This american defends Israel to occupy Gaza to "destroy Hamas" and insert PA rule.

How are they expecting to insert a non-elected government there and later claim to be "fighting for democracy"?

Thousands of protesters in Australia have staged a rally, blocking a major intersection in Melbourne to show support for innocent Palestinians trapped for months under Israeli fire in the besieged Gaza Strip.

"Today, the city was witness to the scenes and sounds of the war in Gaza," a statement from the protest organizers read on Sunday.

The protesters lit flares and waved mock missiles and drones while others lay like casualties on the ground in an attempt to show the death and damage caused by the Israeli forces genocidal war on Gaza.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16307984

> A Marriage Made in Hell: An Introduction to Microsoft’s Complicity in Apartheid and Genocide > > Executive summary > > The purpose of this primer is to publicly expose Microsoft’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide against the people of Palestine, and to connect technology workers to the No Azure for Apartheid campaign. > Introduction > > We are No Azure for Apartheid, a group of technology workers within Microsoft and its subsidiaries seeking to expose and condemn the specific technologies complicit in the ongoing apartheid and genocide in Gaza, the West Bank, and Palestine as a whole. We are part of the broader No Tech for Apartheid movement, which began with opposing Project Nimbus at Google and Amazon. With Microsoft leading advances in AI technology, we, as Microsoft employees, are morally obligated to guide the ethics and lasting ramifications of these technologies for the future.

One of the major universities in Belgium has broken off relationship with all Israeli universities and research institutions which it says no longer align with its human rights policy.

University of Ghent (UGent) said in a statement that an investigation by the public research center highlighted concerns regarding connections between Israeli academic institutions and the Israeli administration, military, or security services.

>Today we turn to high school students all over the world to participate widely in the struggles and activities of the university student movement, organizing demonstrations, sit-ins and vigils, writing petitions and letters and organizing educational days about the Palestinian struggle and the goals of the Palestinian people for liberation and return. > >Secondary schools constitute a strong fortress and a great support for university students everywhere. Once again, we send special greetings to our brothers and sisters, the students of Palestine in the diaspora and to our comrades and colleagues in Students for Justice in Palestine, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Palestine Action and the academic boycott and divestment campaigns. We salute everyone who participated and participates in student encampments at every university, college and school. > >The duty and responsibility of Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip and all of occupied Palestine is steadfastness, commitment, resistance, unity and alignment with the resistance and the people until the U.S. — Zionist aggression stops and the occupation is defeated and removed from our land — all our land, from the river to the sea. > >Long live the struggle of Palestine’s students for return and liberation! Long live international solidarity, and together we will be victorious!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16001637

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4692590

>>"Today I speak to a friend serving as a doctor serving in the European Gaza Hospital as IDF bombing nears closer and closer to his hospital and find out what it's been like to be a doctor on the ground during this war."

The carnage in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip has awakened the conscience of people around the world, prompting even prominent world footballers to break their silence.

In the wake of the series of massacres perpetrated by the Israeli regime in the southernmost city of the besieged Palestinian territory, killing over 60 people, many people are saying ‘Enough is enough’.

Marcus Thuram, a French national footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Inter Milan, was one of the first big names in world football to express solidarity with the people in Gaza.

>Another clear aim for the U.S. and [its neocolony] is to bypass the Red Sea, over which the Yemeni resistance has established an effective blockade to all [neocolony]-bound ships. Since Ansarallah secured control of the Red Sea, the number of trade vessels passing through the Suez Canal have dropped by 40%. The world’s largest shipping companies are now avoiding the Red Sea entirely and instead taking the much longer and costlier route around the Cape of Good Hope, past South Africa. > >This means a much costlier war for global capitalism, which is already estimated to cost at least 10% of [the neocolony’s] GDP — $50 billion — before the end of the year. The amount of money the ruling class must invest will be far higher, considering that 12% of the world’s oil and natural gas shipments used to pass through the Red Sea. Since the Resistance took control of commercial choke points, vessels carrying an estimated 2.5 million barrels of oil per day must now find another way to their destinations. (eia.gov, Dec. 4, 2023) > >A [neoimperialist] port in Gaza would mean the Red Sea channels could be bypassed by sea and over land. However, the [neo]imperialist powers’ assumption that they have safe passage through the Mediterranean Sea may prove mistaken. > >During his May 23 remarks, Al-Houthi also announced Ansarallah’s missile and drone strikes on attempted blockade runners in the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and that “one of our military operations during this week was carried out towards the Mediterranean Sea.” (newsweek.com, May 23) > >These strikes represent the “fourth stage of escalation” announced by Ansarallah military spokesperson Yahya Sare’e earlier this month. “[Yemen] will target all ships headed to [neocolonial] ports in any area we reach regardless of their nationality and destination.” (Palestine Chronicle, May 3) > >Despite whatever benevolent motives are proffered by for-profit media, the U.S. floating pier in Gaza is not about humanitarian aid, nor has any aid been delivered. And the Palestinian resistance is under no illusions to the contrary. > >“Palestinian resistance is capable of hitting the base, but it will also be a sitting duck for other regional resistance groups,” said Palestinian journalist Wesam Bahrani. > >“The evidence on the ground suggests this U.S. military base, when constructed, may not survive for too long. While the United States may be capable of building a military base off the Gaza shore, the Axis of Resistance is also capable of sinking it.” (press.ir, March 20)

