#γάζα — Public Fediverse posts
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Νετανιάχου / «Ο πόλεμος δεν έχει τελειώσει» – Συντρίψαμε το πυρηνικό πρόγραμμα του Ιράν
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Live blog / Αρχίζουν σήμερα οι συνομιλίες μεταξύ ΗΠΑ και Ιράν στο Πακιστάν
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Κώστας Δουζίνας / Μεγάλη Εβδομάδα και Θεοδικία
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Hasbara / Πως το Ισραήλ ασκεί «ασύμμετρη επιρροή στο παγκόσμιο αφήγημα» – Πόσο στοιχίζει η προπαγάνδα;
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Παλαιστίνη / Αποκλεισμένη πληρώνει το τίμημα του πολέμου ΗΠΑ-Ισραήλ στο Ιράν – Τι περιγράφει Παλαιστίνιος από τη Δυτική Όχθη στο tvxs
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Ισραήλ / Σχέδιο μεγάλης χερσαίας εισβολής στον Λίβανο – Στόχος η διάλυση της Χεζμπολάχ
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Γάζα / Στα όρια της πείνας εκατομμύρια άνθρωποι – Το Ισραήλ κρατά κλειστά όλα τα περάσματα
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Κούρδοι και πόλεμος στη Μέση Ανατολή / Στρατηγικά πιόνια στο σχέδιο «βαλκανοποίησης» του Ιράν
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«Δεν βλέπουμε κανέναν πρωθυπουργό, εκτός από τον Έλληνα πρωθυπουργό, να πηγαίνει στο Τελ Αβίβ για να ποζάρει για φωτογραφίες. Κανείς δεν πηγαίνει»
Χακάν Φιντάν, ΥπΕξ Τουρκίας
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Από Μένουμε Ενεργοί:
🆘Αιματοκύλισε την πορεία στην ισραηλινή πρεσβεία η ελληνική αστυνομία χτυπώντας απρόκλητα και συλλαμβάνοντας κόσμο στον σωρό!
Σήμερα, η παλαιστινιακή παροικία, παλαιστινιακές οργανώσεις, αντιπολεμικές κινήσεις, το March to Gaza Greece και πολιτικές οργανώσεις καλούσαν σε πορεία ενάντια στη συμπλήρωση δύο ετών από την έναρξη του πολέμου και της γενοκτονίας στη Γάζα.
⚠️Η αστυνομία επέλεξε να χτυπήσει άγρια τη διαδήλωση καθώς μάλιστα επέστρεφε από την ισραηλινή πρεσβεία και βρισκόταν λίγο πριν το τέλος της στο μετρό Πανόρμου. Εκεί τα ΜΑΤ άρχισαν να διαλύουν τη διαδήλωση και να πιάνουν κυριολεκτικά όποιον βρουν μπροστά τους.
Οι πληροφορίες μας μιλούν για πάνω από 10 προσαγωγές και ανοιγμένα κεφάλια διαδηλωτών/ριών.
Μάλιστα στη διαδήλωση συμμετείχαν και οι 27 ακτιβιστές/ριες της ελληνικής αποστολής του στόλου για τη Γάζα που μόλις χθες είχαν επιστρέψει από τις ισραηλινές φυλακές!!
Όταν λέμε ότι η κυβέρνηση Μητσοτάκη είναι ο καλύτερος φίλος του Ισραήλ, μετά τις ΗΠΑ, κάτι τέτοιο εννοούμε.
Να αφεθούν τώρα ελεύθεροι όλοι οι συλληφθέντες!
#ΜένουμεΕνεργοί #antireport #Παλαιστίνη #κυβέρνηση #ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ #κυβέρνηση_Μητσοτάκη #FreePalestine #Palestine #Γάζα #globalsumudflotilla
*Η σελίδα μας διαθέτει φωτογραφίες και βίντεο από τις προσαγωγές, οι οποίες είναι στη διάθεση όποιων διαδηλωτών/ριών τις έχουν ανάγκη -
Πανελλαδικη και παγκόσμια μέρα δράσης κατά της γενοκτονιας και της χερσαίας επεμβασης του στρατου κατοχής στη Γάζα. Συγκέντρωση στο Σύνταγμα και πορεία στα Προπύλαια. #Γάζα #Παλαιστίνη 20-9-25
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Ανάρτηση και τραγούδι του Ηλία Ζάικου των Blues Wire για τη Γάζα.
στίχοι:
"Comes a time we need to pray to the gods and ghosts of faith
Comes a night we have to grieve for the dreams that fade to grey
There’s a tiny shattered place away from this world
Where the blood is running cold and feels like hope is gone
Gaza…Gaza
Salty water- pale sand – empty ruins - desert land
There were times to shed a tear for the courage we thought was lost
There have been battles won and fights to give, in the end rebellion double crossed
A sound of sadness echoes each and every dawn
You can hear it rising high down by the shore
Gaza…Gaza
Salty water- pale sand – empty ruins - desert land
From the river to the sea people will be free"
https://blueswire1.bandcamp.com/track/gaza
#music #ERisNowPlaying #blues #gaza #γάζα #palestine #μουσική @blueswire -
Ανάρτηση και τραγούδι του Ηλία Ζάικου των Blues Wire για τη Γάζα.
στίχοι:
"Comes a time we need to pray to the gods and ghosts of faith
Comes a night we have to grieve for the dreams that fade to grey
There’s a tiny shattered place away from this world
Where the blood is running cold and feels like hope is gone
Gaza…Gaza
Salty water- pale sand – empty ruins - desert land
There were times to shed a tear for the courage we thought was lost
There have been battles won and fights to give, in the end rebellion double crossed
A sound of sadness echoes each and every dawn
You can hear it rising high down by the shore
Gaza…Gaza
Salty water- pale sand – empty ruins - desert land
From the river to the sea people will be free"
https://blueswire1.bandcamp.com/track/gaza
#music #ERisNowPlaying #blues #gaza #γάζα #palestine #μουσική @blueswire -
Κρίς Χέτζες: Η ισραηλινή κοινωνία βλέπει στη γενοκτονία το ουτοπικό της όραμα https://info-war.gr/kris-chetzes-i-israilini-koinonia-vlep/ #Newsletter #γενοκτονία #KEIMENA #διεθνη #Γάζα #REV
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Κρίς Χέτζες: Η ισραηλινή κοινωνία βλέπει στη γενοκτονία το ουτοπικό της όραμα https://info-war.gr/kris-chetzes-i-israilini-koinonia-vlep/ #Newsletter #γενοκτονία #KEIMENA #διεθνη #Γάζα #REV
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#reportersunited #ΕΕ #ειδήσεις
"«Επειδή παρέλειψαν να δράσουν»: #Κομισιόν και κυβερνήσεις ενώπιον της ευρωπαϊκής δικαιοσύνης για τη #γενοκτονία στη #Γάζα"
https://www.reportersunited.gr/16986/israel-gaza-eu-diki-jurdi/
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#reportersunited #ΕΕ #ειδήσεις
"«Επειδή παρέλειψαν να δράσουν»: #Κομισιόν και κυβερνήσεις ενώπιον της ευρωπαϊκής δικαιοσύνης για τη #γενοκτονία στη #Γάζα"
https://www.reportersunited.gr/16986/israel-gaza-eu-diki-jurdi/
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#reportersunited #ΕΕ #ειδήσεις
"«Επειδή παρέλειψαν να δράσουν»: #Κομισιόν και κυβερνήσεις ενώπιον της ευρωπαϊκής δικαιοσύνης για τη #γενοκτονία στη #Γάζα"
https://www.reportersunited.gr/16986/israel-gaza-eu-diki-jurdi/
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Η κατάπαυση του πυρός στην #Γάζα είναι προϋπόθεση για την αναγνώριση της Παλαιστίνης ως κράτους, υπαινίχθηκε ο Μακρόν. Δλδ, για να το κάνουμε δίφραγκα, όσο το Ισραήλ σφαγιάζει τους φουκαράδες τους Παλαιστίνιους, ο Μακρόν δεν θα αναγνωρίσει την Παλαιστίνη ως κράτος.
Και ύστερα κοροϊδεύετε το ζαβό.
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Την ίδια ώρα που στις ευρωπαϊκές χώρες αυξανόταν η υποστήριξη σε προσπάθειες άρσης του αποκλεισμού της Γάζας, το Ισραηλινό υπουργείο Εξωτερικών προπαγάνδιζε με χορηγούμενα βίντεο στο Youtube την «ανθρωπιστική βοήθεια» που προσφέρει στη #Γάζα. wearesolomon.com/el/mag/forma...
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Το Ισραήλ υλοποιεί στοχευμένη καμπάνια στο ελληνικό & ευρωπαϊκό κοινό ενόψει της πορείας αλληλεγγύης προς τη Γάζα. #MarchToGaza Μέσα από διαφημιστικές καταχωρήσεις στο Youtube, εκτοξεύονται οι προβολές των βίντεο για την «ανθρωπιστική βοήθεια» του Ισραήλ στη #Γάζα. wearesolomon.com/el/mag/forma...
«Τα χαμόγελα δεν ψεύδονται» - ... -
«Γενοκτονία» εναντίον «Μεγαλύτερης Γενοκτονίας» στη Γάζα: Ώρα να αποαποικιοποιήσουμε το νου μας
Για να πετύχει η αναίρεση της αποικιοκρατίας σε όλες τις πτυχές της απελευθέρωσής μας, πρώτα πρέπει να αποαποικιοποιηθεί ο νους.
Του Ramzy Baroud / 29 Νοεμβρίου 2024
Πηγή: Αρχικά δημοσιεύτηκε από το ZNetwork. Μη διστάσετε να μοιραστείτε ευρέως.
URL: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/genocide-vs-bigger-genocide-in-gaza-time-to-decolonize-our-minds/(https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-53.png)
Ένα παιδί τρέχει κρατώντας την παλαιστινιακή σημαία καθώς περνάει ένα γκράφιτι στο αμφιλεγόμενο φράγμα διαχωρισμού του Ισραήλ κατά τη διάρκεια του Μαραθωνίου της Παλαιστίνης, Βηθλεέμ, Μάρτιος 2018. (Φωτογραφία από την Daily Sabah)«Ο ιμπεριαλισμός αφήνει πίσω του σπέρματα/μικρόβια σήψης (germs of rot) τα οποία πρέπει κλινικά να ανιχνεύσουμε και να αφαιρέσουμε από τη γη μας αλλά και από το μυαλό μας», έγραψε (https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024388) ο Φραντς Φανόν (Frantz Fanon) στο «Οι Άθλιοι της Γης» ( ‘The Wretched of the Earth’).
Αυτό που ουσιαστικά υποστήριζε ο εμβληματικός αντιαποικιακός φιλόσοφος και ψυχίατρος είναι ότι πρέπει πρώτα να αποαποικιοποιηθεί ο νους, για να πετύχει η αναίρεση της αποικιοκρατίας σε όλες τις πτυχές της απελευθέρωσής μας.
Πολλά στον Παγκόσμιο Νότο, αλλά κυρίως διανοούμενοι και αναλυτές που ασχολούνται με τις υποθέσεις της Μέσης Ανατολής, εξακολουθούν να παλεύουν με τη σχέση τους με τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες.
Αν και όλα τα σημάδια δείχνουν μια ταχεία πτώση (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/23/prevailing-view-among-americans-is-that-u-s-influence-in-the-world-is-weakening-and-chinas-is-growing/) της παγκόσμιας θέσης των ΗΠΑ, πολλοί από τους διανοούμενους μας, πιθανώς άθελά τους, εξακολουθούν να πιστεύουν ότι η Ουάσιγκτον κρατάει όλα τα χαρτιά, και ότι οποιαδήποτε αμερικανική κυβέρνηση ελέγχει τον Λευκό Οίκο πρέπει φυσικά να κυβερνά και τον κόσμο.
Φυσικά, οι εσωτερικές και εξωτερικές πολιτικές των ΗΠΑ σχετίζονται με τις παγκόσμιες υποθέσεις, καθώς οι οικονομικές αποφάσεις της Ομοσπονδιακής Τράπεζας των ΗΠΑ, για παράδειγμα, θα επηρεάσουν (https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12856.htm#:~:text=As%20the%20Federal%20Reserve%20conducts,of%20credit%20in%20the%20economy.) τους όγκους του εμπορίου των ΗΠΑ και του παγκόσμιου εμπορίου, και θα επηρεάσουν το ενδιαφέρον ή την αδιαφορία για την αγορά αμερικανικών ομολόγων. Ορισμένες χώρες που επιθυμούν να σταθούν σε ίση απόσταση μεταξύ των ΗΠΑ και της Κίνας συχνά κάνουν τούμπα για να εκλεπτύνουν τις θέσεις τους και να προστατεύσουν τον εαυτό τους σε περίπτωση σεισμικών πολιτικών αλλαγών στις ΗΠΑ. Και περισσότερα…
Ωστόσο, η ατμόσφαιρα που εκπέμπεται από πολλά στη Μέση Ανατολή είναι ότι το σενάριο της καταστροφής είναι πραγματικό και ότι ο μεγάλος πόλεμος είναι μπροστά μας. Αγνοούν ότι, για πολλά έθνη σε όλο τον κόσμο, από τη Γάζα, τον Λίβανο, την Ουκρανία, το Σουδάν και αλλού, οι πόλεμοι έχουν ήδη φτάσει, πολλοί από τους οποίους χρηματοδοτούνται (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/06/ukraine-goes-to-war-with-western-financiers/) από δυτικά ταμεία και πολιτικές λευκές επιταγές. Η προειδοποίηση για πόλεμο ενώ δεκάδες εκατομμύρια υποφέρουν ήδη από τα αποτελέσματα αυτών των πολέμων που χρηματοδοτούνται από τη Δύση αντανακλά τον βαθμό απευαισθητοποίησης και οπορτουνισμού των οπαδών της δυτικής τάξης.
Μερικά από εκείνα που έκλαιγαν για την υποτιθέμενη επικείμενη καταστροφή είχαν αρχικά παρουσιάσει (https://www.nysun.com/article/democrats-gloom-and-doom-after-worst-election-performance-in-decades) την υποψήφια για προεδρία του Δημοκρατικού Κόμματος, Kamala Harris, ως το καλύτερο σενάριο για τους Παλαιστίνιους, τους Άραβες και τους Μουσουλμάνους. Αν και μπορεί να αναγνώρισαν τη γενοκτονία στη Γάζα, και ακόμη και να επέκριναν την κυβέρνηση Τζο Μπάιντεν που την επέτρεψε, οπισθοχώρησαν με την απλή πρόταση ότι οι Δημοκρατικοί πρέπει να τιμωρηθούν για τις πολλές αμαρτίες τους στη Μέση Ανατολή και πέρα από αυτήν.
Ένα άλλο πλήθος παρουσίασε τον Ντόναλντ Τραμπ ως σωτήρα, τον ισχυρό άνδρα που, με μια κίνηση του στυλό, θα τερματίσει όλους τους πολέμους, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της Γάζας. Ανέφεραν την επανειλημμένη έμφαση (https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-vows-to-end-all-wars-while-he-is-president-1730882910.html) του άνδρα ότι «δεν πρόκειται να ξεκινήσω πόλεμο, θα σταματήσω τους πολέμους». Συνέχισαν μάλιστα υποστηρίζοντας ότι ο Τραμπ, ο οποίος θα υπηρετούσε μια δεύτερη και τελευταία θητεία, έχει πλέον ανοσία στην πολιτική χειραγώγηση από το φιλοϊσραηλινό λόμπι και σε όλες τις άλλες πιέσεις.
Ο Τραμπ κέρδισε. Η συντριπτική του ήττα (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/11/14/trump-popular-vote-majority-fact-check/76259957007/) των Δημοκρατικών σε όλα τα μέτωπα, συμπεριλαμβανομένου αυτού της λαϊκής ψήφου, δείχνει ότι θα είχε κερδίσει ανεξάρτητα από εκείνους που θεωρούσαν τον τερματισμό του πολέμου στη Γάζα κορυφαία πολιτική προτεραιότητα. Αλλά οι πρώτες ανακοινώσεις ότι η μελλοντική κυβέρνηση του Τραμπ θα συμπεριλάβει το who's who στον φιλοϊσραηλινό Ρεπουμπλικανικό κύκλο αναζωπύρωσε τη συζήτηση για τη «μεγαλύτερη γενοκτονία» που περιμένει τους Παλαιστίνιους και άλλες τακτικές που προκαλούν φόβο.
