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as especially for the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi uprising in Iran and the
struggles of our sisters in other parts of the Middle East. This online magazine
that started December 2019 will
be published every week. Thank you for your time and interest.
Gino d'Artali
indept investigative
journalist
radical feminist and women's rights activist
'WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM'
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October 5 - 3, 2024
"The US's
lack of response on the humanitarian conditions for
Palestinians is not only ineffective and
counterproductive, but we are also being
accused of being complicit to potential war crimes by
remaining silent on Israel's actions against civilians,"
..., Bill Russo, usa state dept..
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma and critical care surgeon. "Our
bombs are cutting down women and children by the
thousands. Their mutilated bodies are a monument to
cruelty."
"The best medicine is peace." Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
Director-General of the World Health Organization
Rawya Islim of Gaza: "We will struggle to survive"...
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Oct. 2 - 1, 2024
"The United States is
already at war..."
Food for
thought 1: Obviously meaning that the 'crusaders'
expeditions 1.2
against the Muslim world has more than started and
aiming to genocide
the whole Ummah.
and more actual news with
another Food for thought for starters
and proving
the absolute inhumanity of it
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September
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Additional
stories of utmost interest:
August 28, 2024:
<<Creating hope for Gaza's student
doctors amid Israeli bombardment...
August 20, 2024:
<<Palestinians are being
dehumanised to justify occupation and genocide...
and
August 18, 2024
<<Solidarity with Palestine must
be about decolonisation, not just ceasefire...
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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.
End this Madness Now
Al Jazeera - October 5, 2024
<<Israel issues new evacuation order in Gaza as attacks on Nuseirat kill
12
Palestinians living near Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza told to leave
as Israel prepares to use <great force> against Hamas.
Israel has issued a new warning to thousands of displaced Palestinians
sheltering in central Gaza, saying its military is preparing to use
<great force> against Hamas in the area as it continues to pummel the
besieged strip with attacks that have killed at least 12 people since
Saturday morning. The evacuation call issued on Saturday is the first in
weeks for Gaza, signalling another possible humanitarian crisis with a
new wave of mass displacement as Israel’s war approaches its one-year
mark, having killed at least 41,825 Palestinians, mostly women and
children, and wounded at least 96,910. A map showing the areas to be
evacuated was attached to the order posted on the social media platform
X by the Israeli army. They are near the Netzarim Corridor, a strip of
land that Israeli forces occupy and that separates northern Gaza from
southern Gaza. The area has been previously evacuated due to deadly
Israeli attacks. Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah
in central Gaza, said that before the warning, Israel carried out deadly
bombardments of the area. In the Nuseirat refugee camp, Israel hit a
home and killed six members of a family, Khoudary reported. She said
another attack hit tents belonging to displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah,
resulting in more fatalities, including a 13-year-old boy. "Beit Hanoon
in the northern Gaza Strip has also been targeted by Israeli forces,"
Khoudary said, adding that ground operations were also under way in the
eastern part of the Palestinian territory. "Everyone here is traumatised.
Everyone here is drained and exhausted. Everyone here is sad," Khoudary
said. As the latest evacuation order was issued, Iranian Foreign
Minister Abbas Araghchi renewed his call for ceasefires in both Gaza and
Lebanon, where fighting continues to rage between Israeli forces and
Hezbollah, as he held talks with officials from Iran's ally Syria on
Saturday. "The most important issue today is the ceasefire, especially
in Lebanon and in Gaza," he told reporters. "There are initiatives in
this regard. There have been consultations that we hope will be
successful."
