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HISTORY is accelerating notes Col. Douglads Macgregor, as the collective West, led by the US continues to escalate its aggression on Russia with the object of exhausting her and eventually liquidating the hated "Putin regime". That, of course, no matter how much the Neocons in the West try, is not likely to happen. However, the West's constant and criminal provocations can at this point easily provoke a nuclear exchange with no winners. With a bloc led by criminals and mediocrities, blinded by a mendacious media and political class, the West is incapable of diplomacy, and, apparently, even the most elementary self-preservation instinct seems to be lacking. Americans' complicity in the crimes of the Zelensky and Netanyahu regimes has been concealed by the media, but now the veil is being ripped off and a rising tide of citizens are forcing a new path.
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MATT HOH: Live On The Ground From Israel & Gaza Border
NOV 20, 2024
Gazing Into Gaza
The grotesque horror of a school field trip arriving at this location from two hours away to watch the mass slaughter from an observation deck was a shock I am overwhelmed by. The first wave of boys pumped celebratory firsts and thrust middle fingers upon their sight of Gaza.
By Matt Hoh Matt’s Thoughts on War and Peace (11/18/24)
That is Gaza behind me.
The fence line is 600m away. The northern part of Gaza, where Israel is carrying out a genocide within a genocide, systematically starving 300,000 Palestinians to death, is about 2km further.
The absurdity and the obscenity of being able to be this close to 20,000 murdered children, their bodies “prophetic voices from under the rubble” as a colleague called them, is difficult to accept.
The grotesque horror of a school field trip arriving at this location from two hours away to watch the mass slaughter from an observation deck was a shock I am overwhelmed by. The first wave of boys pumped celebratory firsts and thrust middle fingers upon their sight of Gaza.
It was quiet. The sounds of those buried under rubble don’t reach the observation deck. No torn and wrecked bodies could be seen, no sunlight reflected in pools of blood, and no strips of clothes snagged on exposed bones fluttered in the strong wind. We were as close as we could be but so separate and so safe from it. It was sanitary and septic, picturesque.
I felt I was a voyeur, a tourist, a spectator. I felt disgust and disbelief. And I felt an absence within me that I cannot articulate.
To be that close to the cleansing and destruction of 2.2 million people and to be centering now my words on my feelings doesn’t escape me. Perhaps a well-achieved purpose of that observation deck of genocide.
The Nietzsche-ism, stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back at you, struck me as I stood there.
Stare into Gaza and Gaza stares back is what I am left with now, comfortable in my Jerusalem hotel, just hours after looking into their genocide as if I were on a platform at a national park or on the boardwalk at the shore.
The horror of the genocide I expected but did not see. I thought I might curse and cry. I did neither. The cruel and so very human spectacle of a caged people being destroyed as a display for school children was what I encountered. I did not expect that and I don’t know how to respond.
Note: Americans partially funded this observation deck.
The observation deck in Sderot looking into Gaza.
A school field trip assembled at the observation platform overlooking Gaza.
These are my first thoughts on standing that close to Gaza. I may need to revisit them.
I am in Palestine this week as part of a delegation to be in solidarity with and learn from those engaged in Palestinian liberation. Today, in addition to this visit to the border of Gaza, we met with Rabbis for Human Rights and an October 7th survivor in the Sderot settlement, as well as a Palestinian Lutheran minister in Bethlehem.
Yesterday, we were in Jerusalem’s Old City. Here are my reflections from that visit: [NOTE: I could not found the link Matt mentioned. I have sent him a note asking if he can send it. I will post it when I get it. — MT]
Matthew selfie with Palestine in background.
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Matt Hoh Reports From Just Beyond The Ragged, Bloody Fringe Of Civilization — Israel
Judging Freedom (11/19/24)
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Even when Israeli and international activists accompany villagers to their olive groves, hoping to deter the threat, there’s no guarantee of safety.
Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives.
By Wyre Davies Reporting from the West Banl Umm Safa BBC News (11/20/24)
On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank.
It was something that Hanan Abu Salameh had done for decades.