Ωστόσο, και οι δύο πλευρές αυτής της ασήμαντης συζήτησης αγνοούν βολικά προφανή γεγονότα, ότι οι κυβερνώντες ελίτ της Αμερικής έχουν τις ρίζες (https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/09/02/top-defense-firms-see-2t-return-on-1b-investment-in-afghan-war/) τους σε φιλο-ισραηλινές πολιτικές πίστεις· ότι αν και μπορεί να υπάρχει διαφορά στο στυλ, η εξωτερική πολιτική των ΗΠΑ, υπό τον Δημοκρατικό Υπουργό Εξωτερικών Antony Blinken και την μελλοντική πρόσληψη του Trump, τον Marco Rubio, είναι πιθανό να είναι πανομοιότυπη· ότι η κυβέρνηση Μπάιντεν-Χάρις έχει δώσει στο Ισραήλ όλη τη βοήθεια που χρειαζόταν για να συντηρήσει τους πολέμους του στη Μέση Ανατολή κατά τη διάρκεια των 13 μηνών και μετά.
Αυτή η αποπνικτική συζήτηση, ωστόσο, χάνει μερικά από τα πιο κρίσιμα σημεία που πρέπει να συζητηθούν, και μάλιστα επειγόντως.
Πρώτον, η περιοχή της Μέσης Ανατολής δεν είναι ένας ενιαίος πολιτικός μονόλιθος. Έχει τους δικούς της πολιτικούς υπολογισμούς, συγκρούσεις, συμμαχίες και επιλογές που περιλαμβάνουν (https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2023/06/02/chinas-increasing-role-in-the-middle-east-implications-for-regional-and-international-dynamics/) και άλλους πολιτικά ισχυρούς όπως η Κίνα, η Ρωσία, μεταξύ άλλων.
Δεύτερον, ότι αρκετές χώρες της Μέσης Ανατολής προσχωρούν (https://research.hktdc.com/en/article/MTQ4Mzc1NzA1Nw) στη, με αυξανόμενη επιρροή, συμμαχία BRICS. Η τελευταία δεν είναι απλώς ένας εμπορικός σύλλογος, αλλά μια ισχυρή οικονομική συμμαχία που συνοδεύεται από ένα ισχυρό πολιτικό λόγοι. Έτσι, το μέλλον και η επιβίωση της Μέσης Ανατολής δεν εξαρτάται από τις οικονομικές πολιτικές των ΗΠΑ.
Τρίτον, ότι ο πόλεμος στη Γάζα είναι ένας πόλεμος που εμπλέκει επίσης τους Παλαιστίνιους, τους Λιβανέζους και τους Άραβες και διεθνείς συμμάχους τους. Ο λαός της κατεχόμενης Παλαιστίνης και του Λιβάνου έχει ικανότητα αυτενέργειας, επιλογές και στρατηγικές που δεν εξαρτώνται πλήρως από την ιδεολογική ταυτότητα ή τις πολιτικές κλίσεις ενός μοναχικού Αμερικανού που κατοικεί στον Λευκό Οίκο.
Εάν οι πολιτικές απόψεις του Αμερικανού προέδρου ήταν πράγματι η πιο καθοριστική πτυχή για τη μοίρα και το μέλλον του παλαιστινιακού λαού, οι παλαιστινιακές φιλοδοξίες θα είχαν καταπνιγεί πριν από δεκαετίες λόγω της εγγενούς προκατάληψης των ΗΠΑ υπέρ του Ισραήλ. Δεν το έκαναν, λόγω της συμπόνιας των αμερικανικών διοικήσεων, αλλά λόγω της καρτερικότητας (sumoud^*) και της ανθεκτικότητας του παλαιστινιακού λαού.
Είναι καιρός να εγκαταλείψουμε την αρχαϊκή σκέψη σχετικά με το συλλογικό μας αποικιακό παρελθόν ή παρόν, που έβλεπε τους δυτικούς ηγέτες ως κύριους και τους λαούς μας ως απλούς υπηκόους, που αγωνίζονται να επιβιώσουν, εκλιπαρώντας, αν και ποτέ αποκτώντας, συνετή δυτική εξωτερική πολιτική.
Ο κόσμος αλλάζει πολύ, και είναι καιρός να αλλάξουμε και εμείς. Ο Fanon είχε ήδη ανακαλύψει τη θεραπεία: Πρέπει να ανιχνεύσουμε κλινικά και να αφαιρέσουμε τη σήψη, όχι μόνο από τη γη μας αλλά και από το μυαλό μας.
^* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumud)
Sumud (αραβικά: صمود, εκλατινισμένα: ṣumūd, που σημαίνει «σταθερότητα» ή «σταθερή εγκαρτέρηση»· προέρχεται από το ρήμα صمد ṣamada, που σημαίνει «τακτοποιώ, στολίζω, στρώνω, σώζω») είναι μια παλαιστινιακή πολιτιστική αξία, ιδεολογικό θέμα, και πολιτική στρατηγική που προέκυψε στον απόηχο του Πολέμου των έξι ημερών του 1967 μεταξύ του παλαιστινιακού λαού ως συνέπεια της καταπίεσής του και της αντίστασης που ενέπνευσε. Τα άτομα που παρουσιάζουν το ṣumūd αναφέρονται ως ṣamīdīn, οι ενικές μορφές του οποίου είναι ṣamīd (αρσ.) και ṣamīda (θηλ.).#PalestineQuestion #HistoryOfPalestine #Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza #GazaStarving #GazaUnderAttack #JusticeForPalestine #SaveGaza #FreeGaza #StandWithPalestine #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheOccupation #PalestinianRights #SavePalestine #DefendPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #VoicesForPalestine #WeAreAllPalestine #PalestinianStruggle #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #free_palestine #israel #genocide #israeli_occupation #free_gaza #israel_is_a_terrorist_state #israel_is_committing_genocide #israeli_terrorism #ισραήλ #Γάζα #ΠόλεμοςΣτηΜέσηΑνατολή #γενοκτονία
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**Israel is hurtling into the political abyss**
By Aida Touma-Sliman & Loren Balhorn
Published 30 November, 2024
URL: https://links.org.au/israel-hurtling-political-abyssMember of the Knesset Aida Touma-Sliman chairs a Status of Women and Gender Equality Committee meeting, 17 November 2017.
Since 7 October 2023, the lives not only of Israelis and Palestinians, but indeed of everyone living in the region have been radically transformed for the worst. The brutal war in Gaza, now expanding into Lebanon, **threatens to mutate into a forever war**, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government stake their political survival on defeating Israel’s mortal enemies and **annexing as much Palestinian territory as they can**.
Meanwhile, back in Israel proper, the revanchist mood shows no signs of abating. Israel’s Palestinian population is subjected to blanket suspicion and surveillance, while the marginalized political Left, Jewish and Arab alike, is the target of government repression and right-ring harassment. Hope for a better future is in increasingly short supply.
Nevertheless, the struggle for a peaceful, democratic future for all people living between the river and the sea continues, and one of its leading figures is Aida Touma-Sliman, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and Member of the Knesset (MK) for the socialist coalition, Hadash, founded by the Communist Party of Israel. Last week, while visiting the European Parliament on the invitation of the Portuguese Communist Party, she sat down with Loren Balhorn to discuss the escalating repression against Palestinians in Israel, Netanyahu’s plans for territorial conquest, and the shrinking space for left-wing forces in the country.
*As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, you have been very vocal about the discrimination and inequality facing your community in the past, even referring to **Israel’s 2018 Nation-State Law** as an “**apartheid law**”. How have things changed since 7 October?*
**We always knew that we did not enjoy equal rights in Israel, but we had never experienced what we’ve faced in the last year. Harsh persecution of Palestinian citizens began right after 7 October. Many were arrested for things like posting verses from the Quran on Facebook or other social media. I often tell the story of a 70-year-old man from the Negev who wrote “Good morning” at 7:45 on 7 October, and was arrested a few days later. Not even Netanyahu knew what was going on that early in the day, but they arrested someone for waking up and posting “Good morning”!**
Many students were expelled from universities, and many artists’ lives were turned into a living hell because they were suspected of supporting the 7 October attacks. The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, published photos of the arrested blindfolded in front of an Israeli flag, and accused them of being Hamas supporters. Almost none of them were ultimately prosecuted, but it didn’t matter — their reputations were already ruined.
Of course, we were all in a state of shock after the attacks, and we understood that there would be a reaction from the Israeli side. When we began to understand that the reaction would be total war, even a **genocidal war**, we wanted to demonstrate — not in support of what happened on 7 October, but for peace and a political solution. But the Israeli government used local police forces to practically forbid all protests for two or three weeks. **When the leadership of the Palestinian community tried to hold a vigil in Nazareth holding up a banner saying “Stop the war!”, many of them were arrested, including Muhammad Barakeh, the chairman of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, and some former MKs.**
On top all that, **public incitement against Palestinians as a community has become normalized**. It’s common for MKs to say we are all Hamas supporters, we are all terrorists. The threatening phone calls and harassment on the street has all gotten worse. When you take into consideration that Ben-Gvir, that fascist, distributed over 100,000 firearm licenses and thousands of guns to pro-government Jewish civilians, you can imagine what kind of danger we face.
*Before we began the interview, you said that you no longer walk the streets alone?*
No, I don’t, and it’s not like I’m hallucinating — there are serious threats to my life. But it’s not only me. In all public spaces, there are now male Jewish civilians carrying guns on them, and **as a Palestinian you are always a suspect**. This is the atmosphere.
The change is also reflected in legislation. A bill is now being brought before the Knesset that will allow the government to ban individuals and entire lists from competing in elections. I’m pretty sure they aren’t doing this to stop Ben-Gvir from running for re-election — the law is designed to target Palestinians and the Left. The fascist right wing in Israel — which, to me, includes Likud — knows that Arabs and left-wing Jews are the key to changing the balance of forces, and they want to wipe us off the political map.
*Surely, none of the things you describe would have been possible without the attack on 7 October. As a Communist who, for decades, had fought for a different outcome to the Israel-Palestine conflict, **did the ferocity of Hamas’s actions on that day surprise you?** How can there be a “political solution” to that kind of violence?*
I would like to tackle your question from a different angle. We are speaking on 13 November 2024, a little over one year and a month since 7 October, and yet we are still asked to go back to that date as if that was the beginning of this conflict. **I’m not seeking to diminish what happened on 7 October — it was a horrible, horrible attack and loss of life.** But what about the 43,000 Gazans (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/08/gaza-unparalleled-suffering-jan-egeland-norwegian-refugee-council-aid-ceasefire-hostages-peace-process), 70 percent of whom are women and children, killed since? As a Communist, as a human being, I cannot tolerate what happened on that day. **I refuse to accept that killing is a solution to anything. But it has to be seen in a context of continuous occupation and oppression.**
How can there be a political solution? Well, there was a political solution after World War II, which was much more horrible than what happened on 7 October. I’m not only speaking about the Holocaust — the whole world suffered under Nazism, and yet, the only way for the Russian people, the Jewish people, and the German people to continue on with their lives was to find a political solution. That’s why I continue to believe that war will not solve anything.
The war isn’t defending anything, except for Israel’s right to launch more wars. We are now over one year into the current war, and I’m sitting here in Brussels worrying about my daughters and granddaughters back in Acre, because there are rockets incoming every day. At least they have an alarm system and an air-raid shelter to go to — the children in Lebanon and Palestine have neither of those things.
*Prior to the Hamas attack, Netanyahu’s government seemed to have given up on any permanent solution, instead preferring to “manage” the occupation and wear down the Palestinians bit by bit, making an independent Palestinian state impossible. Since the war started, he seems to have decided on his own political solution. namely, **ethnic cleansing in Gaza and annexation of the West Bank**.*
You have to understand that this was the plan from the beginning — 7 October just gave Netanyahu and his far-right government the pretext to implement it. If you look at the coalition agreement establishing the current government, they were already talking about annexation of the West Bank back then. They cancelled the law (https://apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank-settlements-netanyahu-b06ec0c7804ddd06751521868f64d800) that authorized the disengagement plan in 2005, which applied to Gaza as well as part of the northern West Bank. This enabled them to intensify efforts on the ground to resettle the evacuated area, which was supposed to be part of the land controlled by the Palestinian Authority, alongside a settlement push throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
If you look at Smotrich’s plan for a Greater Israel (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-12/ty-article/.premium/the-plan-to-subjugate-the-palestinians-goes-ahead/0000018e-32ae-d606-a5ff-7fbf31c80000), **he basically says Israel will expand to encompass the West Bank and Gaza or even further**. That’s why he insisted on becoming a Minister in the Ministry of Defence, in charge of civilian life in the West Bank. **According to Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan”, the Palestinians have three options: they can stay in the Jewish state and accept their status as second- or even third-class citizens, they can leave, or they can die at the hands of the Israeli army. He calls his ethnic cleansing plans a “voluntary transfer” of the Palestinian population.**
*It sounds a lot like how the Bush Administration used the 9/11 attacks as a pretext to invade Iraq.*
Exactly. The plans already existed, but now they have an excuse, because everyone is saying “Israel has a right to defend itself”, everybody believes that Israel is in existential danger. Netanyahu took his failure to protect the people of Israel, he took all of the fear and agony that came after 7 October, and turned it into an opportunity to boost his own political career.
*You were suspended from the Knesset last year for suggesting that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza. Just a few days ago, your colleague Ofer Cassif, another Hadash MK, was suspended for a social media post in which he described Palestinians resisting settler violence in Jenin as “freedom fighters”. This comes on top of growing restrictions on freedom of the press, expression, etc. To what extent can Israel still be considered a liberal democracy?*
Well, I never believed that Israel was a full democracy. Especially after the 2018 Nation-State Law, Israel resembled something more like an “ethno-democracy”: democratic for Jews, but not for Arabs. Now, however, it’s increasingly discriminating against Jews as well. **It’s becoming a fascist regime.**
*That’s a pretty strong statement. What do you mean by that exactly?*
Look at what is happening to Jewish leftists in Israel today, Jews who are against the occupation and the war. They are publically vilified and treated in an undemocratic way. Lots of legislation is now being passed very quickly that undermines human rights and restricts civil rights. Far-right politicians and their supporters are restructuring the state and the judiciary, Ben-Gvir is turning the Israeli police into his own political militia.
At the same time, many so-called liberals — people with whom we demonstrated together before 7 October — are, if not supportive, then at least accepting of it. I implore Israeli society to look closer at what this means for the future: they might use these laws against Palestinians and the Left first, but later on, they will come for you, too.
*You mentioned the pro-democracy movement prior to 7 October, but we also saw big demonstrations against the war in recent months. Now, particularly after Netanyahu expanded the war into Lebanon, his poll numbers are recovering. What does this tell us about the popular mood in Israel?*
First of all, the demonstrations we saw on Israel’s streets weren’t actually against the war. The Israeli public was generally very supportive of the war in Gaza, but many people believed that we needed a ceasefire to free the hostages, because they understood that Netanyahu was never going to sign an agreement with Hamas. A large part of those demonstrating were basically saying, “Agree to a ceasefire, get the hostages back, and then do whatever you want.” **It wasn’t a principled anti-war movement in that sense.**
The reflex for the majority of Israelis is to support their side in war. Throughout the many wars we have experienced, we [Hadash and the Arab parties] are usually the only ones to oppose it at first. Then, after a few weeks, [left-liberal party] Meretz joins us. But Meretz, of course, doesn’t exist anymore.
Because of what happened on 7 October, support for the war was overwhelming at first. Then people began to get tired, feeling that it hadn’t brought the desired results. Now that Netanyahu has started the war on Lebanon, people think maybe we can eliminate Hezbollah and allow the people from the North to return to their homes. It’s as if they learned nothing from the last twelve months: you cannot eliminate either Hezbollah or Hamas militarily, they will always be there.
**But to tell you the truth, Israeli society also needed this war to regain a sense of pride. After 7 October, many Israelis lost their national pride, their feeling that we are a powerful nation, the only real power in the Middle East. The war gives them the feeling that yes, we are able to control the situation, and yes, we are capable of defeating Hamas and Hezbollah.**
*Do you think Israel is more afraid of Hezbollah than Hamas?*
Of course, Hezbollah is much more powerful. Hamas was under siege in Gaza for years, Hezbollah is freer to act, import weaponry, etc. We can see that in the rockets they are using to attack Israel right now — it shows that Hezbollah is still very capable and still has a lot of power.