Nearly all of Gaza's 2.3 million residents have been displaced at least
once since Israel began its war on Gaza on October 7 after deadly Hamas-led
attacks on southern Israel. Hundreds of thousands of people have been
displaced several times. The Israeli military has often returned to
areas where it has previously conducted operations in response to
reports of Hamas activity. Cultural sites in the Palestinian territory
have also paid a heavy price in the war, the United Nations cultural
organisation said. On Saturday, UNESCO said it has verified damage to 69
sites in Gaza over the past year: 10 religious sites, 43 buildings of
historical and artistic interest, two depositories of moveable cultural
property, six monuments, one museum and seven archaeological sites.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/5/israel-issues-new-evacuation-order-in-gaza-as-attack-on-nuseirat-kills-several
Al Jazeera - October 5, 2024
<<Failing Gaza: Behind the Lens of Western Media>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2024/10/5/failing-gaza-behind-the-lens-of-western-media
BBC - Oct 4, 2024 - Interview by Laure Stephan (Beirut (Lebanon)
correspondent)
<<'For most Gazans, their days consist of queuing for water'
One year after the war in Gaza started, 96% of the population still
depends on international food aid, observes Antoine Renard, country
director for the World Food Program in Palestine, in an interview with
Le Monde. Currently on assignment in Gaza, Antoine Renard,
representative and country director for the World Food Program (WFP) in
Palestine, observed that the flow of aid into Gaza remains haphazard,
despite UN requests.
One year on from the start of the war in Gaza, what challenges are you
currently facing? The entire population depends on food aid. The WFP
provides aid to 1.1 million people, in various forms: Hot meals for
around 600,000 people, bread, food parcels, etc. The UNRWA [UN agency
for Palestinian refugees] addresses the needs of another 1.1 million
people. Our challenge still lies in gaining access to Gaza, and ensuring
that there is enough food, whether it's on the market, thanks to
commercial trucks, or in the form of emergency food support. The war is
dragging on, we can't see an end to it, and meeting the population's
basic needs remains uncertain.
What are you seeing on the ground?
For most Gazans, their days consist of queuing for water, bread, or a
hot meal in a communal kitchen. Most of the enclave's inhabitants no
longer have an income. Yet among the families we visit, we see a great
deal of sharing. For the past year, Gazans have been relying on
pre-prepared food and canned goods. The food diversity that existed
before the war has disappeared, and bread is the only fresh product that
is really accessible. Fruit and vegetables are extremely limited in the
region south of the Wadi Gaza river valley [where there are 1.9 million
people]. They have all but disappeared in the north [where between
300,000 and 400,000 people are clustered]. We are requesting that
business activity be restarted, so that, with the support in the form of
vouchers or cash, the population can have access to these foods.
What is the level of malnutrition?
We have begun a new study. The last one [published in June] indicated
that 96% of the population was at crisis levels of hunger, in need of
assistance, with a high risk of famine. Trade flows and food assistance
in July and August brought a slight improvement. However, they dropped
again in September: As soon as we have access difficulties, these
parameters risk falling back into the red very quickly.
Which access routes do you use?
We use various corridors – from Egypt, Jordan or the Israeli port of
Ashdod. Flows vary, with major disparities. We were able to bring in
around 13,500 tonnes of aid in August, compared with over 10,000 tonnes
in September. Another difficulty is that aid that reaches the south of
the Gaza Strip cannot be transported to the north, and vice-versa [Gaza
is split in two by an Israeli army corridor]. Until July, we had been
able to support the population south of Wadi Gaza, with difficulties in
the north. In August, we were able to provide some aid to people in the
north of the territory, but much less in the south. It's like a tap that
is turned on and off.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/10/04/for-most-gazans-their-days-consist-of-queuing-for-water_6728231_4.html
Al Jazeera - October 4, 2024
<<White House warned of risk of Israeli war crimes days after Oct 7:
Report
A Reuters investigation found that the Biden administration was warned
on three occasions about possible Israeli crimes in Gaza.
Senior Pentagon and Department of State officials warned US President
Joe Biden’s administration of potential Israeli war crimes days after
the start of the October 7, 2023, war on Gaza, an investigation by the
Reuters news agency finds. Reuters reported on Friday that after
reviewing three sets of email exchanges between senior US administration
officials, dated between October 11 and 14, officials had sounded the
alarm that a rising death toll in Gaza could violate international law
and affect US ties to the Arab world. "The messages also show internal
pressure in the Biden administration to shift its messaging from showing
solidarity with Israel to including sympathy for Palestinians and the
need to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza," the investigation found.
In an email sent on October 11 - five days after Hamas's attack on
Israel and the start of the offensive in Gaza - the US State
Department's top public diplomacy official, Bill Russo, told senior
officials that the US was "losing credibility among Arabic-speaking
audiences" by not addressing the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
On that day, Gaza’s Health Ministry had recorded a death toll of about
1,200 Palestinians. "The US's lack of response on the humanitarian
conditions for Palestinians is not only ineffective and
counterproductive, but we are also being accused of being complicit to
potential war crimes by remaining silent on Israel's actions against
civilians," Russo wrote.