>The […] pariah state has chosen to again display its arrogance and contempt for international institutions. What is new since last October, however, is that these United Nations institutions have finally charged [neocolonial] officials and the [neocolony] itself with serious war crimes. > >Have no illusions regarding these courts. Neither the ICJ nor the ICC on their own can stop the genocide or arrest [neocolonial] leaders. They have no apparatus to enforce their decisions. That the courts declared these rulings, however, indicates a change in the world’s attitude toward [the neocolony]. > >The ICJ, also called the World Court, was established in 1945 as the U.N. was being set up and the U.S. was dominant worldwide economically and militarily; the ICJ adjudicates general disputes between nations, which all U.N. members recognize. > >In 2001 the Rome Statute, which has been ratified by 124 nations, but not by the U.S., [its neocolony], India, China or Russia, established the ICC. The ICC can investigate and charge individuals with crimes like genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression, like the charges brought against Netanyahu and Galant. To date nearly all such cases have been brought against political leaders in Africa or of other less powerful or rich states. > >The ICC also charged three leaders of Hamas with war crimes regarding the events of October 7. This charge has no basis, as the October 7 uprising was the legitimate response of a colonial population to 76 years of oppression, which is a right under the U.N. Charter. The charges are thus a travesty, as Hamas, along with other resistance forces, had a right to take up arms against the occupation. > >Despite these spurious charges against Hamas leaders, that [neocolonial] government officials might face arrest in world capitals is an unexpected defeat, not only for [neocolonialism], but also for U.S. [neo]imperialist interests. > >That these cases were decided in the two international courts is important not because they resolve [neocolonial] aggression — nor do they punish U.S. [neo]imperialism for backing and arming this aggression — but as a symptom that mass worldwide anger against the […] régime has reached new levels. The popular anger against [the neocolony] is so strong and widespread that it has pushed governments to react.

(Emphasis original.)

A French lawmaker has been suspended after he held up a Palestinian flag in the lower chamber during a heated debate over whether France should recognize Palestinian statehood.

Sebastien Delogu, a member of parliament for the France Unbowed (LFI) party from the southern city of Marseille, was suspended by the parliament on Tuesday.

Mexico has filed a declaration of intervention in South Africa's genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday, the ICJ announced in a press release.

Mexico’s move places it on a growing list of countries accusing Israel of violating the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention.

Since January, Columbia and Libya have also declared their intention to join the case. Other countries including Egypt and Turkey have said they will join.

The United Nations humanitarian chief has hit out at Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for claiming that the recent deadly aerial assault in the southern Gaza Strip was a “mistake,” saying the carnage was possibly the “most cruel abomination.”

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths made the remarks on Monday, one day after the Israeli strike hit a camp for displaced Palestinians in the city of Rafah and killed at least 50 people and wounded 200 others.