**That said, I reject armed escalation from either side, because that will just push the other side to do the same. Then you get more rockets, more guns, more death. The only way out of this predicament is a political agreement. But any agreement would threaten Netanyahu’s position. He wants a chaotic situation, because that’s the kind of environment he can survive in. Really, it’s a war for Netanyahu’s political survival as much as it is for his vision of a Greater Israel.**
*What do you make of the collapsed peace talks and Qatar’s announcement that it asked Hamas to leave its territory?*
I’m not the person to speak about what Hamas wants, because I hear about what Hamas wants the same way you do: from the news. Qatar has always played this mediating role, because the US wants them to, and because they need someone to do it, of course. That means there is more pressure on Hamas to reach an agreement. But I think Hamas’s people are basically with their backs to the wall. They can’t ask for anything except for an end to the war.
*What do the levels of support for the war and the ongoing repression of the Left mean for socialist strategy going forward? As a Palestinian Communist in Israel, do you believe there is still space to build alliances between Jewish and Arab workers, and to unite people on a class basis?*
First of all, you have to remember that I am a Member of the Knesset. Therefore, my role is to be in touch with the wider society. I cannot afford to be the most radical person in the movement. That said, the space for building broad-based alliances in Israel is shrinking all the time — there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to cooperate. Many of the people who are demonstrating for democracy in Israel right now refuse to work with us.
Nevertheless, there is still a minority among the Jewish Israeli population that has not changed its position in terms of the occupation and colonization of the Palestinian people, people who truly believe that Israel has to be a state with equal rights for all of its citizens. Those are the people with whom we, as Palestinians in Israel, are fighting side-by-side against the war and against the occupation.
There are many Palestinians with whom I agree on the need to stop the war and end the occupation, but who have lots of right-wing ideas that I do not share at all. If I can maintain relations with them, then I can surely maintain relations with my Jewish comrades who are willing to put themselves in danger to defend Palestinians’ human rights. Still: we are a small group, and we are much smaller than before. We need support from the international Left now more than ever.
*What would that international support look like?*
You know, in the past, we used to invite people from abroad to come visit us in Israel, to show them the inequality and the oppression. But now, we tell them to stay where they are and struggle there. The best solidarity action the international Left can take is to put more pressure on their own governments to stop supporting the Israeli government, to make them understand that Israel is acting against the best interests not only of its own people, but of everyone in the region.
#PalestineQuestion #HistoryOfPalestine #Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza #GazaStarving #GazaUnderAttack #JusticeForPalestine #SaveGaza #FreeGaza #StandWithPalestine #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheOccupation #PalestinianRights #SavePalestine #DefendPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #VoicesForPalestine #WeAreAllPalestine #PalestinianStruggle #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #free_palestine #israel #genocide #israeli_occupation #free_gaza #israel_is_a_terrorist_state #israel_is_committing_genocide #israeli_terrorism #ισραήλ #Γάζα #ΠόλεμοςΣτηΜέσηΑνατολή #γενοκτονία #CommunistPartyOfIsrael #Israel #Lebanon #Hamas #Hezbollah #MiddleEast
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**Israel is hurtling into the political abyss**
By Aida Touma-Sliman & Loren Balhorn
Published 30 November, 2024
URL: https://links.org.au/israel-hurtling-political-abyssMember of the Knesset Aida Touma-Sliman chairs a Status of Women and Gender Equality Committee meeting, 17 November 2017.
Since 7 October 2023, the lives not only of Israelis and Palestinians, but indeed of everyone living in the region have been radically transformed for the worst. The brutal war in Gaza, now expanding into Lebanon, **threatens to mutate into a forever war**, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government stake their political survival on defeating Israel’s mortal enemies and **annexing as much Palestinian territory as they can**.
Meanwhile, back in Israel proper, the revanchist mood shows no signs of abating. Israel’s Palestinian population is subjected to blanket suspicion and surveillance, while the marginalized political Left, Jewish and Arab alike, is the target of government repression and right-ring harassment. Hope for a better future is in increasingly short supply.
Nevertheless, the struggle for a peaceful, democratic future for all people living between the river and the sea continues, and one of its leading figures is Aida Touma-Sliman, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and Member of the Knesset (MK) for the socialist coalition, Hadash, founded by the Communist Party of Israel. Last week, while visiting the European Parliament on the invitation of the Portuguese Communist Party, she sat down with Loren Balhorn to discuss the escalating repression against Palestinians in Israel, Netanyahu’s plans for territorial conquest, and the shrinking space for left-wing forces in the country.
*As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, you have been very vocal about the discrimination and inequality facing your community in the past, even referring to **Israel’s 2018 Nation-State Law** as an “**apartheid law**”. How have things changed since 7 October?*
**We always knew that we did not enjoy equal rights in Israel, but we had never experienced what we’ve faced in the last year. Harsh persecution of Palestinian citizens began right after 7 October. Many were arrested for things like posting verses from the Quran on Facebook or other social media. I often tell the story of a 70-year-old man from the Negev who wrote “Good morning” at 7:45 on 7 October, and was arrested a few days later. Not even Netanyahu knew what was going on that early in the day, but they arrested someone for waking up and posting “Good morning”!**
Many students were expelled from universities, and many artists’ lives were turned into a living hell because they were suspected of supporting the 7 October attacks. The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, published photos of the arrested blindfolded in front of an Israeli flag, and accused them of being Hamas supporters. Almost none of them were ultimately prosecuted, but it didn’t matter — their reputations were already ruined.
Of course, we were all in a state of shock after the attacks, and we understood that there would be a reaction from the Israeli side. When we began to understand that the reaction would be total war, even a **genocidal war**, we wanted to demonstrate — not in support of what happened on 7 October, but for peace and a political solution. But the Israeli government used local police forces to practically forbid all protests for two or three weeks. **When the leadership of the Palestinian community tried to hold a vigil in Nazareth holding up a banner saying “Stop the war!”, many of them were arrested, including Muhammad Barakeh, the chairman of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, and some former MKs.**
On top all that, **public incitement against Palestinians as a community has become normalized**. It’s common for MKs to say we are all Hamas supporters, we are all terrorists. The threatening phone calls and harassment on the street has all gotten worse. When you take into consideration that Ben-Gvir, that fascist, distributed over 100,000 firearm licenses and thousands of guns to pro-government Jewish civilians, you can imagine what kind of danger we face.
*Before we began the interview, you said that you no longer walk the streets alone?*
No, I don’t, and it’s not like I’m hallucinating — there are serious threats to my life. But it’s not only me. In all public spaces, there are now male Jewish civilians carrying guns on them, and **as a Palestinian you are always a suspect**. This is the atmosphere.
The change is also reflected in legislation. A bill is now being brought before the Knesset that will allow the government to ban individuals and entire lists from competing in elections. I’m pretty sure they aren’t doing this to stop Ben-Gvir from running for re-election — the law is designed to target Palestinians and the Left. The fascist right wing in Israel — which, to me, includes Likud — knows that Arabs and left-wing Jews are the key to changing the balance of forces, and they want to wipe us off the political map.
*Surely, none of the things you describe would have been possible without the attack on 7 October. As a Communist who, for decades, had fought for a different outcome to the Israel-Palestine conflict, **did the ferocity of Hamas’s actions on that day surprise you?** How can there be a “political solution” to that kind of violence?*
I would like to tackle your question from a different angle. We are speaking on 13 November 2024, a little over one year and a month since 7 October, and yet we are still asked to go back to that date as if that was the beginning of this conflict. **I’m not seeking to diminish what happened on 7 October — it was a horrible, horrible attack and loss of life.** But what about the 43,000 Gazans (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/08/gaza-unparalleled-suffering-jan-egeland-norwegian-refugee-council-aid-ceasefire-hostages-peace-process), 70 percent of whom are women and children, killed since? As a Communist, as a human being, I cannot tolerate what happened on that day. **I refuse to accept that killing is a solution to anything. But it has to be seen in a context of continuous occupation and oppression.**
How can there be a political solution? Well, there was a political solution after World War II, which was much more horrible than what happened on 7 October. I’m not only speaking about the Holocaust — the whole world suffered under Nazism, and yet, the only way for the Russian people, the Jewish people, and the German people to continue on with their lives was to find a political solution. That’s why I continue to believe that war will not solve anything.
The war isn’t defending anything, except for Israel’s right to launch more wars. We are now over one year into the current war, and I’m sitting here in Brussels worrying about my daughters and granddaughters back in Acre, because there are rockets incoming every day. At least they have an alarm system and an air-raid shelter to go to — the children in Lebanon and Palestine have neither of those things.
*Prior to the Hamas attack, Netanyahu’s government seemed to have given up on any permanent solution, instead preferring to “manage” the occupation and wear down the Palestinians bit by bit, making an independent Palestinian state impossible. Since the war started, he seems to have decided on his own political solution. namely, **ethnic cleansing in Gaza and annexation of the West Bank**.*
You have to understand that this was the plan from the beginning — 7 October just gave Netanyahu and his far-right government the pretext to implement it. If you look at the coalition agreement establishing the current government, they were already talking about annexation of the West Bank back then. They cancelled the law (https://apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank-settlements-netanyahu-b06ec0c7804ddd06751521868f64d800) that authorized the disengagement plan in 2005, which applied to Gaza as well as part of the northern West Bank. This enabled them to intensify efforts on the ground to resettle the evacuated area, which was supposed to be part of the land controlled by the Palestinian Authority, alongside a settlement push throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
If you look at Smotrich’s plan for a Greater Israel (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-12/ty-article/.premium/the-plan-to-subjugate-the-palestinians-goes-ahead/0000018e-32ae-d606-a5ff-7fbf31c80000), **he basically says Israel will expand to encompass the West Bank and Gaza or even further**. That’s why he insisted on becoming a Minister in the Ministry of Defence, in charge of civilian life in the West Bank. **According to Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan”, the Palestinians have three options: they can stay in the Jewish state and accept their status as second- or even third-class citizens, they can leave, or they can die at the hands of the Israeli army. He calls his ethnic cleansing plans a “voluntary transfer” of the Palestinian population.**
*It sounds a lot like how the Bush Administration used the 9/11 attacks as a pretext to invade Iraq.*
Exactly. The plans already existed, but now they have an excuse, because everyone is saying “Israel has a right to defend itself”, everybody believes that Israel is in existential danger. Netanyahu took his failure to protect the people of Israel, he took all of the fear and agony that came after 7 October, and turned it into an opportunity to boost his own political career.
*You were suspended from the Knesset last year for suggesting that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza. Just a few days ago, your colleague Ofer Cassif, another Hadash MK, was suspended for a social media post in which he described Palestinians resisting settler violence in Jenin as “freedom fighters”. This comes on top of growing restrictions on freedom of the press, expression, etc. To what extent can Israel still be considered a liberal democracy?*
Well, I never believed that Israel was a full democracy. Especially after the 2018 Nation-State Law, Israel resembled something more like an “ethno-democracy”: democratic for Jews, but not for Arabs. Now, however, it’s increasingly discriminating against Jews as well. **It’s becoming a fascist regime.**
*That’s a pretty strong statement. What do you mean by that exactly?*
Look at what is happening to Jewish leftists in Israel today, Jews who are against the occupation and the war. They are publically vilified and treated in an undemocratic way. Lots of legislation is now being passed very quickly that undermines human rights and restricts civil rights. Far-right politicians and their supporters are restructuring the state and the judiciary, Ben-Gvir is turning the Israeli police into his own political militia.
At the same time, many so-called liberals — people with whom we demonstrated together before 7 October — are, if not supportive, then at least accepting of it. I implore Israeli society to look closer at what this means for the future: they might use these laws against Palestinians and the Left first, but later on, they will come for you, too.
*You mentioned the pro-democracy movement prior to 7 October, but we also saw big demonstrations against the war in recent months. Now, particularly after Netanyahu expanded the war into Lebanon, his poll numbers are recovering. What does this tell us about the popular mood in Israel?*
First of all, the demonstrations we saw on Israel’s streets weren’t actually against the war. The Israeli public was generally very supportive of the war in Gaza, but many people believed that we needed a ceasefire to free the hostages, because they understood that Netanyahu was never going to sign an agreement with Hamas. A large part of those demonstrating were basically saying, “Agree to a ceasefire, get the hostages back, and then do whatever you want.” **It wasn’t a principled anti-war movement in that sense.**
The reflex for the majority of Israelis is to support their side in war. Throughout the many wars we have experienced, we [Hadash and the Arab parties] are usually the only ones to oppose it at first. Then, after a few weeks, [left-liberal party] Meretz joins us. But Meretz, of course, doesn’t exist anymore.
Because of what happened on 7 October, support for the war was overwhelming at first. Then people began to get tired, feeling that it hadn’t brought the desired results. Now that Netanyahu has started the war on Lebanon, people think maybe we can eliminate Hezbollah and allow the people from the North to return to their homes. It’s as if they learned nothing from the last twelve months: you cannot eliminate either Hezbollah or Hamas militarily, they will always be there.
**But to tell you the truth, Israeli society also needed this war to regain a sense of pride. After 7 October, many Israelis lost their national pride, their feeling that we are a powerful nation, the only real power in the Middle East. The war gives them the feeling that yes, we are able to control the situation, and yes, we are capable of defeating Hamas and Hezbollah.**
*Do you think Israel is more afraid of Hezbollah than Hamas?*
Of course, Hezbollah is much more powerful. Hamas was under siege in Gaza for years, Hezbollah is freer to act, import weaponry, etc. We can see that in the rockets they are using to attack Israel right now — it shows that Hezbollah is still very capable and still has a lot of power.
**That said, I reject armed escalation from either side, because that will just push the other side to do the same. Then you get more rockets, more guns, more death. The only way out of this predicament is a political agreement. But any agreement would threaten Netanyahu’s position. He wants a chaotic situation, because that’s the kind of environment he can survive in. Really, it’s a war for Netanyahu’s political survival as much as it is for his vision of a Greater Israel.**
*What do you make of the collapsed peace talks and Qatar’s announcement that it asked Hamas to leave its territory?*
I’m not the person to speak about what Hamas wants, because I hear about what Hamas wants the same way you do: from the news. Qatar has always played this mediating role, because the US wants them to, and because they need someone to do it, of course. That means there is more pressure on Hamas to reach an agreement. But I think Hamas’s people are basically with their backs to the wall. They can’t ask for anything except for an end to the war.
*What do the levels of support for the war and the ongoing repression of the Left mean for socialist strategy going forward? As a Palestinian Communist in Israel, do you believe there is still space to build alliances between Jewish and Arab workers, and to unite people on a class basis?*
First of all, you have to remember that I am a Member of the Knesset. Therefore, my role is to be in touch with the wider society. I cannot afford to be the most radical person in the movement. That said, the space for building broad-based alliances in Israel is shrinking all the time — there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to cooperate. Many of the people who are demonstrating for democracy in Israel right now refuse to work with us.
Nevertheless, there is still a minority among the Jewish Israeli population that has not changed its position in terms of the occupation and colonization of the Palestinian people, people who truly believe that Israel has to be a state with equal rights for all of its citizens. Those are the people with whom we, as Palestinians in Israel, are fighting side-by-side against the war and against the occupation.
There are many Palestinians with whom I agree on the need to stop the war and end the occupation, but who have lots of right-wing ideas that I do not share at all. If I can maintain relations with them, then I can surely maintain relations with my Jewish comrades who are willing to put themselves in danger to defend Palestinians’ human rights. Still: we are a small group, and we are much smaller than before. We need support from the international Left now more than ever.
*What would that international support look like?*
You know, in the past, we used to invite people from abroad to come visit us in Israel, to show them the inequality and the oppression. But now, we tell them to stay where they are and struggle there. The best solidarity action the international Left can take is to put more pressure on their own governments to stop supporting the Israeli government, to make them understand that Israel is acting against the best interests not only of its own people, but of everyone in the region.
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**Israel is hurtling into the political abyss**
By Aida Touma-Sliman & Loren Balhorn
Published 30 November, 2024
URL: https://links.org.au/israel-hurtling-political-abyssMember of the Knesset Aida Touma-Sliman chairs a Status of Women and Gender Equality Committee meeting, 17 November 2017.