Russo urged Biden's administration to take swift action and change its
public stance from its unwavering support of Israel's response to the
October 7 attack and its subsequent war on Gaza.
He later resigned from office in March, citing personal reasons.
Evacuation leaflets
Two days later, on October 13, Israel dropped leaflets in northern Gaza,
warning one million residents to leave their homes in 24 hours as
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared he was going to
<annihilate Hamas>. Following a private phone call with the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the then deputy
assistant secretary of defence for the Middle East, Dana Stroul, wrote
in an email that day to senior aides to Biden that the humanitarian
organisation was "raising private alarm that Israel is close to
committing war crimes. Their [ICRC's] main line is that it is impossible
for one million civilians to move this fast," Stroul wrote. The Reuters
report added that a US official on the email chain also said it would be
"impossible to carry out such an evacuation without creating a
'humanitarian catastrophe'". Other officials chimed in on the warning,
calling on the administration to convince Israel to slow down on
displacing civilians to southern Gaza, the report added. It was on that
same day that the administration, for the first time, acknowledged the
suffering of Palestinians during a news conference with Secretary of
State Antony Blinken in Doha, Qatar.
US weapons
Reuters found that on October 14, Israel’s senior defence adviser
emailed his US State Department counterpart to request that a rifle
shipment be expedited. Christopher Le Mon, deputy assistant secretary at
the State Department’s Democracy, Labour and Human Rights (DRL) bureau,
which reviews potential weapons sales, recommended denying arms to
Israel, citing the "conduct" of the Israeli National Police units,
including the Yamam border patrol unit. Le Mon said in a letter that
there were "numerous reports" of Yamam's involvement in "gross
violations of human rights". Since the war began, the US has sent Israel
a large number of munitions, including thousands of precision-guided
missiles and 2,000-pound (900kg) bombs, Reuters added, citing several US
officials.
Nearly a year into Israel's relentless war on Gaza, the Health Ministry
said on Friday that at least 41,802 Palestinians have been killed and
96,844 wounded.
SOURCE: REUTERS>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/4/white-house-warned-of-risk-of-israeli-war-crimes-days-after-oct-7-report
Le Monde - Oct 4, 2024 - OP-ED Jean-Paul Chagnollaud
<<'The only way for Netanyahu to achieve his goals is the use of force,
with total disregard for international law'
In an article, political scientist Jean-Paul Chagnollaud warns of the
risk of 'an enormous humanitarian catastrophe' following the 'all-out
war' being waged by Benjamin Netanyahu, who refuses to accept any form
of diplomacy.Published yesterday at 3:53 am (Paris), updated yesterday
at 8:32 am On May 1, 2003, on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln,
George W. Bush emphatically announced the victory of the American army
in Iraq in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Shortly afterward, the country
plunged into an endless tragedy from which it still hasn't really
recovered. Twenty years later on October 19, 2023, Joe Biden, aware of
the Israeli prime minister's state of mind in the aftermath of the
odious October 7 massacres perpetrated by Hamas and thinking of that
Iraqi disaster, issued this warning to him at a press conference in Tel
Aviv: "Don't make the same mistakes we did."
As if carried away by the vertigo of power conferred by his omnipotence
over a powerful army, Netanyahu did not hear his words. Therefore, we
must take him very seriously when he repeats that he is waging an
all-out war for an all-out victory and don't be fooled otherwise by his
stated objectives.
At least until November 5
When he says he wants to eradicate Hamas, he actually wants to settle
the Palestinian question in all its dimensions, including UNRWA [United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which the
Israeli leader accuses of complicity with Hamas]. When he claims to be
putting an end to Hezbollah to allow 80,000 Israelis to return home in
the north, he actually wants to impose undivided domination over Lebanon
to control - one way or another - Israel's territory from the border to
the Litani River. To achieve his goals, he conceives of only one means,
the use of limitless force, with absolute contempt not only for UN
Security Council resolutions but also for international humanitarian
law. In this logic, no room is left for diplomacy even to try and get
the hostages released, which he has never made a priority. Netanyahu has
refused the ceasefire in Gaza just as he has just rejected out of hand
the French-American proposal for a truce in Lebanon. He's able to do
this because he knows that his Western backers won't let him down.