Ireland’s Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, meanwhile, said the European Union has for the first time engaged in a “significant” discussion on sanctioning Israel over its Gaza onslaught.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/33234732

> After Peddling Fake Hamas 'Beheaded Babies' Story, Media Ignores Actual Beheaded Palestinian Baby

>The massacres of the occupation continue in Rafah, Jabalia, and Gaza, the latest being the burning of tents around the UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] headquarters, where U.S. bombs and missiles of hatred and terrorism targeted thousands of our people, most of whom were children, women, patients, and elderly, burning their pure bodies and tearing their bodies into pieces. > >The toll of the tent massacre in Rafah is 45 martyrs, including 23 women, children, and elderly, and 249 wounded. > >All the massacres committed by the occupation against civilians and innocents of our people are in areas classified by the enemy itself as safe, indicating its insistence and deliberate execution of these massacres, and its desperate attempts to displace our people through lies and claims to justify its horrific crimes against civilians. > >The timing of these massacres in the past two days is a challenge from the Zionist-Nazi government of the criminal Netanyahu to the recent decisions of the International Court of Justice, which ordered the halt of the military operation in Rafah. > >The international community is facing a historic responsibility to put an end to this Zionist arrogance, and to stop the aggression of this rogue entity that tries to impose itself above international law, above accountability for its crimes and massacres, with the full sponsorship of the U.S. administration, which is a partner in all these crimes with its political support, equipment that kills our people, and unlimited funding for the crime of genocide in Gaza. > >This massacre and heinous crime come as a retaliatory attempt by the Zionist enemy and its defeated and crushed army, soon by God’s will, after their inability to confront the men of Allah, the men of great courage, the men of Al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian resistance factions, the fighters of our heroic people in the battlefields. > >The burning of tents in Rafah comes to cover up the strategic and field failure that haunt the leaders of this defeated army since October 7, receiving successive painful blows at the blessed hands of our heroes, the last of which was the heroic operation in Jabalia.

Some excerpt:

According to accounts shared with ICC officials, he is alleged to have told her: “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”

One individual briefed on Cohen’s activities said he had used “despicable tactics” against Bensouda as part of an ultimately unsuccessful effort to intimidate and influence her. They likened his behaviour to “stalking”.

The Mossad also took a keen interest in Bensouda’s family members and obtained transcripts of secret recordings of her husband, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the situation. Israeli officials then attempted to use the material to discredit the prosecutor.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4671112

> Too complicated

I wonder how this famous libertarian was against Israel for good reasons, and now most of libertarian claim to be against Palestinians.

Splashes water on the floor to keep dust down from the muzzle gasses, uses a separate scope to take measurements from a second location, uses a shroud over the scope to break up the silhouette while shooting, and I guarantee that barrett scope has a piece of nylon over the front lens to prevent sunlight glinting off the scope down range. So if they do catch a glimpse while he flashes the standalone scope to get measurements, once he fires they return fire at the wrong window.

>"The moment the Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades handed over the fifth batch of Isr*eli female detainees"

>The Qassam Brigades “bombarded Tel Aviv with a large rocket barrage in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians,” it said in a statement on Sunday afternoon. > >The [neocolonial] army admitted that the rockets were launched from Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where the [neocolonial] army is carrying out extensive operations under the cover of indiscriminate bombardment from its fighter jets. > >The rockets were reportedly fired from very close to where [neocolonial] forces are stationed. They appeared to be long-range rockets, and [the] Iron Dome had great difficulty intercepting them. > >Video footage and images circulating social media confirm that rockets made impact in several areas, causing damage and resulting in three injuries. > >[…] > >"Ten rockets fell in the center of the country, and the media is in an uproar — the country is in turmoil. Every day, dozens of rockets are fired towards the […] conflict zone settlements and the Galilee, including anti-tank missiles and suicide drones, and the country remains silent. Once again, it's proof that the north is not being counted," said the head of the Mateh Asher settler council in the Galilee, Moshe Davidovitz.

>“The Margaliot settlement has decided to sever contact with the […] government and withdraw all soldiers from Margaliot. A notification has been sent to the termination officer. Additionally, we are closing the settlement's operations center and gates. No one, including the military, will be allowed to enter or leave the settlement. The emergency squad will find another place to stay,” said Eitan Davidi, Chairman of Margaliot settlement. > >“Margaliot does not need protection from Hezbollah but from the […] government, which is crushing the settlement with its decisions. Margaliot is directly harmed by the government […] decisions, causing more damage than Hezbollah's anti-tank missiles,” he added. > >[…] > >Settler communities from the north announced earlier this month a plan to secede […] and establish an independent State of Galilee in protest of […] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lack of urgency in returning them to their homes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/gaza-death-count/678400/