Since 7 October 2023, the lives not only of Israelis and Palestinians, but indeed of everyone living in the region have been radically transformed for the worst. The brutal war in Gaza, now expanding into Lebanon, **threatens to mutate into a forever war**, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government stake their political survival on defeating Israel’s mortal enemies and **annexing as much Palestinian territory as they can**.
Meanwhile, back in Israel proper, the revanchist mood shows no signs of abating. Israel’s Palestinian population is subjected to blanket suspicion and surveillance, while the marginalized political Left, Jewish and Arab alike, is the target of government repression and right-ring harassment. Hope for a better future is in increasingly short supply.
Nevertheless, the struggle for a peaceful, democratic future for all people living between the river and the sea continues, and one of its leading figures is Aida Touma-Sliman, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and Member of the Knesset (MK) for the socialist coalition, Hadash, founded by the Communist Party of Israel. Last week, while visiting the European Parliament on the invitation of the Portuguese Communist Party, she sat down with Loren Balhorn to discuss the escalating repression against Palestinians in Israel, Netanyahu’s plans for territorial conquest, and the shrinking space for left-wing forces in the country.
*As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, you have been very vocal about the discrimination and inequality facing your community in the past, even referring to **Israel’s 2018 Nation-State Law** as an “**apartheid law**”. How have things changed since 7 October?*
**We always knew that we did not enjoy equal rights in Israel, but we had never experienced what we’ve faced in the last year. Harsh persecution of Palestinian citizens began right after 7 October. Many were arrested for things like posting verses from the Quran on Facebook or other social media. I often tell the story of a 70-year-old man from the Negev who wrote “Good morning” at 7:45 on 7 October, and was arrested a few days later. Not even Netanyahu knew what was going on that early in the day, but they arrested someone for waking up and posting “Good morning”!**
Many students were expelled from universities, and many artists’ lives were turned into a living hell because they were suspected of supporting the 7 October attacks. The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, published photos of the arrested blindfolded in front of an Israeli flag, and accused them of being Hamas supporters. Almost none of them were ultimately prosecuted, but it didn’t matter — their reputations were already ruined.
Of course, we were all in a state of shock after the attacks, and we understood that there would be a reaction from the Israeli side. When we began to understand that the reaction would be total war, even a **genocidal war**, we wanted to demonstrate — not in support of what happened on 7 October, but for peace and a political solution. But the Israeli government used local police forces to practically forbid all protests for two or three weeks. **When the leadership of the Palestinian community tried to hold a vigil in Nazareth holding up a banner saying “Stop the war!”, many of them were arrested, including Muhammad Barakeh, the chairman of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, and some former MKs.**
On top all that, **public incitement against Palestinians as a community has become normalized**. It’s common for MKs to say we are all Hamas supporters, we are all terrorists. The threatening phone calls and harassment on the street has all gotten worse. When you take into consideration that Ben-Gvir, that fascist, distributed over 100,000 firearm licenses and thousands of guns to pro-government Jewish civilians, you can imagine what kind of danger we face.
*Before we began the interview, you said that you no longer walk the streets alone?*
No, I don’t, and it’s not like I’m hallucinating — there are serious threats to my life. But it’s not only me. In all public spaces, there are now male Jewish civilians carrying guns on them, and **as a Palestinian you are always a suspect**. This is the atmosphere.
The change is also reflected in legislation. A bill is now being brought before the Knesset that will allow the government to ban individuals and entire lists from competing in elections. I’m pretty sure they aren’t doing this to stop Ben-Gvir from running for re-election — the law is designed to target Palestinians and the Left. The fascist right wing in Israel — which, to me, includes Likud — knows that Arabs and left-wing Jews are the key to changing the balance of forces, and they want to wipe us off the political map.
*Surely, none of the things you describe would have been possible without the attack on 7 October. As a Communist who, for decades, had fought for a different outcome to the Israel-Palestine conflict, **did the ferocity of Hamas’s actions on that day surprise you?** How can there be a “political solution” to that kind of violence?*
I would like to tackle your question from a different angle. We are speaking on 13 November 2024, a little over one year and a month since 7 October, and yet we are still asked to go back to that date as if that was the beginning of this conflict. **I’m not seeking to diminish what happened on 7 October — it was a horrible, horrible attack and loss of life.** But what about the 43,000 Gazans (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/08/gaza-unparalleled-suffering-jan-egeland-norwegian-refugee-council-aid-ceasefire-hostages-peace-process), 70 percent of whom are women and children, killed since? As a Communist, as a human being, I cannot tolerate what happened on that day. **I refuse to accept that killing is a solution to anything. But it has to be seen in a context of continuous occupation and oppression.**
How can there be a political solution? Well, there was a political solution after World War II, which was much more horrible than what happened on 7 October. I’m not only speaking about the Holocaust — the whole world suffered under Nazism, and yet, the only way for the Russian people, the Jewish people, and the German people to continue on with their lives was to find a political solution. That’s why I continue to believe that war will not solve anything.
The war isn’t defending anything, except for Israel’s right to launch more wars. We are now over one year into the current war, and I’m sitting here in Brussels worrying about my daughters and granddaughters back in Acre, because there are rockets incoming every day. At least they have an alarm system and an air-raid shelter to go to — the children in Lebanon and Palestine have neither of those things.
*Prior to the Hamas attack, Netanyahu’s government seemed to have given up on any permanent solution, instead preferring to “manage” the occupation and wear down the Palestinians bit by bit, making an independent Palestinian state impossible. Since the war started, he seems to have decided on his own political solution. namely, **ethnic cleansing in Gaza and annexation of the West Bank**.*
You have to understand that this was the plan from the beginning — 7 October just gave Netanyahu and his far-right government the pretext to implement it. If you look at the coalition agreement establishing the current government, they were already talking about annexation of the West Bank back then. They cancelled the law (https://apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank-settlements-netanyahu-b06ec0c7804ddd06751521868f64d800) that authorized the disengagement plan in 2005, which applied to Gaza as well as part of the northern West Bank. This enabled them to intensify efforts on the ground to resettle the evacuated area, which was supposed to be part of the land controlled by the Palestinian Authority, alongside a settlement push throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
If you look at Smotrich’s plan for a Greater Israel (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-12/ty-article/.premium/the-plan-to-subjugate-the-palestinians-goes-ahead/0000018e-32ae-d606-a5ff-7fbf31c80000), **he basically says Israel will expand to encompass the West Bank and Gaza or even further**. That’s why he insisted on becoming a Minister in the Ministry of Defence, in charge of civilian life in the West Bank. **According to Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan”, the Palestinians have three options: they can stay in the Jewish state and accept their status as second- or even third-class citizens, they can leave, or they can die at the hands of the Israeli army. He calls his ethnic cleansing plans a “voluntary transfer” of the Palestinian population.**
*It sounds a lot like how the Bush Administration used the 9/11 attacks as a pretext to invade Iraq.*
Exactly. The plans already existed, but now they have an excuse, because everyone is saying “Israel has a right to defend itself”, everybody believes that Israel is in existential danger. Netanyahu took his failure to protect the people of Israel, he took all of the fear and agony that came after 7 October, and turned it into an opportunity to boost his own political career.
*You were suspended from the Knesset last year for suggesting that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza. Just a few days ago, your colleague Ofer Cassif, another Hadash MK, was suspended for a social media post in which he described Palestinians resisting settler violence in Jenin as “freedom fighters”. This comes on top of growing restrictions on freedom of the press, expression, etc. To what extent can Israel still be considered a liberal democracy?*
Well, I never believed that Israel was a full democracy. Especially after the 2018 Nation-State Law, Israel resembled something more like an “ethno-democracy”: democratic for Jews, but not for Arabs. Now, however, it’s increasingly discriminating against Jews as well. **It’s becoming a fascist regime.**
*That’s a pretty strong statement. What do you mean by that exactly?*
Look at what is happening to Jewish leftists in Israel today, Jews who are against the occupation and the war. They are publically vilified and treated in an undemocratic way. Lots of legislation is now being passed very quickly that undermines human rights and restricts civil rights. Far-right politicians and their supporters are restructuring the state and the judiciary, Ben-Gvir is turning the Israeli police into his own political militia.
At the same time, many so-called liberals — people with whom we demonstrated together before 7 October — are, if not supportive, then at least accepting of it. I implore Israeli society to look closer at what this means for the future: they might use these laws against Palestinians and the Left first, but later on, they will come for you, too.
*You mentioned the pro-democracy movement prior to 7 October, but we also saw big demonstrations against the war in recent months. Now, particularly after Netanyahu expanded the war into Lebanon, his poll numbers are recovering. What does this tell us about the popular mood in Israel?*
First of all, the demonstrations we saw on Israel’s streets weren’t actually against the war. The Israeli public was generally very supportive of the war in Gaza, but many people believed that we needed a ceasefire to free the hostages, because they understood that Netanyahu was never going to sign an agreement with Hamas. A large part of those demonstrating were basically saying, “Agree to a ceasefire, get the hostages back, and then do whatever you want.” **It wasn’t a principled anti-war movement in that sense.**
The reflex for the majority of Israelis is to support their side in war. Throughout the many wars we have experienced, we [Hadash and the Arab parties] are usually the only ones to oppose it at first. Then, after a few weeks, [left-liberal party] Meretz joins us. But Meretz, of course, doesn’t exist anymore.
Because of what happened on 7 October, support for the war was overwhelming at first. Then people began to get tired, feeling that it hadn’t brought the desired results. Now that Netanyahu has started the war on Lebanon, people think maybe we can eliminate Hezbollah and allow the people from the North to return to their homes. It’s as if they learned nothing from the last twelve months: you cannot eliminate either Hezbollah or Hamas militarily, they will always be there.
**But to tell you the truth, Israeli society also needed this war to regain a sense of pride. After 7 October, many Israelis lost their national pride, their feeling that we are a powerful nation, the only real power in the Middle East. The war gives them the feeling that yes, we are able to control the situation, and yes, we are capable of defeating Hamas and Hezbollah.**
*Do you think Israel is more afraid of Hezbollah than Hamas?*
Of course, Hezbollah is much more powerful. Hamas was under siege in Gaza for years, Hezbollah is freer to act, import weaponry, etc. We can see that in the rockets they are using to attack Israel right now — it shows that Hezbollah is still very capable and still has a lot of power.
**That said, I reject armed escalation from either side, because that will just push the other side to do the same. Then you get more rockets, more guns, more death. The only way out of this predicament is a political agreement. But any agreement would threaten Netanyahu’s position. He wants a chaotic situation, because that’s the kind of environment he can survive in. Really, it’s a war for Netanyahu’s political survival as much as it is for his vision of a Greater Israel.**
*What do you make of the collapsed peace talks and Qatar’s announcement that it asked Hamas to leave its territory?*
I’m not the person to speak about what Hamas wants, because I hear about what Hamas wants the same way you do: from the news. Qatar has always played this mediating role, because the US wants them to, and because they need someone to do it, of course. That means there is more pressure on Hamas to reach an agreement. But I think Hamas’s people are basically with their backs to the wall. They can’t ask for anything except for an end to the war.
*What do the levels of support for the war and the ongoing repression of the Left mean for socialist strategy going forward? As a Palestinian Communist in Israel, do you believe there is still space to build alliances between Jewish and Arab workers, and to unite people on a class basis?*
First of all, you have to remember that I am a Member of the Knesset. Therefore, my role is to be in touch with the wider society. I cannot afford to be the most radical person in the movement. That said, the space for building broad-based alliances in Israel is shrinking all the time — there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to cooperate. Many of the people who are demonstrating for democracy in Israel right now refuse to work with us.
Nevertheless, there is still a minority among the Jewish Israeli population that has not changed its position in terms of the occupation and colonization of the Palestinian people, people who truly believe that Israel has to be a state with equal rights for all of its citizens. Those are the people with whom we, as Palestinians in Israel, are fighting side-by-side against the war and against the occupation.
There are many Palestinians with whom I agree on the need to stop the war and end the occupation, but who have lots of right-wing ideas that I do not share at all. If I can maintain relations with them, then I can surely maintain relations with my Jewish comrades who are willing to put themselves in danger to defend Palestinians’ human rights. Still: we are a small group, and we are much smaller than before. We need support from the international Left now more than ever.
*What would that international support look like?*
You know, in the past, we used to invite people from abroad to come visit us in Israel, to show them the inequality and the oppression. But now, we tell them to stay where they are and struggle there. The best solidarity action the international Left can take is to put more pressure on their own governments to stop supporting the Israeli government, to make them understand that Israel is acting against the best interests not only of its own people, but of everyone in the region.
#PalestineQuestion #HistoryOfPalestine #Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza #GazaStarving #GazaUnderAttack #JusticeForPalestine #SaveGaza #FreeGaza #StandWithPalestine #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheOccupation #PalestinianRights #SavePalestine #DefendPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #VoicesForPalestine #WeAreAllPalestine #PalestinianStruggle #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #free_palestine #israel #genocide #israeli_occupation #free_gaza #israel_is_a_terrorist_state #israel_is_committing_genocide #israeli_terrorism #ισραήλ #Γάζα #ΠόλεμοςΣτηΜέσηΑνατολή #γενοκτονία #CommunistPartyOfIsrael #Israel #Lebanon #Hamas #Hezbollah #MiddleEast
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**Israel is hurtling into the political abyss**
By Aida Touma-Sliman & Loren Balhorn
Published 30 November, 2024
URL: https://links.org.au/israel-hurtling-political-abyssMember of the Knesset Aida Touma-Sliman chairs a Status of Women and Gender Equality Committee meeting, 17 November 2017.
Since 7 October 2023, the lives not only of Israelis and Palestinians, but indeed of everyone living in the region have been radically transformed for the worst. The brutal war in Gaza, now expanding into Lebanon, **threatens to mutate into a forever war**, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government stake their political survival on defeating Israel’s mortal enemies and **annexing as much Palestinian territory as they can**.
Meanwhile, back in Israel proper, the revanchist mood shows no signs of abating. Israel’s Palestinian population is subjected to blanket suspicion and surveillance, while the marginalized political Left, Jewish and Arab alike, is the target of government repression and right-ring harassment. Hope for a better future is in increasingly short supply.
Nevertheless, the struggle for a peaceful, democratic future for all people living between the river and the sea continues, and one of its leading figures is Aida Touma-Sliman, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and Member of the Knesset (MK) for the socialist coalition, Hadash, founded by the Communist Party of Israel. Last week, while visiting the European Parliament on the invitation of the Portuguese Communist Party, she sat down with Loren Balhorn to discuss the escalating repression against Palestinians in Israel, Netanyahu’s plans for territorial conquest, and the shrinking space for left-wing forces in the country.
*As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, you have been very vocal about the discrimination and inequality facing your community in the past, even referring to **Israel’s 2018 Nation-State Law** as an “**apartheid law**”. How have things changed since 7 October?*
**We always knew that we did not enjoy equal rights in Israel, but we had never experienced what we’ve faced in the last year. Harsh persecution of Palestinian citizens began right after 7 October. Many were arrested for things like posting verses from the Quran on Facebook or other social media. I often tell the story of a 70-year-old man from the Negev who wrote “Good morning” at 7:45 on 7 October, and was arrested a few days later. Not even Netanyahu knew what was going on that early in the day, but they arrested someone for waking up and posting “Good morning”!**
Many students were expelled from universities, and many artists’ lives were turned into a living hell because they were suspected of supporting the 7 October attacks. The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, published photos of the arrested blindfolded in front of an Israeli flag, and accused them of being Hamas supporters. Almost none of them were ultimately prosecuted, but it didn’t matter — their reputations were already ruined.
Of course, we were all in a state of shock after the attacks, and we understood that there would be a reaction from the Israeli side. When we began to understand that the reaction would be total war, even a **genocidal war**, we wanted to demonstrate — not in support of what happened on 7 October, but for peace and a political solution. But the Israeli government used local police forces to practically forbid all protests for two or three weeks. **When the leadership of the Palestinian community tried to hold a vigil in Nazareth holding up a banner saying “Stop the war!”, many of them were arrested, including Muhammad Barakeh, the chairman of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, and some former MKs.**
On top all that, **public incitement against Palestinians as a community has become normalized**. It’s common for MKs to say we are all Hamas supporters, we are all terrorists. The threatening phone calls and harassment on the street has all gotten worse. When you take into consideration that Ben-Gvir, that fascist, distributed over 100,000 firearm licenses and thousands of guns to pro-government Jewish civilians, you can imagine what kind of danger we face.
