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Special reports: TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN   a   NEW: September 11, 2024: Nour, A midwife in Gaza Sept. 4, 2024: "He can't move at all": A Gaza mother's agony over baby with polio... and September 3, 2024: 'Tragic childhood': Gaza children vaccinated against polio, war continues...   Shoroughs' family August 12, 2024: 'Part of me is missing': How Israel's war on Gaza tears spouses apart earlier stories: August 7, 2024: 'My children cry all day from the heat': Life in Gaza’s tent camps... and August 5, 2024: Shorough 'We have nothing left in this world, except our daughter': a young mother on life in Gaza...

Alaa al-Nimer and daughterNimah July 28, 2024 "My baby girl was born on the street": A traumatic birth in Gaza   July 22, 2024 Ms. Maram Humaid: "A letter to my son: As you turn one today in Gaza, I feel joy and sorrow"  July 12, 2024 Noor Alyacoubi - "I'm fighting to keep my baby alive" and other stories Mothers and children: Boom-And again Boom   Special reports: UPDATE: Nov 6. 2024: Too hesitant too late Earlier:   Oct 30, 2024: Politics and starvation-UNRWA  and UN chief Antonio Guterres - "Plight of Gaza civilians 'unbearable'"    Oct 27, 2024: How American media incited genocide   Overview special reports

November 6, 2024 Food for thought: With the election of trump another black day has been added to the worlds' history with most likely now an all-out WW3 ahead since he will, apart from pulling out of the NATO and off any aid for the Ukraine, will more than before send more weaponry to israel and who knows even US boots on the ground. The EU people are already starting to hold their hearts but ... too hesitant too late for being part of Humanity. Read more and decide for yourself

November 5 - 3, 2024 A mother whose son is being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza has accused Israel's government of "a cynical deception operation that is taken from dark regimes" and more actual news of more-facts revealing words and will reveal the whole truth that will finally come out.

November 2 - 1, 2024 Imagine: a 5-year old Gazaian girl is begging for buscuits at a UNRWA-post. The answer of the IDF is she and it gets bombed to as they call her/it 'just garbage to be cleaned out' and more actual and revealing news

June 14, 2024 Palestinian-Jordanian journalist Hiba Abu Taha sentenced to one year in prison

Nov. 2 - Oct. 24: Gazaian journalists under permanent siege by the idf  October 23 - 16, 2024: "Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war" Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel    Click here for earlier stories/news

May 23, 2024 In commemoration of Roshdi Sarraj and tribute to Shrouq Al Aila

 
When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.