Wherever he goes and whatever he does. The United States will do nothing
to counter him at least until November 5, the date of the presidential
election from which, he no doubt hopes, Donald Trump may emerge
victorious. Until then, the Biden administration cannot afford the
slightest wavering in its support for Tel Aviv, as this would risk being
punished by the voters.
A disunited Europe
Netanyahu also knows that he has nothing to fear from a disunited
Europe; France is determined to intervene in Lebanon, while Germany
continues to supply this country with a significant proportion of the
weapons it needs. Finally, he knows that, for a variety of reasons, Iran
will not intervene to support Hezbollah, any more than it did in the
aftermath of the assassination of [Hamas leader] Ismail Haniyeh in
Tehran on July 31. And if this should happen, despite everything, plans
for a counter-attack are ready: <I have a message,> he said during his
UN speech on September 27, <for the tyrants of Tehran: If you hit us, we
will hit you> >>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/10/04/the-only-way-for-netanyahu-to-achieve-his-goals-is-the-use-of-force-with-total-disregard-for-international-law_6728156_23.html
Al Jazeera - October 4, 2024
<<Israel targets occupied West Bank in rare jet attack
A rare Israeli air attack by military jets on the occupied West Bank has
killed 18 Palestinians in the Tulkarem refugee camp.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/4/israel-targets-occupied-west-bank-in-rare-jet-attack
End this madness now
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 4 , 2024
<<Letter from 99 US health workers: End this madness now!
99 US health workers, who have volunteered in the Gaza Strip over the
past year, sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President
Kamala Harris on Wednesday, urging the administration to "end this
madness now!"
News Center- 99 US health workers, who have volunteered in the Gaza
Strip over the past year, sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice
President Kamala Harris on Wednesday. The letter detailed "the massive
human toll from Israel's attack" and urged the administration to "end
this madness now!" The physicians, surgeons, nurse practitioners,
nurses, and midwives who signed the letter have collectively spent 254
weeks volunteering in hospitals and clinics throughout the besieged
enclave. "President Biden and Vice President Harris, we are 99 American
physicians and nurses who have witnessed crimes beyond comprehension.
Crimes that we cannot believe you wish to continue supporting," the
letter stated.
'The death toll is likely significantly higher'
As of Thursday, at least 41,788 Palestinians have been killed and 96,794
others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza, according to the Gaza's
health ministry.
"This letter and the appendix show probative evidence that the human
toll in Gaza since October is far higher than is understood in the
United States. It is likely that the death toll from this conflict is
already greater than 118,908, an astonishing 5.4% of Gaza's population,"
the health workers said in the letter.
Call for an immediate action
"Our government must act immediately to prevent an even worse
catastrophe than what has already befallen the people of Gaza and
Israel," the health workers argued. "A cease-fire must be imposed on the
warring parties by withholding military support for Israel and
supporting an international arms embargo on Israel and all Palestinian
armed groups. We believe our government is obligated to do this, both
under American law and international humanitarian law. We also believe
it is the right thing to do. I've never seen such horrific injuries, on
such a massive scale, with so few resources," said Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a
trauma and critical care surgeon. "Our bombs are cutting down women and
children by the thousands. Their mutilated bodies are a monument to
cruelty."
'Every day I saw babies die'
"Every day I saw babies die," said Asma Taha, pediatric nurse
practitioner. "They had been born healthy. Their mothers were so
malnourished that they could not breastfeed, and we lacked formula or
clean water to feed them, so they starved." Israeli bombings in the past
year have claimed thousands of lives, said Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an
orthopedic and hand surgeon. "Gaza was the first time I held a baby's
brains in my hand. The first of many." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/letter-from-99-us-health-workers-end-this-madness-now-35776?page=1
Al Jazeera - October 3, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<18 killed in Israeli strike on West Bank's Tulkarem refugee camp:
Ministry
Rescuers rush injured to hospital, search for survivors after deadly
Israeli aerial attack on Tulkarem refugee camp.
