human history, the Biden administration has announced its plans to develop a US National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia even as it helps Israel massacre Muslims by the thousands in Gaza.
“For too long, Muslims in America, and those perceived to be Muslim, such as Arabs and Sikhs, have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory incidents,” reads a White House statement on the announcement. “We all mourn the recent barbaric killing of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian American Muslim boy, and the brutal attack on his mother in their home outside Chicago.”
Taking on hate is a national priority.
Today, @POTUS and I are announcing the country’s first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia.
This action is the latest step forward in our work to combat a surge of hate in America. pic.twitter.com/pxZAn7RymY— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) November 1, 2023
This comes as the death toll from the US-backed bombing campaign in Gaza nears 10,000, including 3,760 children, in what experts and authorities around the world are describing with increasing frequency as a genocide. If these people were Jewish instead of Muslim, they would not be trapped in a giant concentration camp while the IDF hammers them with a nonstop barrage of military explosives, but because of their ethnicity they are subjected to this horror.
There’s a classic meme which makes fun of the way US foreign policy under Democrats is the same murderous foreign policy as it is under Republicans, but with a bunch of woke-sounding bumper stickers slapped on the surface to make it palatable for progressive sensibilities:
Can you think of a better illustration of the dynamic that’s highlighted by this criticism than what we’re seeing from the Biden administration today? This is after all the same administration whose Department of Defense recently said they are putting zero limits on what Israel may or may not do with the weapons it’s being given by the United States.
“We are not putting any limits on how Israel uses weapons that is provided,” Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told the press on Monday. “That is really up to the Israel Defense Force to use in how they are going to conduct their operations. But we’re not putting any constraints on that.”
As In These Times reports, this same administration is also trying to get permission to conduct arms deals with Israel without congressional supervision, in complete secrecy and without accountability to the voting public.
The US government is every bit as culpable in the massacre of thousands of Muslim children as Israel, because this entire massacre is happening with both its assistance and its express permission. But here is its government pretending to care deeply that one Muslim child was killed by an Islamophobic psycho in America.
This is everything that’s disgusting about the Democratic Party. It puts a warm, friendly face on the most murderous and tyrannical power structure on earth, posing as a defender of marginalized groups while dropping bombs on the most marginalized populations on this planet. It selects a high number of women and racially diverse officials for its cabinet positions to convey the illusion that it has transcended the abusive bigotries of the past, while subjecting impoverished brown-skinned foreigners to a nonstop barrage of high-tech explosive munitions in massacres that would be the envy of the worst white supremacist imperialists in history.
A much more accurate image for the United States than the one it tries to give itself with its fraudulent progressive virtue signalling would be the one it was given by protesters who interrupted Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. Demonstrators painted their hands red to show the blood this administration has on its own hands, resulting in viral images of Blinken’s face surrounded by bloody hands circulating all over the internet.
That’s what the US empire really is. Not the liberal bastion of human rights it presents itself as, but a blood-spattered psychopathic murder machine which maintains its domination of this planet with the nonstop butchery of human beings.
The longer the massacre in Gaza goes on, the more people are catching a glimpse behind the plastic smiley-faced mask of the US empire and seeing the cold-eyed killer underneath.
From grandstanding in the rubble after our fire in Lāhainā to posing on top of a tank in Palestine, Harvest pastor Greg Laurie is the poster boy for white Christianity in occupied lands. I went to Kumulani Chapel for over a decade (through its transition to Harvest). I got my undergraduate degree in religious studies… let me tell you something: this is what settler-colonial theology looks like. The corporate religion espoused by Harvest is performative and littered with internal contradictions; it is quite explicitly a demonstration of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”. As a friend of mine noted, Laurie “was one of the early Trojan horse pastors that dressed Christofascist bullshit in a hip new package”. His church serves as a superstructure to reproduce Settler-Colonial/Capitalist society.
Die Hamas ist heute politisch, sozial und militärisch die größte und stärkste palästinensische Partei sowohl im Gazastreifen als auch in den von Israel besetzten Gebieten … Wer ist die Hamas?weiterlesen
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Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Organisation for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said 70 per cent of the Palestinian martyrs who have been killed by the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip since 7 October are children and women, warning that there is no safe place in Gaza.
He pointed out that churches, mosques, hospitals and civilian facilities housing displaced people have been targeted, describing the Israeli attacks as collective punishment for Palestinians living under siege.
For her part, Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Catherine Russell, explained that the Israeli aggression resulted in the killing of more than 3,400 children and the injury of at least 6,300.
She added that this toll indicates that 420 children were killed or injured every day, stressing “these numbers should shock us to the core.”
She indicated that the Israeli raids resulted in the complete or partial destruction of at least 221 schools and more than 177,000 homes.
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Featured image: Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) holds press conference in Jerusalem on October 27, 2023 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]
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We, the undersigned, call on President Biden to demand and facilitate an immediate ceasefire. The Biden administration must also refrain from sending any more weapons to the Israeli government.