*Before we began the interview, you said that you no longer walk the streets alone?*
No, I don’t, and it’s not like I’m hallucinating — there are serious threats to my life. But it’s not only me. In all public spaces, there are now male Jewish civilians carrying guns on them, and **as a Palestinian you are always a suspect**. This is the atmosphere.
The change is also reflected in legislation. A bill is now being brought before the Knesset that will allow the government to ban individuals and entire lists from competing in elections. I’m pretty sure they aren’t doing this to stop Ben-Gvir from running for re-election — the law is designed to target Palestinians and the Left. The fascist right wing in Israel — which, to me, includes Likud — knows that Arabs and left-wing Jews are the key to changing the balance of forces, and they want to wipe us off the political map.
*Surely, none of the things you describe would have been possible without the attack on 7 October. As a Communist who, for decades, had fought for a different outcome to the Israel-Palestine conflict, **did the ferocity of Hamas’s actions on that day surprise you?** How can there be a “political solution” to that kind of violence?*
I would like to tackle your question from a different angle. We are speaking on 13 November 2024, a little over one year and a month since 7 October, and yet we are still asked to go back to that date as if that was the beginning of this conflict. **I’m not seeking to diminish what happened on 7 October — it was a horrible, horrible attack and loss of life.** But what about the 43,000 Gazans (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/08/gaza-unparalleled-suffering-jan-egeland-norwegian-refugee-council-aid-ceasefire-hostages-peace-process), 70 percent of whom are women and children, killed since? As a Communist, as a human being, I cannot tolerate what happened on that day. **I refuse to accept that killing is a solution to anything. But it has to be seen in a context of continuous occupation and oppression.**
How can there be a political solution? Well, there was a political solution after World War II, which was much more horrible than what happened on 7 October. I’m not only speaking about the Holocaust — the whole world suffered under Nazism, and yet, the only way for the Russian people, the Jewish people, and the German people to continue on with their lives was to find a political solution. That’s why I continue to believe that war will not solve anything.
The war isn’t defending anything, except for Israel’s right to launch more wars. We are now over one year into the current war, and I’m sitting here in Brussels worrying about my daughters and granddaughters back in Acre, because there are rockets incoming every day. At least they have an alarm system and an air-raid shelter to go to — the children in Lebanon and Palestine have neither of those things.
*Prior to the Hamas attack, Netanyahu’s government seemed to have given up on any permanent solution, instead preferring to “manage” the occupation and wear down the Palestinians bit by bit, making an independent Palestinian state impossible. Since the war started, he seems to have decided on his own political solution. namely, **ethnic cleansing in Gaza and annexation of the West Bank**.*
You have to understand that this was the plan from the beginning — 7 October just gave Netanyahu and his far-right government the pretext to implement it. If you look at the coalition agreement establishing the current government, they were already talking about annexation of the West Bank back then. They cancelled the law (https://apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank-settlements-netanyahu-b06ec0c7804ddd06751521868f64d800) that authorized the disengagement plan in 2005, which applied to Gaza as well as part of the northern West Bank. This enabled them to intensify efforts on the ground to resettle the evacuated area, which was supposed to be part of the land controlled by the Palestinian Authority, alongside a settlement push throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
If you look at Smotrich’s plan for a Greater Israel (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-12/ty-article/.premium/the-plan-to-subjugate-the-palestinians-goes-ahead/0000018e-32ae-d606-a5ff-7fbf31c80000), **he basically says Israel will expand to encompass the West Bank and Gaza or even further**. That’s why he insisted on becoming a Minister in the Ministry of Defence, in charge of civilian life in the West Bank. **According to Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan”, the Palestinians have three options: they can stay in the Jewish state and accept their status as second- or even third-class citizens, they can leave, or they can die at the hands of the Israeli army. He calls his ethnic cleansing plans a “voluntary transfer” of the Palestinian population.**
*It sounds a lot like how the Bush Administration used the 9/11 attacks as a pretext to invade Iraq.*
Exactly. The plans already existed, but now they have an excuse, because everyone is saying “Israel has a right to defend itself”, everybody believes that Israel is in existential danger. Netanyahu took his failure to protect the people of Israel, he took all of the fear and agony that came after 7 October, and turned it into an opportunity to boost his own political career.
*You were suspended from the Knesset last year for suggesting that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza. Just a few days ago, your colleague Ofer Cassif, another Hadash MK, was suspended for a social media post in which he described Palestinians resisting settler violence in Jenin as “freedom fighters”. This comes on top of growing restrictions on freedom of the press, expression, etc. To what extent can Israel still be considered a liberal democracy?*
Well, I never believed that Israel was a full democracy. Especially after the 2018 Nation-State Law, Israel resembled something more like an “ethno-democracy”: democratic for Jews, but not for Arabs. Now, however, it’s increasingly discriminating against Jews as well. **It’s becoming a fascist regime.**
*That’s a pretty strong statement. What do you mean by that exactly?*
Look at what is happening to Jewish leftists in Israel today, Jews who are against the occupation and the war. They are publically vilified and treated in an undemocratic way. Lots of legislation is now being passed very quickly that undermines human rights and restricts civil rights. Far-right politicians and their supporters are restructuring the state and the judiciary, Ben-Gvir is turning the Israeli police into his own political militia.
At the same time, many so-called liberals — people with whom we demonstrated together before 7 October — are, if not supportive, then at least accepting of it. I implore Israeli society to look closer at what this means for the future: they might use these laws against Palestinians and the Left first, but later on, they will come for you, too.
*You mentioned the pro-democracy movement prior to 7 October, but we also saw big demonstrations against the war in recent months. Now, particularly after Netanyahu expanded the war into Lebanon, his poll numbers are recovering. What does this tell us about the popular mood in Israel?*
First of all, the demonstrations we saw on Israel’s streets weren’t actually against the war. The Israeli public was generally very supportive of the war in Gaza, but many people believed that we needed a ceasefire to free the hostages, because they understood that Netanyahu was never going to sign an agreement with Hamas. A large part of those demonstrating were basically saying, “Agree to a ceasefire, get the hostages back, and then do whatever you want.” **It wasn’t a principled anti-war movement in that sense.**
The reflex for the majority of Israelis is to support their side in war. Throughout the many wars we have experienced, we [Hadash and the Arab parties] are usually the only ones to oppose it at first. Then, after a few weeks, [left-liberal party] Meretz joins us. But Meretz, of course, doesn’t exist anymore.
Because of what happened on 7 October, support for the war was overwhelming at first. Then people began to get tired, feeling that it hadn’t brought the desired results. Now that Netanyahu has started the war on Lebanon, people think maybe we can eliminate Hezbollah and allow the people from the North to return to their homes. It’s as if they learned nothing from the last twelve months: you cannot eliminate either Hezbollah or Hamas militarily, they will always be there.
**But to tell you the truth, Israeli society also needed this war to regain a sense of pride. After 7 October, many Israelis lost their national pride, their feeling that we are a powerful nation, the only real power in the Middle East. The war gives them the feeling that yes, we are able to control the situation, and yes, we are capable of defeating Hamas and Hezbollah.**
*Do you think Israel is more afraid of Hezbollah than Hamas?*
Of course, Hezbollah is much more powerful. Hamas was under siege in Gaza for years, Hezbollah is freer to act, import weaponry, etc. We can see that in the rockets they are using to attack Israel right now — it shows that Hezbollah is still very capable and still has a lot of power.
**That said, I reject armed escalation from either side, because that will just push the other side to do the same. Then you get more rockets, more guns, more death. The only way out of this predicament is a political agreement. But any agreement would threaten Netanyahu’s position. He wants a chaotic situation, because that’s the kind of environment he can survive in. Really, it’s a war for Netanyahu’s political survival as much as it is for his vision of a Greater Israel.**
*What do you make of the collapsed peace talks and Qatar’s announcement that it asked Hamas to leave its territory?*
I’m not the person to speak about what Hamas wants, because I hear about what Hamas wants the same way you do: from the news. Qatar has always played this mediating role, because the US wants them to, and because they need someone to do it, of course. That means there is more pressure on Hamas to reach an agreement. But I think Hamas’s people are basically with their backs to the wall. They can’t ask for anything except for an end to the war.
*What do the levels of support for the war and the ongoing repression of the Left mean for socialist strategy going forward? As a Palestinian Communist in Israel, do you believe there is still space to build alliances between Jewish and Arab workers, and to unite people on a class basis?*
First of all, you have to remember that I am a Member of the Knesset. Therefore, my role is to be in touch with the wider society. I cannot afford to be the most radical person in the movement. That said, the space for building broad-based alliances in Israel is shrinking all the time — there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to cooperate. Many of the people who are demonstrating for democracy in Israel right now refuse to work with us.
Nevertheless, there is still a minority among the Jewish Israeli population that has not changed its position in terms of the occupation and colonization of the Palestinian people, people who truly believe that Israel has to be a state with equal rights for all of its citizens. Those are the people with whom we, as Palestinians in Israel, are fighting side-by-side against the war and against the occupation.
There are many Palestinians with whom I agree on the need to stop the war and end the occupation, but who have lots of right-wing ideas that I do not share at all. If I can maintain relations with them, then I can surely maintain relations with my Jewish comrades who are willing to put themselves in danger to defend Palestinians’ human rights. Still: we are a small group, and we are much smaller than before. We need support from the international Left now more than ever.
*What would that international support look like?*
You know, in the past, we used to invite people from abroad to come visit us in Israel, to show them the inequality and the oppression. But now, we tell them to stay where they are and struggle there. The best solidarity action the international Left can take is to put more pressure on their own governments to stop supporting the Israeli government, to make them understand that Israel is acting against the best interests not only of its own people, but of everyone in the region.
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**Israel is hurtling into the political abyss**
By Aida Touma-Sliman & Loren Balhorn
Published 30 November, 2024
URL: https://links.org.au/israel-hurtling-political-abyssMember of the Knesset Aida Touma-Sliman chairs a Status of Women and Gender Equality Committee meeting, 17 November 2017.
Since 7 October 2023, the lives not only of Israelis and Palestinians, but indeed of everyone living in the region have been radically transformed for the worst. The brutal war in Gaza, now expanding into Lebanon, **threatens to mutate into a forever war**, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government stake their political survival on defeating Israel’s mortal enemies and **annexing as much Palestinian territory as they can**.
Meanwhile, back in Israel proper, the revanchist mood shows no signs of abating. Israel’s Palestinian population is subjected to blanket suspicion and surveillance, while the marginalized political Left, Jewish and Arab alike, is the target of government repression and right-ring harassment. Hope for a better future is in increasingly short supply.
Nevertheless, the struggle for a peaceful, democratic future for all people living between the river and the sea continues, and one of its leading figures is Aida Touma-Sliman, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and Member of the Knesset (MK) for the socialist coalition, Hadash, founded by the Communist Party of Israel. Last week, while visiting the European Parliament on the invitation of the Portuguese Communist Party, she sat down with Loren Balhorn to discuss the escalating repression against Palestinians in Israel, Netanyahu’s plans for territorial conquest, and the shrinking space for left-wing forces in the country.
*As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, you have been very vocal about the discrimination and inequality facing your community in the past, even referring to **Israel’s 2018 Nation-State Law** as an “**apartheid law**”. How have things changed since 7 October?*
**We always knew that we did not enjoy equal rights in Israel, but we had never experienced what we’ve faced in the last year. Harsh persecution of Palestinian citizens began right after 7 October. Many were arrested for things like posting verses from the Quran on Facebook or other social media. I often tell the story of a 70-year-old man from the Negev who wrote “Good morning” at 7:45 on 7 October, and was arrested a few days later. Not even Netanyahu knew what was going on that early in the day, but they arrested someone for waking up and posting “Good morning”!**
Many students were expelled from universities, and many artists’ lives were turned into a living hell because they were suspected of supporting the 7 October attacks. The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, published photos of the arrested blindfolded in front of an Israeli flag, and accused them of being Hamas supporters. Almost none of them were ultimately prosecuted, but it didn’t matter — their reputations were already ruined.
Of course, we were all in a state of shock after the attacks, and we understood that there would be a reaction from the Israeli side. When we began to understand that the reaction would be total war, even a **genocidal war**, we wanted to demonstrate — not in support of what happened on 7 October, but for peace and a political solution. But the Israeli government used local police forces to practically forbid all protests for two or three weeks. **When the leadership of the Palestinian community tried to hold a vigil in Nazareth holding up a banner saying “Stop the war!”, many of them were arrested, including Muhammad Barakeh, the chairman of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, and some former MKs.**
On top all that, **public incitement against Palestinians as a community has become normalized**. It’s common for MKs to say we are all Hamas supporters, we are all terrorists. The threatening phone calls and harassment on the street has all gotten worse. When you take into consideration that Ben-Gvir, that fascist, distributed over 100,000 firearm licenses and thousands of guns to pro-government Jewish civilians, you can imagine what kind of danger we face.
*Before we began the interview, you said that you no longer walk the streets alone?*
No, I don’t, and it’s not like I’m hallucinating — there are serious threats to my life. But it’s not only me. In all public spaces, there are now male Jewish civilians carrying guns on them, and **as a Palestinian you are always a suspect**. This is the atmosphere.
The change is also reflected in legislation. A bill is now being brought before the Knesset that will allow the government to ban individuals and entire lists from competing in elections. I’m pretty sure they aren’t doing this to stop Ben-Gvir from running for re-election — the law is designed to target Palestinians and the Left. The fascist right wing in Israel — which, to me, includes Likud — knows that Arabs and left-wing Jews are the key to changing the balance of forces, and they want to wipe us off the political map.
*Surely, none of the things you describe would have been possible without the attack on 7 October. As a Communist who, for decades, had fought for a different outcome to the Israel-Palestine conflict, **did the ferocity of Hamas’s actions on that day surprise you?** How can there be a “political solution” to that kind of violence?*
I would like to tackle your question from a different angle. We are speaking on 13 November 2024, a little over one year and a month since 7 October, and yet we are still asked to go back to that date as if that was the beginning of this conflict. **I’m not seeking to diminish what happened on 7 October — it was a horrible, horrible attack and loss of life.** But what about the 43,000 Gazans (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/08/gaza-unparalleled-suffering-jan-egeland-norwegian-refugee-council-aid-ceasefire-hostages-peace-process), 70 percent of whom are women and children, killed since? As a Communist, as a human being, I cannot tolerate what happened on that day. **I refuse to accept that killing is a solution to anything. But it has to be seen in a context of continuous occupation and oppression.**
How can there be a political solution? Well, there was a political solution after World War II, which was much more horrible than what happened on 7 October. I’m not only speaking about the Holocaust — the whole world suffered under Nazism, and yet, the only way for the Russian people, the Jewish people, and the German people to continue on with their lives was to find a political solution. That’s why I continue to believe that war will not solve anything.
The war isn’t defending anything, except for Israel’s right to launch more wars. We are now over one year into the current war, and I’m sitting here in Brussels worrying about my daughters and granddaughters back in Acre, because there are rockets incoming every day. At least they have an alarm system and an air-raid shelter to go to — the children in Lebanon and Palestine have neither of those things.