Gazaian boy i.e. 'The thinker'
Al Jazeera - November 6, 2024 - By Mohamed Solaimane
<<'Israel will keep invading - with more ease': Gaza dreads Trump presidency
For the past 13 months, Ahmed Jarad has been living with the dim hope that he might one day return to his home in Beit Lahiya, a village in the north of the Gaza Strip. But on Wednesday, as former US President Donald Trump declared his triumphant return to the White House following a close race against Vice President Kamala Harris, Jarad said his dream of returning to his hometown, currently being pounded by Israel and its stranded population sealed off from the south, has been crushed. The 43-year-old left his home exactly a year ago - in November 2023 - fleeing to al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. One month earlier, Israel launched its war on Gaza after Hamas, the political and military group that rules the Strip, led an assault on army outposts and villages in southern Israel, leaving 1,139 people dead and taking more than 250 captive.
Since then, Israel has subjected Gaza to near-relentless bombardments and ground invasions. More than 43,000 Palestinians have been killed - with thousands more missing and presumed dead under the rubble - while nearly all of the enclave's 2.3 million population has been displaced.
Israeli officials maintain that the war is necessary to eliminate Hamas, which has been categorised as a <terrorist group> by most Western countries. But Palestinians, the United Nations and human rights defenders point to the fact that most of the victims of the war are women and children. Jarad said he is certain that Israel's brutality will only worsen once Trump, who enjoyed a close relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his first presidency, is once again sworn in as leader of the world's strongest superpower. "Trump and Netanyahu are an evil alliance against the Palestinians and our fate will be very difficult, not only in the fateful issues but also in our daily concerns," Jarad told Al Jazeera from his tattered tent in al-Mawasi, where he now lives with his wife and their five children. Netanyahu, who is facing pressure both domestically and internationally to bring an end to the war that has spilled over into Lebanon and threatens to escalate into all-out conflict between Israel and Iran, was quick to congratulate Trump after he claimed his victory on Wednesday. Calling Trump's election <history's greatest comeback>, Netanyahu described Trump's return as a <fresh start for America> and a <powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America>. During Trump's first four-year tenure as president from 2016 to 2020, the US embassy in Israel was relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - a significant move in the eyes of the Israeli government. Aid to Palestinians was cut - particularly to UNRWA, the UN's Palestinian refugee aid agency, which Israel designated a terrorist group just days before the US election. Trump's administration also overlooked the building of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank despite international condemnation, and brokered the <Abraham Accords> which saw several Arab countries normalising ties with Israel. Since the war on Gaza began in October last year, Democratic President Joe Biden has been unwavering in his support of Israel, continuing to send military aid and reaffirming Israel's <right to protect itself>. But relations between Netanyahu and Biden have soured somewhat over worsening regional tensions and the failure to reach any of the ceasefire deals, which the Americans have been involved in negotiating. Netanyahu now says that a Trump presidency could signal a new leaf in Israeli-American relations.
Like many Palestinians, particularly those trapped in Gaza, Jarad says he dreads this will be at their cost.
"This is a sad day for Palestinians," he said, despairing. "Trump will endorse Netanyahu's free hand regarding the possibility of the return of settlements to the Gaza Strip and even the displacement of large numbers of Palestinians outside it. We hoped to return to the north and now all our hopes have been shattered," he said.
Trump and Netanyahu: 'Peas in a pod'