Within minutes, the mother of seven and grandmother of 14 lay dying in the dust of the olive grove, with a bullet wound in her chest - she’d been shot by an Israeli soldier.
Even though the family had co-ordinated their intention to pick olives with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), according to her son Fares and husband Hossam, the soldier fired several shots as other family members fled for cover.
The IDF says it’s investigating the incident (Hah! as usual!), but Hanan’s grieving relatives have little hope or expectation that her killer will be brought to justice.
This wasn’t an isolated incident.
Harvesting olives is an age-old ritual and also an economic necessity for many Palestinians, but, according to the UN, it is increasingly precarious.
Farmers across the West Bank - internationally regarded as Palestinian land occupied by Israel - face heightened risks, like organised attacks by Israeli settlers seeking to sabotage the olive harvest, along with the use of force by Israeli security forces to block roads and Palestinians' access to their lands.
“Last year we couldn’t even harvest our olives, except for a very small amount,” says Omar Tanatara, a farmer from the village of Umm Safa.
“At one point, the army came, threw the olives we’d already gathered on the ground, and ordered us to go home,” says Omar, who is also a member of the village council.
“Some people were even shot at and olives trees were cut down with saws – that’s how we later found them,” adds Omar, as he and other villagers use small hand-held rakes to pull this year’s harvest from their remaining trees while they can.
No guarantee of safety
Even when Israeli and international activists accompany villagers to their olive groves, hoping to deter the threat, there’s no guarantee of safety.
Zuraya Hadad instinctively winces as we watch a video of the incident in which her ribs were broken by a masked man wielding a large stick.
The Israeli peace activist had been helping Palestinian farmers pick their olives when she was assaulted without provocation.
Rather than arresting her attacker, Israeli soldiers, who’d accompanied settlers to the site, just told him to move on.
“Even when we come to help, it doesn't guarantee that the Palestinians can harvest their olives,” Zuraya tells me as she recovers from her injuries at home.
“We try to raise awareness, but in the end it's either the settlers steal the olives or cut the trees, or they remain unpicked and go to waste.”
Land is at the heart of the decades-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinians - who controls it and who has access to it.
For thousands of Palestinian families and villages, cultivating and harvesting olives is a big part of their economy.
But many say that, in recent times, access to trees on their land has been impeded, often violently by Israeli settlers.
Hundreds of trees - which can take years to reach fruit-bearing maturity - have been deliberately burned or cut down, says the UN.
Israeli peace activist Zuraya Hadad was attacked by a masked man as she accompanied Palestinian farmers to the harvest.
After being gathered by hand, villagers from Umm Safa take sacks full of olives to the nearby factory, where the presses have restarted this season.
Olives are the most important agricultural product in the West Bank. In a good year, they're worth more than $70m (£54m) to the Palestinian economy.
But income was well down last year and this year will be even worse, says factory owner Abd al-Rahman Khalifa, as even fewer farmers are able to harvest their crop owing to attacks by settlers.
“Let me give you an example,” he tells me.
“My brother-in-law in Lubban - next to the Israeli settlement - went to pick his own olives, but they broke his arms and they made him leave along with everyone who was with him.”
“We, as Palestinians, don’t have petrol or big companies. Our main agricultural crop is olives,” he adds. “So, like the Gulf depends on oil, and the Americans on business, our economy is dependent on the olive tree.”
On the hill overlooking the olive groves of Umm Safa stands an illegal settler outpost - a farm.
The extremist settler who runs it, Zvi Bar Yosef, was sanctioned this year by the UK and other Western governments for repeated acts of violence against Palestinians, including twice threatening families at gunpoint.
Over the last year of the war in Gaza, Jewish settlers have been emboldened by the support of far-right Israeli ministers like Itamar Ben-Gvir.
As national security minister, he has given out free firearms to hundreds of settlers and has encouraged them to assert their right to what - they say - is their "God-given" land.
Ben-Gvir has also been accused of openly supporting the disruption of olive harvesting on Palestinian land.