*Prior to the Hamas attack, Netanyahu’s government seemed to have given up on any permanent solution, instead preferring to “manage” the occupation and wear down the Palestinians bit by bit, making an independent Palestinian state impossible. Since the war started, he seems to have decided on his own political solution. namely, **ethnic cleansing in Gaza and annexation of the West Bank**.*
You have to understand that this was the plan from the beginning — 7 October just gave Netanyahu and his far-right government the pretext to implement it. If you look at the coalition agreement establishing the current government, they were already talking about annexation of the West Bank back then. They cancelled the law (https://apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank-settlements-netanyahu-b06ec0c7804ddd06751521868f64d800) that authorized the disengagement plan in 2005, which applied to Gaza as well as part of the northern West Bank. This enabled them to intensify efforts on the ground to resettle the evacuated area, which was supposed to be part of the land controlled by the Palestinian Authority, alongside a settlement push throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
If you look at Smotrich’s plan for a Greater Israel (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-12/ty-article/.premium/the-plan-to-subjugate-the-palestinians-goes-ahead/0000018e-32ae-d606-a5ff-7fbf31c80000), **he basically says Israel will expand to encompass the West Bank and Gaza or even further**. That’s why he insisted on becoming a Minister in the Ministry of Defence, in charge of civilian life in the West Bank. **According to Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan”, the Palestinians have three options: they can stay in the Jewish state and accept their status as second- or even third-class citizens, they can leave, or they can die at the hands of the Israeli army. He calls his ethnic cleansing plans a “voluntary transfer” of the Palestinian population.**
*It sounds a lot like how the Bush Administration used the 9/11 attacks as a pretext to invade Iraq.*
Exactly. The plans already existed, but now they have an excuse, because everyone is saying “Israel has a right to defend itself”, everybody believes that Israel is in existential danger. Netanyahu took his failure to protect the people of Israel, he took all of the fear and agony that came after 7 October, and turned it into an opportunity to boost his own political career.
*You were suspended from the Knesset last year for suggesting that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza. Just a few days ago, your colleague Ofer Cassif, another Hadash MK, was suspended for a social media post in which he described Palestinians resisting settler violence in Jenin as “freedom fighters”. This comes on top of growing restrictions on freedom of the press, expression, etc. To what extent can Israel still be considered a liberal democracy?*
Well, I never believed that Israel was a full democracy. Especially after the 2018 Nation-State Law, Israel resembled something more like an “ethno-democracy”: democratic for Jews, but not for Arabs. Now, however, it’s increasingly discriminating against Jews as well. **It’s becoming a fascist regime.**
*That’s a pretty strong statement. What do you mean by that exactly?*
Look at what is happening to Jewish leftists in Israel today, Jews who are against the occupation and the war. They are publically vilified and treated in an undemocratic way. Lots of legislation is now being passed very quickly that undermines human rights and restricts civil rights. Far-right politicians and their supporters are restructuring the state and the judiciary, Ben-Gvir is turning the Israeli police into his own political militia.
At the same time, many so-called liberals — people with whom we demonstrated together before 7 October — are, if not supportive, then at least accepting of it. I implore Israeli society to look closer at what this means for the future: they might use these laws against Palestinians and the Left first, but later on, they will come for you, too.
*You mentioned the pro-democracy movement prior to 7 October, but we also saw big demonstrations against the war in recent months. Now, particularly after Netanyahu expanded the war into Lebanon, his poll numbers are recovering. What does this tell us about the popular mood in Israel?*
First of all, the demonstrations we saw on Israel’s streets weren’t actually against the war. The Israeli public was generally very supportive of the war in Gaza, but many people believed that we needed a ceasefire to free the hostages, because they understood that Netanyahu was never going to sign an agreement with Hamas. A large part of those demonstrating were basically saying, “Agree to a ceasefire, get the hostages back, and then do whatever you want.” **It wasn’t a principled anti-war movement in that sense.**
The reflex for the majority of Israelis is to support their side in war. Throughout the many wars we have experienced, we [Hadash and the Arab parties] are usually the only ones to oppose it at first. Then, after a few weeks, [left-liberal party] Meretz joins us. But Meretz, of course, doesn’t exist anymore.
Because of what happened on 7 October, support for the war was overwhelming at first. Then people began to get tired, feeling that it hadn’t brought the desired results. Now that Netanyahu has started the war on Lebanon, people think maybe we can eliminate Hezbollah and allow the people from the North to return to their homes. It’s as if they learned nothing from the last twelve months: you cannot eliminate either Hezbollah or Hamas militarily, they will always be there.
**But to tell you the truth, Israeli society also needed this war to regain a sense of pride. After 7 October, many Israelis lost their national pride, their feeling that we are a powerful nation, the only real power in the Middle East. The war gives them the feeling that yes, we are able to control the situation, and yes, we are capable of defeating Hamas and Hezbollah.**
*Do you think Israel is more afraid of Hezbollah than Hamas?*
Of course, Hezbollah is much more powerful. Hamas was under siege in Gaza for years, Hezbollah is freer to act, import weaponry, etc. We can see that in the rockets they are using to attack Israel right now — it shows that Hezbollah is still very capable and still has a lot of power.
**That said, I reject armed escalation from either side, because that will just push the other side to do the same. Then you get more rockets, more guns, more death. The only way out of this predicament is a political agreement. But any agreement would threaten Netanyahu’s position. He wants a chaotic situation, because that’s the kind of environment he can survive in. Really, it’s a war for Netanyahu’s political survival as much as it is for his vision of a Greater Israel.**
*What do you make of the collapsed peace talks and Qatar’s announcement that it asked Hamas to leave its territory?*
I’m not the person to speak about what Hamas wants, because I hear about what Hamas wants the same way you do: from the news. Qatar has always played this mediating role, because the US wants them to, and because they need someone to do it, of course. That means there is more pressure on Hamas to reach an agreement. But I think Hamas’s people are basically with their backs to the wall. They can’t ask for anything except for an end to the war.
*What do the levels of support for the war and the ongoing repression of the Left mean for socialist strategy going forward? As a Palestinian Communist in Israel, do you believe there is still space to build alliances between Jewish and Arab workers, and to unite people on a class basis?*
First of all, you have to remember that I am a Member of the Knesset. Therefore, my role is to be in touch with the wider society. I cannot afford to be the most radical person in the movement. That said, the space for building broad-based alliances in Israel is shrinking all the time — there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to cooperate. Many of the people who are demonstrating for democracy in Israel right now refuse to work with us.
Nevertheless, there is still a minority among the Jewish Israeli population that has not changed its position in terms of the occupation and colonization of the Palestinian people, people who truly believe that Israel has to be a state with equal rights for all of its citizens. Those are the people with whom we, as Palestinians in Israel, are fighting side-by-side against the war and against the occupation.
There are many Palestinians with whom I agree on the need to stop the war and end the occupation, but who have lots of right-wing ideas that I do not share at all. If I can maintain relations with them, then I can surely maintain relations with my Jewish comrades who are willing to put themselves in danger to defend Palestinians’ human rights. Still: we are a small group, and we are much smaller than before. We need support from the international Left now more than ever.
*What would that international support look like?*
You know, in the past, we used to invite people from abroad to come visit us in Israel, to show them the inequality and the oppression. But now, we tell them to stay where they are and struggle there. The best solidarity action the international Left can take is to put more pressure on their own governments to stop supporting the Israeli government, to make them understand that Israel is acting against the best interests not only of its own people, but of everyone in the region.
#PalestineQuestion #HistoryOfPalestine #Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza #GazaStarving #GazaUnderAttack #JusticeForPalestine #SaveGaza #FreeGaza #StandWithPalestine #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheOccupation #PalestinianRights #SavePalestine #DefendPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #VoicesForPalestine #WeAreAllPalestine #PalestinianStruggle #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #free_palestine #israel #genocide #israeli_occupation #free_gaza #israel_is_a_terrorist_state #israel_is_committing_genocide #israeli_terrorism #ισραήλ #Γάζα #ΠόλεμοςΣτηΜέσηΑνατολή #γενοκτονία #CommunistPartyOfIsrael #Israel #Lebanon #Hamas #Hezbollah #MiddleEast
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Τα παιδιά στη Γάζα αντιμετωπίζουν κρίση υγείας και πείνα εν μέσω συνεχιζόμενων ισραηλινών επιθέσεων (Children in Gaza face health crisis and hunger amid continued Israeli attacks)
Τα παιδιά στη Γάζα γίνονται όλο και πιο πεινασμένα και άρρωστα καθώς η καταστροφή των υποδομών υγειονομικής περίθαλψης επιδεινώνει την εξάπλωση μολυσματικών ασθενειών (Children in Gaza are becoming increasingly hungry and unhealthy as the destruction of healthcare infrastructure exacerbates the spread of infectious diseases)
27 Νοεμβρίου 2024 από την Ana Vračar
URL: https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/27/children-in-gaza-face-health-crisis-and-hunger-amid-continued-israeli-attacks/
Photo: AWDA Health & Community Association
Η υγεία των παιδιών στη Γάζα επιδεινώνεται ραγδαία. Μεταξύ Ιουνίου και Οκτωβρίου 2024, το Nasser Medical Complex περιέθαλψε 300 παιδιά καθημερινά για μολυσματικές ασθένειες όπως διάρροια, αναπνευστικά προβλήματα και δερματικές λοιμώξεις. Αυτοί οι αριθμοί επιδεινώνονται από τις ισραηλινές επιθέσεις σε νοσοκομεία, την παρεμπόδιση της ανθρωπιστικής βοήθειας και τις άθλιες συνθήκες διαβίωσης που αντιμετωπίζουν περισσότεροι από ένα εκατομμύριο βίαια εκτοπισμένα Παλαιστίνια που προετοιμάζονται για το χειμώνα σε αυτοσχέδια καταφύγια.
Η κατάσταση είναι εξίσου κρίσιμη όσον αφορά την πείνα και τις σχετικές συνθήκες μεταξύ των παιδιών. Από την αρχή του έτους, σχεδόν 33.000 παιδιά έχουν εισαχθεί για οξύ υποσιτισμό. Οι εργαζόμενοι στον τομέα της υγείας ανέφεραν επίσης αύξηση των περιπτώσεων διατροφικού οιδήματος, μια κατάσταση που προκαλεί οίδημα λόγω έλλειψης πρόσληψης πρωτεΐνης. Για περισσότερο από ένα χρόνο, τα παιδιά στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας αγωνίζονται για να έχουν πρόσβαση σε επαρκή διατροφή λόγω των αποκλεισμών του Ισραήλ.
Οι ειδικοί στην υγεία των παιδιών έχουν επανειλημμένα προειδοποιήσει για τις μακροπρόθεσμες συνέπειες της πείνας για τις γενιές που μεγαλώνουν στην Παλαιστίνη. Τώρα, προειδοποιούν ότι «υπάρχουν σαφείς ενδείξεις ραγδαίας επιδείνωσης της διατροφικής κατάστασης σε ολόκληρη τη Γάζα, με τα δύο τρίτα των παιδιών που εισάγονται για θεραπεία εξωνοσοκομειακών ασθενών για οξύ υποσιτισμό από τις αρχές του 2024 να καταγράφονται μόνο τους τελευταίους πέντε μήνες».
Πολλές υπηρεσίες παιδικής υγείας έχουν υποστεί ζημιές ή καταστραφεί από ισραηλινές επιθέσεις, αφήνοντας τις οικογένειες να εξαρτώνται από τις ανεπαρκείς εγκαταστάσεις υγειονομικής περίθαλψης που εξακολουθούν να παρέχουν υποστήριξη. Οι Γιατροί Χωρίς Σύνορα (ΓΧΣ) ανέφεραν πρόσφατα ότι, ως αποτέλεσμα, πολλές μητέρες αναγκάζονται να κάνουν επικίνδυνα ταξίδια με τα πόδια για να έχουν πρόσβαση σε υγειονομική περίθαλψη για τα βρέφη τους. Αυτά τα ταξίδια, δήλωσαν οι ΓΧΣ, εκθέτουν τόσο τις μητέρες όσο και τα παιδιά σε πιθανές επιθέσεις και «τα [άρρωστα παιδιά] θέτουν σε υψηλό κίνδυνο επιπλοκών στην υγεία τους».
«Ακόμη και μετά τη λήψη της θεραπείας, τα νεογέννητα και τα παιδιά επιστρέφουν σε ανθυγιεινές συνθήκες διαβίωσης, κάτι που με τη σειρά του οδηγεί σε επιδείνωση των συνθηκών υγείας και της ικανότητάς τους να θεραπεύονται σωστά», ανέφεραν οι Γιατροί Χωρίς Σύνορα. «Ο γιος μου δεν γελάει, δεν παίζει, δεν πίνει γάλα. Κοιμάται όλη την ώρα», μοιράστηκε με τους Γιατρούς Χωρίς Σύνορα μια βίαια εκτοπισμένη μητέρα.
Οι κακές συνθήκες υγιεινής, που προκύπτουν από τους ισραηλινούς βομβαρδισμούς των υποδομών ύδρευσης και αποχέτευσης, πρόκειται να επιδεινωθούν περαιτέρω καθώς προχωρά η περίοδος των βροχών. Χιλιάδες σκηνές έχουν ήδη καταστραφεί από τις έντονες βροχοπτώσεις τις τελευταίες ημέρες. Οι ανθρωπιστικές υπηρεσίες αναμένουν ότι οι έντονες βροχοπτώσεις και η άνοδος της παλίρροιας θα επιδεινώσουν τη συσσώρευση λυμάτων, τροφοδοτώντας την εξάπλωση των ασθενειών.
Εν τω μεταξύ, οι ισραηλινές επιθέσεις σε εγκαταστάσεις υγειονομικής περίθαλψης και άλλες μη στρατιωτικές υποδομές στη Γάζα συνεχίζονται. Το νοσοκομείο Kamal Adwan στη βόρεια Γάζα εξακολουθεί να στοχοποιείται, μεταξύ άλλων από τετρακόπτερα, με αποτέλεσμα να προκληθούν ζημιές σε βασικό ιατρικό εξοπλισμό και κρίσιμοι τραυματισμοί σε περισσότερο προσωπικό υγειονομικής περίθαλψης. Μεταξύ των τραυματιών είναι ο διευθυντής του νοσοκομείου, Hussam Abu Safiya.
Οι ισραηλινές αρχές εξακολουθούν να προσπαθούν να δικαιολογήσουν τις επιθέσεις ισχυριζόμενοι την παρουσία παλαιστινιακών αντιστασιακών ομάδων στα νοσοκομεία στα οποία επιτίθενται, παρά το γεγονός ότι δεν παρέχουν καμία απόδειξη. Ωστόσο, εμπειρογνώμονες των Ηνωμένων Εθνών για τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα τονίζουν ότι ακόμη κι αν τέτοιοι ισχυρισμοί ήταν αληθινοί, «οι ισραηλινές δυνάμεις εξακολουθούν να δεσμεύονται από τις υποχρεώσεις τους βάσει του διεθνούς ανθρωπιστικού δικαίου».
«Ο τρόπος με τον οποίο διεξήχθη αυτή η ισραηλινή επιχείρηση [η επίθεση στο Kamal Adwan] εγείρει ανησυχίες για την πιθανότητα η βόρεια Γάζα να εκκενωθεί από Παλαιστίνιους μέσω θανάτου και εκτοπισμού», δήλωσε το Γραφείο Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων του ΟΗΕ στην Παλαιστίνη.
Το People's Health Dispatch είναι ένα δεκαπενθήμερο δελτίο που δημοσιεύεται από το People's Health Movement και το Peoples Dispatch.
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Τα παιδιά στη Γάζα αντιμετωπίζουν κρίση υγείας και πείνα εν μέσω συνεχιζόμενων ισραηλινών επιθέσεων (Children in Gaza face health crisis and hunger amid continued Israeli attacks)
Τα παιδιά στη Γάζα γίνονται όλο και πιο πεινασμένα και άρρωστα καθώς η καταστροφή των υποδομών υγειονομικής περίθαλψης επιδεινώνει την εξάπλωση μολυσματικών ασθενειών (Children in Gaza are becoming increasingly hungry and unhealthy as the destruction of healthcare infrastructure exacerbates the spread of infectious diseases)
27 Νοεμβρίου 2024 από την Ana Vračar
URL: https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/11/27/children-in-gaza-face-health-crisis-and-hunger-amid-continued-israeli-attacks/
Photo: AWDA Health & Community Association
Η υγεία των παιδιών στη Γάζα επιδεινώνεται ραγδαία. Μεταξύ Ιουνίου και Οκτωβρίου 2024, το Nasser Medical Complex περιέθαλψε 300 παιδιά καθημερινά για μολυσματικές ασθένειες όπως διάρροια, αναπνευστικά προβλήματα και δερματικές λοιμώξεις. Αυτοί οι αριθμοί επιδεινώνονται από τις ισραηλινές επιθέσεις σε νοσοκομεία, την παρεμπόδιση της ανθρωπιστικής βοήθειας και τις άθλιες συνθήκες διαβίωσης που αντιμετωπίζουν περισσότεροι από ένα εκατομμύριο βίαια εκτοπισμένα Παλαιστίνια που προετοιμάζονται για το χειμώνα σε αυτοσχέδια καταφύγια.