At least 18 people have been killed in an Israeli air attack on the
Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian
Ministry of Health said. The Israeli military said that its fighter jets
had carried out the attack on Thursday in coordination with Israel's
internal security service, the Shin Bet. The army said in a later
statement that it had targeted the head of Hamas's infrastructure in
Tulkarem. The Palestinian group did not immediately comment on the
Israeli military's claim. A camp official, Faisal Salama, told the AFP
news agency that the strike had been carried out with an F-16 fighter.
Footage verified by Al Jazeera's Sanad fact-checking agency showed
scenes of devastation in the camp, located northwest of Nablus in the
north of the West Bank. The area was filled with massive piles of
wreckage and fires had broken out. Rescuers could be seen rushing
injured victims to receive medical care. Israeli military raids and
attacks have surged across the occupied West Bank since Israel launched
its war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
Between October 7 of last year and the end of September, 695
Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, according to a tally
from the United Nations humanitarian office (OCHA).
The vast majority of people were killed by the Israeli army, while a
dozen were killed by Israeli settlers, OCHA said.
Reporting from Amman, Jordan, in the early hours of Friday, Al Jazeera's
Nour Odeh said the attack on the Tulkarem refugee camp was "the largest
and deadliest air strike that we've seen in the occupied West Bank for
over 20 years. Even by the second Intifada standards, this was a very
large, very deadly strike on a densely populated, impoverished refugee
camp," Odeh reported.
The Tulkarem refugee camp is home to more than 21,000 people, living in
an area of only 0.18 square kilometres (0.11 square miles), according to
the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (PDF). Odeh added that
information on the attack was still coming in "because hospitals have
been overwhelmed". "An entire building was levelled," she explained.
"And the paramedics are still struggling to make sure that they’ve
recovered all [the] bodies, and that there are no survivors under the
rubble there." A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
condemned the attack on the refugee camp as a "heinous crime" against
civilians. In a statement shared by the Wafa news agency, Nabil Abu
Rudeineh said the deadly assault was "part of a broader pattern of
genocide against the Palestinian people in both the West Bank and Gaza
Strip". Last month, a UN expert warned that Israel had ramped up its
military assault on the northern West Bank, leading to a "dangerous
escalation. The writing is on the wall, and we cannot continue to ignore
it. There is mounting evidence that no Palestinian is safe under
Israel’s unfettered control," Francesca Albanese, the UN special
rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said
in a statement. She noted that "systematic aerial and ground attacks" in
the areas of Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarem and Tubas - and in refugee camps in
particular - had intensified over the past few months. Israel, Albanese
said, "is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an
overall process of elimination, replacement and territorial expansion".
More than 41,700 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the
Gaza Strip since October.
Israel in recent weeks also launched aerial and ground attacks in
Lebanon as a year of cross-border firings between Israeli forces and the
Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month. Hundreds of thousands of
people have been displaced by Israel’s continued bombardment of the
country, while thousands have been killed and injured.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/3/israeli-air-attack-on-west-banks-tulkarem-camp-kills-at-least-18-ministry
Al Jazeera - October 3, 2024 - by Rami G Khouri Distinguished Fellow at
the American University of Beirut
<<US military action in the Middle East is not making Israel safer
Lasting security for Israel and the entire region requires an equitable
peace with the Palestinians, which the US is not willing to broker. On
October 1, Iran launched a massive aerial attack on Israel in
retaliation for the assassinations of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders
and some Iranian officers in Beirut and Tehran. In anticipation of the
attack and to help defend its ally Israel, the United States had
expanded its already significant military presence in the Middle East.
Its destroyers helped intercept the 180 projectiles Iran fired at
military bases in Israel. Such military action has become routine for
the US, which has repeatedly intervened in the region in the past
decades to directly or indirectly protect Israel. However, US military
interventions have had the opposite of the intended effect: They have
made Israel more vulnerable and more dependent on ever greater
deployment of American military power. This legacy has also made Israel
the most dangerous place in the world for Jews. This is because the
US-Israeli fixation on military force has prevented any efforts to
address the core causes of tensions in the region - primarily the
Palestinian-Zionist conflict. This has also generated powerful new
military actors and popular resistance groups across the Middle East.