Zakia Hilal, a 70-year-old physician, has resorted to humour to get through the devastation of the war on Gaza. She was listening to the radio for news of the US election with her husband, children and grandchildren - all gathered together in their tent in al-Mawasi. As soon as they heard the news that Trump had won, she cried: "Two peas in a pod," referring to Netanyahu and Trump. "Our situation wasn't bad enough? Trump had to come to complete it," she said sarcastically. Hilal, who is originally from Rafah in the south of Gaza, was forced to leave her home in May when Israeli troops commenced a ground operation on May 6 into the southernmost part of the enclave, where most of the population had taken shelter. Since then, the Rafah border crossing to Egypt, the main gateway through which humanitarian aid normally trickles through, has been shut. Humanitarian aid accessing the besieged enclave through other smaller crossings has dropped to its lowest levels since the beginning of the war. "We are certainly headed for a very difficult period. What's coming ahead may be even worse than what we've experienced so far," Hilal told Al Jazeera. "It is true that American administrations do not differ in supporting Israel, but some are more severe and more intense than others, like Trump." In his victory speech in Florida, Trump said he is <going to stop wars>, something which many Arab Americans criticised Biden’s administration for failing to do. According to reports from The Times of Israel, Trump has expressed concerns about the potential for a prolonged conflict in Gaza. In July, he reportedly told Netanyahu in a meeting that the dispute should ideally be resolved by the time he takes office in January 2025. <I told Bibi [Netanyahu], we don't want endless wars, especially ones that drag America into them,> Trump said, referencing the private conversation. How he plans to <end> this one is unclear and fills Palestinians who spoke to Al Jazeera on Wednesday with fear.
'Rough tools, soft tools - same politics'
Jehad Malaka, a researcher in international relations at the Gaza-based research organisation, the Palestinian Planning Centre, does not expect Trump's upcoming administration to be much different from Biden's in terms of support for Israel. Speaking to Al Jazeera from the tent he shares with his family in al-Mawasi, where they fled from northern Gaza, Malaka said the Biden administration did nothing for the Palestinians during the war, nor did it reverse any of the decisions taken during Trump's first presidency. "Trump uses rough tools, and Biden and the Democrats resort to soft tools, but the politics are the same," he said. He added, "Biden did not make any decision in favour of the Palestinians and was unable to achieve a ceasefire. He did not change the reality of the decisions of his predecessor Trump at all. The positions of the two administrations regarding Israel are the same and identical, and they put its interests above all other considerations." Malaka, however, said he does not believe that Trump would endorse the forced removal of Gaza Palestinians from the entire enclave and hopes that perhaps the new president may bring a swifter, albeit extremely painful, end to the war. "Given Trump's power of pressure and influence over Netanyahu, he may be able to open a horizon for a partial solution to the Palestinian issue, and he is able to pressure Netanyahu, while Biden did not succeed in pressuring for a single day of calm," he said.
Ahmed Fayyad, 45, an independent researcher in Israeli affairs who has taken refuge in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, is less optimistic. He said he believes Trump's influence will be entirely harmful tor Palestinians as a whole, and Gaza Palestinians, in particular. "Trump's election only means that Netanyahu will continue his plans of invading Gaza and evicting its people, but with less pressure and more ease," Fayyed, who fled to Deir el-Balah to escape intense bombing in eastern Khan Younis nearly a year ago, said. Trump is "a more dominating figure" whose "influence on all parties would mean Netanyahu will get away with doing what he wanted all along, which is to conquer Gaza", he said. "Amidst the weakened Palestinian front, and absence of any Arab unity and solidarity, the whole Palestinian cause faces its worst threat yet."
This piece has been published in collaboration with Egab.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/11/6/israel-will-keep-invading-with-more-ease-gazans-dread-trump-presidency