Η κατάσταση είναι εξίσου κρίσιμη όσον αφορά την πείνα και τις σχετικές συνθήκες μεταξύ των παιδιών. Από την αρχή του έτους, σχεδόν 33.000 παιδιά έχουν εισαχθεί για οξύ υποσιτισμό. Οι εργαζόμενοι στον τομέα της υγείας ανέφεραν επίσης αύξηση των περιπτώσεων διατροφικού οιδήματος, μια κατάσταση που προκαλεί οίδημα λόγω έλλειψης πρόσληψης πρωτεΐνης. Για περισσότερο από ένα χρόνο, τα παιδιά στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας αγωνίζονται για να έχουν πρόσβαση σε επαρκή διατροφή λόγω των αποκλεισμών του Ισραήλ.
Οι ειδικοί στην υγεία των παιδιών έχουν επανειλημμένα προειδοποιήσει για τις μακροπρόθεσμες συνέπειες της πείνας για τις γενιές που μεγαλώνουν στην Παλαιστίνη. Τώρα, προειδοποιούν ότι «υπάρχουν σαφείς ενδείξεις ραγδαίας επιδείνωσης της διατροφικής κατάστασης σε ολόκληρη τη Γάζα, με τα δύο τρίτα των παιδιών που εισάγονται για θεραπεία εξωνοσοκομειακών ασθενών για οξύ υποσιτισμό από τις αρχές του 2024 να καταγράφονται μόνο τους τελευταίους πέντε μήνες».
Πολλές υπηρεσίες παιδικής υγείας έχουν υποστεί ζημιές ή καταστραφεί από ισραηλινές επιθέσεις, αφήνοντας τις οικογένειες να εξαρτώνται από τις ανεπαρκείς εγκαταστάσεις υγειονομικής περίθαλψης που εξακολουθούν να παρέχουν υποστήριξη. Οι Γιατροί Χωρίς Σύνορα (ΓΧΣ) ανέφεραν πρόσφατα ότι, ως αποτέλεσμα, πολλές μητέρες αναγκάζονται να κάνουν επικίνδυνα ταξίδια με τα πόδια για να έχουν πρόσβαση σε υγειονομική περίθαλψη για τα βρέφη τους. Αυτά τα ταξίδια, δήλωσαν οι ΓΧΣ, εκθέτουν τόσο τις μητέρες όσο και τα παιδιά σε πιθανές επιθέσεις και «τα [άρρωστα παιδιά] θέτουν σε υψηλό κίνδυνο επιπλοκών στην υγεία τους».
«Ακόμη και μετά τη λήψη της θεραπείας, τα νεογέννητα και τα παιδιά επιστρέφουν σε ανθυγιεινές συνθήκες διαβίωσης, κάτι που με τη σειρά του οδηγεί σε επιδείνωση των συνθηκών υγείας και της ικανότητάς τους να θεραπεύονται σωστά», ανέφεραν οι Γιατροί Χωρίς Σύνορα. «Ο γιος μου δεν γελάει, δεν παίζει, δεν πίνει γάλα. Κοιμάται όλη την ώρα», μοιράστηκε με τους Γιατρούς Χωρίς Σύνορα μια βίαια εκτοπισμένη μητέρα.
Οι κακές συνθήκες υγιεινής, που προκύπτουν από τους ισραηλινούς βομβαρδισμούς των υποδομών ύδρευσης και αποχέτευσης, πρόκειται να επιδεινωθούν περαιτέρω καθώς προχωρά η περίοδος των βροχών. Χιλιάδες σκηνές έχουν ήδη καταστραφεί από τις έντονες βροχοπτώσεις τις τελευταίες ημέρες. Οι ανθρωπιστικές υπηρεσίες αναμένουν ότι οι έντονες βροχοπτώσεις και η άνοδος της παλίρροιας θα επιδεινώσουν τη συσσώρευση λυμάτων, τροφοδοτώντας την εξάπλωση των ασθενειών.
Εν τω μεταξύ, οι ισραηλινές επιθέσεις σε εγκαταστάσεις υγειονομικής περίθαλψης και άλλες μη στρατιωτικές υποδομές στη Γάζα συνεχίζονται. Το νοσοκομείο Kamal Adwan στη βόρεια Γάζα εξακολουθεί να στοχοποιείται, μεταξύ άλλων από τετρακόπτερα, με αποτέλεσμα να προκληθούν ζημιές σε βασικό ιατρικό εξοπλισμό και κρίσιμοι τραυματισμοί σε περισσότερο προσωπικό υγειονομικής περίθαλψης. Μεταξύ των τραυματιών είναι ο διευθυντής του νοσοκομείου, Hussam Abu Safiya.
Οι ισραηλινές αρχές εξακολουθούν να προσπαθούν να δικαιολογήσουν τις επιθέσεις ισχυριζόμενοι την παρουσία παλαιστινιακών αντιστασιακών ομάδων στα νοσοκομεία στα οποία επιτίθενται, παρά το γεγονός ότι δεν παρέχουν καμία απόδειξη. Ωστόσο, εμπειρογνώμονες των Ηνωμένων Εθνών για τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα τονίζουν ότι ακόμη κι αν τέτοιοι ισχυρισμοί ήταν αληθινοί, «οι ισραηλινές δυνάμεις εξακολουθούν να δεσμεύονται από τις υποχρεώσεις τους βάσει του διεθνούς ανθρωπιστικού δικαίου».
«Ο τρόπος με τον οποίο διεξήχθη αυτή η ισραηλινή επιχείρηση [η επίθεση στο Kamal Adwan] εγείρει ανησυχίες για την πιθανότητα η βόρεια Γάζα να εκκενωθεί από Παλαιστίνιους μέσω θανάτου και εκτοπισμού», δήλωσε το Γραφείο Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων του ΟΗΕ στην Παλαιστίνη.
Το People's Health Dispatch είναι ένα δεκαπενθήμερο δελτίο που δημοσιεύεται από το People's Health Movement και το Peoples Dispatch.
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Ημέρα γενοκτονίας του Ισραήλ 416: Η UNRWA λέει ότι το ποσό της επισιτιστικής βοήθειας που επιτρέπεται στη Γάζα καλύπτει λιγότερο από το 6% της ανάγκης
Στη Γάζα, οι πλημμύρες που προκλήθηκαν από τις έντονες βροχοπτώσεις κατέστρεψαν χιλιάδες οικογένειες που ζούσαν σε εκτοπισμένες σκηνές στη νότια Γάζα. Εν τω μεταξύ, η UNRWA λέει ότι όλη η βοήθεια που εισέρχεται στη Γάζα είναι μικρότερη από το 6% της αναγκαίας.
Israel’s genocide Day 416: UNRWA says the amount of food aid being allowed into Gaza meets less than 6% of the need
In Gaza, floods caused by heavy rainfall devastated thousands of families living in displaced tents in southern Gaza. Meanwhile, UNRWA says that all aid entering Gaza is less than 6% of what is needed.
By Qassam Muaddi November 25, 2024
URL: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/israels-genocide-day-416-unrwa-says-the-amount-of-food-aid-being-allowed-into-gaza-meets-less-than-6-of-the-need/
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Ημέρα γενοκτονίας του Ισραήλ 416: Η UNRWA λέει ότι το ποσό της επισιτιστικής βοήθειας που επιτρέπεται στη Γάζα καλύπτει λιγότερο από το 6% της ανάγκης
Στη Γάζα, οι πλημμύρες που προκλήθηκαν από τις έντονες βροχοπτώσεις κατέστρεψαν χιλιάδες οικογένειες που ζούσαν σε εκτοπισμένες σκηνές στη νότια Γάζα. Εν τω μεταξύ, η UNRWA λέει ότι όλη η βοήθεια που εισέρχεται στη Γάζα είναι μικρότερη από το 6% της αναγκαίας.
Israel’s genocide Day 416: UNRWA says the amount of food aid being allowed into Gaza meets less than 6% of the need
In Gaza, floods caused by heavy rainfall devastated thousands of families living in displaced tents in southern Gaza. Meanwhile, UNRWA says that all aid entering Gaza is less than 6% of what is needed.
By Qassam Muaddi November 25, 2024
URL: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/israels-genocide-day-416-unrwa-says-the-amount-of-food-aid-being-allowed-into-gaza-meets-less-than-6-of-the-need/
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Ημέρα γενοκτονίας του Ισραήλ 416: Η UNRWA λέει ότι το ποσό της επισιτιστικής βοήθειας που επιτρέπεται στη Γάζα καλύπτει λιγότερο από το 6% της ανάγκης
Στη Γάζα, οι πλημμύρες που προκλήθηκαν από τις έντονες βροχοπτώσεις κατέστρεψαν χιλιάδες οικογένειες που ζούσαν σε εκτοπισμένες σκηνές στη νότια Γάζα. Εν τω μεταξύ, η UNRWA λέει ότι όλη η βοήθεια που εισέρχεται στη Γάζα είναι μικρότερη από το 6% της αναγκαίας.
Israel’s genocide Day 416: UNRWA says the amount of food aid being allowed into Gaza meets less than 6% of the need
In Gaza, floods caused by heavy rainfall devastated thousands of families living in displaced tents in southern Gaza. Meanwhile, UNRWA says that all aid entering Gaza is less than 6% of what is needed.
By Qassam Muaddi November 25, 2024
URL: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/israels-genocide-day-416-unrwa-says-the-amount-of-food-aid-being-allowed-into-gaza-meets-less-than-6-of-the-need/
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Ημέρα γενοκτονίας του Ισραήλ 416: Η UNRWA λέει ότι το ποσό της επισιτιστικής βοήθειας που επιτρέπεται στη Γάζα καλύπτει λιγότερο από το 6% της ανάγκης
Στη Γάζα, οι πλημμύρες που προκλήθηκαν από τις έντονες βροχοπτώσεις κατέστρεψαν χιλιάδες οικογένειες που ζούσαν σε εκτοπισμένες σκηνές στη νότια Γάζα. Εν τω μεταξύ, η UNRWA λέει ότι όλη η βοήθεια που εισέρχεται στη Γάζα είναι μικρότερη από το 6% της αναγκαίας.
Israel’s genocide Day 416: UNRWA says the amount of food aid being allowed into Gaza meets less than 6% of the need
In Gaza, floods caused by heavy rainfall devastated thousands of families living in displaced tents in southern Gaza. Meanwhile, UNRWA says that all aid entering Gaza is less than 6% of what is needed.
By Qassam Muaddi November 25, 2024
URL: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/israels-genocide-day-416-unrwa-says-the-amount-of-food-aid-being-allowed-into-gaza-meets-less-than-6-of-the-need/
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Ημέρα γενοκτονίας του Ισραήλ 416: Η UNRWA λέει ότι το ποσό της επισιτιστικής βοήθειας που επιτρέπεται στη Γάζα καλύπτει λιγότερο από το 6% της ανάγκης
Στη Γάζα, οι πλημμύρες που προκλήθηκαν από τις έντονες βροχοπτώσεις κατέστρεψαν χιλιάδες οικογένειες που ζούσαν σε εκτοπισμένες σκηνές στη νότια Γάζα. Εν τω μεταξύ, η UNRWA λέει ότι όλη η βοήθεια που εισέρχεται στη Γάζα είναι μικρότερη από το 6% της αναγκαίας.
Israel’s genocide Day 416: UNRWA says the amount of food aid being allowed into Gaza meets less than 6% of the need
In Gaza, floods caused by heavy rainfall devastated thousands of families living in displaced tents in southern Gaza. Meanwhile, UNRWA says that all aid entering Gaza is less than 6% of what is needed.
By Qassam Muaddi November 25, 2024
URL: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/israels-genocide-day-416-unrwa-says-the-amount-of-food-aid-being-allowed-into-gaza-meets-less-than-6-of-the-need/
#Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza #GazaStarving #GazaUnderAttack #JusticeForPalestine #SaveGaza #FreeGaza #StandWithPalestine #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheOccupation #PalestinianRights #SavePalestine #DefendPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #VoicesForPalestine #WeAreAllPalestine #PalestinianStruggle #free_palestine #israel #genocide #israeli_occupation #free_gaza #israel_is_a_terrorist_state #israel_is_committing_genocide #israeli_terrorism #ισραήλ #Γάζα #ΠόλεμοςΣτηΜέσηΑνατολή #γενοκτονία -
Του Al Mytty (https://x.com/lmytty), The News-Gazette, 22 Νοεμβρίου 2024
URL: https://worldbeyondwar.org/letter-to-the-editor-stop-slaughter-in-middle-east/
Σταματήστε τη σφαγή στη Μέση Ανατολή
Έχοντας γιορτάσει φέτος την Ημέρα των Βετεράνων, θα πρέπει να θυμόμαστε την προέλευσή της, στο τέλος του Α' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου, στις 11 Νοεμβρίου 1918.
Αυτή η ημερομηνία γιορταζόταν ως Ημέρα Ανακωχής, ημέρα τερματισμού όλων των πολέμων. Ωστόσο, το 1954, το Κογκρέσο μετονόμασε σε Ημέρα των Βετεράνων. Ναι, χρωστάμε πολλά στους βετεράνους των ΗΠΑ, αλλά ας μην χρησιμοποιήσουμε αυτή τη μέρα για να δοξάσουμε τον πόλεμο.
Μπορούμε να ανακτήσουμε το πνεύμα της Ημέρας Εκεχειρίας καλώντας για μόνιμη κατάπαυση του πυρός στη Γάζα και σε ολόκληρη τη Μέση Ανατολή. Ο πιο σίγουρος τρόπος για να επιτευχθεί μια τέτοια κατάπαυση του πυρός είναι η δική μας κυβέρνηση να σταματήσει να στέλνει βόμβες στο Ισραήλ.
Η αποστολή αυτών των βομβών και όπλων μπορεί να αποτελεί παραβίαση των Τροποποιήσεων Symington-Glenn, που κωδικοποιήθηκαν στο 22 U.S.C. § 2799aa-1. Αυτές οι τροποποιήσεις απαγορεύουν την παροχή οποιασδήποτε στρατιωτικής βοήθειας των ΗΠΑ σε ένα έθνος που διαθέτει πυρηνικά όπλα εκτός των ελέγχων και των διασφαλίσεων της Συνθήκης για τη μη διάδοση των πυρηνικών όπλων του 1968.
Περαιτέρω, η αποστολή αυτών των βομβών και όπλων ενδέχεται να παραβιάζει τους νόμους περί εξωτερικής βοήθειας, νόμους περί ελέγχου εξαγωγών όπλων, νόμους Leahy, την Πολιτική για τη μεταφορά συμβατικών όπλων (NSM-18) του Φεβρουαρίου 2023, τον νόμο των ΗΠΑ για τα εγκλήματα πολέμου και τον νόμο για την πρόληψη της γενοκτονίας. .
Η κυβέρνησή μας δεν πρέπει να παραβιάζει το νόμο.
Οι βόμβες πέφτουν στα παιδιά της Παλαιστίνης και στους γονείς τους. Είναι καιρός να τερματιστεί η γενοκτονία και η στρατιωτική αντιπαράθεση και να μειωθούν οι προοπτικές ενός πυρηνικού πολέμου που θα τερματίσει τον ανθρώπινο πολιτισμό.
Ας σταματήσουμε τη σφαγή και ας αρχίσουμε να γιορτάζουμε ξανά την Ημέρα Ανακωχής, το τέλος του πολέμου.
Stop slaughter in Middle East
Having marked Veterans Day this year, we should remember its origin, at the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918.
This date was celebrated as Armistice Day, a day to end all wars. However, in 1954, Congress renamed it Veterans Day. Yes, we owe a great deal to U.S. veterans, but let’s not use this day to glorify war.
We can reclaim the spirit of Armistice Day by calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and throughout the Middle East. The surest way to achieve such a cease-fire is for our own government to stop sending bombs to Israel.
Sending those bombs and weapons may be violations of the Symington-Glenn Amendments, codified at 22 U.S.C. § 2799aa-1. Those amendments prohibit the provision of any U.S. military assistance to a nation that possesses nuclear weapons outside the controls and safeguards of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968.
Further, sending those bombs and weapons may be in violation of the Foreign Assistance Act, Arms Export Control Act, Leahy Laws, the Conventional Arms Transfer Policy (NSM-18) of February 2023, the U.S. War Crimes Act and the Genocide Implementation Prevention Act.
