As I continue to cycle through the full spectrum of emotions whilst watching and reading about the horrors, I am livid that the obvious crimes against humanity, heinous war crimes being committed by Israel continue to be enabled by the US, UK and other Zionist aligned states. They are all complicit in the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, in Palestine.
I cannot recommend highly enough listening to Palestinian journalist Hind Khoudary speak about her terrifying experiences on the ground at the start of this past Monday, 13th November’s Electronic Intifada livestream. We also hear from several doctors about the horrific situation inside the al Shifa and other hospitals in Gaza.
Jon Elmer’s military analysis at the end is a must listen “as Israel continues its “cowardly” attacks from the air.”
The following is a reposting of staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, Nora Barrows-Friedman’s post.
The whole area was bodies covered with blankets,” journalist Hind Khoudary told us on Monday’s livestream.
She talked about her journey fleeing to the south of the Gaza Strip last week, and the piece she wrote for The Intercept.
“And then on the other side, I found like four or five [Israeli soldiers] literally [taking] selfies, posing with their guns and laughing and posing and we were the background of the picture. [It was] very humiliating and dehumanizing – I never thought I would ever go through this,” she explained.
“And all the time, I was very terrified that they would see me, see one of my friends, my colleagues, because we’re all journalists – they literally published a list of journalists they want to assassinate. And we were terrified because we did not even go out with our press jackets because we thought, Oh my God, no, we won’t do that. And we left all of our press jackets, our helmets in Gaza [City].”
We also spoke with Sewar Elejla, a former doctor at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Elejla is currently a researcher in Canada.
She wrote a piece for The Electronic Intifada last week on the effects of Israel’s genocidal attacks on children and pregnant women.
Elejla noted that even before this Israeli onslaught, the medical infrastructure in Gaza was already extremely precarious.
Now, after 38 days of bombing, she said the healthcare system “is extremely overwhelmed.”
The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, she said, reports “that what they consume nowadays in one day is equal to what they consumed for a month before this war – so over 38 days of war, this huge consumption of resources with no resupply is catastrophic.”
“Hospitals are now graves,” she said. “The only available thing is the hospital staff who can do this, [but] who are also targeted.”
In the second hour, Jon Elmer analyzed the military situation as Israel continues its “cowardly” attacks from the air.
“I couldn’t believe what we were watching – the utter cowardice of attacking hospitals in the way that they did, leaving people to die, when they don’t have the courage to stand and fight in any of these areas face-to-face with soldiers, but are willing to attack intensive care and cardiology units; and to cut neonatal, premature babies off from their access – the brutality of that, even after all these decades, covering this conflict was shocking to me,” Jon remarked.
“They’re not leaving their tanks. But they’re attacking from the air, with artillery, and from drones – attacking in the most cowardly way, the most vulnerable target in the entire Gaza Strip,” Jon said.
He also talked about the different types of armored vehicles Israel is using, and the Palestinian-manufactured Yassin rockets that are able to penetrate that Israeli armor.
And our executive director Ali Abunimah, in his opening remarks, described Israel’s military achievements as nothing more than “death and destruction.”
“There is no doubt that the reason there is any pressure [on Israel] at all is due to the popular outrage, anger and revulsion at this genocide. So the message is clear. We have to keep up the protests, keep raising our voices in every way, in every place that we can,” Ali said.
The banksters need a war desperately right now. They’ve tried so hard in Syria, and it just hasn’t worked. Then they got crazy Trump actually saying we should stay out of the Middle East and focus on our own problems, and people were listening . . .
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“The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush.” — Donald Trump
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What’s a self-respecting globalist financier to do?
So, they sent their puppets like McCain, Romney, Clinton, and Biden out to talk up the fight against “evil” and threaten Russia, hoping to fool those dumb white ‘Murkins one more time into sending their sons off to die for God and Country and Goldman Sachs.
The recently ousted Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy, who took at least a dozen votes to get elected speaker, traveled to Israel immediately upon his election, declaring to the Israeli Knesset that the USA is steadfastly committed to supporting Ukraine in their war against Russia.
It has become so painfully obvious, especially where you have someone like Nikki Haley wagging her finger and shouting down Vivek Ramaswamy in a presidential debate on live national television when the questions of this Ukrainian war against Russia and any mention of Israel are concerned, that the United States government has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committee.
“Oh how fond they are of the book of Esther, which is so beautifully attuned to their bloodthirsty, vengeful, murderous yearning and hope.” — Martin Luther
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The banksters need a war desperately right now. They’ve tried so hard in Syria, and it just hasn’t worked. Then they got crazy Trump actually saying we should stay out of the Middle East and focus on our own problems, and people were listening . . .
.
“The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush.” — Donald Trump
.
What’s a self-respecting globalist financier to do?
So, they sent their puppets like McCain, Romney, Clinton, and Biden out to talk up the fight against “evil” and threaten Russia, hoping to fool those dumb white ‘Murkins one more time into sending their sons off to die for God and Country and Goldman Sachs.
The recently ousted Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy, who took at least a dozen votes to get elected speaker, traveled to Israel immediately upon his election, declaring to the Israeli Knesset that the USA is steadfastly committed to supporting Ukraine in their war against Russia.
It has become so painfully obvious, especially where you have someone like Nikki Haley wagging her finger and shouting down Vivek Ramaswamy in a presidential debate on live national television when the questions of this Ukrainian war against Russia and any mention of Israel are concerned, that the United States government has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committee.
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“Oh how fond they are of the book of Esther, which is so beautifully attuned to their bloodthirsty, vengeful, murderous yearning and hope.” — Martin Luther
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/oh-how-fond-they-are-of-the-book