Hezbollah, Hamas, Ansar Allah (the Houthis) and others now routinely
attack both US and Israeli targets. The power of the axis currently
confronting Israel derives not only from its weapons, but also from its
close alignment with Arab public opinion. It is willing and able to
militarily resist Israel’s occupation and subjugation of Arabs, which no
Arab state has done since 1973. All this reflects the decades of
American-Israeli aggressions and wars, and Arab governments' inability
to protect their lands, people, and sovereignty. Washington's quick and
massive military support for Israel perpetuates the cycle of violence
and also contradicts its exhortations to de-escalate and seek a
ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. Few people in the Middle East seriously
believe Washington’s words, because its actions more consistently reveal
that - with very few exceptions - warfare, sanctions, threats, and
military build-ups have been its preferred tools of engagement with real
or imagined foes in the region since World War II. A regional war is
steadily developing and the US is not allowing itself to be dragged into
it by Israel, but rather it has willingly joined it. This is because the
US loves war and loves to go to war for Israel. There are several
reasons for this. Washington has a penchant for warfare because American
politicians understand that it boosts the economy. The US defence
budget, now nearly $850bn, increases by 2-3 percent annually, for a
reason. War drives defence spending, investments, jobs, and profits for
hundreds of big and small companies across the country, most of which
donate generously to elected officials' campaigns every two years. So
far, Washington has spent between $1.8bn and $4bn bombing Ansar Allah in
Yemen, without stopping their attacks on ships passing through the Red
Sea, launched in response to Israel's genocide in Gaza. The combined
Israeli, US, British and French operation to intercept drones and
missiles Iran launched against Israel in April cost an estimated $1.1bn.
The October 1 military response was likely equally expensive. Some Arab
countries also helped intercept Iranian missiles, because Israel alone
can no longer protect itself. Washington spends these large amounts of
money willingly, to bolster its global standing and also to keep feeding
its expansive military-industrial complex via lucrative contracts for
domestic use and foreign export.
The nearly $4bn in US annual aid to Israel also mostly covers war-making
systems purchased from American firms, so it constitutes a significant
annual cash injection into the US military-industrial complex. Apart
from feeding and flaunting its war machines, the US also loves going to
war for Israel for other reasons. Israel's close political and military
links with the US are partly a lingering remnant of the Cold War, when
Israel was seen as a key ally defending US interests in a region
dominated by hostile countries allied with the Soviet Union. After the
Cold War, Washington continued to view Tel Aviv as a strategic ally that
helps maintain US dominance in the Middle East. US politics are shaped
by multiple forces, including Israeli propaganda, lobby groups,
messianic Christians, the pro-Israel mainstream media, and others - who
also facilitate military action in defence of Israel. President Joe
Biden stands out among recent American presidents as one of the most
sincerely fanatical supporters of Israel, for two reasons: because he
benefits politically from this stance, and because his formative years
in US politics coincided with the height of Israeli propaganda and
national achievements in the 1960s and 70s. Israel was still seen then
as a divinely aided miracle that emerged from the horrors of the
Holocaust in Europe - a view that the US president, who proudly calls
himself a Zionist, still holds. The US Congress also reflects these
dynamics. It has ensured the steady flow of generous aid and special
economic and technological privileges for Israel, and the legal
commitment (PDF) to keep Israel more powerful than all its foes. US
mainstream media has played a central role in keeping the American
public ignorant of Palestinian realities, and supportive of Israel and
American largesse towards it. It has justified US military adventures
abroad and systematically skewed its reporting to accommodate Israeli
positions on the conflicts with Palestinians, Lebanon, Iran, and on the
Middle East in general. This latest confrontation will likely not be the
last one. As regional conflict flares, the American armadas will
continue to visit us regularly and destabilise the region and the world.
This legacy of US militarism in the past quarter-century has spawned
some 60 military bases and other facilities across the Middle East.
This trend will continue until wiser leaders all around try to resolve
the Palestinian-Israeli and US-Iranian conflicts through negotiations
anchored in the principle that Israel, Palestine, Iran and all other
interested parties must enjoy equal rights of statehood, sovereignty and
security. The US and Israel speak vague words along these lines, but act
in ways that prevent serious peace-making and promote eternal military
conflicts. The vast majority of Arab public opinion feels strongly that
Palestinians must have their sovereign state as part of the process to
achieve a regional Arab-Israeli peace. This sentiment is also slowly
spreading among the American public, possibly paving the way for a
change of policy in Washington.