At the olive press, farmers wait patiently in the yard to witness the transformation of the olives they’ve been able to gather this year into "liquid gold".
The olive tree has been a symbol of this land for centuries.
For generations of Palestinians, it is their link to the land - a link that is under threat now more than ever.
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One of the very few good things coming out of the relentless nightmare happening in Gaza is that at long last the western world is getting a clear look at Israel. The real Israel.
Not the Israel they teach you about in school. Not “the only democracy in the middle east,” where Jews were given safe haven after their victimization at the hands of the Nazis and managed to create a thriving society despite existing in a sea of savage enemies bent on their destruction.
Not that Israel. The real one. Arguably the most racist society on earth, whose existence has depended on nonstop violence, theft, tyranny and abuse since its very inception.
The real Israel, whose government is deliberately and methodically starving Palestinian civilians to death by the tens of thousands just for being the wrong ethnicity.
The real Israel, whose military is so sadistic that it created an AI system to specifically target suspected Hamas fighters when they are at home with their families, and called the AI “Where’s Daddy?” because it would be killing fathers when they are at home with their children.
dressed in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead and displaced Palestinian children.
The real Israel, where the majority of men do not believe acquaintance rape or spousal rape are real crimes, and where the majority do not believe the soldiers accused of raping and torturing a Palestinian prisoner to the point of severe injury should face criminal charges.
The real Israel, who routinely bombs buildings full of civilians and then uses sniper drones to pick off the survivors, including children.
The real Israel, whose drones have been heard playing the sounds of crying babies and screaming women in order to lure out civilians so they can be killed.
The real Israel, whose military forces target medical staff so methodically that doctors and nurses in Gaza reportedly change out of their uniforms when they leave the hospital in order to avoid assassination.
The real Israel, who has been knowingly attacking the locations of humanitarian aid workers.
The real Israel, whose citizens are so warped and twisted that they attend boat tours to cheerfully witness the devastation in the Gaza Strip.
The real Israel, whose citizens set up blockades to prevent aid trucks from getting to starving civilians in Gaza while they enjoy barbecues and set up bouncy castles and cotton candy machines for their children.
The real Israel, whose TikTok influencers started a viral trend mocking the suffering of civilians in Gaza.
The real Israel, whose citizens will travel to another country and tear down Palestinian flags and sing about how there are no children left in Gaza and then cry victim when people fight back.
This is the real Israel, in all its glory. And it is good that it is being seen.
The sooner everyone stops supporting this freakish, murderous society and begins insisting that normal human values win out over the demented forces which keep it going, the sooner there can be peace in the region. And the better off our entire species will be.
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The massacres that tore my life apart
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The massacres that tore my life apart
Over the last year, I have lost many of my relatives and friends who have been victims of horrific Israeli attacks. Here are stories of four massacres that tore my life apart.
PALESTINIANS CHECK THE DAMAGE FOLLOWING ISRAELI STRIKES IN BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP IN THE CENTRAL GAZA STRIP ON NOVEMBER 17, 2024. (PHOTO: OMAR ASHTAWY/APA IMAGES)
In this harsh and prolonged war, which has lasted for over a year, I have lost many of my relatives and friends who have been victims of horrific massacres. I will attempt to recount some of them in this article.
The first massacre was the Hijazi massacre, which took place in the Al-Tuffah area during the first week of the war, specifically on October 11, 2023. On that day, my family and I were sitting in our home in the Tel al-Hawa area, hearing the sounds of shells from all directions, when we received a call from one of our relatives informing us of the martyrdom of my cousin Dalal, her husband, and their five children.
We were in shock and unable to leave the house to confirm this news. To this day, we have found no trace of them, neither their bodies nor their clothes. We couldn’t bury them or bid them a final farewell. My cousin wasn’t killed alone. In this brutal massacre, which targeted a three-story residential building that was leveled to the ground, two of her husband’s brothers, along with their wives and children, were martyred. The total number of martyrs from this massacre was 14.