Our government should not be violating the law.
The bombs are being dropped on Palestinian children and their parents. It is high time to end the genocide and military confrontation and reduce the prospects of a nuclear war ending human civilization.
Let’s stop the slaughter and start celebrating Armistice Day, an end to war, again.
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Του Al Mytty (https://x.com/lmytty), The News-Gazette, 22 Νοεμβρίου 2024
URL: https://worldbeyondwar.org/letter-to-the-editor-stop-slaughter-in-middle-east/
Σταματήστε τη σφαγή στη Μέση Ανατολή
Έχοντας γιορτάσει φέτος την Ημέρα των Βετεράνων, θα πρέπει να θυμόμαστε την προέλευσή της, στο τέλος του Α' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου, στις 11 Νοεμβρίου 1918.
Αυτή η ημερομηνία γιορταζόταν ως Ημέρα Ανακωχής, ημέρα τερματισμού όλων των πολέμων. Ωστόσο, το 1954, το Κογκρέσο μετονόμασε σε Ημέρα των Βετεράνων. Ναι, χρωστάμε πολλά στους βετεράνους των ΗΠΑ, αλλά ας μην χρησιμοποιήσουμε αυτή τη μέρα για να δοξάσουμε τον πόλεμο.
Μπορούμε να ανακτήσουμε το πνεύμα της Ημέρας Εκεχειρίας καλώντας για μόνιμη κατάπαυση του πυρός στη Γάζα και σε ολόκληρη τη Μέση Ανατολή. Ο πιο σίγουρος τρόπος για να επιτευχθεί μια τέτοια κατάπαυση του πυρός είναι η δική μας κυβέρνηση να σταματήσει να στέλνει βόμβες στο Ισραήλ.
Η αποστολή αυτών των βομβών και όπλων μπορεί να αποτελεί παραβίαση των Τροποποιήσεων Symington-Glenn, που κωδικοποιήθηκαν στο 22 U.S.C. § 2799aa-1. Αυτές οι τροποποιήσεις απαγορεύουν την παροχή οποιασδήποτε στρατιωτικής βοήθειας των ΗΠΑ σε ένα έθνος που διαθέτει πυρηνικά όπλα εκτός των ελέγχων και των διασφαλίσεων της Συνθήκης για τη μη διάδοση των πυρηνικών όπλων του 1968.
Περαιτέρω, η αποστολή αυτών των βομβών και όπλων ενδέχεται να παραβιάζει τους νόμους περί εξωτερικής βοήθειας, νόμους περί ελέγχου εξαγωγών όπλων, νόμους Leahy, την Πολιτική για τη μεταφορά συμβατικών όπλων (NSM-18) του Φεβρουαρίου 2023, τον νόμο των ΗΠΑ για τα εγκλήματα πολέμου και τον νόμο για την πρόληψη της γενοκτονίας. .
Η κυβέρνησή μας δεν πρέπει να παραβιάζει το νόμο.
Οι βόμβες πέφτουν στα παιδιά της Παλαιστίνης και στους γονείς τους. Είναι καιρός να τερματιστεί η γενοκτονία και η στρατιωτική αντιπαράθεση και να μειωθούν οι προοπτικές ενός πυρηνικού πολέμου που θα τερματίσει τον ανθρώπινο πολιτισμό.
Ας σταματήσουμε τη σφαγή και ας αρχίσουμε να γιορτάζουμε ξανά την Ημέρα Ανακωχής, το τέλος του πολέμου.
Stop slaughter in Middle East
Having marked Veterans Day this year, we should remember its origin, at the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918.
This date was celebrated as Armistice Day, a day to end all wars. However, in 1954, Congress renamed it Veterans Day. Yes, we owe a great deal to U.S. veterans, but let’s not use this day to glorify war.
We can reclaim the spirit of Armistice Day by calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and throughout the Middle East. The surest way to achieve such a cease-fire is for our own government to stop sending bombs to Israel.
Sending those bombs and weapons may be violations of the Symington-Glenn Amendments, codified at 22 U.S.C. § 2799aa-1. Those amendments prohibit the provision of any U.S. military assistance to a nation that possesses nuclear weapons outside the controls and safeguards of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968.
Further, sending those bombs and weapons may be in violation of the Foreign Assistance Act, Arms Export Control Act, Leahy Laws, the Conventional Arms Transfer Policy (NSM-18) of February 2023, the U.S. War Crimes Act and the Genocide Implementation Prevention Act.
Our government should not be violating the law.
The bombs are being dropped on Palestinian children and their parents. It is high time to end the genocide and military confrontation and reduce the prospects of a nuclear war ending human civilization.
Let’s stop the slaughter and start celebrating Armistice Day, an end to war, again.
#Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza #GazaStarving #GazaUnderAttack #JusticeForPalestine #SaveGaza #FreeGaza #StandWithPalestine #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheOccupation #PalestinianRights #SavePalestine #DefendPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #VoicesForPalestine #WeAreAllPalestine #PalestinianStruggle #free_palestine #israel #genocide #israeli_occupation #free_gaza #israel_is_a_terrorist_state #israel_is_committing_genocide #israeli_terrorism #ισραήλ #Γάζα #ΠόλεμοςΣτηΜέσηΑνατολή #γενοκτονία -
Σχεδόν 20 νεκροί στη Γάζα μέσα σε μια μόνο νύχτα - efsyn.gr - 23.11.24 12:23
Αεροπορικές σφαγές από το Ισραήλ • Και παιδιά ανάμεσα στους νεκρούς.
Αιματοκύλισμα σε δύο μέτωπα από το Ισραήλ το οποίο σφυροκοπά Γάζα και Λίβανο αδιαφορώντας για τον τραγικό απολογισμό σε θύματα.
Μόνο μέσα στη νύχτα 19 άνθρωποι έχασαν τη ζωή τους, όπως ανακοίνωσαν οι παλαιστινιακές αρχές.
Οι επιθέσεις του Ισραήλ με αεροσκάφη και τεθωρακισμένα καταγράφηκαν σε όλες τις περιοχές της Λωρίδας της Γάζας, ενώ ανάμεσα στους νεκρούς είναι και παιδιά.
Ο Μαχμούτ Μπασάλ, εκπρόσωπος της πολιτικής προστασίας δηλώνει στο Γαλλικό Πρακτορείο ότι από τις σφαγιαστικές επιθέσεις τραυματίστηκαν και 40 άτομα.
Την ίδια στιγμή η ανθρωπιστική κρίση παραμένει εκτός ελέγχου με τον ΟΗΕ να προειδοποιεί πως ολόκληρος ο πληθυσμός της Γάζας είναι στα πρόθυρα του λιμού, την ώρα που το Ισραήλ εξακολουθεί να θέτει εμπόδια στην είσοδο βοήθειας.
Χαρακτηριστικό είναι πως μόνο στην κεντρική Γάζα οι φούρνοι άνοιξαν σήμερα, μετά από πέντε ημέρες, καθώς δεν υπήρχε καθόλου αλεύρι.
Με τα νοσοκομεία της περιοχής να ετοιμάζονται είτε να κλείσουν είτε να μειώσουν δραστικά τη λειτουργία τους ο χειμώνας πλησιάζει απειλητικά για εκατοντάδες χιλιάδες Παλαιστίνιους, οι οποίοι μένουν σε σκηνές.
Περισσότεροι από τον μισό πληθυσμό της Γάζας εξακολουθεί να βρίσκεται σε αυτοσχέδιους καταυλισμούς, ενώ έχει εκτοπιστεί πολλές φορές από την έναρξη της ισραηλινής γενοκτονικής επιχειρήσης τον Οκτώβριο του 2023.
#Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza #GazaStarving #GazaUnderAttack #JusticeForPalestine #SaveGaza #FreeGaza #StandWithPalestine #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheOccupation #PalestinianRights #SavePalestine #DefendPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #VoicesForPalestine #WeAreAllPalestine #PalestinianStruggle #free_palestine #israel #genocide #israeli_occupation #free_gaza #israel_is_a_terrorist_state #israel_is_committing_genocide #israeli_terrorism #ισραήλ #Γάζα #ΠόλεμοςΣτηΜέσηΑνατολή #γενοκτονία -
Σχεδόν 20 νεκροί στη Γάζα μέσα σε μια μόνο νύχτα - efsyn.gr - 23.11.24 12:23
Αεροπορικές σφαγές από το Ισραήλ • Και παιδιά ανάμεσα στους νεκρούς.
Αιματοκύλισμα σε δύο μέτωπα από το Ισραήλ το οποίο σφυροκοπά Γάζα και Λίβανο αδιαφορώντας για τον τραγικό απολογισμό σε θύματα.
Μόνο μέσα στη νύχτα 19 άνθρωποι έχασαν τη ζωή τους, όπως ανακοίνωσαν οι παλαιστινιακές αρχές.
Οι επιθέσεις του Ισραήλ με αεροσκάφη και τεθωρακισμένα καταγράφηκαν σε όλες τις περιοχές της Λωρίδας της Γάζας, ενώ ανάμεσα στους νεκρούς είναι και παιδιά.
Ο Μαχμούτ Μπασάλ, εκπρόσωπος της πολιτικής προστασίας δηλώνει στο Γαλλικό Πρακτορείο ότι από τις σφαγιαστικές επιθέσεις τραυματίστηκαν και 40 άτομα.
Την ίδια στιγμή η ανθρωπιστική κρίση παραμένει εκτός ελέγχου με τον ΟΗΕ να προειδοποιεί πως ολόκληρος ο πληθυσμός της Γάζας είναι στα πρόθυρα του λιμού, την ώρα που το Ισραήλ εξακολουθεί να θέτει εμπόδια στην είσοδο βοήθειας.
Χαρακτηριστικό είναι πως μόνο στην κεντρική Γάζα οι φούρνοι άνοιξαν σήμερα, μετά από πέντε ημέρες, καθώς δεν υπήρχε καθόλου αλεύρι.
Με τα νοσοκομεία της περιοχής να ετοιμάζονται είτε να κλείσουν είτε να μειώσουν δραστικά τη λειτουργία τους ο χειμώνας πλησιάζει απειλητικά για εκατοντάδες χιλιάδες Παλαιστίνιους, οι οποίοι μένουν σε σκηνές.
Περισσότεροι από τον μισό πληθυσμό της Γάζας εξακολουθεί να βρίσκεται σε αυτοσχέδιους καταυλισμούς, ενώ έχει εκτοπιστεί πολλές φορές από την έναρξη της ισραηλινής γενοκτονικής επιχειρήσης τον Οκτώβριο του 2023.
#Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza #GazaStarving #GazaUnderAttack #JusticeForPalestine #SaveGaza #FreeGaza #StandWithPalestine #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheOccupation #PalestinianRights #SavePalestine #DefendPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #VoicesForPalestine #WeAreAllPalestine #PalestinianStruggle #free_palestine #israel #genocide #israeli_occupation #free_gaza #israel_is_a_terrorist_state #israel_is_committing_genocide #israeli_terrorism #ισραήλ #Γάζα #ΠόλεμοςΣτηΜέσηΑνατολή #γενοκτονία -
Σχεδόν 20 νεκροί στη Γάζα μέσα σε μια μόνο νύχτα - efsyn.gr - 23.11.24 12:23
Αεροπορικές σφαγές από το Ισραήλ • Και παιδιά ανάμεσα στους νεκρούς.
Αιματοκύλισμα σε δύο μέτωπα από το Ισραήλ το οποίο σφυροκοπά Γάζα και Λίβανο αδιαφορώντας για τον τραγικό απολογισμό σε θύματα.
Μόνο μέσα στη νύχτα 19 άνθρωποι έχασαν τη ζωή τους, όπως ανακοίνωσαν οι παλαιστινιακές αρχές.
Οι επιθέσεις του Ισραήλ με αεροσκάφη και τεθωρακισμένα καταγράφηκαν σε όλες τις περιοχές της Λωρίδας της Γάζας, ενώ ανάμεσα στους νεκρούς είναι και παιδιά.
Ο Μαχμούτ Μπασάλ, εκπρόσωπος της πολιτικής προστασίας δηλώνει στο Γαλλικό Πρακτορείο ότι από τις σφαγιαστικές επιθέσεις τραυματίστηκαν και 40 άτομα.
Την ίδια στιγμή η ανθρωπιστική κρίση παραμένει εκτός ελέγχου με τον ΟΗΕ να προειδοποιεί πως ολόκληρος ο πληθυσμός της Γάζας είναι στα πρόθυρα του λιμού, την ώρα που το Ισραήλ εξακολουθεί να θέτει εμπόδια στην είσοδο βοήθειας.
Χαρακτηριστικό είναι πως μόνο στην κεντρική Γάζα οι φούρνοι άνοιξαν σήμερα, μετά από πέντε ημέρες, καθώς δεν υπήρχε καθόλου αλεύρι.
Με τα νοσοκομεία της περιοχής να ετοιμάζονται είτε να κλείσουν είτε να μειώσουν δραστικά τη λειτουργία τους ο χειμώνας πλησιάζει απειλητικά για εκατοντάδες χιλιάδες Παλαιστίνιους, οι οποίοι μένουν σε σκηνές.
Περισσότεροι από τον μισό πληθυσμό της Γάζας εξακολουθεί να βρίσκεται σε αυτοσχέδιους καταυλισμούς, ενώ έχει εκτοπιστεί πολλές φορές από την έναρξη της ισραηλινής γενοκτονικής επιχειρήσης τον Οκτώβριο του 2023.
#Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza #GazaStarving #GazaUnderAttack #JusticeForPalestine #SaveGaza #FreeGaza #StandWithPalestine #JusticeForPalestine #EndTheOccupation #PalestinianRights #SavePalestine #DefendPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #VoicesForPalestine #WeAreAllPalestine #PalestinianStruggle #free_palestine #israel #genocide #israeli_occupation #free_gaza #israel_is_a_terrorist_state #israel_is_committing_genocide #israeli_terrorism #ισραήλ #Γάζα #ΠόλεμοςΣτηΜέσηΑνατολή #γενοκτονία -
Αν οι σιωναζιστές είχαν υποστεί το 1/10 αυτών που θα δείτε στα βίντεο θα είχαν κάψει τα σιωνιστικά διαβατήρια για να μη γυρίσουν πίσω. Όμως οι Γαζαίοι είναι από άλλη (πολιτική) πάστα. Αυτή που στο πέρασμα της Ιστορίας έπλασε τους πιο γενναίους ανθρώπους επί γης. Η τελευταία φουρνιά αυτής της πλάσης είναι οι Γαζαίοι και σαν σύνολο είναι ότι πιο ακλόνητο έχει δει η Ιστορία.
#Γάζα #gaza #gaza_under_attack #GazaUnderAttack #genocide #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelIsAterroristState
https://eksegersi.gr/diethni/palaistinioi-voreias-gazas-menoyme-edo/ -
Λεξικό προπαγάνδας (συμπληρωμένο και ανανεωμένο) https://info-war.gr/lexiko-propagandas-sympliromeno-kai/ #Newsletter #παλαιστίνη #KEIMENA #διεθνη #ισραήλ #Γάζα #REV #μμε
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Υπηρεσίες ΟΗΕ και ανθρωπιστικές οργανώσεις: 10 προαπαιτούμενα για να αποφύγουμε την καταστροφή στη Γάζα https://info-war.gr/ypiresies-oie-kai-anthropistikes-orga/ #KEIMENA #διεθνη #Γάζα #ΟΗΕ
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Ειδικοί εισηγητές/-τριες ΟΗΕ: «Αυτή τη στιγμή κάθε άτομο στη Γάζα είναι πεινασμένο» https://info-war.gr/eidikoi-eisigites-tries-oie-ayti-ti-s/ #παλαιστίνη #KEIMENA #διεθνη #ισραήλ #Πείνα #Γάζα #ΟΗΕ
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Όλος ο μηχανισμός προπαγάνδας του Ισραήλ και της Δύσης πριν και μετά το χτύπημα στο Νοσοκομείο στη Γάζα
#Χατζηστεφάνου #Μπογιόπουλος #προπαγάνδα #Ισραήλ #Γάζα #Παλαιστίνη
https://www.imerodromos.gr/mpogiopoulos-chatzhstefanou-gia-thn-propaganda-tou-israhl/