Al Jazeera - November 6, 2024 - By Ali Harb
<<'We warned you,' Arab Americans in Michigan tell Kamala Harris
A shift away from pro-Israel Democrats in communities like Dearborn underscores anger over war in Gaza and Lebanon.
Election watch party
Dearborn, Michigan - When Fox News called Pennsylvania for Donald Trump in the early hours of Wednesday, all but confirming that he would be the next president of the United States, there were a handful of Arab activists left at a watch party in Dearborn, Michigan. "Genocide is bad politics," said one attendee at the event, which had Palestinian and Lebanese flags hanging outside its doors. As the reality of another Trump presidency set off anger and sorrow from many Democratic commentators, at the Arab American gathering there was a sense of indifference - if not vindication.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris had ignored the community's calls for reconsidering the unconditional US support for Israel. The vice president also continued to assert what she calls <Israel’s right to defend itself> despite the brutal atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon. Activist Adam Abusalah said part of the reason why Harris lost was her decision to side with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the expense of alienating the Democratic base - Arab and Muslim Americans as well as young people and progressives.
"It's not our fault. They cannot vilify our community," Abusalah said.
"We've been warning the Democrats for over a year now, and the Democrats continue to downplay what's going on."
He added that Harris's main message to the Arab community was to warn of the dangers of a Trump presidency. This tactic failed to work as voters in the area were laser-focused on the continuing war in the Middle East that affected many of them personally.
Dearborn shift
In the Arab-majority suburb of Dearborn, anger over Israel's US-backed assault on Gaza and Lebanon was tangible at the ballot box. Harris lost the city to Trump by more than 2,600 votes. President Joe Biden beat Trump by more than 17,400 votes - a more than 20,000-vote swing that helped the Republican former president reclaim Michigan. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who centred opposition to the war in her platform, also performed relatively well in the city, growing her party's support from 207 votes in 2020 to more than 7,600 this year. Hussein Dabajeh, a Lebanese American political consultant in the Detroit area, noted that Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, significantly outperformed Harris in Dearborn, receiving more than 9,600 votes than the vice president. "The Arab community said we're anti-genocide. We supported the candidates that supported the community, and we stood against the candidates that stood against the community," Dabajeh told Al Jazeera.
It is unclear what a Trump presidency will mean for Arab and Muslim Americans and the country at large.
"I hope it's something good. I hope the country comes together. I hope the Democrats are brought to their senses," Dabajeh said.
While the former president has a long history of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant statements and policies, he has promised to bring <peace> to the region. Trump also softened his antagonistic tone towards Arabs and Muslims as he courted their communities in Michigan. He brought Arab and Muslim officials and imams to the stage during his rallies and called them <great people>. Trump also visited Dearborn and listened first-hand to demands to end the war, which Harris failed to do.
‘It doesn’t stop here’
Ali Alfarjalla, a 32-year-old Iraqi American real estate agent in Dearborn, said that for all his flaws, Trump represents a change from the Biden-Harris administration that has been unflinchingly supporting the Israeli assault on Gaza and Lebanon. He stressed that the election is not the end of political engagement, saying that the community will press Trump to deliver on his promise of bringing peace to the region. "It doesn't stop here," Alfarjalla told Al Jazeera. "We have to work more to make sure our issues are heard - to stop the genocide in Gaza, stop the invasion of south Lebanon, and let Palestine have its own state. We're hopeful about that. That's our number one priority for this community." He also said that Harris supporters' "lesser of two evils" pitch to the community backfired because many voters could not see a worse evil than the administration providing the bombs that were killing their families and destroying their hometowns. While both major candidates back Israel, the Harris campaign committed a series of unforced errors that further alienated the community in Michigan and beyond, Arab American advocates told Al Jazeera. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, the Harris campaign rejected demands to allow a speech by a Palestinian speaker. The Democratic candidate also turned down a request for a meeting by the Uncommitted Movement, which was founded during the Democratic Primary process to pressure Biden over his unconditional support for Israel. Unlike Trump, Harris did not visit Dearborn, the de-facto seat of Arab American political and financial power, during her campaign. Instead, Harris met with handpicked Arab and Muslim <leaders> in Flint, about an hour north of Detroit, last month. Moreover, Harris campaigned with Liz Cheney in Michigan and welcomed the endorsement of her father, former President Dick Cheney - an architect of the so-called "War on Terror" that devastated the Middle East. Numerous Arab American activists invoked Harris's embrace of the Cheneys when underscoring her apparent disregard for their communities. "We had Harris endorsed by neoconservatives like Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney, and she's openly campaigning with them and talking about how great they are," Dearborn councilman Mustapha Hammoud told Al Jazeera on Tuesday night as the results trickled in. "You know what? I don't think people are willing to vote for George W Bush, so you weren't going to see people vote for Harris, either."
'I smile and laugh at it'
Speaking under a Harris campaign sign last week, former President Bill Clinton claimed that Hamas <forces> Israel to kill Palestinian civilians and suggested that Zionism pre-dates Islam. The campaign's behaviour led some advocates to question whether the Democratic candidate has given up on the Arab community. "Vice President Harris has shown over and over again that she actually doesn't want our vote," Uncommitted Movement leader Layla Elabed told Al Jazeera last week. Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud also noted that the Harris campaign was hesitant to engage Arab Americans directly. "They don't want the heckling to occur. They don't want to knock on the doors where they think the conversations are going to drag, and the votes might not be there," the mayor told Al Jazeera before the elections. On the policy front, Harris did not make any concrete promises to the community - even within the acceptable realm of mainstream politics - like reopening the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, DC, or resuming funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). In contrast, Biden released platforms for Arab and Muslim Americans in 2020, promising domestic and foreign policy moves sought by the community - many of which went unfulfilled. Bottom line, many Arab Americans say they already survived four years of Trump while many of their relatives in Palestine and Lebanon did not survive the Biden-Harris presidency. They say they will continue to push for change, no matter who is in power. Asked about some liberal social media users attacking Arab Americans and blaming them for Harris's defeat, Alfarjalla said many people in the community have survived war and adversity, so they are not concerned about what others say.
"I smile and laugh at it," he said.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/6/we-warned-you-arab-americans-in-michigan-tell-kamala-harris

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