On November 7, 2023, my mother wanted to celebrate my older sister’s birthday to help us forget the atmosphere of war. However, the massacres refused to allow us to steal moments of joy and happiness.
I wished the world had ended at that moment.
The third massacre relates to my cousin Mishaal Hamdouna, which took place in March 2024, the sixth month of the war, specifically on March 1, 2024. At this time, my family and I were displaced in the middle area of Gaza Strip, Deir Al-Balah, when we received a phone call informing us of a horrific massacre in the northern Gaza Strip. The victims included my cousin, his wife, their five sons, their wives, and children, as well as his three daughters and their children, totaling 22 martyrs. The massacres continued one after another, with close family members lost, and we couldn’t bury them or bid them farewell. The bombing was severe at that time in the north, particularly in the Beit Lahia area. The family had gathered together to hold a mourning ceremony after the martyrdom of their son Nasim two days earlier in the Flour Massacre, also known as the Nabulsi Massacre, which claimed 150 lives and left 800 wounded on Thursday, February 29, 2024. Their martyrdom remains a testament to the genocidal war against our people in steadfast Gaza.
The massacres did not only affect my family but also took the lives of friends and neighbors.
The last massacre I want to talk about is related to the Abu Daher family. This family has been friends with my family for over twenty years, and we know them very well. However, this resilient family refused to leave the north and insisted either to stay or to become martyrs. At the time, my family and I had been displaced to Rafah, moving from one place to another due to the intense shelling. This time, we were in the southern Gaza Strip, staying in the home of strangers who decided to take us in rather than leave us to live on the streets. We received a phone call telling us that our friends in the north had suffered a horrific massacre on December 4, 2023, in which 23 martyrs were killed. The bombing in the area was intense that day, especially in the Falouja area in the north, so the family decided to head to one of their relatives’ homes in the Jabalia refugee camp. They fled from death only to encounter death again when a missile struck the house they had sought refuge in, killing the sons, their wives, and grandchildren. Only the elderly grandmother remained, alone, without support, displaced from one house to another in the north until now. This was the last message she posted on her Facebook account, mourning the loss of her entire family:
“I have lost all of my children. I swear, I die a million times a day. They were my support and strength after God. They were my mother, father, brother, friend, beloved, and dutiful son. They left me orphaned and weak. I have become a walking corpse, a body without a soul. I swear, my pain and suffering is known only to God. May He ease my sorrow and give me patience in your absence, and may He gather me with you in the highest gardens of paradise. Pray for them for mercy and forgiveness, and pray for me to have patience.”
I would like to tell you that all the martyrs I mentioned, neither I nor my family were able to see them or bid them farewell for the last time, nor were we able to bury the bodies of those whose remains were found. The war deprived us of the simplest of our rights, even the opportunity for a final farewell.
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U.S. Envoy Amos Hochstein Arrives In Lebanon As His Country Carries Out Mass Killing Of Civilians Through Its Colonial Settler Proxy.
The Lebanese should throw shoes at him.
Israel has intensified its air strikes on Lebanon and in particular on Beirut, ahead of a visit on Tuesday or Wednesday by U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein, at which he will press Lebanon to accept a U.S./Israeli ceasefire plan.
This plan is touted as being based on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 [of 2006], but in fact represents its abnegation.
You may have noted that neoliberal politicians and media pundits, who ignore and denigrate every other U.N. resolution on the Middle East, are suddenly very enthusiastic about UNSCR 1701. This is because it mandates withdrawal of Hezbollah forces to the north of the river Litani.
But it also mandates, at operative paragraph No. 3, that the government of Lebanon must have full sovereignty over Southern Lebanon and that only the Lebanese Army and United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) might operate there.
“3. Emphasizes the importance of the extension of the control of the Government of Lebanon over all Lebanese territory in accordance with the provisions of resolution 1559 (2004) and resolution 1680 (2006), and of the relevant provisions of the Taif Accords, for it to exercise its full sovereignty, so that there will be no weapons without the consent of the Government of Lebanon and no authority other than that of the Government of Lebanon….”