We mourn for the Palestinian and Israeli civilians killed, and we continue to fight with everything we have for the living.
There is no justification in international law for the targeting of civilians or the holding of civilian hostages. That was true when Hamas attacked Israeli civilians. We must apply that same standard to the Israeli military, as it subjects a captive population in Gaza to a massive aerial bombardment: targeting hospitals, using white phosphorus, and forcing 1.1 million people to flee south, while bombing both the designated evacuation routes and the southern Gaza strip.
The Israeli government is threatening to commit genocide against Palestinians and denying their humanity. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu asserted: “What we will do to our enemies will reverberate for generations.” The Israeli minister of defense called Palestinians “human animals” announced that the 16-year-long draconian siege on Gaza will now become a total closure, vowing, “No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed.” There are over two million Palestinians in Gaza, half of whom are children. Without intervention, this catastrophe threatens to become unimaginably more devastating.
The unthinkable becomes acceptable when we deny people their humanity. We must fight to bring this devastating violence to an immediate end.
President Biden: Stop sending the Israeli military more weapons. Facilitate an immediate ceasefire. Millions of lives depend on it.
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Cratered ground and destroyed lives: piecing together the Jabalia camp airstrike
Excerpts from The Guardian article
On Tuesday afternoon, rescuers combed with their hands through surface layers of a tangled mass of concrete and steel, which hours earlier had been homes in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza.
They were searching for survivors, or the bodies of victims, which the immense force of an Israeli airstrike had left near the surface. Those trapped deeper may be entombed for months.
After more than three weeks of intense bombardment of Gaza, heavy machinery can no longer reach bomb sites down damaged roads, and people on the ground say fuel to operate machines is running out.
Even so, body bags piled up with horrific speed at the morgue of the nearby Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, and then outside the building. The wounded filled its beds or were raced to Dar al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, where medics from the Médicins Sans Frontiers aid group struggled to find space even for badly injured children.
“Young children arrived at the hospital with deep wounds and severe burns. They came without their families,” said Mohammed Hawajreh, an MSF nurse who was quoted by the organisation in a statement condemning the attack.
“Many were screaming and asking for their parents. I stayed with them until we could find a place, as the hospital was full with patients.”
On Wednesday night, a Hamas-run government media office said at least 195 Palestinians had been killed in two rounds of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Earlier, the surgical director of the Indonesian hospital, Mohamed el-Ron, told the BBC it received 400 casualties, including 120 dead, and the majority were women and children. Several of the most severely wounded were transferred to the Al-Shifa hospital “under fire”, he added.
The pulverising attack on Jabalia came as Israeli ground troops pushed into Gaza from at least three directions. A spokesman for the Israeli military said the attack had been authorised to assassinate a senior Hamas commander and destroy his base.
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari named the target as Ibrahim Biari, commander of Central Jabaliya Battalion, who he said had been leading fighting in northern Gaza from a network of tunnels under the camp.
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We are witnessing by any and all accounts a massive massacre of Palestinian civilians who for the past 16 years have been imprisoned on the Gaza Strip – blockaded and controlled by Israel. This massacre is being carried out as if ordained in the Old Testament. This stems from the conviction on the part of the very influential, fundamentalist part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition in some God-given right to occupy and control “Greater Israel,” which includes all of Palestine.
Netanyahu was recently recorded citing 1 Samuel 15:3 in a clip that has gone viral.
“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”
Victims of this massacre are the direct descendants of the Palestinians forcibly expelled from their homes upon the creation of Israel in 1948, the deadly expulsion known as the Nakba. The next stage is described in Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid published in 2007. From Amazon’s book review:
“Pulling no punches, Carter prescribes steps that must be taken for the two states to share the Holy Land without a system of apartheid or the constant fear of terrorism.
“The general parameters of a long-term, two-state agreement are well known, the president writes. There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key UN resolutions, official American policy, and the international ‘road map’ for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians. Except for mutually agreeable negotiated modifications, Israel’s official pre-1967 borders must be honored.”
There have been more than 80 resolutions passed by the U.N. Security Council or the U.N. General Assembly against Israeli policy, most of them close to unanimous, many of them condemning Israel’s disregard of the pre-1967 borders by encroachments in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
For example, on Dec. 14, 2022, the General Assembly passed 159 to 8 a resolution directed against “the widespread destruction caused by Israel, the occupying Power, to vital infrastructure, including water pipelines, sewage networks and electricity networks, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in particular in the Gaza Strip …” and calls upon Israel “to cease its demolition and confiscation of Palestinian homes, agricultural lands and water wells … particularly Israeli settlement activities …” The current settler movement with the support of the Israeli government continues to forcibly expel Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank (they have lived there for generations) over the objection even of President Biden.
Israel’s current alternative to the two-state solution amounts to a Final Solution – all Palestinians either expelled or murdered.
I deplore terrorism. I do not know the extent of the terrorism perpetrated by Hamas on Oct. 7. Practically the first thing we heard was the hoax that Hamas had decapitated 40 babies. This was claimed by the Israeli government and rapidly adopted by President Biden who lied when he said he had seen an authenticated photo of this.