Indeed, investing in true peace efforts would be easier, more equitable,
less expensive, and much less destructive than perpetuating the current
colonial situation that is regularly buttressed by visiting American
troops. This is the best and probably the only way to guarantee Israel's
security.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.>>
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/3/us-military-action-in-the-middle-east-is-not-making-israel-safer
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 3 , 2024
<<WHO: The health system in Lebanon has been weakened by successive
crises
"The health system in Lebanon has been weakened by successive crises and
is struggling to cope with the immense needs," Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said
Wednesday on social media platform X.
News Center- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World
Health Organization (WHO), released Wednesday a statement on the ongoing
Israeli attacks on Lebanon "The death toll in Lebanon is rising, and
hospitals are overwhelmed with the influx of injured patients. The
health system has been weakened by successive crises and is struggling
to cope with the immense needs," his statement on social media platform
X said.
"I met with Arab League Ambassadors in Geneva to discuss the health
situation in Lebanon and the region. We agreed that patients, health
workers and civilians, including refugees, must be protected and offered
the health care they need." According to his statement, WHO has been
working closely with the Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon to ensure
hospitals have enough medical supplies and health workers are trained
for mass casualty events, as well as to maintain essential health
services for the most vulnerable. "But more help is needed, and we are
scaling up our response."
'The best medicine is peace'
What the people of Lebanon, Gaza, Israel and throughout the Middle East
need is peace, the statement said. "The violence must end to prevent
more loss and suffering. Any further escalation of the conflict will
have catastrophic consequences for the region. The best medicine is
peace." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/who-the-health-system-in-lebanon-has-been-weakened-by-successive-crises-35770?page=1
Rawya Islim
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 3 , 2024 - by NAGHAM KARAJEH
<<Rawya Islim of Gaza: We will struggle to survive
"Despite the siege and lack of food, we, as women, will struggle to
survive with limited resources," said Rawya Islim, a displaced woman in
Gaza.
Gaza- For about a year, Israel has been waging a war on the Gaza Strip.
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 42,000
Palestinians, injured thousands and displaced millions since October
7,2023. Children and women are the most affected by this war.
"We will struggle to survive despite the limited resources," said Rawya
Islim, a displaced woman in Gaza.
'We face a relentless war'
"Our cities have been destroyed and we face a relentless war," Rawya
Islim told NuJINHA. "Before Israel started a war against us, I used to
live in the neighborhood of Shujaiya. Our neighborhood has been one of
the most targeted areas in the war that has been going on since October
7, 2023. At first, we thought that the bombardments would not affect us
but we were wrong. Following the bombardments, we took shelter in the
Shifa Hospital. We had nowhere to go because hospitals, schools and
universities were overwhelmed with thousands of displaced people."
'We escaped the attack by chance'
Rawya Islim spent months in the Shifa Hospital along with her family
without basic supplies and hygiene. "The hospital was a temporary
shelter for us, but it was not as safe as we thought because Israel
attacked it. We were thousands of displaced people and forced to flee
from the hospital due to Israeli airstrikes. My family and I escaped the
attack by chance. Then, we took shelter in a school. We returned to our
neighborhood after the military operation ended; however, Israel
intensified its attacks on our neighborhood in March. Israeli forces
surrounded us from all sides and we could not escape. They raided our
neighborhood and arrested all the men, including my son. Then, we had to
go to the southern regions. For months, we have lived in the southern
regions without basic supplies."
'We struggle to survive with limited resources'
Rawya Islim has not received any information about her arrested son for
months. "Later, we were told that my son was in an Israeli prison. My
son was the only breadwinner of our family. Now, I am the only
breadwinner of my family; however, there is no job. The people of Gaza
struggle to survive. Despite the siege and lack of food, we, as women,
struggle to survive with limited resources. We keep resisting despite
displacement, painful losses, siege and attacks."
'I want to see my son again'
Rawya Islim suffers from many health problems and she is experiencing
vision loss. "But I have to spend hours cooking for my family. Despite
all the challenges, all I want is to see my son again before losing my
vision." >>
Source incl. video:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/rawya-islim-of-gaza-we-will-struggle-to-survive-35765
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