The U.S./Israeli ceasefire proposal directly contradicts this, by giving Israel the right to invade Southern Lebanon with ground forces whenever Israel considers it necessary, and by giving Israel permanent military overflight rights.
The U.S./Israeli proposal is therefore incompatible with UNSCR 1701.
These are direct intrusions on the sovereignty emphasised by UNSCR 1701. They are of course terms no self-respecting nation could possibly accept.
In order to try to force Lebanon to accept these humiliating terms, Israel has substantially intensified its bombing campaign throughout Lebanon these last two days. Yesterday in Beirut alone there were 19 waves of airstrikes, in addition to airstrikes in Tyre, Baalbek and throughout the South.
A new development in Beirut today was a definite move to bomb in Christian, as well as Muslim, areas. If you take one thing away from this article today, I want you to understand this.
The narrative portrayed in Western media, that Lebanese Christians support Israel and are egging on the destruction of the Shia community, is completely false. Only a very small and unrepresentative minority of Christians, related to the thankfully declined fascist movement, think in this way.
The large majority of Christians, including the major Christian political parties and politicians, are as horrified as the rest of the world by the genocide in Gaza and still more horrified by Israel’s genocidal attack on Lebanon.
I have spent the last three weeks living among the Christian communities here and I have found this same view, from wealthy businessmen, to students, to shopkeepers, to the families of very senior politicians.
I should acknowledge that I have met a couple of young men in a bar who were pro-Israel, but that really is it. It is also the case that, certainly in Beirut, the large majority of Sunni Muslims, including the large Syrian refugee population, are extremely horrified by the genocide mostly of their fellow Sunni Muslims in Gaza and the West Bank, and they are very anti-Zionist indeed.
I understand that in the far northern areas and along the Jordanian border there are pockets of Saudi-influenced Salafist anti-Shia sectarians who do support Israel against Hezbollah, but I am happy to say I have not come across them and it is not an important viewpoint in Beirut. These are the ISIS/Al-Nusra/Al-Qaeda/FSA crowd of C.I.A. puppets.
Extreme fringes aside, the overwhelming majority of the people of Lebanon are no different to the majority of people the world over, horrified by the scale and depravity of the Israeli assaults.
In attacking Lebanon, far from reigniting civil war as they intended, Israel and the U.S. have helped to forge a strengthened multicultural Lebanese identity.
Israel is simply unable to make meaningful progress on the ground against Hezbollah or to hold border villages for longer than a brief orgy of looting and destruction. In consequence we will see a repeat of the genocide in Gaza, with the great bulk of massacres carried out by bombs and long-range artillery.
An airstrike hit central Beirut a short while ago, near the UN headquarters and next to a Lebanese Civil Defence station, the strick came without prior warning. I went there to report pic.twitter.com/3WXDLOOAka
Plainly the Gaza template is already being followed. Over 220 medics and paramedics have been killed in Lebanon – a deliberate massacre of healthcare providers that repeats Israeli actions in Gaza and testifies to genocidal intention.
Israel killed every single one of these civil defense workers in Baalbek, Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/GRzEqU6n9E
The United States is building its second-largest embassy complex in the world in Lebanon, a country of only 5 million people. Plainly that is not what is seems – why does Lebanon need a much bigger U.S. embassy than Germany or Japan or Russia?
It is due to U.S. influence that the Lebanese army remains neutral as its own country is both bombed and invaded, which is a unique way for an army to behave. The bombs falling today on Lebanese children are not only U.S.-manufactured, but the U.S. has paid for those bombs and given them to the Israelis to kill Lebanese with.
Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy.
It's a part of human nature.
But politics must never be a literal battlefield or – God forbid – a killing field. pic.twitter.com/0sYVi1wfh8
Hochstein arrives here as his country carries out mass killing of civilians through its colonial settler proxy. The Lebanese should throw shoes at him en masse.
I hope and trust that the dignity of Lebanon is to be upheld by its politicians and outweighs personal corruption, and that a sharp answer is given to this vicious charlatan Hochstein pretending to talk peace.
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