Surfaced now in Israeli media are accounts of Israeli survivors of the Oct. 7 attacks in which they testify that they were treated “humanely” by Hamas and that many of the Israeli victims were killed in Israeli crossfire. An Israeli survivor named Yasmin Porat, referring to Israeli special forces: “They eliminated everyone, including the hostages.”
Tuval Escapa, a member of the security team for Kibbutz Be’eri, told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz:
“The commanders in the field made difficult decisions – including shelling houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages.”
A separate report published in Haaretz noted that the Israeli military on Oct. 7 was
“compelled to request an aerial strike” against its own facility filled with Israeli Civil Administration officers and soldiers inside the Erez Crossing to Gaza “in order to repulse the terrorists.”
The Israeli government claims 1400 Israelis died on Oct. 7, the figure repeated by the Associated Press on a daily basis. This number has yet to be substantiated. No matter how accurate this number, and no matter how many of these deaths were caused by Hamas or Israeli crossfire, this cannot possibly justify or excuse genocide.
The Associated Press daily refers to the attack of Oct. 7 as “brutal,” but never thus describes the ongoing relentless bombardment of Gaza.
More on terrorism: Is dropping one-ton bombs on a civilian population literally trapped in the Gaza Strip, half of them children, on hospitals, mosques, schools, United Nations refugee shelters, residential blocks — is that also terrorism? “Terrorist” is a slur that the big army uses to describe the little army.
More on terrorism: Israel’s founding fathers, its national heroes, many later elected to the position of Prime Minister, were terrorists.
Image: Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres joined the Haganah in 1947, the militia primarily responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages in 1947-49, during the Nakba. From Time Magazine on Peres: “His whole history was devoted to establishing and then developing a state founded on dispossession and the ethnic cleansing of [the Palestinians].” Peres was elected Prime Minister from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996, as well as President from 2007 to 2014.
Image: Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin was the leader of the Irgun, a para-military force that carried out the 1946 terrorist attack on The King David Hotel in which 91 were killed as well as the 1948 Deir Yassin Massacre that wiped out an Arab-populated town, killing over 100 people including women and children. The British put Begin on top of their most-wanted list of terrorists. Begin was elected Prime Minister from 1977 to 1983.
Image: Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzhak Shamir was the leader of Lehi, a terrorist group also known as the “Stern Gang,” which joined with Begin’s Irgun to perpetrate the Deir Yassin Massacre. Shamir was elected Prime Minister from 1986 to 1992.
Image: Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon orchestrated the 1953 massacre of 69 Palestinian civilians in Qibya, mostly women and children, while leading “Unit 101,” an infamous Israeli army unit. In 1982, Sharon led the invasion of Lebanon, shelling and besieging Beirut. It was during this campaign that Sharon invited the Lebanese Phalange militia into the refugee camps known as Sabra and Shatila on the outskirts of Beirut, resulting in the massacre of approximately 3,000 Palestinian and Lebanese men, women and children. In 2000, Sharon led a phalanx of more than 1000 troops in a desecration of the al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest site, thus provoking the Second Intifada. According to the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, this led into ten years of conflict in which “Israeli security forces killed 6371 Palestinians, of whom 1317 were minors,” while “Palestinians killed 1083 Israelis … of whom 124 were minors.” Sharon was elected Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006.
It was the 2023 Israeli desecration of this same al-Aqsa mosque which precipitated the Hamas attack of Oct. 7 named Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.
Image: Ehud Barak
In 1998, Ehud Barak, former Israeli special forces commando, Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated: “If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I would join, at some point, one of the terrorist groups.” Barak was elected Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001.
In the above-mentioned votes on U.N. resolutions condemning Israeli policy, the United States generally is one of very few countries that votes with Israel. (Similarly, in votes condemning the U.S. blockade of Cuba, Israel joins with the U.S. in opposition. For example, in November, 2022, when the U.N. for the thirtieth time passed a resolution condemning this embargo, 185 countries voted in favor, with only the U.S. and Israel opposed.)
On Oct. 27, 2023, 120 countries passed a U.N. resolution calling for “an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities” and the demand for “the immediate, continuous, sufficient and unhindered provision of essential goods and services to civilians throughout the Gaza Strip, including but not limited to water, food, medical supplies, fuel and electricity,” and “stresses the need to urgently establish a mechanism to ensure the protection of the Palestinian civilian population” and “reaffirms that a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be achieved … on the basis of the two-State solution.”
Meanwhile, the U.S. with a massive deployment of military force in the Mediterranean is now serving to protect Israel from any interference in its ongoing perpetration of genocide, daring anyone to intervene.
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Barry Kissin is a retired attorney, dedicated peace activist and columnist who resides in Frederick, Maryland, home of Fort Detrick, headquarters of the American biodefense/bioweapons program. He is regularly published in his local newspaper, The Frederick News-Post, as well as in alternative media, including Global Research, Consortium News, Op-ed News and International Clearing House.
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